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I have to agree with this wholeheartedly. When I was a new-grad (6 years or so ago now), I really appreciated being part of a really excellent work culture and environment, and built a lot of strong relationships and friendships that I hold to the current day!

The impact of these kinds of things seems to get lost in the convenience of working from home / remotely. Don't get me wrong, I like working remotely, but only for 2 days a week at most. Now that I've been forced to transition to full work from home for the last 3 months, it's been a much poorer experience overall and has severely hindered or completely stalled my relationships with pretty much all of my coworkers, despite frequent zoom meetings and the like.

These are also former coworkers that I've joined at other companies because we like working together. I really believe that this kind of relationship is impossible to build if you're remote-first.
WHO claims that 1.35 million people die per year across the whole world in car accidents.
There is no doubting the power of that stuff to speed up what you're doing, but I think it also comes at a cost of understanding. I never really learnt java until I didn't have eclipse holding my hand all the time. I just wonder how much our love of shiny things leads to the Eclpise and Visual Studio problem, when we build massive amounts of software which essentially does nothing but gives users another way to do something they could have done anyway if they actually understood it. I dunno. It's complex.
did you watch the piece? what exactly was "insane" about it? and imo the issue here isnt what is "true" -- nobody knows the truth with corona; its novel. so what's important is having a guide to truth. and that guide is scientific thinking -- the scientific method. experts are dead wrong all the time. but they dont stay wrong.
I don't think this is a good example.

If memory serves, the threat _was_ detected, however it was not acted on. There was lots of finger pointing about lack of coordination, but (as I recall) the core problem was that it was one threat amount many (100s? 1000s?), so the threat detection was generating too much noise.

Ubiquitous surveillance could (does) easily end up creating the same situation: not enough signal among the noise.
FWIW, during development I sometimes add #![allow(warnings)] on crate's root file to cut down on the output from lints, but I am rarely bothered enough to do so.
Wow, this is incredibly sad news.

One of my fondest memories with the TI was a chemistry instructor saying that we were completely free to use any programs we wanted on examinations -- as long as we coded the programs ourselves. This inspired me to create a fairly comprehensive TI chemistry formula program, and my mates did likewise. It was really a forward-thinking move that contrasted strongly with just a blanket ban, as instead it fostered creativity. It is sad to me that future generations will not be able to experience this.
I don't think I can point to an era in US history where an attack on a couple buildings resulting in thousands dead would have been brushed under the rug as "Well, death just happens." I'd even argue that's not a healthy response to a human-caused tragedy like that.

Seeing death as normal and natural carries its own antisocial pathologies. War is more justifiable if "Everyone has to die some time."
If I had a really nice detached home with a wife & children then working from home permanently would be the dream.

I don't. I live in a flat and live by myself. The only physical people I talk to are cashiers or delivery drivers.

If your life is further on than others or you have a nightmare capital commute then I can see WFH being the way forward. But personally I like to go to the office for social interactions and the banter that happens within. Just going to the shop for lunch with a colleague makes my day. That burger that you all decide to go for in the pub around the corner and have a cheeky pint alongside, even better!

This permanent WFH is already making me feel separated and even lonelier than normal.
> Many people who work at these companies live in big cities where they don't have huge amounts of space and it's not conducive to being productivity, particularly if you live with other people, if you can't get some form of separation.

Could this be the tipping point to a sustained exodus from an urban kind of lifestyle? (spoken as someone who likes/values density)
He uses TempleOS of course
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I expect there will be other changes to improve connection scaling first.
Mods, please correct this title. The title here is not the title of the news report and is misleading. You could include that this is in just one state in India (something like “Farmers in Indian state of Chhattisgarh to get direct cash benefits” may be easier to understand and appropriate).
| I've found that advocates of WFH are mostly motivated by that's what they want to do more than anything else.

I've heard endless people state that WFH productivity is through the roof with absolutely no evidence. And lets not pretend that we can accurately measure productivity of software devs - we've all been down this road with agile.
> leads to thinly-veiled, self-serving, biased arguments and proclamations of the benefits to everyone.

> So I've now been WFH for 2 months and honestly I hate it.

> I just don't think a company with 50,000+ employees can operate this way indefinitely.

ok. Why do you consider your arguments against WFH not biased and useful.

"other side is biased" ...quite funny :D
Reddit has turned into a cesspool. I’m sure the majority of users are great, honest and open minded, but you can’t keep the internet outside the walled garden forever. And it only takes a handful of bad actors to ruin it for everyone.

