skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked remotely for several years, and more recently in an office and my gut feeling is that people tend to use presentee-ism as a proxy for deciding whether someone is producing work.

As for most things, it's highly contextual whether or not remote work is more productive. It mainly depends on the organization you work for. If the work is physical, then working remotely is obviously an impediment. If your organization is focused on creating non-physical things without much need for physical proximity to other coworkers, then remote work is ideal.

There are just as many distractions involved with a physical work place, if not more (excluding things like watching your kids) than there are at home. Myself, personally, a large part of my day in the office involves walking to the restroom, waiting for the elevator, walking to meeting rooms (up to 4-5 different spaces, some on different floors), walking to the break room (lunch, coffee, etc), being polite and diplomatic by engaging in very casual office conversations whenever one starts, handling very low priority interruptions by coworkers, and not the least of which is preparing for, and performing a commute, of which I am not paid for. Pile on a few unnecessary meetings that could easily be e-mails and you've just lowered my productivity considerably.

So in my experience, the effort involved with physical presence around others is real and takes up a considerable amount of time. I'm not saying these activities are useless, face time is important, and it's great to be social with your coworkers, and is invaluable for improving your team skills, but am I working on a deliverable during these activities?

At home, I can use the restroom, prepare lunch while watching a long-running program run on my laptop, read and send an e-mail, all in the space of 10 or 15 minutes. Consider doing the same tasks at your office. Would they take more or less time than at home?

Also noteworthy is the idea that remote work forces a person to collaborate through written word, which is not always necessary when you're physically present. Writing down your ideas has the side effect of compacting your ideas into their essential components. This turns out to be a nice way to work if you're a knowledge worker.
I also did a little project for this: https://workfission.com
==I heard from a colleague that their company, which was previously hesitant towards remote work, has seen a productivity increase after having been forced to do remote==

Could also be that employees, as a whole, are more worried about losing jobs in this environment and are producing more to protect themselves.
Focusing on window-based instead of component-based responsive queries was a mistake (or at least, it has overstayed its welcome). CSS Grid actually has some component-based responsiveness with auto-fit/auto-fill and minmax, although it's fairly limited.

https://css-tricks.com/auto-sizing-columns-css-grid-auto-fil...
> I think a lot of the desire for immortality comes from the understandable (and totally human) fear of the unknown / death

For me, it springs from a desire to experience absolutely everything, to leave no stone unturned so to speak.
Not at all. Just got back from two different local supermarkets. I didn't wear a mask. I was easily in the minority.

If the CDC said to drink your own pee, the majority of ppl wouldn't hesitate.
A worthless, unprepared third-world country that doesn't have universal healthcare while it lies to and manipulates its impoverished, ignorant citizens. This is all about health kabuki to prevent panic at all costs, not effective public health to save lives.
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You guys are awesome. I've been using this for a long time to stream, record whatever I want from my computer, and it's always been fantastic.

Keep up the great work and thank you.
Thank you, we will fix.
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Oh, true. I thought this was the "who is hiring" thread.
In the early i days I saw that the dire need was for specific masks, eg the n95. And that surgical masks weren’t affective for them but they took what they could get.

And Florida just issued their shelter in place - this country’s hate of science doomed it to the number of cases it was going to get regardless.
I was also unclear about whether they mean "How many workers in the US could work from home", or whether "How many job categories can work from home".

But they state "To answer these questions, we classify the feasibility of working at home for all occupations
and merge this classi cation with occupational employment counts for the United States."

So it looks like they're counting number of workers.
That is correct, I just got confused with a similar titled thread.
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The maker response in Baltimore includes hand sewn (and washable) face masks, https://www.flattenthecurvebaltimore.com/shop. I’ve been 3D printing face shield parts for the same effort.
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The reality is most people would not correctly fit a n95, and an improperly fit n95 would only provide marginal benefit.

Even in article, we are talking cloth face masks. That will provide even less marginal protection to the wearer from contracting the virus. But it will reduce the spread from an infected person. The goal isn't to wear a mask to protect yourself, the goal is to not spread the virus as an asymptomatic carrier

It's not fruitful to worry about a hypothetical. I worry more about asking many Americans to do something they perceive as altruistic.

edit: it is rude to call something FUD if it isn't. I didn't say no benefit, I said marginal. And I think everyone greater risk in a general healthcare systemic collapse, which is what is on the table. If you weigh all the risks, until there are enough for all medical purposes they should go to medical wearers. Then it should be triaged by vulnerability. This seems really common sense. And obviously, a homemade cloth mask, scarf, or t-shirt when forced into a situation around other people is basic common sense, and I didn't feel the need to say it. That's why I'm talking about N95s, not masks, and certainly not cloth masks that are homemade.

edit: downvotes are frustrating. I am almost restating the article verbatim to correct misunderstandings in the comments here about what and why is being suggested.

