skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently switched to more hardware based setup, because I just lost creativity on the computer and needed a switch up. I still use a DAW to record audio/midi from hardware to mix and master. But other than that all recording happens on hardware. Something about the computer doesn't really do it for me anymore when I stare at it all day programming. I'm liking hardware, I'm currently using Roland Fantom and the archaic sequencing and certain limits really inspire me. I can sit in front of that thing for hours.
If you’re going to recommend something non-e2e for a business team, go with email that is already distributed to everyone’s contact lists, policy controlled, 2fa’d, et c - not some snake oil like Telegram.
People are underestimating the issues which need to be overcome with WFH

Infrastructure:
Do homes have chargers, desks, screens? If not people will soon get carpal tunnel or lose productivity.

Internet/VPN security costs are real.

Productivity creep :
Some of the main issues with WFH have been work hour creep. Managers and other employees feel its easier to make requests for more time given that you are now a few feet from your laptop. Lack of discipline also means that people now work longer.

Rewards and promotions
I can't find it right now, but I recall WFH resulting in lower pay relative to people with the same qualifications who went to office.

Mental costs:
One of the main issues with WFH has been loneliness. Fixing this requires immense effort to recreate physical proximity.

Creativity is also lost when you cant engage in banter and catching up with people.
Pet grooming has been classified as essential (by California) since late April. Our local groomer reopened quickly after that. There might be some cities that have other restrictions, but grooming is already open in most places.
> as long as it gets you to invest in Uber for cats :)

Where do I sign up ?!
If what you're getting is a temporary spike because you were linked somewhere, then that seems like the way to do it. If you're expecting that much traffic as an ongoing thing, then maybe be proactive.
I skipped this forever because it's not on the Play Store. But it's easy to keep up-to-date by following the GitHub releases atom feed https://github.com/bromite/bromite/releases.atom
Does IRC still exist?
how do people at Slack communicate to fix an outage when Slack is down?
Given enough time, yes. In a thousand years? Probably not. We are still at the stone age.
I use these to 'accidentally' upload marketing collateral. Got some clickbacks through unique UTMs so I know it works.
that’s correct
For a while, Samsung was ahead.
> If you honestly can't figure out how using a term of political attack is seen as an attack, I'm not sure I can help you with that one. If you're not a native speaker, I recommend reading up on the history of the term.

I am both a native English speaker and familiar with the term "political correctness", which actually was coined by the left. Suffice to say, there are those across the political spectrum who believe that it is possible to criticize political correctness as a pattern of behavior, without attacking the identity of the people whom political correctness was intended to protect.

> And lastly, what I'm saying is not "guilt by association". To the extent that there are reasonable doubts about his motivation for writing the memo, we have to look to other behavior to see what theory it fits best with. That his first choice was to get cozy with antifeminists is a piece of evidence.

If the only behavioral evidence that you choose to look at is who he associated with, then "guilt by association" describes precisely what you are doing. Did you even watch those interviews? Or any of his other public appearances?

Also, the article you linked to is very telling. It mentions all of these horrible attributes about Molyneux and Peterson, without noting (for instance) that Dr. Peterson is also a subject matter expert in the fields of psychometrics and psychology of personality (his research is highly cited) and who had a business using psychological profiling to aid businesses in hiring decisions. That sounds exactly like the kind of person that ought to have some interesting insights on Damore's memo. Yet his only salient quality to you is that he's "antifeminist"?

> I'm open to new data turning up, but to me the pretty obvious conclusion is that he didn't somehow accidentally write something very similar to a lump of right-wing concern trolling.

Honest question, can you point to a right-wing perspective that, in your view, rises above the level of "concern trolling"?
Had to email the team to use Zoom. Ugh! Will anyone turn up I wonder :-)
> I imagine things like render farms or other specialist graphics work

Eh... outside of the broadcast motion graphics group, small personal/business farms, or educational institutions this is largely a majority Linux area.*

*I'm speaking from the perspective of public cloud farms and the feature film industry (for VFX and Anim). You can't escape Windows for select software and plugins, but if it's not a strict requirement by the software, then it's a business choice for other reasons (i.e. existing environment, staff, etc) because you will from a technical standpoint operate at a loss using Windows.
It is a federal and state public health order. They've since changed those orders. The county has even less authority, especially by a single individual and in contrast to the state.

Also laws only work as long as the citizens believe in them and civil obedience is a thing. There needs to be good reason for the shutdown and its effects, and many do not agree with the county.
Massive corruption and socialist policies. But, I repeat myself.
That means down. What the f' else do they do?
The problem is loss-aversion. Are you willing to risk losing some small percentage of revenue equivalent to many billions of dollars on the bet that Cook's replacement is as good or better? Tim Cook's salary is almost irrelevant; the important question is whether he is the absolute best person for the job.