As frustrated as I’ve found myself on Reddit, to the point I’ve all but quit using it save for some video game stuff, I still can’t imagine how mods can be bothered to put up with bad actors, trolls, whiners, and fools. Everyone checks out at some point —- and as a normal user, I can and I feel no compunction about letting the conversation devolve, but when you rely on volunteers to do the policing, it’s going to happen more often and with harsh consequences. And you can see on many subs that absent strong moderation, discussion on anything remotely contentious devolves into an ugly free for all. Even if the thread is locked or certain comments get deleted, it’s too little too late, and the damage has been done to civil discourse.

This article has me thinking more broadly about the internet and the future of online communities. Large platforms can’t thoroughly patrol every nook and cranny without unreasonable amounts of employees. And yet it’s never been more important to have fair and timely moderation on serious issues. Machine learning might have a role to play here, but it’ll require some sort of human oversight to provide a “starter” or some context within which a system can determine what can be censored. What else is left? Unmasking everyone isn’t going to happen for good reason. The internet is in dire need of a police force, and volunteerism isn’t sufficient.
It's not an example; it's the causal explanation.

The article in question at the top of this thread is discussing the Patriot Act expansion; the family of laws passed in direct response to the attacks of 2001.
It is interesting that people have such negative reaction to the idea of end-to-end encryption in dns. I can think of very few other technical areas where having secure communication between the client and server without the involvement of third parties is seen as something bad and who ever suggest it should be shunned.

Given how that is, I wonder how people would react to the idea of using even stronger security like off-the-Record Messaging.
> The College Board is now allowing test-takers who have issues submitting their tests to email them instead

Crazy there wasn’t an email to reach out teachers before. Any exam I passed with a computer or online component always had a way to contact the prof in case something goes wrong.
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> it requires proactive communication and self discipline that just don’t appear because now you are working remotely.

My experience has been that people that struggle with these things are just as unproductive in an office, they just hide it better.

By far the most productive teams I've been on as far as getting work done are remote teams. When you're remote all that matters at the end of the week is how much stuff you can concretely show you have accomplished.

In an office you can get credit for doing nothing very easily.

So yea remote work is going to be rough for people that are currently using office culture to hide, and in some offices that is a very large number of people.
Your argument is completely ridiculous. Look at a map from 1841 and compare it today. By your logic, every difference in territory that's occurred over the intervening 180 years is invalid and should be reverted. Better tell Europe they need to redraw all their maps.
> who were hired to do it either a) couldn't, or b) didn't bother

Or c) told the decision makers that it would take longer than a few hours to do and were told not to "waste" any time on it.
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While your feelings are valid and I too would feel terrified to begin WFH as a new grad, I have faith many companies establishing good remote first working cultures, especially organizations that hold their engineering organizations in high-regard.

Having worked full time remotely before this pandemic, I struggled with the social aspects and being left out of casual conversation and left for a job with a dedicated office space. Now that I find myself again working remotely, but with a forced remote-first attitude, I prefer it. It's a different ballgame when all workers are working remotely.

Best of luck in starting your career.
Google is not a government organization is a private platform. It generally does not get involved in things like that, but the amounts of misinformation is staggering.

I have family members affected by this and it looks like it is a targeted misinformation attack. It starts with Facebook posts, which then often direct you to youtube channels which are condition people into crazier and crazier theories.

It is so weird, because many of these theories even contradict themselves, yet people still believe them.

The guy in article is also an oncologist and he talks about subject that is not his expertise. It's like asking a front end engineer how to best design the a new data center.

This is especially dangerous since we are currently in middle of pandemic and many people will trust his advice.
That's actually not true, and that's a really big assumption to make without evidence or direct experience.

Radical activists today still face state suppression. I know of a communist in Austin who had an FBI file because he led lots of actions, which (I think) he discovered through FOIA requests. In 2018, the Austin PD colluded with two people who claimed this guy assaulted them while he was armed, which was completely false. He's in prison now.
Americans fell behind on 18M credit-card / auto-loan payments last month
Some people like living in big cities, and are ok trading off a bigger living space to make that happen. I love being able to walk out to a bunch of different restaurants, having easy access to entertainment venues, etc. The idea of having a giant house in the middle of nowhere has very little appeal to me. This is especially common for younger people and those with no kids.
So IDE backend just means analysis and completion. I assumed this would also include some gui wrap of cargo. Obviously I shouldn't assume!
Well, Canada has a robust tech sector, equivalent to the US but proportional to population size.

