skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SBA is referring specifically to their own employees doing SBA work, not necessarily telework in general.

Interestingly, they attribute the additional productivity to the fact that their telework employees are simply working more hours:

> “It doesn’t matter to me where your eight-, 10-, 12-hour day is, but as long as we’re getting coverage from that perspective,” Rivera said.

> While some federal managers have expressed skepticism with telework productivity, Deputy CIO Luis Campudoni said employees are, if anything, putting in longer hours than they normally would working in the office.

> “From an eight-hour workday that you would normally experience in the office, now, without asking the workforce, certainly get 10-12 hours of work done on a daily basis. It’s because of that flexibility, people appreciate that,” Campudoni said.

I would also expect productivity to go up if everyone was working 25-50% more hours under the new system. I don't know if that's sustainable though. If these jobs are paid hourly and the extra hours aren't mandatory then the employees aren't necessarily getting a bad deal. However, if the extra hours are unpaid or the 12-hour days become mandatory, this could fall apart fast.
In RF engineering, it's typical to have all of your equipment referencing the same 10MHz clock (or a 1 pulse per second or IRIG-B). If I don't have a GPS receiver or a rubidium source, then I'll just pick the newest, most expensive piece of equipment with a built-in reference clock and fan it out to the rest of the equipment on the bench. Some portable spectrum analyzers have built-in GPS receivers so even out in the field you know you have a good reference.
FYI, this is an “article” copy-pasted from Quora.
> basic grasp of English or math

I don't think the SAT measures a "basic grasp" of English, it measures memorization skill.
> GNU maintainers already have full control over their projects.

This is untrue: https://lwn.net/Articles/753646/

"As the head of the GNU Project, I am in charge of what we publish in GNU manuals. I decide the criteria to decide by, too."
probably featured in a WSB "deep dive" where the author states this stock is the buy of a lifetime
Ah thanks for the reply, and yeah that makes sense. I don't believe it was a mistake as of now, but let me tell my story a bit better:

I got funded by Tyler Cowen / Peter Thiel @ EV and some angels for my first real company (can't link here), and while it wasn't required, I was making quite a bit of money so I left school. (I had a 3.98 my first 2 years in dual Comp Sci / Physics before, so I left with a 3.35 GPA after tanking junior year due to the company)

The unit metrics didn't end up working out, so i've been working on various products since with ~10k users on my previous one. (On my profile, if you care) It's a social app without huge growth though, so i'm not optimistic.

I have one more company i'm building with a friend now in a regulated space before I start recruiting. If this doesn't work out, I need to focus my energy on recruiting for a space i'm passionate about. I've built and launched over 20 websites and IOS / Android apps, and i'm the fastest React / React Native developer I know.

Would that sound batshit insane to recruiters, or someone perhaps worth picking up? I've also done a SE internship at a F400, tutored Engineering Physics, and done some freelancing w/ a 5.00 rating on Upwork if that matters. Thanks.
Does it matter though?

I mean that literally, does actual data matter? The data in support of telecommuting has been around for years if you want to find it, heck you even pay employees less in some circumstances as they can live in lower COL areas (plus cost savings in fewer offices/smaller offices/rental instead of ownership/etc).

But the reality is that a certain type of employee rises through the ranks: Those who have a strong aptitude towards interpersonal connection (i.e. extraverts). They're also a loud[er] group. They benefit more from in-person than telecommuting, and they also often make the decisions.

Do you really expect a group of decision makers, who gained power via their interpersonal skills, wanting to give up that skill advantage and potential turn their business into a meritocracy?

