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Bullpen type offices get close to universal criticism. The only time I really see them praised is when people have variety to move to private offices when they want, to work off site, etc. When you only occasionally have to endure that environment and your productivity then isn't critical, it can be novel.

When it's a forced situation it's not something people love.

Random anecdote: I was involved with an office move once where we (a relatively small org) were choosing how to layout the new office. One individual was a fervent advocate that we needed a hip, cool open office for all that wonderful synergy, etc. So in the new space we made a hip, open space, and then classic cubicles, and everyone put in private requests where they wanted to be.

100% of the people chose cubicles. The person I mentioned chose probably the farthest away, most private cubicle.

It's not a particularly unique situation, but it's just another example that people are often full of shit. When we're imposing on other people some ideas can sound better, especially if they're trendy.

As to productivity, the majority of jobs are bullshit jobs. Reddit, HN, Slashdot in the old days have their heyday during the "work" day in the respective zones. If people achieved 5% productivity they would be more productive than they normally are in many cases.
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Sorry downvoters, is it not shameful to price gouge in a global pandemic?
WebEx fell way behind in usability. I consistently had problems getting audio to work as recently as a year ago. Regardless of whether I used the browser experience or their installed app, the only reliable way was to join the conference by computer and then use a phone to separately join the audio stream.

A very large corp I know still uses WebEx, but generally only uses it for screen sharing and has a completely different phone conferencing system they use for side-channel audio.

That's not how you win a market.
For everyone, lockdown means relative captivity.
My sense is that this kind of thing is typical for newer versions of the Linux kernel. Most people don't run the latest kernel release, and for day-to-day applications, running an older, more stable version of the kernel won't effect anything.

I quit MacOS a little over 10 years ago now. I used to be a huge Mac fan, even subscribing to MacAddict magazine and frequenting the Mac Rumors website.

It was a cult and I have absolutely no regrets leaving. Especially now that Bitwig runs on Linux, what would I ever need a Mac for?

I'm using Arch Linux and it's the most stable operating system I've ever used. I've gone more than 4 years with the same installation. Thanks to the Arch wiki I now have working knowledge of things like systemd and how to compile kernel modules. These things really aren't nearly as scary as they sound. I didn't learn about them by reading the longwinded `man` pages... I learned about them from the Arch wiki!
I find this particularly annoying. Back in the early 2000s I wrote some small app to generate static webpages for photo collections to be put on CD because OSes couldn't browse jpgs natively but browsers could. Now the problem has gone the other way, my iPhone and Android save HEIF but I can't use those on the web. I have to first go through a manual conversion process. It's like my computers have regressed 20 years.
No where is this a criminal offense in the USA. In fact, “spy software” installed on company computers is widely common.
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"Whatever China says must ALWAYS be a lie"

"every commenter on reddit and HN were saying China was covering it up"

Stop using absolutes. There are plenty of people in the US that realize the US numbers have been suppressed by a lack of testing. There are plenty of people in the US who actually think China has handled the situation better than our own dysfunctional government.

The only absolute truth is that we don't have all of the information yet.
How exactly do you mandate companies produce something which they don't even have the parts to make? The problem is not manufacturing capacity or will, it's that supply chains for medical devices are global and those supply chains have been broken. Increasing production of something like ventilators purely domestically requires increasing (or building from scratch) production of the components, which requires new or re-tooling, sourcing of raw materials, etc.

Yes, the current federal mismanagement of the whole crisis is awful, but even if everyone had acted quickly, there would still be shortages. Covid spreads faster than device production.
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Eventually someone will come up with a site that lists which companies install spyware on worker's computers, after which there will be a shaming period, and then only the scummiest companies will continue with such a policy.
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I'm pretty sure this is the study you are referencing: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762692
I agree with the gist of what you're saying, but I think you're missing a key part of the picture. Any jurisdiction can lie if they want, for a while, but at a certain point this is an actual disease that causes actual illness and death. You can't hide hundreds or thousands of people dying from respiratory failure and you can't hide overwhelmed hospitals or auxiliary medical tents. Not for very long at least.

In the case of Japan, they do not appear to have high enough transmission rates to cause serious problems. I don't know if they are lying about any given fact or figure. But they are not covering up a widespread COVID-19 outbreak because we know what that type of outbreak looks like. It looks like Italy.
I recently put Linux on a MacBook Air. It’s the same as it’s ever been - extremely finicky and time consuming to get all your stuff working smoothly. Requires scouring random bug reports, stack overflow etc to find all the little work arounds.

This is for what I consider critical stuff: network drivers, suspend/sleep, power management, display brightness etc.

