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You'd think the sort of person that wanted to pay art thieves would be more interested in the prestige of a famous or characteristic work than a relatively obscure naturalistic study of a garden he painted several times. I mean, similarly, anyone interested in studying the history of art sees Picasso's naturalistic family portraits he made as a teenager and his 'blue period' as important in his development as an artist, but it's not the stuff I'd imagine is high on the list of wealthy criminals wishing to flaunt their wealth and power with famous abstract paintings worth millions in their private rooms.

Though I doubt Van Gogh's more famous works were on display at the Singer Laren museum...
On 2. I have never worked at apple but many job postings I have seen for software engineering positions explicitly called for onsite.
> If you don't say it out loud, and assume people will pick it up via osmosis, you're a bad leader.

To some extent, I agree, though it largely depends on the role. Setting expectations clearly is important as a leader, as is providing clear, timely feedback when expectations aren't met.

In college, it's a wake up call to students, because professors do not provide followup the way grade school teachers do. You are given your work and expected to turn it in.

For engineers, it's largely as you said--you're an adult. Act like an adult. If you're getting hammered on company time, we'll have a discussion about it, and why it's happening.

On the flip-side, I had a house-hold employee who dressed completely inappropriately for her job. I wrote her up about it and sent her information (guidelines) around appropriate dress code for her role.

> How is remote different than in-person?

Physical presence can correlate with productivity. That may be the sole signal that triggers a boss to look at actual productivity metrics.

There are other approximations, such as responsiveness to communications (email, slack etc) as well.

But I posit the leaders who are spying on employees have trained their intuition to be based on physical presence. Without that, they're scared.

I follow the model that the team owns their deliverables, and delivery dates, with input from me. I advocate shorter deliverables or checkpoints to uncover issues with estimates sooner, but ultimately leave it up to the team to execute. If something isn't delivered on time, I as a leader address the underlying causes.

My philosophy as a boss is "You have a lot of flexibility. Just get your work done when you say you will." And not everyone has the maturity to work in such an environment.

I hope that explains my feelings more clearly.
The question isn't about effectively maximizing something. It's about whether they can turn a healthy profit. And in my experience you can, if you build the company and product correctly. But if you have VC money you won't because you can't be happy with tens of millions of profit with VC funding.
They are using an older version of https://docsy.dev for their docs site.

How does this one look on mobile? https://docs.hofstadter.io

I just started that yesterday from the most recent docsy.
Socialism tends to be implemented the government doing things ineffectively, which is part of the reason Socialism has the reputation that it doesn't want.
Not my writing, but thanks.
Un-popular opinion incoming:

FUCK YOUR SURVEILLANCE STATE apologist propaganda.

I don't WANT Predator following me about and retinal scanning me into the Starbucks.
Graphics algorithms for what? Mac is still such a small market share that third party developers won’t take advantage of any weird architectural advantages. Sony tried and failed to pull this off with the PS3’s Cell processor, which was ironically PowerPC-based.
attempting to do face tracking for contact tracing in the US would likely lead to an uproar from privacy advocates. there are likely many companies (amazon, facebook, google) that have the tech to accomplish it (several years ago).
I don't think anyone would mind some company "profiting from the pandemic" if it actually had something that works. Heck, the US government would probably sign you a hundred billion dollar check in 15 minutes at this point if you had a cure or a working therapeutic which can be deployed immediately.
Thanks for the elaborate answer on my, in hindsight, not very clear question.

The use case I was referring too is where the VPN is between e.g. your corporate network and your pc when working from home. In this case the VPS doesn't need to see the unencrypted traffic.

A sibling comment made clear that the ansible recipe mentioned is to setup a VPN between e.g. a laptop in the VPS.
"So if some Houdini wants to snatch a couple swirls of paint that are really only important to some very silly rich people, I don't really give a damn..."
Wow, sounds like you just discovered that health insurance is expensive! (Regardless of who pays it, your employer paying it is just a hidden reduction of your salary.)
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They're demanding a wage hike because they're literally being exposed to the virus…
Yes, I agree. I’m hiring myself and understand both sides. Some people like to work in the office, that’s fine. However, „would you like to move to the other side of the country when the pandemic is over, all 300 of our engineers are going to be there, you can do work from home once a week”?
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My productivity has shot up. I have no commute now (1 hour each way during low traffic times). I have my personal computer to supply music and other entertainment to help me focus while I am working. I have nothing like this when I am the office. My kids are home from school now, but that does not slow me down.
That's the problem - Meetup _really didn't want_ their organizers to be businesses. They wanted them to be political discussion groups or whatever.

