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> Productivity

Some people have issues separating work and home, especially when the lines blur too much due to working from home. an Office makes you know you're at work, and thus it's easier to focus. For many, working from home means more distractions and thus a harder time focusing.

> Personal preference

Everything here is a personal preference, which is not a bad thing. The title starts with "I miss..." so it's not like the author claimed it's a thesis on working from home. It's the author's personal experience which resonated with quite a lot of people, of whom you aren't.

Maybe they also enjoyed the human companionship, which isn't the same over video. Maybe they don't live in a place where they can easily switch to a bigger house for a spacious work space.
Could you speak of technological feasibility? Would such a platform require research-based solutions, or is this system a sum of solved problems?

Also, I understand many successful innovations have good timing to thank. Do you think now is the right time for the world to accept such a system?
But "back then" you would likely get to know them much more than you do your work colleagues. Note I'm not saying it was better, but it was definitely closer than the average work relationship today. You'd likely know their children and their relatives, share festivities etc. You can do that with workmates now but it's entirely optional, whereas before it effectively wasn't. And you would do it over decades.

> Locating sustenance or making copies, it’s same same

Your belly going hungry is a direct incentive in ways that "maybe in three months I'll get a salary increase if I do this well" simply is not, imho.

> you have things in common by socializing, not the reverse.

See, that's the difference between tribe life and modern life: now you don't even know if you have anything in common unless you actively socialize. In a tribe, commonality was immediate and from birth, socialization was a given, and you had to take active steps to be alone. Now it's effectively the opposite: you are alone unless you take steps not to be. Which has its pros and cons.
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Code rots/rusts faster than most physical objects. Requirements change, libraries update at a breakneck speed. I've had to deal with some (functional) languages that don't allow you to change the the variable where some would allow that sort of modification just fine for your simple example. Change is everywhere.
I miss it to but I don't miss the commute or the South Bay.

If the valley weren't so awful this WFH would really be getting to me. But that's not the case and I'm really enjoying my time.
> Same gini coefficient, same poverty.

That statement is obviously false. The US and Haiti have about the same gini coefficient.

> If you double the wealth and income of every person on the world, nothing changes.

The commenter surely meant doubling material wealth (as you put it, the "current amount of goods and land that exist on the planet"), not just some abstract numerical value.
Substance addiction has a inherited component, I don't doubt that people who are more likely to become addicted to something might have less income.

Given this study was done in a place with free healthcare it's hard to say how much causality there is here.
This is really neat – it basically can't be made any simpler, yet encourages best practices!

A while ago, while on the lookout for a somewhat more fully-featured web-based presentation tool than this, I ended up building something similar-ish on top of the Markdown renderer Markdeep:

https://github.com/doersino/markdeep-slides
The study talks about mental illnesses that require "secondary care", i.e. the general practitioner is out of options and needs to refer the patient to a specialist. So not just "bumps and bruises".
Just a side note - I am watching Ninja Nerd on Immune System https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTF9h-T1TcJj4AOPCxGxO... and it is great! I usually prefer text - but the visuals here really improve memory.
By your definition, your mindset is within the context of a "race", but why does the race exist in the first place? Why are you participating in this race? Does the race need to exist at all? I would argue that an ideal society would abolish the so-called 'race', and directly meet the needs of every individual.
My favorite is the possum bone artist sibling.
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It’s true, but doesn’t change the fact that a ton of people are going to associate this period with working from home because it’s the first time they’ve experienced it.

For some it may have opened their eyes to working from home and shown them that it could be a better way to organize their day. For others it will only underscore their preference for the office. I think that’s what you would find even in a more desirable experiment than the one we’re living through.
Right! .1% is less than cancer and heart disease and innocent people killed in the middle east wars but still more than the flu!
Yes. They all have problems. Small sample sizes, or non randomized groups, not double blind, etc. But, it’s all we have. The preponderance of data (imperfect as it may be) suggests that a public mask policy is prudent. Given the extremely low burden of wearing a mask, and the weight of the evidence in its favor, I really can’t understand anti maskers. Most of my friends are anti mask, and I’ve listened and tried to understand, but I always come away thinking they’re simply uninformed. Most of them get their information from sources that border on being conspiracy theorists.
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Sure.

