skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been WFH for years and it works super well for me. But I work with people that it very clearly doesn't work well for.

So while I personally believe in WFH (especially as a parent of young kids), I need facts and data before I think we can declare any genie having departed a bottle.

I certainly know of anecdotes where this event has reinforced to some managers that indeed WFH is a bad idea.
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I've been at places where it felt like a fun social time, and places where it hasn't felt that way. I do miss being in the office sometimes at places where it has all those positives you mentioned. When the in-office environment doesn't seem to offer those things to me though, remote work seems more desirable.
In some cities, having a dedicated bedroom in your apartment (not a studio) is already something. Getting a 2 bedroom apartment is to burn money
Postmodernism is the genre although they would likely be mortally offended by calling it a genre - not only because of their "genre fiction vs literary fiction" snobbery but because postmodernists called themselves a movement.

Although if I recall correctly the sollipism really fell out of favor with the George W. Bush administration and that aspect has been in decline since.
98% of hospitalized patients had fever. Not all infections as per the link you cite.
I worry a us financial system collapse could make for an event far worse than the pandemic at least for us in the USA.
Are any results available? How much does this save in a few common use cases?
I use Emacs inside iTerm2. (i.e. `emacs -nw`) Do you know if the multiple cursors package (which I just found today thanks to your comment) works with that? Or is it only in the native windowed version?
OTOH, the context is that, although I'm only about an hour drive from Boston, I live in a largely rural town in a property that's between an apple orchard and a christmas tree farm plus conservation land. (With easy driving, but not walking, distance from a commuter rail station.) I'm not sure why it would be the norm for me to have a frequent/easy public transit option or whether that would be the norm in most of Europe either.

I actually can get into the city for 9-5 fairly easily by rail. Just not door to door.
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't think honest dealerships can really survive the cut-throat car sales industry. You have to figure that these dealerships often get stuck selling whatever the manufacture sends them. So to get that nice, $70,000 truck they are required to accept a few shitty, stripper economy cars that sit on the lot for months, collecting interest payments.

Shit rolls down hill, so when the the manufactures screw over the dealerships, the dealerships find ways to screw over the customers. It doesn't help that the owners of dealerships tend to be politically connected locally, which gives them a staggering amount of leverage to combat any consumer protection legislation.
He wrote about it here: https://meaningness.com/metablog/ken-wilber-boomeritis-artif...
We bought them from Amazon. The best one is: Kitchen Crop VKP1200 Deluxe Kitchen Seed Sprouter, | 6" Diameter Trays

It is easier to clean than the other one.
All 50 states under disaster declaration for first time in US history
Speaking from personal experience, marketers make terrible ROI analysts because they always want to spend the same or more.

Yeah, principal-agent problem. At a previous job there was a case where we sent partial refunds to advertisers because we noticed we hadn't delivered as many impressions as they had paid for. Some of them were upset that by that, and would have preferred that we had just kept the full amount.
https://archive.md/Op2DB
I am aware of numeric towers and actually checked whether that was going on.

sbcl 1.4.16 uses single floats:
https://ideone.com/ruw5qi

I don't know enough about Scheme to dig under the covers to see how it's being represented internally.
When the boss told us to work from home, I packed up my laptop, ordered a great big monitor from Best Buy, and picked it up on the way home. Now I do hardware, so I also went back in the evening and shoveled half of the lab into my car.

But I live where land is cheap.
Surprised nobody's mentioned systemd yet!

My worst experience was when I was on a cross-country train writing code for a project whose database was mysql. No internet, intentionally. Something happened with one of my inserts (can't remember what exactly) and I had to restart mysqld. Problem was, with the bad insert, mysqld took longer than 30s to start, which forced systemd to restart it because of a default, undocumented setting to restart a service if it's not up after 30s. Again. And again. And again. Nothing in the documentation hinted that this was a feature of systemd anywhere, and I was stuck troubleshooting that nonsense instead of just writing code.

Systemd is just filled with undocumented crap and features that shouldn't exist by default, leading to headache after headache after headache. Such a pain in the ass.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/rip-offroad-prius-2017.4...
Yeah some of my coworkers I feel terrible for. Stuck inside, single, and furloughed. I wonder what health negative health effects we are going to see in the future from so many people being stuck inside.
I put together a small garden and have painted several canvases.
It’s a job creation/protection play, like grocery stores where the union won’t allow self-checkout. No idea if the law is achieving its goals or if it just exists because of historical inertia now, but that’s why it exists.
Look up the website for your nearest "county extension" office. It will generally be a good source of gardening info for your specific location and may even have info specifically about container gardening.
... except those hungry people with guns.
> I miss the comradery, the social aspect, cracking jokes, etc. I think work for a lot of people is a fun social time, even though they are working.

