skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point he's making in that section is that by accounting for voluntary changes in human behavior (or failing to account for it as many models did) will drastically affect the results of any model that attempts to predict the rate of spread.
Firstly, I won't be convinced that we've beaten the pandemic and recovered until we get through a major holiday without a surge. If we make it through January after both Thanksgiving & Christmas/New Year's (with all of the travel and open-for-business states) without a 5th wave (or whatever the next surge is by then), I'll finally start relaxing and think about going back to the office on some sort of schedule.

Until then, we've already shown that (for tech workers) we can work from home. There's no point in going back to the office just to sit at every-other-desk, have limited conference room occupancy, and wear a mask all day.

Many people have challenging home situations and the office is better for them - that's fine, go to the office. But companies shouldn't be requiring a return to the office until we can all return "normally" and safely. Even then, personally I don't want to be in the office 5 days a week. I'd prefer 2 days a week for facetime/meetings/socializing, and 3 days being productive & meeting-free at home.
The Disastrous J&J Pause
Using PlantUML for UML is akin to using Visio for UML. It is a diagramming tool and can make great diagrams. However, it is not a modelling tool. It can't track relationships between diagram elements and metadata about those elements, other than the metadata that can be extracted from the diagram.

I've used PlantUML on past projects, but almost always in conjunction with a separate program that stored data in a SQLite db and then generated PlantUML on command.

An example of something similar I am working on as a side project is using JQL to query all the issues in JIRA targeting a specific fix version, then generate the graphviz dot notation to create a hierarchical stoplight chart showing issue decomposition, issue id, issue status, and POC for an issue.
I was working remote before the pandemic. No intention to find an in person job, but partly that’s a function of not living in a tech hub- my remote opportunities are better than in person ones.

Getting to work with a geographically diverse set of people is also pretty cool. I get to hear about gator hunting in Florida, dirt biking in Utah, Italian food in Jersey, etc.
You could equalize the length of the lanes, but there are water currents that give different lanes "headwinds" or "tailwinds". These are caused by the pumps, wave action, and thermal convection.
Ask HN: What do you wish was better about your IDE, or code editor?
Do you believe your programming development environment could be better? What are some frustrations you have with it now or some features you wish you had that you feel like are real blockers to the work you do everyday?

It'd be nice if you reply if you include the language you work in too!
Why Is Entropy Logarithmic?
I'm already back in the office. I go in two days a week, and work from home the other three.
Sure. You could call pretty much all research into question using this argument. A huge amount of research is done based on questionnaires.
> I think it is pretty well established in the public consciousness that only the Apple AppStore can provide apps for Apple devices.

I disagree. I think the public knows software is locked to specific hardware (Windows vs. Mac, Android vs. iOS, PlayStation vs. XBox). I don't think they know that if a developer creates working software for their iPhone, the only way it can be distributed to them is through Apple's AppStore, which charges developers a 30% fee.

"The only way to get Cyberpunk 2077 is at the Microsoft Store. There's no other way to get the game"
Great, where do I sign up?
Most of our division doesn't want to go back. We put together a group to survey all teams and start planning for a post-covid workplace. For tax purposes we have to be in office 20% of the time, which sucks, but better than 100% of the time in office I guess.
Users Despair at Apple Podcasts App After iOS 14.5 Update
Don't follow this at all. FAANG companies putting on their big conferences may ostensibly seem unnecessary, but they also helped keep event companies, hotels, tourist stuff all going in the economy.
I want to go back. Maybe not for 5 days a week, but probably 3-4 days.

A week ago, I was in the office for the first time in a year. The entire floor with 100+ desks was completely devoid of people, save for one person that I passed by in the hallway. It was not a completely novel sight; I had been to the office on weekends before, for instance to pick up item that I forgot in the drawer the day before.

What I did not expect is how quickly I got nostalgic about the office experience. I'm quite well-adjusted to the home office situation at the moment, but I absolutely don't like the lack of physical separation between home and work. A separate desk is just not enough for me.

Also, working from home as a single is really lonely. At work, I can passively fulfil my social needs (and still block out the noise with headphones if I need to focus). At home, I have the non-choice of "alone with music" and "along without music". I have a colleague whom I hang out with on a Slack call for hours on end just for some of that office vibe, but it's a subpar replacement.

Also, something that's specific to my situation: The office is in the city center, where all kinds of amenities can be reached quickly. My apartment is in the outskirts of the city, so there is not nearly the same density of services and amenities. For example, the office is 10 minutes by foot from a public indoor swimming pool. A few months before the pandemic, I was taking up a habit of going there once a week during lunch break, and that's something that I want to go back to doing.

