skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't these investors want a return on their investment? Is it possible to invest without profiting off of the pandemic?
you can buy your own health insurance. This is like saying that because you dont get free lunch anymore that losing your job is "life threatening". Somebody has to pay for it. This liberal mindset of "make rich guy pay" is at its core lazy and selfish.

I think that the health industry itself is a scam, and over priced by bureaucracy but that doesnt mean that another person should take your burden. Your health is your responsibility not your employers.

Employers shouldn't be playing health insurance because that shouldn't be necessary. Minimum wage should cover basic care. Either minimum wage is too low or basic care is too high. We kinda take care of this through taxes but its a bandaid on a corrupt overpriced monopoly industry.
I developed that paranoia over ten years ago in my first real job. The only desk available was the one right next to the door. With the back to the door. Everyone who entered the office had no choice but to stand in my back and look at my desk and screen. Still flinch when someone comes up behind me when I'm working, even it's my kids.
He should take all the responsibility then.
I can’t upvote your comment enough. Most people questioning why Twitter needs have 2k staff is because of advertising.

I’ve advertised on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Google - there is a tremendous amount of work that goes into the “money making” bit of these companies.

Remove ad-revenue and all these companies would collapse. They have no other model.
For what it's worth, I've been using 5.6 since early rc's in Fedora 32 pre-release for many weeks, and haven't had a problem with Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8260. So not all Intel wireless is affected.

Fedora 32 looks to be on-schedule for an April 21 release, pending release blocking bugs getting fixed up by then; and it will be shipping with Linux 5.6.
For everyone wondering about the actual runtime difference between RapidFuzz and FuzzyWuzzy I added a couple first benchmarks based upon the benchmarks FuzzyWuzzy is using: https://github.com/rhasspy/rapidfuzz/blob/master/Benchmarks....
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I don't think many people acquire stuff on the basis it might be easily resellable to people who aren't criminals around the point the Netherlands and its national museums cease to exist.
It's evidence that this is their current best opportunity. 1.5 million American families live on less than $2 / person / day
how does Crystal compare to Nim ?
They are even cheaper when you buy them from failed startups. Used chairs are like used cars; they work great, but they lose 80% of their value when you drive them off the furniture delivery truck.

eBay is filled with these. I bought one (not an Aeron, but a Teknion Contessa which I like better) for $300 from eBay and the proprietor brought it to my apartment at 9am the next day. If I ever start a company with an office, I will just get a mishmash of those. Essential to the creation of software, and costs less than a couple hours of engineering time.

(Aerons are great chairs and are about the same price on eBay. Plus these people with listings on eBay usually have a stash in a warehouse somewhere and will let you go look at them and buy them in bulk. Yes, I do sometimes wonder where they all come from, but in New York, you don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to ;)
I didn't find the audio on that page, but a link to it here:
https://codatocoda.bandcamp.com/album/iwm-ww1-armistice-inte...

I want to know if the birds were actually recorded at the end, or if it was added for dramatic presentation.
Don't they already have offices there?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_(cultural_heritag...

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jun/21/british-muse...

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/return-stolen-treasure...

https://www.history.com/news/british-museum-stolen-artifacts...
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Delivery fees are already a thing here, in addition a tip, sadly. And the fee almost never goes to the delivery person. I mostly paid my college by working at Domino's Pizza and there is a large "THE DELIVERY FEE DOES NOT GO TO YOUR DRIVER. IT IS NOT A TIP" On the front fold of every box.

The computer system notifies drivers when they are delivering a first-time order for a specific address or phone number. This is intended for security purposes (you are supposed to always call when outside for a new order to ensure it's not a robbery or scam). But for myself and other drivers, the main function of the "first time delivery" notification was to let us know this person would not be tipping. Anecdotal evidence purely, but first-timers would almost never tip, and then would always tip every time after. I imagine because they saw the notice on the box.

I do wish it were as you described. Because of the wage laws in Florida when I was in college, a delivery at the edge of our radius that didn't tip basically cost me money. I was never compensated for gas or mileage, and tipped workers are allowed to be paid a separate minimum wage. If I remember correctly it was about $3/hour when I was working? I was lucky enough to deliver for a store that had coverage in a very rich neighborhood though and I'd say on average I made way above what the average pizza driver did. Jobs are weird.
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Where are we actually seeing a lot of this?

Anecdotally, yes.

My company was staunchly against remote work or work-from-home of any kind. When I was hired, one of the first things they told me was, "We don't do remote. Don't ask."

It's about 5,000 employees in maybe 20 cities around the country.

