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When it's hidden behind login, 90% of population most likely will never see it.
We can re-evaluate in a few weeks when the healthcare system and supply chains are failing under extreme load (hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions infected). Why work a terrible job when the federal government will compensate you to remain home in safety? Meet their demands or experience pain. It's not emotional, it's economic cause and effect.

I will admit I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of workers finally having some power due to a Congressional response to a pandemic, much to the chagrin of "but that's how the free market works" apologists.
The comparison is about government manufactured misinformation, not media transparency. US government absolutely puts out comparable propaganda as China.
I'm sure there are many people willing to take those jobs in these times.
Why would you believe anything on reddit?

That post and most others on reddit essentially boil down to "I don't have proof, but this feels right because it's cynical so that's what I'm going with."
I question the universality of this rule. What makes two vases on a table less "balanced" than three? What about a single vase? Four? Five? Symmetry in physics isn't really about aesthetics.
Chrome has this built-in as a flag: chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark

It will render all web pages with dark mode
You are not alone, but the scale of your productivity dip seems high.

I have been working remotely for almost a decade, and I am easily far more productive here than in an office. But there is a productivity hit in the summer when the kids are home from school. Even so, what you are describing is far more than that accounts for.

One suggestion is to break up your day into shifts - take 2 hours helping your wife and kids, then 2 hours working. You can split your time like that for most of the day, which is a smaller productivity hit, ending up with maybe 6 hours of productive work each day. Not ideal, but an improvement. You'll find flexible schedules such as this make remote life far easier to manage then trying to sit for an 8-hour day and expecting to get no distractions.
Your problem is that you're not a Thought Leader whose Insights are being brokered by a Community Engagement Specialist.

Good point.

It's a very light article, written for people who listen to Thot Leaders. It misses most of the important points.

Go is designed for web back ends. It has all the stuff you need for that, and the libraries have been thoroughly pounded on and debugged, because Google uses them internally. The language is stable and doesn't change much. It's a good fit to that job.

For other applications, Go may or may not be a good fit. Desktop apps? Probably not. Games? Probably not. Real-time control? No.

Rust now seems to be trying to use every cool idea around, all at once. The borrow checker was brilliant. The added cruft, not so much. We have generics! We have type theory! We have lambdas! We have functional programming! We have threads! We have futures! We have async! We have a whole bunch of different HTTP libraries! We've changed the error handling system how many times now? It's all very cleverly done. But it's overdone. I'm out of that world, and not clear on whether there are signs of it settling down yet.
You can do that with the auto-darkening welding helmets that are currently in common use. But people don't, because it's annoying.
I found this true of the mouse on a Mac. Which one? I don't know- it was my cousin's. I don't remember the details but I was looking for a context menu to do some normal context-menu-y stuff like adjust the size of a picture or something- or maybe save a picture in a browser. I couldn't for the life of me figure it out (and I cut my teeth on a Mac+, had all the Inside Macintosh books, fooled around with assembly language programming, and so on). Then my hand accidentally brushed the mouse. Turned out, to get the context menu, you had to brush the mouse.

There's a similar "swipe a surface that doesn't look like an active surface" trip on the apple TV remote as well.

I may be old-fashioned, but those are very unintuitive in my estimation and I consider them poor design. The look good in pictures, though.

I love, however, my iphone 11. There's somehow more of a conceptual root to all of it- to the point that after I had it for two weeks and someone asked me if I missed the home button I really couldn't remember what all the home button did. I do have to fool around with it to get a screen shot, but it was the same with the home button. Could never remember the order of operations.

It does feel sometimes like it's "design first- hack the UI" though with Apple and it leads to a few annoyances.
A related thread from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707869

Edit: also related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22727741
First choice: stencil. Stainless steel stencils are cheap these days and fantastic. No good for rework, though.

Second choice: manual syringe. As you've noticed, it's difficult. Some pastes are thixotropic, so shaking the tube before dispensing can help a little. Or maybe that's just my imagination.

Third choice: stick a stainless steel pick or even just a toothpick into a little pile of paste and dispense it by hand. This is surprisingly useful for those really fine-pitch pads... but it's tedious.
The UK famously has a formal system for this: the letters of last resort.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
This is sadly, not terribly surprising. With most stores not grocery stores closed, people have to turn to online ordering to get what they need/want. And with Amazon having established themselves as the main entity to go to for online ordering, of course they are going to be overwhelmed with orders at the moment.
> it also costs 3x or more to ship essential medical supplies now? That's the part I'm calling price gouging.