However, on Wednesday, Dr Adams told Good Morning America that the CDC had been asked to review its guidelines on masks, because "we've learned there's a fair amount of asymptomatic spread" - although he stressed that medical masks should still be left to health care professionals who needed them most.

and

However, more and more health experts now say there are benefits.

They argue that the public use of masks can primarily help by preventing asymptomatic patients - people who have been infected with Covid-19 but are not aware, and not displaying any symptoms - from unknowingly spreading the virus to others.

edit: check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22752501 for resources that say indicate otherwise on mask wearing even benefiting the wearer. Don't be an antisocial asshole and buy or wear N95s and give them to healthcare workers, who face a much higher viral loads than you, until supply constraints are resolved.
Can you supply a link that substantiates that? Other than Communist China making that claim? Please keep in mind CC would love to see the current admin discredited. It's naive to believe that everyone has put down their propaganda weapons. Not going to happen.
tragic and idiotic decision to lie.
The Chinese state is the scariest censorship machine in human history. Specifically, in this situation, Doctors were detained and punished for speaking out about this early on, including one that later died of Covid
There’s not been any releases about his new role, as far as I can see.
Treating the populace like the Radium Girls who were told it was "safe" and ended-up painting their nails, skin and teeth with a deadly substance and dying horrible deaths from it.
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Any filtering system can be circumvented. DNS filtering is just one measure to prevent accidental exposure to unwanted content.
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No, those sued by the recording industry were sued for distributing copyrighted material.
Are we really at a point that MP3 parsing is so old-fashioned that it's not worth recommending a book which uses it for an example?

Guys, this is software not Milan Fashion Week. It's okay: those are just examples. Software still has to parse things, even in 2020!
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People act differently when they're being watched. Capturing the normal usage as they work with your product without any oversight can reveal a lot.
Im curious if anyone has had luck in this kind of thread?
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> We literally would've had a better response if the CDC didn't exist at all and individual states weren't impeded from running their own tests.

That's a very strong assertion that needs proof. Testing is important, but so are many other things like access to hospital beds, ventilators, face masks, etc.

Plus you are assuming that states would have been uniformly aggressive in testing and countermeasures, which is manifestly not the case. (See Louisiana, Florida, and NYC for examples.)
Can Outsourcing Reduce Business Expenses During Quarantine?
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Discussion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725853
I would think (and hope) that, when it comes to the possibility of millions of deaths, ideology would be sacrificed to some extent.
Florida "stay at home" order was issued today [1]. NY Times is also tracking states with and without stay at home orders [2].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/florida-gover...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-stay...
The argument also goes the other way. The company pays you now for the work in the office and for the inconvenience you incur from commuting. No more commuting, so you should get paid less.
Yeah, TMO had some crazy good deals at the end of last year. I also switched from Sprint to TMO after moving from Sprint's "free" plan to whatever their normal (somewhat obscene) plan was for about a year.

On the TMO side, I got the buy 3 get 1 line for free Magenta promo, an insider account code/discount, and a $200 visa card per line. I think I'm paying about $112/month for four Magenta lines.

The thing is, I switched in the first place because TMO always shafted their existing customers and gave new port-ins great deals, so switching to a "good" Sprint deal allowed me to get a better deal going back to TMO.

I say "good" because it was $30+/month for 4 lines, but Sprint's network blows and the price it reset to was just nuts.
Guess who is still considered vital and fighting over every procedure and claim? Medical billers, insurance companies, health companies, the many, many financial and legal people every hospital is employing.

Every cog in that machine is still spinning along, wasting massive amounts of time and resources. ER docs are still on the phone fighting insurance companies, while treating covid patients, right now, today. This is reality.

If you complain about any of this you will be fired by the hospital you work for.
I specified above that this is personal speculation. And no, I'm not a CCP shill, I'm a US college student who would very much like to get the full experience I paid for.
They are not the same, but if they're sent in bulk, they are both spam.

The essence of spam is using automation to use the same amount of your time to waste more of other people's time. Door-to-door sales is awful, but at the very least the waste of time is symmetrical. Computers, though, let spammers waste ever more of their targets' time on their quest to get rich.

