skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the days before Twitter, folks wrote to the CEO or other senior executives as a last resort. Might still be effective in some cases.
> either everybody is remote or the team needs to be co-located entirely. The middle ground results in entrenched warfare between the 2+ parts of the team.

Are you sure? I’ve worked remote and worked not remote, and trench warfare between team factions can happen in both situations. It’s leadership and culture issues that leads to that kind of collaboration breakdown, and can happen even with locally collocated teams. In a large company many of your collaborators are going to be in other cities anyway.
The reason why more companies are remote-first is that the manager's schedule is easier to do in the office. Put simply, the people running the teams/companies prefer many of the advantages that being in-person provides.

I wrote more about this here: https://www.fridayfeedback.com/p/how-to-make-remote-work-mor...
Anyone who draws income via rent-seeking does not trade time for money.

Your landlord, most of the time (i.e. when they're not repairing or maintaining their properties), is not trading money for time; they are charging you for access to materials which, moment to moment, costs them nothing.

Patent trolls make money without trading away their time -- you work to pay for access to an idea, which costs them nothing to maintain.

One could go on and on with examples of widespread rent-seeking fields of work and industry; but in general, no, it isn't literally everyone who trades time for money.
> Companies these days bend over backwards to make the office experience as optimal as possible.

I kindly disagree. Open spaces are more prevalent than ever.

Dowtowns where office space are plenty are hell to commute.

In general I think companies want bullet points “we’re a great place to work” perks to recrute new people, but overall comfort or ease to work doesn’t seem to have gone up IMO.
This is absolutely not what the article was about.

"If we are staring out into a giant graveyard, it does not augur well for our own future. But if we were to detect advanced life forms elsewhere, it would give us hope that we can find a way out of our own crises."
How so? Typescript, along with most other languages is listed as 'No Statistically Significant Association" see fig 2.

ETA: They actually did not assess Typescript in their reanalysis as most of the files were not actually Typescript, section 4.1.2
How recent is your "firefox is slow" perception? I've been using it as my daily driver web browser since... well, for a long time, and it's come a long way.

Admittedly I haven't run Chrome myself much recently but looking over other peoples' shoulders I don't see much in terms of a perceptible difference in speed.
For more inspiration I'd check out the Quake engine source. It's quite the masterpiece. There's also been some modernization over the years by LordHavoc of the DarkPlaces engine https://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/ - I'm constantly impressed how well the HD remaster on DarkPlaces looks on modern 4k hardware.
Seems like it is going to take a long time to get to a fully functional game if this is the second article and they're only just calling SDL_CreateWindow.
Whether or not a social/economic handicap are necessarily "very bad things" depends entirely on the social and economic goals of the individual in question. Some people are satisfied with having enough, and have no interest in participating in the race to the top of the food chain their whole lives.
Amazon and AWS. I've always been happy with the support I've received from them. It's always been easy.
This is great (to see something I know about on HN). As an undergrad at UMass (where Emery Berger teaches), I remember the exact paper they are talking about, and how it was presented at UMass (this was part of a lunch and learn with the faculty, grad, and undergrad students and the author of the original paper).

I remember Emery being quite confused at the methodology in the paper, and he was very confused with one aspect of it, which was how they came to conclude that C was more bug prone (something about void * being able to cast to everything? It was a while ago...)

Glad to see he wrote a rebuttal, a little awkward watching a professor debate with the paper's author :)
Apple’s Earthquake-Ready Headquarters
Travel is fun, for sure, but I think our society, especially in wealthier and progressive circles, over-hypes it, to the point that you feel like you have to travel to make yourself more interesting. Maybe we need to lighten up a bit and have the attitude that staying home and reading about a far away place, yet never visiting, is cool too.
No, I agree, but kids might not see it that way :)
They're large and complex and the optics for each are generally pretty custom to the application they're being built for. Starlink benefits from decades of work in cubesats and radio transmitters to make most of it's components COTS or nearly COTS. There's not really a lot of earth based applications for gold coated beryllium hexagons to make making a JWST style mirror cheap and easy.
A staggering yet rather unfashionable set of studies supporting the compelling hypothesis that lead exposure in childhood contributes to an increase in violent crime later.

One gets the sense that laying blame for specific modern social issues on such external, physical (historical) forces is an uphill struggle; by not providing enough actionable insight for today, the results are too abstract and seemingly inapplicable for us to learn much from them.

Yet the evidence is overwhelming. More, it highlights the difficulty faced in acknowledging and reducing the impact of as-yet-unrecognisably dangerous substances and technologies today.
I get what you're saying, and agree to a degree.