COVID was a rare blip, because it tipped the scales just enough to make their position untenable, but in five years I do not anticipate any broad change in landscape. Heck even before a lot of people had a chance to get vaccinated many businesses are RUSHING back into the office, why? The same inexplicable reason we're there to begin with.
Tesla Model 3 = #1 In France
This [0] is also an interesting piece. SpaceX won a contract for logistics services to the lunar gateway but not much has happened on that front yet. Here is an excerpt from the article:

"NASA, in a statement provided to SpaceNews April 14, said it has yet to formally authorize SpaceX to proceed on the Gateway Logistics Services contract because the agency is studying the overall schedule of the Artemis lunar exploration program, of which development and use of the Gateway is just one part.

“An agency internal Artemis review team is currently assessing the timing of various Artemis capabilities, including Gateway. The goal of this internal review is to evaluate the current Artemis program budget and timeline, and develop high-level plans that include content, schedule, and budgets for the program,” the agency stated.", from [0]

Now this is pure speculation but they are not maybe working towards doing away with the Gateway and going directly to the moon instead?

[0] https://spacenews.com/nasa-delays-starting-contract-with-spa...
In response to your final question: To my ear using "men" as a substitute for "all people" doesn't flow better, I found it rather jarring and antiquated and, yeah, a little insensitive. I'm also not convinced it's a purely stylistic decision, as you claim... There's a rather long history of using men as a substitute for everyone in, say, medicine, politics, finance, and many (most?) disciplines, with outcomes most of us agree were not so great. It can also muddy the interpretation of your arguments, as (asterisks aside) it's not perfectly clear when you say "men" if you're referring to everyone or just actually just males. It's an easy thing to change, and your rhetoric will be clearer, more persuasive, and less likely to be immediately dismissed by a fraction of your audience.
https://talknewswale.com/News_detils/110
Average trading volume is 346 shares. It’s pretty easy to manipulate the stock price when only a few people are trading.
The parent said "Not to mention the pain point that it still is to install and configure a JDK, and make it work properly with Intellij, why is it still so complicated?" It is NOT complicated. Everybody can try this out. But if the parent had these problems on some specific project where thigs were messed up, he should not generalize these problems from a specific project to every Java project... Everybody can install a fresh IntelliJ IDEA and fresh JDK - and see that this is easy and not complicated at all.
While I agree with you completely, I imagine there are a number of parents not savvy enough to know how to lock these things down.

I tell parents about the reasons to avoid this stuff all the time and many of them are so exhausted it's more of a "whatever, they will be fine" type of response (more politely of course, but that's the gist of it).

I feel it now too. My kids are in middle school and all their friends are getting phones. All I hear about is "Everybody else can do X! We're the only ones that can't."

I let them have stretches of unlimited game access and when I saw what it was doing, took them away. After experiencing it, when I explained how the games work to make them addicted and the things that we saw changing in their behavior they understood and at least now they take a lot of what I say more seriously when I warn them. So that's a positive.

I have backed off on some things due to the pandemic just to make it easier to play with their friends (Fortnite, Roblox, etc). Previously my generally rule was "no iPad/iPhone/Touchscreen games" but just about anything on the Switch/Xbox was fine. I find that games that you purchase vs games that are free don't have anywhere close to the same tilt toward addiction, ad feeds, timed rewards, etc. I also don't see the negative behaviors that came from these either.

Over time, their friends parents seem to be going the other direction and getting more strict with the electronics, so I'm hearing less "why can't we" and more "he can't play anymore today".

Social stuff though...zero chance. None. It's a disease.
JavaScript classes are not “just syntactic sugar”
Because over time humans get better at solving problems.

Are you predicting the earth will become uninhabitable in 50 years?
Is That a UFO? No, It's a 600 Ton-Capacity Russian Cargo Airship
It's 2021. It's really not that hard to secure these days.
There is no whining or any assignment of blame in the letter. It is a very cogently worded request to refrain from adapting a purpose-built app meant to drive engagement at all cost (Instagram) for kids under 13.

