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Oddly enough, I don’t have any of those issues anymore. Screen locking tends to just work these days.

What doesn’t work well anymore is user switching: when I switch virtual consoles to either another user or the gdm screen the keyboard stops registering and the mouse gets slower and slower until it stops completely. Then some time later it starts responding again. The length of time it is unresponsive seems to be proportional to the length of time the virtual console has been suspended. The system continues to be available via SSH. I suspect that the issue has something to do with a huge backlog of invalid events being delivered, but I don’t know for sure. It may also somehow have something to do with the NVIDIA proprietary drivers. I kinda blame dbus/systemd, because it first started happening at the same time as I started using systemd, but I don’t actually know that.

It’s annoying because I’ve grown to rely on fast user switching over the past decade or more.
The parent comment could have phrased it better, but still made a good point. The grandparent comment dismissed any tricky situation with children, blaming lack of motivation to the person rather than the situation, so I think the sentiment of the parent still stands.

The grandparent is happy working from home with their 1-year old. However, they don't consider that other people's situation might be very different. For example, the 4 year old can actively try to find you.

Plus not all house layouts are the same. I've got a secluded space on a higher floor, however there are no doors and the floors/walls are paper thin, so I still hear everything that happens in the house unless I permanently use noise-cancelling headphones+music (which doesn't work that well for me).
I've been fascinated by this topic since a couple decades ago, when I participated in a research study involving EEG and word recognition. Progress seems to be slow but steady, with applications getting more accurate and practical.

Your point about invasive implants being impractical for commercial use made me wonder.. I searched the first phrase that popped into my head, "Non-invasive Brain-Computer Interface". Looks like there's promising research on significantly improving sensitivity/resolution of EEG singals.

- First Ever Non-invasive Brain-Computer Interface Developed - https://www.technologynetworks.com/informatics/news/first-ev... (2019)

- Noninvasive neuroimaging enhances continuous neural tracking for robotic device control - https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/31/eaaw6844

Still, your prediction of "likely decades" sounds realistic. I'm hoping for an affordable, non-invasive brain-computer interface to be as widely used as the keyboard, mouse, or microphone.
I'd disagree with the false sense of security line. Why would someone who cares enough to go to the effort of wearing a mask then go and not wash their hands? A positive correlation between the two seems more likely than negative to me.
Also this argument is trotted out regularly by "experts" in the car manufacturing industry whenever new safety technology is invented and as far as I can tell is always proven years later to be bullshit. For examples see seat belts, air bags, traction control, ABS, AWD.
Funnily enough, my 3-year-old Macbook Pro just died, and times being what they are with your usual build-to-order options being severely backordered, I stepped into a local store and bought a laptop off the shelf -- an LG Gram 17.

It's not even a brand that's well-known for Linux compatibility (like Thinkpads), but all I've had to do to get Lubuntu 18.04 running more or less flawlessly was disable Secure Boot in the BIOS. Wifi, sound, and webcam all worked without needing tinkering. Bluetooth appears to work based on it being detected, but I haven't tried pairing anything yet. The only thing I hear doesn't work is the fingerprint sensor, but I wasn't going to use it, anyway.

Suspend on lid down and wake on lid up hasn't been an issue at all. I'm actually very pleasantly surprised at how well this LTS version from 2018 runs on a 2020 model laptop.
I don't have any medical training, and speak only from perspective of common sense.

Your argument about trapping virus inside the mask is not very convincing. If you are putting a physical barrier between your respiratory system and air in high-risk areas (general stores, pharmacies and public transportation), then statistically there should be far more prevented contacts with viruses than trapped virus particles.

The incorrectly fitted masks should provide some benefit over no mask, so this doesn't seem as a good argument for not wearing masks. I would think that even putting shirt over nose gives some protection as it prevents touching face and diminishes odds of contamination with spit particles. Besides, the article is about home-made masks and not N95 masks.

The only convincing reason against masks is that they give false sense of security, so they shouldn't be the _only_ measure. Washing hands, wearing masks and physical distancing can only be beneficial.
"Amazon should do what's good for the most amount of people which is keeping prices down."

Amazon could do this by reducing the amount of profit it pockets and giving that share to its employees.

Jeff Bezos is the richest man on Earth. He can afford it.

In fact, I'd like to see Bezos risk his life commuting to work on unsafe public transit, working in some of Amazon's warehouses where he'd be exposed to other workers who might be sick, handling hundreds of potentially infected packages, and doing deliveries... all this with crappy if any health insurance and virtually no safety net.

There's been a long-standing argument that founders deservedly reap great rewards because they are the ones in a company who shoulder the great majority of the risk.