Meetup should have been Eventbrite, and they could have, but they sort of turned their nose up at the opportunity.
This isn't so different from how HN has always been. Many topics have political overlap. That's inevitably the case on a site that's dedicated to intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

This is a challenge for moderation, but the approach we take has been stable for a long time. I've written about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844, and there's lots more explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for anyone who wants it.

Concerns about HN getting more/too political go back almost as far as the site itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869. There's no systemic breach, just topical fluctuation.

How we handle major ongoing stories (like this crisis) is mostly by downweighting routine follow-ups, so that just the stories with significant new information get primary coverage: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That's the intention, at least.

Of course there are always exceptions for submissions that have intellectually curious angles, like the detective aspect in the OP here.
When was the last time an Apple product launch wasn't leaked? I feel like we've known what was coming ever since the infamous lost iPhone prototype (iPhone 6 maybe?). It has been a while.
Due to combination of enormous containment effort and luck. And of course a crisis averted becomes a source of Internet jokes rather than a lesson in preparedness.

But you can't be lucky all the time.
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> Well, i think some form of vertically stacked option is coming in the mid-term.

I'm fine with this. I'm surprised that airline seat manufacturers don't make versions for office use -- business class seats are much nicer than any open plan desk I've ever sat at. You are fully surrounded on all sides, your chair can turn into a bed, and inside an office you can probably stack them. Getting a couple of 30" monitors in there that are infinitely adjustable would be a challenge, and cleaning it sounds like a pain in the ass... but I'm sure these issues could be resolved if there is money in doing it.

I think people like open-plan offices because they're easy. You move into the space, have IKEA deliver a bunch of tables, and you're set up. It's cheap and it's easy.
I think it will only be unpopular because of your inability to say it in a stable, civil way.
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Don't spy on me.

Period.

---

Actually let me expand upon that. First with an annecdote....

I Was at RSA conf in SF a few years ago - ran into an old friend who was contracting to the NSA - and then met the head of cybercrimes for the state dept (I cant recall his title sadly - I kept a pic of his business card for years, but have since lost it)

They invite me to dinner that night. There is about ~12 of us - and they are trading war stories of shit they have done in cybercrime blah blah (I was working at Lockheed at the time)

There was this super you, SUPER brilliant eng that was with them and he was talking about hacking this, that and the other - being on redteam and they had to physically infiltrate, pick locks and steal this and that from blueteam...

but there was a subtext which was fucking disturbing.

They were all bragging about these OPs...

And while I understand the national necessity of having such skills in your bet - the problem was that I realized I was sitting at a table with 100% psychopaths that didnt have a single moral fiber in their soul.... and it was about the thrill and ego of being "look at how fucking smart and technical and cool I am"

I literally excused myself from the table and acted as though I was going to use the restroom.

I simply walked out of the restaurant.

The point is, that these orgs use very young smart people and enable and empower them with autonomy, authority, and praise and you wind up with digital psychos.

I am looking at you [lots of surveillance companies all over HN]

So, FUCK authoritarian supporting, bullshit businesses.
Oh, don't get me wrong here: for my own work, I'm 100% work-from-office. I like working in an office with a desk and a proper setup and other people around me also doing the same work. Big fan of NOT doing the "let's have everyone work remote it's AWESOMESAUCE!" thing--it's not awesomesauce for everyone, and there's a huge segment for which it's actively detrimental.

I was just guessing Apple might soften their stance on it a bit, although it sounds from others like that ain't the case (which also doesn't surprise me--Apple gonna Apple).
Why won't these articles die? It's pure sensationalism since no sane person would 3D print a gun which in all likelyhood would just blow up in your hand.

You have always been able to do effectively the same thing for less money and with more reliability using some pipe at a hardware store. However, when someone adds the phrase "3D printing" it becomes a huge issue that people want to regulate. It's incredibly frustrating
Very different. Webflow is a tool to build your main website/blog. On the other hand, magicdocs is geared towards client-facing documents as websites. They're websites, yes, but flexible and ephemeral.
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And the 3 dimensions.
Massive difference is that schools will be open. Which makes large difference on productivity.
I'm not sure where I expressed any attitude or opinion in my comment, positive or negative (other than perhaps the "not going to end well for those people" - although I think my opinion that "not end well" is a good description of their likely summary dismissal that would meet broad consensus). Them's just the breaks.

It seems you may be advocating for government intervention to prevent these people from being fired and replaced during their strike. Is that what your comment means? Or do you simply expect the employers to meet their demands, and not replace them? I don't think that's very likely, considering the already extremely-high turnover in these unskilled, low-wage positions.
> Give me $10k and I'll have a working crappy clone.

