skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s because leaning is such a bad term to describe what happens! Even when I learned to ride bikes, it felt so strange that “you have to lean left/right”, cause I understood somehow that I’m a much more massive object and the center of masses is around my butt at best. So leaning doesn’t change much in mass/geometry/momentum configuration. You may shift a bike under you with your arms, but this is limited to their lengths.

What really happens is that you always fall either to the left or to the right. If you fall in a desired turn direction, you turn a little. If not, you turn even more than is required to support a normal turn, so that your bike moves below you to the point that now your mass part is to the other side of it, and now you fall in the other, initially desired direction. Then you quickly turn at where you need. With practice all this movement reduces to centimeters and very smooth curves at all joints.

You move and (importantly) rotate your bike under yourself. It has nothing to do with leaning, because it’s the road/front tire that make a difference in a balance, not your flanks. Leaning helps to not fall off the seat when you cycle, but not in turns.

It’s clearly a trainer’s delusion to me (that thing when your trainer explains things that do not actually work/exist but you translate or ignore these terms showing respect to a good man).
Coming from a country where, comparing to Japan:

-Suicide rates are roughly the same.

-Fertility rate was actually lower for a time - currently slightly higher.

-People work considerably more hours per annum.

-Average apartment sizes are lower.

I take such statistics with a grain of salt.

I think that currently they aren't significantly different in this regard than the rest of the developed world.

My anecdata from southern and eastern Europe says that things like stable employment and housing are hard to come by among the Ys and Zs and these are both major hurdles towards starting a family.
I’ll just say this one last time. You keep making the argument “for the benefit of developers”. If you want to win me and people like me, Apple’s customers, you need to start making arguments “for the benefit of customers”.

You want Apple to change? Change the hearts and minds of the people who like Apple’s products and pay Apple.

Statements like “the history of the mobile phone market doesn’t matter” or “I don’t care if the iOS interface is any good” or (paraphrased) “I don’t care why customers choose Apple” will just cause you to alienate the people you need on your side.

For your own sake, please find a better argument rather than repeating yourself.
For me, either I can go to the office 90% of the time or I can burn out from being alone at home and only talking to people via chat/video. My personal live is qualitatively better when I go to work most of the time. There are tradeoffs but on the whole the benefits of WFH (less interruptions) don't make up for the isolation.

In the same way working 60-80hrs a week will start being more productive at the start but eventually burn most people out, at least for me and people like me, not hanging out with others will do the same thing.

It's a balance for me. Too little direct interaction, short breaks, sharing lunches, having non-work related conversations, will end up decreasing my over all productivity.

You're welcome to WFH but I personally hope you're in the minority because if no one but me goes to the office then it's just as bad as WFH for me.
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' but 'That’s funny...'"

Isaac Asimov
As someone who has been living full time in a travel trailer in the past year, I would go even further than pushing for mobile home communities and push for blended mobile home / tiny house / RV communities. I'm currently in one in Austin and it's a blend of tiny houses, motorhomes, travel trailers, and mini hotels. It's a dynamic inventory of housing. It's a very flexible use of space, and each lot is less than 0.1 acres, but you still have access to common apartment amenities like pool, clubhouse, etc.

I could imagine more of allowing property owners to subdivide down to that scale would go far to solve affordability. Quality of construction in travel trailers, tiny houses, and mobile homes has improved compared to what they were 50-60 years ago when the trailer park trope was coined.

At any rate, I enjoy the flexibility of being able to hitch up my travel trailer and move locations in no time flat. It's been great during the pandemic to go visit national parks and get outdoors. I just see it as a no brainer. It shouldn't cost a quarter million minimum to lock in a nice location for yourself. You should be able to scoop up a 0.12 acre lot for a few thousand bucks and put a modular or travel trailer on it.
>I really miss my 30 minute bike commute.

I've seen this argument before, and I don't understand how working from home changes this honestly.

Why not just start your day with a bike ride for leisure? Unbound by the location of your office you can now cycle to any arbitrary location. If you struggle to do it without a reason, perhaps cycle to a bakery or store and pickup some fresh food for the day.
tmux? Most people I know still use screen.
One thing that surprised me coming to live in countryside Japan is that everybody is part of the "kumi" hierarchical structure. They are neighborhood assemblies, so 10-20 persons in my area, with a president and a budget. The kumi bosses elect a boss for their super-kumi (forgot the name of that) and it is hierarchical up to the city level.

They meet regularly to discuss local events, repairs, but mostly the matsuri (summer festival) and the bonenkai (the booze event of the end of the year). But they are also the ones who tell you who to support for elections. This year the local kumicho (head of kumi) came to give us leaflets for a city hall candidate, which surprised me because I know he dislikes the guy. But the boss of the "super-kumi" supports him so he gave lip-service to that. Knowing that this is the supported candidate by the local kumis will win a lot of local voters.

