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Show HN: SaaS platform to bring out the best in Work-From-Home (WFH) workforce
Hello HN, I am Roger, founder of Wiz@Home (www.wizathome.com), a SaaS platform to bring out the best in Work From Home (WFH) workforce. We are close to launching our platform. While you may be able to glean quite a bit from our website, a lot of the functionality requires registration. So, instead, I want to explain here the premise of our platform.

Having a workforce that works from home on a long-term basis can have productivity, financial, security, privacy, Intellectual Property (IP) and legal implications (see partial list here: www.wizathome.com/employers). In addition, the old model of surveillance of employees (such as capturing screen shots, keyboard logging, always-on camera etc.) will no longer make sense – for example, how do you prevent a WFH employee browsing on a personal device placed next to company issued laptop?

With WFH trends only expected to rise, employees will become more and more like free agents. Also, flex hours will become the norm, rather than an exception. All of this requires a new paradigm in dealing with employees: One based on trust, and mutual buy-in of personalized policies and goals (integrated with those of the organization), to enhance both productivity and individual employee's well-being.
It explains a sequence to sequence model which, granted, is a class of models that GPT-3 falls under.

But these animations/diagrams are so high level that they could be used for Explaining all sorts of NLP models from the past 5 years.
>To an extent isn’t this because these types of benefits aren’t affordable? The pension, extra vacation, etc wouldn’t be possible without the tax revenue raised from your friends who are working more hours.

They just told you that their still making 10-20% less than colleagues in the private sector - when all benefits are factored in. So obviously those benefits are basically as affordable as employing someone at private sector type wages . Of course they are in Denmark, so the benefits for the private sector are also a lot better than you get in the U.S - at least for non-FAANG (I believe for FAANG as well but haven't researched)
Oh wow - metromile sounds really interesting. Any others like this?
Related: Report on Guantánamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees Through Analysis of Department of Defense Data (2006), p 14.

https://scholarship.shu.edu/shlr/vol41/iss4/2/
One of the reasons I love my employer is that they offer 6 months full pay to both men and women, with the option to have up to a year off (for women this moves to basic pay, men zero) after the 6 months - if you are having or adopting a child.

This way as someone who interviews people it doesn't matter if they are men or women, you know that some will have children, some won't, but we will cope when they are away. And they will be back again. Far far more of our men and women return to work and stay with the company after having children than the UK average. I haven't personally benefitted from this (I had my kids when at another company with just 2 week paternity leave) but it makes me happy to see colleagues able to use this time to grow close to their child and also return to work rested and happy.

We also have great flexibility in working patterns that has only increased since the pandemic. Happy humans deliver great work.
How Ayn Rand's Dystopian Novella Anticipated Cancel Culture
New error-correction algorithm enables accurate retrieval from damaged DNA
I tried this. Aot compiling with the .net runtime just isn't very practical. I know mono does this, with some guided info for reflection based classes. But the way the structure is setup, is that string pulls in globalization. And enumeration. And comparable and equality which both work by reflection to pick the right default implementation. Reflection is expected to work, which pulls in all methods and their dependencies. By the time you have a working executable for hello world, you're a few MB ahead. The class library just isn't setup for this kind of use.
I'm a N00b - what makes this so special?
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>HEDGES error-correcting code for DNA storage corrects indels and allows sequence constraints

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/15/2004821117

>DNA Is Millions of Times More Efficient Than Your Computer's Hard Drive

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33327626/scientist...
tl;dr: Its an everything virus, and we're fucked. If you contracted it, you're fucked. You may not be fucked now, it maybe a decade or two later before you discover the fuckening. It can fuck anything, head to toes (literally).

Best part: just because you've had it, doesn't mean you've developed working antibodies against it, thus if you aren't fucked now, just get back in queue and wait your turn.
> That's an insight. You use automated stuff only, when the automated stuff is available? Wow. Haven't thought about that.

