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I've seen a great connection between how happy people feel about their workspaces and how happy they feel they are in are them, physically and mentally.

When on-boarding in my first regular job, we received a couple of hours training in how to adjust you chair from the health-and-safety manager.

Fantastic training, him spinning around a chair showing how everything can be adapted, optimal eye, leg, waist, elbow height, the company gym instructor visiting demonstrating cases of how necks can get bent forward just by looking at a screen for a couple of years, the company doctor telling stories of the results of not complaining about feeling uncomfortable, and the lawyer telling us that this advice is useful coz we're giving it to you now, don't forget it.

I've worked in a lot of other places since. Some have been more haphazard/freedom-giving in implementing a comfortable desk and I'm a fan of that: Put a stack of paper under the monitor. Have a footrest instead of adjusting the chair. Bring in a fishtank and have some (real) fish (not a screensaver) swimming past you while you work, go to the gym for an hour when there aren't meetings, lots of plants, do a standing desk on empty paper boxes, bring a camping bed to store under your desk and take a nap after lunch on it. Pretty free workspaces.

What I've seen work, and not work, and work better, and this is complete anecdote: Colleagues that have the training to have been informed of best practices, and have an idea of the optimal 'springiness' setting to set their chair to have fun with their chair have freedom with their chair. Companies that do that then then also allow their employees to choose how to setup their environment are more productive, committed and a lot happier.

Open-office environments are actually OK for this. But not hot-desking ones. Feeding your fish is 2-3 minutes of not staring at a screen or typing, refreshment. Knowing the cleaner will throwaway a present for a colleague if you're not cleaned your desk in the evening is a prison. Having plenty of small meeting rooms available can provide peace and privacy.

And a quick nap on a colleague's borrowed camping bed when you're in for a long day, is bliss.
If there's little to no proven benefit then the claims are absolutely overstated. What's your point?
A longer article with more details, including a first attempt to fix that didn't work: https://www.cbronline.com/news/azure-down-office-355-down
Yes. Generating daily reports, emailing them to relevant teams is process that happens every now and then. While i can change the people who receive the repots, or post it to a slack group, its harder to make change the actual report itself without taking to the ERP developer or a technical person. Also the turn around time for such changes are higher which can be frustrating at times.
It is a permission culture mentality. It doesn't matter that you are making them money by say buying their hardware and painting it neon green to resell - you made more money from their work so they feel entitled to another cut.
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It's the expected growth rate, so yes it would vary in a real-world instance. I wondered for a while why they've taken the logarithm, but I think it's just because growth models are normally defined exponentially (with the rate being a parameter inside the exponential) - it shouldn't make a difference to the result.

As for varying, that Samuelson article says:

> For N as large as one likes, your growth rate can well (and at times must) turn out to be less than mine - and turn out so much less that my tastes for risk will force me to shun your mode of play.
I did remote work for a year, and I felt the isolation too. I considered getting a dog, but ended up leaving the job first.

I do miss waking up 10 minutes before work time and the 10 seconds commute time.
Companies bid on the search terms is how google makes money where Altavista did not. Has nothing to do with personal data.
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I think I see the problem here (with the comments).

The main problem is that in order to claim something is "overrated", you have to have some idea of the "rating."

So perhaps most of the other commenters were enlightened and knew exactly what the benefits were.

Not me. Like (perhaps) the author, I thought sitting is really, really bad for you: for your heart, for your long term mobility, for your health. And that standing will alleviate these issues.

Under my model, it wasn't just that moving was good and not moving was bad. I thought that specifically sitting was the worst form of non-movement (over lying down and standing).

I can't tell you where I got this but I had read a lot of "sitting is the new smoking" type articles.

Now this author tells me that is not the case, and there was no proof of it being the case.

This is news to me. I had the correct "rating" for this article and it turns out I had "overrated" standing desks.

If you already know all this, then of course it was not "overrated" for you.
I was talking to someone who builds a product for recruiters recently. Apparently, common knowledge among recruiters these days is that you can't get anyone with experience to move to SF anymore (they are still able to attract young talent right out of university).

It breaks my heart the way this city is squandering its potential with backwards-looking policies that make it impractically expensive for basically everyone, tech employee or no.
Treadmill desks are already a Thing. Haven't seen one in a big corporate office, yet, however.
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What percent of engineers in SF or NYC are working for FANG companies? Most people aren’t working for companies that pay like Facebook.
Looks like someone has tested XSS there already.
So if you can provide a simple UX that allows me to make my own reports, it would make lives easier.
This happens a lot to me as well. Best for now is to do experiments on PM so much that once you figure out you will not have time to feel lonely. You will get into the FLOW.

