skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Mobile Jazz (7 years old now) and Bugfender (4-5 years old now) we always had the rule, that people could choose to work as much as they want and when they went. As long as the output and quality was there. Obviously to achieve high quality output you need to be there at certain times (overlap with other team members) and you need to do a certain amount of hours. The problems we had because of this are almost no-existent (specific people that then ended up not staying very long in the company) and the advantages by far outweigh the "loss of control". In the end myself as a business owner and managers have far less stress by trusting people and empowering them to do great work.

With this framework, people will take breaks whenever they feel like. They go doing sports, play with their kids, run errands. They even take whole days off to go surfing or skiing. And I really don't mind. Because I do the same.

But then, if a server goes down late at night, people all the sudden show up by themselves and fix problems. Also on a rainy Saturday or Sunday, people will all the sudden be online and working.

Give people the opportunity to be in charge of their own work schedule, give them the responsibility, make them feel that they're actually responsible and they will shine.

We also just released our company handbook which goes in a lot of detail on how we run a 20+ people remote business:

* https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook (landing page, if you want to get email updates)

* https://mobilejazz.com/docs/company-handbook/mobile-jazz-com... (direct link to the PDF)

EDIT: Added some more details
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I'm helping a friend with an enormous Excel+VBA solution that reads an input excel sheet and outputs numerous sheets with calculated values (think like a time report or something).

I've been thinking about some way to do this in a more sane programming language. The logic itself is simple, and I could probably write 100 lines of Python to replace the whole thing, with openpyxl for creating new sheets.

There's no need to use Excel+VBA except that anyone can run it, i.e no one except my friend need to inspect/modify the code.

However, the end users are in a (I'm guessing) pretty locked down Windows environment and my Windows skills are severely lacking.

Can I use something like py2exe and have end users running the binaries in a normal Windows enterprise settings, include reading and modifying files in the folder where the exe is running? If not, is there something else, besides the current solution that is resonable?
The comments on the website are a good laugh.
Yeah I agree except I don’t understand what the point of the tweet was. Whether you have 1000 deps or 10 deps, the problem is about security, not dep count. Who’s going to carefully audit 10 deps when they’re transitive? More than would audit 1000, but not many more. Having few deps does not appear to be the solution to dependency security.
Discussion from 1-2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19187997
Footage of a Grey Whale carcass on the sea floor, from Blue Planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7t1WguYJyE
Are you referring to the Holy Roman Empire ruled by Charlemagne? They weren't strictly the same as the Roman Empire. There's a decent explanation on reddit on the differences. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/124kmx/whats...
Every Walmart I've been to has fresh produce. But to your point, if you want a large variety of fresh produce for cheap you go to an ethnic food store. Around Atlanta that would be the Asian and Mexican grocery stores, which are as large as Walmart, stocked majority of produce. It's bustling with customers, carts full of produce.

The produce section at Walmart is actually larger than my local so called grocery stores (Kroger, Publix...)... Where carts are full of cereal and other non perishable food.

On the topic of strawberries, they would be half the price at the ethnic super markets.

I somewhat disagree with the statement grilling takes the taste and hides the freshness. I would say that to frying. If you go to your local "seafood" restaurant most of the menu is fried this, fried that.
The product lines are a lot less focused than they used to be, especially on the mobile side. It hurts the software side as well supporting so many different configurations. Many things that were introduced years ago still do not work properly, like handoff, continuity, and other related features.
You seem to love reading about them just as much. One day before your submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19185432

But don't worry, you're in good company:

2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19184234

Shortly before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19181575

4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19164541

And that's just within the last week. Luckily it doesn't keep up this frequency:

4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18155797

March 6th, 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7356602

January 4th, 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7009842

December 30th, 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6985677
Honestly, I'm really disappointed with Apple for pro use lately.

1) not testing stuff thoroughly - the i9 mbpro overheating saga ("fixed" by firmware upgrade), this T2 usb2 dropout (which probably isn't fixable at all) - unacceptable.

2) releasing significant GPU upgrade 2 months after a flagship mbpro release - I and many others were screwed by buying the latest and greatest (the most expensive laptop I've ever bought) only to be obsoleted 2 months later by 90% faster GPU that doesn't overheat, with no chance for customer exchange at that point.

Inexcusable, I pay the Apple premium to avoid crap like this, now I'm wondering what I am paying 2x for?
You’re ignoring the fact that an unlocked door greatly increases the chance of the crime happening in the first place. It won’t cost more but it will make it happen more times.

Many opportunistic thieves will simply try the door and only go in if it opens.
I think most of the griping in this thread will be unrelated to the article. The article talks about real time-waste (surfing social media, personal communications). From the headline, I was ready to rail against the definition of “productively” but if you’re on Instagram all day, that’s a different story.

