skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which have been delayed for a year due to C19.

All Thai constitutions have had strong privacy requirements, but that has never been important for what actually happens.

It's really not clear what compliance will be like. If it's anything like most things here then it'll only be if the government gets annoyed that a company will be in any danger of prosecution.
That sounds like the easiest way to handle this.
I manager a medium-sized team that spanned from UTC+3 to UTC+8 with me in the middle at UTC-5. It was great.

Of course, it depends on what you do and how you work. If you job is to sing choral music, then yeah, there's going to be trouble. We were software developers.
If Workflowy does exactly and everything you want, then sure, use that. If there are times though when you wish it did something a little different or a little more or integrated better with some other tools you use then, well, with emacs and org mode you could scratch that itch with probably just a few dozen lines of elisp code.

Or if you later find some other tool that suits you better it may not be possible to move all your data to the other system, or at least prohibitively hard. With org mode, you can probably whip up an extension that mimics that other tool, or else just port you data.

The attraction of org mode is that it it's probably close to the simplest, most primitive way of solving that problem it solves, while also being one of the most easily extensible and customizable (because, emacs).
Yeah. “Override” seems accurate. “Weaken” is a much stronger claim.

That said, the overriding does make it harder to self-regulate. But only wrt each addiction rather than in general.
The price of the item is real for me.

Limited scope? Sure, its for my benefit and my convinience.
Thank you for articulating the distinction of options vs. choices.

More often than not, I just don't care about making the optimum choice. Phone provider? ISP? Dentist? Insurance? Linux distro? Ughn, the miniscule upside of choosing something exactly right for me is overshadowed the the huge downside of choosing the completely wrong thing.
> The judges estimated a monthly compensation of CHF150 ($154) for the employee’s rent to be justified.

I thought it was a token amount, but then I don't know what rent in switzerland is like.

Is that like 3% or 30% ?
>...FreeBSD in particular.

Which other BSDs did you try?
> little reason to use Linux desktop

Well, that was the idea, looks like.
A lot of people use org-mode for writing documents and note-taking. For instance, there are tools like the following:

https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter

If you also use org-mode for tasks then you can add todo items to your notes that show up in your general agenda, which you may be using to keep track of meetings or events, as well.
We can at least use iso 8859-1...
Chromecast doesn't support .srt subtitles :-(
yup, it is allowed in Switzerland as well
It happens rarely, I must admit, but nothing tops the linux community feeling when a vendor marks your driver issue with "won't-fix"
> Why do you feel so entitled

Why do you feel so indignant about something that doesn't effect you? If you want to pay for a dozen different streaming services, nobody is stopping you.
Seconded, if you get inspired you can also visit /r/georgism
Desktop Linux will stay in the hobbyist domain forever if so much effort is spent on polishing separate "options" i.e. Distributions, window managers etc. when fixing the tools used by most users would be more important.

Are the differences between package managers and keeping them really so important that it's not possible to do everyone a favour and agree on using just the best one? Sure, it's nice to have "options" but as the decades fly by, people seem to use that mostly as an excuse for still not having a user-friendly desktop Linux.
250 comment in earlier discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269661
I would say, between 5% and 10%.
I am paying CHF 2200 in Zurich for a 2 rooms and we share the rent.
Depends entirely on the situation which one is less.
I don't get it. Why should someone working from home make more money than someone who does not?
Actually the cloud does just magically design and run a backend for your application. This is what Etsy, Ebay, Amazon Marketplace, Alibaba, and the smaller players in this space really do - they provide no-code solutions for people who want to sell goods and services and don't care about web technology.

This has been happening for decades now. Even in 2000 you could pay a hosting company $not-much to give you a basic templated site hooked into a payment server. It didn't work all that well, but it worked well enough to provide the commodity service most small business owners wanted.

I still see people saying "You can't automate this" - when magic AI automation isn't even needed to do the job and the job is already being done.

Of course this kind of no-code won't build you a complete startup. But how often do you really need a complete bespoke startup? For a lot of business ideas a no-code service with some simple customisation and a very basic content engine is all that's needed.

You do not need docker etc for any of this. Or at least, you don't need to deal with docker personally for any of this - just as you don't need to deal with your web host's VM technology.

So while I don't completely agree with OP, I think it's astoundingly naive to believe that the current level of hyper-complexity cannot possibly be shaken out.

In fact current stack traditions are almost comically vulnerably to disruption - maybe not this year, but I would be amazed if the landscape hasn't started to change within ten years.
Ask HN: What are the minimum specs to avoid the hug of death?
Where are the true bottlenecks? Is it usually in the bandwidth? App? Hardware? DB?
It's not only you.

I wonder what the target group for this page is. Obviously not the main mass of people who use Windows today because if they'd be forced to chose, they'd probably take the first on the top left. If they won't be forced, they'd leave the page right away because it doesn't say why they SHOULD change.

