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It seems like a hybrid model would be ideal: teams that work from home in a metro area, with one or two "meeting days" a week at an office (which can be 20-30% the size it would be with no work from home).

This is something companies could incrementally adopt with existing employees.
Mobile phone screen recording using malware.
The demonstrator going to Mars on the 2020 mission can only fly for 90 seconds per day and afaik has no science objectives other than trying to fly. But if it proves viable they could presumably scale it up to something with a longer range (say 5-10km/day).
The old "I brought it with me from home" line aha
> It seems to me that remote work does a whole hell of a lot to reduce CO2 emissions,

Heating or cooling your home can easily more than offset the emissions associated with driving. E.g. My car might consume 4 kwh round trip (20 miles); that's about an hour of running a typical home air conditioner.
I was wondering the same thing. What's exactly happening here? Is uBlock origin blocking this page after it gets loaded? I don't see guce.advertising.com ever been requested in the network tab either.
Better question: What 'luxury' hotel doesn't have 24 hour reception and lobby staff?
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Brain.fm works quite well in my case. It's not distracting and it doesn't sound like pure white noise either.

The app is a bit clunky though.
Yeah, otherwise it could have stolen cash and paid for the food but it's cutting away the middle man all the way.
If you're not clocking time, it doesn't matter.

In Europe, tracking hours is common and in many cases mandatory. Unfortunately you can't clock in the moment you step out of your door for your regular commute. So it's not counting towards your contractual hours or overtime compensation.

If you actually track the hours and include commute, the incentive should change for the employer to minimize your commute time (because it costs them money). Of course there's a risk that they'd try to weasel out of it by a corresponding reduction in your base salary, so some additional checks would be needed for this scheme to work.

I don't think people really want to trade time for money as much as they do when it comes to long commutes. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would choose shorter commute any time if given the choice, but right now the onus is on them to leave their nice home and find a more expensive (and probably tight) apartment in congested downtown if they want a shorter commute. It's all on them, and not on the employer to find a way to reduce commute.
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These playlists are no joke.
I used to (stopped within the last year) walk, ride a kick scooter, and bike down market all the time. The biggest problem with that street isn’t the cars, but the vagrants. Seeing obviously stolen property for sale on the sidewalk, across the street from a cop who appears to be there only so you don’t get mugged, is extremely disconcerting. There’s barely any traffic on it right now anyway, as someone who also had a car in the city during this period I can tell you I /never/ turned down market, you can’t turn off of it. That sounds like a huge waste of $600M if you ask me.
Starting "Try to stay away from other awkward guys", sounds like you are explaining how to handle sales people.
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It depends on what my current task is.

If it's something tedious, i.e. robotically making some kind of change throughout a code base, then my attention span can handle the additional load and the music may help me not procrastinate.

But for anything involving serious thinking, all forms of music I've tried are too much of a distraction.

I have ADD, which may be a factor.
Did you read parent poster? What good are noise-cancelling headphones if you can't listen to music because it's distracting?
I worked at a hotel for ten years. You’d be amazed at the number of things that are suppressed. Dead bodies, bed bugs, etc all happen far more frequently than you’d think but are cleaned up quietly and quickly.
Yeah, but you only mean low level ones who barely earn enough to eat. I don't mean those. I mean the bigger fish.
For those using expensive/advanced connectors like Zapier, Tray.io, etc. I find that https://n8n.io serves as a far welcoming open-source alternative that is worth looking at.
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If you didnt like the ISP market in the USA wouldnt you want to be able to open a portal to an alternate ISP markets?
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What about the fact that ads are the only reason garbage such as clickbait and misinformation exists? A lot of that garbage wouldn't exist if its only revenue stream wasn't there.

What about the countless scams or dubious products advertised in Facebook ads while you look the other way because they're still making money for company? If you have the power to broadcast content to a major part of the world's population, this should also involve some responsibility and strict controls on the content, aka thorough human reviews. I don't care if it makes the prices of the ads go up; legitimate brands will still be able to afford it, and the market will become a better place for everyone (plus maybe with less crap in the ads people will actually like them a bit more).

Finally, if you want to do ads, why not just ask the users what products they're interested in, categories they belong to, etc and use that for targeting instead of stalking their every move to try and infer this information?

I suggest you read this regarding the negative impacts of advertising on society: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
I'm honestly flabbergasted that so many people on HN take video as a given. I don't even have a webcam at work, and I have no desire at all to get one.
Learning for the sake of learning can happen at home with access to public library, YouTube, GreatCourses, Coursera, etc.