... of a product

> Give me a weekend and an espresso machine and I'll have an mvp.

... minimum viable PRODUCT.

That's not a company. That's a product. A company has to handle abuse, support, sales, marketing, expanding into new markets, partnerships, etc.
You guess that you can't pump and dump a company into an IPO with only double-digit number of employees.
It's been around for 3 years already hehe! And yes, crafting my own format was how it all started. Happy to hear more about your project!
This seems to be the URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asus-rog-zephyrus-g14
He was also one of the first politicians in Europe to close their country's borders, so in the present situation his leadership is, literally, anti-toxic.
"Reminds me of some Asimov" may be the single greatest compliment I've ever been paid.

One of the things I love about Asimov's writing is the way in which he builds complex situations with simple building blocks. The Three Laws are the best example of this, but one of my favorites remains his first "article" on Thiotimiline.
PID controllers have a closed system -- the system is gonna do X, Y, or Z, but that's about it. Maybe expand out those options by an order of magnitude, but it's still fairly limited compared to all of the weird clusterfucks that happen in the real world.

Like, who foresaw COVID? Who foresaw fidget spinners? etc. How do you plan for a central supply system when a news story about kids eating Tide pods drops the demand (increasing the supply) by 20% overnight?

The soviets essentially tried to do this with a communist style-command economy -- and it didn't work well. Maybe modern tech can do it better but it would have to be able to predict the social, political, and logistical challenges enough to outperform the alternatives.
> All digital lending has been legally dubious since the ReDigi case decided that sending someone a digital file counted as making a new copy. So far, the whole idea of lending exists in a gray area where publishers have simply decided not to sue. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/internet-archive....

Anyone else interested in this ReDigi case (I was) can check out the following pages:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyrig...

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/16...

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/business/media/redigi-los...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_LLC_v._ReDi....

More recent news:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181217/17092841253/appea...

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2018/12/copyright-doctrine-copy...

PDF: https://patentlyo.com/media/2018/12/16-2321_opn1.pdf

The 2000 mp3.com lawsuit is also interesting, though it didn't involve sharing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/06/technology/mp3com-loses-c...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_Recordings,_Inc._v._MP3.....

The lawsuit(s?) against Google's book scanning program are also interesting; I believe there was a discussion regarding this on HN somewhat recently, though I may be wrong
You're speaking from experience? In my bio-ish field most of the money gets used to purchase reagents and to maintain mouse colonies.
Aww, look at that. You can't answer the question so surprise! the downvotes.

China suppressed covid information because that's it's nature; deny until it can't just deny any more. Now exactly the same, downvotes against something because you just can't answer it- what's Chinese for "the leopard can't change it's spots"?
While you're at it, fix everything else too.

I'm not being snarky, I mean it. Bucky Fuller calculated that we could solve most of the world's problems for about $25B (this was in the 70's, so adjust for inflation and whatnot).

He was thinking big: houses built in factories (like cars) and delivered to the site by helicopter. You could roll out a whole neighborhood in a week or two. They had waterless toilets that captures BMs in little plastic bags, hyper-efficient "fog" showers. ( Legend has it that the project was spiked because it would put too many electricians and carpenters and so on out of business. )

Or see his Old Man River's City project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_River%27s_City_project https://solutions.synearth.net/2002/11/24/ ) A city in a single building with ten million square feet of enclosed open space. Add some applied ecology ("Permaculture") and you've got an arcology ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology ).

We have pretty much all the answers, the problem is to align our power with our values.
I wonder if this problem won’t go away after WSL2.0?

How far away are we from a Windows that can run Unix/POSIX out of the box?
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They could be cryptographically signed as the BBC Radio 4 LW carrier is phase modulated with a datastream that can be used for remotely controlling electrical equipment [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_teleswitch
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Yes, everyone will be exposed to the virus.

As I specifically mentioned: this is going to last for a year (probably more). Everyone is going to have to learn how to continue doing their job with that.

There is no other option: the govt doesn't have enough money, business doesn't have enough money, consumers don't have enough money...everyone is going to have to do their job with this happening.
iPhones, at least.
The "raw materials" used in that cost estimate from Foxconn are things like Samsung displays made in Korea, but also Apple SoCs and Qualcomm modems made at TSMC in Taiwan, and memory, power management, RF, cameras, etc. etc. etc. made in China. The time for Foxconn to assemble those modules, but an "Assembled in the US from parts made in China" iPhone would have the same difficulties. If you add the time to build the subcomponents and their support overhead it would cost much more. Also, the iPhone has a uniquely large margin and non-recoverable engineering costs, and the semiconductor and PCB industry is necessarily highly automated. The average bit of consumer goods has a larger assembly ratio.