The rest of people probably knows already about linux and don't get any relevant information from this...
Favorite all time personal productivity tool: ClipX (last version 15 years ago). Besides being an clipboard manager, you can save all clipboards to a text file. I have a file running 3 years and just text search it to find old information.
Maybe on Stable. Sometimes. Not so much on Testing.
Can confirm.

But I don't think that yet applies to remote workers for established companies with offices?

I know contractors and self-run businesses qualify—but I'm not sure if the rest of us do just yet.

There are many expenses you can use as tax deductions as an independent contractor that you cannot if you are an independent contributor within a company.

Hadn't thought at all about the insurance implications. Gross...
Looks like I need to start quoting your posts since they tend to get flagged into oblivion.

> The name of the virus comes from the fact that it is genetically a corona virus.

This is a weird claim, since in the post above you specifically pointed out that its name contains "Severe Acute RESPIRATORY Syndrome", which yes, is a hint that it was thought to be respiratory. But four other human coronaviruses don't have "respiratory" in their name. It's not like coronaviruses automatically get that name.

> There are 7 known corona viruses that affect humans and every single one of them are respiratory.

This is true, but I don't think that means that they are "not allowed" to have symptoms that are outside the lungs. The table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_human... lists diarrhea as a fairly frequent symptom of MERS (26%) and SARS-1 (20-25%). As a molecular biologist you will know more about this than I do, but it looks to me like these respiratory viruses can affect different parts of the body. That is also how it looks to medical professionals in the field, as discussed in the featured article.

> What ever data 'sources' you're reading are wrong.

You had plenty of opportunities in this thread to post your own sources. I think the only time you even referred to a source was to the Wikipedia page which I quoted back at you, which made you sad.
Money is good demonstration of how media is changing.

Rogan reportedly makes 30 million per year from the show already. He makes more than TV talk show hosts. He really is the new mainstream.
> The windows cleartype, touchpad driver and sleep work a lot better

On my ThinkPad the official touchpad driver for Windows is worse than the default one on Linux. And sleep/suspend does not work reliably on Windows 10 since it may wake up your PC at any time and run a system update, closing your session in the process. I still find forced updates unacceptable and nothing will change that. There's not much I hate more than software that tries to act smart. It always backfires in some way.
> Windows is mouse-centric to be point of being unusable to me

I find that very relateable. I have gotten used to doing everything with my keyboard and windows just doesn't allow that to the same extent.
I enjoy arch for the same reasons, but I am not familiar with Linux from Scratch.

you say not to use it on your workstation -- is it more of an tutorial than a distro?
> Macos has been degrading over the past 6-7 years, but it’s still pretty good at standing out the way.

This hasn't been my impression at all lately. Even Windows is less annoying.
That's not what this is.

This is: Your employer should provide the means for you to do the work they ask of you.
That's good to know. I got my son a Ryzen Thinkpad for school. When I bought my own almost a year ago, I was sad that Thinkpads didn't come with Ryzens yet.
> Choices that you have to make

What do we want?

Freedom from choice!

When do we want it?

You tell us!

Kidding aside, this is one of the keys to Apple's success: we have made most of the choices for you, and we have very good taste. (and yes, they've been slipping).

In essence, that's also the key value proposition of many luxury (clothing) brands. Not so much that the quality is necessarily so much better, or that you're getting better value for money, you're not (in pure product/price terms). A big part of the value proposition of, say, the Armani brand, particularly for men is: "buy from us and it will be good without you having to think about it".
Distributing Large Files with PyPI Packages
Ask HN: Which countries issued currency during this time?
USA issued a stimulus to people, Spring 2020.

Which other countries have done the same?

What think ye of relative inflation/deflation on the international level?
What are Web Standards and how does Web Browser work?
If you use any of the Emacs hosted mail readers, org-mode is tremendously useful for tracking actions/TODOs. I use it with GNUS and the org agenda mode is how I organize my work (enterprise sales). It was a game-changer for me.
Slack is fundamentally just a persistent chat room, so yeah, there's really nothing groundbreaking about it. A decade ago Microsoft Office Communicator or IBM Sametime had similar, if more clunky, solutions that did the same things.
The article is pretty clearly written for someone who is already an emacs+org user. I guess it was posted mostly as a teaser of what can be done with it.

The "plain text" catch phrase is not baseless, though. One of the best things about org mode is that there really is a simple and intuitive markup format at its core. Most users probably only ever use the "outliner" features, which are pretty obvious. But once you're used to that, there are lots of more complex features you can start using, one by one. Or just ignore.

