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The question of allowing devs (and other office workers but lets focus on devs) to go remote if they want is the big work-life issue of today. A few people want to work in person, but I'd say easily 75% of the people I work with do not want to be forced to go back to the office. In practice I have yet to actually meet someone who wants to go back to the big o except for the vp of engr. Everyone else, from recruiters, new hires, experienced people wants to be remote. There must be some people who want it of course.

One example, I'm a dev, and I talk to people we are trying to recruit from companies I worked at previously, they all ask me whether my company serious about going to in person, will that slowly fade away based on covid. I asked the recruiters and they said almost all the recruits ask that question too. I've always been in person at faang type companies and now about every month our vp of engineering schedules a new 'go back to the office' date, but it keeps going backward. Next date was going to be January something, but I'll put money on it going back monthly. One last whine, they keep saying they will do a survey of employee desires and concerns around this, but they keep delaying it for some reason.
There are lot of ways we'd be easily able to tell if covid was actually common in China and being hidden. People are still traveling out of China, and they take antibody tests.

Mask adherence was already a thing in China before this pandemic, so I don't find it hard to believe compliance is very high and China doesn't have major problems with the pandemic.
Great article. It starts by setting forth a good basis, that I think covers almost all of the primary Electron complaints. There's a very outraged comment decrying these plus also a difficult messy dev story[1], but generally I think the article starts by outlining the criticism fairly well.

After enumerating the problems with Electron, the article outlines a wide range of alternatives. This is such a great exploration! I love love love for example the idea of localhost http servers. The article discusses them! I feel differently than the author, but great & honest review:

> I know this is highly subjective, but I really appreciate having a separate window for each application, along with good OS integrations such as native menu bars and dialogs.

Covering up & coming webview embedders like Tauri really won me over. The author showed a deep & expansive knowledge of up & coming alternatives, that still make use of the wonderful great web platform so many folks know & enjoy:

> Many projects are trying to overcome Electron’s drawbacks using this approach, such as Electrino, webview, Tauri, and many more.

And it highlights that these alternatives still lack a lot of standard native integration, that it's not yet baked in anywhere near as well as Electron does:

> You see, if you choose this approach, you will need to do a lot of “plumbing” yourself, as you don’t have access to any of the convenient APIs exposed by Electron. Do you want a menu bar? You have to write the low-level bindings yourself, often multiple times depending on the number of platforms you are looking to support.

I'm hoping some of these up & comers continue to advance, continue to make inroads. Electron has been 100% a magic bullet for countless great apps, big and small. Is it 100% painless? No. But it's pretty damned good, and it marries good UX development to the power & capabilities of server-side technology, in pretty excellently & unique cross-platform way, and that's a really great combination.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29420450
I had the same issue with Wheel of Time! I’d nearly blow out my ear drums wearing AirPods in a battle, so I’d turn down the volume, then there’d be dialogue and I couldn’t hear it. Very frustrating.
Looks great, can I use it as an instance to send and receive iMessage? I could do it with my computer at home but if I can set it as a trigger able instance every few minutes to send and receive iMessage it would be pretty cool for serving iMessage to Android.
To each their own. I used to live in Seattle and had some reservations about LA, but my opinion changed after living there, on the west side specifically. I've since moved, but I do miss 70° and sunny everyday, all the diversity of food, and generally blissful living. Weekend trips for skiing, palm springs, malibu, even vegas were great too. There's a lot to like.
IIRC, Google actually owned duck.com until a few years back, when they voluntarily handed it over to DDG.
The latter is similar to the approach I take also - but tellingly also what I thought I was saying in the situation related about. I'm more careful with language now.
I noticed the same thing. However, I trust MS less now than in the 90’s.

Back then, I felt like the owner of my machine. Sure they had bad things like IE but I could just ignore it.

Now, it restarts itself and installs updates despite me specifically trying to stop it.

It’s a shame really because I really enjoyed Win 10 and even Bing doesn’t suck completely.

Thank goodness for competition and the new M1 laptops! Now Apple just needs to launch a good search engine and get Numbers to where Excel is and I can wave goodbye to both MS and Google.
I don't understand the advantage of the assign-method in the article you have linked to. If I would like to alter data in a column of a large dataframe, why should I use the assign-method (and copy data) instead of the mentioned loc-method and just overwrite the data (without a copy)? I am assuming, of course, that I will not need the original dataframe anymore.
> There might be a chance to dynamically link the LGPL version and avoid paying for the complete license, but that’s not always possible.

This is such FUD. The normal way to use Qt is dynamically linked, it is not difficult to use the LGPL version, you most likely don't use the premium features, and the restrictions are about using Qt to create embedded devices.

There are good reasons not to use Qt, like that many teams don't have the discipline to maintain a large C++ gui application. There are plenty of crap broken Qt apps because it is easy to screw up. There are few responsive electron apps because it is difficult to make fast.