On the other hand this is like not backing up your hard drive. Having a single point of failure and expecting anything less is...

Like you said, he's big enough to shout into the abyss and get a response, while others have to accept that a single point of failure is exactly that.

If we changed the headline to hacker deletes '5 years worth of work', the response would be different; two-factor should have been enabled, should have used a strong password, one password per account, yubi-key, etc. The onus would have been on the developer.

There are plenty of free hosting services for repos, so there's no reason IMO to not maintain a mirror.
Quite quiet ;) :P
Why do the machines use so much power?
Can we trust the Match Group cartel with our dating data?
UI and UX Microtips: Volume #1
Or Google is actually scared. We have been hearing for years how adblocking is not an issue to be addressed, yet they are desperate to put the adblocking genie back into to bottle.
I thought the same, but it's €15.99 a year. I usually buy a couple of Leuchtturm notebooks a year, which cost that each. Looking at it that way, it's well made and I want it to stick around.
Some of those computers can heat a room though...
One thing I've always been curious about is how you compensate remote employees that tend to move around a lot. Not necessarily full "digital nomads", but ones who say, have a mailing address in NYC or SF and spend > 50% of the year in Thailand or Europe. Is the location factor based exclusively on where the employee is paying taxes?
With the experience of Chrome, neither do input tags. In fact I believe only 'container' elements are supposed to.
For text, I'd lean to preserving that in a git repo instead.
> Companies these days bend over backwards to make the office experience as optimal as possible.

I’ve worked at many companies who spent a huge budget on the office, but I was never offered my own office with a door. Anything less is far from optimal.
Alternative title of this article: "Self mutilation"
Lol the core of my post is a purer capitalism that has reduced cronyism and money shuffling (and thus scraping).
Which part? This kind of direct language is both standard and encouraged in academia.

The idea is to take a clear position, which can be attacked if wrong.
As others have said, having children very early is unsafe, and it's a demanding job that requires emotional maturity to do well. Having children before you have economic independence is also a very bad idea.

But your 20s are also critical from a career point of view. Women still have to fight a lot of prejudice from employers, which translates into trying to show commitment to career by delaying children.

The UK now has a very soft "two child policy": you won't normally get paid child benefit for children beyond two. The US has a ludicrous healthcare system where simply giving birth can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Also, they don't call it labour for nothing: it's a physically demanding, uncomfortable process.
Ebola cases pass 2k as crisis escalates
Gee, hacker news. I was wondering the same thing!

Could you please explain to me the headline, and tell me how to think?

I think you for your time and effort!
I notice a similar phenomenon with posts about Bitcoin; I always wonder if criticism is due to genuine belief or jealousy/regret in missing out on the first several orders-of-magnitude increase in value.
Twitter in a nutshell.
I can't exactly say that I trust NSA, and I don't doubt that they have knowledge of vulnerabilities that they aren't releasing.

But I still don't see how that could be a reason to not take this warning seriously.

I think that the cynical view of this would rather be that they consider the potential harm from someone they don't like, making a 1m machines botnet from this, to be greater that the benefit they get from themselves making a 1m machines botnet.
I have a Xeon ThinkServer sitting here on my desk as I type this. It is considerably quieter than the laptop I sometimes use, under typical usage (Slack, VS Code, a couple other Electron apps, Outlook).
Don't forget that Chrome reached its dominant market share in large part because every time you went to search for something you were presented with an ad for Chrome. Alternative search engines at this point are hard to come by, AFAIK it's basically just Google and Bing in much of the world, plus whatever has approval in China - most other search is just wrappers around those 2.

In that environment it may be hard to get the "Chrome as a junk browser" idea widespread. I still deal with people daily whose goto browser is IE because it's what they've always used.
TL;DR Yeah, but I don't care.

> You are simultaneously reaffirming your neighbor's standards for themselves, and rejecting them for yourself.

Yes, because we are complex, subjective, multidimensional humans, and we can judge each other based on different referential systems. If I don't care about your subjective perspective, I don't have to prove myself in your eyes. And if I don't care what your referential system is then I'm only a hypocrite in your eyes.

- You have a clean yard, you must be a good person. I have a messy yard, but I like it / I don't care. I can still be a good person for other reasons, but I don't care to be that person in your eyes. I do care that you're pestering me with comments, so please stop.
"I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side. We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you do, with so many more senses, such a greater store of memories and at such a fine level of detail. We die more slowly, and we die more completely, too."

Although, based on the novels I suspect the jump from a bee to human level intelligence is probably rather small compared to that from a human to a Mind.
The OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD Review: An NVMe Upgrade for Older Macs
>Nobody should be having more than 2-3 kids or they get penalized with an equal and opposite economic penalty....