Another thing to understand is that seniority is very respected in Japan. I have seen a 63 yo man defer to a 65 yo because he was his "sempai". I don;t know if all the kumis are like that but ours is pretty much based on the assumption that the elder can boss around the younger.

That can explain why the conservative party is so well entrenched.

People polled in that article claim that they base their appreciation on managerial qualities and personal advantage, but from what I have seen, they get these opinions from their own social environment.
Associates Go on ‘Time Strike’ and Refuse to Log Billable Hours
> I find the current state the US is in vastly more dystopian

What you're seeing in the US MSM is nascent Marxism.

Half the population didn't vote for it, and the other half will be getting a rude awakening in the next year or so when utopia doesn't arrive (ie. no student loan forgiveness.)
I've found that 3-4 people doing the initial design for something is usually too many. One person on their own or two people so they can bounce ideas off each other seems to be ideal. After the first rough sketch of the design is ready (it shouldn't have too many details), it should be presented to a larger audience so they can take feedback and course-correct if needed.

The personal relationship stuff is tricky, and I think junior folks, and especially fresh grads, got hit pretty hard here. On the flip side, I joined a new team around the time we all went remote last year (with several people I'd never met or heard of before), and it turned out just fine. I wouldn't say I'm buddies with all the new people, but I think we all feel comfortable with and respect each other. I joined in more of a technical leadership role, though, so I can totally get that someone who has to also deal with receiving mentorship could feel a bit overwhelmed and lost.

The work-life balance thing I find very puzzling. Many people (especially in the bay area) have gotten 1-2 hours per day of commute time back from utter waste (though I guess you folks at Google have the buses). Sure, things get blurred when you work at a desk in your bedroom, or at your kitchen table. But this is something that you as a manager need to be on top of by setting an example for the team. Keep reasonable hours, and disconnect outside those hours. Don't hold your team members to deadlines that require them to work excessive hours. When you sign off at 5 or 6pm with your "gotta go, chat tomorrow", make it clear that you expect the rest of the team to sign off pretty soon as well.

Having said that, I do know people in my org that work too much. But they're the kind of people who weren't great at balance back when we were in offices, either.
YC is barking all the dammed time.
Fair point: I'm wasn't seeking to differentiate between vaccine supply and operational efficiency. Ultimately, the end user has little insight into where the issue lies - but thanks for the dashboard link that clarifies this.

So let's be more specific: the slow roll-out of vaccination in Germany seems to be related to failures in vaccine procurement and supply at a national and/or EU level. And this is why frail elderly people are still waiting... when less at-risk people in the UK have already been vaccinated.
Authoritarian IT is always insisting everyone use cloud services -- but exactly the same cloud service for everyone. This seems designed to fail.
Why would you choose the snowball strategy?

If you have a bunch of small loans with small interest and a large loan with high interest, I can’t see any reason to get rid of the small loans fast, at the cost of paying of the big one.

If you have many small, high interest loans and a large low interest loan, then there is no difference between the avalanche strategy and the snowball.

Unless there are clauses around fines for early termination of a loan, you generally pay off the minimum for all loans, and whatever is left in the budget for loan payments goes towards the highest interest loan.
Both of those hypotheticals don't really make sense.
Moment of shame. I don't understand terminal multiplexers. I just open a new terminal and SSH in again if need be. Keyboard shortcuts to arrange the windows.
lol, that's absolutely nuts

I've heard from people that many landlords randomize viewings from the first batch of applicants - I'm actually thinking of working on a weighting system to make the whole thing a bit more meritocratic, because right now it's frustrating at best, racist at worst
This is not a new thing. Google maps were hard to use as a map (on mobile, but on desktop too due to horrible styling) for a looong time for the purpose you state.

We just snap a photo of a tourist or transit paper map and use that on holidays. Way faster and easier to use for just walking around or planning a non-direct transit route.

Even a basic information like, "will we be walking up a hill" is hard to see on gmaps. Even on terrain overlay, the shading is sloppy an imprecise, and contour lines are a mess (too sparse, and marked too sparsely), no hills are marked with height so it's hard to see what's up/down.

Same location (lol):

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/5e34dc4220021506.png

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/e13a2b0008ba6d0a.png
I'd build my own P2P internet: http://radiomesh.org
We need populations to at the very least stagnate, decline is also not a bad idea.
this one is $7,000aud in materials
-timber (blackbutt and stringy bark) takes up a lot of this, buying seasoned wood for the hull is a pain but quicker and more space efficient than doing it myself.
-brass fittings are inexpensive, comparitively
-caulking and epoxy is cheap
-nails/screws/bolts/dowels/etc are cheap

because this one is more about appearance, it takes longer.
two different shades of wood and wanting to use clear coating on all of it. it will spend more of it's time viewable than in use.

if this wasn't for a friend, and needing a lot more finishing than most wood boats I have built, I guess my time would add $2-6k which isn't close to my hourly rate but allows me to build other peoples projects and cover tools/consumables/molds/beer

the heartbreaking part of this build for me is its requirement for outboard mounting. it really alters the lines of the boat.
Please expand. Japan is much, much poorer. The work environment is awful in at least two different ways, dualisation and insane levels of presenteeism. It’s quite sexist by European or US standards. What makes Japan look good?
Announcing new decision making procedures for Debian
You don't know how they measured the 13 days exactly and I would assume that there were already prior relationships. Still, it's exceptionally fast.