Easier to make a mediocre app in electron -> classic worse is better in action.
For me it's not an issue of perception, but sheer lack of working memory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2FXfFeRtJo
Why should one use CDK vs Pulumi?
Renters are in general far less likely to vote. Many cities have higher property tax in areas with a lot of renters because the few people who vote in that neighborhood are no longer enough to matter to politicians. Even when they do vote, few renters see how property taxes turn into higher rent (though even for an economists this is tricky as supply and demand are important factors in rent)
Microsoft Windows starts telling users off if they try to download Chrome
America Outlawed Pinball (2016)
The parent was making a different point though which was that increasing the price of parking would decrease the demand. And while that is true almost by definition, mostly you'll just transfer money from all the people who want/need cars to someone or someones else. Most adults aren't going to forego a car because parking is too expensive. (Of course, they may decide just to live someplace else where parking is cheaper/free.)
> We have no reason to believe that someone will misuse your information because of what happened.

Uh, why do they think someone would illegally access information? Just for fun?
> could it be easier to shift commercial to high density residential?

In some places it's possible, as long as the commercial spaces naturally lend themselves to residential occupation, or in places with enough demand to justify the costs of tearing down existing commercial spaces and building residential structures.

But most unused (therefore in theory available) American commercial space isn't comprised of smaller 19th century brick warehouses that you can convert into chic lofts.

Rather, it's more like abandoned or underutilized suburban shopping malls that can't be easily repurposed into housing. The most basic issue is that these buildings don't have many exterior windows. After all, in an indoor shopping mall, the whole point generally is to create an environment that isolates you from the outdoors by keeping it at a large distance.

Apartment buildings need to keep more access to the outdoors, both for light and ventilation reasons.
Knowing to Learn
Does anyone know if this blog still has an RSS feed? I think it has moved to a new domain.
If you’re testing software on an M1, what is the benefit of AWS?
Debian 11 with Firefox for me. Firefox does need some tuning like opting out of any studies and telemetry. Verified with tshark until it really doesn't prefetch all previously visited sites and bookmarks. Some sites are able to request infinite invisible visits somehow but it's stoppable and Firefox at least gives the user the freedom to do something about it.
Given that was specifically filmed to be streamed, it's amazing how poorly the director considered what the streamed, compressed version would look like. Or that HBO didn't insist on something that would stream better.
This is subjective to my non-native English skill, but I found the editorialized title much more misleading. "Voluntarily" to me meant with zero obligation or coercion, explicit or implied, from any authority, i.e. doing it out of their sense of duty or something like that.

Happy to compromise on that both titles are not ideal :)
This is _it_. There are so many good examples of dense but verdant urbanism in the US. But they all predate cars.

Funny thing is, people still will pay top dollar to either live in these neighborhoods, or visit them on vacation (Savanah, Charleston, New Orleans, Ashville, ...).

It's a complete tragedy, the answer is right there. Just do the same thing they did then, but today.
where is the official notification of the breach?
It's the variance, not the expected value.

Development is work. Paying for it is risk. Easier to just bank land and watch your equity grow (tax free).

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3146986
It's still too early to say it's mild.
> If it's really costing half a million dollars to house a single homeless family, why not just give them $5,000 to move?

I'm sure they would if they could, but with all the greyhound buses full of people going to LA from places like Texan prisons, how do you prevent them from coming back? Also, I don't think $5k provides as much influence these days as you think it does, even to someone who is homeless.

> LA and much of California is past saving, get out while you still can.

Yes, LA has too many people with more coming, housing prices are too high, and again growing. Chicago is losing people, so it is much easier to live there.
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Well yeah, many of the places with the worst testing coverage are probably close to each other geographically.
i'm not talking about standards. I'm talking about human perception of gun danger and use as an example well established perception of gun danger by the people known to be well accustomed to guns and associated dangers.

>those Rittenhouse shot not only had weapons, but showed intent to use them.

these people were defending themselves and others around from Rittenhouse after he shot an unarmed man and just walked away not checking on the victim, nor waiting for police like one would do in a bona fide self-defense, and that made him to be reasonably perceived as an active shooter that is a threat to anybody around. Thus he created that violent situation of him being a threat and necessitating a defense against him, and he shot the people who were defending themselves and others from him. One shouldn't be able to claim self-defense in such situation.
It could be very dysfunctional if someone is throwing stuff over the wall, but isn't so involved in day to day understands of what is needed, what are the problems. That's a hard thing to be successful at, that remoteness.
For convenience:

* PMP Enhancements for memory access and execution prevention on Machine mode (Smepmp)
* RISC-V Base Cache Management Operation ISA Extensions
* RISC-V Bit-Manipulation ISA-extensions
* RISC-V Count Overflow and Mode-Based Filtering Extension
* RISC-V Cryptography Extensions Volume I: Scalar & Entropy Source Instructions
* RISC-V State Enable Extension
* RISC-V "stimecmp / vstimecmp" Extension
* RISC-V Vector Extension
* The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual Volume II: Privileged Architecture
* "Zfh" and "Zfhmin" Standard Extensions for Half-Precision Floating-Point
* "Zfinx", "Zdinx", "Zhinx", "Zhinxmin": Standard Extensions for Floating-Point in Integer Registers
Even within crypto/defi, it's still people making the decisions. People wrote the algorithms. The only advantage I see there is that, in theory, you should be able to see what rules are encoded in that algorithm, so it's slightly more transparent in that sense.

On the negative side, though, there's essentially no rule of law to prevent the people making the decisions in DeFi from doing things that are bad/illegal/invalid.

> What if political affiliation or COVID vaccination status affects your ability to transact with a bank, even though those things have nothing to do with buying or selling real estate

In the regulated finance world, these sorts of restrictions would be disallowed by the rule of law. You can sue them if they try to enforce those rules, and depending on your jurisdiction, you may win and indeed win damages. What's the equivalent in DeFi? Who do I sue? What court do I ask for relief?
> Does anyone REALLY believe that "things don't work"™ because the systems put in place are flawed?

I do. When society produces large-scale negative outcomes, I believe there are roughly four causes:

1. Because human groups are complex, interactive, iterative dynamical systems, the system as a whole may have emergent properties radically different from the intentions of any of its individual participants. No one in a crowd crush is deliberately commiting evil, yet the result is dead bodies. Designing large scale human systems with the desired emergent properties is extremely hard, like controlling the weather while also being a raindrop.

2. Since culture lives inside human brains and gets enshrined in physical artifacts, large scale systems change extremely slowly. Even when we (for some definition of "we") know better, there is a large lag before we can see the change.

3. Even well-intentioned people are fallible and make mistakes. Some level of power variation is useful, so you will inevitably sometimes have people in power who screw things up and whose position magnifies the negative consequences. This is particularly true when the consequences are long-term and hard to predict like leaded gasoline or CFCs.

4. Some people are selfish and willing to harm others for their benefit. A few are outright sociopaths. Some fraction of these will end up in positions of power.

Conventional wisdom is that these are in increasing order of importance and that most of the bad we see comes from megalomaniacal billionaires. I don't like those dudes either, but my belief is that this is actually in descending order. I think most of our problems are because the systems we're part of are just huge and unpredictable with emergent effects no one anticipated or wants. You can't really blame the problem all on evil billionaires because the production of billionaires is itself a property of the system.
Nope, me too. I tried 2+ monitors and it is so distracting + you have to literally rotate your head, and then there is a window auto-positioning issue (mswin “helpfully” tries to show dialogs/etc on an empty screen). Extended mouse movement is also an issue.

I prefer to tile/overlap windows with fancy zones and to switch between apps by alt-tab. Virtual desktops may be helpful, but I’m really fine with just one desktop and many windows. Conemu builtin tiling helps with fullstack tracing. 2k or 4k, 27" with a 3d mount is ideal. The diagonal really depends on how close you are, and how much ppi it has (angular size/resolution).

I don’t understand 3+-monitor guys, it feels like hax0r overcompensating sort of.
I commented this on an HN post about FB 2 years ago in response to a comment much like yours. Pasting it here:

I don't understand accusations of whataboutism. They oftentimes seem hypocritical: accusing someone of whataboutism is as relevant (and therefore, by its own logic, as rhetorically valid) as the thing it seeks to criticize.

Why is exposing double standards and hypocrisies via a relevant example not a valid form of argumentation?
>I feel like the title of this article comes across as Anti-vax

That's because people have been trained that anything even slightly contrary to the 'agenda' (regardless of how positive or nefarious you find it to be) is inherently "antivax".

It's been successfully framed with the same culture-war argumentative trappings as "white supremacy" to the point you can't have a conversation about it, in most spheres. There's people who parrot the official talking points and then there's everyone else. Even a robust, scientific position that may have some questions in the details gets painted with the same broad brushes as an Alex Jones types who think the vax is microchipping everyone.
OTOH as engineers who spend a large percentage of life pouring blood and sweat into creating things, it's not a giant leap of inference to ponder that there may be a Creator for the engineering marvel we live in.

I struggle with the speciation aspect of Evolution. Not hard to empirically verify in-species adaptations, but I'm still waiting to see coronavirus turn into influenza (etc)
I'm also curious about this. I finally upgraded from a 4GB RAM system to something modern, but FireFox was my primary on that machine for years with no issues. Firefox mobile has atrocious performance for me, but their desktop app is solid and it's what I'm viewing HN on right now. I especially love the silent updates.

