skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that the article claims this, but this doesn't mean lockdown is leading to more or better work getting done, of course. It may just mean work-life balance is harder now that the lines have been further blurred. Or maybe work without commutes is relatively more relaxing to the point where start and stop times don't seem to matter as much.
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> Italy uses "calcio", which means "kick". Yet, for some strange reason Italians never ever get criticized for not calling the sport "football"

As Italian, I can explain you why we use calcio and not football

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcio_Fiorentino
Not officially, but it's fakeable
The sun doesn't emit a single electromagnetic wavelength; the light it emits instead broadly falls on a, uh, spectrum, including wavelengths that are either too large or too small to be perceived by our eyes.

It makes the most sense to call that white. Although, the wavelength of peak intensity is a green.
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A River Runs Through It

I loved the multi-threaded story--a love affair with fishing, a coming-of-age story, and an ode to the beauty of Montana in a simpler time. The movie was better than the book. My son has lived the first of those threads on rivers like the Nooksack in Washington. For me the movie articulated the transience of human existence and the receding beauty of the natural world as time passes--a fading that grows within us as we age.

Edit: added last sentence
They are so thin I covered mine with the wallpaper
This method was mentioned in the piece about the Galaksija[1] that made it the first page of HN last week or so.

[1] https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/07/make-your-own-self-managed-...
In fact only tech nerds want wired connectivity at all. Ethernet ports have pretty much disappeared from all laptops.
I still haven't understood how any of this is an improvement of a shell.
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Where did I say: "people in power abuse said power and never face consequences" or "Hilary Clinton operated a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza place"? It is very misleading to use quotes like I said anything along those lines.

People in power face consequences all the time. I never denied that. It just takes a long time for a reckoning to happen. Often decades, or lifetimes.

And I doubt QAnon conspiracy theory is as simple as "Hillary Clinton operated a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza place".

You are oversimplifying my point, turning it into a false dichotomy, and assuming the QAnon conspiracy theory is only the idea that Hillary Clinton operated a pedophile ring. My point was that depressed losers aren't the only people open to controversial theories about people in power.

I don't know many details about QAnon, and I don't care much to research it and come to an understanding myself. I have much more important things to spend my time on. But I do know from random posts I've encountered by QAnon people is that there is a wide range of beliefs regarding who is involved and to what extent. Actually, I haven't seen anyone accuse Hillary Clinton of involvement in a few years now.

There seems to be a growing consensus that child sex rings exist, corruption is involved, and something needs to be done about it. But it also gets blown out of proportion by less careful minded people. Isn't Jeffrey Epstein and "pedo island" considered to be part of QAnon? Isn't Epstein's involved with child sex trafficking generally accepted as true now?
> but try making Italian food with non-standard ingredients and the pedantry comes out in full force

for very good reasons :)
This is a sober self reflection. Whether you agree with the politics or not, it ought to be inspiring as a way to reflect on one’s impact on their society.

On the political side, it does seem to confirm that there was a strong intentional push against welfare maximizing healthcare policies motivated by private profit. It’s hard to see positive intent if intelligent, well resourced people intentionally made statements to lawmakers and the media about facts that they either knew were false (for other countries) or chose not to verify in the slightest. That’s grave damage to the public in a republic.
Can you share more details on the data source for this?

Seems highly inaccurate for the somewhat rural addresses I’ve checked in Pennsylvania.
Why wouldn't it?

CloudFlare is good at protecting websites.

They just need to be more transparent in the WARP+ app itself, and make it clear your real IP is exposed on the splash screen maybe.
Just following the general rule, if it can be used for surveillance, it will be sooner or later, because there is always a crime which justifies the surveillance.
Of course it is "just" a matter of time discipline.
Unsurprisingly it is harder to pull off when there are fewer significant external cues, such as physical separation of workplace and private space.

At the office, I'm reminded about ttgtfo by the building turning dark and silent. At home, as Europe signs off, the Americas come online and the buzz keeps going until Asia takes over ... For people without kids or family and an existing tendency to work too many hours anyway, this is not helping.
Also, communication feels a lot more time consuming now. More dedicated meetings to align, less time for craft: Either get less done or put in more hours.