Nevertheless, remote teams and flexible hours and maker time and all that, yes!
There's a saying "you don't realize what you have until it's gone." People tend to take for granted the most precious things (and people) in their lives. When they lose them, they truly feel the pain of what they're now missing.
Thanks for that - the contrarian skeptic in me has been vindicated.

The wonders of the internet are allowing us to break down Gell-Mann Amnesia. Now when we see whimsical headlines like this one, we can just @ relevant academic authorities uninvolved in the story and bait them to debunk it.
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In other words: on your bank account it looks like an upfront cost, but because you could sell the servers at any time they really look more like a rental in your books, with capital slowly draining away each year as they become worth less.
There's this little gem that uses websocket tunnels for all those times only http is allowed. https://github.com/jpillora/chisel

A lot of modern websites rely on websockets for push notifications so they're usually open. It works wonderfully for things like public WiFi where all traffic is sent through an HTTP proxy and everything else blocked
It does what I need (for instance decrypting Amazon purchases), runs locally and will only process trusted input, not to mention it seems to be gradually migrated to Python 3. I’m not overly worried.

For an upcoming competitor, security is only a feature if it also does everything else I need it to.
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I’m gonna go put some grapes in the microwave, THEN read this article
I was curious about Julia, mostly to experiment with the Flux machine learning library. I tried some ‘general purpose’ Julia programming: network IO, consuming RDF data, some natural language processing/text processing, etc.

I was specifically interested in the question ‘could Julia be my general purpose language?’. In reality, I am too much into Lisp languages, Haskell, etc. to seriously want a new language, so this was just a two evening experiment.
Let's just call it raisinance.
I wouldn’t say never, but you do have to be extremely careful and say as little as possible.

I didn’t really get it until I came into a situation where a policeman was convinced I was up to something (not realising there was a breath testing station set up a few hundred metres up the road, I pulled over to make a phone call, and they came over convinced I was trying to evade them for some reason). Luckily it was pretty low stakes, and everything was in order, and the worst that was going to happen was maybe they might have pinged me if my tires had been a bit worn or something.

But it was extremely disturbing how throughly he looked for something to back up his incorrect suspicion, to try and find anything to build a case. He even said once he was done, as he told me to move on, that he was still suspicious! Having read so many stories of miscarriages of justice that have happened to innocent people, it was enough to show just how dangerous it can be to be completely innocent when a policeman suspects you of something. A guilty person knows they need to conceal, but somebody who is innocent often doesn’t know that the officer might have a very wrong hunch and might be looking for anything you say to make you a suspect.

It’s disturbing to wonder how it might have gone if, say, instead of them just checking for drunk drivers, something like a murder had happened nearby earlier in the evening...
I think C++ developers do this a lot. I often see links to godbolt.org on Stack Overflow and Bjarne himself on YouTube videos.

The tricky part is the are a number of different valid march flags for x86 and ARM that support SIMD.
Which is good but also not enough.
Nice.

I was already impressed to see VSC embedded in websites.
I’ve seen it used to treat cured PDMS elastomer and glass slides for bonding microfluidic devices (aligns OH groups to the surface to achieve a covalent bond between the PDMS and glass). Our plasma chamber was destroyed by a student so I used a corona discharge tool, or a cattle prod as it’s better known. Was tempted to buy a cheap microwave tho...
I'd assume you'd already know that media and elite pressure is why google changed since most people here work in the tech industry. Are you new to HN or do you work in a non-tech industry?

This reporter claims that she got youtube to change it's search list.

https://twitter.com/aprilaser/status/1076215375732174848

Should we believe her or is she lying?

"Google follows Facebook's lead and removes 39 YouTube channels linked to Iran"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-follows-facebook-apos-...

These channels had been up for many years. Why do you think all of a sudden google decided to remove them?

Certainly it wasn't corporate, media or elite's pressure. So then who? Aliens? When chinese or russian social media companies remove and change their policies, why do you think that is? Aliens as well?

After 10 years of spectacular success of youtube being "you"tube, why did it suddenly become "corporate"tube? Why did they change their recommends, trending, etc? Must be aliens. It can't possibly be the elites and the media constantly attacking it?

"Facebook and Google are doomed, George Soros says"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/01/26...
"Discussing out of work activities" I can buy, as I've been distracted many times by people doing exactly that (a constant feature of open-plan offices). But hot drinks? Come on. One has to stay hydrated, and in a typical office job, also caffeinated. Making tea is my break, during which my brain rests, and sipping that tea helps me stay concentrated. Not being able to do that would easily drop my productivity by 50%.
Plus your brain will crunch things in the background. How many time as a developer have you "solved" a problem you've been stuck on for hours or days while showering or traveling to work. Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that stat seems pretty meaningless if they aren't controlling for inflation
Does something like flightradar24 exist for trains?

