skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've remote worked for decades, and that isn't my experience.

Video/screensharing meetings are far more productive in my experience, but only if everybody is using the tool. Its frustrating to hold an in-person meeting at the office, and try to add remote folks. The local ones shut out the 'voice on the phone' and start drawing on boards and paper and it breaks down.

I spent 10 years in a company that had all meetings online, even if you were in the office. It was very productive, with all the automation tools at everyone's disposal at every meeting.

Also with our tool, it took an average of 30 seconds to get a meeting started. Vs the 15-minutes-late average starting time of in-person meetings
I am all for the remote trend. I think InVision is doing a really good thing here and it looks like a lot of other companies are following suit.

I hope it influences people to migrate from major tech hubs and help boost the economy in rural areas. I am from the rust belt area and it's been pretty unaffected by all of the tech growth. Most of the locals are still hoping for natural gas or coal to start booming again. I hope somehow remote work could help revitalize the area, although I'm not sure it's enough.
> Where does programming come into play in any direct way to these solutions?

* Literally every piece of lab equipment that uses any kind of controller/control board (most of them)... has needed programming of one sort of another. Hmmm, with the exception of older analog gear maybe (decades ago?).

* Every single piece of data collection, storage, analysis, and control software is created through programming.

* Even communication of results among team members, to management, to the public, often requires programming.
According to this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18167535) it is possible. It's not that Tesla is optimising for performance in these tests, it's more that the tests look at the failure modes of internal combustion engine chassis.
Same hear, I tried to get at least some official ranking of results by model and year, if not the raw data, and didn't find anything. Maybe that's non-public, which wouldn't make sense. But as it stands it is hard to recreatw the ranking Tesla is using and to verify the numbers. Without sources, and a scetchy presentation, it is just a markwting statement from one manufacturer. So no different to everybody else out there. Cherry picking numbers and setting context alsways works.
> "Sometimes good words and good aspirations get tarnished with history, and need to be set aside"

Every word, every ideal, and every good intention becomes tarnished by history. Humanity is not a perfect phenomenon: it is deeply imperfect. There is no way to have progress if our moral view of the world is purely associative.
> a major US city with a lower cost of living

Offset by an insane tax rate. Highest effective in the nation. Also, any actually desirable place to purchase a house is going to be just as expensive as anywhere else minus the tech hubs.
If this is indeed propaganda then, based on the discussion on this page alone, it has achieved it's objective perfectly, which is to sew confusion and argument from polarised perspectives over misleading, trivial nonsense.
I have an Echo Show in the living room, and I make more frequent use of video calling than I'd expected to - the big use case for me is quickly dropping in to say hello to my son before bed when I'm away for work. That's something that can be done with mobile devices, but that then requires him to be near one, which he's too young for at the momment.
Propose an alternative to the organisers. Who in your mind would be a suitable alternative?

To paraphrase:

It’s one thing to say “the speakers were not diverse enough …” It’s another thing entirely to actively encourage the organisers to hire someone who would increase diversity.
I moved from the software sales industry to waiting tables in a rural area. I have a 10 minute commute by car or moped, I breathe fresh air, and I make enough money to support myself.

My colleagues are my friends and my boss has never once slighted me on anything.

There is something to be said about the perks of working remotely, but for once it is nice to work in a supportive, engaging environment that is close to my house.
RISC-V FPGA design contest
>and [unlike Barcelona] everyone speaks English.

I was only in Lisbon for 4 days (loved it!), but did run into some off-hand issues with language barriers. Cab/uber drivers in particular seemed to know little to zero English.

With that being said, once we got a rental car I greatly appreciated the cutthroat driving style of the Portuguese - damn they are good drivers.
Why would you use this over the smartphone in your pocket?

Look at the positions where this garbage is placed in the rooms in the video, literally no one would place these things in the middle of tables, in the middle of countertops. I can't believe Facebook have wasted there time with this. Spend money improving user privacy and security and your share price will go up more than competing on hardware products.
I lived in Durham from 10 to when I started college (travelling back during breaks etc), and I loved it. I agree with you on every point, the triangle is fantastic.
Just to reiterate: great food, great music, real diversity.
Still no compelling reason to use this instead of a tablet or smartphone.
Why can't that case be handled by Slack + a collaborative drawing application?

