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Ask HN: Will “In Person” become the new luxury item?
I've seen many blog posts about how work has permanently gone remote and it's for the better. I have done both remote and in person, and believe hybrid is best. Allow workers to work remotely from time to time by adding it on to their vacation trip or WFH on Monday or Fridays. Human connection is very valuable and good for our health, as we have already seen remote can be negative for our health via zoom fatigue. I've also had more physical injuries working remotely, because I didn't get up and move as often. From a company perspective, costs savings are huge and they may only allow the most valuable employees to keep a physical desk on premises. All that being said, will in person become the new organic and remote become the new Monsanto? Extreme metaphor for comparison, but the comparison is meant to stir up some ideas/emotions.
Mediterranean coast for sure.

Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, South France, etc.
Maybe Tunisia or North Morocco.

Depends on which culture makes the best impression, and after that, I would settle down for 5-6 years.

My 2nd choice would be the Carribean, but the countries are more hit and miss, small islands means everything is expensive, and hot weather year round sounds nice in theory, but I'm sure I'd get tired of it within 3-4 months. I like seasons.
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The original .NET garbage collector was written in Common Lisp
The name makes sense because it refers to encoding speech with a very small number (eg. 5) of sine waves, as opposed to the roughly one thousand you'd expect for a FFT window of e.g. 2048 samples http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sine-wave_speech
The article conveniently omits discussing this, but I can only assume it's because these restaurants have signed contracts with the delivery services. There's no other way this makes sense, like the taking of commission on fraudulent phone orders (the delivery service setting up a number purporting to the business and then charging a commission).

So it sounds like the restaurants themselves signed up for a terrible deal, and are now trying to change it via the court of public opinion. There can certainly be power imbalances that push parties into detrimental arrangements, but leaving this fundamental fact out makes the article extremely disingenuous.

The real question is are these restaurants locked into some kind of term commitment, or could they sever their relationship with the delivery services tomorrow and set up their own? The delivery services' move would presumably be to blackball the restaurant from the platform (in contrast with how they handle non-contracted restaurants that they're courting), but if enough restaurants got together they could certainly start a competing service.
Yup. For instance, nyan-mode for Emacs has had a DOI for years now: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.164185.

(No reason for doing it, I was just curious if I could.)
It's interesting, therapy has some pretty unique properties where in-person vs. remote can be better depending on the person.

For some people, having a literal physical "safe space" and an understanding human does wonders, and there's connection and understanding that seems like it might be hard to replicate virtually.

But for other people, the distance that video or phone provides actually gives them the ability to open up more than in person -- precisely because it seems less personal and therefore less threatening or potentially judging. After all, it's just a disembodied voice or a floating head on a screen.

So it's pretty good to have a mix of options.
I'm the founder of Forward Email. We are 100% open source and privacy focused. We're the only service like this. Nobody compares in terms of respecting your right to privacy.
ha, my bad. I had the feeling pg provided some solution for sharding, but it seems they're all third-party extensions ( like citus/pg-shard)
The sad fact is that the Microsoft tax is cheaper than the extra costs niche manufacturers need to charge because by nature they have worse economics of scale.
AWS (and ditto with the other major public clouds) can be a great fit for hobby projects because they can often fit in the free tier.
What parameters are you using to make btrfs waste 6TB? With 2 copies (RAID1) and 2+4+6+8, that calculator shows it with 0 unusable space?
I don’t think that’s right. I looked into the way Twitter counts characters when I was trying to work out the largest prime number that could be written out in full, in base ten, in a single tweet[1]; the rules are more complicated than you might expect, and have changed several times.

The current rule seems to be that all Unicode characters count as two, except for the ranges 0–4351, 8192–8205, 8208–8223 and 8242–8247 which count as one.

[1] In case you’re wondering, I think it’s, arguably: https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1197294154738544641
Still looking for something appropriately handle blocking and resuming without a full RTOS, but I do like both these options.
yes I have no doubt that as soon as there is immunity, a vaccine, or a reliable cheap treatment (all of which is probably a matter of months or 1-2 years) people will fully go back to normal.

We're social animals and we're not going to ditch physical interaction. (not to mention that research by people like Alex Pentland suggests that physical contact in a common workplace has benefits that can't be replicated remotely).

Companies like Yahoo and IBM already tried out remote working and rolled their efforts back, this is simply an overraction. With the exception of telemedicine for underserved regions maybe, where it fills a genuine gap and suffered from regulation up until now.
Maybe it's just me, but I've never ordered a pizza alone, even when I did live alone. I only ordered pizza when friends or family came over.