When the virus started spreading, 95% of the workforce was working from home within eight business days. It was a massive mobilization by the IT department. Fortunately, they were already in the process of upgrading everyone's computer, so there were plenty of spares to go around.
Love the design of the website!

How is this different from Aha?
This is reaching for some extreme tools, while simpler solution is available. At some company size, network audit is just required. You can get information like "this person is using Facebook all the time" without actually screenshoting their Facebook screen. This solved a lot of privacy issues.
> It's evidence that this is their current best opportunity.

So? That's how markets work. It's why you're paid whatever you get instead of making $10 billion per year. We each earn our marginal product. There is no rational basis for arbitrarily selecting certain market outcomes and calling them "unfair". A fair wage is whatever the market establishes.
That's pretty cool that their board meetings are public. :)
>Scientists can get us out of this. What they need are money and connections.

No.

It's too late to get us out of this. We can prevent the next case. But no, it's too late now.

What was needed with coronavirus was prevention. That's a matter of politics and economics. No science.
Applied Science is one of my favorite YouTube channels.
> I’m not saying Boeing released COVID-19

That’s pretty much what you said before, though. I. e. „That’s the point of these global crises.“

Either it’s a conspiracy or not, make up your mind.
This, so much.

We have a small house, which is fine because I work at the office, they're out at school, it's big enough for the times we need to be there ... oh wait.

Our upstairs is big enough for the beds, and a narrow space around each. Downstairs has no dividing walls/doors.

Now work expect equal output from me and I'm working in the kitchen with a just a gap between me and the room a toddler and 2 other children are occupying.

Perhaps if they weren't my kids, particularly my brain interrupts every time the toddler speaks, because that's how we're wired for young voices.

Now add in that the kids are used to running around screaming, literally screaming, to burn off energy .. it's not going well.

Meanwhile the bosses in their massive home offices, think everything is perfect and don't see why we shouldn't be _more_ productive than normal.

I'm waiting for when we go back wondering how their argument for why we're not allowed to home-work is going to go ...
Big opportunity if FB gets hit with antitrust. I don’t see how anybody could effectively compete with FB events.
At our institution, every staff member is required to be a part of the rotation on the benefits committee. Also, we are required (state funded institution) to send out the full cost of every staff and faculty member to them every year.

When the letters go out, people open their eyes when they see the institution spent 1/3 of their salary on health insurance. You can tell when someone is on the benefits committee, because they don't complain about salaries for about 3 years.
Ben Krasnow (a Googler by day) has one of the most incredibly interesting channels on youtube - and accompanying blog [1].

The effortless way he is able to describe complex processes and techniques used in his experiments borders on being Feynman like.

[1] https://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/
There’s a whole universe of control surfaces beyond QWERTY keyboards and mice. The iPad is a versatile, cheap, and most importantly mobile substitute/companion for a wide range of professional equipment consoles.

For me it’s digital sound boards.
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I don't understand.

If Amazon is promising to pay you at least $36, then the "base pay" must be $36 - that's what you'd be getting if there was $0 tips - and either you're getting all the tips (i.e. if there's any tips, you're paid more than $36), or Amazon is lying and stealing tips (i.e. if there's $2 in tips, they reduce ("steal") your base pay to $34 so you're still paid just $36).
I'm working for a company (hesitant to call it a startup) that has ~15 people on engineering, and it's pretty successful in it's space. It's been around for a decade and I think we have a lot more features than what I would assume Meetup has (we have to, because we're dealing with customers who have individual workflows).

I'm not saying 5 people can run Meetup, but I wouldn't expect it to require the 270 employees that Google lists.
You could always turn off the TV.
Coffin hotel offices.
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That's weird because I have the same HW, (Skylake Skull Canyon NUC) & get WiFi good enough for a home media server, (Arch).
Hopefully the new owner makes Meetup usable again. In the recent past I tried to show random people that they could meet new people with similar interests. I would bring up the website, but it was so locked down as to be useless.
Wait til you hear how capital treats labor
> If you think a neighbor is being abused but are not sure then just be their friend and communicate with them (you're neighbors, it's reasonable for you to have each other's phone numbers and email addresses) until you can discern whether or not you are correct.

This "wait and see" approach gets people killed.

Personally, I'd far rather be investigated for something I didn't do than have someone else die because a third party didn't act on their suspicions.

Hunches can be wrong, but they come from somewhere, and they're often right.

Furthermore, abusers are good at getting their victims to never tell anyone about what happens, and often at hiding or destroying evidence, too.
China runs like a company who’s CEO is Xi Jingpin and they have 1.4 billion employees. I heard the company culture is pretty horrifying - if you don’t follow orders from the security staff, you can face serious consequences.