Sure, with Slack you have the option of being ignored/receiver not noticing the message, but a remote-only company should have methods to discourage that. For example, people could set 'office hours' where they agree to be butt-in-chair for some chunk of time every day and actively monitoring Slack.
I've come across old HN posts in searches a few times, and the original article link was dead - the Archive link was live. I don't know if that's why it's done, but I appreciate it for that reason.
Fix all new MacBook Pro 2016 or later with display backlight issues
From JavaScript to Python – Learning a New Language Pt.2
They're really cagey about it though:

> Portal does not have Facebook ads at this time. Some third-party services on Portal (e.g., music partners) may embed ads in their content in the same way they do when providing their services on other devices.

How about no ads, ever?
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The same as someone who died from a second round of untreatable cancer after having their system wrecked?

Look, I get it; cancer is no fun. But when the cure is worse than the disease, it doesn't make sense any more.

Except if you profit from disease and suffering, I guess.
Its rather sad how close we are to a 1984-esque "believe everything you hear on the 'news'" society. I hope one day we can move past that, and better realize that nearly all news is founded on Outrage designed to get advertisement views.

Here's your litmus test: If you read a news story and it invokes some emotional state within you, immediately preempt that and use your head. Is it possible they could be exaggerating, or straight up lying? What are their motivations and biases? Are there corroborating "ground" reports from individuals with different biases?
Everything is all about the money, every little thing that is done by companies is about the money and net neutrality is one of the most elaborate schemes on how to get it
While I'm not inclined to use this anyways, we've become a Google Home household and use Duo to speak with international relatives, I'm frankly disappointed that the $200 version is only 720p and not 1080p.

Definitely a bit underwhelming considering that besides the Alexa functionality it's essentially a single purpose device.
You need a visa.

Either a Travel+Toursim visa (depending if you're nationality of origin is eligible) or a Visa sponsored by an employer.
[meta] Hey, all of HN? I'll risk a bit of karma on this question:

Why are any of you downvoting klohto's comment? klohto's requesting specific information and providing one's own impression of (or perhaps anecdotal experience in) a remote environment.

I can't think of a single good reason to downvote, and it's really irritating seeing good discourse being suppressed in this manner. [/meta]

As for the question about remote work and productivity, my inclination is that it's something that's selected for during the hiring process. The types of working personalities who work best in a remote environment are likely the ones being successfully recruited to work at firms like InVision. I'm equally curious to know the success criteria (klohto's original question, in essence), but I can at least speculate as to why they're successful at all. Most firms which are not remote-only don't have the privilege of being able to select for the traits which work well in a remote environment.
> start drawing on boards and paper

Sounds like important brainstorming activities. How do you deal with this when you're remote?
I'm sure there's no way this could be misused. Perhaps training the police to not shoot people on sight might be a better solution?
Though fundamentally very different, in some cases clocking with a free-running clock is an alternative. That clock has a frequency that represents several gate-delays, and these delays in turn depend on the current core voltage. The end result is a clock close to optimal given the voltage applied to the core, and that even adjusts the clock within a single SMPS charging cycle.

A RISC-V prototype achieved almost 40% power savings: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bora/Journals/2017/JSSC17-...
You just said what it is? I mean, what is Hispanic culture if not Mexican/Spanish/Venezuelan/etc., what the hell is Asian culture if not Chinese/Japanese/Korean/etc.
Jack your feet in with Cybershoes
I think the way to get a remote job is to start with a non-remote job and slowly convert it to remote. Haven't pulled it off successfully yet but it seems like a much easier path, so long as you're willing to put in the time.
Was the HN title fixed after your post? It's now "low-code" which I think is pretty understandable.
I was looking for y combinator, of the lambda calculus, and google showed me a link to this site and I clicked. In google's defense, I hadn't used the words "lambda" or "calculus".
It happens a lot actually. The word "empower" has done so many circuits on this track that I don't know if it is good or bad this year. It was once (90's, but probably still) good grant writing practice to know what the "in" words were at a department or agency. The word churn was a real item. "Socialize" was another word that went through some gyrations.

Frankly, I looked at this aspect of word smithing as a sort of shibboleth to identify the accepted crowd.

Meritocracy as a normal read of its definition should be a fine word, but Silicon Valley seems to be going through the same word smithing that DC goes through. New beliefs, new words, and must demonize the old words.
Our Intention is to create the world's most comprehensive resource for people to learn and understand the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain. We're starting off on helping people who aren't very familiar or technical and will be expanding our content moving forwards.
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From their first blog post [1]:

"We’re not placing any particular bounds on this project and will work to improve the security of any software depended upon by large numbers of people, paying careful attention to the techniques, targets and motivations of attackers"

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[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/07/announcing-pr...
Language matters indeed. I guess that if you'd said "I find coming up with a name with the word 'driven' in it for such a common thing somewhat grandiose." you'd not have provoked such a strong reaction, but you didn't. You said note-taking is "frivolous" (which to me suggested you think it's a bad idea!). You don't acknowledge the difference to "just taking notes", which might make it a not-so-common thing.
I liked the developer experience right off the bat -- the way the data structures are modeled couldn't be more elegant.