My impression is that it is not any more or less of a mess than it was in the 2000s, or even in the late 90s.

All that being said, it’s still wonderful and gratifying once you have everything tuned to your liking.
The cost/benefit of simple tools favors chimps more than pigs.
> Whatever China says must ALWAYS be a lie, on the other hand, the US numbers are not "suppressed," it's just incompetence.

Well, this jibes with reality.

I could care less about actual case counts - few countries are close to having the capacity to test everyone so who cares.

What is a huge problem with China is the death statistics. Looking at Lombardy with 6k+ deaths with the outbreak not yet peaked, am I really supposed to believe that only 2.5k died in Wuhan (similar population)? The CFR outside Hubei is ridiculously low - only 1 death out of 1200 cases in Zhejiang (!)?

During China's outbreak, there were additionally lots of accusations of case data being completely made up (insufficient variance in daily numbers) and looking at basically every other country's quite noisy reports today, that was almost certainly true.

The implications are pretty vast: China's reporting actually made the disease seem less urgent than it really was. Perhaps tens of thousands of lives would have been saved had they been more transparent.
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Making this information accessible is amazing work, thank you!

But, alas, it loses a lot in the UX department:

1) It's low-contrast. This makes it hard to read for a lot of people, unnecessarily so.

2) It uses a font that is hard to read. Not sure if it's font rendering, or if the font is just bad, but... just a plain Sans Serif would be fine?

3) The gradient for the map is pretty much not fulfilling any function, because you can't read it with any kind of precision. You'd be better off with 4 distinct gradients. Or better, separate colors.

4) If I can nitpick: The title has 3 different font faces, with misaligned baselines. Please don't do that :)
Yeah, I think bosses who freak out about people not being productive while working from home underestimate how much people can avoid being productive while physically at work.
It's pretty atypical to upgrade to the latest mainline linux kernel the day the kernel is released. Most distributions take time to pick up a new kernel and make it part of a major distribution release that is subject to more testing. The OP must be using a bleeding-edge rolling-release distro like Arch Linux or running a custom kernel. I wouldn't anticipate such problems if running a popular release based distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, etc.
I wanted to do all sorts of things to make myself independent of a job but I’m too risk averse so I posted on LinkedIn looking for work.

Starting a podcast or a summarizing daily email could be an idea along with blogging are just some ideas.

I’d be curious on your thoughts if you try out contracting and it works out for you.
That's still shitty, isn't it? Telling parents they can't get their kids a better education because of bureaucratic knee jerk defensive measures against competition?
I've just stopped following COVID-19 news entirely, and leave it to family and friends to unavoidably inform me of the latest stats they feel compelled to share. So I learn enough through osmosis without having to read how 911 is overwhelmed in NYC and see pictures of hospitals flooded with people.

There's a limit to well I can self-isolate, and I'm sure I'm already taking every possible precaution. Being more anxious will accomplish nothing.
The best chair varies person to person. There are some good things to try in this thread, but ultimately trying one for a few minutes in a store is not adequate. Buy from somewhere with a good return policy and support.

Years ago I'd tried a Humanscale Freedom. In store it felt great. After a day I was sore. After a week I couldn't sit in it for more than 5 minutes without a fiery pain running up and down my back. Back it went.

I ended up with a Steelcase Think with the mesh back (I liked it was lighter and simpler vs the Leap), and have been using it for 12 years. 7 of those were working from home full time.

In the end what works for me (good chair, fully adjustable thin keyboard tray, height adjustable monitor) may not be right for you. There are no absolutes in ergo. But the guidelines around monitor height, arm angles and positioning, etc are a place to start.

Even with the right chair, take a look at the rest of your setup. Wrist/shoulder pain -- Is your keyboard or mouse position OK? Are you using a wrist rest when you should have none? Shoulder/neck/back pain -- How about your monitor height, do you hunch or lean a lot?
According to the Loadstar [1], this may be true for medical supplies, but demand for airfreight on a macro-level into Europe/US is dropping - a complete reversal from 3 weeks ago. The bullwhip effect [2] in action?

"The Loadstar warns air freight demand is expected to plummet as consumers in Europe and the US are forced to stop buying by shops closing. The automotive industry has already stopped requesting components as plants have closed; retail has cancelled significant volumes of orders - “Shopping is just not a priority,” said one forwarder. “The only real air freight demand now is medical equipment and some urgent products. “Just-in-time may be changed for ever. “There is also no cashflow.” He said air freight demand was now “the absolute reverse of two to three weeks ago; the dynamic has changed”. Another forwarder noted that while demand was, perhaps 15% of what it was three or four weeks ago, supply is at about 10%. “So there is still high demand in a relative sense.” [3]

1 https://theloadstar.com/change-of-dynamic-air-freight-demand...