Learn a side skill like an instrument, artform etc which you can learn while you building this.
I agree, but...

First: Google doesn't need saving. They're doing just fine.

Second: I fear that every proposal to save a free and independent press is going to destroy freedom in some very concrete ways.
Fantasic post. Loved the Straussian ending.
People Google the news when there's a major event going on that they want to know more about but don't usually read the news. For example, I did so to find out the 2018 US midterm results.
To that I'd suggest reading https://lifehacker.com/the-most-and-least-fake-extra-virgin-.... Since then I've bought California olive oil and giggled at all of the Italian brands.

About the article, my honest first thought was, "Does it matter? They already weren't selling olive oil in the first place, now they just have to pretend harder."
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Yeah I can't understand this. I've been in constant lower back pain for years, with it getting considerably worse over the last 12 months. All of the experts have told me that it is some condition or other primarily caused by (and definitely exacerbated by) sitting for extended periods of time.

I literally haven't sat in an office chair for longer than 20 mins for the last 12 weeks and my back is so much for the better.
Not everyone living in SF or NYC works at those companies...
Having just moved from SF to a smaller market with a 'lower cost of living' I can tell you DO NOT DO IT

The value you lose from your current and future network alone is so devastating that any NerdWallet estimate of your costs is total BS. Lookup how much networks are worth to lifetime earnings

Now your job sucks? Good luck getting a new one you like. Either move back or find something that 'works'

Lastly, your coworkers will be from a smaller pond and instead of learning with the most experienced, you'll atropying your progress as you argue for basic things with people who've never worked in a big pond.

There's a reason people go to hollywood for movies and SF for tech. A bunch of them actually.
Would you like to publish this article some where else?
> since when are proper IT/web security AND producing a good product mutually exclusive?

Since finite resources. It’s not okay. But it’s an acceptable transgression given what they’re doing and how close to the red line they’re operating.

Pulling back from that redline to keep every piece of IT infrastructure up to date and secure would be a bad strategic trade. Waiting until a problem and then fixing it makes more sense. Lazy versus eager allocation.
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But the actual Bay Area is boring. You pay the premium in SF and NYC to be close to arts and culture, both of which are lacking in Silicon Valley. And good luck getting a date if you are a guy.
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Google sister company Waymo has cars driving themselves as I type this in Phoenix. Think they are bringing tons of innovation forward.

Have you seen the Pixel camera for low light?
Wow, seems typical for Tesla though.
Getting started with a hobby seems to the most voted advice. Definitely starting to work on this. And thanks to everyone who took their time to help me figure this out. It means a lot to know that there are people out there who are willing to help :) <3
The behavior at low strength is not what I would expect. There are very strong effects on the input image. Those effects are independent of the style applied.

But it is awesome.
> Hacker news gives a very skewed view on the world, as if everyone is up to date with the latest developments in deep learning. In reality, most people in academia are pretty unaware of what's possible, or don't have the technical skills (or grad students with them) to make use of it

Agreed, although I can also detect a lot of negativity from an older generation of academics in fields that classically border machine learning very closely. One remark I found funny (paraphrasing) is: "Total learning is a constant, and it consists of the sum of the machine's and the person's learning.. the deeper the learning of the machine.. the shallower the learning of the person". But I don't really have a stake in this and am not in much of a position to judge.
If a big growth rate is a composition of a bunch of small changes with their own growth rate, then the overall change is the product of the individual ones, so geometric mean is appropriate.
I think a lot of sitting desk users also have improper monitor or keyboard height, and many (most, anecdotally) people have atrocious posture. This probably explains a lot of why sitting has a negative reputation.

Personally, standing all day makes my feet tired & sore. I much prefer a well set-up sitting workstation and regular walking breaks.
NPM and Yarn are both working on approaches that would replace having a separate unpacked `node_modules` folder for every project: "Yarn Plug 'n Play" and "NPM Tink".
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> By pushing to the “link tax”, publishers are shooting themselves in the foot three times over.

I don't think that's true at all. Beyond some short term traffic loss there are no negative consequences for the media industry if Google leaves this space. I suspect that's what big publishers actually aim for, they understand Google is not likely to pay and want to control how users discover news themselves.
I realise it's technically possible but are there any documented instances of someone doing that?
As someone who works in SF every day, it does seem that in the last few months the city might be turning a corner – there are definitely fewer tent cities, and general public cleanliness seems improved as well.