As an example: how much value did Steve Jobs add during his second tenure at Apple? Did his compensation package make a significant dent in that?

The market for CEOs is a winner-takes-most deal. Similar to what happens with music artists, the top few albums of the year sell more volume than all the rest.
But what about hanging around the water cooler so I can colab on some random ideas I overheard!!! my whole go to market and product strategy depends on this!!!!

- Some anti-WFH person, probably
Freenode, here I come.
When did they outlaw speculation? The stock market? Selling people a future possibility, however likely or unlikely, has never been a crime.
An architect's job is usually to work with folk and have those opinions, it's the crux of the role.
Aether. In fact looking at it to replace Slack entirely. Much better controls.

Getaether.net/pro
This bugs me to no end about Electron. The one module that existed to implement cross window / process communication is deprecated with no alternative. I haven't found a solution for multithreading in electron without killing the base process (which they explicitly say NOT to do compute in) or the rendering process (duh).
I had the same experience.

Expo is wonderful for prototyping and quick iteration. The ability to use Snacks online and see them working on the phone is great.

But beyond that everything in RN feels hacky and unfinished. While working with it I had some silly issues with Metro, and found some subtle bugs in Text and Button components.

About the "Native" part. I think that a lot of people have the expectation that doing RN apps will be the same as building a iOS or Android native app. But RN+Expo is not that different from frameworks like Ionic. Is really hard to do an app that follows the Apple HIG or Material Guidelines, you end with something in the middle that doesn't look or feels truly native (at least not without tons of extra work to imitate things that you get for free in the native UI kit) .

RN without Expo is not so nice, lots of rough edges and sooner or later you'll need to write interop code in Objective-C or Android Java to take advantage of the native platform.
That's not very comforting. Banks deploy nonsensical stuff all the time (like bad password policies).
I hear what you're saying, but my understanding is that PPE shortages were behind the decision to suspend other medical activities.

Failure to maintain an adequate stockpile of PPE is probably what made the lockdowns necessary, more than anything else. If everyone in the US could have been given masks and instructed to keep their distance from other people, that would probably have been enough to allow us to lock down only the most vulnerable. At least we could have begun with that approach, and moved on to heavier measures only if/when they proved necessary.
Just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's healthy. Everyone use to smoke!
> - rendering to a window that isn't owned by the UI being rendered or created by the framework

I once used a native library I installed with iOS' native package manager, Cocoapods. I rendered a React Native view inside the native view, which was contained inside a react native view. The only limitation is that the two react native views used separate bundlers i.e. the two react native views can only communicate through the native platform, they couldn't communicate to each other via JavaScript.
The article has some good insights on self discipline but...

“Well, I have news for you: some things are just hard. There’s no way of getting around it.”

That quote, even in the context of managing distractions as per the article, is the antithesis of technology as a whole. Yes, some people will put off hard things but somebody, somewhere, will find a way to do it easily and then that hard thing becomes easy for everyone - on to the next! To suggest that we all should just roll over and accept that some things must be hard and remain that way is absurd.
Please share more about this! I’ve been thinking about trying this myself, and I’d love to hear more, about both the tech / ops side, and the economic side.
Those being down means I can't use the app at all, so for all intents and purposes, it's down. As Rachelbythebay would say, your nines are not my nines.
"I'm really sick of everything being made "secure", when in fact the "security" is for someone other than the legitimate user of the thing."

There must have been some groundswell movement amongst users all demanding that the boot process be made more "secure". There must have been well-publicised cases where "bad guys" were hijacking the boot process.

Perhaps different people have different definitions of "secure". If some third party, including the seller, has control over access to the computer or what I can run or disable on it after I purchase it, then I do not consider that computer to be more "secure". I just consider it to be less useful and less trustworthy to use with any personal data.
pigeons? But seriously though, just cell phone I guess
Google Hangouts Chat, because our whole company has the G Suite For Business
I've been lucky enough to work remotely since the inception of my career (10 years now) and I was afraid I might miss the whole office culture if I continue on untill the covid pandemic happened.

Companies showed that it's possible to have great office culture even remotely. My company started food/drinks tasting events, small pockets of communities developed around hobbies like video-games and slack got a complete revamp. It has been a real joy!

Right now I'm not sure I don't see any benefits of working in an office other than:

* Sense of inherit accomplishment: I sat here for 8 hours == I did things. Which is of course kinda silly but remote suffers from accomplishment perception issues since you don't have that office sacrifice that you can always fall back to.