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect

3 via reddit r/SupplyChain daily update -- highly recommended: https://www.reddit.com/r/supplychain/comments/fqlh9a/covid19...
And if you don't, you generally don't get employed.
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Essentially they don't want competition, because their product sucks and they know it.
Some anecdata here:

My friends run a mid-sized hair salon, about 8 workstations, on the west side of Tokyo [edit: Kichijoji] and are still operating. They see no reason to close down, haven't been told to close down by anyone, and although their business is down, it's still brisk.

Meanwhile the shops are full of both people and stock (except for loo roll).

Some young people in Tokyo have been returning by shinkansen to their parents' homes in the countryside (which is obviously a dreadfully bad idea). I persuaded my friends not to do that, but they were thinking about it.
A doctor on the twiv podcast in America said that about 50% of his patients died after getting put on ventilators. https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL3R3aXYubWljcm9iZX...
It's about 15-25 minutes in if you want to hear the full quote.
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Any business decision can be nefarious in some context when it's a bad one. At the same time as recent events may call certain buybacks into question, historical events tell a different story.

For example a common argument to ban buybacks is that they were illegal prior to 1982. We also had no good place to park savings before 1982, where at the same time we had seen enormous inflation the stock markets had been on steady decline since the mid 1960s. People weren't just losing money due to inflation, they had fewer options about where to put it reliably.

And when it comes to regulation I don't know what the best way to do it is other than letting companies that made bad buybacks die, or bail them out by diluting shareholders in some kind of bankruptcy proceeding.
Native wireguard is kernel-only. Udp2raw creates a detour via userspace, so more CPU time, delay, jitter ..

Was it worse than you would expect? Worse than say openvpn or wireguard-rs/wireguard-go?
I love it too, because it is a standard and flexible way to program in Haskell!
It sounds like the main issue for you might not be actual work but might be about childcare. This is a completely reasonable problem to have, with kids that otherwise would be in school/daycare but are now not. I don't know about your local city's situation, but is there any hired nanny help you might be able to get? Re: groceries, try using one of the grocery delivery services to help with it, even if it costs a bit more.
>widespread usage of ventilators to rapidly increase the prevalence antibiotic resistant bacteria.

I'm curious how that would work out. I think it would have to do with the drugs that are given along side the ventilator, not from the ventilator itself?

>I hope we don't fixate on ventilators too much.

It feels to me like we might be. It'll definitely be needed, but I think there are other issues that aren't getting as much attention; problems that might not seen as solvable by someone in their garage with a 3d printer and some pneumatic valves.
" I strongly suspect that Japan is maliciously incompetent and a lot of dead Japanese will be the result."

When? Japan has had this coronavirus a lot longer than most places. If we expected the transmission rate to explode, we would have expected it to happen already, and we would be seeing the consequences.
You can't get elected governor in Oregon without the support of teachers unions. Thats the exact answer.
It is for me on 5.6-rc7. Tried as both a module and built in.
> Also code inherently has a structure whose readability is increased by monospace fonts.

Unless you are programming in FORTRAN or COBOL, I very much contest that claim
Would you care to guess what the cost of moving goods via that resource would be? You may be astounded. It's still cheaper and more effective to use commercial, even if the price has gone up.
none of the hospitals in my area are accepting amateur-manufactured equipment or PPE, so I wonder a lot about these efforts.

I have a 3D printer, so I think I'm waiting until they get desperate.
If you're listening to people who claim any one technology solves "everything" --- and believing them --- then you are the fool.

There's no silver bullet. Deep Learning has made huge strides in noise reduction, image and video processing (self driving cars), lidar processing, medical imaging, etc, but it's not made any progress in knitting, tooth brushing, dog walking, or many other tasks ill suited for deep learning - so clearly not everything.
Websites can be embellished and misleading, also don't give a real sense of popularity and community support. I think a github repo is a thousand times better than a well "designed" landing page
It is in the Netherlands, permanent surveillance of employees without a specific reason (read: related to a specific instance or incident) is not permitted.
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I always thought the “scan immunity bracelet to go out in public” thing was the craziest and most unrealistic part of the movie Contagion. Shows what I know.
Without consent is the key.
For those doing it or for those receiving it?
This isn't about protecting families. It's about protecting public schools and teachers unions from competition.
If your goal here is just to gloat about how "everyone else is doing it wrong" then I don't think this is a productive conversation. I was doing web development before bundlers were a thing and I do not miss those days.
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I don’t know if this was intentional or just a happy accident, but I’m really glad that the menu bar app doesn't disappear automatically on mouse click. It means I can type into the search input with the macOS Accessibility Keyboard without the app closing on me—which is what happens to me in most menu bar apps.
GDRP what? If the machine is owned by the employer, why would GDPR apply here? Which specific part of GDPR applies here?
If that were the case you would expect there to be some change in how upper particles behave compared to lower ones, but as best as anyone can tell they act identical other than being heavier.
Re 5.: At least the EU has suspended those rules.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/aviation/news/coronavirus-e...
> Office 365 Business Premium will become Microsoft 365 Business Standard.