If it's just me eating I'd go get a burger or some other single serving fast food.
Migadu also limits you number of going mails a day. This is insanely bad practice, not to mention... have you read their Terms and Privacy policies? Steer clear for sure.
Interesting. How would one know that?
There was a phase of my life where I felt a nomadic existence would be ideal.

Later I went through another phase in which I imagined finding the perfect place and establishing an amazing existence there in an environment uniquely suited to my temperament.

In the current (perhaps final?) phase I realized that everything I want to do and which is important to me is connected with the place I happen to be.
In the FDB simulator case, every event has a future time at which it will fire, and the clock advances to that time when the event is dequeued.

This also has the side benefit of artificially “speeding up time”, which is useful when many actions happen based on long timeouts.
I found my shared like of British humour and sarcastic outlook of life made it easy to make British friends when I lived there.
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Please do!

Some of these I just really want to exist, so let me know when you do execute so I can be your first customer too! :)
Just curious, why outside of us? Trump? Too expensive?
Book clubs are generally going to be fairly causal affairs since they're clubs. If you're looking for something serious find a study group or a book club that calls itself a study group. Book clubs are like many other clubs, where social bonding with the group is expected, and the book's an excuse to spend time socializing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4c5q8UjUz4
Always amazed by the skills of people who can write language translators without much difficulty.
I would live in Turkey. Cheap, good service and beautiful women.
Makes perfect sense. Maybe nobody cares enough about Basic, or figures there are a zillion better performing options? Seems like an optimization like that would have been done at some point

Yeah, the computed goto is odd.

Back in the day, I used it and some conditional math to greatly shorten and improve performance in some programs. My first machine was only 16k. Using the graphics system in any meaningful way cost a lot in terms of program space. So, every dirty trick, including poking new addresses into string variable address pointers to overlap the graphics screen got done.

Absolutely terrible code though. I am sure if I saw some of that code today, I would have a bugger of a time sorting it out.
Ya, upon reflection, you're right. Agree it will be unlikely in most circumstances though especially since not only would the company have to press charges, the local DA would also have to decide to pursue the case.

I wouldn't risk it if I worked for Oracle though!
Someone woke up in the 90's it seems.

Here is a little tip for you, Microsoft has been acknowledging security issues with C and C++ since the XP SP2 days.

Which is why Windows happens to have plenty of mitigations that only recently FOSS UNIX clones are catching up to.

Yet they have come public that hasn't been enough, hence the migration effort away from C, enforcing programming guidelines with C++ and coming up with plans to migrate to safer systems programming languages.

Guess which OS vendor is now having first party support for writing GUIs in Rust?

But I can also rephrase what Oracle, Apple and Google have stated in the same vein regarding OS security.

Or maybe you prefer the statements of an UNIX hero instead?
Thanks. That was sad and insightful at the same time!
Right where I’m at. I didn’t pick to live here to suffer for a job, but rather picked jobs that were near where I wanted to live.

I would be more likely to change jobs if remote working becomes predominant than I would be to change where I live.
I’d recommend checking out Piriapolis as well :-). When I was younger my parents had an apartment there and it’s a beautiful little beach town.
Seattle, exactly where my family lives now. I didn't move for work all those years ago, though it obviously helped that I could move somewhere and have a job.

Living in a city is awesome for us; we don't have to drive, can walk to almost everywhere we want to go on a daily basis, and have super close access to all of the nature, culture, and the like we could ever want.
I used RAID 6. That's 1 copy and 2 parity stripes.
I’m currently reading Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society (really a must-read these days, like Mumford’s Pentagon of Power and Kaczynski’s Industrial Society and its Future) and I underlined this summary of Homans:

“‘Formerly, when a New England family convoked a ‘bee’ (that is, a meeting for working in common), it was for all concerned one of the most pleasurable times of the year. The work was scarcely more than a pretext for coming together.’ The activity of sustaining social relations and human contacts predominated over the technical scheme of things and the obligation to work, which were secondary causes.”
It's pretty difficult to acknowledge a supposed flaw pointed by a guy who knows a guy who uses Linux when you have never had it yourself.

I used Linux at work for years. Sleep just works, external monitor also just works. HiDPI was rough at the start but works fine now.

Touchpads do kind of suck. I generally really dislike the default mouse acceleration. Font rendering is still so so if you don't have a HiDPI screen and the most popular desktop environments are still kind of terrible.

But sleep definitely does work.
> Corey's plan was to infiltrate these communities. He wouldn't announce himself as a Netflix employee. ... and slowly, over time, alert the most respected commenters, moderators, and website owners about this great new site called Netflix.