Price gouging is a specific form of market failure. This isn't that market failure.

You may not like prices going up. That's fine. But that doesn't make it price gouging. Providers aren't making excess profits, they're commandeering higher-priced supply to meet unprecedented demand.
Yup — almost made this comment in another thread. There are tons of gotchas with COBRA. Sure, if you can afford it, it can be better than the alternative (especially if you have expensive medications or a pre-existing condition that requires lots of ongoing treatment), but I’ve had plenty of friends who have at various stages had to face questions about health insurance or rent — and as you say, if you’re late at all with COBRA, you lose it.

The fact that the United States doesn’t have universal, affordable healthcare is a travesty and the fact that our system has persisted for this long is utterly insane.
In context, gifs have a killer feature over videos in most environments: they auto-play and loop. From twitter to Slack to slides, gifs “just work” in a way that videos are constantly face-planting.
I believe that is an accurate statement, only when applied to the actions of one individual.

When speaking of the actions of corporations, governments, or groups of people working in tandem in any fashion, malice needs to be your first assumption.

Stupidity can be dealt with after you fix the problem, but malice will not only make the problem worse, but will also make dealing with the problem more difficult.
Depends on if you have any cpu-bound endpoints. At my previous employer we moved a very intensive check (high dimensional vector nearest neighbor search) into a separate Crystal microservice and even with RPC overhead it was easily 100x faster than the ruby version. This with code that any Ruby dev could instantly read, unlike if we would have gone for a C extension. That said, Ruby still has a massive lead in available gems, so don't uninstall Rails yet.
I was born in the early 90s so I don't think I don't think I'll ever understand the earlier 20th century on a personal/emotional level, but do older folks feel that some of these issues are neoliberal attitudes becoming a bit long in the tooth? I feel like they've likely resulted in a lot of growth, but the pain points of their paradigms are starting to seem really apparent to me.

I can understand how those visions of the world felt fresh a few decades after the New Deal, Keynesian economics, etc. (especially due to big events like hyperinflation or the oil shock). These days though whenever I hear a neoliberal demagogue online saying that we need to press the gas pedal of the market to the floor and it feels so tone-deaf. I can't tell if it's my lack of experience or I'm looking at the progressive era and New Deal with rose-tinted glasses.
Great points, thank you. Yes, I saw those two designs. I wonder if there is an effective effort to aggregate all open source designs.

Often engineers need to look at multiple designs to figure out how to most effectively re-tool. Especially because lots of parts may become scarce soon.

Agree on those vents and partnering with existing device manufacturers. My guess is we will see more applications of the Defense Production Act in the coming weeks and months, and so we might have a list of large companies scrambling to fulfill federal orders. Hence I think the FDA will attempt some innovation to implement approvals at crisis speed. (Hard to know for sure, of course. I have dealt personally with only the NIH in a limited capacity years ago, not the FDA.)
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>Some structure that allows companies to pay into general benefits on a as-earned basis, without forcing the definition to be a classic "employee" which no-one (except unions) wants.

I don't know why this doesn't come up more. People get hung up on whether contractor or FTE fits gig workers better, without ever suggesting there's a categorization issue here that could best be solved with a new category.
Proximity to the raw materials is another important factor. Latex gloves are mainly made in Asia, because that's where most of the rubber trees are.
For reference, the original story is https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-apple-is-working..., but it's hard-paywalled.
Check out Edmunds.com, they will give you a rundown on changes for a model year over year.
How the heck can "the focus is not to go bankrupt" be taken out of context? Please elaborate!

It's neither a lie nor out of context, especially given the fact that every single other satellite internet [edit]startup[/edit] went bankrupt.

So please, enlighten me as to how this is a lie or taken out of context.
For those in that situation now.

I found that vming into another box stops screenshots unless that box has it on.

If on windows 10 booting to linux would work as well.
3. Art is an investment and can be seen as a way of diversifying.
OK I suggested an actionable approach for a properly desperate person, what kind of advice do you have for him apart from downvoting me?
This pandemic has an amazing ability to make everyone more confident in their personal preferences and pre-conceived notions.

Is it safe to assume that before this pandemic, you:

1. Preferred WFH to being in an office. You wished more jobs would accept remote employees like you.

2. Preferred online shopping wherever possible. When visiting retail stores, you wished a tech company would disrupt that industry so you wouldn't have to visit a store.