The cost of these programs must be phenomenal (permanent police presence on the Civic Center plaza, full-time attendants in many subway elevator cars are just a couple examples I've seen near my work), but in a city as rich as San Francisco I think many would say it's a price worth paying to clean up the commons.
I might be revealing my lack of experience here, but why would you need an app to view your csv? What is the benefit of this over running the data frame or df.head?
The claim is that the numbers do not add up for tech workers ro make Bay Area attractive. 125k salary is used as a mid level comp to do cost of living calculations.

The numbers for 125k indeed do not add up. However mid-level in Bay Area is 200k+ and Senior is 300k+. Not sure where 125k comes from.

Finding people with skills expexted for Bay Area’s mid level (forget about Director or VP) is a massive challenge.
Well this is not really targeting the same market then. I also live "not in the US" (in France) and the electric scooter I see the most in our streets is the BMW C evolution which retails at more than 15k euros.

I'm not surprised that things are cheaper in Vietnam given the lower wages and very different culture when it comes to motorized two wheeled vehicles.
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I use a standing desk and my primary purposes are to keep myself more alert and to alleviate back pain. It is the single biggest improvement to back pain that I have found.

As for health, like the article says, the most important things are keep up a good diet (eat just enough, eat as many whole foods as possible, vary what you eat) and exercise.

I also would like to recommend https://fluidstance.com/ which is a board that wobbles to go with a standing desk. This has further improved the benefits to my back and general alertness while working.
The article actually mentions kids. When talking about working in the bay area with technology people from the bay area I really get the impression that nobody there ever has children and everybody is sterilized. I don't think I have ever heard anybody talk about the bay area being great unless they were childless.

Outside of the bay area I can actually afford to have children and a house without being a millionaire. Yeah, I know, its weird. I have enough money left over (even though I have kids and a large house) that my wife isn't forced into labor to prevent immediate financial ruin.

I simply cannot imagine (I mean those words very literally) the horrid state of affairs of making six figures and still being on the verge of poverty.
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I thought this too, but it turns out that the Speedment thing he’s talking about is a ORM
Because I disagreed with the conclusions of the article, I submitted this article to the HN community for assessment.

Many of the responses here call into question the article's apparent position, especially as regards its inflammatory title, and these responses reflect my own opinion and experience.

I expressed my objections as a comment to the article, reproduced here for convenience. [0]

> I've been a long distance runner all my life, hovering at a 7:30 pace. In my mid 40s I began getting pain in my legs while running. Increasingly, I could not run more than 3 miles at a time without injuring. My pace went to 8:30 or slower.

> Almost 2 years ago, I went to physical therapy and my doctor prescribed a standing desk. 1 hour standing; 1 hour sitting.

> Part of the problem according to my doctor is that my legs were tightening while sitting. Intermittently standing and stretching was not enough to offset what sitting was doing to my leg and back muscles.

> Since receiving a standing accessory at work and acquiring a motorized desk at home, my injuries have disappeared.

> Of course the stretching exercises I continue to do as directed by my physical therapist help. But stretching by itself did not work as I grew older.

> The combination of stretching exercise and alternating standing and sitting afforded by a standing desk has helped me recover from my injuries.

> My running pace has hit 7:20 and declining.

> Dismissing the potential benefit of standing desk as an expensive luxury is about as advisable as dismissing a doctor's visit as unnecessary use of health care.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/upshot/why-standing-desks...
If you're interested in this, I can recommend Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir, by Don Eyles. http://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html

It was Don who wrote the Apollo lunar module software that handled the whole landing phase, and was responsible for the hack that saved the Apollo 14 mission. The book details the whole history of the LEM software development. I particularly like the part relating to the details behind the 1201 and 1202 program alarms on Apollo 11. I hadn't realized that they actually signified the LEM computer doing a full software reboot. Not what you really want to see on a fly-by-wire spacecraft during the landing phase. This turned out to be OK because the critical tasks were restartable, as they anticipated a power glitch and really didn't want to crater if one happened at a critical momemnt.
The most annoying thing about the tech giants that askew remote is that they also choose to locate themselves in the most expensive cities in the country.

Here's a tweet today from the creator of Babel on how he is moving to the east bay because housing is more affordable. https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1064252136349822977 .

If someone who's created that much value is not able to afford an area then it's insulting that tech giants expect us to move there (or have a 2 hour commute to somewhere affordable).

There's this terrible myth that I want to kill; that software engineering is a well-paid field. That's a lie.

Here's something pharmacists, account managers, farmers can afford: 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom houses near where they work.

