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As often happens with this topic, this comment tries to portray an individual's opinion as a universal truth

> You lose the one huge opportunity in adult life for making new relationships - and that's at work, in the office.

Whose adult life? Because in mine, I have a very active social life outside of work, so the office comprises a tiny minority of the people I meet as an adult. On top of that, if you work at at a small company like I have, then there are no opportunities to make new relationships. Who are you thinking of meeting in an office where it's you and 3-4 other people, day in and day out, for years?

The office is not the only way to meet people, and for people who can't or don't need to rely on the office for their social lives, nothing is lost on that point by going remote

> For the company, people that work remote start drifting away from the company vision and spirit - you get an army of people working individually most of the time, not socializing, not establishing strong bonds.

That sounds like a company problem, not a remote problem. I love my employer and my team, and get along fine with video calls etc. I'm not at work to hang out and have fun, I'm here to do my job and get paid, then go live my personal life.

> It's just a job. You could work for someone else and you wouldn't even notice.

That's specifically what some people, like myself, want to feel

> You are a people's person and feel more energetic and productive when working with others face to face? Well, sorry, your team is mostly remote.

Here you conveniently disregard everybody who doesn't support your argument. Let's describe the office for people like me, who have absolutely 0 (zero) interest or need for an office: "You don't like to be around people, and you feel more energetic and productive when you can choose your working environment, don't have to commute, and can sleep until 8:59AM if you want to? Well, sorry, your team isn't remote"

> Please, let us just top playing down the importance of the office. It is important and it has tons of benefits for the team, as opposed to the benefits for the individuals.

I think a fairer thing to ask is: please, stop treating all people and companies as having the same qualities and preferences. If you want to work in an office and it makes your life better, that's great. But what you may consider great conditions might literally be the worst part of life for others. There is no single solution.
> “Pumping up the economy” Was kind of pointless when nothing is open

Based on these figures, over 90% of the economy was open.
There is really nothing novel about climate denial.
That's true but it also goes the other way. Assume you're living in a mid-range western-world city, e.g. Berlin. And assume you're competing with a similar to you dev who's living in Cebu (Philippines). The difference of what constitutes a good salary between you two is way too large for the company offering a position to ignore.
British parliament was recently discussing a plan to allow HKers to come to UK and transition into citizens.
It had something like 70% agreement in the house, so I would say it has a high chance to become reality.
Yeah, I wouldn't know either if I didn't remember him saying that there isn't actually a running keyword search for it. It'd be interesting to know what percentage of all HN comments he reads...
Same thing here ^^ It's annoying to reflex type `:q` and see it on the screen and nothing happen! One good thing with nano being beginner friendly is that it reminds you at all time how to quit on the bottom left of the screen so the annoyance doesn't last long.
Whoever decided to call it a "Brick Top" presumably didn't watch Guy Ritchie's masterpiece Snatch. Probably not something you want the kids Googling as understandably, the top results are Alan Ford's character.

>Do you know what "nemesis" means?
Remember that FANGMAN (Facebook Apple NVIDIA Google Microsoft Amazon Netflix) constitute over 20% of the market, and they're barely or even positively affected. Without them, the market would be down.
Slightly crestfallen that the “ML” here is machine learning and not the programming language. I still refer to my vintage paperback of L. C. Paulson’s
ML for the Working Programmer from time to time.
That’s the point. I do a (small) contribution to my country’s (Switzerland), public health policy, as a researcher, but we have the same set of challenges as most other countries, at least in Europe. I just wanted to say there are no easy solutions out there.
Mission to Mars, NASA launched a new flying rover on their latest Mars mission
All this makes sense. I’d also point out though that there’s a societal aspect of this too- rich people have a lot of ways that they use to make sure that when things go badly, it’s poor people who pay the cost. So they have good reasons to worry less about tail risks.

For instance: does your local city council respond to rising rents with the same urgency as they respond to falling real estate values? What did America put more money into during the coronavirus crisis, keeping people from being evicted or propping up the stock market?

Rich people don’t worry about tail risks because they don’t have to.
There were a lot of companies that were remote work first before COVID. The issue is that this is only possible for companies in certain fields (tech being one of them) that have the right tools and management structures in place, and where explicit knowledge is more important than tacit knowledge.

I'm not familiar with Evergreen communication (the closest I could find was a consulting-ish company online), but I'm sure that small companies in a larger number of fields could, theoretically, go remote work first.
Yes, the (recently released) source code for MS-DOS 2.0 is liberally sprinkled with comments that indicate Microsoft fully intended for the path separator character to be '/' and the command-line option designation character to be '-'.