I'm glad we've already seen a controlled re-opening of the offices here. I don't mind remote being an option, but I appreciate not being forced to work fully remote.
What didn’t work about telling people that you weren’t available at certain times? I’ve had this feeling as well, but in practice I find that people either respect my boundary or try to get a reason and then argue with the reason—the latter type now just send me the signal that I don’t want to depend on people like this anymore and that I should make space for new people. Asking more to trigger reflection than for an answer, rhetorically I think that’d be called. Best wishes. (Ps. It’s true that I’m homeless, if you check my history, and I don’t feel that’s an indication of having boundaries not being sustainable, I think I just had a lot of old garbage from being weak that lead me here but I’m more likely to overcome it with this approach, even if it’s slower).
Joburg :)
Could be Apple arm chips have certain instructions that are more optimized
I did this and lived there for 11 years, half of it working at mobile game companies at scale. Yeah, comparatively the salaries suck compared to the US, but I got to experience a culture completely different from my own the entire time. Only optimizing for cash seems like a waste of a life, so many interesting things to do besides chase money.

I’m now back in the States though, and all that skill building I did in Japan paid off. Making boatloads managing a software engineering department.
Yes, that's maybe the case. I haven't tried Instagram for that purpose.
Speaking as an ed-tech advocate and practitioner, having written games and platforms for kids, worked in schools, have kids who program- I can't align with this perspective enough.

We are biological/physical/chemical/etc embodied entities, with a spectrum of interactions, especially sub-teen- the range of which far exceeds present understanding.

Children need literal human contact, on real-life modalities, to survive and thrive. A child raised by screens would die.

For the later high school set, potential improvements within the limited screen modalities have some value, but still- this all reminds of early AI framings, where a machine playing chess was thought to be the sum total of human engagement capability. Those making the argument didn't even know how not-even-wrong they are.
This says that people work 48 more minutes per day on average. I looked up the mean commute time in the US, and it's 26.6 minutes each way. So this would still be a small net win for people who are working from home. The win is bigger if you factor in being home for lunch and other breaks.
Exercise. Your body and mind (brain) are not separate, they are one highly integrated system. The performance capability of one will impact the other.

Furthermore, getting a solid workout in the beginning or middle of the day can do wonders for clearing the mind and stimulating creativity & problem solving.
Kalliope[1] is a no code, but Python-based, voice assistant. I like it because you can switch out voice backends and it is designed to be modular with node-like constructs to build signals and responses.

I stuck it in a container and can control Home Assistant with it, run scripts, etc.

[1] https://github.com/kalliope-project/kalliope
10 gbit/s, as is common in networking.
Aren't monowheels very nasty when you fall? If it gets stuck you will just flop at high speeds.
> I don't know of a single employee of a serious actual business that has been issued an Apple anything. Not a laptop, desktop, or phone. I don't know of a single person that, when given the choice of what to use for work, has chosen Apple unless they already were entrenched in the Apple ecosystem.

What are you doing on this website because you clearly don't work in software.
The always-connected workplace is rarely efficient for production, just like open workspaces are rarely efficient.

If you struggle with your branding, then manage your brand in a way that doesn't result in killing yourself with anxiety of missing out.
I've noticed that American and British pronunciation of French loan words tend to be inverted, wherever one is using approximate french pronounciation, the other has anglicized

In the kitchen, the American standard favors the French: herb (herb vs urb) and filet (fill-it vs fill-eh)

In a car, it is reversed: chassis (shassy vs chassy) and coupe (coop-eh vs coop)

Others that differ include (all where Brits favour a francophone pronounciation) papier maché, en route, double entendre
I ran fiber between my house and detached garage (which also includes my office). Installed some large conduit so the preterminated fiber could be pulled through, ran it just like any other cable (trying not to bend it too much), and installed SFP modules in two Unifi switches. I'd never done anything with fiber before, and it was incredibly easy.

I opted to install twelve strands of single-mode fiber. It's insanely overkill (I'm only using two strands right now), but the cost difference was minimal.
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Network speeds are typically measured in bits.
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I’ve been adapting my schedule partly to the weather. When it is hot during the day, I try to shift some of my work to cooler hours.
This is such a garbage question. "force multiplier" in this context is a meaningless phrase cribbed from military jargon.
You may as well have asked "What is something useful that most people don't know" The answer could be literally almost anything.
It was one year ago when I started sketching the ideas for my first blog article. The reason? I had failed my biggest freelance project yet. Knowing that there were things I could've done differently, there was a need to share that knowledge and learnings. That's how my first blog article came to be.
Regular walks is such a big one for me. When I realised how often the solution to a problem I was trying to solve would come to me even if I just went for a ten minute walk round the block and thought about something else for a minute, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t done it before!

It’s now my default thing to do if I am struggling with a problem or just feeling slightly unfocused, even if it’s raining - I’m fortunate that my office pre-lockdown was on the ground floor, and my apartment has a large enough balcony that now I tend to pace up and down there rather than mess around locking up and going downstairs etc. I can see how having a lift to wait for etc. might make me less keen to do this all the time, but seriously, try it! (It’s good for you too :))
What I'd like to know is how they collected that data from 3.1M people.