Strikes me as unethical. Unless their alerts disclosed the relationship.
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I'll be working on moving to Vancouver, BC in the next few years. Small house not near people. I'd like to heavily customize the interior - a thing that I don't do while I don't own.
There is absolutely NO footer on the free plan. Where are you getting this information from? Are you just making false attacks to support your own service?

I have reported you to moderators.
While I still have kids at home, we'll probably stay where we are (Bay Area).

Once they're gone, though, my partner and I have talked a lot about spending 2-4 months at a time in different parts of the world.

We have a list of places on basically every continent that we'll want to visit. Semi-nomadic is probably the way I would describe the ideal situation.
"godliness with contentment is great gain"
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People tend to forget that we experience pandemics every now and then. In-between life is “normal”. Just remember the famous picture of police men having all a mask on from 1918 or so. I am sure they were gone by 1920 or so
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Last I heard, New Zealand and Australia were planning on closing their borders for a long time except maybe to each other, because they seem to reckon that's the only way to preserve relative normality within the country: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52540733
This all reminds me of the last days of the USSR.
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My backup script produces quite a bit of logging detail. I keep the last 10 daily logs. And I tend to go through those daily logs every 3 or 4 days at least. Admittedly, that's not as good as checking daily, but it seems to work very well.

That backup script has been in continuous development over the years, so I have a good idea what errors will show up and why.

Then again, I tend to use those backups quite often in rebuilding my system, usually after a distro upgrade. I find a complete system rebuild usually works out better than an 'upgrade in place' so I am always aware of what is happening with the backups. Due to the daily backups, a complete system rebuild after a crash or in a distro upgrade takes at most an hour or an hour and a half.

The daily backups themselves get discarded in an 'reverse exponential' fashion, giving lots of recent backups and not so many older backups.
Military spending isn’t every measure of the power of a country, but the US does spend as much on its military as the next ten countries combined..
For a lot of instruments beginner lessons are not just giving instructions.

You might need to adjust posture for instance, and while you could spend 5 minutes explain it verbally in sequences of “move your left arm 5 degree up, no, up! slightly more to the left, your right arm moved down, bring it back[...]”; it’s just a poor experience and waste of time compared to in person moving their body to the right position (especially for kids).

Same if you want to check muscle tension or force them to only use some part of their body.
It's already illegal to lie in a contract. It's called fraud.
There is only one rule: every piece of news is propaganda. Trust no one.
And usage of C++ is still growing exponentially, so the number of lines of code is growing faster than our ability to rewrite/replace them. I know, it's a losing battle. We'll never do it. We are stuck with C++ until the end of time because of the sunk cost fallacy. If everyone who currently works on C++ instead switching to rewriting instead of adding, we'd be able to replace everything in 5 years.

If C++ is only kept around because of a few libraries needed to implement the runtime of safe languages, then I would consider that some kind of victory.
Some nice spanish city that's not super crowded with good food and sea while being kinda affordable. Valencia comes to mind.
I think I’d still prefer living in a city on the East or West coast. I’m in the LGBT community, and I like living in a state with explicit legal protections against housing, healthcare, and employment discrimination. On top of that, the LGBT community has a lot of history in these cities, and lots of social groups to connect with. I also just enjoy city activities more!
The real question is, why can't you work remotely? Considering currently ongoing events, it's easier to find a remote job.
I'd like to go nomad, let's travel! I am french, but I think that if I want to settle, I will go Taiwan : mountains, beach, city, good foods. And the life there is a mix between innovations and traditions, it's really nice.

If it's for a short term, I will go back to Philippines, the life is really sweet and enjoyable there.
As I find myself frequently repeating - redundancy without monitoring is not redundancy
I mean, if we're never trusting anyone who ever did anything wrong, we might as well give up now.

I'm presuming either the people who transgressed in that scenario have learned, or they're no longer in a position to make those decisions, or there's more oversight etc etc etc, and / or that the community is more vigilant.
I might be hallucinating.
Can't it be made up of individual characters or is it stylized in a unique way?
I don't know, if the same job gets paid less in Austin then it's not really fair for someone who transfers from SF to Austin to make more than someone who was just in Austin all long. If someone moved from Austin to SF you'd just pay them less than a new hire in SF?

At Google they just openly adjust your salary if you move between cities; move from NYC to Atlanta and you'll take a bit hit, move back for the reciprocal instant raise.
Yes, the borders are the big (yes, very big) exception to "normality". But even that will pass when there are effective treatments or a vaccine. This won't go on forever.
Yeah for most it's just a dry cough, if that.

