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Outside of young, childless tech workers, this sudden remote work experiment is not going well for most people I know.

This isn’t the controlled trial of remote work that these think pieces suggest. Instead, everyone is forcefully stuck at home without time to prepare. Parents are juggling childcare with getting work done, while fighting an uphill battle against IT systems that weren’t prepared for everyone going WFH for every job at the exact same time.

Even the remote teams I know are struggling to get work done in the middle of this 24-hour news cycle of virus news and political battles about how to address it.

I don’t think we’re going to look back on this experiment and conclude that it was a net win for productivity or even for worker happiness.
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Kind of the same. As a somewhat advanced user of Firebase (2 projects with >25K MAU each), it works extremely well.
All coronavirus articles should be FREE and accessible without registration. Any company doing otherwise is socially irresponsible.
Agree with parent comment. I don’t get the sense from reading the article that the author even used Svelte much — it sounds more like they just read the marketing.
GPD P2 Max is 8.9", probably the smallest 'real' laptop out there

https://liliputing.com/2019/06/first-look-gpd-p2-max-8-9-inc...
Yep. Amazon search has built that trust of Amazon (although plenty of retail companies refuse to use AWS because of the retail competition). But there was a time when Google was universally the coolest company in the room - and I'd be interested to see how deep the trust well goes with amazon. The one thing with amazon you can trust is that they want to make money, and cloud makes them money, so they're at least not gonna pull the plug on you.
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I loved mine (the original 12"), keyboard and all. Kept it with me all the time in a little sling bag... like a gun in holster. BANG! BANG!

Rocked it til it broke, and I'm still missing it 3 years later. I guess I need a new one.
I mean, yes, but also a reputation for killing things off hasn't entirely stopped people from using GCP.
> "74. Of the electrical power transformer stations targeted, one transformer station supplied power to the air defence co-ordination network while the other supplied power to the northern-sector operations centre. Both these facilities were key control elements in the FRY integrated air-defence system."

The winner / the stronger can stretch the fact and the criteria. I'm sure some Bin Laden people considered all the 9/11 targets as legitimate. This still doesn't make neither 9/11 nor deliberate bombing of civilian targets in Serbia right.
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ATMLIB is just a client library, it doesn't process any fonts itself, it's not the same thing as ATMFD.

In Windows 10, they changed it so the ATMFD code runs sandboxed in fontdrvhost.exe, and eventually removed it completely from the kernel, that's why atmfd.dll is not there on later editions.
Down dog is really good for yoga and it's free until the end of the month I believe. https://www.downdogapp.com/
Ah, I was imagining more like:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pukka-Metallic-Jotta-Wirebound-Note...
Why is it trying to load a script from 127.0.0.1 ?
Really surprised not more people are mentioning the X1 Carbon. It is extremely lightweight, thin, loaded with ports, has great battery life and has tons of ports.

I use one plugged into a thunderbolt 3 dock so I can have a great desktop setup with a single wire, and quickly unplug when I need to move.
Have you figured out a way to print rendered Markdown from VSCode? Or even just print rendered version to PDF?

The lack of this feature makes Markdown in VSCode a no-go for me.
Mounting maps. When I was in the Boy Scouts we learned to mount USGS maps on cloth.

I found a blog post which describes the process.

When I was in the Scouts, we would visit the USGS office in Palo Alto, CA to buy topo maps. Visit the USGS site to see if there is a location near you.[2]

[1]: http://www.mrgus.net/2017/02/maps-for-going-afield.html
[2]: https://www.usgs.gov/connect/locations
Yeah, I think this experiment is going to backfire. People are going to hate WFH/Remote work coming out of this it seems.
Totally agree. I use 8" Samsung tablet with LTE and use a Microsoft BT keyboard - the universal one in which the cover is audio stand for phone or tablet. Program using vi in termux session. Works brilliantly especially for travel.
> converting a passenger plane into a freighter takes about three months

No, that's not how it works. Airlines will hate to make the best out of a bad situation which means maximizing results while minimizing expenditure. If we're talking about (quote) "emergency medical supplies" (and not only) it will be done exactly as I described. Sturdy seat covers and airmail bags are actually a practice today for some companies.

And rules change in emergencies. Converting a GM, Tesla, or Ford factory to build ventilators would take fornever. And yet here we are with them volunteering to do it on short notice.
Is your toddler going to be seriously sick or hurt for not having shoes? If not then it'd say not as essential as other things.
FWIW, I joined a Zoom meeting and the audio was all garbled, barely understandable. Don't know if it matters that one user joined with a browser. We switched to Jitsi and the session went very smoothly afterwards.
The edge cases are hard.