Now that's been shown to be an utter and complete lie by this epidemic, hasn't it?

Bezos is sitting nice and safe in his mansion, pocketing billions while it's the desperate people who work for him who risk their life for peanuts.
>Tells you a lot about why "the market" won't always give you the outcome you're looking for.

I think we're seeing the market work exactly as intended. It goes both ways. If workers strike (with solidarity), the market will respond accordingly to find a price at which people are willing to do the work. But no, it won't happen instantly. The capitalists won't just give in and say "You're right guys, we're sorry.". Their hand must be forced, and that is the history of all organized labor.
I've seen no evidence that masks give people a false sense of security. If anything, it seems to be the opposite. People report that when they wear masks, people move away from them, and employers have asked them not to wear them because they might make the customers feel unsafe. They're a giant reminder that things aren't normal and that we're in the middle of a massive pandemic. This is a good thing.

If mask use becomes mandatory, will there still be groups of people standing in the middle of supermarket shouting to each other? Sure, just like there are now. The difference is those people will at least have masks on.
> (and we should be paying a lot more for their services).

This makes less sense if you're one of the tens of millions of people making much less right now.
No. This calls on everyone to make their own. Lots of video tutorials, and some examples are dead simple (two rubber bands and a paper towel, if you have to).
You may be right in the big picture, but not all "GitHubs for data" are the same. This product seems super cool:

> Dolt is Git for data. Instead of versioning files, Dolt versions tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt repositories. As far as we can tell, Dolt is the only database with branches.

I find it hard to believe no other database has branches, but if that's true and if this product works like you'd imagine, that is really cool.

Given your historical observation, I think you're right that this will not lead to a market revolution, but sometimes you need the right product to change the landscape.
My mother just finished sowing 100 washable ones so they can use them in the elderly care home she works in (she used the guide provided by the city of Essen, Germany).
They still have some left but estimated they'll run out soon and asked for volunteers to sow them in their free time. She and a coworker combined to make about 200 in a couple of days which should be enough to cover all shifts.

While I was thinking about my homemade one I thought that steam ironing is probably a good and quick way to disinfect (for those that have an iron).
Maybe, but also maybe there just isn't a huge demographic of data scientists with discretionary purchasing capacity and a hair-on-fire problem that they are desperately searching for someone to take their money and fix.

I think that a lot of the data VIP types we met with honestly wanted to know why they needed it, but the more they thought about it, the more it just seemed like a shiny thing.

It's telling that dozens of similar companies with smart people behind them have thrown their talents at this solution, and none of them have located the problem people are eager to pay to solve.
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I read a game theory paper a while ago (can't find a link, but maybe someone will remember it) that suggested a stable small population of defectors (ie, psychopaths) does confer a benefit to the overall group in a cooperative public goods game. if the group becomes accustomed to having zero defectors (ie, excessively trusting), the spontaneous emergence of even one defector will wreak havoc. if there are too many, the whole thing falls apart because there is no cooperation. so the small population of defectors provides something like immunity to the whole group.

could just be a consequence of the model they chose, but interesting to think about nonetheless. I'd be very grateful if someone could remember the name of the paper!
Note: hn has been flagging mask discussions

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22733249

And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706216

I'm not too frustrated about this because there's a lot of confusion on mask usage, people buying masks that doctors need, etc.
Well, I've found most people younger than me do seem to know their height/weight in metric whereas I don't have a clue even though I use metric for just about everything else. There may still be a bit of an urban/rural divide to it as well as age and perhaps, province or region.
I would argue the income tax issue is that simple. The bet Amazon made was that profits didn't define the valuation of the business. The part that wasn't black & white was that folks were split on whether he was a genius or a scam artist running a book retailer with a 400+ p/e ratio.

Gaming the system is what I'd call their sales tax treatment. They didn't collect it everywhere until they got so large that they're warehouses and datacenters were everywhere. And depending on jurisdiction I think its the 3rd party sellers' responsibility where possible.
Yes. They provide value by protecting others from you. You don't know if you're "healthy" because even asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic cases are contagious. You wear the mask to protect others, not yourself. Others wear masks to protect you.
I have encountered another one, a lot of fun:

* The screen turns on when the lid is opened, the login prompt appears, but the backlight is still off so you cannot see anything (except by using a super strong flashlight).
Ah yes, those are wind pollinating plants, well tree's.

Would also explain the volume of pollen over normal insect pollinated plants. Thank you for that though, I did overlook those type of pollinated plants. Though I'm not aware of any flowers that are wind pollinated, though I'm sure their will be some as every rule has an exception I've found.
I think you may have had something, and then oversold it.