The only API i found exclude all freight trains. (Netherlands) https://spoorkaart.mwnn.nl/
How is it useful to know the number of hours someone is actually working on a project when planning? That seems to granular to be useful. It seems easier to have a sense of what can be done in a day than an hour. Each hour is going to vary a lot anyway.
a wire.
I'd be unsurprised to learn that people aren't productive for much of their work day in an office. I also don't think it's that big a deal – people aren't paid for the time they spend thinking about work outside the office, and thinking about work is often as important and valuable as completing it.

That said, this is a garbage study:

The study, conducted by www.vouchercloud.com, polled 1,989 UK office workers all aged over 18 as part of research into the online habits and productivity of workers across the nation. All respondents currently worked full-time in an office role.

Respondents were initially asked, ‘Do you consider yourself to be productive throughout the entire working day?’ to which the majority, 79% admitted that ‘no’ they weren’t. Just a fifth, 21%, believed that ‘yes’ they were productive throughout the day.

The study asked then asked respondents, ‘If you had to state a figure, how long do you think you spend productively working during work hours on a daily basis?’ The results of this revealed the average answer to be ‘2 hours and 53 minutes’ of actual productivity in the workplace across all respondents.

It's PR fluff and not worthy of serious discussion.
I did have a dream about a dolphin the other day... coincidence?! I think not...

But yes, I can be a smartass sometimes and too lazy to check what's posted or not... thanks for calling me out on it. ;-)
As just commented on a related thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19198649) this doesn't seem to be a problem for us, as since ever and always we gave people the choice to work as much as they want and when they want. People take breaks whenever they feel like. Go doing sports, play with their kids, run errands. They even take whole days off to go surfing or skiing. And I really don't mind. Because I do the same.

But then, if a server goes down late at night, people all the sudden show up by themselves and fix problems. Also on a rainy Saturday or Sunday, people will all the sudden be online and working.

Give people the opportunity to be in charge of their own work schedule, give them the responsibility, make them feel that they're actually responsible and they will shine.

I really don't want this to be a promotion and also because I just shared it on the other thread, but I really think people (both business owners and employees) should have a look at our just released company handbook which covers a great deal how we work. If anyone thinks this is unrelated spam I'm more than happy to remove it.

* https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook (landing page, if you want to get email updates)

* https://mobilejazz.com/docs/company-handbook/mobile-jazz-com... (direct link to the PDF for the HN crowd)
The entire article is not much more interesting than the title. The more interesting question is why. Why do workers procrastinate, why do managers ignore it or don't do something about it. And while it might be true that office workers need unproductive activities, it's a bit of a stretch from that to "workers need 5 hours of unproductive activities for every 3 hours of work". There's got to be a saner balance.

I don't really care about what 1000 people don't do. I'd rather learn why 10 people work the way they do, and how to change it.
Nicolas Sarkozy, for peddling influence. He was under investigation for getting money from Gaddafi when the police discovered he had another phone and was peddling influence with his lawyer as accomplice. He was trying to get informations on yet another enquiry against him by promising a judge he would use his influence to find him a higher job.
I’m brand new to amateur radio, but loved my BBS back in the day. Can you tell me more about this?
>MacBooks are worse now than they were since 2015. I won't upgrade until they get rid of the TouchBar. I would rather go back to Windows than use that stupid TouchBar.

But you don't HAVE to use it, right?
The idea that our minds and bodies are deeply connected is frowned upon despite clear evidence:

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

https://images.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/m...

...I'll blame Cartesian though and the idea of free will for this.
The site is down for me, https://web.archive.org/web/20190219101600/https://urbanwoma...
One problem, my cousin has schizophrenia and often seems plenty confident and happy. The only time I’ve seen him otherwise is during a migraine, which made sense.
I couldn't do even 4 hours in a hyper-focused mode without taking 3 minutes to go get a cup of tea. That's not "unproductive activities", that's giving my brain a short rest.
With all due respect, you’re moving the goalposts quite a bit. Your initial statement was that Swift has no community or adoption outside of iOS, and no library support outside of Apple platforms. I never made the claim that Swift is the only language with C interop, or that it’s the best most successful cross platform language, I am simply refuting your claims that it is useless outside the Apple ecosystem.

