skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No I didn't. I declared it and showed all transactions and my accountant factored it into my tax return. I kept a diary of all transactions. Casual Bitcoin with no intent to derive a long-term investment income and for sums below 1,000 do not necessarily incur capital gains tax. If you used 'know your customer' aware FinTech it's next to impossible to hide income from the ATO these days in australia and that's not a bad thing either.
Why?

Noise, everyone around me talking on different conference calls and trying to concentrate on my own. Constant distractions both audio and visual. People don't respect the "headphones so stop bothering me" rule.

Yeah the collaboration is a plus, but it's just hard when you really need to get some serious work done.

I started working in 2000 and even as an intern I had my own office. It was a lot more productive.
A lot of things are broken I Firefox, even more so if you enable anti-tracking and install an ad-blocker.

The _main_ reason for this is that SDK providers (Google, Facebook, ...) give you sample code that will _break_ the entire page if blocked.
Busy devs will simply copy paste that code and move on to the next project.

Firefox has a nice page explaining how to fix that but nobody seems to read it.

Chrome+safari is the new IE6.
Learning from Your Failed Startup
And the Netscape download link still works :D
Same in Prague.
But the notion that I need to "drown the noise out" is wrong.

Quiet should be the default state. If you want to be loud, go find a room where you can be, instead of forcing everyone else to block you out.
Another Poka Yoke system for programming are asserts.
Open-plan offices came about because they are mainly cheap.

Or, then, you just don't trust your employees and want to watch over them all the time.

Neither of these reasons touch the actual reason why you are in the office - to create added value. Hence open plan office is an environment that the market has selected for all the other reasons, except to be a good place to work.

Some people like open offices, other don't.

The overall picture from literature and practice is that if the cadence of the work is "like in NASA flight control" then the easy communication aspect is an actual asset.

On the other hand, if you are mostly coding and doing other sort of deep work, then an open plan office is openly hostile to productivity.

For example, if noise level increases 10 dB it decreases productivity by 5% [0].

Personally, having worked in all sort of configs for two decades, my capability to concentrate, productivity, and happiness in an open plan settings plummets.

[0] Dean: Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity "https://joshuatdean.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NoiseCogn...
Nukes? They wouldn't do much against a 10km wide asteroid in any way we can wield them. Almost everything in Armageddon was nonsense, and we would be just as dead as the dinosaurs.
That's a specific thing in Germany. Not true for Europe as a whole.
Until you discover that this message was forged, and when you show up one week later, then they really fire you for not showing up at work for a week.
If you have already brought a mac mini and an ipad an extra $50 isn't that much - though this should of course be something Apple should have thought about.
> I would enjoy cubicles or private offices. I feel like you'd miss out on so much collaborative effort and serendipitous & spontaneous conversations with colleagues that solve problems out of the blue.

Private office does not have to mean that single person is in the room. We have offices big enough to hold whole cooperating team, in general of 3-8 people, occasionally more.

So you get debate, but debates from other teams and you dont have to worry that you are disturbing other teams.
I'm always impressed by psychologists' claim to be able to accurately define and measure intelligence, creativity, or indeed most personality traits, when researchers from other, presumably adjacent fields (AI to neuroscience to animal behavior to developmental biology) haven't come near approaching these notions. Not only that, but (in the case of intelligence) it apparently stems from the ability to match words and recognized predefined patterns very quickly? This is such an extraordinary claim to make, so either psychologists are onto something people from other fields are too close-minded or feeble-minded to grasp, or some kind of intellectual shortcut was taken there.
Sounds like you have a dedicated home office. So do I.

Many people who work in offices live in highly expensive cities (on a $/sq-ft basis) and can't afford a "spare" room to work in. Many juniors can't even afford their own apartment. Indeed some at the bottom end of the payscale may even have to share a room

If remote work become the norm, people will be more confident about leaving expensive cities and moving to cheaper places, which don't have 50 different job opportunities within a 3 mile radius.
In one line: It affects the ability to work deeply.

I'm not against the idea of the open office. I'm against the scale at which it is implemented.
Open office for a team is okay (even good, when you're in the idea-bouncing among teammates phase).
Open office on a large scale wherein often the entire floor can hear each other is terrible.

The core reason: the inability to work deeply for long intervals of time. Especially when you have grabbed a good idea and are trying to implement it before the flow gets broken.

At any office there will be people who by their nature will cause disturbances. On a larger scale, the probability that someone will break my flow is greatly increased.
Why we avoided the angular service worker
> t doesn't seem to work for me as I tend to focus on the music

I get what you mean, I find you have to pick the right sort of music. For me minimal techno is perfect, because it's energetic so doesn't relax me too much like ambient music, but also monotonous/repetitive so I don't get too into it
> They did invest in sending a bitstream to the amplifier at a high enough bit rate to keep the resulting "quantization" noise from being audible in the first place.