The only thing “by far” about Windows 10 is the distance it should be defenestrated.

In other news... look up Surface Pro “hot bag”. The chucklefucks at Microsoft couldn’t get reliable suspend working on their own hardware for years.
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> This is because infections at home via close contacts tend to come with higher initial virus doses, in contrast to the smaller doses you might get from, say, a public door handle.

Unfortunately COVID-19 does not trigger a low dose response, which is why the virus spreads so quickly.
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> Whataboutism does not strengthen your own position.

Granted, but what you may fail to see is that Cryptocurrency is reactionary to the blatant corruption that has been normalized, the very same beahviour that the poster decries is plaguing Cryptocurrenices without providing much of an argument.

When in reality, currencies like Bitcoin continue to follow the Network's protocol that it derives its value from and has not detracted from it, despite the continuous polemics and external threats and attacks.

Sucks in what way exactly?

Because this is always a point of contention for most of its detractors. They aggregate all Cryptocurrencies into a single group, which is absurd.

Telling me how easy it is to lose a private key, thus your ability to move your funds, may be a valid point to your argument as functional (read: entirely fool-proof) key storage is still why I think its not ready for global mainstream use, in my opinion; but telling me about how a celebrity influencer Marketed alt/ICO didn't 1000x overnight as projected and instead crashed and burned as the creators absconded with the money that you read a blurb on techcrunch's twitter account is not.

Because from where I'm standing: I continue to have access to a low cost, friction-less token on an immutable ledger operating on the World's most secure Network on my phone, that I can use anywhere with wifi, and I can pay anyone who currently accepts Bitcoin and it operates 24/7 without anyone's permission.

And I can program it to do various things on top of that should I need it to, with built in trustless systems; and is also one that I can use to divide my unit of currency to 8 decimal points and still be able to operate on said network(s).

All of which incentivizes not only fair commerce and a real usecase for triple bottom line accounting, as it spurs on renewable energy as its main source as it continues to grow but also allows for previously marginalized/undocumented people into an economic system to be on boarded; unlike the exclusionary, war and fossil fueled driven fiat based system that is used to props up the Institutions I think we all know have outlived their purpose.
I've gotten rid of most of all my paper books a long time ago, I had too many and was always tempted to buy more. I even got rid of my beloved Austen anthology that's how seriously I was paring down. I figured I can get everything I love on e-format. I kept three physical books I'll never be without: Lolita, Madame Bovary, Les Misérables. Merely looking at the words does something to me.

"-- and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else. She was only the faint violet whiff and dead leaf echo of the nymphet I had rolled myself upon with such cries in the past, an echo on the brink of a russet ravine, with a far wood under a white sky, and brown leaves choking the brook, and one last cricket in the crisp weeds ... but thank God it was not that echo alone that I worshiped (...) I insist the world know how much I loved my Lolita, this Lolita, pale and polluted, and big with another's child, but still gray-eyed, still sooty-lashed, still auburn and almond, still Carmencita, still mine;"
Focus, focus, focus.
and employees should also act rationally and demand higher wages.
> Plan 9 front is my daily driver

If emacs, SBCL & Firefox ran on Plan 9, I would see no reason to bother running Linux on hardware. But they don’t, and they probably never will.

Maybe when I retire I’ll have time to work on porting them, but I have a long time until then!
They could have also made it just work in a web browser without having to use workarounds. That's one of the reasons why I strongly prefer Google Meet and get annoyed at vendors that want me to use solutions that require me to install software.
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I can't stop hating Microsoft for WSL. Yes, it is a way forward for the company but I still have a feeling they have found a perfect way to make younger generation ignore Linux completely.
If you're not infected, a mask doesn't cover your eyes, so you can still get the virus in the same way you would by breathing near an infected person. And you're probably going to think you're safe, and then touch an infected surface, and then touch your face/eyes. Congrats, your dinky non-N95 mask was pointless.

If you are infected, just use any mask. Your breath still escapes from an N95 mask's corners, spreading the virus nearby, and probably onto your hands. Sure, it won't projectile-travel as far, but it's still spilling out onto nearby surfaces/people.

In Asia, face masks have been trendy ever since the avian flu. But tons of studies showed that this had no significant effect on reducing people getting sick, because eyes, and touching face. The masks are just a psychological thing at this point.
Depends on the definition of "can"

I think, most people have potential to be able to code. By "can" I mean if they applied themselves to learning.