3. Prefer to learn on your own, at your own pace

4. Assumed that anyone who disagreed with your political leanings was just misinformed or morally bankrupt.

What's fascinating is that my social media feeds are full of people who are convinced that this pandemic is proving their pre-conceived beliefs to be more correct than ever. It's making it more difficult for people to see differing viewpoints, or understand why someone could have differing personal preferences.

The dust hasn't even settled yet, but my friends are either declaring WFH to be the way of the future or wholly untenable. I have numerous friends with children at home who are more eager than ever to return to their offices and go back to normal. My manager friends are all fretting the productivity drops as people struggle to get work done amid a 24/7 news cycle of impending doom. Yet the WFH champions are convinced this will prove WFH to be superior.

Personally, I think the long-lasting changes from this pandemic are far harder to predict than people are suggesting.
> Go probably is a better successor to Java since it’s useful for building distributed systems.

Far from it. golang, both the language and the ecosystem offer nothing close to what Java (and the JVM) offer in terms of building reliable systems, monitoring, profiling, performance, etc. Sorry to say, the fact that this comparison was made in the first place shows lack of experience.
It blows my mind how many people don't understand why what DoorDash did was bad.

The comparison to DoorDash isn't table service in a restaurant, it's ordering food for delivery to your house and then giving cash to the driver. Where does that cash go? The driver's pocket. That process & the cultural understanding of it has literally been around as long as the concept of tipping.

Here's the real question that answers why people are "upset". If you did a poll of 100 people ordering on DoorDash, and asked them "when you tip on your order, where does the money go", what do you think people would say? 99/100 of them would ABSOLUTELY say "to the driver" and that is everything that is wrong with what DoorDash did. I struggle to engage sincerely in argument with anyone claiming otherwise.
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It may be a placebo effect, but I need the lie in order for it to work. I can't get the same thing by pretending it's real. My brain has to believe it's real.
They're building out home recording capacity right now, and will be recording from home (on a slightly reduced schedule) shortly: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52084510
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I don't think plausible deniability works on one-of-a-kind artwork. Even if you assume your dealer is legit, any cursory research will tell you it was stolen. It would be like buying the secret formula for Coca-Cola and claiming you didn't know it was stolen because it went through multiple middlemen.
> I'm now at stage that I need a good investigative reporter as I have recordings and other proofs...

No, you don't. Nobody cares about crackheads. Furthermore, nobody cares about your problems, either. Not the police, not the welfare services, not the media, not even the people on HN. Nobody is going to call to get the details on this story as it unfolds.

You need to get out. Things may look hopeless. Perhaps they are, perhaps there's no way out. On the other hand, you almost certainly developed some form of learned helplessness, which is an actual delusion.

You picked a bad time to get out. Nobody is hiring. You don't have the right skills. You don't know how to talk to people.

Okay, so you're not going to get out. Make the best of it. Stop thinking about these people. They own your thoughts. They own you. They're probably not even aware of it. You just gave yourself away for nothing, to people who don't care. What a waste.

Take ownership of yourself. Good Luck.
They are.

Also, apparently all NATO countries are allowed to charter a certain number of NATO flights per year, some countries used this to transport medical supplies.
This is important, especially for those workers who do not qualify for a 401k.

There is an interesting problem where if workers get a 401k or IRA, then buybacks probably help them by driving asset appreciation in a tax free investment vehicle. BUT, if you don't get that, then appreciating equities doesn't do you any good.

In general, the answer is probably a moderate amount of all proposals. Increasing wages is certainly something that companies should be doing.

Finally, some portions of buybacks are used for equity awards to employees, so it is possible that buybacks might end up as tax-privileged payments to workers, albeit not to the ones who are most dependent on wages.
My argument is that the national security mechanisms of western nations are not so fragile to be brought to their knees by some people eating bats and snakes.

In WW2 the Japanese threatened to destroy key infrastructure using biological agents. the militaries of the world have had almost a century at the very least to prepare for this contingency. I don’t buy how unprepared they are.

I am curious to hear the thoughts of some smart people who hang out here.
The costs are actually reflecting the repurposing of passenger planes for cargo flights, at least on a small scale. Most passenger planes have cargo space...it's about 1/2 to 1/3 the usable space of their plane, therefore they are quite a bit less efficient. The increase in prices is reflective of a new market clearing price where capacity can meaningfully be increased.
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But that's exactly why people are scared of the recovery. The phenomenon underpinning the economy isn't money flowing through accounts; it's networks of trade and service provision, and most of those networks are being snipped by the lockdown. We won't starve and we won't lose Netflix, but those networks can't be restored solely by financial stimulus and we can't recover our standard of living without them.
Yep, and this possibility has become a right cluster-fuck for many people that have other needs for the drug.

