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Recently my work has approved for me to go full-time remote.
Prior to this I didn't give the topic of full-time remote working too much consideration because I assumed (we all know what that does...) that covid wasn't going to be as drawn out as it has become. Now that I've shifted to a full-time remote position, I've been giving a lot of thought to what tips or tools can make it easier to work with other remote coworkers or coworkers that are "on site."

I recognize that communication is probably the most important factor and is one of the biggest reasons that employers want employees on site. I mainly got permission to go remote because I've worked hard to develop good communication pipelines and habits while we're all working from home. A few ideas I've had with helping communication are:

- Using some form of digital whiteboard. I haven't found anything that satisfies me because I'd really like to be able to virtually collaborate with coworkers, just like I would on a physical whiteboard. Tablets or software might work well if you're not looking for that collaborative feature.

- Write a daily update on messaging channel shared by the team at the end of the day. There's no mandatory daily update and I head my own very small team (2 people) on an R&D project, but I give daily updates, just to be transparent about progress to management so they don't feel like they're out of the loop (I've got really good bosses so this hasn't been abused so far). This also serves as notes to other team members who might be out one day or people who just come in to help with something specific and want project context, they can look over daily updates.

I'm early in my tech career, so I probably don't have as much insight into what else could be beneficial to be a good remote worker. I'd be interested in other communication tools, technical tips, or any other advice people have to offer.
I think that's more a problem for the grandparents and parents
And 11 days ago when it came out, with no discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26033759

It's pretty amazing to think of something traveling from Venice all the way to a place that's very remote in this day and age.
Exactly, this is C macro 101.
And Bhutan and Thailand? Don't cherry-pick monarchs.
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Owing to the HN audience there might be a bias against this being true, but I expect there was a boost in general population. I don't think I spend more time on social media than I did before, and not by conscious choice.

What's interesting to me is, earlier in the pandemic I would hear more lofty plans for organizing online games and having more video calls between friends and family. It's amazing how quickly the motivation for this dissipated. Maybe because it's plainly cumbersome and awkward and just doesn't feel the same, and everyone I know still works.

For my part I think I've retreated from video/audio correspondence considerably. I still write to strangers online, which is social media, but feel like this experience has made me retreat into my shell. No substitution for seeing people in person.
But it is. A regular conclusion summarizes the article, doesn't contradict it.
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The most troubling part of the NYT article is a glimpse into how hostile some tech folks are towards the idea of journalism:

“If things get hot, it may be interesting to sic the Dark Enlightenment audience on a single vulnerable hostile reporter to dox them and turn them inside out with hostile reporting sent to their advertisers/friends/contacts,” Mr. Srinivasan said in an email viewed by The New York Times, using a term, “Dark Enlightenment,” that was synonymous with the neoreactionary movement.
It explicitly is though - the reflection of the will of the people living there right now (or at least those of them that get out and vote, which definitely isn’t everyone, but what else can you do?).

You seem to be trying to include the will of a hypothetical future set of people that may or may not arrive - practically though, how would that even work?
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> Why trust the negative reviews?

Fake reviews aren’t all that cheap, in the scheme of things. Leaving bad reviews on the competition doesn’t have anywhere near the immediate impact on your bottom line as fake good reviews on your own products. I also haven’t seen reports of people being paid for bad reviews, when confessions of people being paid to write good reviews are all over the place.
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That'd depend on how the shipping is done. What you described would apply for something like retail, where the factory only deals/sells to a distributor (stateside), which then sells/ship them to retailers. Under that setup it would be hard to accurately predict where a particular motherboard would end up at the factory. However, I suspect for large orders, they won't bother with that and would send an entire shipping container or pallet to the customer straight from the factory.
thanks for your comment,

about my temporary choice for aws:

the reason is explained here : https://temporary.chat/qa.html

"I dont like your dns, registrar etc : took amazon for the ease of use and because I am familiar with it, but it is not my final choice, my goal is to make this as portable as possible so it can be deployed in virtual machines, on personal computers etc. I will not start using amazon services even if they are dirt cheap and I know how to leverage them. I do not want this project to be locked on a specific cloud platform. "

Middlesex, GB??? - > i'm in montreal canada

about the source code: ansible playbooks have a structure, src folder is not gonna fly here. "split the client" -> there is no client

but I can probably improve the repository structure, yes.