> To study this question, we acquired de-identified, aggregated meta-data from an information technology services provider that licenses digital communications solutions to organizations around the world.

I'm guessing Slack, Teams or some other company provided them with this data. If they have access to this data, then what kind of data do employers have access to?

> Using the span of time defined by the first and last email sent or meeting attended in a 24-hour period, we also find the average workday span increased by +48.5 minutes

So that's how they define a workday. When you're in an office, you have lunch with colleagues and there might be pressure to end it quickly, especially if your boss is joining. At home, you can easily take a few more minutes, which might actually be the 8% increase they are seeing here. To add to this, just because the workday seems longer, it doesn't mean that the entire time was spent working. It's possible to take more breaks when you need it.
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I thought the W1 was only at the headphones-end of things?
I've always found that approach fairly insane. The Enterprise shops where I've done Sharepoint work and consulting always followed a strategy that SharePoint is good at its built-in features, but if you even think about writing .NET code to enhance it, just walk away from SharePoint and go write an app.
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> Why would I "waste" my precious 20s and early 30s being miserable and retire at 35? Who even wants to retire?

A few months ago I read a comment from somebody on a documentary about people optimizing for retirement in their 30s and it stuck with me:

"Live like a caveman until you are 35, then retire and live like a caveman until you die."
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What's oddly left out in the article is the detail of whether or not he already had a network switch with ports supporting more than GbE - the price for these things start at around 250-300 CHF which would double his suggested total cost - or if he's just linking two computers together. Personally I would just go with 2.5GBASE Ethernet and compact-diameter cabling. 2.5GBASE PCIe cards cost around $15 a pop.
The very second paragraph raisins this issue, followed by an explanation of why this article is about a specific sub problem:

> ... Indeed, many people who care deeply about vulnerable populations in ways that he has never shown are desperate to open schools. Children can be less safe at home than they are at school; families can face a crisis if a parent or guardian (often a mother) has to stay with a child rather than go to work.

> But as Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, put it last week, when she announced that all school instruction in her city will be remote at least until November, we have now moved to “a very different place in the arc of the pandemic.”...
Asking questions when you don't know what's going on. If you are willing to "look dumb" you will end up saving yourself hours struggling to understand something when you are lacking key information / context that a simple question/answer would provide.
By babysit, do you mean someone used to go thru the sheets and update all the accounting stuff? I know its a bit idiotic question but I won't be really surprised if that's how it was.
Also I was basically in the room for the birth of the modern consumer smartphone and I'm not a billionaire. Huh.
This feels like one of those things where you're only able to do this because of those "pearl clutching rule followers". If everyone lived to break most rules, I doubt that would be a good thing.
Lockdown 'killed two people for every three who died of coronavirus' at peak
This is absolutely right. I've become frustrated with people trying to fight misinformation by just telling anonymous strangers "facts". Algorithms are not going to help win the argument. There are a lot of people who hate those who they perceive to be "elite technocrats". And its not completely unwarranted!

Its a really tricky challenge. The "steady state" of conversations online is mutual distrust. Unless we handle this underlying issue, clever algorithms like this will be ignored.
As I’ve learned more and more about 5G (which is a nebulous term, really, but what I mean specifically is the planned upcoming releases of LTE 16 and 17, as well as the features of LTE 14 and 15 that users have yet to take advantage of) I’ve become convinced that it’s going to transform how so much of the world is designed.

5G technologies allow for more devices to send more data using less power. This is achieved using a huge variety of new technologies. For instance, with beamforming, the tower sends a directional signal to your phone based on its location instead of broadcasting an omnidirectional signal. This uses less power and supports for more users.

What consumers see is much higher data rates for the same price, which doesn’t seem that important. But on the industrial side, there will be offerings that allow for low data rate, low power applications at cheaper and cheaper prices.
I think it’s Steve Jobs that was a once in a lifetime aberration. Under his leadership Apple basically created three industries: mass-market personal computing, digital music, and smartphones.
Have you looked at AWS' new Graviton2 instances? They compete handily with x86-64 instance performance, and are cheaper to boot.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...
Oh. I’m definitely working more hours total.

But I might go to the shop or take a 20 minute nap if I’m feeling frazzled.

Overall I prefer this interleaving of my work and my life, but I appreciate that it shouldn’t be expected.
"I'll bet that they had a lot of Cossack cavalry; which, I suspect, didn't do so well against machine guns."

From an article about calvary use in WW1 (on the same site as had the German front color photos):

"Generally the troops can retreat faster than they can advance, so in an age when "breakthrough" machines (tanks, armored cars) either did not exist or were even slower than walking men, cavalry was given the task or harassing a retreating army in an attempt to turn their retreat into a rout and prevent them forming a defensive position further back. So cavalry was not meant to be charging into the teeth of machine guns, but rather charging into groups of men as they fell back, hoping to break whatever discipline they had left.