You didn't understand what he said. What you wrote is not an insight. The actual insight is, in air travel, you use automated stuff only when the automated stuff is available everywhere around you. Because your plane might have to divert due to an emergency and land at another airport/field that doesn't have any automation in place.
What makes it revolutionary? Sounds amazing btw but I would already expected grids to be using ML for surge detection etc. Is it not the norm?
For Corona it's hard to say because it's unlikely someone would move to my neighborhood in such a situation (we're not ritzy but there's low-income areas that are 3/4 the price a 30 minute drive away). In general all evictions are the same because there's a ton of regulations in the state about what I can ask and what I can use as a reason to reject an applicant. If you're persuing a zero risk strategy then you get whatever is volunteered during a call to confirm their previous address and what's provided in a background check. The catch is that you can be persued legally for saying something that can be demonstrated to have resulted in an unfair rejection, so the safest strategy is to simply volunteer nothing while hoping the other party has a gabby manager. In parallel, California is really landlord hostile. That's not totally bad because we have the leverage but it means for example that even if I reject a tenant they could in theory sue me if I couldn't adequately demonstrate the rejection was part of a consistent policy (which is hard to do for a pandemic scenario). That's sort of a longshot situation but California judges also tend to side with tenants when they can so as a small landlord for whom court is expensive it's safer to have a policy towards evictions that is agnostic to the specifics.
But it only supports sending audio from phone to pc, not reverse.
I didn't think the day would come when government dragnets would be defended like this. This is clearly a fishing expedition using broad queries. Glad I don't work at companies that are routinely targeted for this shit by overzealous spy governments.
Part of me wonders, in the future, how we'll view the attempts to automate pilots and drivers.

It feels like a natural step now in the technology but perhaps it'll be viewed like trying to make a robot ride a horse instead of looking to invent the car.

I wonder what the next order-of-magnitude leap for transport will be. Cheap, fast, safe. Hyperloop maybe?

Will we look back at holding on to air and road travel as a bit of a reckless endeavour?
Sounds similar to Fastly's "Lucet" - https://www.fastly.com/blog/announcing-lucet-fastly-native-w...
I prefer to think of double entry accounting (with reasonable controls) as the first reasonable implementation of a blockchain. At its core, a double entry accounting system is a giant ledger where each transaction is linked to the last one ‘forever’ (assuming proper controls).

It’s likely the only reasonable implementation of a blockchain but we won’t know that for sure until cryptocurrency matures enough to develop reasonable controls. I’m not holding my breathe because then it’s just an accounting system with reasonable controls built in and there are already more than enough of those built with databases.
My point is that the fates of the working class cannot simply be explained by the US Chamber of Commerce deciding to lobby for themselves in 1970 or the economic organization that might represent. For one, many ailments of low and middle income families can be explained by citizen lobbies: healthcare employs a lot of people, neighborhood groups are famously exclusionary.
Makes sense. Thanks for elaborating and apologies for derailing your green card question.
Identification of Pressed Keys from Mechanical Vibrations
To each their own, but I think two hours with my loved ones over one hour with my loved ones is a quantifiably superior option.

May we both be happy through our chosen methods.
Long term career in mind, finance is not necessarily the better. In the UK it's the last post-colonial metropol advantage it has, but it also will gradually evaporate due to Brexit, anti-corruption legislation and eventual introduction of rule of law in the 3rd world.
That phenomenon is the reason old established big companies get disrupted. No one disrupts the public service, they are the permanent only business in their sector.
Yeah, this was discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13636277

And division basically works the same.

Discussed article is https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/the-widespread-and-p...

Nowhere as complex as it's made out to be.
RNAV is making CAT ILS obsolete and might do autoland "soon" https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1395929 (more detailed discussions)
You've somehow summed up a long and elaborate article containing a multitude of stories and detailing multiple seemingly detached symptoms into a "tl;dr we're fucked". Seriously, how did you manage to do that?
Is it just me or the fare variable mostly does not work I get one result with 0 Pounds, and an other single one for all values >0
Unlimited Drive Storage by splitting binary files into base64:

- https://github.com/stewartmcgown/uds

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19907271
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That's right. The same Americans who are nonetheless more wealthy in the median than most people in Europe or anywhere else outside North America.