That statement was a little humorous to me, but if you're serious, you'll be happy to know that this is already the case. The couple unfortunate enough to have, say, 5 kids is already, um, "penalized with an equal and opposite economic penalty". Each child will always soak up much more than his or her standard deduction. There's no question about that. Operational costs are enormous, and grow over time. And all that doesn't even count opportunity costs.

Yeah, anyone who thinks kids are cheap is liable to be very disagreeably surprised if they ever have one. I'd wager a large part of what keeps the economy going is spending on, for, or by, kids? But I don't have any data to back that up, it's just my wild ass speculation.
Looks like this doesn't include another feature of HaveIBeenPwned. Its cracked password hash database. If you trust their JavaScript, you can type in your passwords and see if they are on the list. If you're a little more paranoid you can download the hashes and do your own search.
If remote is the alternative to the open-office, chit-chat hellscape of non-cubicles and non-offices, I'll take remote 100%. If I have to choose between destroying my hearing long term with loud music to drown coworker's conversations and working from home, the decision is simple.
As mentioned, US immigration resources are being consumed by dealing with the flood of illegal immigrants at the southern border. Persons are being re-tasked to handle the asylum-claim processing and dealing with all of the unaccompanied minors.
To add to your pt.5, even if you were an Indian student in the last decade (like me in 07-09),even if you went to one of the top 5 universities in your field and even if you are in a high paying job (location adjusted), the path to GC doesn't realistically exist.

People like me got screwed the most because when we started basing our lives here, there was a 5-7 wait for a green card. It has been a decade since but still no realistic path exists as the wait has grown exponentially.
> Companies these days bend over backwards to make the office experience as optimal as possible.

The "open office" has been repeatedly studied and proven sub-optimal on many aspects that impact both employees and companies. Yet companies continue to design new offices with these designs. I would love a fully-remote gig mostly because it would be respite from the open-office.
For years I've been looking forward to traveling but the thought that keeps nagging me is the whole canned tourist experience which I hate.

One thought I've been trying to sell my wife on is getting a quality RV/Travel Trailer and tour the country doing contract gigs. This sounds similar to what you're describing.
If we take arguments like this to the extreme, one extreme interpretation is that their are simply too many people.
Hi HN, I've spent some time working on this PoC that allows one to (kind of) code on smartphone using Vim. I am sharing a video demo here to see what others think of it.

It is based on my other similar project swell.sh [0], that you run a HTTP server process (written in Python) on a server and connect to it from your smartphone's browser (Chrome/Safari). Then you will see Vim in the Web-based terminal (using xterm.js) in the above and can interact with Vim using the virtual keyboard specifically built for the App below (it is part of the page's UI, not your OS's keyboard app). The python process in the backend is able to provide the completion information gathered from Vim (I used the TabNine completion engine [1] in the video but I believe any Vim plugin that provides completion would work) to the front-end, where you could choose from the keyboard's autocomplete suggestion row, thus greatly reduce the required number of 'taps' on the keyboard for inputting code.

Obviously it's not going to replace your desktop/laptop for serious programming work, but what do you think about the idea? Any feedback/thought is welcome.

[0] https://github.com/wcchoi/swell.sh
[1] https://tabnine.com
ARJ
Kudos for taking a rationalist approach, this is far too rare.
How does it compare to Varnish ?
There's a lot to learn about this topic:

"In addition to canceling his grants and attempting to prevent his work from
receiving public attention, the lead industry also worked aggressively to destroy
Patterson’s credibility through the news media.[77]32 Beginning in 1963, several
newspapers discounted Patterson’s work by focusing on Dr. Robert Kehoe and other lead
industry allies in an attempt to create uncertainty about the effects of lead in the
environment.[78-84] Herbert E. Stockinger, chief of toxicology with the U.S. Public
Health Service (USPHS) in Cincinnati, Ohio, had just conducted studies and presented
data which suggested there had not been increases in environmental lead levels or in the
amount of lead in human blood or urine over the past several decades. Rather than
address scientific concerns relating to Patterson’s studies, the lead industry attacked
Patterson personally and sought to tie him to political activists of the environmental
movement. Stockinger himself claimed Patterson’s conclusions were “rabble rousing . .
.science fiction” and accused Patterson of “trying to be a second Rachel Carson.”[65]
Multiple newspaper articles discussed Patterson’s research in the context of several
contrary government and industry reports that claimed lead in the environment was not a
major problem and was not created through exhaust emissions, but rather through other
industrial wastes. Although these studies were scientifically unsound, they were given
equal weight in the media"

http://www.anthonyturton.com/assets/my_documents/my_files/1A... [p 76]
New Zealand Startup Seeks to Automate (Most) Code Review
Having clocked several years with remote-only companies and several years with traditional onsite jobs, I would say that, ironically, remote companies have better communication. On any given 8-hour workday, I would probably clock several hours' worth of communication in various shapes and forms at remote companies. For onsite, many of my days might be spent sitting next to a bunch of people in an open plan office not ever exchanging a word.
Not true, you can validate AMP from localhost. The AMP.js packages comes bundled with it's own validator:

https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/val...