Me, too, though it seems to me to have disappeared sometime in 2016.
How does this work behind the scene?

BTW: I might be an exceptional person. But the first thing I look for in a new software is how it works. Granted that, in most cases, I might not be the targeted audience. But a brief introduction can effectively boost my interests in learning more. The opposite case, i.e., no such information, turns off my curiosity.
I’m not sure: LLVM’s optimizer is fairly slow and there’s a lot of bad things going on that will constantly cause deoptimizations. Maybe for some of the hottest paths?
Isn't 1Gbps the highest throughput of such hardware?
I've never seen a car loan you can't pay off early.

As many people have said before me, if you get the maximum term you have flexibility if you lose your job or something.
The fed used to provide a safe environment for someone to play the music for the game musical chairs. But now they just make their own music.
Been using this for work projects. A lot of raised eyebrows when people hear jupyter first development, but the automated docs, flexibility with prose, inline testing, out of the box pip packaging, and git integration make it well worth it. A bit of a learning curve, but very rewarding.
Didn't they "work great" 10 years ago?

Then why did Ubuntu drop Gnome for Unity, then drop Unity for Gnome? Why the big rewrite of Gnome2? Why is wayland rewriting everything?

Multiple monitors sucks. Graphics drivers integration sucks.

Number of users is still incredibly small.

A decade of despair.
Less so - you can actually use the 10% coupon on Zappos. I had a huge number of credits for free concerts after the last big Ticketmaster settlment and I never once found an actual event that I could use the credit for, despite looking unceasingly. The whole thing is a joke.
Thanks. Economists who defend posting paywalled articles are wrong too.
This but at runtime.
I for one cannot wait to commute back to the office, as WFH has completely ruined my workout routine of walking to the gym after work. I don't live within walking distance of one at home, so this would be an issue for me even if all the gyms were open to begin with.

90% of the effort for me is stepping into the gym and making a routine out of it, so this is pretty devastating. I was pretty happy with my gains and now I can see them melting away week by week. I do try and workout at home, but it is not at the same level or consistency of my gym membership.
Looks more like they took a "hit" from reality realizing where the cheap energy is coming from these days: renewables.
From a UX perspective use a gui file explorer, double click rename.
I think there’s an interesting matrix of situations here:

| Not Willing | Willing |
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Not Able| | |
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Able | | |
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The interesting outcome here applies only to the set of people who are willing to work from home and are able to work from home.

I wonder how large this group is. Obviously, discussions of how the world will change only applies to this group, so it’s probably important to estimate this number.

The questions I have are:

1. What economic incentives exist for employers to encourage working from home?

2. How will hiring practices change for various industries?

3. How will migration to places like the SF Bay Area change?

4. What new businesses and opportunities will this create?

5. What disadvantages will impact a hypothetical competitive business if it’s competitors adopt a work-from-home first approach but this company does not?
> I see similar judgements about other activities that can be done with little to no risk like hiking and fishing.

Just don't try to use your boat to fish in Michigan:

https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/outdoors/2020/04/13/outdo...
Note that there is also a speedup from dynamic optimization.
A lot of people want to be a vlogger, you can see a lot of accounts on the search result once you type in certain keywords. What I hate the most about people who use YT to earn money is the fact that some contents are not even worthy to have millions of views. Also, I personally hate ads so I tend to skip watching it after 5seconds.
> I just care about the final bottom-line price

Then you are making bad decisions by not considering the time value of money. And I think it's obvious that that's the case and then you can adjust your position to take that into account.

Consider. I have a car that I will sell to you for $100,000. Alternatively, I will offer you a financing arrangement where you get the car today and in 10 years you pay me $105,000.

Now, in this scenario, two things are immediately obvious. First, I'm really dumb for making this offer. I have little to gain and it's a super risky loan for me and it gets really bad over time. Second, you'd be dumb to accept the pay now option over the financing, despite the fact that the final bottom-line price is higher for financing. Even a ridiculously conservative, barely over inflation, adjustment of 4% per year gives you an extra ~$43,000 at the end of that 10 years by taking the financing.
For things like this, I don’t understand why we don’t have more interactive CLIs, instead of CLIs that expect one line of a bunch of arguments.
Increased production doesn’t occur because the economics don’t work, it doesn’t occur because there’s just no way to physically ramp up production that fast. That’s not really a critique of the economics. If production could be increased that fast the manufacturers would.

An important point the article didn’t address is that high prices direct resources to more important uses. If prices are very high then hospitals may be the only ones who can afford them, versus people on the street.