The argument needs to address why learning for the sake of learning at a specific physical location with the price ticket of $40k'ish a year is drastically better.
Oh my, I still see people in the comments who naively think this is a copyright issue. Seriously? 15 years after the alleged event? With physical violence against software developers?

It's only one among thousands of cases when putinists rob successful companies. The world must put more pressure on putinism, because eventually all the stolen resources turn into imprisonments of people in the country and deaths of people in the countries attacked by that putinist machine.
Why would anyone talk to the FBI? They don't record interrogations, but rather rely upon the memory of the investigator who has up to 3 months to record what was said. And if his memory doesn't match what you claim you said, you are automatically lying and guilty. It's such an obvious route of official abuse of power, I'm not for getting rid of the FBI and starting over. How could you trust anyone who was willing to work in that environment?
In smaller cities you can let people park outside and they will be able to walk in within minutes. That's even better than using crowded public transport.

Rents are skyrocketing in Berlin because everybody and their friend wants to visit us or live here. At the same time for decades no new buildings were built. Remember? Supply and demand.

Yet rents are still not as high as in New York, London, Paris, Munich or even Hamburg so that people from everywhere flock here.
We'd need to make "neighborhood of residence" or "commute time" a protected class... Or that will lead to minorities being legally discriminated against for living in poor neighborhoods.
>Then again, I'm antisocial and terrible at "networking", so those aspects of conferences don't really appeal to me.

And, really, the "hallway track" is the value of going to conferences. For the most part, if someone just goes to a conference to sit in breakout sessions, they're probably better off just watching video of the sessions (if they were filmed) or a webinar version of the content.
Yep, that sounds like kind of what I would need. :)

But in general, exception handling is hard. There is value in having locally-unrecoverable, but globally-recoverable faults, stuff like that is probably where languages like Erlang shine.
surprised nobody has mentioned the freecodecamp radio yet, I really like listening to this on a very low volume. Mostly Lo-Fi music that doesn't take your attention away.

https://coderadio.freecodecamp.org/
I used to joke that in the future, EMACS would require foot pedals to handle all the different modifier keys it would want.
... so? I work in an org that's spread across the US. I work with people on the opposite side of the country who I've never met in person and I have no idea what they look like. I also don't care.
Ah yes, the old "mattress in the suitcase" trick.
What's your point? This is about Hooks vs Class based components.
I would tend to agree with this. But we don't have to spend much time upbringing them to that level.

There are likely a few dynamics at play for this "eternal September": initial population size and increase rate, target population and its attrition rate, and transfer rate between the two. I'll see if I can run a few plots...
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Just wanted to chime in and say kudos for speaking up. That sure is a risky thing to do. Unless, of course, this is just more smoke and mirrors.

I like to believe it is not.
Anything can happen anywhere, but it's the height of naivety to call the general international risk of this of this (government takeover of your shit) happening anywhere vs Russia comparable. It's way more likely to happen in russia and anyone who's worked there can tell you that.
Prettier? They are much more clear, detailed and readable than Google maps.
Maximum continuous time for an interrogation in Russia - 4 hours, after which there should be a pause of at least an hour. Maximum total time is 8 hours within a single day.

Maximum time for a detention is 48 hours until the court's decision. The difference is how much time one would have to actively prepare his defence themselves, not via advocates.
I just listened to the video you linked to. It seemed promising, but the lead flute was too much of a distraction for me. Perhaps after more hours of listening it wouldn't be such a problem.
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It's pretty obvious to us, коллега, but that sounds absolutely crazy and conspiracy-like for outsiders of ex-USSR.
> the "clear history" feature should be rolling out

Your company has proven it cannot be trusted and will do anything it can get away with and has already crossed the line of "lying is totally OK, and if we're caught we're just gonna publish a bullshit PR-speak fake apology".

Why should anyone trust it this time?
The former head of Mexico's war on drugs has just been arrested for taking cartel money!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-50736482
Sheets and towels can fit in a suitcase. I don't know of anyone who has a suitcase large enough for a mattress.

I also find the comment guests "guests will most likely attempt to take the mattress at night when the reception desk isn’t open" odd, since most four/five star hotels usually have a front desk that is staffed 24 hours.
A domain with traffic though.
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Does it really matter?

I've had call conferences with people I've never seen, and it really hasn't been a problem.
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If only it was possible to have a family with three kids anywhere near the office. Instead, decades of bad planning policy have jacked housing costs beyond all reason, forcing people like me to move very far from work.
Lot of good it does to compare anecdotes. You believe it because you want to.
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> One has only to see that FISA has only turned down 85 out of 40k requests to understand this is a rubber-stamp process.