Well, they also put a low-pass filter after.
> Salaries are off the charts (it would make senior software engineers in SV look pale).

I have a hard time believing this, given that senior engineers at places like Google or Facebook are making 300k+.
I understood the OP correctly, and I stand by my point. If someone claims that their legal name has changed, it makes perfect sense that any organization which needs to operate with legal names will be checking to see that the papers supporting this claim are real, and I don't see why this should be considered harmful.

I too know some families in which name requirements cause problems. I have an acquaintance whose name was never recorded on her birth certificate and who was not initially issued an SSN. She managed to get to the age of 18 without too much trouble, but when she wanted to apply to college she had a very difficult time proving that she legally existed.
Some argue that having a separate vacuum process is a bad idea. That the right time to clean up a no longer transaction-tied version is the next time someone visits the row in a query. That way there are no extra database accesses to each row beyond normal use.
Qwerkywriter
It’s not at all obvious that going to work in a factory that’s operating against a county order is breaking the law.
Yes I know, Siemens sold their whole dutch software divisions to TomTom and thus basically pulled the plug themself. And SAP could be seen as the Oracle of Europe. For customers and consultants it's an implementation nightmare.

Lidl launching an AWS competitor is probably done on advice of their accountant. The big four are known to overpromised on the capabilities of their outsourced software division in India. When Google and Microsoft struggle to catch up to AWS with 10s of 1000s of the best engineers it is completely unrealistic Lidl is going to achieve anything.

This is a discount brand for crying out loud clearly on misinformed money waisting spending spree bender. The Germans will have a hangover like nothing else they have experience before.
Certainly I can't argue with what you deem worthy of your time but I'm surprised by this - obviously it's a question of moderation, but would you feel the same way about reading books, watching films or listening to music?

Sure, there might be different grades of quality and value but I think it's all just culture and feeling guilty about filling a free evening or two with such activities seems quite alien to me. However to each their own.
There was a paper or report floating around HN the other day, in which the Navy analyzed data from submarine crews, and could not reproduce the claimed effects of increased CO₂ concentrations in air. With that out there, I worry a definitive answer may not be so easy to establish.
Feels Like Simplicity – John Maeda's Laws of Simplicity
Nobody would or should trust Amazon, an American company, to actually stand by those promises.
It will syphon off any trade secrets and other infos, especially if the NSA asks. It has literally happened.

I think after Snowden we should have gotten wise on how much official treaties and promises are worth.
Before, this was the thinking of conspiracy nuts. Now it is prudent consideration.

Germans would now, the US literally wiretapped their head of government, and also ran operations to extract trade secrets. Without reprise to this day, by the way.

At end of the day, the new name of the game is America first.
Having a EU company handle your data is really an advantage.

US laws and treaties come with and asterisks.
It’s the only organization I actually donate to. Partially because it was so easy to set up a monthly donation ;)
Frankly, couple with this book, it does hardly get better. You still have 3blue1brown[1] series of video, but it just brush off the surface.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
I have this on a CD somewhere - there was a "Subpop John Peel sessions"[1] CD released in the 90's that had Mudhoney (missing from this archive), Velocity Girl, Seaweed, Pond, Tad and Codeine.

[1] Edit - found a link: https://www.discogs.com/Various-1989-1993-The-John-Peel-Sub-...
Shelf stable UHT milk tastes like crap, most US milk is fresh from the cow, not UHT.
Neither does zoom, Teams or Skype for business...

It's like conspiracy to keep Firefox users out of all meetings.

(Or it's their subpar webrtc support, who knows)
Thanks for the wishes! Spark is heavily used and its adoption keeps growing, but there are indeed new frameworks like Dask that look promising and are on our radar. Our goal is to foster good practices in the distributed data engineering/science world, whatever the technologies involved, so we'd love to add support for new frameworks in the future.
Same for me too - especially in the Google recipe snippets at the top of the search. I find those tend to have more straight recipes, whereas the normal search list has more of the story style.

And for context, I do like reading about the history of a recipe, why it was created etc... not all the stories float my boat, but literally all it takes is a scroll.
Munich in my case.
Multiple tier1 networking "routes" are really, really easy to do these days. It's within the reach of pretty much anyone with a semi-sizable engineering budget. This includes carriers like CenturyLink/GTT/NTT and most of the global tier ones. The carriers are hungrier than ever for business, you can do this at a fraction of what AWS egress costs per GB.

So yes, really. Nothing on your list is unattainable at much, much lower cost if you're willing to put in the work at maintaining it yourself (no cloudformation at most traditional providers of this stuff, and while you can somewhat roll your own with k8s for /some/ stuff, the offering traditionally is nowhere near as cohesive.)