The worry worts and the pansies have wrecked the economy.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9420288/mediaviewer/rm330109568...
Easy: Los Angeles, where I already live. Most multi-cultural place in the country, best weather (fantastic for mental health), and since I'm remote: zero of the traffic that most people associate with LA.
I've often joked that there are only three choices of where to live: near your family, near your partner's family, or New York. In our case, we were able to use the fact that I went remote to live closer to my partner's family in New England. For many of us in relationships, being remote doesn't offer the flexibility to live anywhere in the world, but it means we're tied to a particular region by only one job instead of two.
I wonder why so many people wishing to live in rural locations pick places with brutally cold winters, rather than the tropics. If you want to live off the land you'll have a much harder time of it in cold places.
Yeah the problem is rent is much to cheap compared to other European capitals.
I've worked remotely since 1996, living in rural Indiana, Budapest, and Puerto Rico. Now I live on a farm in the mountains of Puerto Rico and all my questionable life decisions have culminated in a very, very tolerable quarantine.

So, answer: slow nomad. It's been a good life, although I've found it difficult to prosper to the extent more connected people can. (But I believe this is more me, than being remote.)
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The Spanish government did little or nothing before Saturday the 14th of March when the government decided to lock down the country, starting Sunday 15th of March. By that time there were 193 dead and more than 6000 cases in Spain according to: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/spain-governme...

So even when WHO (OMS) had declared a pandemic March 11th, there were no policies taking effect before March 15th.

Even I, that has never had any interest in epidemic diseases, started to follow the Sitraps from WHO almost daily from February 24th (even mentioned it in a comment on March 2nd, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22464056). Professionals for much longer I assume.

Saying that Spain didn't downplay the threat, as parent 'rumanator' was saying, is therefore not something I can agree with.
I live in Montevideo, Uruguay and i’m really interested on why would you like to live here? I was born here and think it’s a nice little place but would like to have the perspective from someone from the “outside”.
Austin TX.
In my (rather limited) experience most churches would be happy to have you even if you are only going specifically for the social bit.

They, of course, hope to "convert" you. Many seem to take pride in never "giving up" on someone no matter how long it takes.
Companies like Buffer do this too: https://buffer.com/salary/content-marketer-3/average/
This is my fantasy as well. We are so close to reliable cheap satellite internet, the only thing you'd need to come to shore for is groceries/ water/ fuel.
Before the pandemic hit, my wife and I were planning a 3-6 month period of traveling, mostly in Southeast Asia (China, Thailand, Indonesia). I don't know if we'd live there long-term, but we've enjoyed our shorter, 3-4 week trips in the past. Both our jobs were fairly flexible even before this, so we're looking forward to being able to travel more again.
That entirely matches my idea of how Rust came to be, some sort of pragmatic co-development across two different philosophical camps. In many ways, Rust is a spiritual successor to both languages, if only it was easier to integrate with C++.
At the moment we _still_ have no date in the UK for when people will be able to visit their wives, husbands, partners or children if they're not cohabiting.

If you're living alone, then you still have no idea when it will legally be permitted for you to embrace, play games with, spend the night with, kiss, hold hands with - experience humanity with - literally anyone else.

If you're single, all of that _plus_ you now need to fight through a 2 metre social bubble in order to perform basic human functions like, for example, attracting a mate in order to perform sexual intercourse.

All of the above is very silly to me. I honestly think the whole "let's wait for the science" approach misses the point. At an absolute minimum we need a hard deadline of something like "look, in N weeks/months you can go and be a husband again".

People _will_ take a risk of death in order to do the above. If you think this is all about young individuals believing that they're invincible you've completely missed the point - the issue is that a life without those things is _not life_ - 1 year of being a hermit for many may as well just be a deletion of 1 year of the prime of their life, i.e. a >1% mortality rate imposed upon them anyway.

The longer term view on this is people actually starting to worry that perhaps that's just it - their parents had a good life when you used to be able to go out, party, meet a girl, and so on and so forth - and now, oops, that's illegal, sorry, we're doing social distancing for the next 10 years. It's utter madness.

If the Government refuses to address this, and they very much are refusing to do so, then the inevitable consequence will be that people just begin to wholesale ignore the guidelines.

If I had children on the other side of the country I'm not watching them grow from age 5 to age 6 over a video link regardless of what the R number is. There's no political process to address these concerns, other than just doing it anyway, so people will do it anyway.
Why are there so many of me posting in this thread?
I can't, and even if I could, everything else I do is in the city. As much fun as it would be to live out in the boonies, it'd mean having to spend hours commuting every day. There's things I hate about living here but it's just not practical to live anywhere else right now.
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