Being text, org mode files are also pretty easy to e.g. grep.
I'm confused, what is the additional expense that employees are incurring by being home? Don't they pay the same rent either way?
> meaning that our fellow citizens, or debt, support working from home

This is the case only if you think that paying taxes is some form of duty.
In Finland people who work from home and bought anything needed to work, for example a desk, chair, display or headphones, they get a tax refund.
Not OP, but open the uBlock Origin Dashboard and put them in the section for rules.

uBlock Origin is not the same as uBlock. I prefer Origin.

How to open the Dashboard
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard
I think too many distributions is part of the problem. Especially starting out, you don’t really know/understand what the difference is between each other. You just want something that works for your case and skill level.

I wouldn’t put all these options together, but rather focus on a few distributions that are easy to setup and work well. If we want ppl to move to linux, we should focus on them. Present them with a few options that work really well, with guides on how to start up coming from windows/mac and solving their problems. Just presenting a list of options doesn’t make the decision easier.

Personally, I’m using Pop_OS! because its easy to setup, works well on laptops, gets out of your way, and its more or less Ubuntu underneath, so its much easier to find software and help for it. But the distribution that really converted me over was Manjaro
Somewhere in between.

In Zurich 1500 would be a low rent, and 3000 would get you a 2 bedroom with view and quite spacious +80m^2
As someone who has/does dabble in genetic algorithms and neural networks, it's always wise to keep in the back of ones mind that these systems are inspired by biology, and not generally an attempt to replicate it[0]. It's also often useful to go back to biology with an eye for ideas to steal, but rarely are they are useful model to inform biology or biological understanding.

As an anecdote, I once had a summer project between the neuroscience and computer science departments at my university. They had data from rat brains that they'd potentiated parts of (basically, zapped some neurons so they connection weights (in NN terms) got messed up and were sending too-strong signals to their neighbours), and how that potentiation decayed over time. They got me to attempt to reproduce it in a neural network. So, I build an NN system with the ability to have neurons zapped and managed to reproduce their results. But NNs being a very abstract model of a set of neurons, there are a lot of parameters that can be twiddled. By making fairly small changes to those parameters, I managed to get the exact inverse of their results also.

[0] this applies both to computer scientists building them, and also to biologists looking at them and going "that's a really poor attempt to be a brain, look at all the things it's missing."
In Canada the saying is "save a tree, eat a beaver". I'm not sure if it translates the same way, though.
Having been using Emacs and org-mode for about 4 years now, I've been thinking a big mistake has been made in how the system is pitched. It's always something about it being 'plain text', which makes non-Emacs users say 'Why would I switch from my plain text editor? Or 'Why would I switch from a flashy GUI webapp version of this particular feature?'

Emacs can't be appreciated for any one feature, even org mode, powerful as that is. You have to take the entire system and all it's possibilities into account. Org mode is particularly special because it integrates so many of Emacs' features, from literate programming to keeping a Wiki, to scheduling, to keeping a diary, to file browsing, to accounting, to emailing, to so much more. But to try to judge one package like org mode is a bit like judging a car by the quality of its seats.

The only thing I've experienced which compares to this is, perversely, the Office 365 suite. Yes, of course, all the functions are completely different and I'm not making a like-for-like functionality comparison. But in Office365 an email client (Outlook) is integrated with a team's documents (via Sharepoint), chats (via Teams), calendar, etc, etc. The value of Office365 isn't in any one app, it's their integration. It's the entire system.

Obviously the Emacs system has a completely different and opposing design philosophy to Office365's. It's ground-up, fully-extendable, initially demanding, text based, exportable, self-hosted, free, and so on. All of which increasingly goes against the grain of the trajectory of software today. However for those who give it the time and effort, it really does offer to organise your life, and yes, in plain text.
You make it sound like European countries don’t have deductibles and similar laws for the those equally savvy to put it on the tax payers?

I see this pattern amongst Americans these days thinking these sorta of shenanigans and morally questionable laws is unique to them? Is it a form of self flagellation?

Certain European countries let tax payers pay for 80% of their foreign/migrant workforce without getting their growing revenue or equity to the state.
As an example, sometimes Ray will say starch is bad, and other times he will say that starch is compatible with a healthy lifestyle. His stance on most things is probably the dose and the condition of the body at any given time determines the nutrient/poison, but he will make firm statements over radio shows and podcasts because, if I had to guess, he says what he thinks is best for the audience given the medium and time constraints. Ultimately, you as an individual will miss things if you rely on someone else's observations instead of your own. Ray's recommendations are a good starting point, but you will likely be better off if you have the last word on what you do and do not do. And Ray would be the first to admit that :).
First pilot for the Google and Apple-based decentralised tracing app
The wider implications of recommending a proprietary application (worse: a GUI based one which costs money and is only available on one platform) is that now your documents are tied to a particular time of reference in an ecosystem. Something which moves.