Microsoft had to design a new API for DOS 2.0, as this was the first version to support hard disk drives and hence required support for subdirectories to organize the filesystem. The API was intentionally designed to mimic Unix. [1]

And it was also intended for devices (such as CON, LPT1, COM1, etc.) to be prefixed with the special directory name 'DEV', as in '/DEV/CON' and '/DEV/LPT1', just to make it feel even more like Unix. [2]

Apparently the idea was that MS-DOS would be Microsoft's single-user operating system running on cheap 8088 machines, and Xenix would be their "enterprise" multi-user operating system running on high-end 80286 systems, and programs could target a single common DOS/Xenis API and could be run on either OS.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...
the problem is that masks have a minor effect at best thus in no way represent the solution so many seek
They aren't already?

I've seen USPS tracking be very misleading, with Expected Delivery by 8:00PM...and the next day the same status, until finally you see Out for Delivery, which is the day it will actually arrive.

Between the terrible tracking, and the occasional goofy routing detours, USPS is doing themselves no favors.
> it's worse to force somebody to sell chunks of the house to the bank

You're selling part of the upside. That's the point of the land value tax. Someone who owns a $1mm house from a $100,000 purchase didn't do $900,000 of productive work. Those gains are rents, in the economic sense, not income. Giving those up--or downsizing, as you suggest--isn't ridiculous and is the point of the land value tax.
> cunning social skills to push their ideas through layers of un-interested bureaucracy

Seems like corporate America to me...
Job is one part of life. A human is not like a variable in program that can be refactored into another class as needed.

What you are saying would work perfectly for a young college graduate, without much family or friends, who has no dependency or no one dependent on them.

Now imagine a young single mother or father that depends on their family for babysitting or caring for the child while they try to become functioning member of society.

Imagine someone with some health condition that needs access to certain medical facilities.

People live in cities and migrate to cities because they can access schools, colleges, entertainment, public transport, medical facilities, better opportunities, parks etc etc. They can't just pick and move and uproot themselves.

I think people who work in technology do not have enough exposure to the poor and struggling members of the society. I grew up in a really really poor family and when I talk to my coworkers it is very apparent that they don't understand poor people.
The State of the Ethereum Network: 5 Years Running
I don't want to push the metaphor too far, but...

Every night most of us go to sleep between 11pm and 6am. National economic output drops around 90%. Massive disaster, recession, depression level issues. And no one bats an eye lid. Because there is a good reason for this and everyone will wake up in the next 7 hours and go back to work.

This is that but for 7 months instead of 7 hours.

The question everyone should care about is "Will we wake up, when and how many companies will have died in their sleep?" Not "How much work are companies doing while they sleep?".

Those two numbers are barely related IMHO. In fact, the safer we make it to sleep, the less activity we will see now BUT the more we will see in a few months, years etc.
I was going to give you an answer but then I would likely get down-voted. See the problem?
Japans central bank has 3 times the asset sheet to gdp ratio that we do. I think we got a while before anything breaks.
I would imagine they use a full feature IDE, not a minimalist editor.

It’s like expecting the maintainers of notepad.exe to use notepad itself during development and not Visual Studio.
Pwnagachi does not include any non 2.4Ghz wifi radios. This does 300Mhz-900Mhz.
So far, yes. The US are still working to get the first wave under control. However, the prospects for Europe are currently not too optimistic.
So demand for cheap apartments fall and prices stagnate. But you can't just think about one step, you have to consider the implications of that step.
For example, if people are moving out of their bad apartments into nicer apartments and homes, demand for nice apartments and homes will increase, driving prices higher. Which makes sense--suddenly there is much more money available for housing. But that's not the end of the story, either.

What is the incentive for the owners of small apartment complexes? It seems clear. They need to renovate their apartments so that they can capture the new up-market demand. Successful, mid-tier apartments could buy up cheaper complexes to renovate them and charge higher prices (this happens even now).

The low-demand, low-price alternatives will fade away, because the land owners can make more money with slightly nicer, more expensive units.
You collect taxes for two reasons:

1. To counteract the UBI and withdraw money from the economy

2. To use fiscal policy to make certain externalities more expensive, thus making people choose to transition to their alternatives. Collective action problems can’t be solved otherwise.
What's nuts to me is how often I hear people complain that that can't figure out how to quit out of nano when those exact instructions are always visible at the bottom of the screen.
I love Midnight Commander. It's the first thing I install on any Linux system.
Happy Eidul Adha, Eid Mubarak
'vi' is still 'vi' in OSX, and I believe the "original" 'vi' is accessible as 'nvi' on the usual Linux distros. (e.g., https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/nvi)
> But its negligible ownership stake

Yes, and that was addressed immediately in the next paragraph:

> While it's true that the top 5% owns a disproportionate amount of stocks, that's just a function of the wealth distribution. If everyone in the US had half of their personal wealth in the stock market, the top 5% would still own a large % of the stock market just by virtue of what it means to be in the "top 5%" today. This fact doesn't change the fact that a stock market crash would still be devastating to the middle American that owns stocks (directly or indirectly).