I don't think that logic follows? That statistic could just mean that they're actually doing most things legally and properly, which is the outcome you'd want, right? I'd be worried if a significant percentage of their requests were turned down.

Also, as a comparison point: apparently several federal judicial districts have a 100% conviction rate, and overall, federal conviction rates are pretty high. Do you see these statistics as implying the whole thing is just a rubber-stamp process altogether? [1]

[1] http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_67/federal_courts_jd67....
You can use them to tune out noise around you. It muffles conversations, keyboard clacking, people sniffling, airconditioning noise, etc.
This is really subjective. Classics of Rock like Pink Floyd works for me, but I'm not sure that it works for my mate who asked me to "stop the music". Lofi is a good option too.
Scaling boosters: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/scaling_booster
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It's a huge problem that makes the hypocrisy argument palpable when thousands of climate scientists fly across the world every year for conferences on climate change. Teleconferences should be a thing for nearly everyone but the presenters, but it'll never happen because of prestige and elitism.
I've played guitar and bass for 15+ years, and I can't work without listening to music. Sometimes it feels like there is 20 voices in my head when working, like while trying to develop a report I'm constantly juggling the all thoughts of the queries, design, database updates, etc. Music makes my brain tend to focus on the task at hand.

Though I cannot listen to anything spoken word like podcasts or talk radio. Drives me absolutely nuts.
Facebook's not helping this conspiracy theory with their "why did I see this ad?" dialog. I'll see a clearly hyper-targeted ad (for example, a psoriasis medication) and click that button and it'll say "they wanted to reach people in the United States between 18-65!"

I know I was targeted by that ad. I know they're just showing me the most general bit of the targeting info that was used to put that ad in front of me.

The dialog even obnoxiously says "There could also be more factors not listed here." Yes, I know, that's fairly obvious. I clicked the dialog to figure out what those were.
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> It's my best piece of advice — and the advice most consistently ignored. If you're dealing with the government, and you are in any doubt, why won't you just shut up?
https://www.popehat.com/2013/05/01/shut-up-i-explained-mostl...
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Hoteliers are always in a balance between seeing or not seeing things. Guests are too. Hotels service the public, and people's outlook on life vary greatly.

If you have a bunch of cops getting to know everyone every time a lamp is stolen at a fancy hotel, they may recognize the escort at the bar, or notice some person of note with someone other than their partner. Usually hotels have security folks who interface with the police only when necessary.

One time I was at a beach resort where there were 4 big groups: an association of retired DEA or FBI agents, Chick-Fil-A franchise operators regional meeting, a (very) large same-sex wedding complete with a troupe of drag queen dancers, and a CBD-oil MLM scheme sales meeting. Everyone was best off minding their business!
I believe that the nanobots required to perform such a feat are at least several decades away, if not further.

You're essentially trying to replicate what cells do in a growing embryo, and even with several billion years of evolution that is still a very very error-prone process.
So far, the article was posted in 37 different subs. The highest upvotes:

/r/politics - 155 karma

/r/libertarian - 49 karma

/r/conservative - 34 karma

I'm not trying to make any case for any side here. Just providing some numbers.
Also, some of the conferencing tools take it for granted. My work laptop has a camera, and it always activates by default when we start a call, and I have to manually turn the video feed off every time. Browser asks for permission to use the camera, but if I deny it, the application refuses to work at all!
They're cancelling noise whether or not you're listening to music ;-)
Sweet sound of silence.
why would anyone want to sleep on a mattress that just recently was being used by someone else possibly also for the sex, perhaps imperfectly cleaned afterward, and get overcharged for the experience?
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For home routers, there was a major breakthrough in 2012 with the CoDel AQM algorithm, which was paired with a flow queuing system to create fq_codel and later Cake. These systems do not have any rule sets of the form "prioritize port N". fq_codel and Cake do look at port numbers and protocols, but only for the purposes of sorting packets into separate bins for separate network flows. Each bin gets the same set of rules applied to it, so in that sense they are Neutral.

CoDel on its own prevents a high-latency queue of packets from building up, but since it operates on a single FIFO queue is indiscriminate about which packets get dropped when it's time to drop something. fq_codel and Cake will tend to give priority to new or sparse traffic flows, and when they need to drop a packet they will drop from a flow that has a standing queue—on the assumption that those high-bandwidth flows are likely to be less latency/drop sensitive and probably can back off on their transmit rate. So any protocol with VOIP-like traffic patterns will tend to get prioritized enough to have minimal added latency and no packet loss (provided it's using a small share of available bandwidth), and the packet drops/ECN markings will hit the network flows that are behaving like TCP bulk file downloads. These heuristics do imbue fq_codel and Cake with a bias toward certain traffic-handling policies, but it's very analogous to the heuristics used by a typical operating system CPU scheduler, and well-grounded theoretically and empirically.