Outsourcing your safety net to the government is the classic move of a well-functioning society.
I suspect it's what media consumption does to people, along the lines of David Foster Wallace, who famously threw his TV out.

It makes it easy to experience perfection without doing anything. You can feel the perfect romance of beautiful people, and take a perfect vacation - without actively doing anything yourself.

But that raises your expectations for everything. So you don't do anything yourself anymore, you just consume.

That, combined with a meaningless work, or rather a busyness fetish (dont want to be seen as lazy even though you're not productive), creates the mordern life.

No, thank you. I take imperfection and less neuroticism (and less work hours) any day over this.
Well, they are databases. That doesn't imply accountants don't understand accounting. Both can be true.

I think a large factor in the "programmers reinterpreting accounting" phenomenon is the fact that accounting is full of somewhat idiosyncratic terminology and conventions which are somewhat counter to modern mathematical conventions. These conventions should still be upheld in order to be mutually intelligible with the accounting world, but it seems quite unlikely they are the optimum in terms of ergonomics and ease of understanding. If we designed accounting from scratch today, I doubt we would end up with these conventions.

A naive programmer is perhaps in one of the best positions to see these idiosyncrasies and think "This is using the wrong conventions and can be made much simpler by just shifting some signs around!".
So, compiling via WasmBoxC gives a 14% - 42% performance overhead compared to native compilation.

Is there also a significant overhead in terms of binary size?
IIRC, when ITER was conceived, it wasn't a waste of money. They just chose a conservative development path that was expensive but very likely achievable. Technology and theories have since advanced that might leapfrog it, but the project has still contributed a great deal to our understanding of fusion and the engineering required to produce it.

Relevant talk by one of the MIT professors working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems:

Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion? - Prof. Dennis Whyte (2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4

Timeline (in case you want to skip over some parts):

00:01:00 - introducing Dennis Whyte, MIT department head for nuclear science
00:04:24 - presentation starts
00:06:00 - identifies breakthrough with REBCO magnets
00:07:25 - explains deuterium-tritium fusion
00:12:30 - basic metrics for reactor performance
00:17:15 - energy output of other previous fusion experiments
00:19:00 - examines ITER and the problems of its approach
00:22:00 - problems solved by high energy magnetic fields
00:28:15 - full scale reactor concept, teardown of REBCO magnets
00:37:00 - design limits and margins
00:39:00 - fixes plasma instabilities found in weaker magnetic chambers
00:40:00 - maintainability, lifespan, component replacement
00:45:00 - solution to neutron damage and energy capture
00:50:30 - cost and profitability
00:54:00 - full graph of field strength vs reactor scale (and thus funding requirements)
01:01:50 - Q&A
01:30:00 - question about the biggest risks

A more recent (2019) talk with more numbers and even more confidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6U4wB-oYM
Crazy that your _standing_ with the bank determines what services you get; reminds me of the black mirror episode with the rating system
I'd really like a kit of some sort to build one of these. It seems like it could be a fun project to play around with.
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But looking down at the balance you may find some of it gets capitalized.
> My recollection was the weight of the blotter paper was considered as the drug itself and that easily increased the federal sentencing guidelines.

Which is of course the entire reason for switching away from using sugar cubes and to blotter paper as delivery media.
I have no axe to grind. Where did I admit that? Is it simply by saying that I've lived through regimes where worker power was itself a (if not _the_) problem? For what it's worth, I am generally on the left end of the spectrum; certainly economically if not socially.

You’re right - I should have offered a source. You can reference the extensive reporting here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/307365/days-of-rage...
> Though its binary representation may be more familiar, the formal mathematical construction of the integers consists of an equivalence class of pairs of natural numbers.