The non-open source but complementary services (think Dynamo/EventBridge etc) are imo AWS' real strength. If you need to be able to just throw cash at the problem and never worry about capacity management yourself, AWS (and GCP, and Azure, and <insert PaaS provider here>) is usually an excellent fit.
I don’t know if it works that way in California but in many places if the government tries to restrict basic rights like the right to go where you want to and the right to earn a living, they better be prepared to explain it to a judge. It’s just basic accountability.
As far as audio goes, either you need to play something in your headphones (which itself can be distracting) or sounds will go through (actually many will probably go through either way), and sometimes that's perfect for what you're working on, but sometimes it very much isn't. Also they're not an option when you're trying to talk to someone without both of you getting distracted or distracting others.

Headphones don't filter out every distraction either, though, so there's that too. People constantly walking around or eating food you can smell or shuffling stuff on their desks or doing whatever else they are doing can be incredibly distracting when you need to concentrate.

Also distractions are one thing, but I know lots of people want some privacy in the workplace too, even if it's not the first (or last) reason they'll list. It's kind of the elephant in the room. If you're the kind of person/robot who thinks privacy in the workplace is a fundamental oxymoron and who goes 4 or 9 hours straight without taking a bit of a break once in a while (whether it's just to check your personal email or social media, or to lay your head down for some time and rest a bit, or to make/receive a phone call, or whatever) then maybe you won't sympathize with this. But not feeling like people are continually observing you is something a lot of people value.

Also my ears can eventually sweat when I have headphones on for hours on end, and my headphones end up getting dirty, and their existence isn't exactly indistinguishable from their non-existence either, so there's that. Maybe this is too obvious? But an open-plan office where the solution is "wear a headphone" is practically a job that mandates that you wear a headphone.

I'm sure there's other stuff I'm not thinking of at the moment. And of course there are lots of benefits too; I just didn't list them since you seemed to already be aware of them.
Yeah, except it happens every other day and all you do is "revise the product" and never build or ship the product.

It's a one way express train to feature creep. It often doesn't involve all of the stakeholders, so then you're having multiple 15 minute meetings to get everyone in sync.

Meetings are for meeting, not meetings are for shutting up and doing your assigned work.
There's also a free book "Linear Algebra Done Wrong," which might be worth checking out.

https://www.math.brown.edu/~treil/papers/LADW/LADW.html
Hetzner prices are less than half of LightSail. They offer 4 cores/16GB RAM/320GB SSD for $28/month, and that comes with 20TB transfer rather than 6.
> Looking much higher than that. 80+ is 15-20% and 70-79 is 8%

The percentages you're citing are from the Chinese CDC [1] and represent the case fatality rate. They don't represent the infection fatality rate, let alone the overall population mortality. There's a big difference between these numbers which has been repeatedly ignored in the popular media, they keep on taking the scariest one (CFR) and presenting it in an unbalanced context. [2]

(To be fair, CFRs are the numbers we are the most certain about, but when you cherrypick the worst ones like the newspapers do they're also the scariest and least useful.)

The working definition of CFR in the Chinese study is basically people who saw a doctor, were suspected or confirmed of having COVID, and then died. But many other people would have caught the disease and not been seen by a doctor. Most of them would have been milder cases and they wouldn't have died. Key point is this number is not at all indicative of total Covid-related mortality in an exposed population.

The Kirkland story is really tragic, but it's just one data point and doesn't prove that ~15% of all nursing home populations will die. The conditions in other nursing homes could be very different, in fact that nursing home in Kirkland has since been investigated and fined $600,000 for unsafe practices [3].

[1] http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_fatality_rate

[3] https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/kirkland-nursing-home-...
That actually looks like a nice thing to own if you have a storywriting hobby and a pre-existing iPad.
Mobile Phone Location: onn COVID-19 Surveillance
It's a pity that you cannot upload your own image(s) as starting points.

My theory is that because this is built be using pre-trained BigGAN models, they do not have access to the encoder to convert an image to the latent space, but instead only to the generator that converts the latent space to an image.

Accordingly, they can only remix parameters in latent space, but not locate the latent space that a real-world photo would reside at.
While I'm fully supportive of making a choice to not use current trendy frameworks... putting out a jQuery-based design system in 2020 doesn't feel like it is going to find a large target audience.
So, if people get infected and die... will that open Tesla to lawsuits?
How was the training data acquired though?
Wow. I'm stoked to share this essay I recently discovered in the context of _mind bending_, and because some comments here are critical of Dawkins' views.