I said at the beginning "for home routers", because these new AQMs have not yet been incorporated into the kinds of ASICs used for carrier-grade equipment. But anywhere that it is practical to deploy these algorithms, they are easier to configure and offer better performance than the now-obsolete QoS strategies that depend on things like trying to decide whether port 53 should go to the head of the line to speed up DNS queries. These new algorithms have proven that ISPs do not need to buy any equipment to do things like detect and throttle bittorrent traffic in order to prevent it from overwhelming their network. They just need to upgrade their routers and gateways to use good general-purpose traffic management techniques.
he was making a reference to A Clockwork Orange...bit of the ol' Ludwig Van.

referring to how the character murders people or has threesomes in the film to a symphony.
With respect, at least some of that's badly wrong.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog "Prolog has its roots in first-order logic"

I'm pretty sure quantification exists implicitly, but I'm too rusty. I think someone may better answer that than me (oh, "without some finite domain for X", ok, but that does not preclude it from being logic, and as for infinite domains, I doubt any any system can work with that without undecidability - and very quickly undecidable. But I'm no expert).

> TLDR: true logic languages let you talk about infinities; core Prolog does not.

I cannot accept the first part of that, therefore can't accept the implication that prolog isn't a true LL.
While building my main project (stackkup.com), I was looking for a Help Center solution get answers to customers' questions when I wasn't immediately available.

There are customer chatbot solutions out there but I feel overwhelmed by the effort to set up dialogue logic. Thus Sparrw's idea formed and I'm seeing if anyone thinks this is useful for them!
About the distance of the flight by bus. How does the efficiency of a car compares to a bus/plane? (Both are roughly on the same mark, larger planes are usually more efficient.)

If you commute 10km each way every working day, you'll move nearly 3,000km on a year.
Noise cancelling headphones can cancel noise without any music playing.

It's not 100%, but they'll get rid of like 80% of the background noise without playing anything. To get that last 20% yeah you need something playing to help mask it(even at an extremely low volume).

Sometimes I wear mine with nothing playing while at work just to get rid of random office chatter.
I'm certain that if some natural disaster suddenly made all the roads impassible, "business" would very quickly adapt to remote work for all employees.

Yes there are edge cases - roles that require physically manipulating stuff that isn't accessible remotely - but a vast number of roles could certainly be moved remote.

The usual arguments against remote work would either be discovered to be not actual problems (such as the fear that remote workers won't actually do their work) or business/workflow systems would be implemented to resolve the new problems.

Business is traditionally very slow to adapt to changes. That's why big laggard companies get little done and make few innovations, but they buy startups that took risks and did new things. (Now unfortunately, they often absorb those innovative young companies and crush the soul out of it, leaving just another drone department.)
Yeah, Metal Gear wasn't exactly subtle either. I think whether you pick up on the metaphors is a sort of confirmation bias based on your previous exposure to the theme he's addressing.
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I’m not part of the target market segment, but I am part of the market. As another poster pointed out, I could buy one but won’t, depriving Apple of revenue. More importantly though, that truism is used to shutdown discussion of value and worth of products and ideas, Even though those discussions in fact actively changing the. We are having a public discussion of price, which may effect purchases of others. If a major publication published an article about how new Mac Pros were failing catastrophically with data loss, it would effect the general assessment of value of a Mac Pro and change the market, even if the author never purchased one.
> Neoliberal apologia in the guise of "oh there's no one europe".

Now you're just trolling.
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Would it be possible to have the European Union Force update OSM directly?
You can get a nice pair of ear muffs for much less.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." --Anatole France

I understand if criminal justice reform is not one of your political issues. It's easy to ignore what happens in the system if it is not. But I encourage you to look into it. After you do, tell me that it isn't mainly a mass of unfortunates being lined up to be kicked in the head, systematically, with the genuinely bad people--who really do need to be separated from the rest of us--as a minority of the cases.

Crime is down since 1980, yet prison populations are way up. Why is that? Who are the people getting put in the prisons? Who are the people profiting from this trend?
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I'm sure you can't name a single rule or law which is exploited in this case.
He's complaining that the website seems to be either broken or missing necessary information. He's allowed to complain about that.
But the parent was also talking about ambient stuff. Noise-cancelling headphones would definitely help.