Like SDP offers between browsers which support different codecs.
I'd be far more willing to turn the video on in my calls of people weren't going to see the messy room in the background, and the calls I'm in have an awful lot of blank screens that would be better if people turned on there video for some face-to-face communication. I think it's less non-essential than you might imagine, this is a really well thought-out feature, and probably pretty technically challenging to implement too.
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And male vs female variance in general would appear to be strong evidence that something is going on.
Mostly database-related issues as far as I understand. What I’m wondering is: is it related to Firebase only or more would it apply more generally to any NoSQL databases provider?
I think that "only 250 virus infect humans" means something like "so far, we only know of 250 viruses in record that cause notable diseases".

In an ideal world, we should be sequencing viruses for each single patient, just like we measure blood pressure.
We built one

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

Just install it and video conferencing is one of the free features out of the box

All you do is call Q.Streams.WebRTC.start()
You didn't put it in quotes and you didn't attribute it directly. Why not attribute it correctly yourself? That's what's customary.
> I’m sure the Microsoft engineers thought their code was bulletproof too right until the exploits started showing up.

I am sure the engineers at Microsoft were shipping and not thinking about exploits. Or at least the exploits were the lesser of their worries.
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I'm a Windows user, which means dotfiles are even uglier for me. For an app that just needs two tiny variables, environs are the much cleaner solution.
Most people here still live with their parents.
The results are disappointing because they are useless. That's how I interpret the headline.
If you have water coming to tank you have the capabilities to split it already fir either portable bidet or hand bidet aka small shower head.
Ask HN: Why can't central banks print money as exception?
Serious economic fallout of coronavirus is becoming clear [1].

Rewind back 3-4 weeks, many governments were hesitant to institute lockdowns, out of concern of economic impact. Some still are.

Why can't central banks print money as exception? Calm economic concerns down, and let everyone focus decisively on dealing with virus.

While I am not an economic and behavioural expert, I am aware of counter arguments to printing money.

Yet, these are unprecedented times. The leeway is going to be time limited (say, 6 months).
Assumption: any downside of limited printing money is far less damaging than global economic engine going in recession.
Not to mention, putting everyone's mind at ease, can shape behaviour that can save lives.

Pay small businesses, companies that are hit hard with no WFH options and can't employ.
Pay premium to folks on the front lines, critical services.

Can ones more educated on economics and behavioral psychology post their answers?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51706225
I think TV ads are much worse than ads on the internet. Imagine YouTube, where you have to watch an ad that's a fifth of the length of the video for every video.

10 minute video? 2 minutes of unskippable ads. Right now we tend to have skippable ads that are much shorter.
Total Deaths = Total Cases recorded two weeks earlier
I know public service roles are salary capped, but it's distressing to me that the CIO of the FBI will be making only "$131,239 to $192,180" which is less than even a medium-sized tech company executive would make. This person would be the front line of security defense for our top law enforcement agency and the enemies of that agency have billions of dollars of funding. It just seems like we should be paying for the talent we actually need at that level.
> If you try the same thing with a B2B or other high-touch service, it's not going to end well for you.

In my experience B2B businesses call you, they want to talk to someone, not to a chat bot.

My biggest complain is in fact that I have to take phone calls because clients refuse to use other means of communication.
Evil, perhaps
Google payed support for GCE is absolutely embarrassingly terrible. To get to someone who knows what they are talking about you have to go through many many people who have zero clue, over frustrating course of many days. Every.single.time.

We're not going to be the biggest fish, but our spend is approaching $1mio per year. If you spend more than that and have a TAM YMMV.
>If we take that the liquor store that tourists shop in is the same liquor store/cafe/plumber that the locals use,

You can't make that assumption. There are a minority of businesses that are open in the off season that are used by locals. The majority of businesses are targeted at tourists only and any use by locals is incidental and immaterial to their balance sheets. Many of the business owners actually have other locations that they'll run in the off season (e.g. florida for the winter, nantucket for the summer).

Depending on the location (i.e. less true on an island where you have to incur a $100 ferry ticket to leave) many locals spend huge amounts of time traveling in order to buy goods at reasonable prices. Ecommerce (which doesn't generally change prices by location) and big box stores (which have rules about prices that franchise owners must follow) tend to be the places locals shop for goods in where possible. The further you get from pure tourism (e.g restaurant = 0 steps, restaurant's landlord = 1 step, landlords plumber = 2 steps) the more likely a business is to be open year round.