The question is whether Americans can compete in a global marketplace against the rest of the world who don't expect SV-level compensation and also don't need US-level private health insurance. I'm trying but failing to see the value proposition to hiring American outside of the USA.
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Definitely closer to Piet than ColorForth. ColorForth only uses color to replace what would in Forth require the use of compiler meta words. Piet is a 2D language that uses the difference in color between two cells to encode its instructions.
which came first - the xkcd or the HN post :D besides the original paper is with date 31 March, so was scheduled for april 1 release ...
To be honest it could pretty well have been telemetry that told them people didn’t install the security updates and restarted by themselves.
If upvoting a post/comment (which gives the author karma points) would risk triggering its deletion (by making the author cross the karma threshold), then is that not effectively turning the karma system on its head?

Under such a system, if I think a post is valuable, I would then try to "protect" it and its author's account by downvoting it. Similarly, if I think a post is not valuable, I can help trigger its eventual deletion by upvoting it.
This is the best route in my opinion. Upskill while collecting unemployment.
>> I of course miss the meals and snacks.

I'm not trying to be facetious - you seriously can't provide your own meals and snacks working from home?

>> Many people who work at these companies live in big cities where they don't have huge amounts of space and it's not conducive to being productivity, particularly if you live with other people, if you can't get some form of separation.

Do you live in that space because it's close to your office? Ok, so now you're remote you can live anywhere. If there was no pandemic you could work from a library, or café or dozens of other places. You could move around each day. Or you could move to a cheaper location and have a nice home office.
I love Tachyons, it was the first CSS library/tool that helped me feel comfortable tackling designing good looking pages.

I think its a great tool for someone not comfortable in the space. As you use it more and more you get a good understanding of what the properties are (using margins, paddings, headers, centering text, etc) + couple that with the VSCode plugin, it gives you the real css snippets for what the properties mean. Then over time you start to understand what properties make your html look that way, and then get comfortable writing css from scratch.

+1 Tachyons
Consultants are forced to travel primarily for marketing value rather than for productive value.

Yes, you want to travel to meet your client in person, maybe to do some big planning/milestones, but for every day work, the consultants are in person to give the clients the perception that their money is being put to good use. This is especially important as the top consulting companies hire undergrads fresh out of school (who don't know anything except how to put in the hours and do powerpoints/excel) and bill them out for several hundred dollars an hour.
MXNet.

It is a popular library, but I still feel that it's quite underappreciated.

It is constantly living in the shadows of TensorFlow and PyTorch. MXNet has a clean API (via Gluon) and has nailed the hybrid eager/graph execution model better than either of its competitors.

I have come across multiple ML practitioners who have never heard of it.
What’s unclear and magical to me is the notion that Bar() is returning the result of a computation that was potentially started a long time ago. In reality, “await Bar()” could be a clumsy attempt to force a needlessly async function to behave synchronously, or it could be simply receiving a result from some other task that’s been running behind the scenes. So you’re shifting the goalposts a little bit, too—awaiting Bar() is only equivalent to a channel receive if there is some other task that actually started the work.

And I maintain that Go does not have colored functions. Colored functions are when you hijack function call semantics to do asynchronous programming. Go doesn’t do this; the asynchronous behavior has to be done explicitly. Even though it’s possible, it isn’t idiomatic for a function to return a channel that you have to try and receive later, the way async functions have to be awaited before you actually get the return value.
No! No, no! Nicotine is less addictive than Civilisation. One person I accidentally introduced to Civ burned her PSU on the first game - which lasted 16 hours - all she could muster was "one. More. Turn"....

Then again it's been so long since I played it. One quick game won't hurt. It's just a few turns, is it not?..
This varies block-to-block. It's fine by Embarcadero, OK around Powell, sketchy as fuck at 6th.
The idea that this will result in an exodus from urban areas presupposes that jobs are the reason people moved to the urban areas, rather than social, leisure, or cultural reasons.

That's highly arguable. Young people like cities, that's where the girls and the parties are. That's been true for a really long time.
> the full tech tree

Thanks to modding, such a thing does not exist.

Bob's & Angel's is the most popular big mod. Krastorio2 is a recent 'vanilla+' offering that I've been enjoying a lot recently. The 'familiar but different' feel is very compelling. There are loads of smaller mods, but I've always like the modpack approach a la Minecraft.

