skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Schools can be considered continuous super-spreader events.

Where is the data to support this? Duke University released a peer reviewed study[1] in January that showed the opposite (when schools take appropriate measures).

> Duke and UNC researchers evaluated the secondary transmission of COVID-19 in 11 North Carolina school districts that held in-person instruction in the first nine weeks of the 2020-2021 school year and identified minimal COVID-19 transmission in the schools -- much lower than the rate of community spread.

The CDC have also published this[2] helpful overview about the susceptibility of children to the virus/disease (low) and the risk of transmission (also low).

I'd also urge you (or anyone) to read this very helpful article in the BMJ[3] about the risks of covid-19, but for those worried about their children it may help alleviate some concerns:

> The second row of table 2 shows that three deaths from covid-19 have been recorded among over 7 million schoolchildren aged 5 to 14 (around 1 in 2.4 million), an extremely low risk that represents only 2% of the average normal risk faced by this group. This amounts to around two days’ extra risk of dying during the 112 days of the epidemic. In the same period this age group experienced 138 deaths from other causes.

The CDC report gives a clue as to where the focus should be:

> Underlying medical conditions are also more commonly reported among children who are hospitalized or admitted to an ICU

In short, schools aren't providing super-spreader events.

[1] https://today.duke.edu/2021/01/duke-study-when-schools-take-...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

[3] https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3259
Presumably bean counters will be on the side of WFH, as staff no longer need the massive subsidy of office space, and in most cases won’t charge more.
>Apartheid

Sure, but it did gain significant market share and had a massive ROI for many decades for anyone on the profitable side of it. For raging racists & (white) sociopaths, it wasn't so bad.
None the less people do seem to make poor decisions when it comes to commuting.
The NFT market bubble has popped?
> What EU lacks is offensive overseas operation support, but EU actually doesn’t need that. It is wild fantasy from the most extreme EU supporters who want to build a US replica.

You could just as well say "Not wanting it is a wild fantasy from the most extreme RT supporters who don't care if the EU is overrun by dictatorships on its eastern borders".

> What is the biggest threat to EU/Europe today? Definitely not Russia. Russia is just finishing the Nordstream2 pipeline,

Precisely that is probably the biggest threat to EU/Europe today.

> sanctions just lifted by the Biden administration,

Maybe Unca Joe really is going senile.

> that will increase the capacity of the already existing pipeline between Russia and Germany. Russia wants to sell natural gas to many European countries.

Yes, it wants to have them all...

> What we are going to see the next few years is the opposite, a closer integration between Russia and EU economies,

...by the balls -- not just, but of course:

> especially between Russia and Germany.
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1. I don't interface to my car's electronics over serial or CAN bus. Instead, I interface by emulating actuators and sensors the 4 speed gearbox computer expects.

2. I'd like to introduce you to "manualisation" [0]. It's where the solenoids of the 4 speed are wired directly to the gear selector switch. The 4 speed computer is surprisingly tolerant of this, and it forms the basis of my interface.

My interface provides enough information to the 4 speed computer to stop it from erroring out or putting my car into limp mode. However, it is aware that something has changed because changes in engine RPM do not correlate with its shift commands.

3. I mean in terms of software. I can modify the behaviour of my box more than a standard tune can. I can add a 0-100KM/h tracker to my system, or shift lights, I can fundamentally change the decision making process in shifting (for the moment it's torque based), etc.

I could go out on a limb and a GPS module and a map; it'd select a gear based on the corner angle and speed or so.

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[0] https://youtu.be/H1T6vr44Zak
> Hiring takes a lot of time and resources, and so does training new employees

Not if you dont care about finding the best candidate or them succeeding
It's from 1954. That generation was very occupied with trying to understand how the Holocaust could happen.
Why be so prudish? It's not like the lady in the Lenna test image has her tits out or is proudly displaying her fanny and arsehole, or anything like that.
Sometimes working less doesn’t mean producing less, or if it’s less it’s not necessarily linear. They said they used to work more “because they had nothing to do”. The extra hours may not be worth as much as a well rested mind.
>45 minutes means an hour and a half of your life every day that you don't get paid for and have to just throw away.

Wasted??? Listening to motivational podcasts while sitting in a traffic jam for 45 minutes is not wasted time! /s
Paywall so bad I can’t even screenshot a headline.

Just wanted to share the most obvious headline of 2021.
http://archive.is/9qQ6n
> people want to live in one place and work in another, which is usually a bad idea

do you suggest moving every time you change jobs? I suppose that can be done as a single person or a couple, but moving homes every 4-6 years with children who have to change schools, etc is (I'm sorry) an insane proposition.
I don't know why you're being downvoted when it's clear your question is out of curiosity.