I'll be getting my first shot this weekend, so I've been starting to think about how to go forward once my immune response has built up enough. I'll probably be one of the first to return to the office on a regular basis. Even if it means having to wear a surgical mask inside the building, I think it'll be psychologically significant to me as a physical step back to a sense of normality.
Working from home its great don’t take me wrong but, there are other factors for face to face and human interaction that are also invaluable.

In industry this might work great, for government this becomes challenging as the access to collaboration tools and services it’s challenging.

So depending on who you ask and where they work the answer will be relevant to a person and place of work.
I don't disagree, but it's a separate game with equal footing for everyone, and better than I expected it could be. It would of course never work cross-platform.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the interview you are referring to https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds... in case anyone was curious like I was.
I'm a little confused by the American focus of the article. Kraftwerk's Autobahne came out in 1974, and there was a well established electronic movement coming out of krautrock, which became techno. Americans were late to the scene.
I'm happy to acknowledge that there are many subgenres of electronic music, including some of my favorites, which truly were grown and blossomed in Europe.

I took issue with your original comment because of the claim that electronic music is basically an ethnically white, European phenomenon. The SV->Europe comparison would be apt here if Europe were indeed _the_ mecca for all electronic music. This is obviously false unless you ignore huge swaths of the history or massively constrain your definition of what constitutes electronic music.

If you use the charts to measure what's happening at the underground/local level of any place, you're never going to get a good picture. Based on the charts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_number-one_ai...) it would appear that Europeans seldom listened to music written by Europeans in the 90s!
Care to share some of that real data? You're right about the haze of wishful thinking around the issue and seem to be in a position to clear it up a bit. You can infer something about the value of face time from the universal FAANG commitment to centralized HQs, despite the huge costs of this policy.
> I now long for the type of television programs that I remember from my youth—talking heads discussing and debating serious topics.

I never had that in my youth, but YouTube recently started suggesting videos from The Dick Cavett Show from the 60's and 70's. The show was broadcast on TV and I think counted as light entertainment, so I don't presume it's very special for it's time, but seeing these interviews conducted at a pace where people can actually express themselves with anything but pre-canned anecdotes, with an interviewer who is actually listening and engaging with the topic is such a breath of fresh air compared to what I am used to. A lot of the interviews I've watched seem like they touch on pretty controversial subjects for the time (religion, LGBT, race, drugs, alcoholism etc)

(of course it helps that the clips that get uploaded and recommended are of historical figures, so there's a lot of survivorship bias there)
Never going back to an office again. Simple as that.
> Excess deaths capture the deaths from lockdown related causes too, like my grandmother, who died when her social life was indefinitely stopped, and teenagers that committed suicide due to lockdowns

If only we had an easy mathematical tool to calculate how many people in the excess mortality numbers didn't die of COVID. We could call it "subtraction".
2 hours per day wasted for commute hurts.
Much more likely to be a reference to Brunner's classic work of dystopian fiction, which postulates that the 2010 population of Earth, projected to be around 7 billion people, could all stand shoulder to shoulder on a single island the size of Zanzibar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar

It's not the kind of literary allusion I'd want to make, if I were a global multinational like Google/Alphabet, but there it is.
I wouldn't call that creepy, either. You were opted-in to a feature that makes your account more secure and it is better for you to have more security than less security. It's for your own good and protects you against real creepy actors, like hackers and data harvesters. It's not really lining Amazon's pockets to give you more security. They're opting you in by default for your own good. Some people find that kind of nudge paternalistic, so you can easily opt-out from your account page. It's not mandatory.
I think the other replies to you are probably correct, but I also can't help but think that a lot of the small/mid size businesses that use AD for Auth, have been on prem for years, and weren't really planning to make a move very soon until the Pandemic hit, have sort of run face first into the fact that they're really stuck with Microsoft now and when Azure AD goes down, their whole business tends to go with it. I don't think there's an easy solution here, but I've seen some places coming face to face with this reality and there's been some very mixed feelings and not many alternatives.
I will probably never work in an office again. Work from home provides so much more freedom to facilitate my kids schedule and ensure that things around the house are taken care of. The flip side of this though is that now I have almost zero in person communication with people that are not my family. I lost touch with friends many years ago for various reasons so not being able to chat with work people in person essentially kills that important social interaction. Covid has also put a damper on that so now I actually struggle to make conversation in real life. Not really great all things considered.
I've done substantial amounts of a/b testing and experimentation around ecommerce pricing and it's pretty rare for a maxim like "show your costs to boost sales" to hold to in either 1) the long run or 2) across multiple product types, audience types, brands etc.

Especially with something relatively novel like this, results are very prone to bias since novelty has the tendency to increase purchase-intent in the short-term.