For what an anecdote is worth (to give a sense of the scale of the problem) I'm involved in automotive tier 2 industrial automation in the midwestern US. One of my customers who has plants in several countries has told me that a fully loaded hour (including benefits, taxes, etc) of assembly operator time in Michigan costs $28, the same hour in China costs $7.50, and the same hour in Mexico costs $4.75. It is a bit more of a pain to maintain qualified engineering and maintenance parity across these different zones, but they basically do the automation in Michigan and mirror those known-good machines and processes overseas with remote support. They're assembling, staking, polishing and inspecting plastic interior components, and their costs are roughly 15% overhead and profit, 20% shipping, 20% raw materials, 10% capital (machine) depreciation, and 35% operator time.
I know more than a few engineers who were already working for Apple remote long before this pandemic. It is limited I guess in what teams support remote workers, but it isn’t that uncommon.
Interesting related note about Brest (which I bet you know, but throwing it in for the benefit of the thread): in WW2, once our anti-submarine capability got up to speed, transiting the continental shelf to or from Brest was one of the most dangerous times for a u-boat. Diesel subs were really only mobile on the surface, and were easily spotted from the air. Over the shallow continental shelf there wasn’t enough depth to escape once spotted.
IIRC (admittedly it's been a few years), ACM Membership only got you access to a selection of material from Safari, not the whole thing.

That might have changed given that Safari has reorganized and changed like 5x in the past few years.

Anyone confirm?
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I literally just bought a box of the film he's using here, it's a high contrast red-insensitive film, $15 for 50 sheets, https://www.freestylephoto.biz/531345-Arista-Ortho-Litho-Fil...

developing it for normal contrast images is more difficult but not impossible
The word "spy" isn't specific enough. It's enough to say that you don't want your Fourth Amendment rights violated.

It should be possible to do mass surveillance of Covid-19 without violating people's rights. It's just an additional constraint that other countries don't have. It will require some alternative approaches.
ISIS recruiters and Nazi propagandists are not arguing in bad faith either-- is censorship a bad way to handle that? Where do you draw the line?
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I think Amazon Robotics does some of this stuff.
Unfortunately, we have the rest of the world to look at as an example of it being necessary.
Didn't Meetup sell because Facebook basically said they were going to own groups?

I'm not sure that ever happened.
It’s for a museum, for an interactive exhibition. It’s a nice touch.
There's a ridiculous controversy in France about this guy. Lots of French people see him as the misunderstood genius that could save us from the virus, if it weren't for our evil government (obviously sold to the pharmaceutical companies). We even have celebrities (actors, rappers, humorists...) begging the president to listen to this doctor. We reached the point where we trust "celebrities" more than the scientists leading the effort to fight the pandemics.
Please have a look at https://github.com/vx3r/wg-gen-web. It is great and the dev is very responsive.

It was featured on Show HN but did not get enough traction.
> face tracking for contact tracing

These calls remind me of 9/11 when we permanently reduced our civil liberties for a momentary problem.
Ben's interview on The Amp Hour [0] is pretty great as well. Awesome person, amazingly the same in person as in his video persona.

[0] https://theamphour.com/480-an-interview-with-ben-krasnow-8-y...
You can set your browser to delete your Medium cookies on exit and that usually solves the problem.
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They should offer that as a prize.
> Because I have a kid...

> I think you are greatly ignoring employees with children.

I think you missed something.
> 4. Tying healthcare to employment in the U.S. will likely become unthinkable as a public health hazard.

Most people seem to agree with that already, but I'm not sure popular sentiment, or even what the political elite thinks matters.

If you look at the Affordable Care Act, plenty of Republicans had spoken positively about the ideas in the legislation prior to it being proposed, and have admitted they like parts of it after the fact. They violently opposed it regardless. Apparently it's easy to scare people about health care issues, and easy to turn that into anger at the other party.

You probably need to fully control congress and the presidency to make any changes to the fundamentals of how health care functions, unless somehow the culture of American politics gets fixed.
The semicolons did not hinder my reading experience, they just changed the voice and pace of it. I certainly prefer an overabundance of semicolons to an overabundance of commas, and more still to an overabundance of full-stops that makes me feel like I'm reading some soulless middle-school essay.

HOWEVER I also strongly maintain that if something can be best expressed in a bullet list, do that. I feel that would have made reading this essay easier.
The consensus appears to be that if Alice is talking "privately" to Charlie about Bob's stupid hair, and Alice is the person designated to save the minutes of the meeting and post them, then she may accidentally include the transcript of her Bob-mockery.