Of course there is a political play here: if this group gets Zuckerberg to back down and admit his product might not be good for people under 13, then an argument can be made against Instagram as a whole. Perhaps you disagree with that point?
Why does Spanner use a fixed shard size instead of scaling shards to the size of the dataset?
13 is the minimum age you can get some sort of consent to log data and interact with someone in the US (with parents permission I think?) or something like that
> There absolutely are children who are "blue" or "red". There aren't a lot, but they are there. [...] The analogy isn't perfect

It is perfect. Color, as you're using it, is a phenomenon of human perception. Different people have different color categories altogether [1]. Think of it this way, there is no spectrum of EM energy that is red or blue. But you can get a bunch of people to agree on naming some spectra "red" or "blue" based on how they appear. How do you do that? You teach people those categories. That's culture. We uphold these color categories with TV shows, toys, etc. I think there's a lot of use in categories like "red" or "blue". I find relatively less benefit in categories like "genius".

Let's see, you (paraphrasing) say "it's nonsense not to sort students" and also say "most students are purple, so how do we sort them?". It's my turn to be blunt: I see no coherence in what you're saying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ao_(color)
The claim “you’ve only got time to read a few thousand books” surprised me, but some back of the napkin math strongly supports it. Assuming it takes a week to read a book and 70 years of literacy only gives you time for around 3500 books. A more avid reader might average, say, 3 books a week—-but then you only get to around 10,000 books. Now, a monk might be able to read 30 books in a week and get to 100,000, but pragmatically “a few thousand” seems to be an accurate accounting for a person who doesn’t dedicate a large portion of their life towards reading.
> The externality problem ought to be addressed directly

What does ‘directly’ mean?

> instead of creating a new regulatory body to decide which goods are “good” and thus allowed to have externalities and which goods are “bad” and thus are banned completely or banned from having externalities.

How would you apply this direct approach to muggings or cigarette companies?
I found good success with going for the smallest investment in Bering and the second smallest investment in the other two straits.

The optimal strategy would be to estimate which investment maximises your log returns :) but I don't have time for that.
That's exactly what my comment was about though, polio isn't relevant.
I would propose something like the Buddhist notion of "equanimity" in that you cannot be internally perturbed by external stimuli, whereas with trauma the afflicted person cannot help but be perturbed.
I wonder if there's a marked disadvantage to using this on aircraft? I'm curious if some form of this tech has existed for decades for use on nuclear response TACAMO aircraft? Depending on the frequency response, it seems like this could be a horrible material to coat an aircraft with, due to IR reflectivity?

My uncle works at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma and always used to explain the different unique features of TACAMO [0] aircraft. Also, on a side note, he currently has his identical job he held in the air-force as a civilian and collects multiple pensions (albeit, he was always my "cool engineer uncle" who bought me my first soldering iron).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACAMO
Yes, this sh*t must stop infecting our children.

But in current conditions, sadly this trash will continue to harm our children if parents as well as those big tech companies don't tackle the problem seriously. It's sad that even they promote or allow it directly or indirectly.

Fortunately there are parents aware about this flagellum and it's harmful impact in the society, specially in our young people. And they don't allow that this happens to their children.
Yep, salty people who were late to the game will keep crying "bubble" for years to come.
I dunno. It's all well and good having multiple "angles" on a given topic, but if a new user has no meaningful way of distinguishing between those angles then it's just going to be confusing and noisy for them.

Self-written mini-bios are not the answer here; the question "what makes this recommender different from the others?" is not something the recommender can answer in isolation, even if they're being maximally honest.
It's so highly regulated in some parts of the US that certain types of alcohol are sold exclusively by the government.
Best description of Python I heard was "It's like pseudo-code that runs"
> couldn’t happen today

Well, except for Basic Economics ;)
DTMF “touch tone” telephone dialling dates from 1963
Something like this?

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/16/build-your-own-dial-up-isp-w...
You can get a good app from an original developer using an appstore. The problem you described is not that genuine developers cannot share their apps, it's that users are taken in by fake apps pretending to be genuine.