Even then it's quite a stretch to go from saying Google controls AMP to saying the validator has an online requirement. Also, as the other commenter said, Google, Bing, and Cloudflare are currently the certified CDNs to get the icon in search results.
Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web framework for Rust
Do you mean write the naive solution and explain how you'd turn it into a good solution? I think that would be well received.
> a lot of people think that just by being in the office they are 'working' regardless of whether they are in fact getting anything done.

This is the part that annoys me the most. Managers pretend that Seat Time = Productivity when we all know that's not the case. I've watched people sit and talk for hours, then sit and browse the internet or play games for hours. We just had a group of people who were told to stop playing online Chess all day.

Forcing people to come into the office full-time is just management's way of making their jobs easier and making themselves feel better. In my experience, it's a substitute for doing other things that they should be doing, like reviewing code that their team has committed that week, talking to their team about what they're working on, what they're planning to work on, what challenges they're facing, etc.
> Wait - we don't need geometrically expanding technological development. It becomes sufficient at some level?

I don't know. I might reconsider "sufficient" after we've cured aging and had 100 years to play with molecular nanotechnology. It's my belief that we have a long way to go still.

> And I'm pretty sure we have a long way to go on using existing population better. We probably don't use 10% of the very-smart people - they live and die in some lonely village somewhere without ever being recognized. Remember Ramanujan - one of the few to find his way (almost by accident) into the academic world.

100% agreed here and I've used this argument in the past in support of helping to improve living conditions in developing nations. That said, even if we could 10x the intellectual output of the world through non-technological changes, what then? How do we get to the next 2x or 10x improvement?
Quite nice presentation about remote work from PyCon 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTWgKyLk6mo

This is generally pro-remote but it includes research results.
In the UK offshore wind seems only 10% more expensive than nuclear right now [1]. I think it's fair to assume that over the majority of the operating time of a nuclear plant that starts construction today offshore wind will be cheaper than that nuclear plant.

As a private plant operator that isn't also the grid operator I don't really care though about meeting demand. I care about a slightly different metric: can I sell my electricity at a higher price than it takes me to produce it? Of course if nobody can meet demand, prices tend towards infinity and I'm happy. Maybe that happens often enough that I can still make a profit despite all the times I make a loss when wind is too strong and electricity prices are too low. Growing demand is a good point that might help.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
The major difference being that you don't use your phone while driving (do you?)

I really don't think you can operate an iPhone without looking at it unless you're using accessibility features or a really basic function like the flashlight.
Remote and async are definitely two separate concepts. I'm a remote CTO but I'm very much sync. I do afford some async to devs though
I'm a VP of an established remote-first company, 50+ developers, all US-based. For the most part, remote-first has been a great benefit for us, but there are no silver bullets.

Other than the issues mentioned elsewhere re: HR/Payroll complications, our biggest issue is finding junior talent and facilitating individual growth. For the most part we skew towards people who have some amount of remote work experience, which means skewing towards more experienced team members. That can have some knock-on effects that need to be managed: more experienced typically means greater salary, fewer juniors means less visible organizational structure around things like "I manage and mentor a team of 5" which can be disorienting for new hires, and can limit mentorship growth for senior team members.

For many senior developers, those knock-on effects could be viewed as positives, but we need to be sensitive to the overall composition of the team.

I haven't seen any greater motivational issues at remote-first vs a traditional management position. Like most any job, your motivation is largely a factor of your engagement. It's just as easy to drift on-site, with smoke breaks, lunch breaks, ping pong matches, chatting with your officemates about last night's NBA finals, etc etc.
Those arguments just don’t amount to much more than “I don’t care”. I don’t even know what “more of a desktop experience” is supposed to mean, and any MacBook is perfectly adequate for virtualization.

They are also pretending this is an environment vs performance argument, when their choice of old processors clearly shows it is rather environment vs costs. They could get far better performance with newer CPUs, both absolute as well as per Wh.
Yes, 'some'. Specifically, 4.44TWh.
> return to living happy, normal lives that are less stressed and more focused on being good to one another.

but this would mean we'd have to actually produce things again..