Having talked to many spammers on the phone back in the day, excuses like yours are common. "I'm an exception! What I'm doing is special and valuable!" Sure, bud. We're all special snowflakes. But you don't really believe it's all that valuable, or you'd trust that people with a need would seek you out. Your actual goal is to manipulate people such that money goes into your pocket instead of somebody else's. Which I get, in that there are plenty of other people doing the same thing. It's an arms race, and not playing guarantees you don't win. But let's not pretend that your spam is somehow not spam.
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Couldn't you implement this by consuming `self` on `next()`?
MR is not always superior to x-ray for fracture detection, in fact, in the acute phase MR is often normal as marrow edema has not yet developed. Resolution is far worse than CT or plain film xray, making subtle non-displaced fractures impossible to see. MR can be good for occult fractures that are not visible on xray, but usually better after at least a few days so that marrow edema will have developed.
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While logged on to Reddit, I noticed a particular post would not load due to HTTP error 500. I didn't see anything about an outage on downdetector, so I copied the URL into ceddit and the page pulled up fine, and it was there that I noticed the NSFB tag. I've seen this same behavior on a few other posts since that time, which makes me wonder if this is intentional. At this time I've been unable to locate any reading that would back up that theory.
If you go out into public you should be wearing a face mask, period.

You want 3 easy things a mask can help with?

1. Not being able to put your hands into your nose/mouth and remind you to not touch your face

2. Prevent the spread if you are asymptomatic but have it

3. Increase the chance you get a "low dose" even if you do get it (leading to a better outcome for you)

These things matter and will save lives. Even a cloth/homemade mask helps. The CDC lied when they said it didn't and they lied because they knew there weren't enough masks but in doing so they eroded public trust so when they finally do get around to asking people to wear a mask there will be those that won't now. Same way calling it "just the flu" continues to be parroted by people. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Not sure exactly what signal processing you're referring to - MRI would not work (would take prohibitively long) without compressed sensing. But I would not consider that fairly sophisticated signal processing, it's in the classical limit and uses a simple prior that k-space is sparse.
DTI identifies white matter pathways, but it can't (alone) tell you much about function, can it?
I’ve travelled extensively T-Mobile free international data and it’s AMAZING. Europe, South America, and Africa. Yes it’s slow. No I wouldn’t do business with it. But holy shit the difference in “slow data” and “no data” is approximately infinite.
OBS core team member here, just a quick clarification on this post. OBS will not run without a supported GPU for compositing; that is always handled by the GPU running on OpenGL (for macOS and Linux, we use Direct3D on Windows). The available encoders, however, might change based on the available hardware. Hardware encoders are, generally, much faster and lower impact on system resources, but may have lower quality per bitrate as a trade-off.
Note that the CD is your 'license' to the music. You shouldn't sell them or give them away unless you also erase the music.
My understanding that you need N95 mask to protect yourself.

To protect others from you however, you probably just need to make sure you don't spit, and don't touch your face. A cloth mask could help with both. Gloves may also help (having something on your hand can remind you not to touch your face).

Doctors & other exposed personnel need masks to protect themselves. The rest of us likely mostly need to protect them from us.

(Totally not a doctor, citation needed.)
Assuming RSA keys are being used for compatibility?
It's really orthogonal to continuations.

Scheme has them (continuations) explicitly. CL chose not to, I think for performance reasons if I recall correctly.
That's an parroting FUD to arrogantly and dismissively rationalize removing means of protection from individuals.

There are people who can fit them properly. Use or misuse is a personal responsibility, like most things in life.
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A study of airplane travelers showed benefits from wearing a facemask, even for the wearer. A couple days ago here on HN?

Here's the paper:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoOBX4p...

Protection achieved by wearing facemasks of any kind was between 90% and 100%.
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> The reality is most people would not correctly fit a n95, and an improperly fit n95 would only provide marginal benefit.

Marginal > none

> Even in article, we are talking cloth face masks. That will provide even less marginal protection to the wearer from contracting the virus. But it will reduce the spread of an infected person. The goal isn't to wear a mask to protect yourself, the goal is to not spread the virus as an asymptomatic carrier

Not true, getting a lower dose of the virus initially gives your body more time to develop antibodies.
Of course! Have friends who work with it on a daily basis. My comment was mostly tongue in cheek, didn't mean that Forth is completely dead. Usually when seeing Forth though, it's bit older stuff than say PHP. My friends for example, are stuck trying to refactor very old code, written in Forth.

Didn't mean no harm :)
With the exception of trade shows, I call that 'marketing' though, that's an entirely different department. Everything else you've mentioned does not fall into the sales/BD category. Which is fine, I know some companies do not have or need a sales staff at all- I'm just commenting on the ones that do. If they have sales or business development in their job titles, they are probably reaching out to strangers a decent amount.

You don't really need outbound sales folks for B2C, but 95%+ of the time you do for B2B/enterprise
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People do occasionally get them confused. Usually we can move a post from the one to the other.