> Microsoft 365 Business will become Microsoft 365 Business Premium.

This one seems completely nonsensical to me? They completely switched the names.
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I'm sure it's amazing but you only get to count the marginal cost of actually moving the material because we already pay all the other costs of the AMC regardless of whether they do any useful service or not.
Is async/await a good idea for an OS kernel, even a toy one? Cooperative multitasking tends to break down at scale, because the probability that all the "threads" you're cooperating with are playing nice goes to zero as the number of threads increases. An OS will tend to have a concentrated number of the pathological cases in it as it deals with hardware and all the other hardest timing & concurrency problems.

It's a viable option for user-space programs because you can far more tightly characterize them and program them from top to bottom to work with that paradigm nice. Embedding islands of cooperative multitasking in a sea of pre-emptive multitasking seems to make a lot more sense than the other way around.

However, this post is a question, not a statement. If, for example, a Linux kernel developer posts "nah, it's no biggie, the Linux kernel is effectively structured the same", for instance, I would not quibble.
> there’s nothing about this pandemic that’s remotely useful to you

I've been a little overloaded by metric in tech for the past several years to the point that I sometimes call out metrics getting added as unactionable. There's a cult of metric collection because we can, not because there's anything meaningful there.
You can use ACLs to control what clients can connect to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665589

It doesnt look like a nail/hammer/screw at all. Tailscale isnt configured how he wants out of the box, but using SSO to control access isnt a massively complex hurdle. Anyone with Office 365 will be able to use their Office account to authenticate, which is basically Cloud Active Directory, and way better (if its something you have) than maintaining a separate username/password database for the VPN.

ACLs and a relay node are a good fit for the request.
https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/install-subnets

Cloud SSO might be a deal breaker, but it doesnt make the solution the wrong class of solution.
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Nothing prevents shareholders from selling shares. However, if a company does nothing - e.g. no growth, no buybacks, the future value of their stock will decline continually. through buybacks, they can hold those share prices steady, at least. This gives shareholders liquidity as you suggest - shareholders selling without buybacks means that they will push the price down.

There's a line of thinking which says either a) buy all your equity and go private when the innovation runs out, or b) issue bigger and bigger dividends from FCF and then eventually go out with a bang. IMO, those are strategies that should be specific to a business model. E.g. a gas pipeline may love to pay out dividends since the business model is quite steady. A big electronics manufacturer might want to buy back its shares in the hope that it can eventually go private to restructure.

my point is, the mechanic of a buyback is not inherently evil, and does provide value. I agree that the government should not be creating that liquidity. Though, in reality I don't have a specific problem with letting the government issue convertible debt if companies want a long-term counterparty. the irony is that buybacks are often seen as short-termist, but bailouts should have a long-term lens.
The team behind https://covid19japan.com fights with this nonsense every day. We're open ears to improvements, and are playing with ways to possibly automate bits.

Our GitHub: https://github.com/reustle/covid19japan/
What matters for the financial hedge is the existence of futures, which means the companies can buy something they know they will need at a known price months before they actually need it. The specifics of this operation differs depending on the actual financial instrument used, but the idea is the same, even on the opposite side (selling at a known price in the future).
It seems like the basis for a numerical model to understand the phenomena. https://pornogratuitici.com/fr/category/175/Prof/popular/1/
Of all the different art supplies I've used, I think I like pastels and colored pencils the most. Painting is fun but usually involves more setup than I give myself time for.

I think you have a hangup on being 'adultlike' versus 'kidlike'.

No, I see even fingerpainting as a good diversion if the circumstances are right.

Lighten up and don't get so stuck on "once I'm an adult, <list of things> are forbidden to me".
Only if the employee is informed upfront. Otherwise it's a privacy issue.
As someone with a corporate account and a scihub user, I want to declare the same (this isn't new). Open access to civilization's research is the is how a mature civilization should behave. I would gladly start paying ACM dues again if they kept this access open.