If you whistleblow, you’re destined to death. Nothing less.
Orban's leadership is a complex topic. His party was once the youth center-right opposition that eventually eclipsed all other center-right parties; they proved that it was possible to offer a meaningful alternative to the socialist party and chart a different path. (Corruption and favoritism were issues with both right-wing and left-wing administrations.)

Then, over time, he developed a nuanced view of international power dynamics, and preserving domestic support among key demographics. He set out to solve unemployment, but created a public works programme that arguably keeps rural areas reliant on him. He's pro-EU but skeptical of the multicultural norms western Europe appears to project, right until they too close their borders for migrants. He is eager to strike economic deals with China and Russia, which isn't too unusual for the region (cf. Austria, Slovakia, Serbia), but when he does it, it's understood by supporters and critics alike to be to spite EU leadership and the implied strategic interests of EU and the US.

He's also re-written the country's constitution, weakened the independent judiciary, passed a controversial media law, and cooked up a ridiculous propaganda campaign to demonize a rich philanthropist who supports a western social liberalism worldview instead. His critics see this as another opportunistic power grab; his supporters see it as a necessary step to tackle an unprecedented crisis. The truth may lie close to either extreme, or it may be somewhere in the middle, but he is a polarizing figure, so sources that present a balanced view are difficult to find.
Meetup does have a subscription model that charges the group owner a relatively significant amount of money on a recurring basis.
> but is it not efficiently used

This is the case with a lot of organizations like charities and government contractors.

When you have so many layers between the money source and sink, each layer takes some % cut like a parasite and each layer fights for its survival like a parasite.

It's like how healthcare.gov could have been made by 4 people in a garage being paid $100k/year each, but instead it required billions of dollars and thousands of people.
You're right, thanks. I updated my comment.
The downside of NixOS is that developing on it is hell incarnate. And saying "you just have to learn the Nix way and use nix-shell" is not a satisfactory solution, take it from someone who has tried twice.

Moreover, I gave up on NixOS the second time around because an update completely hosed my system, including all my rollbacks. Something with XServer broke across all snapshots.
If you're bringing in subscription revenue from millions of people you're gonna need some more customer support. And at some point you're gonna need some more HR then...
> "I am afraid for my well-being and/or am being held hostage in my own home; please send a police escort to rescue me from my house; and then, optionally, please take me into protective custody, so that I may be safe for a few days while filing a motion of a restraining order."

These magic words likely will elicit the correct response from law enforcement. But being able to formulate this phrase implies awareness on the part of the victim that they are being abused, that something can be done about it, and that they have the courage to do what it takes to escape. The truth is that many victims are manipulated into believing there's no way out. Even the ones who do pull the trigger experience a lot of pain upfront that only becomes worth it later - they are still emotionally attached to their abusers.

We should absolutely educate people as to the usefulness of police in abusive scenarios (an abuser would have the victim think they are helpless), but getting victims to recognize and say the magic words is more than half the battle.
Parts of their workforce work remotely. I know at least some of their call center staff does.
Exactly, it should be more like craigslist.

Craigslist was privately held and this seems to have produced a far more efficient allocation of capital than the VC recipes.
https://archive.md/V1HO8
I've been earning an actual paycheque in this industry since the mid- 1980s.

I have worked for a number of VC startups, my very first full-time programming contract was with a startup. I have seen the above Growth Theatre pattern many times. It's one of the things I have tried to avoid when interviewing employers in my career.

In my anecdotal experience, the above pattern definitely exists, although having the kind of money to do that at the scale of a WeWork is extremely rare.

Is it the majority of startups? No.

Is it a significant proportion of startups? Probably not, although those who were around during the first dot com boom will remember the "burger patties," companies everyone knows were "built to be flipped."

My claim is that there are a few companies in the Growth Theatre business all the time. That claim is not equivalent to claiming that this is the only business model for companies that take VC money.
The birds were added at the end; the article specifies that there was no actual audio recorded and this is a reconstruction based on a series of proto-seismograph records.
> Or you are just too deep in your personal bias.

I could provide citations and sources and support for everything I pointed out.

But I noticed you are posting using an account created recently which is being used to brigade threads all over HN that point out anything less than totally positive involving China's ruling regime.
I hope that federated meetup apps [0] like Mobilizon will gain popularity and meetups become integrated part of the Fediverse.

[0] https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-fo...
Aren't the people who prepare the order different than the people that deliver it? The preparers are the ones who need the hazard pay and protections imo.
Given that it appears at least 2 of the United States's aircraft carriers [1] have confirmed cases aboard, I'm sure every military has been in touch with their silent service folks, if just the captains at a minimum.