My experience from fundraising in London (UK) is similar to yours, we had one co-founder basically work full-time on fundraising for several months.
You mean folks associated with Y-Combinator, who contributed more than $US5,000,000 to Biden?[0]

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/joe-biden...
Yeah, I’m sure their political system’s success / failure wasn’t impacted at all by US intervention.

Oh, HackerNews. I love you.
+1. I think I could became a proficient C developer just by reading all the man pages on my laptop
One thing I have noticed is that while the old hats (those hired some time before the pandemic) are as productive, or maybe even more productive while working remote, it's a struggle to bring in new people, especially more junior people. Maybe these are problems that can be solved, but it seems that an already a challenging and stressful situation, joining a new company, is even more difficult when you are not able to spend time together in person to pick up on team dynamics and just general mentoring.

I assume it's a bit easier if you are more senior and have a few company changes on your resume, but for someone for whom its their first or second job in the industry, it can be overwhelming. I think that's why often fully remote companies pre-pandemic seemed to be more focussed on hiring seniors.

Likely some of these problems can be mitigated as we learn how to deal with them, but this is one reason why I think post-pandemic most software houses will have to adopt a policy of encouraging some on-site work.
> As the company would not want my personal friends to be hanging around the workplace for confidentiality and what not - by the same token, I don't workplace "friends" hanging out with me after office hours.

Both of these are common scenarios at Google, though.
Ham radio. The desire to communicate is always there.
I agree it's true for "some" people. Not for "most"

"spending time with family" - no, I'm single and alone and so are most of my co-workers

"living in a nicer / cheaper location" - no, my office is nicer than my home and same for most of my co-workers.

Your situation and needs are different than mine apparently.
Extra Extra HOPE HOPE
Perseverance was ~1 ton of mass at launch, and cost ~$2.2B (plus $243M for the Atlas V rocket). SpaceX's Starship aims to deliver up to 100 tons of payload to Mars for ~tens of millions of dollars. Imagine how much science equipment that could be.
> Designing over VC is very difficult, especially for something entirely new. 3~4 people working on a single whiteboard is far more efficient.

What's stopping someone from just... grabbing a whiteboard? They ain't expensive. Yeah, maybe not everyone can write to it, but everyone should be able to read from it. Designate someone as the writer and you're good to go.

> There's nothing like "gotta go, chat tomorrow" stuff.

What about "Sorry, just broke for $MEAL, let's put it on the calendar for tomorrow"?
USB sticks?
There is a difference between (1) being able to trace design inspiration back to something non-digital, and (2) skeumorphic design. The latter is more about making a nostalgic leap back to a specific pre-digital aesthetic, painstakingly hiding the interim steps.

The difference may be subject to nuance and debate, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Note, they say "soap lather" I take that to mean "a mix of soap and water" - not necessarily thick foam.
My Covid-project has actually been building exactly this -- except with QR-codes on cards and a dedicated reader. Still in mockup stage, but I really like the prospect of not having to pop out the phone (and inadvertently get distracted) every time I have to interact with my music-system.
No, no, their primary concern is their own interest.

A lot of politics gets much harder in remote work, and this is what these people are best at.

It's not productivity, it's politics that is much harder to do when remote working.
You start your comment by claiming GP's comment regarding a stagnant nation might not have anything to do with economics, but your supposedly counterexample, tax revenue, is about it's economy, isn't it?
Abbott BinaxNOW Gets Over-the-Counter EUA
That's only feasible if nobody (or nothing) else in your household uses the internet at the same time.
> The difference between Newtonian physics and Special Relativity is not so much as to shake basic scientific principles to their core.

Special relativity says that the temporal order in which events happen can () depend on the frame of reference of the viewer, and thus, such events do not have any objective order in which they occur.

() that is, if their relative "time-position" is spacelike, or in other words, if light is "too slow" to travel from one event occurring to the other event occuring.

To add on top of this, it says that if faster-than-light particles exist, a chain of FoRs can be constructed such that an event happens before itself.

If that isn't shaking basic principles, I don't know what is.
I guess this might be the reason they're getting rid of the downvote functionality.

