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Ah hot desking building services wet dream -) only problem is people hate it, the human animal likes its own space and we each have our own preference.

And for the near future these desks will need cleaning after each use.
> This data can track drug transporting and child trafficking, a letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) to transport body Transport for London (TfL) said.

Note the use of 'can' instead of 'does'. Without more conclusive wording, I'd say this is just the police's (and Uber's!) way of justifying surveillance by implying, but not outright stating, that it's being used only against the worst crimes.
Good news is that under the current administration the usa has heavily reduced it's foreign presence
I got on much better with the sabra security at TLV after raising my voice and waving my arms around. A colleague later explained my initial beating around the bush reservation had been on the rude side by their standards, but expressing my frustration was polite honesty.

(I was blunt upon departure and it went swimmingly.)

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvwpNkJd82w&t=75
I've come across the same issues that others have reported. The answers have more or less been "contributions welcome". They have every right to say that!
And would it be equally “pro free speech” if the US went down the road of preventing we citizens from accessing propaganda websites affiliated with the CCP?

And ban “bad” propaganda movies and media from the CCP?

And ban direct conversation with known “bad actors” in the CCP?

This sounds like a really slippery slope to me.
I have a mixed bag of feelings regarding WFH. I realize that the current situation at my employer is not comparable to a real remote (and asynchronously organized) setup. Way too many people try to emulate the office, while at home. I have meeting in meeting staring at a screen not getting any meaningful work done during the regular hours most people are active. To be able to deliver on deadlines I needed time in the very early mornings and late in the evenings. This led to massive overtime and also to the situation that my significant other and I weren't seeing each other nearly as much as before Corona while both working from home without a daily 1.5 - 2 hour commute.

Some small project teams got it right and reduced meetings and replaced them with asynchronous communication. This was a great experience. But sadly I got pushed into projects were this just wasn't the case.

So probably your experience is more of a Covid-19 experience than remote work.
The proper term is "elliptic curve", just FYI.
As a general rule, I don't think there's any reason to believe the average FBI complaint to be any more or less accurate than this one.
> Many fewer than were destroyed covering far vaster areas with farms.

How is that relevant? You can't eat solar power, and we can't grow enough food indoors to replace farms. It doesn't make sense to compare the energy, agricultural, or land use needs of early 1800s America to 2020 America. Completely different ballgame.

> That doesn't contradict the point I made.

Your point require more explanation than you've given if it's a serious one. It's not clear how solar is going to magically need less land use for transmission infrastructure.
> All humans are capable of growth and change.

No, they aren't, and people die every day due to government's tolerance of such elements.

(Not saying this is the case with the DPR case)
Yes, no, please, thank you, and 1-10 aren't 80-20, but can go surprisingly far.
I don't think you can relax a lot and enjoy retirement with 12 kids at home ;) This sounds like hard work to me..
The big issue with doing that sort of thing these days is that for the price of the specialized hardware you'd need, you can just buy mass-produced general-purpose computers.
> A terrorist is not likely to select a solar manufacturing plant as a target.

A terrorist is not likely to select a nuclear power plant's dry storage either. Again, a terrorist stands to kill far more people crashing a plane into a building than either dry cask storage or solar panel manufacturing planet.

> What chemicals would you be talking about? silane gas is explosive, but burns to water and silicon dioxide

Crashing a plane into inert concrete casks is too great a risk but crashing into a plant with explosives is fine? And depending on the type of solar panel being crated, manufacturing could involve cadmium and other materials that could easily pose a cancer risk on par with the uranium in the dry storage casks. And I doubt these materials are as well secured.

> So absurd, the US government gave the hijackers of Southern Airways Flight 49 $2 million

The plane itself is more expensive than the $2M. I doubt the authorities' decisions would have been different if the hijackers threatened to fly into the nearest skyscraper. And by the way, the hijackers threatened to crash into the reactor not the dry storage casks.