If it was the norm to download a signed binary from a random website, random websites looking genuine and offering genuine fake signed binaries would be the norm. "Are you sure you want to install Adobee PhotoShop? (Signature verified!)"

"No mom, Adobe PhotoShop!"

"I have Abobe PhotoShop, Adode PhotoShop, Ádobe PhotoShop, PhotoStop by Adobe"

"Mommmmm"
Yes, parents should make sure their kids don’t drink or smoke.

Also Yes, it should be illegal to sell them cigarettes and beer.
For people who expect to have stable earnings with the current interest rates being below the real inflation the Kelly optimal strategy is to be in debt use it to finance investments (of course this works only if the future earnings are really stable).

As a business example startups are starting to apply for loans against their future subscription earnings to reinvest in their companies. Debt against your salary is the personal version of the same strategy.
This species of mosquito spreads yellow fever, dengue, zika, chikungunya, and several other diseases. Malaria-carrying mosquitos are in another genus.

And yeah, people absolutely do die from those, and even if they don't, they are horrible diseases that can produce long-term health effects.

The case fatality rate for yellow fever is 15-50% (I'm guessing strongly dependent on whether the victim has access to modern hospitalization).

https://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/yellowfev/CSR...
Berliner here with a fairly leftie friend group, but decently interested in market dynamics:

There was money to be made in housing 10 years ago when rents were half of what they are today. What changed is the demand / supply ratio. I guess the laissez-faire logic would be that higher demand drives up the prices so much that investors can't help themselves but build more. Do we have empirical data from other cities that show that relationship? I.e. as rental prices rise so does private investment in housing? And also the opposite, how much do rent caps like the one in Berlin influence housing investment longer-term? I'd argue our Berlinian experiment did not get a real chance to run, given the expectations around it were that the courts might over-turn it, as they did.

From my understanding and from I read over on freakonomics a lot of the assumptions about rent caps come from single neighborhoods in NY which I'd argue does not generalize.
N2659: Safety Attributes for C
So Google has had years to sell this technology to car makers and failed or, worse, not tried.

It doesn't matter how good your invention is if you keep it to yourself.
I'm pretty tech literate, and I have no clue how to get a whitelist-only OS. I don't think it's fair to make every American understand this in order to protect their children from predatory companies.
> Should we ban all things that harm people?

Who said anything about "banning"?

My objection is to this equivalence between sex and sex work and the dismissal of any moral values related to it.

> What's your answer to this?

The liberal in me will say "Decriminalization and harm-reduction", the conservative in me will add "as long as you always focus on reducing the activity and always look at these as problems that society should treat as something to eradicate (even if impossible)".

Legalization and this mentality of "people do it anyway, so let's just regulate it" only leads to a false feeling that the problem is not existent anymore, does not make the lives of those affected by the broken system any better, makes us complacent and leads to an even worse situation than the one we started with.
https://talknewswale.com/News_detils/107
You should go out and take a deep breath of reality. People in real life, especially outside of the US, care how they present themselves to other people and about their impact on society and culture.

People always tend to acknowledge their privilege or advantages. Here in the US we even have a national holiday for just that [0].

Don't try to twist this into some culture war bullshit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
I made an Among Us sparta remix
If everything was like among us 8
No, I suppose not. But it just sets off warning bells when someone says there's "no risk" in an endeavor that hasn't been tried before.

The only way to "undo" this I can think of is to introduce large enough swarms of natural mosquitos to overwhelm the population of GMO mosquitos. Now, you're worse off than before. So fingers crossed that it works. It'll be a great achievement though if it does.
Comprehensive Simulation Library for Robotics Path Planning
> I fail to see the distinction. Bitcoin mining, just like farming, traditional mining, etc. doesn’t literally have electricity as its only input.

If your are referring to the wasted hardware, then sure, but once the equipment is in place, Bitcoin mining itself does in fact have electricity as the only input.
I loved that book.