High effort reviews are common on Goodreads, why? Because it's a community about passionate readers and probably those who write the very detailed reviews have enjoyed reading some other reviews and want to contribute back to the community. I think it's the same reason as people contributes to wikipedia: for the sake of sharing knowledge
Maybe they finally support server side decorations
No different than using C, pre-C++98, Pascal, BASIC, Java pre-1.5.

Yes it sucks not having generics, why should the built-in contribute to bad practices of relying into interaction behaviors, thus cripling any performance improvements to the data structure?
I also am very curious to know more about the complete solution.

It sounds like you've delegated if statements to configurable SQL queries, does that mean you need to take the context/variables/code and put it into a temporary SQL db whenever you evaluate them. Is the overhead of moving state into and out of SQLite a lot?

It reminds me of SQL stream processing in Fluentbit https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/stream-processing/getting-s...
When I worked at Google I so rarely paid for food that I began to completely ignore the cost of food when I did pay for it. It just didn’t seem to matter much.
OT: what a jump in time this is https://ramcq.net/2005/03/ Interesting really to read and see how some things have changed and others not.
I saw a comment in the Apple thread where someone said people who don't like WFH hate their family, or themselves. Which was a shocking comment.

I love spending time with my family and daughter, but I get paid to work to support my family, and working from home makes me feel distracted.

I thought working from home would be the best part of a job, but losing the separation of work/life, going from avoiding meetings to looking forward to them for social interaction with my co-workers, missing the lunch time outings with co-workers, the chit-chat, asking for help or being asked for help.

I've come to really miss working in the office. I was WAY more productive, kept better hours, and coming home from work to family was great.
They certainly have. Here is one from 2010 when they held over 600,000 euros from Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft for 'suspicious activity' that they wouldn't disclose. It's a good thing for him that he was so well known. https://notch.tumblr.com/post/1096322756/working-on-a-friday..., https://www.devicemag.com/2010/09/10/paypal-holding-over-600...
> or even what version number a package has

In the context of within nix packages that's correct. In the context of nix usage that is not.

I start a project, I need it to use Ruby 2.7.x, OpenSSL 1.1, node 14.x because that's what the project is compatible with, and I need that to happen on both Darwin, Linux, on whatever cpu arch. Pinning the hashes of "whatever I built it with" won't work.

Worse, some software such as e.g Ruby encodes their platform at build time (because it matters, because #ifdefs) so currently I'm on darwin20 but specifying "ruby" pulls in RUBY_PLATFORM==darwin17. Nix is currently helpless in face of that.

> and it doesn't involve rebuilding my whole system

True. One thing I'm 100% sure is that nix-env -i will do just that and nothing else, whereas nixos-rebuild switch might include something else pending I might have forgotten about because it relies on globals.
You can find a link to their IRS filings here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/435...
So like the ArchWiki but for all things tech, not just Linux?
The entire thing feels like such a charade to me. Cute birthday cards and asking about each other's weekends. All signaling and no real human empathy. The moment someone needs actual support they are kicked to the curb. Not our problem! The person who sat in the cube with my Partner for years committed suicide. Poof, it was like he never worked there. Have facilities clean out the desk. This is not your family.
Just have lunch with them then, no need to make them change where they're working.
I’m personally looking forward to returning to the office. I think after this is over I’m going to find a smaller startup to work at or a smaller company.

Working remote makes me feel like a robot and I miss being around other people and finding Our mission together.
There is a lot of complaining in this thread about English teachers over-interpreting literature. But I think it is pretty clear that the question Lord of the Flies tries to answer is not "what would happen to a bunch of boys stranded on an island?" but more like "how could the holocaust happen?".

The fact of the matter is that Nazism, WWII and the holocaust did happen and many people in 1954 was looking for some kind of explanation and understanding of how Europe could descend into barbarianism. Whether the book is insightful in its association between totalitarianism and tribalism and primitive religion is a different question.

The story is a "rebuttal" in the same way that it would be a rebuttal to Animal Farm to prove that pigs are not actually able to learn to walk on two legs.
Or a way to turn off vsynch/change the compositor. I've found nvidia drivers have their own vsynch, and gnome adds some on top of it, netting a microstuttery experience. May be wrong, but I find xfce without compositing to perform better.
I will keep it short, say you have 4 perspectives, each with the same setup in 1080p60 @ 2500Kbps, combining in to a 4K video at the ingest server.