> nc news.ycombinator.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 13:59:31 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Connection: close
Location: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Because context is always meaningless, right?
>There's a kind of arrogance that we fall into making decisions for others when we design APIs, library interfaces, etc where we know what we're exposing and users don't know what's good for them

This pops up a lot when libraries are designed with functions that are non-public. I only want to access the underlying function, not use your abstraction on top of it. You can't anticipate every possible use case of your library!
Children learn so much by watching. The same behaviors modeled by parents that reduce their income are then learned by the children and repeated. This is how families become locked in generational problems. They can be escaped (obviously) by finding new people who set good examples to learn from.
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I would expect the population-wide correlation between good decision-making and financial outcome to be positive. (Good decisions, all else equal, will tend towards better outcomes financially and I’d expect the converse would also hold.)

How much influence that has I’m not as sure about, but I would be shocked if there were zero or negative correlation.
Ask HN: How do you organize your personal notes on the company codebase?
How do you organize your knowledge base / notes on your companies codebase so that you know where a note should go and can easily find those notes later?

Asking for a friend ;)
I’d argue that in many cases a 100x optimization is much easier than a 10% speedup. Very often the 100x speedup isn’t because you’re now doing something particularly clever, but because you were doing something stupid before. It’s very easy to do something horribly inefficient if important parts are hidden behind some abstractions. An ORM is maybe the best example of this, if you’re not careful you can easily generate queries with it that are several orders of magnitude slower than the straightforward and efficient version.

Optimizing parts that are already reasonably efficient is much harder, but unless you spent a lot of time optimizing already there are likely plenty of low hanging fruit.
There's nothing saying you have to tax the first watt like the millionth watt.

Just design the tax regime so that it is high usage users who are paying the high costs, and exclude any usage levels that would impact homes, small businesses, and "normal" acceptable uses.

I agree that tax policy is more complex than just "tax the shit out of it", but everytime a tax is proposed, there comes a group of people who argue that taxation is so complex that we can't possibly grok it. That is clearly not the case.
Don't take it as a personal accusation - it's great, and lucky for you, that you get that kind of energy from your work and from your relationship with your colleagues. I've had jobs and colleagues like that too.

But fundamentally, your employer - the other party in your most basic work relationship (between you and the company that employs you) - does see you as being "there to work".

And the moment you switch jobs, or get moved into another business unit, or get laid off, those social relationships with your (now-former) coworkers aren't automatically there during the work day. If you want to preserve them, guess what? You're looking at using those off hours.

I understand your argument a bit better if you're treating socialization like caffeine or something - a purely functional hit of dopamine that gets you through the day. But I think that's maybe a fundamental disagreement on the premise of social life.
Yeah we do actually. The solution is to increase the economy so people can get jobs to eat food.
Have you actually tried that? I just installed it and it's just a buch of help files that link to the web. F1 continues to work the same way, bringing up websites, often useless ones like this one for a for loop:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.codean...
Ask HN: Why do big platforms like LinkedIn make it so hard to give feedback?
I remember not so long ago I was able to report bugs and improvements to LinkedIn support (and they were actually dealt with). Right now, trying to report that image captions aren't saved on articles, using Firefox, I find absolutely NO way to leave this feedback. The only feedback allowed is a "Was this page helpful to you, Yes/No" followed by a "Thank you".

This is a general trend on the big platforms, but hey, we are talking reporting bugs here. Isn't it best-practice to provide a good feedback facility anymore?

PS. I get there should be some friction to filter out low-quality responses, and being non-anonymous will serve to withhold trolls.
Using an old iPad with Safari, it endlessly spins on "testing your browser"
If it's not for grades, then the choice of tech stack is pretty unimportant. The hard part of a dating app is getting people to use it. Getting the app to scale is not a technology problem. It is a sales problem.

The generic advice is use a technology that lets you talk to users right away.
If you know that house number 235 is on the odd side of the road, you've committed a divisibility fact to memory.

This involves less memory than knowing how to use your calculator app to check.
They adjusted “for the potential confounding effects of parental history of mental disorders...”
Random chance. Even the most secure generator (or true randomness) will generate "weak" results with dieharder if you run it a few times.

Dieharder is useless for everything except spotting obviously and blatanly broken RNGs. Also, dieharder (like all other statistical tests) make absolutely no statement about security. A generator that scores high may be trivial to predict.

It's also worse than PractRand or TestU01. Generators that score consistently well on dieharder can fail predictably and consistently PractRand and TestU01 (because the generator has actual flaws that Dieharder cannot detect but the others can). I don't see any reason to use Dieharder at all, it's ancient and has not been relevant for a long time.
If you weren’t paid and wouldn’t work, would you still go to the same office, and would they allow you there?