While subs sometimes run silent, at least the United States ones still receive communication while doing so via VLF and even ELF. ELF at a few characters per minute can still communicate enough to have them come up just enough to to be optimal for VLF and receive whatever info. I think informing the ships about a highly contagious virus would probably rank up there with very important information.

I'm no military expert but if I had a bunch of guys in subs with finite supplies I might want to communicate "hey, maybe implement mild rationing because when you guys come home we might send you right back out after we send heavily sanitized stores out to you that you shouldn't open for a week or so.

- [1] https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/covid-19-cases-reported-on-b...
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It is impossible to trust information that comes out of country that suppresses freedom of the press.

It's a very simple cause-and-effect.
I actually don't think so - to me it seems that the market still has strong demand for software engineers.

What I do think however is that we might start to see a shift of talent towards more "mundane, boring" jobs. Less over-engineering apps for fancy startups on VC-lifesupport, more CRUD-apps for SME, big corps, government and whoever else seemingly less attractive than some cash-burning unicorn.

And for society, it might be for the better. Too many startups these days seem to be focused on value extraction instead of creation (meetup might be one of the few exceptions).
That rational basis you're looking is called morals. We owe things to each other, although you seem inclined to believe otherwise, and are pushing what is obviously a callous and simplistic version of our society.

I will not continue to argue with you though as this argument is not worth considering any longer.
I was in a similar situation. Port forwarding worked perfectly. In my case the server I was trying to access was behind an ISP (Comcast) managed NAT so I had to go through them to open the port. Much to my surprise they were extremely helpful and understanding of the request.
1. Apple HQ is in Cupertino. But there is development being done all over the world e.g. France, Israel, UK as well as all over the US e.g. Arizona, Texas and the dozens of offices around California. None of this will change.

2. Apple has always had some people working remotely but really just depended on what you were doing. You can't design an iPod remotely. But you can build software.

3. Situation is definitely different now as the quality of internet and tooling is such that remote work can be high quality and the feeling of detachment can be managed. So definitely agree that at Apple and elsewhere you will see more remote work.
In this climate you can't buy your own - its 3X the cost and not subsidized by your employer makes it worse.

But I agree the connection between health insurance and employment is artificial. I'd rather see some basic universal health, plus a market for better plans.
Check out The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), the classic is good too.

Interesting fictional perspective on the super wealthy and thinking they can have anything they want. legal or not. I expect it's not far from reality for some.

"I love my haystacks."

Great movie.
All parties erode laws, thats their raison d'être.
Its just when the party you support does it you call it progress.
Hence why the title has "funding" in it.
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I used to travel with a crown graphic - pretty much the same camera as in the video, shooting colour positive. You can do some great stuff with them, and tilt-shift is trivial, if that’s your thing. Quality on slow film is just crazy - I’ve a shot of an ex, she’s half-frame, and you can see the second hand on her watch - you can get very fine focus with a loupe, and having a Polaroid back to do some instant tests was a godsend - but you can’t get the film for it any more.

I have no idea where he’s finding film so cheap - I stopped when it was costing me £5 per exposure.

It also folded up into a very neat little box, which is irresistible to children - sadly one was handed it by a friend, who promptly destroyed it.
Thanks. I skipped the article, because I was looking for the audio.

The birds are dumb.
I'm looking forward to the days when we have good user management for Wireguard. It's so hard to scale it across just my family right now.
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I disagree. I think Aeron chair is a masterpiece of ergonomics engineering.

They are also not for everyone - some people I know hate it. But, Herman Miller is an amazing company with strong engineering culture - they’ve essentially perfected what an ergonomic chair should comprise of.

Perhaps you should try a different size. Aeron comes in A, B and C sizes. This can make or break your opinion.
“Because if you get it through your work, you don't have to pay tax on it.”

That’s not a natural law but something that should be changed immediately. There is no justification for this.
Sure, now what about when both parents are attempting to work from home. It takes a lot more effort to coordinate when both parents need to be on a conference call to attempt to wrangle the kids away/keep quiet enough for the other to make that call.

Kids have routines, and having work-from-home parents can become part of that routine. It's not a light switch though, so training has to be given time to take hold. Probably about the time the seclusion orders are lifted if not longer.
No need to, let enough people immigrate and the cost of wages in China will go up to over the US minimum wage
I've worked at Twitter, Facebook, Uber and Amazon. Of them, Twitter and Uber were wildly over provisioned in engineering headcount. Amazon was under provisioned in most of AWS. Guess which ones had massive in-fighting over projects and ownership, and which one just got things done?
If you get health insurance via your employer, the value of that health insurance is not considered income, and is tax-free. If you pay for it yourself, you get no tax benefits for doing so.

That kind of skews incentives a fair amount.