>I can't imagine anyone ever thinking, "gee, good thing the cruise ships dock in Barcelona,

Barcelona (or Miami for that matter) is lucky that it's a big enough city with enough other industry that normal economic competition keeps prices reasonable. Pretty much any city tourism destination will have reasonable prices there's other industry going on even if tourism is the big one. The quaint little towns with nothing but tourism are what I'm talking about. Sure, the locals who make their money close to the tourists would be angry if you parked a cruise ship there but there's also be a huge number hoping that the hotels and rentals lower their prices to compete with the cruises causing the restaurants to lower their prices, etc, etc so that they can actually justify the cost of going out to eat once in awhile.

>supermercados would go back to being astronomical and the garbage collection services would be able to take full advantage of us again"

The supermarkets where my parents live (they still live in the tourist town I left) fought tooth and nail to keep the chain known for low prices from setting up shop just barely within a reasonable driving distance. Many, dare I say most locals love outside competition because they can get more for their dollar.

I could tell you similar stories about damn near every type of business up to and including a scrap metal recycler.
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The problem is that the more cases you have, the higher the likelihood that you will need to end up with multiple strains and need more than one vaccine, which may be fatal to eradication.
Because that’s how you get runaway inflation. Printing money doesn’t add value to the economy. It spreads the existing value over more currency.

Countries that made this mistake during the Great Depression include Weimar Germany.
interesting, I always thought it was less effective than other pistol ammo because it would begin expanding against the vest. TIL.
Anecdotally, proper sling usage makes a huge difference with the larger cartridge battle rifles. The sling needs to be wrapped around your off-arm tightly and seriously pull the rifle into your shoulder, which substantially helps to mitigate the recoil knocking it off its aim. Yes, your shoulder is still gonna be taking a bruising, but that's the much better end of the rifle to be on.
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My job has been remote since last summer. I completely understand your cons - things which help are going out for walks or in your case cycling (I normally take a long walk to a coffee shop in the morning) and organising things to do in the evening such as meetups, dinner, a pint, etc. You have to be more active but it's nice when your social life is both good and unrelated to your job!
I think Shannon's 1937 masters thesis linking boolean algebra and electronics was the most important theoretical paper for computers:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay...
That’s not necessarily the case. They’d have to either have that cash on hand or be able to raise it in the debt or equity markets. If these are long term viable businesses, I don’t see why they shouldn’t be able to do just that. Doesn’t seem like any are trying because they’d rather get a government handout.

Fair weather capitalists.
It's expensive to properly maintain those stockpiles, and even a well-funded military did a particularly bad job at it. There's no glory in keeping pallets of drums in good condition.

Leaks happen and have happened, etc.
> What do you mean by 'just Firefox'? Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari all support Progressive Web Apps in general.

Chrome runs only on Windows/Mac/Android (Linux if you allow proprietary software on your distro)

Safari is only Windows/Mac/iOS

Firefox runs on many more platforms, but unfortunately its market share is low
What do you think of Markdown forms ?
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You don't go there for the money, nobody does. You work hard for a few years,make connections, get experience and jump ship to private sector that'll compensate for all those years of underpayment.
If we didn't do this the hospitals would quickly be overrun and your wife wouldn't be able to get help if anything were to happen to her. Yes it's pretty necessary.
> People are going to hate WFH/Remote work coming out of this it seems.

The question is, what are they going to do? There are two options... demand better tooling (I'm actually surprised about Microsoft Teams!) or go back to office and put up with everything related to a multi-hour commute - infection risk in public transport, gas/insurance costs, endless traffic jams, hours lost each day that can be spent with partner/s and children instead, or simply with sleep...
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I think you are being bit too pessimistic.

Think of him what you want, but no one can criticize donation of medical equipment (whether its PR move, or sheer goodwill).

1000 extra ventilators is 1000 extra ventilators.
Very true. I saw some people asking for clarification and the answers were pretty anti wfh.
If it results in

1. Workers (that previously hadn't been remote) realizing that it has good parts and bad parts, that paying an extra 10%+ in rent/mortgage in order to get a proper home office can be the cost of working from home (and then the costs of utilities for a now non-empty home). That doesn't mean it's bad, just that it has pluses and minuses.

2. Companies realizing that people working from home _does_ have benefits, and it's _not_ just people sitting around in their PJs being unproductive.

Then I think we've gained something. It's not a backfire, so much as a better understanding that everything has tradeoffs.
> terrorizing the population into surrendering.