> In fact, when the stock market crashes, it's median stock holders that are the worst off, because the wealthiest stock owners will still largely remain millionaires even if the stock market plunged.
i think the market is counting on a flood of pent up demand unleashing in the near term (< 12 months). If that doesn't happen you'll see people jumping from windows. A prolonged market crash and the ripple effects through the financial system (many instruments are tied to stock price) would usher in a true depression IMO. Propping up the stock market props up many many things as well.
I liked this part "be careful with this world which is like a theater"
Not “a minor effect”, they seem to improve Rt more or less significantly (according to preliminary studies). But they are probably not enough on their own.
Convincing is a function of the evidence and the jury.

If your evidence is strong, highlight the evidence.

If it's weak, practice your Cialdini and Carnegie. Manipulating people is a time honored tactic.

But don't kid yourself about which of the two you're doing.
Multiple people have to flag something to make it [dead].
The Home Food Lab Project
The Project:

It is The Cook for a Year Project. To be precise, cook 500 dishes in 330 days. Yes, you read it right. My kitchen will be a food lab and I will cook 500 meals in 11 months or 48 weeks, or 330 days. And my Final dish is set to be on July 1st 2021.

The Contender:
...

https://www.urbancottage.net/recipes/the-home-food-lab-project
Zillow just hopped on a similar train: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/zillow-allow-90-employees-work...
It is very misleading though. When stocks drop 3% from yesterday to today, one doesn't go around writing "Stocks down 99.9% (annualised)"...
Yes it's a pretty bullshit article title. I am concerned over the access to aggregated sales data though by people who will be involved in product development. It's similar to insider trading, and requires real enforcement of "policy" with 3rd party review IMO.
You're making some good, if aspirational points, but I'm still not convinced. After all, artists have had patrons for a long time. The gallery system is a relatively new invention.

Do I believe that artistic creators are a net-win to society? 100% Do I wish that artistic professions were seen as worthy of support? Yes I do. But in actual today reality, most artists can announce that they are doing a show, staging a production, what have you, and make some money.

I would argue that the only way for someone to approximate this in 2020 as a developer of creative but not economy-driving things is for Github to adopt a pool as described by the OP.

One thing I want to be really clear about is that people shouldn't support projects with lots of stars just because they have lots of stars. Stars are a passible metric for evaluating which tool to choose, perhaps. But I think the power of the pool concept is that Github could hit you up when you git clone, or maybe even occasionally ping you with a "hey, are you finding this useful? consider adding it to your pool". Or how about opt-in reminders like "hey, you're about to add your 80th project to the pool, but at $80 pledged that would put your contribution below $1 for each project. no shade intended, but how cool would it be if you kept your pool >$2/project? it'll be the best value for $160 this month."
Yeah, as I understand it reporting quartaly economic changes in annualized terms is an Americanism that isn't generally done in Europe, so you have to be very careful when comparing figures.
Reminds me of my all-in-one "Ink Advantage" HP printer. The cost of ink cartridge had gone so high that it was reasonable to just not use it anymore. The cartridges can be reliably refilled 3-4 times but they put an artificial #X papers print limit on each of those cartridges and show cartridge needs to be replaced message once those limits are reached. Once there was a firmware update for some vulnerability, and the update somehow erased the previous cartridges used and I was able to refill and reuse all of my previous cartridges twice again so I know cartridges were in perfect condition despite the printer saying otherwise. It remains one of my most regretted purchases till date. Only if someone had the time and motive to jailbreak it :(
It absolutely does, the claim was that Kirkland does what Amazon does and it's patently false. Kirkland doesn't stock name brand items, figure out what customers are buying the most of, then build a competitor while giving priority to their own brand which was the accusation.
Bug #1889509 “grub boot error: “symbol 'grub_calloc' not found”
I'm 15 and use social media WAY less than you
This looks like a useful app that I've been looking for. That said, I replaced several individual applications I had been using with Hammerspoon Lua scripts, and had been planning on making my own for exactly this purpose as well. Perhaps it could be argued that Swift is more pleasant than Lua and that a calendar integration app is complex enough to warrant skipping Hammerspoon for this task?
If that’s your impression you either can’t understand my comment or won’t / are trolling. I took a high school class taught by a professional graphic designer, using PS and Illustrator. I’m not claiming that’s my career now, but not everyone uses Photoshop as a fulltime job, and GIMP's good enough for plenty of use cases (eg. a one-person team indie game with art made entirely with it) (and can do stuff PS can't easily do with better scripting).
This feels like such an American solution. If everyone just does this one magic thing then life will continue on as usual. First it was hydroxychloroquine, then a lock-down and now masks.