The YouTube community usually doesn't take downvotes as "not interested", but rather as an explicit expression of "this is crap".
Reharmonizing a John Mayer Song That Doesn't Exist (Yet)
The problem is that the person in the office in another city, or perhaps even on another floor of your building, probably doesn't get to have that nice chat, ever, due to the lower likelihood of running into each other.

Why should my requests get better prioritization just because I happen to work on the same floor as a person in a key position?
These days I'm seeing the anti-identity-politics folks bring up identity-politics more than anyone else...
Why? Are incentives not a thing?
Howabout we get this raging pandemic under control first, and then companies can sort out how to get back into offices. There is far too much hubris and suicidal optimism at the idea that in a month everything is safe to share air with others again. Over half of the country is surging in new cases for a potential huge 4th wave, we're starting to see some vaccine breakthrough cases including unexpected hospitalizations and deaths from fully vaccinated folks, and children are still totally unvaccinated for at least the next 6-12 months. We also have only begun to verify mRNA boosters will work and be feasible to adapt to the ever-changing variants. All of these problems are surmountable and I fully expect to see them solved, but not in a couple months.
I didn't encounter any good primary sources, but a few references that seemed to indicate no difference in bacteria reduction between warm/cold water for washing hands. It may be that cold water is simply good enough.
I find I work more with other teams in WFH.

When we were in the office it was rare to speak with anyone who wasn't on your floor, whereas now it's no harder to work with someone in Stockholm or Berlin than it is in London.

Doing Zoom calls before was always a massive pain as we have an open office (like almost everyone nowadays) and there weren't enough private spaces.
Back to FIDO I guess? Lemme quickly find my point's number and blow dust away from my 56k....
> The more messages a person writes, the more the person cares, and the more their opinion will be taken into account

That sounds like a terrible idea. People who post a hundred angry tirades are rarely the most insightful ones. Additionally, this gives weight to low-effort, low-value messages.

Obviously the secretary won't do a simple message count, but try to take substance and length into account, but it is the primary feature under evaluation, as it's written.
That's great if so. Google however isn't representative of most companies by even a long stretch. In most companies, any stranger cannot go past a checkpoint without some RFID and what not that too with prior permission and purpose that's "reasonable" or at least your line manager is OK with it.
measurement of our bodies engaged in deliberate action

measurements of the world resolve ambiguities; they do not 'contain' descriptions of the world, not can they provide any

measurements of objects must be interpreted by models
Human behaviour is what makes the game agar.io so great.
In this game i occasionally observed players cooperating very successfully in free-for-all mode. The challenge is to find another player to cooperate with by winning their trust. You can give each other energy which makes the other play grow (and yourself shrink).

It gets super interesting once the power relationship changes in the game and the formerly weaker player can now kill the other player. Will he/she remain cooperative? Will you be backstabbed? A study in psychology and great fun.
In my car when spotify is playing through carplay I get a nice album art on my screen and between my dials, it also uses the colour as a blurred background effect, quite nice and makes me appreciate the art even if i'm (hopefully) not directly looking at it.
Sustainability matters. Can E-commerce business go greener?
As far as April fools goes, this is a creative way to do it ;)
I'd be surprised if that were really the case.

It's probably just a toothless blackmail attempt, like those "I've hacked your system and have video of you masturbating to porn, you naughty, naughty boy! And if you don't pay me 0.03 bitcoin, I'm sending the video to all your Facebook friends."

I suppose I could be wrong, but I'm probably not.
It's the same kind of auto manufacturing than algeria, no? How many OEM are present in india and what is their market share?
Thank you.

Your observation that cryptocurrencies are also embraced for nefarious - democracy undermining - purposes seems an additional aspect that justify a ban.

It’s just such a shit show, I hope the music stops soon, in order for a lot of people to lose their ‘faith’ in this ‘currency’. There is a finite supply of suckers.
Didn't work for me.

The fact that we work on the same thing gives me more reasons to talk. I can't ask random people at a co-working space to help me debug an issue or to brainstorm a solution. They aren't familiar with my project the way co-workers would be. They also are not NDAed to look at what I'm working on
Wouldn't that 3 hours per day be better spent on meditating/yoga/woodcarving (or any other relaxing activity) instead? I mean driving doesn't appear to me like most relaxing activity, but maybe it is just my perspective.
I think that’s part of the OPs point–this article tells us almost nothing usable other than its “good enough” and when that type of statement accompanies no information about actual quality, it’s useless and is almost certainly a puff piece funded by isps.

My dad considers the computer he bought in 2005 “good enough” but most people who are tech literate and who live on technology would consider that to be painfully ridiculous.
This has to be highlighted more.

The YC stamp is a door opener, a necessary condition to get funded, but not a sufficient one.

The primary way YC is beneficial for raising VC money is in the way the force founders to focus on the metrics that matter, say user growth etc. Which happen to be also crucial for VCs.
US Army Awards Microsoft USD21.9B IVAS Contract