However, this put a crimp in my enthusiasm:

"[Alan] defines all possible states of the data, and in effect all possible states of your application"

We recently finished refactoring a complex algorithm that got away from us because we coded it as a state machine rather than a plain vanilla algorithm using good old sequence + iteration + selection. The state machine version may have been easier to write, but the old fashioned algorithm was so much easier to reason about and maintain.
So Facebook's vision (according to what they communicate with their landing page) is that people basically want to be connected, by sound and video, all the time? "If you can’t be there, feel there".

I mean... seems like a perfect example if loosing sight of your mission and what users really want. A typical "ok we want people to be more connected, what could we come up with?" and the less bad idea was "a video camera! For the home! So people can always video chat! Hands free!".

I really don't see myself video call my significant other while we are both cooking in a different home and enjoying this.
Anyone? Does anyone gets excited about this?
Facebook’s Making Hardware Now? Company Introduces Video-Calling Devices
Can confirm. Same when I did service in Sweden. Reasonable mustaches were OK, beards were not.
You can already do that with Routines.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/28/alexa-can-now-play-your-f...

Disclaimer - work on Alexa, but not this.
Everyone is different but having actually worked for this company is the reason I won't ever work remotely ever again.
This article is shameless self-promotion... "to compare a printed circuit board and its chips and components with the intended design..." So every company now has to design its own servers, routers and every other piece of hardware from the scratch to avoid "spy chips" ? Yeah... Sounds like a good idea...
Thanks, but why don't you piss of instead?

Also by the time you see a gun, it's already too late. Have you thought about a second, maybe?

If a person has the intention to shoot a police officer, he wont hesitate to do so. Maybe that's why they don't like to wait until they see a gun? Or do you think the raging person will ask politely first, if he can shoot at them or not?

Maybe you should think about both sides in a situation? Maybe understand how a situation can escalate quickly into a shooting spree? And maybe that's the reason why officers don't risk it at all and rather shoot first?

At the end of the day, they are people too. If you can't understand that then why don't you go and be a police officer and show us idiots how it's done.
> Reddit is the next thing I am contemplating my usage. It sucks up way too much time for the reward of fake internet points.

I would agree if Reddit were only the inane collection of memes and squabbles that many people assume it is from a cursory glance. The problem is that Reddit subreddits are replacing many independent forums for various hobbies and interests. Message board websites are often dying, they might only have a handful of posts each month or year while the relevant subreddit has informative or useful content several times a week. Reddit is often criticized as a toxic environment, but a dying forum website where only a few cantankerous old grouches are left can feel even more toxic.
That'd mean blocking eg. Spotify's free service though.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. There is a reason why many big Valley companies are setting up expansions here and why a huge chunk of engineers in the Valley are from the University of Waterloo. A big thriving startup community with a good culture and lots of smart folks around, very easy to get integrated and to get support.

It's not as cheap as moving to a 3rd world country or some random places in the States or Canada, but it's fairly reasonable, tons of smart people and activity and you are within a 1.5hr driving radius of Toronto, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, London, Guelph and most of the big SW Ontario places. Cheap flights to go anywhere in the world often popup from Toronto or Hamilton, so that's a bonus if you like to travel.

Again, this isn't comparable to moving to Portugal or the like, which is an awesome place by the way, but if you want Canada, it's a good choice for getting a lot without the prices of Toronto, which is one of the top 6 most expensive cities in the world.
No, there is no magic :) When you set up the users at the top of the model file, you specify which property is the password.
Troops in the field for long durations tend to have dress and grooming discipline more lax than what would be enforced on a base in peacetime. Special forces seem to have especially large leeway about that with their infamous "tactical beards".
good try but.. the Google'rs originally wanted to "index the worlds information" .. very, very smart engineers are motivated by that alone. They were competitive and highly-achieving coders from Berkeley-Stanford-MIT-CalTech-thatOtherOneIForget in an elite team environment.. There were ten other well-funded companies trying to be search engines with lots of publicity.. Google outperformed them..

In hindsight, after the money with so many zeroes, it is tempting to rewrite history, but this short "it was the money" doesnt tell the story
Except for the huge tablet on the console you need to use while driving. Averting eyes from the road.
Intriguing hypothesis!