If not, you are probably there to work.
That is because:

- You have too much company at home, or you have none.

- You cant prioritize well

- You hate your job and you get distracted

- You need supervision
Alien 3 is a masterpiece. The acting, visuals and the music are like nothing else. I understand people got pissed when they ditched the surviving characters from Aliens. But in Alien 3 it all makes sense and the film stands on its own.
I agree with your statement. A 10x engineer doesn’t deliver code 10x faster but rather delivers 10x value to the company. They are more than an engineer who plugs code in an IDE. They are a company man/woman who understands the business, business processes and the customer. A 10x engineer can anticipate the needs of the sales and finance teams. They understand how technology can impact the customer or how the business generates revenue. A 10x engineer isn’t always the person who places 1st in a coding competition or knows how to write every sorting algorithm without reference.
I've tested my Firefox. They said I don't have an Ad Blocker. Since I use uBlock Origin it means either my ad blocker is quite smart or their technology is poor which casts a shadow over this tool entirely. My 2 cents
>> Is the problem inequality or that the income is below...

I'm not sure this is a valid (in a Popperian sense) QUESTION.

Income is interrelated to a motherload of other population factors that interact in complex ways. Things can be both cause and effect. You live in a cheap neighborhood because you're broke. Maybe this low income neighborhood or has worse jobs or worse schools. Maybe crime is high. Stress. Mental health. Relationship consequences. Financial consequences Etc.

These things are complex in practice and can span communities/societies.

I don't think we can understand these things fully or mechanically. There's plenty of evidence, theory, and common sense that such problems stack. No theory or measurement is definitive, IMO. Weather you theorize about the world or deal in data, you're probably not distinguishing between income and income inequality well. They're too tightly interlinked in practice.

That said, I doubt that middle-quintile income groups in much poorer countries than Denmark exhibit the same mental health patterns as bottom quintile groups in Denmark. So... "income threshold, not income inequality" probably isn't true in that sense.

I wouldn't jump to the opposite conclusion either, that absolute income thresholds don't matter either. I just don't think we can reach conclusions about social issues in perfect isolation from each other. Society doesn't work that way, so it's hard to reach conclusions about it that way.

In practice, income and income inequality within societies exist in an interlinked way. We don't generally affect one without the other. We can't easily study/measure it either.

Parsed as a strict-sih Popperian question, it just ends up being a moot question. Maybe in a human petri dish it's possible that mental health is totally unrelated to income. Does that even mean anything?
Same here, most of the people who miss the office is because they cant organize themselves or set decent limits.
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Is it a real effect, or a mere correlation between relative low income and other kinds of social marginalization and/or lack of social capital? It's not always easy to measure the latter at an individual or household level (hence why relative SES is often used as a correlate), but there's plenty of research highlighting the importance of social capital provision at a broader community scale.
I disagree. When your eMMC degrades, your Pi turns into e-waste. With SD cards you get to enjoy the progress. In both speed and price per GB.
> Humans were never intended to spend so much time alone, we’re social animals.

I am not a social animal, I think you'll find the 'non social humans' to be a larger group than you imagine. Just because we have 'do' doesn't mean we all are.
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> ... if so many employers are looking for 10x engineers and some are willing to pay them 5x or even more...

Now we’re no longer talking about productivity but about value. Why a company decides to pay well above the average for an individual is going to depend on a lot of things, starting with whether they can even afford to pay this much.

Edit: Making these pay levels all about productivity, in yourself or others, ignores a lot of other avenues that can increase your value.
I would think that maybe they can save a very low proportion of chips with ECC not-working, but the large majority would be completely arbitrary market segmentation: handling of ECC is going to be limited to a small relative surface area of the die.

Now Intel 10nm still seems to be so bad that maybe it is interesting enough to bin on that, and maybe that's the cause Tiger Lake is even more limited on ECC capabilities than before in the various SKU. Although we already saw a restrictive move on Comet Lake.

Instead of continuing to multiply their SKU (I think they had enough even 5 or 10 years ago), Intel should go back to the drawing board and ship interesting microarch on better nodes...
That’s just it — no benefit to you, but a lot of benefit to them. They need analytics to sustain their business. They need ads to sustain their business. They (maybe) need fancy interactions to differentiate and thereby sustain their business. If you expect everyone else to only do things that benefit you instead of mediating between benefiting you and benefiting themselves, you’re gonna be pretty disappointed.
500 MB/s is more than enough for most applications.
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> infused with wildflower, herb or vegetable seeds.