* People are fun, and people are more fun in person! Especially in modern offices with ping-pong tables, bean bags and taco tuesdays.
currently status page claims 9/10 services are up (https://imgur.com/a/qQBax40):

- Login/SSO

No issues

- Connections

Something's not quite right View details

- Messaging

No issues

- Link Previews

No issues

- Posts/Files

No issues

- Notifications

No issues

- Calls

No issues

- Search

No issues

- Apps/Integrations/APIs

No issues

- Workspace/Org Administration

No issues
they want political change, not physical change. I can't imagine many young people want to give up a bustling city with lots of culture, dating opportunities and things to do for a place thats cheaper with a slightly lower risk of contracting a virus from pandemics that only come around once or twice in a lifetime
But the point was more about forcing people to WFH most days and then having to come into the office some others. It would be the worst option for people in HCOL areas because it forces most of the office expenses onto the employees. (And the cost is ridiculously high per capita for employees)
I like that a lot. The 'Agile' economy. Let's check the sprint board in the morning and... the schedule as slipped again.
As for ASMR, it's the worst example of the bunch. It's just a physical response to an audio cue. We have that every day all day.

If someone yells in your ear, you feel pain. We have audio-induced physical responses all the time, and no one would say that that has anything to do with consciousness.
The stock photos with the monitor, iMac Pro, iPad Pro, and iPhone 11 easily contain $15k worth of Apple products. If this $200 software can attract people with that budget, it's a win for them. Unlike much programming, audio and video production seems to still need powerful local computers.
Yes, their article is very one sided.

Through why they ended up in the situations they did why other didn't is a bit more complex then what either you or they wrote I think.
If you noticed how insanely Slack freaked out and handled the service outage. The application just got stuck, didn't know what to do, I see a faint 503 error message which looks like a webpage nginx error displayed right in the app. Clearing cache didn't help and the app just quit.

Electron apps are a nuisance and should be eradicated from this planet. We've come a full circle -> Bloat the web -> Create javascript frameworks -> Build SPA/PWA apps -> Invade the desktop land -> Gain traction because "its crossplatform" and now try to reimplement GUI elements from some fancy_new framework that is developed by people who are entirely unqualified for it. Throw away all the work that's done by OS developers and designers that are getting paid as professionals to develop guidelines like this: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

The modern tech stack needs to be refactored just like they refactor silicon architecture every 10 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA

Edit: People talking about would native app handle this better? Sure. I argue that it wouldn't just get rid of all UI elements and drop the entire DOM on the page, the UI just crashed. And everytime I open slack it seems like its doing something else entirely. There is a massive difference in quality of native UI libraries and Bulma for example, and its not just the library, you gotta rely on React to redraw things and it depends on 4 billion npm dependencies. The web truly sucks. And it is now eating into desktop apps.
Slack in their electron app is 503ing for me.
Discord (we're a game company). Email too. And some folks are starting to use Google's chat.
I agree that Ionic's components are easier to work with and less of a hassle. However, React Native components let you talk directly to native, even using native components from the native platform's ecosystem in your code. It's a tradeoff developers have to make.

https://github.com/wix/react-native-navigation is beautiful, it uses iOS' own navigation APIs, but it's a pain.
Identity management with Active Directory is probably the biggest plus of a Windows environment; there's a saying that goes something like "in the end, every identity system ends up trying to be AD". Sure, you can run OpenLDAP on Linux and effectively get a domain controller, but the ready-to-go nature of AD on Windows Server is very compelling, especially for larger businesses.
Matrix :)
Java?

STMicroelectronics uses it for almost all of their applications, which ship in one zip file with binaries for Win/Mac/Linux.

It ticks #1 and #2, but I don't know about #3.

Of course, I'm not sure if having web-like programming is your implicit #4?
> "Waymo is still much further ahead with actual fully self-driving car "

Tesla is ahead where it counts, sales. it feels like waymo was already 'successful' in small regions with good weather not requiring complex thought situations in 2018. meanwhile tesla is improving designs, expanding capabilities, and selling cars.

I'm not a tesla fan boy, but I definitely prefer their approach in terms of iteration (not sure if I agree with the tech choices).
My guess is a DR XMPP implementation.
A bit longer but here's another video that covers some of Baudrillard's concepts, in more of a lecture form but much easier to digest than Baudrillard's writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9WMftV40c
Ha, Great to see our thing here. Let me know if you (anyone) ha(s|ve) any questions.
staging environment?
Obligatory xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/1683/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

You should study a little history before making wild claims regarding 'always' or 'never'.
I think the problem with SF is not that it isn't a utopia — it would be unfair to expect that of any city — it's that it's worse than nearly every other in the US, especially for those in the middle class and lower class.