Now, your ingest server needs to map each perspective on to a 4K canvas and upload that stream somewhere, let's assume a 5 Mbit 2160p60 stream this is what you get:

Clients 2.5 x 4 = 10 Mbps upload.

IServer 10 Mbps download.

IServer 5 Mbps upload.

EDIT: Twitch caps @ 6 Mbps for streaming so it doesn't matter if 5 Mbps is enough or not, 6 is max for Twitch.
It does come across somewhat accusatory. Without the suggested affiliation with the author it would sound less so.
Interesting. I'll look into it.
Is the guy at Amazon who prepares the document for the URA policy, make sure they're applied, etc is also under the URA rule ?
Your point about history being oversimplified is pertinent, but pretending a company is actually run bottom-up is just silly.

Incentives still matter, and are very much driven top down. If you are incentivized to let go of 10% of your team, then that's what you will do.
Maybe, but if so so did many of my colleagues over the last ten years. I've seen so much bad code written in the name of avoiding abstractions, with that article as direct inspiration.
If it is actually free of backwards compatibility, then it will be instantly abandonware. I think you meant to write that it is new and shiny so it doesn’t yet have a need to decide between breaking change or backwards compatibility, but it will happen. We’ll see how they handle it.

And safety has nothing to do with backwards compatibility, and the JVM is not unsafe at all against the attack vectors it is planned for.
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Remote vs. Office – The Productivity Debate Is Moot
Not "leaky", the conditions that a TCP connection needs its underlying transport to satisfy are explicitly documented, and TCP doesn't conform to them.
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I think a big factor here is IT people jumping at the chance to say "I told you so! Triple my budget!"

I agree the problem is that these criminals are sheltered from prosecution.
I have kids that need shoes and limited funds. I have to give them a standard of living comparable to their peers. Of course I don't want to buy products made with questionable labor. No one does. But I don't feel like I have a choice.

Can you honestly say you don't buy anything made with questionable labor? Can anyone? Do you know that America has a slave labor force of millions of prisoners? Slavery never really went away in the US; you can't avoid it even if you buy American. For example if you own a car, odds are your license plate was manufactured by American slaves.

For what its worth, we bought my daughter a very nice pair of boots made in Quebec. But it's the only pair she owns that I know are manufactured domestically. They also proudly employ special needs workers, which sounds great except I have my suspicions that it's just a ploy to pay them less. It is absolutely impossible to avoid labor inequality in the modern world.
This will be very true. WFH at a non-remote company means you are a pure resource. You need to be committed to the mercenary mindset that you are there to crank on deliverables so that the office drones can preen and posture. The upside is you get the skip the posturing and surf for lunch.
> My feeling is that working in an office makes it possible for me to separate work from the rest of my life

This is seems to be pretty common, can you explain why it's so hard to separate?

Generally I start the work day by turning on the work computer, when I'm done I turn it off and anything beyond that is the sort of rare exception I would have logged in from home for even if I was working in the office. That and a couple of other little rituals like switching coffee mugs and wearing pants gives me all the separation I need.
There will always be people who feel uncomfortable for whatever trivial reasons. Let's not be like Saudi Arabia here.
I plan to keep it for a while yet!
I guess finally it comes down to individual choice.

Let people choose where they want to work from!
1) Hey, if we're going to be ludicrously nit-picky: Your not having heard of a term isn't proof that it isn't on the rise, either.

2) Actually, come to think of it: You hadn't heard of it; now you have. How's that for it being "on the rise", huh?

3) "Sweden should leave the EU!" is a matter of opinion. Where the heck else would you expect to find proof of its rise, if not in opinion pieces?
Indeed I know we shouldn't instigate conspiracy shilling without evidence.

However it does feel that there is an agenda from the Savills of the world to justify office leases with a lot of these fragile reasoning articles coming out.

Of course remote meetings will not have the same 'feeling' as a live meeting the question is do you have the right tooling and processes to achieve the same outcome.

That is something companies need to adapt to, rather than force everyone back to the office.
>isn't going to care that you procured illegally distributed copies of protected works

Sorry, I wasn't clear maybe, but somehow you misunderstood me.

I wasn't talking about pirated music.

I was pointing out that some regimes have laws that forbid listening to music, period.

Fixing bias doesn't help when all it does is help accurately catch innocent people who in fact were accurately detected to be doing innocent things, and punishes them for doing those innocent things because those innocent things are illegal in that country for no good reason.
I don't think it's a conspiracy necessarily, there are people with vested interests in returning to "normal" working conditions and yes they will encourage the view that the economy/society will collapse if we don't all go back full time.