Outlawing price gauging alone just ensures masks go to people who don’t need them as much as doctors. Price ceilings don’t force masks to go to doctors. That’s why governments are forcing masks to go to healthcare, regardless of price.
Thanks for the insight. How did you aggregate for Remote OK — manual or did you scrape existing sites?
I would be really impressed if it were possible to control for the differences that would occur if one state did a very good job tracing potential cases and then testing them (Massachusetts), versus more ordinary blanket efforts elsewhere.
Because in the real world those scenarios don't happen. We can go all day making up ridiculous wild scenarios and working out the math of how they compare, or we can stick to what people actually experience when buying cars.
Maybe :P

But in all seriousness, maybe your view of the world and the people in it, is a bit skewed towards your current life?

Individual people can be fragile but as a species we are pretty resilient, even as far as the Wuhan Fever goes, some people get it and show no symptoms at all. So don't despair too much and buy into all the doom and gloom on the news, the human race and our world will exist no matter what problems fate throws our way.

As far as it being time to slow down and think what is most important for you to have a happy life, that is probably a good idea. If you can find happiness in the simple things thats great, just don't expect everyone else give up their widgets and tech too!

No matter how fast(or slow) technology or the economy changes there is still lots of happiness(and sadness) to be found if you look for it.
It is hard to tell if this will even work since a lot of people all around the world can't even follow the simple rule of not going out and just staying at home.
Unfortunately, it'll cost you a $500 fine to sit in your car and listen to your church service on the FM radio in Greenville, Mississippi:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/baptist-church-membe...
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3. will be a dangerous, pain in the ass to work with
Also, your local library might have an online subscription to The Economist. Take advantage of it :)
At my current job I try to WFH 2 days a week, and in the past I've been full time WFH. This time is different. I normally have a fair amount of social anxiety and absolutely hate the open office at work... but after over a month of barely interacting with anyone but my wife I can't wait to get back to the office. I even miss the shitty commute, but as wasteful and time consuming as it is, it is mentally stimulating.

Maybe it's my cramped valley apartment... I don't know. I used to WFH from my old house and felt a lot more comfortable there.
Stories like this almost certainly exist for Visa and Mastercard too. The set of credit card companies that have no instances of an event like that is null. So if you want to avoid any credit card company where someone has had a bad chargeback experience, you're just not going to be able to use credit cards.
> Anyone have a way to hack that to cut the two 'mv's down to one?

Yup:

mv -bS .bak file{.new,}

Should give the same result if you're using gnu coreutils 'mv', though it's obviously not as generally useful as nested braces.
Only problem with GIMP is their idiotic decision to split saving and exporting.
It's complicated. On the one hand stockpiling in times of plenty and releasing it in times of scarcity is good.

On the other hand, cornering the market for an essential good when there isn't even an underlying production issue is bad.

And increasing production of scarce goods is a good thing.
I have overseas clients whose accounts payables are completely inflexible and insist upon mailing me paper checks. I’m using a forex broker at the moment who gets me mid-market plus about 1.2% to convert into USD.

Does anyone have a better way to receive paper checks that doesn’t involve me establishing a bank account in the sending nation?
Exactly. That driver should have stopped at every state line and self-quarantined for the mandatory 14 days.
Most people don't look that closely, and many vehicle history reports lump fleet/lease/rental all under the same designation, making it difficult to even tell the difference. Flooding the market will affect the prices for all vehicles though, as most used vehicle buyers highly prioritize price.
> The only time you need to write malleable software is when the problem needs a malleable solution.

The point is that it’s very difficult to account for this beforehand, especially as the author of the software. (“What do you mean we should make this an option? 5 works for me, and I’ll change it in the code if it doesn’t!”) When designing software, it’s always nice to give a thought to “if I were using this and I wanted to change it, how would I do so?” and seeing if there’s anything you can do to improve that.
So does Ctrl-Alt-f2 count?
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Yeah, that's real convenient... Either information is free or it isn't. I'm not going to look for some asinine way to access every piece of information I am linked to.
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And I can often run my own software on the set-top box, too, if I’m really interested in customizing it. With TVs this is usually harder.
I think a lot of people proudly claim that advertising doesn't work on them because an advertisement has never compelled them to go out and buy that product immediately. What they don't realize is that that isn't the goal of marketing at all. The goal is brand association. Charlie Munger famously says that 3/4 of all advertising works on pure Pavlovian conditioning.
I honestly prefer working from home, but that seems to be a rarer opinion. I feel like it gives me the flexibility to fill the gaps with other productive or relaxing things. Even though I feel like my work environment is great, I feel pressured only do work-related things from 9-5 when I'm physically in the office.

At home, I can take a break to do laundry, study languages, go for a walk. Or if I'm just not in the mood to do work, I can do something else for a while and come back to it later. I love the flexibility. Perhaps I'll miss it after another month.
Cars are a huge sink on the American economy, and honestly, we should be buying fewer of them.
If I meant there was absolutely no life on Everest, I would have written "absolutely no life" or "sterile".

My point stands.
Right, by the time you have to control it, you are washing away all the advantages for using it.
This site does this
https://epiforecasts.io/covid/posts/national/united-states/
the word mask only comes up once in the entire writeup, when he went to the hospital. Did he wear a mask at all times when outside his house?
Railroad History Suggests Federal Bailouts Could Spell Doom for Airlines
Sorry to change topics, but are you able to expand a little on what made F# miserable. I ask as I was looking at learning it in the hopes that it would provide a positive developer experience. I would be very interested in finding out why it didn't work for someone else.
Thanks for the paper :) This seems ominious for olives at large, and points to globalization as a larger culprit than climate change. Global trade seems even less likely to disappear than fossile fuels.

The history of bananas is quite interesting, and the future looks to be as well. While it did fall short of true extinction, I'm hopeful we can learn from past mistakes. Perhaps I'll have the opportunity to try one of the other cultivars someday.
I wonder about magnitudes and how different the rates are versus other hypotheses - say take the approximate risk profile for their genes and similar impact of just stress from traumatic events with negative health impact.

Essentially I wonder how comparable "bonus stress" is to a nocebo effect in terms of magnitude and if they can be distinguished.
> Maybe it's my cramped valley apartment... I don't know. I used to WFH from my old house and felt a lot more comfortable there.

This is probably a big deal. I love having a ton of sunlight and I pay a premium to have an apartment with an amazing view from a set of giant windows on a 6th floor apartment.

At work, a ton of my colleagues are very uncomfortable with sunlight glare on their monitors, so our building always has blinds down and is lit by artificial lighting throughout the year.

I much prefer my apartment with the natural light, peaceful silence and an amazing view. I am sure that loving my home is a big part of me being happy with the current arrangements.
For lack of better charts. I have been calculating by hand the number of days since total cases(or deaths) were half as they are today. Example there are 586k cases today. How many days ago we had 290k ? Almost 10 days. So it is still doubling, but not as fast. A week ago it was doubling every 7 days.
By the logic of economists slavery and indentured service, etc are good ideas. Because by economist logic anything that produces more money is better, irrespective of the cost accrued by others.

Slavery, and follow on policies of indentured service, crop sharing, etc are the only reasons the pro-slavery states maintained economic relevance as long as they did.
I must admit I laughed out loud reading this. The real world is complex. The problems software solve in the real world are complex. Economics, sales, politics, personalities, random world events, competition etc. has always and will always be a force pushing software development in non-ideal directions. In my experience, software that is twice as malleable takes four times as long to write, making you dog food for the competition. A better choice (again from experience) is to think like an Engineer: find the least cost good enough solution to the problem. Then implement it.
Learn FP, use FP to write your own language.
"in addition to now having to sit in traffic jams for an hour or two every day"

I think you're taking for granted that everyone who lives and works in the general area of a city is commuting to the very center from a long way away. My reaction is "well, don't do that!"

I briefly worked in the DC area, and I still had a 10-15 minute commute as I am used to. That's because I was living a few miles from the center, in NOVA, and going outwards another mile or two in the morning.

Right now, I'm living just barely within the city limits of a smaller city, so technically you could say it's not a suburb, but practically it is, and again, my commute is (or was) about 10 minutes.

Any time you actually are living downtown in a significant urban area, it seems like a luxury to me, wouldn't you expect rents to be expensive when housing is competing with office space and fancy restaurants? I was able to afford that in Richmond, but in major, desirable cities, there's no way.
I think we will see the overall work when we look at deaths. It is lagging though.
Here's an alternative perspective: https://russroberts.info/price-gouging/
What is happening with video game sales during coronavirus
I'm a software engineer at Liquidata (https://www.liquidata.co), the creators of Dolt and DoltHub. I recently published this blog that describes a coronavirus state actions dataset we made based on NGA's State Action Tracking Chart and how we used pull requests on DoltHub to improve this data.

Blog: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-04-13-corona-virus-state-a...

View or clone the dataset: https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/Liquidata/corona-virus-...

NGA State Action Tracking Chart: https://www.nga.org/coronavirus/#states
The problem with this interpretation is that whatever the combination of deadly/contagious the virus is, we already have direct evidence that when it spreads without any containment it causes unacceptably extreme amounts of sickness and death. So exactly where the virus ends up on the grid of mortality/contagiousness doesn't seem to be all that important because it is well beyond the frontier of being problematic.

Hopefully in the next few days/weeks we'll get very concrete data on exactly what percentage of people are/were asymptomatic cases, but my guess is it will not be some crazy high number because if so we'd have likely already figured that out by now.