Many Lupus sufferers can no longer get this because of possible use (https://www.kqed.org/science/1960404/at-kaiser-trumps-pharma...)

I know people that have this condition and have been told there's none available at pharmacies when in fact it's in stock (based on how they resolved their problem).
The tips are generally dine through the app and passes on by the company.
No, not if you are not working in a bank where there is a specific reason for your employer which is for example exposure to a considerable risk of being robbed. It is also permitted if you have had problems in the past with employees stealing things from the company, but only in places where it makes sense and is proportionate.

In any case, you have to make that absolutely clear to your employees. Any unanounced surveillance is a criminal offence here.
Leading with an insult like "Americans should learn the rest of the world doesn't go around them" makes it flamebait regardless of how valid the point is. HN commenters need to make their valid points without provocative swipes.

How valid the point is is questionable, since it makes many assumptions. But an invalid point can make for a fine HN comment too, if it's in good faith and follows the site guidelines. HN threads are for curious conversation, which often involves getting things wrong. And we don't have a truth machine in any case.
I think most people want that. But they also want it to be cheap. And those things don't work well together.
Thanks, Yoda.
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>I want the people delivering my food to be healthy, stable, and financially secure. Don't you?

Sure, but obviously we also want cheap stuff and free delivery. Particularly in cases of low income/layoffs, since everyone depends on grocery delivery right now.
It's obviously tough to find exact statistics on this, but everything I'm finding suggests that more than 90% of domestic violence is male perpetrators and female victims. If that's true, then wouldn't you expect the overwhelming majority of shelters to be for women?
Right now I'm doing a lot of research into GxP for a life sciences project I'm working on. Quoting something I found online...

"GxP is an acronym that refers to the regulations and guidelines applicable to life sciences organizations that make food and medical products such as drugs, medical devices, and medical software applications. The overall intent of GxP requirements is to ensure that food and medical products are safe for consumers and to ensure the integrity of data used to make product-related safety decisions."

I would guess that the GxP mindset is lacking in a lot of these projects, and in truth it would be a burden to progress to be full in on it.

But that said, I do hope people who are doing these things are at least aware of the importance of data integrity and a very good log of their work. Don't just record what works, but also record what doesn't work. If a motor, or an Arduino, or any other part fails on you or you find that using a cheap one leads to issues, this is REALLY important to record and note for the record. This is especially true for anyone attempting to duplicate your work.

That said, it's worth noting that the site specifically states that...

"We are working to submit a specific variant of the MIT E-Vent design to the United States FDA for review under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) authority."

and

"The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has declared liability immunity for medical countermeasures against COVID-19."
I'm not Hungarian (but I live with one ;)). It seems that (much like in the west) the issue of "onslaughts" prevented by heavy restrictions on migration is one perspective.

Another might see it as using the threat of outsiders/foreigners to consolidate power by the administration. Certainly controversial issues, but hardly ones that are obvious or settled.
Most file systems use journaling[1], which allows you to recover from corruption. Some use copy-on-write[2]--most prominently zfs, but also btrfs and, more recently, bcachefs--which almost entirely prevents corruption in the first place.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write#In_computer_stor...
Same. We just end up giving our amazon delivery guy two bottles of hand sanitizer and a face mask.
you're missing a point.

the workers here are not unionized. it therefore isn't a strike. we can safely assume that not all workers are participating in the walkout, and those that don't presumably still want work (orders) to come in.

i understand your pro-labor position (i am also pro-labor), but because this isn't a union effort, ie voted on and carried out by a singular work force, there aren't scabs. there are those who agree and those who don't. applying a disparaging label to those who chose not to participate is promotion of a one-sided message; a political bias.

also, wrt the amazon part of this news, it's a single warehouse in NY, and given that it's now 3PM there, and there is no news story of an actual walkout, it's safe to say that the effort fizzled.
A guy out of Boston did that...for paintings he actually stole.

I think the book was the art of the heist
The only one I’d change is the 10% tip should be named as a fee.

I think our tipping culture is okay but I’d like us to move to calling them delivery fees so we can keep the idea of the tip as a pure bonus between me and those serving me.

I don’t like feeling like I am required to tip but I like tipping. Especially when not expected but socially accepted.