We can't. We're asked to live in apartments in Jersey and commute 45 minutes to Manhattan every day.

Or we work remotely and are expected to take a smaller wage, where the company can't wait to get big enough so that it can force us all to move.
I think is is a fair response.

1) Any time somebody suggests taxing, breaking up, or otherwise regulating the tech giants, there's a chorus of voices afraid we'll kill their golden goose. That's why I phrased it as a choice to "save" one or the other. If it ever did come down to a binary choice, I'd sooner our society sacrificed Google to save NYT/BBC/Der Spiegel. Others may disagree, of course.

2) There's a legitimate argument to be made that government intervention to shore up the press will result in unintended consequences and/or make the press beholden to their government benefactors.
Ask HN: Is there anyway to profit off of recognizing trends if you can't invest?
I live paycheck to paycheck, but I have a pretty good record (over 5-8 years) of identifying companies, and areas that will 10x.

I literally cannot even spare $100 so I can't profit off of any of these, and even if I did: $100 x 10 is only $1000.

I cannot prove it but it's frustrating to see another company I selected become a unicorn when I knew about it when it was 5 employees.

Should I try to work for one of these companies? That's a huge opportunity cost though.

I'd say I'm correct about 80% of the time.
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Something to consider about scalability is in the long term either the company will figure out how to scale beyond all workers sitting within five feet of the CEO or it'll go out of business or they'll somehow have over a hundred employees per square foot. So over a long enough timescale the problem kinda fixes itself.

As I moved up in the industry it eventually became normal for my peers to be two floors away and I never see them IRL, or later on, for my boss or peers to be 100 to 2000 miles away.

If my closest (in the sense of daily peer cooperation) coworker is three hundred miles away, does it matter if I'm at home or in an office with 600 people that I don't directly work with in it?

Not ever job will forever be entry level with a dozen IRL peers within a dozen feet. Companies that can't scale, do not survive long term.
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I wonder when Electric Vespas: https://electrek.co/2018/08/27/electric-vespa-the-elletrica-... will finally be widely available.

Genze has been shipping inexpensive e-scooters for a while: https://www.genze.com/e-scooters.
I think if pressure from "traditional" publishers keeps going, google is going to put plan B in action and go on to actually own the news as well. It's not hard for them to build an "uber for news" for journalists, editors and the common man, as in fact they have been subsidizing the open web with adsense for decades anyway. Maybe the next google reader will be about google's own news.
Nice to hear @thehumblenerd. We are trying to build this layer between the databases & people in the organisation so that the gap is bridged.

Can you tell more about what kind of graphs you use? What does your report contain?
> it's not a replacement for exercise. Was anyone ever claiming that?

Not directly, but part of their popularity does seem to be a response to studies showing that exercise doesn't offset sitting. There were a few pretty convincing results in a row concluding that extended sitting is harmful in itself, regardless of exercise frequency. Given that many other studies show extended standing is also bad, I think the question worth investigating here is whether position changes offset that or whether interspersing actual movement is required. (More speculatively, a major leg-bouncing habit or an 'active' base for sitting or standing might help.)

> Sit/stand desks have an added bonus of letting you adjust the height of the desk when sat down, which makes a big difference.

This is reason enough for me to value a sit/stand desk - even if I never stand up, the ergonomics of controlling desk height are a huge benefit. Guides to adjusting chair height for that are fine, but I want to adjust my chair relative to the floor so that my feet lie flat, then my desk to my chair. (And then, ideally, my monitor and keyboard separately also).

I agree that bad chairs are almost certainly a big factor, in the ways you describe. Circulation issues and back pain are two of the biggest issues with sitting, and they match up to pressure from the chair bottom and poor lumbar support. In addition to the padding issue you mentioned, chairs with back support are usually worse for me, because the back support is often fixed in place and only correct for people of one specific height. Either getting a high quality chair or being able to change positions often seem like the most obvious improvements.
The rest of the Bay Area is not at all boring if you value being close to a wide variety of outdoor recreation. Many people don't care about about arts and culture; everyone values different things.
Not unique to Wintel, or this program. That's the reason programs were so small for the original Macintosh. Most of the essential routines, especially Quicktime, were in ROM.
Just curious...are you female or would you consider yourself extroverted?
First thought I had when I saw the paper: it could be used to enhance board games.
What's stopping Google from refusing to pay the news sites, thus de-indexing them from Google entirely? If the relationship is "pay me for my content", then refusing to serve links to their media is absolutely within their rights.

Only the publishers have something to lose here.