I agree with you that Swift has a way to go before it can be considered a truly platform agnostic general purpose programming language, but it is making strides in that direction. Recently Windows nightly builds have been introduced, and work has started on Language Server Portocl support, which should aid usability on 3rd part IDE’s. Also it’s somewhat perplexing to me that Swift for Tensorflow is often viewed as a strange move under the assumption that Swift is only for iOS, rather than being viewed in terms of Swift’s adoption for a new category of use-cases with the backing of a tech giant in Google.

It remains to be seen whether Swift will find wide adoption, but I think it’s a mistake to assume it won’t only because of its origins.
To be fair, while that's true I think what's meant here is that Python is the language of choice for using Tensorflow and PyTorch. Probably no other language is used to interface with deep learning libraries and primitives as much as Python.
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It never cost anything close to $180 though. That was my point: a phone that cost that little in 2016 was probably an older android and is unlikely to have current software support.
Is there anything preventing the community from just forking chromium and ignore these changes?

Then again, by that point it might be better to just switch to Firefox.
It’s a different league than a twitter thread.
Does it have wifi good enough to play PUBG?
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> Are you referring to the Holy Roman Empire ruled by Charlemagne?

No, that didn't exist in 555; he's talking about the “Eastern Roman”/“Byzantine” Empire.
FWIW clang has a feature called opt-viewer [1] [2] that isn't quite a style guide but instead gives explicit indication when and why it couldn't optimize particular code.

[1] https://llvm.org/devmtg/2016-11/Slides/Nemet-Compiler-assist...

[2] https://github.com/androm3da/optviewer-demo
Packet radio, I'm guessing.
How else would one forecast?

If you need to accomplish TaskX, you work with the team that will do TaskX to come up with a valid estimate of effort required to complete it -- say, 300 hours of work.

You could just naively assume that this task would then be done in 300 hours / 8 hours per day / # of workers, but that assumes 100% productivity -- which isn't true basically anywhere.

Ergo...
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And... over the internet. Quite a few internet connected BBSs around still, many of which are even part of FidoNet. Speaking of which... FidoNet is still alive too, along with several other similar BBS mail networks. :)
None of the installation is confusing -- just the actual camera skills part.
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The Touch Bar replaces the entire top row of keys. No more escape key. Vim users were pretty pissed.
You kind of need to if you want to change the screen brightness, play/pause music or video and change the volume. These are things I do all the time on my keyboard and honestly the experience with TouchBar is drastically less pleasant than it is with normal keys.
What about Linux laptops? Are you considering that alternative?
So this is similar to a social network, but instead of text and pictures, people share audio clips? Thought you might like to know that I didn't install it just because I didn't quite understand what it was about.
> Who’s going to carefully audit 10 deps when they’re transitive?

I do. That is why I don't have many deps in general. Transitive or not. With only a handful of dependencies that are from trusted sources and that are audited by me I can be sure that they are safe.

With 1000+ dependencies that are from as many random sources you can not do the same.

Having 10 dependencies is drastically different from a security aspect then 1000+.
And once you are back to being a baker, you'll look at a cushy sedentary office job with rose colored glasses.

The grass is always greener.

It's like when you are living your boring monotonous day to day life, you can't wait to go on an adventurous vacation. Once you are on vacation, you can't wait to get back to the comforts of your home.

First world problems.
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Again, thinking binary is incorrect here. Apple is spending 10B+/year on R&D [1]. They clearly can think of something. I guess it could be argued they should be the top R&D spender (they are trending that way), but even if they were they would still have enough money do stock buy backs and pay dividends. The amount of money they make is staggering.

Apple has traditionally not be an acquirer of large companies. I know many people argue for them to do some big acquisition. I'm not sure that's a good idea.

Apple Maps specifically has improved a lot since release. I can't remember the last time I used Google Maps. Apple is also collecting street view data [2].

Apple has plenty of areas to improve, but it is not from the lack of R&D spending.

[1] http://dashboards.trefis.com/no-login-required/MCeJl2Yc?from...

[2] https://maps.apple.com/vehicles/
At that point, would he still be imaginary?
You could try following some hello world tutorial and see how difficult it feels?
good to know, since i can.not put fat no matter how hard i tried (admittedly not very hard).
> In reality, I am too much into Lisp languages, Haskell, etc. to seriously want a new language, so this was just a two evening experiment.

But what did you think of Julia?
Man, I hope nobody tells Professor Marc that Homo sapiens have been documented inhaling benzene and other[X] potent neurotoxins to get high!

[X]edit: specifically with benzene, I was apparently wrong to call it a neurotoxin (its mechanisms of toxicity aren't neurological).
There's a whole bunch of bridges available for Matrix. I plan on trying the whatsapp and telegram bridges, and maybe discord as well.

There's a list here: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridges