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Ask HN: What is your expected work throughput when working from home?
Hi,

I'm a software developer for a highly profitable, but rather unknown company and I've been trying to understand how feasible my employer's expectations are. I mean, you can't really work 100% from home when both parents are in software industry and you have kids running around. Also, what if you can't work from home and have to come to work to accomplish your job? (non-essential workers, but lockdown still permits it)

* Do employers still expect you to accomplish all goals and deadlines?

* Were you hurt in any way financially? Do you need to report the time you work?

* Were you told what happens if you don't meet deadlines? Is there any consideration from the employers side? Do they accept less features/testing in order to meet deadlines?

BTW, it'd be great if you state where you work at if you can - I assume it's different for FAANG than startups...

Thanks!
I came back to my hometown due to this lockdown and had the pleasure of having homemade butter again. Good heavens, it was peak gourmet if there is anything like it. The best part : I learnt how to make it.
I do wonder what is lost, too. Some folks talk about "mushroom pills" (simply powdered, full spectrum mushrooms) and some talk about "psilocybin extract". It's my understanding that different psilocybe mushrooms species have different effects due to varying levels of not just psilocybin, but psilocin (psilocybin metabolizes to psilocin, but it is also in many species), baeocystin (mexicanas tend to be higher in this) and norbaeocystin.
Supposedly the entire reason Qwerty was designed was to prevent typewriters from jamming by making the keys as disambiguous as possible, which is now ironically ideal on tiny screens.
Take breaks, dont expect to solve it at once. It is ok not to solve hard problem today. Keep coming back to it and keep mix the hard task with smaller tasks. Solving few smaller tasks as breaks from the big hard one helps you to keep confidence in yourself up.

When you have vague idea of a problem, keep thinking about. This is time when thinking while walking somewhere is more beneficial then just sitting at desk. Your mind is less "restricted".

Also, it is normal to feel frustrated or depressed or ineffective while solving hard problem. Managing these emotions is part of the task, having them does not make you lesser. But when they are getting too much, take a break.
Probably has to do with san francisco sourdough.
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With regards to the taste, grinding them up and mixing them into melted chocolate will negate all taste issues (or consistency, I find the getting bits stuck in your teeth is what really sucks).
> The word "Utrecht" that you quoted links to the ongoing pilot program

That's what I commented on. The link is nearly 5 years old, and the policy is nowhere near UBI.
So voting "didn't work" until very very recently? The idea that there was this golden age where people all knew what they were talking about, and the citizens of a democracy dutifully read their newspaper and carefully considered their options, went to the polls etc, is a fantasy. The map of "news deserts" is really a map of "population density" - it tells me nothing about information consumption (or retention) in those areas.

>You might be under the impression that relevant news will somehow "diffuse" to get to you.

I am under no such impression. I am challenging the idea that "journalism" is "critical" for a democracy to function. It only seems critical to me insofar as "function" is defined as "people vote in the way journalists expect them to".
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> How would you feel if you were forced to live in a cage all your life when you yearned to be free?

How would you feel if you had to eat cat food all your life, like your ass clean several times a day, and never brush your teeth in your whole life? The point being that you don’t think like a cat and a cat doesn’t think like you: you’re two different animals.

Any animal would Ben Isérables in a literal cage. Luckily there are lots of things to do in a house and windows to look through. Not regally a cold steel 2 sqm barren space like a cage would be.
Sounds like the ordinance was announced before hand and then was going to be required on that day. So people likely began wearing them more before that day.
You’ve hit the crux of the situation here:

you either support some things being nationalized for the greater benefit of society, or you take the neoliberal approach and say “there is no society, may the best corporation win”.

I have no doubt that privatizing all mail can generate better margins and return some nice profits to a handful of individuals at the expense of less citizens having access to the service.
Social distancing has been a thing for a while in that region.

Look at the "Swedish bus stop meme".
Grind it, blend it, test it. It's how loads of other naturally variable stuff is done eg: flour, whiskey, wine, juice
Margarine tastes like shit. If you want some plant based fats for spreading - just make mayo. Takes 5 minutes.
Military spending often operates on a loophole in this sort of thinking; but also Switzerland also appears, from the outside, to be a nation comfortable with the idea that collective action is a good idea (perhaps a lack of Murdoch media or Koch-style billionaires?), while in the English-speaking world we've seen a thirty to forty year assault on the Kensyian consensus that rebuilt Western Europe after WW II, towards a culture of aggressive individualism, to the exent one British cabinet minister describes himself as a "neo-Victorian".
-No, most people simply stopped listening to radio in their cars, or bought DAB adapters which rebroadcast the DAB channel you wish to listen to on an FM frequency.

A lucky few with cars old enough to have a standard DIN car stereo bracket simply popped out the FM radio and dropped in a DAB replacement.

But, essentially, radio listening in both car and home dropped off a cliff.

Edit: The Great FM Kill-Off was a double whammy as they simultaneously stopped broadcasting DAB using the MPEG2/L1 codex and switched to DAB+' HE-AAC.

This made sense, technologically - sound quality of low bitrate MPEG2 is not impressive - but the result was that most early adopters of DAB had to purchase new receivers yet again as early DAB sets did not support DAB+.

Further, leading up to the FM shutdown all the focus was on FM=>DAB, not DAB=>DAB+ - so during the switch, three of my four DAB radios went the way of the dodo bird without me even having realized it was going to happen. I wasn't very motivated to buy new receivers yet again...
A long history with sourdough (hence Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis, even though it didn't originate in California), and more recently a strong network of bakers and bakeries branching out from Chez Panisse starting in the 70's as noted in another comment.
Grinding up a mushroom and putting it in a capsule seems unpredictable, dose-wise.

But a whole batch mixed together? It seems like that would be both testable and predictable. This is the way to go for sure.
> Maybe there are other careers that he might be better suited for and where his disability won't be as much of a hindrance.

I'm blind myself, and I consider software-engineering to be one of the nicest options out there, at least in my country. Sure, there are difficulties, but not as many as in other fields. Computers can be accessible, and accessible tools can usually be found.

A blind person becoming a software engineer is a realistic option. a blind person becoming... almost anything else is not. As a blind person, career prospects are pretty limited, and someone who already is a software engineer has a huge advantage, compared to someone who i.e. invested n years of his life into becoming a surgeon.
Yes, the price of advertising in their inserts fell 40% literally week to week. They always send my busines an advertising opprtunity and my zipcode for minimum of 1000 mailpieces was $199 last week, and is down to $120 this week.
Furthermore over 80% of advertising is for food and inhouse services - oil change, furniture shopping, pet grooming etc. Virtually all these businesses are shut off for the time being, hence no need to advertise.
Lots of things could happen, but likely not by Q3 when they are projected to run out of money.
Yeah, sorry man, but you're dead wrong. As he said, you're really disconnected from reality here. "All those things can be done electronically" -- lol. You must not have interacted with many government agencies.
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You can get a phone line basically anywhere for the same reason you can get mail there, and if you can get a phone line then you can get dial-up, which doesn't get you YouTube but it does get you email and online banking and all of those sorts of things.
Nice! I've been doing this for a while too -- https://github.com/raivivek/til
The most basic of the basic first step would be finding an infinite series for calculating Pi, that has only positive elements... like Ramanujan's series, but not quite, because elements of this series have to produce numbers Nk, for each step k (k=0->infinity), that satisfy the following condition: Nk/k->2Pi for k->infinity.

Until this is achieved (finally giving the complete description of this discrete space/graph of this space), nothing further can be done in physics.

Furthermore... it is not even needed to prove that this space is discrete, because uncertainty principle already proves that it is, by taking notice of the fact that in continuous spaces, quanta of action/momentum/energy can be made arbitrarily small (and, in fact, is equal to 0), which means that h can be made arbitrarily small (and, in fact, is equal to 0).

In other words, uncertainty principle only makes makes sense in discrete spaces... and, as experiments (from 100+ years ago) have already proven, h > 0 in the space this universe is made of (meaning that this space is discrete).
Q.E.D.

Edit: typo and... typo with missing constant 2 from circumference formula.

Addition: Pi is Pi only because of the spatial (graph) configuration. In another uniform space, with a different configuration, circumference formula would have the form of: Nk=aCk, where a is some value (like 2), and C is the (Pi-like) constant derived from spatial (graph) configuration >alone<.

Edit: Added missing k to the general circumference formula. I should really proof-read better, but I'm in a kind of hurry, so you'll forgive me an occasional mistake or two.
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No I have not. Thank you!
The postal service is subject to a law saying it has to pre-fund it's benefit plans; this is due to a law passed by the Republican congress specifically so they could point to the USPS failing finances and use that as the excuse for privatising it.

Just another part of our American heritage getting looted by private equity.
Orange County / Orlando is a company town because they own so much property (48+ sq mi / 12.5k+ hectares), employ so many people, and wield leviathan political power. They're like the LDS in Utah, but a corporate cult instead. They can get away with doing almost anything they want because they have the leverage. And, it's Florida: where human decency and common-sense are optional (illegal to feed the homeless, proven in court that ballots were destroyed in the 23rd to ensure DWS won, numerous for-profit prisons, corona spring-breakers).
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> gmail data is fairly sacred and not exploited to better sell you ad

This is new from 2018 IIRC. Before emails from free accounts where scanned for ads tailoring. They had problem selling GSuite, because clients where confused between the privacy of free and paid tiers. So they estimated it would be more beneficial to stop using mail data for all account, and simplify GSuite sells.
Unfortunately it's not cynical but the reality. Most people would be shocked how much time academics have to spend on grant writing and other administrative things. The whole system is completely broken, essentially we are applying for money to spend time on writing grants to apply for more money. The unfortunate reality is that in the experimental sciences there is no way around this. You need the funds to be able to run experiments (grad students are part of this as well) and if you ever stop you will never be able to start back up again. Essentially you need to be able to show a track record & preliminary results to be successful at getting a grant, if you stopped applying for grants you have neither. Moreover often universities will give you more teaching duties because you are not bringing in research funding. It is a vicious circle.
Nutella is a real blessing here.
Read a good book about procrastination, that's what I think you have. I read one by Nils Salzgeber, very good.
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You can do your taxes electronically, I've done it. You can have your social security check direct deposited. "Bills and communication" is your bank website and email, not a government agency. All those things can be done electronically.
I'm guessing the rates wouldn't be subsidized to the degree of USPS.
Early 1900's were also the heyday of eugenics.

The author above says civil libertarians were worried about a slippery slope, where mask laws could lead to forced vaccines "or any experiment or indignity." I think anti-mask concern is more interesting in that context.
In the same genre of Go video streaming adapter servers. Here are a couple neat projects which stream from RTSP (as used by eg security cameras) to either fragmented .mp4 files over WebSocket or WebRTC:

https://github.com/deepch/RTSPtoWSMP4f

https://github.com/deepch/RTSPtoWebRTC

I'm jealous of Go's WebRTC library that makes the latter possible. I'd love to have a similar Rust crate.
Is there any solid evidence that Shakespeare's works were written by others?
HR Tech is where many VCs have invested in, with the hopes of selling big riding on the AI wave.

However, many HR Tech solutions (which claim to use AI/ML/DL under the hood) are now being forced to answer how they counter hard-coded biases in the AI models, how is explainability implemented, how they adhere to norms set for algorithmic accountability (ex. Ethica etc)

Most of them neither have answers nor the mindset to even bother about these.
The post office was important in 1787 to "provide the means of intercourse between the citizens of remote parts of the confederation, on such a regular footing, as must contribute greatly to the convenience of commerce, and to the free, and frequent communication of facts, and sentiments between individuals."

It is totally obsolete for this purpose, having been almost totally supplanted by phone calls, email, text messages, IM, and video calls.
He’s advocating using Map - “new Map()” - there are some performance benefits.

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I’m curious why they start at 200.
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I think that depends somewhat on what the rest of the time is spent on.

When I worked about half-time and studied half-time, I found that it was difficult to get switched from one to the other after already having spent time and energy on either during the same day. Dedicating full days for one activity helped with that, but having a longer break of potentially several days between working days may of course also require more time for getting back to speed.

On the other hand, at some point I worked ~30-hour weeks (also because of attempting to study at the same time, but I dropped that once I found the attempt unproductive), about 6 hours a day, Monday to Friday. I had more energy both for work and other (non-mandatory) stuff I liked to do. I'm pretty sure I was just as productive as when working 8-hour days on the same job, if not more, because I was able to focus better and more intensively. The added hours in the longer days were just empty space.

My 30-hour scenario of course differed from what might be a more typical part-time arrangement in that mentally I was pretty much considering it a full-time job and not just a side gig, or as one half of something.

Nevertheless, that experience (among some other, somewhat similar ones) has made me seriously question whether the 8-hour days unconditionally make sense from an efficiency point of view.
Uhm, pre-funding benefit plans seems like a very responsible thing to do, given that many entities completely avoid funding them thereby creating ever increasing black holes of liabilities.

Without them, administrators have the ability to spend as they please by handing out future liabilities.

And FYI 'heritage' is no business to keep something operational. Either it works well, or it doesn't.
I would definitely try it once if I could get my hands on a pound.

I have been cooking more with the lockdown.
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That doesn’t necessarily make you a good candidate for a crisis line btw. E.g. if you have had suicidal thoughts in the past,mor lost a sibling that way, you might have difficulty when that comes up on the phone.
How did that work last time? I'd suggest a different topic anyway, like GC algorithms or binary exploitation.
So, “let them eat cake”.
Businesses are required to fund their pension obligations.

In any case USPS hasn't actually fully funded their pensions since the recession.
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This is an anecdote not data, but I've heard several USPS delivery folks mention that a lot of long-tenured drivers decided to take vacation and sick time when the lockdown started ramping up. This has caused other drivers to pick up the slack so there may be a lot of overtime getting paid out.
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Adopting SMR on Desktop brand is acceptable compared to NAS brand, but it should be announced.
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Didn’t downvote but my guess is people aren’t interested in discussing pure politics. Doesn’t necessarily mean they think you’re wrong.
"When you abandon this two dimensional representation, your non-visual mental map suffers no spatial limits. "

My visual representation is definitely 3 dimensional and I am not sure what you mean by abandoning it?
I mean, code is statement blocks and controll flow elements. It is data and connections between them at execution. I can imagine, not being visual gives you much more focus and fewer distractions on the mental map, but is it really different?
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"Many people rely on physical mail for things like social security checks, taxes, bills, communication with family and friends."

A somewhat higher postage rate would not affect this that much, and no, there are not that many people always sending letters, and broadband isn't required to pay bills.

The vast, vast majority of mail (even bills sent etc.) is completely wasted, it would be incredibly more efficient to dump it in lieu of sending 'only the mail that is needed'.
This is probably just splitting hairs, but I don't think it is equally valid. Compared to the channel width, the center frequency is known / required to be set much more precisely. You could wiggle around by the bandwidth by 100s of Hertz and maybe lose some fidelity, or get some interference from neighboring channels, but you can't say the same for the center frequency.
Eradication is not impossible but takes will and choices.

If the virus had certain death rates and longer periods where it remained dormant. We would have to make choices to eradicate that. We're in a different situation where we have different choices and outcomes.
I assume the convention applies to both receivers and transmitters.
All I mean is that in the modern digital world, there is no difference between a channel being defined as 90.0 + 200kHz, 90.2 - 200kHz, or 90.1 +- 100kHz. "Tuning" isn't even really a thing in modern SDR receivers that can receive a huge band all at once (it is, but more as a UI convention than an analog necessity).
Nice. I imagine this could be used to list and track TODOs in code as well.
How is that not a completely viable solution?

Have you actually used dial up? It's terrible slow compared to broadband but a whole lot faster than mailing a letter.
"And we need a post office to do that."

No you don't, you just need some kind of mail delivery service with either reasonable rates, or 'paid for' by dear government.
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The majority of average Americans don't read. History included.

They just do whatever they "feel" like and are deeply anti-intellectual / Dunning-Kruger.

Hence the flag-waving, open-carrying of AR15s, nationalistic, tribal, MAGA-meets-no-mask/-reopen protests in the middle of a pandemic that hasn't yet receded and will restart on the way back to 10k's of deaths as soon as reopened because only 0.5-5% have been exposed and there's no vaccine yet.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
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> contribute greatly to the convenience of commerce

Still seems relevant.
They’re required to PRE-fund the pensions which private businesses are not required to do
Is anyone using Dgraph out in the wild? I was meaning to look into it for a toy project to build my own crawler, and news discovery engine, and I have some questions...

1) What extra utility does it provide over other DBMSes with graph abstractions?

2) Is the join-depth problem an actual thing?[0] Does Dgraph solve some real-world problems for you for complex queries?

3) Are there 'pure' graph database systems out there that compete with Dgraph?

[0] https://dgraph.io/blog/post/why-google-needed-graph-serving-...
Yes, dial up is technically still internet... But do you really get internet that way? Websites these days are made for broadband, some of them coming in at a few MB just to get to the login screen. Plus you gotta turn off all non-essential internet communication in Windows (telemetry, updates, ...) or that 4 kB/s you get are lost to that. If you're paying by the minute it's going to get expensive real fast.
What was the diagnosis process like? I'm in my early 30s and have been putting off trying to get an ADHD diagnosis (and medication) even though the symptoms clearly resonate, because I'm concerned that I'll be dismissed as just seeking pills. In college I tried to get diagnosed and was dismissed as lazy and just seeking a prescription. Did you have to deal with any of that skepticism?
Taiwans reaction was great because they still very much had the last SARS outbreaks in mind, and as a state that has been denied WHO membership they have not many options other than making dead sure this is handled propperly as a pandemic in Taiwan could weaken it enough for mainland china to consider attacking them.
You reminds me about learning a foreign language you need to think in the foreign language without the translating part.
Plenty of exceptions though. e.g. KDKA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and WACO Waco, Texas.
Here in one of the smaller EU countries the stations sometimes even go as low as 32kbps and use practically no error correction.

That makes the station both sound awful and be significantly less reliable for reception.
Some of my favorite radio stations broadcast(ed) below 88MHz. 87.7 and 87.9 are favorites of college and low budget FM broadcast.