It's noteworthy that Wube has unofficially supported the Krastorio2 modders. It demonstrates their commitment to the community, and was just a great decision all around.
I think your last point probably nailed it.
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Recent macOS versions don't have `ssh-askpass`, and it's weirdly hard to add one. Since agent confirmation depends on askpass, I don't think there's an easy way to get this work on macOS.

Aside from the missing context you mentioned, the other bigger problem with this approach is that agent confirmation is all-or-nothing: it turns on confirmation for local SSH connections in addition to forwarded connections. If you're using SSH a lot, having to confirm every connection is very annoying.
I know what you're talking about. I was also a mod myself on /r/Suomi (Finland) and quit after a rather serious incident. Other mods and users on far-right subs started to compile a list of European subreddit moderators whom they deemed 'SJWs' and tried to gather as much personal information on everyone. Someone from that group leaked the documents to us and it was quite alarming. The scale, effort and hate that went into those documents was the most surprising thing.

Anyways, when our main mod got approached on the street and asked if he was /u/nickname on reddit and he replied yes, he got stabbed. That was the day I quit.
But slower performance. When do you want to lose time, when you're working or when you're compiling?
I would happily trade-off all the benefits you mentioned for not spending 2 hours daily in commute.
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Are you using pg_dump or pg_dumpall? The latter will backup the global objects (like roles) as well.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pg-dumpall.html
I could see the whole team meeting in person 1-2 days per week and the whole team working from home the rest of the time. I find lots of teamwork to be way more effective in person, but tons of heads-down work to be way more effective in private.
AOL would use volunteers, called Community Leaders, to moderate chats/BBSes, etc. They even got perks, like free Internet. I volunteered as a Host Guide when I was 16. CLs eventually filed a complaint with the DoL claiming AOL violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by using non-employees to do unpaid work that could have been done by paid employees. In fact, it's still illegal even if the volunteer doesn't mind or doesn't want to be paid, so long as the company is for-profit. AOL paid out something like $15 million in a class action. [1]

The same will, and should, happen to Reddit. One of the largest sites on the Internet is making money hand over first while moderators end up paying the price for no real benefit.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program
Roughly 25% of deaths in the US are people under 65. I think those people and their families would see the value in a vaccine.
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Regardless, there's this contentious relationship between decision makers and engineers because the former can't properly evaluate the work of the latter. Because of this, they either a) let bad engineers get away with stuff they shouldn't, or b) over-compensate and refuse to trust good engineers. It's a lose-lose.
Even tho all those companies are shifting to perma WFH, still it's utterly impossible to be considered if you work from Europe, relocation must happen anyway. Wondering if this will change at some point as well :)
Cool. Can't quite tell, but it looks like this is only for the Windows platform?

Also, "free until" seems to mean "and then you can run it free forever"?
Been playing Civ since Civ 1. Unfortunately, 6 was a bit of a miss in my opinion. Civ 5 is still as addictive as nicotine.
Curious what analysis you're referencing here.

While I don't doubt people have shown that various transformer models have certain limitations, I'm pretty bullish on transformer models in general.

Here's a post exploring the application of transformers to symbolic mathematics for instance: https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/solving-differential-equ...
I think the optimum is 3 days of WFH, with the remainder being spent in person. For most people, you're going to have work you can do on your own. You probably only need a little bit of help here and there. The office specific days, you spend on meetings, working more directly with people.

I think this would also significantly reduce stress on employees. You could live in more affordable areas, and take commuter transit for the days you have in office. It wouldn't bother me too much to take a 90 min transit if I knew it was only a couple of times week. It's the day after day that really kills ones soul.
Perhaps if we measured lines of code... ;-)
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I'd recommend joining the local tech Slack channel(s) for your city or state. I've seen several decent job openings and gigs where I live. The nice thing is, you can chat with the poster if needed and get an idea of what the work entails before you apply.

I'm not searching anymore because I believe that tech has lost its way and won't be a rewarding field until it allows for ~20 hour per week part time jobs that let us make on our own time. Because I've been surviving in tech for 20 years and have basically gotten nowhere with my life goals. Always feast or famine. But I do know how to survive.
Governments should offer tax incentives to companies for work-from-home. It reduces traffic snarl, pollution, accidents, health issues from sedentary commutes. Its a public policy and environmental win across the board.