Even when it was plain that a second/third wave was going to hit the UK the government (and elements of the press) were insisting that we should all go back to the office for the good of the economy [0]. Two months later a new lockdown was announced to prevent a "medical and moral disaster".

0 - https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/evening-standard-...
> So an app had a bug... terrible oversimplification... your toy scenario...

Life is so easy when you bury your head in the sand and pretend problems don't exist.

> trivial when the items are not dependent on one another (flow) or you have fixed or easy to compute height

Funny how "so powerful a platform" makes this "trivial and easy" only if you babysit it and give it rigid fixed dimensions.

> because BY YOUR OWN STANDARDS you're very filesize conscious, and "hundreds of kilobytes" was too much for a UI library

A modern browser is about 10 million lines of code, give or take. That's ~20% of the entirety of Windows 10. That's the size of Windows NT, and only slightly smaller than the size of Android.

And this "powerful system" still can't display more than very primitive UI elements, and needs additional megabytes of code to do the most trivial of UI things.

Oh, and it requires magnitudes more resources to display all that, and needs ridiculous things like "oh you must have fixed height" to do the most trivial of things.

But sure, to you it's "so powerful". That betrays your ignorance, and I'm tired of this conversation.

Adieu.
I’m definitely an introvert. Having an office with a door caused my productivity to skyrocket.

When working from the office, I close the door in the morning and open it when I leave.

The 3 or 4 conference room meetings I had per month had half of the attendees on zoom. Being in the same conference room didn’t do much for me.

I still have no idea what socialization people speak of. Office small talk? Happy hours?

Are they worth spending 10 hours a week driving and losing all the benefits of working from home? Certainly not to me.
Seriously? NATO's entire existence was borne out of a desire to lock horns with Moscow.

They didn't supply troops to Ukraine cos they don't want a direct fight with another nuclear power. This was a defining feature of the cold war. That's why it was called "cold". What makes you think this time is different?

It's much lower risk and much cheaper to play the long game and stir up ethnic tensions along exposed borders and foment ethnic and cultural splits. This being famously effective at building and sustaining the British Empire and also something Russia is trying to do to the US with social media, although with limited success beyond sparking thanksgiving arguments.
I feel like it is just the concept of the vocal minority. People who are seeing the world go their way tend to just enjoy the ride. People who don't like how it is going tend to be quite vocal about their displeasure. Minority opinions can be quite loud, in any aspect of our society.

Personally, I want to respect our differences. I support people figuring out where they want to work and finding companies who let them do so. We don't all have the same desires, and we should not expect everyone to want the same thing. I do believe that companies will have to support the desires of their workers more than they have in the past, and hopefully that will be well balanced with what people really want.
The answer is redundancy. Eventually there will be a complex network of cables which reach around the world.
Have google, Facebook amazon or Netflix ever issued a dividend?
There is a lot being said about productivity gains from GCed languages, but can you actually point me to any research showing these gains are real?

My anecdotal, unscientific experience shows that GC is a double-edged sword that maybe makes writing simple programs slightly faster, at the expense of a much worse maintainability once the code base gets big. And non-memory resource management in GCed languages without RAII is a really huge PITA that kills all productivity gains.

GC allowed memory safety until Rust happened, and that was a big gain, but now that point is moot.
> The right tooling and process to achieve the same outcome

Not to mention this is true even when working from office.
The question that should be asked is why are good staff worth more to the other organisation? If you are doing good work, then surely the current employer should be willing to give you a suitable pay rise that will disincentivate you from changing jobs. It does cost them more to hire a replacement but apparently that is too complicated for the average PHB to grasp.
At Apple Park lunch at Cafe Macs could easily run $10-15 (without a drink) depending on what station you ordered from. The food there was good but not exactly cheap.

The campus was really too big to leave for lunch unless you arrived at some stupid early hour to park underground below your office. It's a 10-15 minute walk to the south parking garage and then at least a 10 minute drive to the closest places to eat and none of those are cheaper than the cafe.

So unless you're bringing food from home you can pretty easily hit $20 for lunch per day. I doubt Cafe Macs is running a huge profit but the cost for employees is non-trivial.
I believe it varies from region to region. In my country natural springs are all around so fresh water is not a problem. But I remember reading medieval era memoirs how people get surprised traveling when others don't have as much access to springs.
What do the underwriters do and are they not investment banks?
Is this the correct link? It does not seem to do anything with gnome.
Do all these people believe each of these things, or does a belief in any single one of them qualify them for inclusion in the chunk?
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I'm in the same boat, 15 mins to work. I like the separation aspect, and the social aspect as well. Can't wait to go back.