And, if you want to be so "security hacker like nobody knows" > I have no such ambitions.

create fancy profile picture with no face > I don't see how if I choose to put my face online or not is relevant here.

Get a decent username no hash gabage > the hash garbage is a md5sum for the word "git", I don't have imagination.

Hide your WhoIs Information from the domain > On 17 May 2018 the ICANN Board adopted a Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data. https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2...

Got I disapointed? Yeah > It is okay, I know the project is not quite secure it it's actual form (even if a put a bit of effort on the security side) it is a work in progress.

Would I trust this app even if the source code would be readable in any way > if you cannot read my source code, I highly doubt you'll be able to read the signal source code (which I looked at)

thanks for your comment.
Mod doesn't mean nothing. A lot of the powerusers also moderate major subs and can spike opposing content and users who would interfere with their clout-chasing, and appeal to sympathetic admins to enforce "harassment" provisions if their manipulations were being critically discussed in places on Reddit that are beyond their reach.

I mean, is there any defensible reasons for why we often see the top powerusers on these subs also act as mods? I'm sure that they aren't behaving as "normal" mods.
There is no "you" or "self", that's the illusion. The "self" which exercises "free will", that's just another psychologically constructed phenomenon, just like thoughts and ideas and images. If "you" choose to move your hand, it's really just the environment, your senses, and your brain dictating that movement, your sense of self is there as a feeling. Meditation reveals that this is not necessary, this sense of self can be dispelled if you simply investigate it with focused attention.

The above example is not a good one, it's a bit of a straw man actually. The better one is this: pick a film and think of it in your mind...which did you select? Monsters Inc? Animal House? There is no "you" selecting these films, its just your memory module skimming through films you've heard of and seen, then some "preference" circuit is acting to decide which film to "pick" for this exercise.
Unfortunately, our economic system guarantees outcomes like this in pursuit of perpetual and ever increasing growth and profit. We either need to add regulations (short term fixes) or change our economic system (long term fixes). We can't continue to do nothing if we want to maintain a civil democratic society. Misinformation and propaganda are too powerful to leave unchecked.
addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26154076
Syndicated version, no paywall:

https://www.afr.com/world/asia/china-targets-rare-earth-expo...

Edit to add: a commenter has said that they hit a paywall on the link above. I think I might have avoided it because I have javascript disabled by default. Anyhow, here is an archive link that should work, whatever your settings:

https://archive.is/fbUtK

Further edit to add that there is now a syndicated copy on ArsTechnica, which definitely doesn't have a paywall:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/china-targets-ra...
There’s an old saying that Austrians claim a lot of things, but ultimately become Keynesians in a foxhole.

There is no “there” in Austrian economic reasoning or modeling: the fundamental premise is to reject empirical evidence in favour of Praxeology. This is useless for forming economic policy.
For an amusing take on this, have a look at Calvin Trillin's "The Red and the White", collected in Feeding a Yen.
> It's just not a nice thing to do

No, this goes far beyond "not nice"

This is an attempt to bully competition (both in ideology and in business) off the internet by putting their personal well-being in danger.

This kind of defamation+doxxing is just utterly despicable. Journalists who repeatedly pull this kind of stunt should be fired.

And setting aside how this type of thing affects the individual victim, consider how it harms journalism as a whole, by painting journalists as untrustworthy immoral backstabbing asshats.

Put bluntly: when populists like trump call the media liars, the saddest part is that they're not wrong.
Ideally they'd go on low carbon cooling towers e.g. from nuclear plants.
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> put it on the already hot stone? How do you get the dough from the place you topped it to the stone without it falling to pieces?

There are plenty of demos and tips on "how to launch a pizza"

e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=153&v=_3jAnfvriCE&feature=yo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkD-IrTNpTk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=153&v=n8F8YdxA5jA&feature=yo...

> Are you using temperatures too high for cast iron?

No, not at all. So why not use cast iron?

IDK, when cooking pizza inside a kitchen oven some people do use cast iron plates. They're a fair amount more expensive than the ceramic "pizza stone", and heavier, apparently they work very well. google "pizza steel".

In a custom-made pizza oven, ceramic floors are the only type I've seen. I guess iron just isn't necessary in this case? The whole interior gets heated up to 450-500C. If you're building a dome outdoors out of concrete and brick, then thermal mass is there because of regular mass?
Wait until people figure out how much power the AIs already have over election outcomes.
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They should also disclose a spending ceiling. How much do you need to / can you spend to gain access to all the content. Do I need to spend $60, $600, $6000, $60,000 or is there no limit?
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> The fact that there is a limited supply will ensure the prices keeps raising, because nobody can "make more bitcoin"..