Masks worn correctly limits spread, but it's just a piece in the puzzle of tools available, and almost certainly not the most significant one, that is not meeting people.

Look at Finland, Norway and Denmark, they all successfully controlled it so far without mask usage. Catching up with research they now encourage it in indoor situations where you can't distance, even though the recommendation still is to not even be there if possible. Leaving it as a tool available if current measures aren't enough.
If you want to build something similar, this seems like a good place to start: https://hackaday.io/project/169103-low-power-esp32-handheld
China muscling in on business domain names
To me it seems like we're just trying to navigate a way to a post-scarcity society with the least amount of backlash/damage.

We could give people money, or we could say "up to so many kilowatt/hours this is free" or "you are entitled to this set-amount of groceries for free". Or to combat prices that inflate for UBI, the government could be reporting what is a reasonable price.

Man I wish I had taken economics. I truly don't know all the ways this could harm us.
Understanding state of natural language tech through project-first approach
Because like any other price gouging circumstances, attorneys general can get involved, city councils, county, state... if landlords in particular want to start charging more than the market can bear that can be stopped.

I don't get why this one fear "omg rents will skyrocket!" gets trotted out as The Reason UBI will fail.
We have a limited workforce and we have to prioritize. I'll take a reasonably working phone that easily works for a full work day on battery (like the one we have right now) over a phone that sleeps for many hours but burns through the battery fast as soon as you want it to actually do anything.

Focusing on suspend time first may be worth it marketing-wise, but in my personal opinion that would be kinda deceptive.
I spend a large portion of my week on video calls with colleagues, whether it's discussing requirements, pairing, bouncing ideas off someone or just shooting the shit before standup. I don't feel that my contact time has changed significantly at all. I actually think working from home facilitates face to face communication over an open plan office because everyone has total control over the sound in their office. If you're on a call you can be as loud as you like without disturbing and other calls you just don't hear at all. For me it's a huge win.

Then there's all the extra time and energy you have from no commute. I socialise far more frequently since working from home then when I was commuting into London for instance.
I did a lot of DEVs simulation of P2P networks in grad school with netlogo. It is a great RAD system for agent based simulations.
I'm excited for Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter Scout!
Whenever I see a NetLogo based paper, my suspicion is immediately raised. It's not that multiagent simulations are never good models of reality, it's that they are so hard to get right and so easy to shoot yourself in the foot with and not notice. Nonlinear dynamics are hard.

Usually you write a simple model, it does something pathological like diverging to one extreme, you maybe tune the parameters a bit until it does something that fits better with your expectations, then you publish. But the behavior you observed is still pathological, dependent on fine tuning of the model parameters, and has nothing to do with the relationship between the model and reality.

I especially panicked when I saw people on HN arguing we should drop all those SIR-based models for Covid-19 and use multiagent simulations instead.

Also, NetLogo obfuscates from you that usually what you're trying to model is a very simple one-dimensional equation that could be written in three lines of Python, and that you could see the problems with immediately if you'd look at the actual equation.

This is a good example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.07068.pdf

My own review is in Hebrew, but it seems like this is a good one:
http://joshuaballoch.github.io/luck-in-life-still-misunderst...
Already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23997362
> Are these study's preregistered?

No idea. I like this study, it doesn't have as many degrees of freedom as is usual, the theory is kept to a minimum, and the data is kept to the maximum available. But you are right, there is still a lot to go wrong.

Anyway, I haven't seen many empiric studies of poverty traps. The real test is, given many of those if they will agree with the theory, not what any single one says.
No, rover is easier; return system has to fly all of its mass back to Earth, rover never leaves Mars.

In which case you might be asking what the advantage of a return system is in the first place, the answer being for much the same reason that we have "stages" of rockets. The return system gets a fresh exponential curve to work with. If you tried to ship both at once it would be a nightmare. Plus there are all the advantages of shipping things back, regardless of what the rocket equation says. Science via a rover is great but it just can't match numerous full laboratories with humans in them.

The part that disappoints me a bit is that I still don't see us launching fuel into space for space refueling very often. Rocket equation bites no matter what you do, but launching a Falcon fuel of nothing but fuel (to the extent possible) shrinks the solar system a lot. It's still pretty big after that, but it's a different place, even with conventional chemical rockets. I hope we'll see it soon. I'm not sure it'll be quite as simple as "SpaceX will have a Mars Starship there before the mission can get there", but there is a real prospect of making it so space missions takes weeks instead of years if we can get space refueling figured out. A lot of other things come into reach as well, like satellite reclamation.