I found the part about criticism interesting. It doesn't work. Even Al Capone thought of himself as an underappreciated and misunderstood public benefactor.
lmao this image looks like it was made for Something Awful's Photoshop Phriday: https://inteng-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/img/iea/QjOdkWPawd/s...
Which would mean, at current market price of $13.50, $4671 a day is traded.
I am more productive but my team as a whole is less productive. Highly individual tasks are great for this whole setup but anything requiring high degrees of coordination seems to have suffered.
I was going to ask this same question, thinking it would be a dumb question, glad this got answered! Thank you
From the article:

"Goodreads was acquired by Amazon in 2013. One would think that having Amazon’s customer ethos and resources would give muscle to create a delightful user experience."

Is this sarcasm ?
Ever heard a technology called GraalVM ?
YouTube used to have a configuration variable in the embedded player to disable these end of video suggestions. Then they chose to stop respecting the variable. Then they started flooding all videos with ads.
>This view of higher education as training students or increasing the socioeconomic prospects of students is fairly new and it's not working. The former view is better. College should be for academically gifted high school graduates.

I had a low GPA in high school and a high one in college.

It's not a challenge intellectually, it's a challenge to your work ethic and discipline as well as (very important) social skills, none of which I had in high school.

So, what you're saying is false. Because when you say academically gifted, I picture fast learners or creative minds, not the hardest of the hard workers.
It seems to me that Waymo has actual robo-taxis operational in a few cities now. No one else does!

I feel that this refutes you point "This is opposed to every other self driving startup in the space which has no practical driving experience and no commercial product to deploy on."
Vitamin D deficiency may impair muscle function in older adults, study finds
You're talking about a training effort of unknown structure and length, for millions of people, who are already mostly confident they're "listening carefully." Better quality audio tech, is much cheaper and easier.
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Blocking seems a bit unbecoming. Kind of like Google's move.

Perhaps it would be possible to use FLoC against itself?

https://amifloced.org/
Take a look at the "Many Assets" subheading in the original post.
The big thing they seem to have done is a good job scaling up.

But likely the primary reason they were able to scale up so rapidly was that in the midst of a pandemic, there were millions of workers looking for jobs and after the twin impacts of the Great Recession and the pandemic in less than a decade, a much larger cohort who were likely more predisposed towards the safety of a government job than pretty much anytime in the past half century.
A lot of people keep alcohol, poisons, guns, knives, etc in the house. It is the parents job to ensure their kids don’t have access to these things. You’re a bad parent if you don’t prevent your kids from harming themselves.
I don't think this company is publically traded.
I submitted a >>single<< disagreement, so please don't generalize this into a "disagreeable personality". Please provide opposite arguments - for example some facts that show how complicated it is to setup new JDK in IntelliJ... such arguments will improve quality of discussion here...
I think the big difference there is trying to use it to just hide imperfections vs. consciously making it a conspicuous part of the music. For someone like Grimes, adding in blatantly artificial manipulation fits in perfectly with the rest of her aesthetic.
I remember my Commodore 64's book (in Spanish) mentioned octets. This brings back memories!
Have you considered the possibility that the bubble which bursts is "fiat money", and the utility being provided by these "stores of value" currencies (such as Bitcoin) is merely "escape from inflation"? The story--also right now on Hacker News--of Turkey is extremely relevant: the expectation of governments is that they can arbitrarily inflate the currency supply, which is effectively a tax on holding that currency; the more people who realize they can avoid that tax by merely storing their money in a safe external asset, the harder it is for governments to use that mechanism to raise funds.
It’s worth mentioning that Kelly was an associate of Claude Shannon (the father of information theory) at Bell Labs. Kelly’s criterion is in fact based on Shannon’s theory.

It seems they developed the approach together. Shannon, his wife and Ed Thorp later went to Las Vegas gambling using this method, and apparently made some money.
FPX, Reconfigurable USB C Power Supply
Ah. Ok. Here in Czechia we get partial responsibility at the age of 15...