This is a common claim, but nothing is ensured here.

Almost everything else we put a value to has a more real underlying value that's also growing. Gold has uses in technology, with stocks most companies have real assets that could be sold off, even with art I think most people would be willing to buy an art-piece for the right price. The value of a Monet for me might be a tiny fraction of its valuation, but it's there. But nobody has any underlying interest in a Bitcoin. Its value as a currency for paying for products and services seems to be diminishing as well.

You can't make more Bitcoin, but you can easily make more cryptocurrencies, all with the same limited supply (which according to some people means the value MUST increase). And they're all equally interesting. The one exception with Bitcoin is that it was first. You could say it has a tiny bit of underlying historical value.

To me, I think it implies that it's inevitable that Bitcoin will have a crash that's very deep and very long lasting. It's impossible to predict when though. In the very long term it'll probably increase due to hits historical value. But by that point I doubt it'll significantly outperform other investments.

I also think there's a very high likelihood that many governments will regulate cryptocurrency exchanges to death at some point. A rally against Bitcoin specifically can easily be justified as part of the fight against climate change, since it wastes so much energy.
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> But all of the rationalists I have met […] were […] taking that ideology to the logical conclusion that […] disagreeing with [libertarianism] was a moral or intellectual failing.

Interestingly enough, Scott Alexander published an entire essay disagreeing with libertarianism. Your rationalists' views are not representative of Scott Alexander's views. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-liberta...

There are a lot of ideologies calling themselves rationalism, many of which feed into each other. Scott Alexander has basically invented his own, and it changes significantly over any given two-year period (as expected for somebody continuing to learn about the world); the best way (imo) to appreciate his articles is to read them, think about them and assume that around half of each is wrong (or, if you disagree with the core ideas of an article, which happens to me on occasion, that around half is right).
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Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalization I'm honestly surprised to see the world "radicalization" used as a net negative thing, rather than positive/negative/neutral depending on context.

E.g. Gandhi would have been called "radical" without implying any violent tendency.
But don't most respected newspapers have sections also for culture, literature, science etc.? I think they do
> I have been working on algorithmic trading and it is not that hard to reliably (like 100% of the time) respond within couple microseconds.

As someone who works in the flight test instrumentation industry (that primarily uses PTP rather than NTP), my first thought was "is a couple of microseconds supposed to be good?". With PTP, I usually achieve RMS offsets of < 50 nanoseconds over gigabit Ethernet.

I sort of agree with your point in that it's probably pointless implementing NTP inside of an FPGA, but I'd like to extend it further and say that if you really care about accurate timing, you should be using PTP rather than NTP anyway. In that case, an FPGA solution makes much more sense. However, in the systems I've worked with, the FPGA only implements a few pieces of core functionality - like the frame time stamping and the numerically-frequency-controlled clock. The actual protocol is usually implemented in software, except in the case of transparent switches.

That said, most modern NICs have PTP hardware, but you still usually need some external logic to actually use these synchronized clocks.
If you don't assign different relevance to different causes, you can't say that you are a less relevant cause than the preceding history. Relevance is a practical requirement, without it you, say, can't improve Tesla autopilot, because the cause of the crashes is big bang, and you can't do anything to fix that cause indeed.
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"Bread and games" was an worked as a political tool 2000 years ago, it works today, and it will be still work 2000 years in the future.

Anyway, from the top of NYT page:

> World / U.S. / Politics / N.Y. / Business / Opinion / Tech / Science / Health / Sports / Arts / Books / Style / Food / Travel / Magazine / T Magazine / Real Estate / Video

Cooking news is inside Food. Music news are inside Arts.

Science has it's own section, but I don't read it. (The Science block of the papers in my country are sometimes not very good. There is a lot of credulous copy&paste form PR, and technical words are replaced by inaccurate simplifications, so sometimes you have to decipher what was the original discovery. Also some Science hews are posted in the Health section if they are related to Medicine.)