> about as absurd as an earthquake and a tsunami flooding some emergency generators

Earthquakes are real concerns, planes flying into dry storage casks are not. There's no Mohr's circle here, only increasingly bizarre scenarios about how someone might compromise dry storage casks (coupled with handwaving away the fact that there are far more dangerous things a person could do with a hijacked plane, like fly it into an occupied building).
How do Googlers actually feel about all this? It seems to me that a lot of the reason you work there is the benefits at their offices. If they are cut, then it's like getting a pay cut.
because you expected it to be of limited supply and to run out? how do you gauge if that'll be the case?
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I once developed an entire CMS in Bash and Zenity. We could not use dynamic languages on the web server and only had an SSH access to a very restricted machine. The users where not technical and resented command line interface. So I learned Zenity and played with it up to te point where the website (it was essentially a calendar + attached documents interface) was entirely editable using the Zenity GUI. A few years later I heard that my script was still in use at the place where I made it. It was good fun. I just like doing stuff with Bash :).
All the diversity hires are working out it seems.
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nice one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejA0wKTRHH4

Presentation shown to new Mercedes salsman in the late 1980s and early 90s. Covers lots of sales tips and techniques to help put the customer in the driver's seat of a new Mercedes.
I think it's ok to freak out. It's better be sooner than later to freak out :)
How about mandatory education?
Could do the same with freezers. And maybe a few degrees with fridges.

And boost those with phase-change materials at the right thaw points.
I'm guessing it's a uncomfortable fact for the hackernews crowd who seem to travel a lot and also claim to care for climate change.
This whole case just makes me incredibly sad.

Two federal agents tampered with important evidence, likely fabricated the entire “murder for hire” fiction, abused their law enforcement positions to steal millions of dollars worth of bitcoins, and carefully framed other people.

The literally corrupt federal agents got a slap on the wrist. They’ll both be out of prison soon.

But the young man who built a website for weed is to remain in prison for life.

What a sad, miscarriage of justice.
There's a reminder that it's an old Sun campus: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-suns-logo-is-on-the-back...
> Again, a terrorist stands to kill far more people crashing a plane into a building than either dry cask storage or solar panel manufacturing planet.

For terrorists, body count isn't the goal it's one means to an ends indicated by the label.
I have to reboot my TV every six weeks, it clearly has a memory leak.
It's obviously personal to each person, but I think it's quite healthy to spend a little while away from one's partner from time to time.

A bit like working from home helps with "deep work" away from the office, being at home with partner off on some travel helps with "deep home", to really appreciate a quiet place, and be full of love and welcome when they come back.
The externalities are orders of magnitude less complex to deal with.
Mailed. (Messaging via my github also works.)
It's important to note here that paid means 67% of you net salary but only up to 1800€. While this is nice, this is not enough to just live off for most people (that don't have a lot of savings).
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Are you only reading the first few words of my sentences or something.

One parent is with the kids, the other goes shopping. Same for cooking. Both of these activities can be completed once the other parent comes back from work. Just because one person works does not mean they are completely unavailable to help in any way.
> I see that you do not understand that an emulated popcount instruction would be worse than useless.

Where do you read that I'm talking about emulating popcount in software?
I mean exactly the opposite.

If you need to support all B, or a subgroup of B, you can choose to put popcount in hardware and emulate the other instructions.

> If you found anything I said surprising

This is neither a source nor an argument.
Radish sounds pretty fascinating. Any suggestions for a cheap Cholesteric LCD screen (which retains displayed image even when off)?
You know that Google used to operate in China until 2010 where it voluntarily* quit Chinese market?

* In a sense that Google didn't want to follow Chinese laws anymore.
Then, getting a clerkship with a “feeder” appellate judge is almost entirely a function of blind-graded exams in law school.

I dispute that assertion, given that Yarvard no longer assigns grades to law school classes. Thus, it becomes almost entirely a matter of connections, even more so than it was before when they actually did give their students grades. The only difference is that Yarvard students who would have once been prioritized for clerkships on the basis of academic success are now losing clerkship positions to fellow students with better connections than them. While I don't feel sorry for those students, it has had the knock-on effect of making it even more difficult for non-Yarvard students to get clerkships.

“Connections” matter to a degree (working with the right law professors to get good recommendations) but it’s a highly structured process.

The connection to the right law professor doesn't just matter to a degree. It's the single most important factor in determining what students will land federal judicial clerkships. The NALP conducted a study on this, and found that more than 1/3rd of federal judicial clerkship positions went to students/graduates that personally knew the judge they clerked for (generally on the basis of meeting the judges at law school functions). In contrast, state judicial clerkships were generally assigned on the basis of merit, with few if any of the clerks knowing their judges prior to clerking for them.
>>Are you uncomfortable adopting that belief with literally no concrete evidence that anything of the sort is actually occurring?
OK, I'll assume that you are right. That will change the minute China decides to, and no Chinese court can intervene.
I really don't think it had much to do with whether they had access to Facebook...