You might argue, "well so many people continue to live here and love it" — and that's true...except most of the people that happily live in SF are rich tech workers that are comfortably in the top quintile of the income distribution.

The tech worker might love SF, and indeed it might even be a beautiful city — but what of the teacher, police officer, firefighter, janitor, and waiter? Is SF really the beacon of progressivism it claims to be if it's (quite possibly) the only city in the US where a teacher can't afford to live within a 30 minute commute of their school without roommates?
This is one of those stances that I see on HN all the time but never feel myself.

Like, nothing about this outage affected my opinion of Electron apps at all. And in general I like them, as a developer and as a user. They're polishable with so much less effort.
> It was really quite depraved but it worked

> but alas the overworked, underskilled, and somewhat frightened IT person couldn't stomach the risk

this seems like a reasonable call to me.
A drop in emission rates for a couple months doesn't mean that 100-200 ppm of CO2 magically drops out of the atmosphere. Locally it might help cities a bit.

But the backlog of CO2 to be removed to reach reasonable post-industrial levels (to say nothing of preindustrial) is tens of trillions of dollars if done artificially.

The solution is EVs + alt energy, and to stop industrializing every possible arable acre for agriculture and switch to vertical farming.
I wasn't saying that racism or divisiveness aren't present in the US. I am absolutely with you on that, both of those things are present in the US to one degree or another, depending on where you live in.

I was simply saying that a significant number of people in the US get so myopically focused on those issues locally, they don't realize that there is a whole world out there, where those same issues are massively more rampant and ubiquitous. And when they suddenly discover that through a first-hand or a second-hand experience, it is understandable they would be shocked.
When I first got a 503, the status site was all green. I checked back for at least 4 minutes and it was still green. Finally it started to change. Is that sort of lag normal?
I love this book and often read a random chapter just for inspiration. The cities described in the book are something else.
I dislike the web bloat as much as anyone, but how exactly is Electron to blame here? Yes, the 503 error message is frustratingly obscure, but how is that the "webs" fault?

If you had a native app here, it'd still be talking to an API returning some version of a 503.
My totally unsubstantiated and made up take on this is that perhaps consciousness happens in the quantum side of things that we can't either measure or really simulate because we can never really observe it, e.g. we can simulate quantum behavior quite well, but only based on the observed behavior, the particle side of the particle wave duality, we don't really know for sure what happens before the wave function collapses, we just know it's a probability space (which we can predict for repeated experiments very accurately, but we don't really know how to predict a single particle, we don't even know how to measure all of its properties at the same time let alone predict it).
If consciousness happens in that no locality / no realism area of the unobserved quantum state, then perhaps this is why we can't simulate it with existing technology. I have no basis to this thought other than a hunch. It also somewhat helps explain determinism vs free will (although superdeterminism is also an explanation, one that I don't really like)
Eh, reminds me of VB6 back in the day. Anytime you make it easier to build software it’s a good thing.

If an app gains too much traction with bad tech they can always go back and fix it later. Twitters fail whale comes to mind :-)
They have no laptop options that don't have soldered in ram and CPU and proprietary SSDs that cost 2-4X per gigabyte to upgrade. You end up with dongles and external drives, and Logic used to go out of its way to make that hard to manage (it has gotten better within the last year or two).
Tell HN: Number all of your software architecture diagrams steps
Only recently have I began to put numbers (like 1,2,3,..n) on all of my architecture diagrams and the ability for the team to provide feedback in reviews have improved vastly.
It’s not, because a Turing machine simulating conscious behavior could also be programmed to emit brain waves or NMR spectra similar to a real brain, without being conscious.
And just to make your point explicit, if everyone moves to local-remote, then the move to hiring cheap and top-notch Bulgarian or Romanian programmers is even easier.
I don't think the parent commenter was entirely serious.
I am middle aged, have a family to be around, and a long commute (60 mins morning, 40 mins evening). I have a spacious house and room for a separate office. Yet even I do not like work from home. I don’t like assigning space in my home for my employer’s use. I don’t like having work in my house. It’s probably actually more bearable due to current circumstance-I watch my daughter in mornings, and my wife is here too. If this were normal circumstances and I were here alone all day and connected only through phone and video, I would like this even less. No way I want to keep doing this if I don’t have to.

And some of my staff can’t even do phone calls if their roommate has one at the same time because they have small apartments. I don’t even have that problem.

Not interested in providing rent-free space to my employer.
I am sure that at least 50.1% of voting shares explicitly approve any crazy scheme Alphabet comes up with.

That has been their get-out-of-jail-free card since, well forever.