As far as audience, I'd say the audiences of folks interested in a $115 wallet, Harvard students, Everlane/J Crew shoppers, and craft cocoa buyers are on the more affluent and/or intelligent side, which may compound the novelty effect or at least have the transparency resonate more.
I have structured my entire life around not going into an office since about 2004.

I am looking forwards to finally getting off my ass and finding a new pole dance studio to keep myself in shape, though. I moved just before the pandemic.
Other platforms have multiple stores (or physical disks). Apple does not. That's the fundamental problem.
The movie ex machina approaches intelligence as the ability to
manipulate others.
When you encounter people way more intelligent than you having contrary
opinions from yours the best option is to remain silent or subject yourself
to the whims of those with superior intellect trying to dissect you.
Nobody wants to feel like a victim or a martyr or impostor. Better to be the
fly on the wall.
Seems strange to comment that you can't wait to go back in a discussion about people who don't want to go back to the office. Surely you meant to post in one of the other dozens of WFH threads?
100% remote was always a goal anyway and my company right now is 100% remote. We don't have an office to return to and we're spread across the country anyway. This was a change, though. Before switching jobs, I worked in a SCIF on classified projects, which can't be done remotely so I had no choice.

For me, it's barely even really a choice. Thanks to spine problems, I can't sit for long, but of course standing all day is too hard on the legs, so practically speaking I took frequent resting breaks and was lucky there were places to lay down, but no work could be accomplished while doing that. Now I can work from bed and actually work. I was also limited because I can't realistically commute by driving myself, so that meant I worked at a place that was near a train station. Also meant I needed to live near a train station.

No longer having those kinds of restrictions on my life is tremendously liberating.
Few mummies from the Old Kingdom survive. It was probably a combination of comparatively few people being mummified in that era, the mummification process being immature and thus less effective, and extreme age allowing for more looting and decay. It's unsurprising that you wouldn't find bodies in an Old Kingdom tomb.

Tellingly, the pyramids at Giza contain the same simple, unadorned carved granite sarcophagi you find in other Old Kingdom tombs. If the pyramids weren't intended to be tombs, you need to explain why they'd place sarcophagi inside them or explain how the sarcophagi are really something else.

Kings and nobles weren't buried in the Valley of the Kings until the New Kingdom. I'm not sure how that's relevant to the Old Kingdom.
I think this photo pretty clearly shows the winner:

https://www.tglyn.ch/blog/images/amstel_barrier_closer.png

The left bike is on the white paint while the right is not. Clear that the left one is slightly ahead of the right
I had a series of arguments with the boss in the weeks leading up to the first lockdown and WFH order, i remember feeling as if I was being gaslighted. Neither me or my team would come into the office but he forced us back; despite our "remote-positive culture", no one was allowed to unilaterally work 100% remote.

I'll keep my options open, but I never want to find myself in a situation again where I am expected to sacrifice my health for the insecurities of upper management.
That video gives a good general idea of the costs involved in creating high quality niche photobooks. TL;DW way more expensive than most people realise. Very few photographers make any profit from books however, unless they are very well established. So the emphasis on profit in this video is rather misleading.

There's also a big error/assumption from Jared when he covers why he is self-publishing rather than going to dedicated publisher in that he talks about the publisher giving "an $X thousand dollar advance" - this simply does not happen with photobook publishers, they usually just give you a certain number of copies of the print run to sell yourself.

Even with 1.3million followers Jared probably wouldn't sell the 2,500 copies he is talking about printing here - this is why people go the Kickstarter route as you're pre-selling and can print to demand (plus a few copies on top). People don't really buy art, very few people are willing to drop $50+ on a photobook.

A reason people do go to publishers is that they have the marketing clout to get your book into independent photobook shops, visible at photobook festivals, into award listings, featured in newspapers, online, etc. That's the hard part in self-publishing, and even established publishers go the Kickstarter route if they're unsure about the potential demand for a book.
This is how banks, and by extension - entire economies, implode when an over leveraged something fails, taking down all the other over leveraged players dependent on their success in a series of dominoes.
nano is great as a quick command line config editor. I wouldn't use it for a big task, but it's wonderful to just dive into, make a quick change, and get on with whatever you were doing.

Has syntax highlighting support too, so you can have your config file nicely highlighted to make editing easier :)

There's nothing wrong with vi/vim or emacs either, but nano has got to be the most accessible command line editor out there.
The aliens from The Abyss are actually back
There was another fascinating piece on the history of the Homeric question early last year: "Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him". If your interest is more in the subject as a whole than one scholar's role in it, I think it gives a better overview, and the ending is just beautiful.