This seems to be getting caught up in general "pro-US"/"anti-US" or "pro-China"/"anti-China" sentiments on the forum. To be honest, I'm not interested in that or getting into general political discussions, though the question of how the tech environment will evolve around the world is very interesting to most of us that read this forum. Someone claimed it was "surprising" that Americans would support their companies operating overseas but oppose alleged data gathering by allegedly foreign-government-linked corporations. I expressed that I'm not surprised by that at all. That matches up pretty well with how I imagine the American public reacting.

Likewise I do think the nature of this allegation is different to national security allegations in the past. So far as I recall, this is the first time a national security risk allegation has been about mass data collection on civilians from the regular operation of an app. Cambridge Analytica is perhaps the closest equivalent, and that got shut down pretty quickly even though it was a company run in another western country.
To offer a counterpoint, my worst experience in 2 weeks through Thailand was with a hostel run by British expats.

The description of the room was completely different from the room, extremely hot and humid even by Thailand standards, the windows wouldn't lock and could be opened from the balcony (accessible from other rooms), and the room just had bedding: no wardrobe, no drawers, no hangers, nothing (the pictures showed rooms with some basic amenities). On top it wasn't cheap either.

When we raised the concerns, the manager was both extremely drunk and non cooperative, which awarded shitty reviews. We didn't even spend there the night and took the last minute cancellation fee as a loss. They replied with made up stuff about us being violent and threatening.

Despite that, the place had (and still has) raging reviews from bogans, as it has a bar with plenty of beer variety on the ground floor running basically 24/7.
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The problem is they could pull a Facebook and show certain content to change peoples moods intentionally. It's already proven possible. That said, I'm all for legislation against all social media companies.
I don't think a social network is like a book. It's more like the postal system. TikTok is not saying anything themselves. They are transmitting communications that other people are saying to each other (in the form of short videos).
> If you don't want to leave your family for a couple days every quarter, you can still live close to the office.

And now, they have to live in a very expensive area and have to work from home except for a week every two monts?
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Is there a better way to phrase that question?
I agree, and we need something that's equal across the board which will try to handle domestic companies doing things like Facebooks mood experiments.
I know it's Google[1] but try this:

https://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search

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[1] Boo, hiss, etc. ;)
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Oh but it is ok, it's just that there's no good legal precedence for it yet.

Plus it goes against the US's low restrictions and limitations on doing business.
As a person with darker skin living in Europe, I’m told I have vitamin D deficiency and take supplements. Could the higher rate of COVID illness in black and minorities be related to this?
Like every other company operating from the Caymans; tax evasion.
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Ask HN: Feedback from anyone who finished Nand2Tetris
I recently came across a course named "NAND2Tetris", it seemed really interesting since it teaches lower level concepts right from the basics with the focus on building projects. I'm wondering if anyone on HN has finished it before and if yes, what was your experience like?
It’s OK-ish to just open the door, say something like “uh sorry our meeting just started in this room”, then leave but keep the door open.
You're not citing a better source either agreeing or opposing the argument made though.
Sometimes, right clicking on the larger preview image and selecting 'view image' will bring up the original. Not always though.
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Another great reason I want to continue working remote: Why would I want to leak any information in my body language to coworkers or management?

I have no idea what they are going to do with said information, and the fact that I'm not already saying whatever it is my body language is communicating means that I would not like to supply it.
By that rationale, Apple and Microsoft are Chinese companies.
Once the majority of folks are back in an office suddenly those not there are seen as “other” and not part of the core team.

If sitting on a specific chair is how people know you're a member of the core team, or if people forget you exist because you're not in the office, then your work isn't very high impact or noticeable, and people don't respect your knowledge enough to actively seek your input. That is the problem you need to fix, and it's a very a different problem to whether or not people see your face every day.
reactos being clean is a funny joke
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It's called "nudging" for a reason.
I use gitk pretty often and really like the fact that it acts like a modal, showing a richer UI visualization based on a shell command I run, and when I close it, I'm back to the command line where I was. I've been hoping to write my own CLI tools like that, ideally using React for the UI, but it seems like it's a big pain to set up right now. Is anyone aware of a nice way to do that? Maybe Zenity is flexible enough for arbitrary UIs, not just dialog boxes?
I use nothanks@mailinator.com and email verification works for most part.
Doors - that would imply a room.