Can I select which kind of seed I'd send?

Why not trees? They are difficult to grow, but it can be a nice long term present.

Is this for indoor or outdoor? Do you customize the mix when you send it to different states? (The best mix for Alaska and Florida are very different.)

Do the postcard have any image, or only the text of the message?
I miss getting out of the house and having a 'clean' space where I can focus on work without any not-work people or not-work distractions around me.

I miss the separation between having a work desk with a work computer and a hobby desk with a hobby computer and being physically unable to interact with one while at the other due to them literally being several miles apart.

I miss the clear demarcation between Working and Not Working that the daily commute signified.
I certainly agree there's a lot of skill; my point is more that it's often not running the show. As to on-time/on-budget rates, I'd love to see some data. Significant cost overruns and delays certainly still happen. E.g. this non-CA building was at least 20% over and a year late: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/business/comcast/comcast-tow...

And I'll note that the Empire State Building was not a standard office building of the day, but the tallest building in the world. (A title it held for 40 years.) People building today have an 80-year advantage, plus the rise of computers. You'd think we'd be able to do at least as well with every building, but we don't. That's in stark contrast to building safety, for example, where we're very good about learning lessons about keeping buildings from collapsing.
Whistle blowing? Isn't it ethical by definition? What could be an example of unethical whistle blowing?
Could you do you something like

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Can it support 64-bit ARM? Perhaps it will run faster than Ubuntu 20.10 on my RPi 400
If you’re trying to layout a newspaper style web page, sure.

I think it’s less true if you’re trying to play a game, look over a complex dataset, do high-end image previewing, maybe host a multi-party video conference, or other highly interactive application in a web browser (for user convenience and, to some extent, because users semi-reasonably trust browsers more than random app downloads).
Which is probably his worst film. Expending more effort on a more rewarding ending would have been time better spent.
Ask HN: How do I learn embedded Linux developpement
I already have a CS training and a good knowledge of C/C++. I played a bit with arduino electronics and raspberry pi (always with raspbian). I'd like to learn things such as buildroot and the device tree.

My first goal would be to hook a DPI LCD to a linux board (Lichee Pi nano) using an image I'd generate through buildroot.

Are there comprehensive ressources (free or not) for learning such things, like a book or an online course ? I feel like a lot of the documentation is hardly accessible for plain beginners and it would be perfect to have a more guided experience.

This series : https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/08/mastering-embedded-linux-part-1-concepts/ was very informative as an introduction but it'b be nice if I could go more in depth.

Many thanks
That's nice, thanks. Also, I didn't know Markdeep, I like it.
Cheap used x86 is often the best answer.

Couple years ago I bought a pile of barebones ex-Datto Alto, NUC-style, AMD GX-415GA systems on eBay for sub-$5/ea and I reach for one of those for pretty much anything that doesn't Actually Need an RPi. RAM runs $5-$10 for 4GB, $20 for a 2.5" SATA SSD. They boot much faster than a Pi, idle around 7w, and run fine in my "network closet" that gets over 100F in summer.

Those exact systems aren't plentiful on eBay any more but there are tons of NUC-alikes, actual NUCs, and Thin Clients in the $40-$75 range with low-TDP CPUs of comparable performance.
Exactly! If you watch Obama's past interviews he says explictely that US was disappointed by France's weakness on Libya. Not to mention that France made a big deal of its "decisive" action after the US took down the anti-air defense.
Anarchy is still politics.
I've lived a good part of my life in IJmuiden/Heemskerk in NL, near Wijk aan Zee where one of the SAR stations for the region is located. The North Sea can be pretty nasty in that area (well, the sea can be nasty anywhere but the particular underwater geometry makes that area quite dangerous even in good weather).

My office overlooked the main waterway and what always struck me is that if there was bad weather incoming you could see all the pleasure craft and the merchants that could make it in time make a beeline for the harbor and the locks while - not all that rare - the pilots and the SAR vessel were going the other way, straight into the worst of it.

Most impressive.
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Unfortunately, will power means nothing.

What you need, as I learned, is discipline, which is really hard to train. you basically have Work hard on small things one at a time until you build the habits you want.

On that topic, this is pretty interesting:

https://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need...
You switched from spending money to wealth. That exposed a weakness in the argument: it’s only when wealth is spent that the problem arises (if it exists at all).
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Yes, it has a long history. Like most math formulas, it back to Leonhard Euler. Ramanunan proved this series with his summation technique.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B...

[2] https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-ramanujan-summation-...