To chase it down a little more, is it true that legacy car companies don't use the "skateboard battery" approach, since this hypothesis predicts they would not?
Touch typing - got me interested in programming

Python - made programming enjoyable
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Xiaomi Mi Laptop

I switched from Macbook Pro 2013 to ~$1,000 Xiaomi Mi notebook pro (i7, 16GB, Dedicated GX card, better battery, HDMI port, 15inch, Mac like keyboard and touchpad, fingerprint reader). I run a right-swipe virtual machine and run chrome all day without issues. It's a good for 3 years machine. Screen is fullhd though.
A Garmin-owned navigation company inadvertently exposed customer information
It's still in the blood of the French. You don't have to be in Paris for long to encounter mass protests.
Might the Google cloud be just an internal product they happen to try sell externally?
Why is remote such highly requested?
I work remote but, not cause I HAVE to. My team is just all fully remote.
I guess it is more or less the same everywhere.

Worth to mention the Pioneers of the French Foreign Legion are one of the only soldiers (that I know) who can wear beards. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion#Pioneers
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It doesn't take a lot to be an Android developer, just saying. Otherwise, well good for you I guess, have my doubts to this being the rule rather than the exception with your little refugee problem in Germany though.
We have used this company for our office renovation and we were very impressed with how they can customize everything to your liking and to suit your office. Their prices are very good too. So if you are looking for any office fit outs in the Melbourne area, give these guys a shout.
Not to go ‘too tinfoil’ here, but couldn’t that also imply the source was discovered and harassed/served a gag, or something of that sort? (Purely as devil’s advocate speculation)
Alexa + big screen for video calls and spotify? Pre-ordered 2, sending one to my parents who live across the country. I also love the aesthetic, very clean looking. I also like that it isn't connecting to Facebook servers.
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Thank you for support eqanist! My comment might not have sounded to others like you're describing. I have added an EDIT.
Hey everyone,

I'm one of the cofounders of Curated and I am happy to announce that we have just launched our app as an Android open beta.

It's an app where you can discover, share & discuss awesome content you find. We have support for books, podcasts, articles and videos.

We made this app because we believe the best way to find something you enjoy is to have it recommended to you. With Curated you can find out what your friends are reading, watching & listening to - giving you a fresh stream of content suggestions that you're likely to be interested in.

You can also use it as a reading or watch list to save things you want to look at later.

You can access the android beta from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rockspin.w...
We're currently working on the iOS version.

We're also one of the companies in this year's Startup School - being there has really motivated us and helped us reach this point, so shout out to anyone who's part of it as well!
Source for world ranking?
It's not easy, it's just that nobody knows how to exit it, so once you start using it, you use it for life.
On this page:
https://alan-platform.com/pages/tuts/bottom-up.html

The ASCII art isn't rendering correctly. (In Chrome on a tablet.)
I object to being called an immigrant. I don't have any known relatives outside of Australia and I consider myself only Australian.

Everybody in the world ancestors came from somewhere else at some point in time (even the indigenous Australians). Does 10 generations of ancestors living in one country make you less of a citizen than 200?
Having had the pleasure of being served by many waiters in Paris, I assumed that the 1907 strike hadn't ended yet.
Lately it seems that risk has grown.

I have no evidence, but I feel that it only seems the risk has grown because technology has made it harder to cover up. I think as it gets more attention, the risk is going down.
There's a decent tech scene primarily centered around crypto currency. Most of the issues and roadblocks are government related to be honest. It's an interesting country if you want to invest in a developing country but quality of life is pretty bad.
Domain Reflection is a thing, load a webpage on domain www.example.bad with low DNS TTL, then repoint it to common IPs for management interfaces, make AJAX call. Of course a lot of routers try to filter it but it works in a surprising amount of installs to this day.

Another entry point could be other devices in your network that have been taken over to some extend (or maybe even an app on your phone).
My family did purchase a dedicated Skype video device for my grandmother when she started suffering from cognitive decline and moved into an assisted living facility. But beyond niche use cases like that it's hard to see the point of such devices, especially when they're locked into just a single software platform.
Check this for an example: https://github.com/M-industries/AlanProjectTemplate/blob/mas...
I no longer believe in free software, meaning that if it's free, there is something the software gets from you in return
Hmm. A Markov chain where you actually do some kind of search? You build up a chain then backtrack and retry as necessary until you get something meeting the requirements.
I work in IT in a large institution. Recently we started requiring 2-factor auth to get into payroll. The number of people who tell us “I don’t use apps on my phone” and require a hardware token is shockingly high.

For every tech savvy hacker news minimalist there are 5+ people who find technology easiest to work with when a device does one thing and one thing only.
That was abusive.