So many people are working at a kitchen table right now or similar. I.e. in a communal area, due to lack of spare rooms to make into an office.

Imagine two adults trying to work at a kitchen/dining room table all day with children around.
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The US tries to keep up the outward appearance of that, but underneath it is or is quickly becoming a fascist police-state oligarchy.
I guess I'm lucky. I've only had to reboot mine a couple times since I've owned it (over 2 years).

Incidentally, my TV is the only "smart" gadget I have beyond a phone, tablet, and some laptops. There's significant value in being able to run Netflix and other apps on the TV.

When toothbrushes start coming with LED screens, then maybe I'll upgrade. :P
This thread is a quintessential anti-nuclear circular argument. Sorry for bad paraphrasing, but basically:

A: Nuclear is dangerous because bad things happen if a jumbo jet crashes onto it.

B: Is there anything that doesn't cause bad things when a jumbo jet crashes onto it?

A: Irrelevant, these things aren't as dangerous as nuclear.

I get that there are issues with nuclear. This isn't one.
> drive yourself wild or they will drive you wild

"ordinary people" are 'stupid fools', this is somewhat unsurprising yet funny when it actually came from Feynman
The physical auth devices survive a lot and will last for years / decades. Quite a few of them supported only RSA keys, so don't expect it to go away any time soon.

My almost 10yo yubi still works just fine.
It’s obviously not okay for China to ban Google. That’s why China gets criticized for it constantly, by both the west and its own citizens.

If US wants to retaliate China by becoming more China, well, surely China isn’t the only one getting hurt.
I'm not sure what it says about me, but I wanted to make a joke about a pregnancy test running Doom, and all I could come up with is "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!" and "cool, but does it run Crysis?"
I suspect many people can't work at the local cafe as something might leak if a person took a picture of their screen.

And I know, just for me. On scale of 1 to 10 if for me WFH is a 3 then work from cafe is a 5 and work from office is a 10 (note: this is with cool people on cool stuff, those numbers and even order might changes of those 2 things were not true). I don't generally talk to anyone at a cafe so I don't get any social interaction quota. I can't bounce ideas off people at the cafe, they aren't generally fellow SWE. So while it feels less isolated than WFH it's not a substitute for me.
You can use batteries more than once! If you cycle them once per day for ten years to store solar power until night, your numbers given mean they add $30-100 per MWh to the cost of that stored power (but not daytime use).

Not cheap, but in no way a "fantasy". Certainly not in a world with sane carbon pricing.
These cars will be able to drive themselves to centers where they can be cleaned and detailed if and as needed. Scooters today can't.
ReactOS developers have been using the old Windows research kernel leak for years as a source lol
Are you going to cite your sources or are you just echoing others?

At least we know what Facebook et al are up to (wrt the US government) thanks to the Snowden leaks.
It's not nearly as bad compared to Japanese. And it pretty much only happens in conversations.
Can you please not do programming flamewars on HN? It's low-quality discussion and it has poisonous effects on the community.

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Frontier is probably my favourite game studio right now. RCT3, Zoo Tycoon 1 and Thrillville on the ps2 where probably my favourite games as a kid and they absolutely smashed it out of the park with their Planet series getting everything that made the originals good right while making it so much more advanced.

Simcity 2013 and Zoo Tycoon 2013 were such disappointments so I'm glad there is a trend along with cities skylines to revive classics in a way that doesn't stomp on what made the originals great.
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I wouldn't, he's flipped his opinion on people so often and so easily.
The Pink Panther films are also hilarious parodies of this genre. Peter Sellers as inspector Jacques Clouseau is a blast
For sure. We used to live in a basement flat in the UK, and when my partner and kid were diagnosed with Vit D deficiency (white skin) I knew I had it too (dark skin). Two weeks of dosing myself cured my knee pains. And I’m a highly-clued up HN reader.

Start hoovering those tablets, fellow darker-skinned technocrats!
Is something like greentunnel necessary. I'm in India and I've found that Firefox with its builtin DoH connection to Cloudflare seems to bypass all govt blocks I've personally come across. Haven't tested specifically for this though... just normal browsing experience.