EDIT: by "modern" I mean I'm on an I5 with 8GB RAM lol. I do have a Lenovo Legion 7 with a 3080 but use it only for gaming. This I5/8GB combo is my daily driver and works great with Firefox, loads instantly and I can have a dozen or more tabs open no problem.
A lot of people hate electron but frankly, it's the future of desktop applications and probably the future of mobile applications. The browser is currently the best implementation of a true cross platform framework. People complain about nebulous concepts like "bloat" but I think fragmentation across platforms is just as if not more harmful and bad. For mobile for example, I exclusively build native iOS apps because the ecosystem is superior and I simply do not have the bandwidth as an individual to maintain software for 3 unique platforms (web, iOS, and Android) so I just don't build Android apps because the android market is just not valuable.

Also as a user of many electron based apps, I currently use apple silicon native electron apps on my m1 macbook air and they are extremely snappy with only 16gb of ram (go download the canary version of discord which is compiled to apple silicon if you want to see the difference). If there is one entity that I'm truly angry at it is intel for completely mishandling and holding back the desktop processor ecosystem for the past decade (or longer).
Could you get more specific about the reasons or the definition of a financial transaction? Not being able to do financial transactions seems like a slow-motion death sentence.
With better zoning, has Northern VA become more affordable? Or has it just become more popular?
The flu is seasonal, so the northern hemisphere looks at what flu is in the Southern Hemisphere during their flu season and vice versa.
Johnathan Metzl explores it a bit in his book Dying of Whiteness[0]. Here's an example of something he described in an interview[1] about the book and his other work:

>Now I will say that some of the individual stories—I mean, one story that jumps out at me was I was doing interviews about the Affordable Care Act, and I was interviewing very, very medically ill white men who really would have benefited—this is in Tennessee, and in other places in the South where they didn’t expand the Medicaid, they didn’t create the competitive insurance marketplaces—and I said like, “Hey, you guys are dying because you don’t have healthcare. Why don’t you get down with the Affordable Care Act? What’s your reason?”

>And I would say a number of people told me things like, one man told me, “There’s no way I’m supporting a system that would benefit,” as he said, “Mexicans and welfare queens,”—like total racist stereotypes. And so, even though he would have benefited—and his guy, ultimately over the three years of interviews, he passed away because he didn’t have medical care—so he was literally willing to die rather than sign up for a program that he thought was gonna benefit immigrants.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness
[1] https://hashtagcauseascene.com/podcast/jonathan-metzl/
Isn't that the case already pretty much everywhere land is scarce? When I lived in Seattle, parking was an extra $300 a month on top of rent but I didn't have to pay that when I didn't have a car.
If the current situation was hurting their pockets rather than stuffing them they'd change their tune real quick
I've been using Vivaldi for a few months now and basically forgot about Firefox.

1. Address Bar abd Tabs in the bottom without having to hack Firefox XUL/CSS.

2. Tabs. I have 7-8 stacks at any point. For example, I can start reading HN articles, leave the tabs open and them move to another stack for work, research, whatever. I have around 100+ tabs open at any time (and they consuming a little over 12Gb of memory). The tabs stick at restarts.

3. Email. Simple notifications. Useful since I'm running on Arch with no desktop/notifications, etc...

4. Chromium. I'm sorry but as of right now it's better than Firefox Quantum.

5. Screen Capture, Transaction, QrCode support, Chrome plugins, etc...
And has a rather stable ecosystem. I've been doing front-end development for almost 10 years now and have started moving into more Java based projects recently and after living through the "flavor of the week" hellscape that is the JS community, I'll take Java's stability any day of the week. And I say this as someone who does actually love JavaScript.
I agree that regulation can and should be a good thing, to protect the participants of the financial system. But in the past decades we've seen a (lobbied) shift towards deregulation, with catastrophic results:

> Say what you like about regulators - and they regularly mess up big - but they ensure that 99% of consumer finance companies have the cash to back up deposits because they are forced to!

In the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis not long ago the US government was forced to bail out several banks, basically transferring the cost of that mess to tax payers, so I disagree with this statement.
Flu is perculiar because it reassorts - it's genome is in 8? pieces, which can interchange with other similar flu viruses within an infected cell. So a coinfection with A and B flu strains may result in C strain mixed and matched from A and B. Very hard to immunize against.
but apartments is something that is likely to never happen because of the above issue where no one will vote against their self interest.

Several dozen massive apartment complexes have been constructed in L.A. in the past 4 years, and more are being constructed as we speak.

It turns out the problem was never actually zoning; it's simply that it's extremely expensive to build in L.A. when taking into account cost of land (limited supply), cost of materials (excess demand), cost of labor (excess demand), and the extra architectural and structural demands resulting from the dozens of fault lines criss-crossing the L.A. basin.