I am not an OmniFocus user, recent versions of OmniFocus can export data to the TaskPaper format (which is just plain text) or to a CSV file.
Understanding Unit Testing – Entry and Exit Points
Even DVDs are DRMed, though it's easy to strip.
Equipping and maintaining a home office? Space that can no longer be used for other stuff, and costs of things like chairs and office supplies a company would normally cover?
I'm sure it varies--and, at some level, you deal with what you have to deal with. But, in my experience, ongoing synchronous communications can still work pretty well over about a 6 hour delta (i.e. US ET to CET). We don't have a lot of people on the west coast and they just have to get on early calls some days.

Asia is much harder to communicate with in real-time and people just need to get up early or stay up late now and then.
I completely agree with you. There are issues with Windows. But it is not terrible anymore.

I use windows as my desktop, it is convenient and pleasant. It works with my games and plays well with my devices.

I have been borderline crossing over to Linux Desktop for many years, but the user experience is not convincing me.

It is not that I haven't tried Linux on the Desktop, but only through virtualization - there is always so much configuration I need to set up in order to get up to a comfortable level, and then something changes or breaks.

I have a few headless Linux servers which is a joy to use and manage, but I do that from my Windows or MacOS computer usually.

I love how Windows and MacOS is starting to become more and more similar, makes synchronization of content and experiences much easier.
How to build a rewards-based incentive program to gamify your product?
We're in the middle of building out a rewards-based incentive program as a way to drive user engagement with the platform and ultimately drive them further down the funnel.

Does anyone have any solid advice or have access to case studies on successful reward programs and gamification?

There is a lot on our product roadmap to improve it based on quite a bit of feedback and early data we've been looking for (leardboard tracking, more ways to earn 'Savology Stars', more incentives for rewards and ways to use stars, etc), but I'd love to hear if anyone has any experience or thoughts on how to make gamification work.

Feel free to check out what we currently have built out (there is a lot of improvement to be made) at https://savology.com

Would love to hear your thoughts and any examples of really solid programs that you've seen work.

Thanks,
Nicely organized procrastination though.
Wouldn't this just decrease average work-from-home salary by exactly CHF150/month?
I made just a few changes and I can switch back and forth between linux and macos now pretty comfortably.

I changed copy and paste to CMD-C and CMD-V. In the terminal app equivalent, I mapped CMD-K and CMD-L to reset and clear screen, and CMD-N to new window.

Those few changes got rid of a LOT of friction points.
That's not what it is either.

As a person in the US where "health insurance" is so tangled up with employers I can tell you, the last thing anyone should want is more financial entanglements between employees and employers.
I think if something like that happens, it will be on the scale of the shift from alchemy to chemistry - some sort of as-yet-unimaginable standardization which changes what is currently an art to something more like a science. I don't expect to see anything of the sort in our lifetimes, barring some very extreme advances in medicine.
He did not invest in porn, and that would not make him a criminal anyway. He did own a "Minitel Rose" company which offered erotic chatting services over Minitel, the french precursor of Internet. After getting rich with it, he sold it and started a new company named Free, a company offering a free internet access services.

This has nothing to do with criminal activity. Running an erotic chatting service was a perfectly legal activity in France at the time. It was latter refrained and maybe the reason Xavier Niel changed his business activity.
I see a lot of comments arguing that it's not "worth it" to spend dozens of hours to "get into org-mode" when there are "intuitive tools" such as Evernote or Trello or Todoist etc.

What some are missing is the fact that low barriers to entry sometimes turn into barriers to growth at a later stage. After (!) one has sunk thousands of hours into them. I used to keep my academic notes in Evernote and it turned into hell after about 2,000 notes and a few years of work. I couldn't find things when I needed them, it didn't support a non-linear mode of work. It became my personal black hole that swallowed up information but never gave it back.

With org-mode I have created my very own filing and research system. After years of using it and thousands of articles I find things. Quickly. Now, with org-roam, I create hubs of knowledge and ideas that I can come back to at a later point without worrying about linearity or chronology. No longer do I need to know where things are. I know what ideas are in there. If I don't like a certain workflow, I can grow, develop or change my filing and note-taking system as I see fit.

In my opinion, org-mode eliminates the risk of hitting any sort of barrier after years of sunk costs.
>> Democracies appear to function a fair amount better than dictatorships, afterall.

Define "better". Maybe on average for everyone, but is this what software should do? The idea of "conceptual integrity" actually seems to match up better with a dictatorship, and most software targets relatively small and homogenous user sets, so maybe the mental model should be "tightly bound tribe".
and he just bought in to "Obamagate"
Not anymore, this administration did away with that deduction in 2017 if you are an employee. Unless you are a contractor, business owner, or otherwise self employed you cannot deduct a home office.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2020/03/23/wor...