Susan Blackmore. “Dangerous Memes; or, What the Pandorans Let Loose” (Cosmos & Culture, p.297) [2]

Blackmore is writing about 'memes' and reacts to some of Dawkins' critics. I can't say to what degree Blackmore faithfully discusses the contents of 'Selfish Gene' (1976), because I've not read it.

This can be found in the March release of NASA's e-book collection [1]. And specifically in this book: Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context Edited by Steven J. Dick and Mark L. Lupisella (2009?) [2]

Enjoy! Let the debate continue...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22718489

[2]: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/hist_culture_cosmos_deta....
"There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."

Good luck with your venture :)
Hackers pretend to be Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet for phishing scams
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> I would bet it would literally be better to have some person yelling at people to move faster.

You are on to something. This is almost the classic Aldi check-out experience in Germany. Also, for not putting your cart in the correct location.
I know your comment is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but, the most recent company I worked for (I work from home), build a really nice open office w a glass conference room off of the main area, a kitchenette, and a separate smaller office, connected to the main area.

However, there is a single toilet with shower for the entire space.

It is only accessible via the smaller office.

I would occasionally visit, but even w a few people, it was horrific.

At one point, they had two desks and folks working in the smaller room, but it became unbearable, after being able to experience your coworkers bathroom habits from less than 10 feet away.

When building the office, did I stress the need for a cohesive bathroom strategy? Yes.

I have many other work related stories like this, from all sorts of places.
Tu vs vous. Slavic languages (OP says Eastern Europe) use 2nd person plural for formal 'you' as well
Coworkers can be a menace too. Two jobs before, I worked in a place where each team of ~8 people had their own room. On the floor, we had a bunch of "roamers" who would visit every room at random times to socialize. And then, within the team, we had the problem of everyone doing their own "break for cat memes" at a different time, and wanting to share the funny thing they saw immediately; we sort-of solved that by creating a dedicated IM chatroom for sharing off-topic posts, but then those would sometimes spill over into meatspace anyway, and suddenly you had half of the room discussing some stupid video while the other half tried to work. It was manageable at this level, though. An equilibrium.

(I have to admit that I did my own share of distracting my coworkers there; nobody was blameless in our room.)
Or at least update us on the conclusion :)
It's not at all obvious that it's not, either. At the very least, it's against the spirit of the order.
He was also present when the authorities paraded Lee Harvey Oswald in front of the press (and Jack Ruby): https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
Noise: In an open-office there's always going to be someone on a business or team call. Always some colleague having smalltalk with another. Always a phone ringing, a person yawning, someone's text notification buzzing on a table, someone typing very loudly. Not all the time, but at least every minute or few minutes. Many can't concentrate, and the notion to just put on headphones for 8 hours is not healthy.

Psychology: Many of us hate the idea that someone behind us might be looking at us, our screen, our work. That there may be someone walking behind us that we know. That the sound of footsteps behind you might be your boss, or a colleague you'd like to chat with. It might be anyone, and there's some desire to want to find out to get closure.

Open offices are okay if they're part of a range of choices. I enjoy working in open offices sometimes. Sometimes it drives me nuts and there's no escape. That's not okay. There must be balance and there must be options.

For example, semi-open is a great start, because it means sound doesn't bounce around in one big space of 60 people, but rather only in the space of 10, and gets limited in sound/light traveling due to e.g. plants, windows etc.

If there are meeting rooms to meet or organise calls, that means the high-impact activities can be separated. If there are team-rooms, it means you can collaborate without impacting people who you don't work with 9/10 times, while you can still seek them out in their team room or meeting rooms, or an open-space setting you happen to be in for part of the week, if you do want cross-team collaboration.

The idea that teamwork flows best by putting everyone in one giant cage without caring for sensitivity to sound and human psychology, is a joke that in any other field would be seen as a bruteforce idiotic idea. Besides, the economics of non-open offices aren't wildly different with the right approach. Sound-proofing to turn a giant area into a set of large areas by installing some glass has barely any impact on cost, but is already a semi-open improvement. There's lots of good ideas on the spectrum of every desk in a cubicles vs all desks on a giant football field, it's not one or the other and you need to provide balance and options.
Pros: Situational awareness. It's cheaper.

Cons: Lack of focus. Dishonesty in how it's 'sold' to the workers; the cost is never openly acknowledged as the reason.

I don't hate it. But I do suspect that the net result makes it a false economy. While I do miss the cameraderie of being in an office while working from home I'm not missing the distractions of open-plan.
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To be precise, he was at Lee Harvey Oswald's press conference: https://usvsth3m.tumblr.com/post/98894544278/did-you-know-dj...
> I'd like team size cubicles.

Upvoting and quoting to emphasise this point. The alternative to open plan is not individual offices, it's team offices.