"Throughout the Western Front of both sides had large bodies of cavalry on "standby" when they launched big offensives, in the hope that they could break the enemy line and the cavalry could turn a little tear in the line into a huge opening. However, from 1914-early 1917 the offensive strategy used on the Western Front undermined the ability of cavalry to fulfill this role - week-long artillery barrages gave the opposition time to prepare secondary lines of defenses and bring up reserves to fill those lines. So rather than charging into a disorganized mass of retreating men they found freshly build trenches and machine guns - exactly what they were meant to prevent. Therefore the cavalry had little use. However German lancer units were more usefully employed in the war against Russia because the battle was more fluid and less encumbered with barbed wire trenches that tied up the Western Front."

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/german-cavalry-lances-1918/
You mean it makes it harder to read, because it's harder to look for the meaning of operators (although there is hoogle). If that's what you mean, I agree.
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Covid-19 brought the 'largest criminology experiment in history'
YouHole made me think of https://forgotify.com

It serves up songs from Spotify that have had 0 listens.
Wish I had known about this months ago! Any more info you can share on data, plans, etc.?
I've been experimenting with buildah, but that does look like another option I should try, thanks.
This was an interesting read. The equivalent story for Switzerland would not be so rosy, unfortunately. I wish we had a points based system here, they seem like a useful addition of fairness to the fundamentally unfair global migration situation.
Sure, on the surface, that's ~6 minutes "won back" during lockdown... but time commuting and time working are not equatable. Speaking for myself, my commute is a time to focus on something simple, reflect, and listen to the radio or podcasts. Work, while more interesting, is infinitely more mentally and emotionally taxing.

Also, lunch at the office can be a nice time to take a break and socialiaze, whereas lunch at home can turn into eating in front of one's laptop.
A work journal.

I know this one seems a bit obvious, but in the workforce, I rarely see people with them.

Work journals are not very exciting. But just writing things down really makes a difference somehow. Those boring meetings become slightly less boring when you take notes. That thing from six weeks ago doesn't slip by you as readily. That person's name on that one call isn't a mystery. Your year end report is chock full of stuff, not just a few .ppt bullet points of a few highlights.

It's pretty straightforward, and just takes about two weeks of practice to get into the habit. For the effort, it really does multiply.
> Such resistance is not unprecedented. When Gallup in 1954 asked U.S. adults who had heard or read about the then-new polio vaccine, "Would you like to take this new polio vaccine (to keep people from getting polio) yourself?" just 60% said they would, while 31% said they would not. So far, willingness to adopt a new vaccine looks similar today.

Interesting that attitudes haven't changed. I read a bit more about the history of the polio vaccine.

In 1938, FDR founded the March of Dimes, a nonprofit to help people with polio. Incidentally, this is why the US 10 cent coin has FDR's face on it. That nonprofit funded Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, the researchers who developed two different kinds of Polio vaccines in the 50s. Salk published in 1953, and large scale trials began in '54 and concluded in '55. Note, the Gallup poll was made in 1954, when the vaccine was still in trials. The successful vaccine was then licensed, and promoted by March of Dimes. "The annual number of polio cases fell from 35,000 in 1953 to 5,600 by 1957. By 1961 only 161 cases were recorded in the United States."[1]

In 1955, a manufacturer of the Salk polio vaccine had failed to properly inactivate the virus, leading to the deaths of 11 children, and 250 cases of paralysis. This led to a temporary drop in vaccine confidence, and the adoption of Sabin's less dangerous oral vaccine across the USSR and other non-US countries. Despite opposition from the March of Dimes, Sabin's vaccine replaced Salk's vaccine in the 60s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#1935
From personal experience I can confirm: I worked longer and more efficiently during working from home (WFH). There were a few more meetings as well. Sometimes a few developers and I simply stayed in a conference call for almost the whole working day. I had to start maintaining a log o working hours to stop doing more than 8 hours. There was always that last thing I wanted to get done that day, often costing 1 or 2 more hours.

And that was still better than having to waste 1h+ on the way to the office and 1h+ on the way back. I am not sure I would decline, if I was offered to work 9h a day but was allowed to WFH. I would still start earlier and be done earlier than when not WFH.
It feels ugly to me, but there doesn't seem to be a concise alternative.

It's usually used to refer to a person's record of wins, as in the coach who has lead a team to more wins than any other coach, at which point they are the winningest.

He's the...

winningest coach

most successful coach when measured by how many wins

coach with the best win-loss ratio

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