This is asymmetrical warfare in a nutshell
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There is a difference between revenue and transactional value! In the industry it seems that the revenue rate is ~10%. We can look at HomeAway for example - acquired by Expedia in 2015, for 3.8bn, 2014 revenues were ~$446.8m (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomeAway), for about 500 - 1k employees (can't find any data on this). https://ir.expediagroup.com/?ReleaseID=880362 does not list any information on Hotels.com generated revenues. But overall, Expedia generates ~450k/employee, and I'd expect this to be the norm, maybe higher for Hotels.com, by max 50%. The writer has no business knowledge and is generally uninformed when it comes to the requirements of managing a vastly complex company. For Airbnb, maybe 20-30% of people are working in customer support from India, and get paid $5000/year. An average is not a good indicator of a company's ability to make money
The "common cold" virus is also a coronavirus, so that makes sense. That would still help in differentiating if you have the flu or Covid-19. I only heard of getting more sensitive to smells in connection with migraine (totally anecdotal evidence)...
I'm using a Pixelbook, and I like it, but it does feel large and heavy coming from a 12" Macbook.
> or be able to raise it in the debt or equity markets

The debt/equity markets are beyond fucked at the moment. Relying on them is what led the financial industry to the 2008 crisis and it certainly won't be a good idea to rely on them in future pandemics.

> Fair weather capitalists.

The entire point of governments in a capitalist system is to deal with stuff that is too big for companies and individual people to handle - which a pandemic certainly is.
+1 to all of this. I was also in this space ~5 years ago and faced all of the same pain points. We installed hardware (simple iBeacons) in restaurants/bars and had an online portal for them to enter drink specials. About 1/3 of our customers required weekly assistance with one or both of these.

We did find that lots of businesses had a set budget for experimental expenditure like this so starting off with a 3 month (quarterly recurring) subscription worked pretty well. They were willing to spend upfront to try it out and several months were enough time to determine if it had any impact on their revenue.

Good luck!
This morning my partner disconnected the modem when vacuuming and we both panicked that the internet was down. It's unfathomable, at this time, how critical this service has become for so many of us, who would perhaps live first without running water than lose connectivity.. Applause to the brave souls keeping our infrastructure up.
Hey all, just so you know, Thunderbird can do this too. View -> Folders -> Unified :)
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Are they refunding the price of the degraded service?
Though it should be noted that you really don't need to spend that much. You could start off with something like a Logitech G29 for $250, which would clamp to your desk.
I'm not sure that viewing this as some kind of dry run for a future in which we all work from home is particularly fair, on multiple fronts. Firstly, this isn't a choice anyone has made, it's something which has been forced upon them. Working from home is (for some) great, but in its present state, many are restricted from leaving the house unless absolutely necessary, and so we're not so much "working from home" as "living from home". I think is a crucial difference, because people are currently denied any physical form of socializing, not merely during working hours. The speed at which this situation was forced upon us, also means that few of us have the separate room with perfect working conditions which a typical full-remote worker might.

From the perspectives of the companies it's also unfair to look at their hiring habits and speculate on their attitudes to working from home. Many companies are struggling to meet payroll, fighting with uncertainty, and desperately trying to form new communication structures in order to support the business. During such time, of course hiring is not going to be a priority.

Speculating on the outcome of this nightmare seems somewhat foolhardy, and extolling the virtues of working from home myopic given the many people who now find themselves struggling or out of work, ill, or forced to work in what are increasingly dangerous environments.
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It doesn't matter which ones had public implementations. If you are stuck to this comment it is obvious you never tried to productize any implementation of whatever
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That's a beautiful solution, hadn't considered that. You would instantly take almost all the wind out of their sails, with a simple random delay.
Is a warehouse a crowded environment?
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I’ve had good results with a DIY version of a hypnogogic light.

I used one of these at a psychedelic science conference in SF but they wanted $25k to buy it. So I set out to build an open-source version for under $100.

The LSD (Light Stimulation Device) can be built for under $50 and is being used for therapy, relaxation and inducing psychedelic like experiences.

Current version is made with ski googles, lith ion USB rechargable battery, Arduino with Bluetooth and can pair with a terminal program on IPhone.

The whole project is on GitHub and can be found here:

Http://AnthonyDavidAdams.com/lsd
> Because that’s how you get runaway inflation

That's the common view yes.
For 6 months? In current context, value is psychological shoring.

> Countries that made this mistake during the Great Depression include Weimar Germany.

How long was printing money period? 1-2 years?
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