That's an elegant construction. It's interesting how different number sets can derived from pairs of a "smaller" set, equivalence classes, or both.

integers: equivalence classes of pairs of naturals
rationals: equivalence classes of pairs of integers
reals: equivalence classes of Cauchy series on rationals
complex numbers: pairs of reals

It's quite thought provoking to arrive at the construction of complex numbers just by counting apples.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23971814
Yes and they wither away as a result then that's when layoffs happen and hostile takeovers etc
If by "luck" you mean directed highly focused economic activity, then yes, luck.

Let's not pretend all "poor" people are poor because of bad luck.
Aye, cognitive distancing would be more accurate, though I don't really know what the actual term that applies here is. I generally just refer to it as simply lacking morals, be it in the form of immorality or deep ignorance, neither of which are excusable.
Recently I came across this video "The design for easy life": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2eoQyYoUww

I live in Thailand and am very interested in working less for other people and more for myself. At first I though I'd need to invest maybe 500.000 USD and then perhaps I should be able to live on investments. But this video changed my mind, perhaps I should be able to get by with a lot less.

This Thai farmer claims to work about 1 hour a day and that 1 hour of daily work generates for him around 50 USD. More than enough to take care of his family.

Another interesting video from this farmer on "Sufficiency": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWwh5N0JRhk
There is no such thing as "double taxation", because tax rates are not additive, thanks to tax treaties. So, if the tax rate is 30% in US and 20% in EU and you've already paid EU tax, you only owe IRS the difference (10%) not full US rate.

Since, thanks to Trump, US tax rate is now almost equal to European, then you pay almost no additional tax for bringing your profits back to US.

The only remaining issue is additional accounting required, meaning you have to hire accountants both in EU and in States.
I see. I don't have experience with the public sector myself but what I meant is this:

If I have only a 4 hour workday, people(bosses) think twice about wasting my time with useless meetings. Also it gives me energy to start into a day with only 4 or 5 hours ahead instead of 8h+.

Of course having a shorter workday doesn't make it 100% productive. But my personal experience is that it is MORE productive. Sadly most of my days are 8h+.

I also want to add that a tired, worn out developer might even cost productivity by introducing flawed code into the codebase. Did you ever do a serious code review while being tired? I don't see how that works. Then others have to deal with all this stuff afterwards.
> They were just herbalists using science

That is a stretch. The witch in the book of Samuel summons the spirit of Samuel from the dead. So clearly she is more than just an herbalist or poisoner, even if the word could be translated like that. And I don't see any basis for "using science".

The definition of whichcraft in early-modern Europe was using magic to harm other people. Poisoning fell under this, but using herbal medicine for benign purposes was common and not illegal.
All the while, we have the new company formed out of the work of the SAFIRE project that uses self-organizing plasma fields that makes traditional tokamaks look entirely stoneage.

Not only are they doing fusion at a tiny fraction of the power, they're doing it with a much much much smaller system that is producing heavier elements out of thin air while having started as just a "sun in a bottle" research system to understand how the Sun interacts with the electromagnetic field of the galaxy (and why the 1960s nuclear fusion model of the Sun explains nothing of the past 50-60 years of observations published since).

They did it on basically a shoestring budget, too.
I think I understand the mechanics of double entry bookkeeping, but what I find confusing about it is that it is the redundancy. People emphasize the error detection, but these errors can only exist in the first place because of the requirement to record each transaction twice. Also you get a lot of "fictious" or virtual accounts that don't correspond to concrete piles of cash or bank accounts.

It seems much easier to me to just record the transactions ($100 from bank account to shop on date). Then you can generate balanced account sheets from this automatically.

But you can go further and look at the actual cash flow. This is something you can't easily do with double entry: how much money did I have on day X? How much money will I have approximately on day Y? Will any asset fall below a certain value? And make nice graphs out of everything.