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/01/17/having-had-no-pr...
Google Play declares educational coding app is malware and accused us of fraud
The obvious way to do this analysis is to look at all cause death rates in countries that locked down successfully, like china, new zealand, or australia, and see that there was no spike
Pre-pandemic, we were remote by default with quarterly “offsites”. I’d love to go back to that. A few days of intense collaboration and alignment once per quarter is a pretty nice rhythm.
I find it funny how, 10 years later, there are still games that require claw technique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnW-ganA2cM
> No matter where I SSH to (*nix systems)
Nano is also available on Windows!
I have it installed through Scoop and I use it when I SSH to my Windows PC from Termux on Android
>...The woman had red hair and eyebrows,...

Was it Leelo Dallas ?
And what you have done, I am willing to bet, is use your own individual experiences to draw conclusions for the wider world. My own personal experience is that this is almost never a good idea (see what I did there). This is not a values judgment, or meant to be hateful at all, really.

This paragraph reads as if you are saying, "I've never seen it, so it doesn't exist."
This made me laugh. I am totally with you. I burn myself out by stretching 3 hours of work into 9, punctuated by podcasts, reading the news, doing household chores, ... basically whatever I can find that will allow me to avoid what important work I have in front of me.
I'll repeat myself: "your freedom does not overrule the freedom of others."

Words can and do cause harm, just as actions can and do. You don't see very many people seriously arguing for "freedom of action", because that would be an utterly chaotic and brutal society, even worse than the extremes of feudalism or warlordism.

Actions have consequences, and words have consequences. Arguing that you cannot be held responsible for the words that come out of your mouth or text written by your hand, is completely ridiculous.

Often I see the very same people who argue fiercely for personal responsibility above all, turn around and argue for free speech absolutism, seemingly unaware of the absurd incompatibility of those two stances.
> Also when did “techno” become an umbrella term again?

I would guess in the '90s, when there was a lot more crossover between electronic music and other genres. Rock and hiphop oriented stuff like the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers were topping the dance charts, and other more conventional techno like Aphex Twin and Underworld were getting decent media coverage as well.

Plus movie soundtracks at the time tended to include a lot of techno. Trainspotting, Pi, Hackers, The Jackal, The Saint....discovered a lot of artists thanks to these.
Exactly. It's mostly a semantics thing. Finding errors statically via code review and analysis (there are fancy tools to assist this process too!) is important, but it's not sufficient as we all know too well. Sometimes you just need to puzzle things out with runtime state.

So yeah, in the text above I'd view "code review" and "static analysis" as distinct tasks from "debugging". And I'm only talking about the latter.
This is correct. They are unionized and striking as employees and not as students.
EU adopts law giving tech giants one hour to remove terrorist content
>Imagine where SpaceX would be if the government got in there making sure everyone was happy and all 50 states got a piece of the action.

The government landed men on the moon fifty years ago and SpaceX is still blowing up rockets regularly, I'm not sure your comparison is particularly flattering to SpaceX.
CodeStasis: Truly long-term support for Django 1.11 released
Agreed, this summarizes my view as well.

The criticism above are valid, but at a base level: people are paying for exclusive, purely digital goods. Them paying unique, purely digital goods, doesn’t seem like a stretch.

This is putting aside questions of product dev and incentives for somewhere like Fortnite. It arguably has the incentives to sell unique skins, and the blockchain/NFT use is at minimum a solid marketing ploy, at maximum actually worth doing if they do charge out the a* for a unique skin as the customer would want to know it’s as such.
I've been working semi-remotely (at least 1, but often 2+ days per week) for a large majority of my career. I honestly cannot imagine a world where I would actually show up to a cube situation or "open office concept" 5 days/week.

The supply/demand curve for the talents most of us here have simply don't require us to bend to this type of ridiculousness, and the employers that enforce arbitrary location rules under the guise of "better culture" or "collaboration" are going to find themselves lacking engineering talent eventually (or rather immediately after this pandemic has normalized remote work for so many of us who perhaps were not previously accustomed to it).

I don't want to go back to any situation that requires me in the office physically more than maybe once a week/max. Honestly once per 'iteration' is probably _plenty_ sufficient to get some face-time with coworkers and establish those more human bonds. I might be willing to bend a bit if the office is very close to my home, though I am not willing to accept zero remote regardless of the opportunity.
The whole point of more choice is that you can choose. Why would this affect you?
Improved Desalination Process Also Removes Toxic Metals to Produce Clean Water
Not sure why you were downvoted. But yes it is certainly very similar.

>bytecode web assembly succeed where Java didn't?

The reach between Java and JS Engine is on a completely different level.

Apple seems to be supportive of it as well.

https://caniuse.com/wasm