An interesting part of sports is that they generate a continuous stream of random results. You can fill pages and pages writing the results and some ad hoc interpretation. If a team wins, it's because they changed the coach, if a team loose it' because one of the players is unhappy about the food in the training, whatever, it's very difficult to verify the hypothesis and people loves reading it and all the drama. https://xkcd.com/904/
Sure, but you still can't police the content your kids watch there passively, while conversely with Netflix or cable you can set it and forget it.
Not really. It sells papers. If there is a market for it, it will continue to be provided.
For those unfamiliar with the name, Citybee is a car rental service that operates in Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. I haven't seen any concrete numbers, but by my personal guess they're the biggest service provider in these countries by far.

According to Wikipedia, they had over 400,000 users in 2019, surely this number will have gone up in the meantime. This is very damning, given that apparently the leak includes:

> Compromised data: Email Addresses, Passwords, First Names, Last Names, Government ID Number
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It may be more about the survivorship, than any of the supposed traits that make a good businessman. Why are the winners often superstitious? Because superstition works? No, more likely I imagine, is that they take unpredictable moves from time to time. Often that is a mistake, and those businessmen we ignore. But if they make a random move and succeed, we laud them as a real Chinese Businessman, a True Scotsman.
This is what I think The Social Dilemma missed. I worked at one of these companies and did not see anybody evil looking to enslave users in front of their screen. Instead we built new features and celebrated when time spent in our app went up or a new feature was used because we assumed the user must be getting value. After some time we switched metrics from time spent in app or daily active users to Net Promoter Score but at the end of the day if analytics didn’t show that a feature was used it was dropped and if it was being used we’d double down on making it “better” (used even more).

I did not see any evidence of malicious intent towards our users but a genuine belief we were enabling them to be more productive.
Even if you said Bitcoin hasn't affected your personal life you'd be in a vast majority, and Bitcoin has got a few years on Ethereum.

It really is nascent; embryonic.

Personally, I think it's future-defining technology that's being created, but it's a decade at least from reaching common acceptance and use. Cultural change is long and slow, it's one of those things that doesn't change until the status quo generations die off and are replaced, and there's a good couple of generations that don't even know of / care about / understand bitcoin nevermind smart contracts and decentralised finance. I don't understand the absolute fundamentals, but I understand the implications.

Long term change, generationally slow migration.
Bitcoin has pioneered a new asset class that can be transferred over the Internet and is not dependent on a central authority.

I don't own any cryptocurrency and can't put a dollar valuation on such an achievement, but it's certainly not an everyday thing.
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It's an approach that didn't gain popularity. Bruce Schneier panned the idea, if I recall correctly, because he thought the extra traffic was wasteful. He's so well respected, perhaps that played a role.

I think there are variations of the approach that could make many kinds of tracking pretty useless.

Part of my confidence comes from my bias that 'AI' is mostly hype. Google hasn't manage to filter all spam from their results nor to 'read the users mind' particularly well when parsing search results. I think they'd have trouble separating generated results from real ones.

Somehow this reply sounds combative. That's completely unintentional.

I look forward to your next post.
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Textbook macro was pretty accurate post 2008, pity it was ignored.
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Very regularly I'm sure. They will do exactly as they are told.
I've been lead to believe that grit is the most common trait among successful business people. Maybe that is a western belief.

I also think that culture is too. But that we make our own culture though the friends, family, associates, and communities we participate in. If you roll with a culture that puts a lot of importance on business success, then maybe it will help keep you motivated through the tough times. It will help your grit.
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TLDR: Article ends with

> whether it’s “real” or not — that’s not a question that science has yet discovered the answer to.
I'd be fine if they limited free to one account, but not being able to sync across desktop AND mobile defeats the entire point.

Guess it's time to switch to bitwarden?
The whole thing is strange. Despite what various tech commentators may think, Bloomberg is a legit media organization which doesn't make major accusations casually. Doesn't mean they don't screw up from time to time. But it's at least "interesting" that they not only didn't back down but they doubled down on this story. This story would not have run if editors weren't convinced it was substantially true for whatever reason.
I'll provide some definitions, from Oxford:

individual: "single; separate"; "of or for a particular person"; "a single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family"

free will: "the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion"

From these definitions, we must question whether a single human, Homo Sapiens, can possibly act at their own discretion, without fate or necessity as the cause.

The history of studying free-will is extremely lengthy, everything non-biological that can be said has likely been said. We've been blessed by modern science to have a lot more understanding of organisms and neurology, so we know the "inner workings" better than Descartes or Locke or any of the old Christian theorists.
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