The problem is there's just no easy way to somehow transfer the knowledge and experience of what it means to actually code. The Doening-Kruger effect is in full force because you can't tell if you can code until you can. Moreover, almost every technology today must cater to complete beginners so it is easy to write a Hello World but then there is no way to tell you how to put your solution together. There is nuggets of wisdom but you need to have some prerequisite knowledge and experience to make use of them.

It is easy to see that I can't sight-read music. I mean I am amateur flautist but for some reason I just can't "get it" (but I also did not try hard). I know you can sight read because there are a lot people that can just take a printout and start playing it without previously studying it.

The same is not true with programming. It is not easy to see people do programming -- you only see results that you do not understand until you actually can code. You can appreciate the music but you can't appreciate the code until you actually can code.

It does not help that the whole industry is crazy right now. There is very small proportion of people with actual experience because of exponential growth of number of developers. The salaries are inflated and newcomers are getting paid as if they were experts in other industries. If you are getting paid a lot it means you must be valuable, no?
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I live in Northern Ireland, and until very recently, if I saw a person with a mask on I immediately assumed they were up to no good.
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The web client is well hidden, crippled and only works in Chrome.

Gallery view does not exist in the web client. Nor the ability to add cat memes to your background.
NO. People aren't flagging you for defining neurodiversity accurately. They're flagging you for questioning that high-needs people with Autism add no value to human society.

I'm happy to say it: that's a pretty terrible opinion to have.
Conversely, I much prefer a desktop app to Google Meet, since that's stuck in the browser the video can't float PIP when you navigate away from the call
This is a great resource if you're in the U.S., thank you! Be sure to look up your local native plant societies if you need more help, they're a great resource and can often find you cheap seeds or young plants. In Georgia we have the Georgia Native Plant Society (https://gnps.org/) and in Texas the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center can help you (https://www.wildflower.org/). Find and support your local native plant people!
The script asks for root which subsequently pops up an OS password prompt. Zoom never sees your password.

How is this different from the way e.g. Virtualbox gets root?
I honestly think the algo ansible scripts just make it more confusing. I agree with you, setup isn't that hard, and you learn it better setting it up without ansible scripts.
I'm still not convinced this coverage is in any way related to Zoom's current popularity or COVID-19, I just think a company that keeps fucking up is a better story than a one-off.
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most programs hopefully do the sensible thing. But just having the possibility of one browser tab to spawn 8 web-workers that don't do any IO but just busy-wait makes it clear that current implementations of common software don't play well with that model.

It might not lock-up your OS but it would lock up all of the userland and the kernel couldn't do anything about it, because it can't pre-empt. All it could do under that model is let the user kill the browser or just kill the browser itself automatically.

I think most people would prefer being able to use their PC for other things while transcoding a video or compiling a program at near the PCs full capability. Instead of sacrificing a whole core to the OS and then also having to wait longer for those tasks to finish, plus not being able to do anything else.

A model with less pre-emption is certainly possible, but current end-user software makes an approach without any pre-emption very in-advisable.
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...and experts in the field have been withholding evidence that masks are effective to protect their peers from mask shortages.

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-special-lipkin/

timestamp: 33:30
They won’t even start manufacturing until April 20.
>Private sector should continue to be fair and act rationally.

Pick one.
I must say that Google Meet has been a smooth experience at work, but if I had to go with a privacy-focused solution, that'd be Jitsi and not Zoom.
Does anyone have a copy of the research paper?

Also does anyone else find the organisation who sponsored the research (Mindlab) to be creepy?

https://themindlab.co.uk/
They aren't made of plastic, so I don't think they'll cause even a fraction of as much problematic waste
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Probably a lot of the other way around as well. Google employees likely use Chrome and Docs/Sheets heavily, so they get a rapid high-quality feedback loop with any bugs or performance issues affecting the Chrome devs and people around them.
And instead of the "bastards" starting another WW, they're treating French and Italian people sick with the coronavirus [1]. Wouldn't surprise me if in one month or so Germany were to lend a hand to the US too.

[1] https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/28/eight-covid-19-patients-...
> hand to nose mouth contact is THE primary vector for this illness

Do you have a source for this? It's contrary to most of what I've read (droplets through air is primary vector).
> I believe this mentality is part of the reason it never seems to get any better.

Or maybe it’s that authoring and supporting drivers for actual hardware is tremendous effort that is mostly thankless.

Even Microsoft can’t get something much better and they literally have billions they need to throw at it.
I think that’s the end of our democracy if the national guard locks down the entire country. I’m surprised you’d advocate that so casually.
Ever since I saw a some officials wearing safety glasses I've been wondering: is eye protection effective against coronavirus (or were these people paranoid about getting sneezed in the eyes)?
I'm not sure how that's relevant now that China is largely back to work.