skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a magical time... I remember being wowed by having a string of text follow my mouse around.
I work at a large tech company on a young team (average age is late twenties). In my experience many don't view working from home regularly as a benefit. I understand that must change drastically when you're middle aged, have a family to live around and a spacious house in the suburbs. But most younger people want to live in the middle of the city (i.e. small, often shared apartments but a short commute) and have no responsibilities outside of work, in this situation WFH loses a lot of its lustre.
I will have to shamelessly try and sway you.

Get a large house, a swimming pool, a home office room with all the games and gadgets you ever wanted, a nice surround 5.1 system optically connected to a gaming pc, a nice couch to rest now and then and plan your code ahead.

See if you still miss your cubicle (nothing wrong with that, but just what i wrote a thought).

Thats my lifestyle since i starting working remotely. As summer is coming, trees are blossoming, fresh and clean air. My client is pretty impressed with my productivity and most of our e-meetings are held while we all sit in our gardens (most of the team is remote).
It’s not about needing money. But obviously there are investors who want to be involved. Would you rather that they fund you or your competitor?
Opening the windows is a solid choice. I keep a CO2 monitor in my office. So long as I keep the door open, levels usually stay below 800ppm, but if I close the door they can climb rapidly within an hour or two. I have a CO2 meter tied to an alarm to remind me to open the window if they get too high. I probably should have it set to 800, but I found that to trigger too often so I upped it to 1200.

I use a RAD-0301, which works fine as a monitor and an alarm by itself, but which I connect to a Raspberry Pi for dashboard purposes using the code shared here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22764488
Whatever enables a dignified existence. It doesn't require much imagination to figure out what's included in that.
I actually think the ranks of middle managers will increase as more people work from home. Especially on the engineering side. The whole point of managers is to facilitate communication between people and teams. WFH certainly doesn't help communication problems. HR should pretty much drop to 0 though.
> Which in turn means whatever those workers are providing will cost more.

That's one possibility. Obviously it's one we should avoid. Yes, we have noticed the skulls[1]. Please give me the courtesy of not assuming you've noticed obvious things that I haven't.

Another possibility, is we stop paying people at the top literally millions of times as much money as the people at the bottom. An easy way to do this would be to cap income of the top earners in a company at, say, 1,000 times income of their lowest-paid workers.

Reagan liked to say that there's a trickle down effect--that a rising tide lifts all boats. But Reagan also said, "Trust, but verify." So surely fans of Reagan won't object to making sure that profits do actually trickle down?

Neither of the solutions you propose work:

> 3. Increase the productivity of individual workers. That means the workers are producing more value per unit of work.

This doesn't help workers in any way, because CEOs will just pat themselves on the back for increasing productivity, lay off the no-longer-needed workers, and pay themselves more. There's no incentive for them to pass on any of these profits to their workers.

> 4. Make the workers entrepreneurs. That means they are now owners of the capital constituted by their increased productivity and skills, so they capture more of the value they create.

This is a great idea, as long as they operate on an actual free market, not a market where the terms are completely controlled by a large corporation so that they're just miscategorized employees of that corporation. I would be happy to see taxi drivers empowered to start their own taxi companies, for example, on a free market, not one where they have to pay rent to Uber or Lyft. But I get the feeling that's not what you're actually proposing.

If what you're actually proposing is a gig economy on platforms controlled by central companies, then any value you think is going to go into the pockets of workers, is just going to go into the pockets of the rent-seeking platforms. The only empowerment workers get is the power to pay for their own health insurance.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-th...
"Understand" is one of my favorite stories of all time.
This is exactly what I love about that book. To many it's a bible of libertarianism. To many it's everything that's bad about it. Either way I find it definitely encourages debate and thinking - much more than her other works.
Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari. This is the second book in the very famous series Sapiens. The book explains how technology will effect our lives in the future in a way that is interesting, entertaining and above all, mind-boggling.
I think it's clear: mix, don't stir.

You know. Kinda like a Vesper Martini.
Beetle-inspired paint could produce water from thin air
There has to be a business school case study for this.

For the last 30 years there have been a parade of "chat" programs such as CuSeeMe, ICQ, AIM, Paltalk, Skype, Google Talk, Google Hangouts (and I think four other chat programs) and Facebook Messenger, MSN Messenger, Lync (I think I spelled that right), HipChat, Slack, even "Skype For Business" and "Microsoft Teams."

In the open world the story is more dreadful, as IRC is a backwater and the open XMPP protocol is more popular with cops, soldiers and spies (just pipe your XMPP messages into Lotus Notes...) than anyone else.

The one constant is that you can't plot a steady curve of products getting better in time (like the underlying computers, network, etc.) Instead it seems like something starts out cool (like Skype at the beginning) and then deteriorates, then it's like "Cool, Zoom! It works as well as Skype used to work"...)

I think the market for these programs is not a healthy competition but rather these are a backwater in the big battles over platforms. (e.g. Facebook Messenger is like AIM except FM is tied to FB and AIM was tied to AOL.)

If the euros wanted to contribute something positive to the world they would kick out proprietary chat programs and get people to use a profile of XMPP.
As someone who have a very basic understanding of economy and the Fed's role in managing it, does this mean the federal government is owning more and more share of private companies (at least their debt portion)? Does that mean, the US, which is supposed to be a very capitalistic nation, is now trending toward the economy operated by quasi-government-owned companies?

Is it imaginable that eventually, the US government owns the majority stake in these quasi-government-backed companies, moving the US economy further away from market-based capitalism?
I wfh and I won't work for a company that bases my pay on my zipcode (Gitlab). I want complete flexibility on where I live. There are plenty of remote companies that don't do that, especially now post-covid.

I wish more people would reject zip code COL so that companies starting to WFH don't just take Gitlabs idea of it.
It aligns other companies' interests with theirs.
Permanent and forever are different things! Twitter could change this policy when conditions return back to normal.

permanent: lasting or intended to last or remain unchanged indefinitely.

indefinitely: for an unlimited or unspecified period of time.

forever: for all future time; for always.

Permanent just means we don't know when some condition will change; contrast with temporary where we do know when it will change.

Forever means it won't ever change under any circumstances.

For example: a magnetized iron nail is a temporary magnet and will lose its magnetism over a predictable amount of time; a permanent magnet can be demagnetized, but otherwise should continue to be magnetic indefinitely; a forever magnet is not a real thing.
There is nothing like "ARM" in the market.

There is CPU/SoC X by Y, built on top of a license from ARM.

So you would have to boycott N companies instead of just AMD & Intel :( And even more so, since all their customers are EOM that are happy to sign NDAs.
I actually am planning to buy a handful of books that are way outside my education / intelligence level in hope to gain a better understanding of some concepts and tech that I'm interested in. Well see how this goes.
Thank God. Hopefully more companies will follow this example and my company as well, and then I can finally move away from this wretched place and buy a nice mansion size home somewhere quiet and with great internet connectivity. Tired of paying too much for a shoebox apartment living like some kind of pauper. And not to mention the piles of shit everyday in the street. Maybe then I would finally be able to settle down and have a child as well.
"Never offend anyone" seems a dubious goal to me.
Too crass. The billboards will display video ads optimized for the occupants passing by.
Do you carry a cell phone?
People are going to die in Waymo cars, and sometimes we'll wonder if the accident was avoidable and if the car made the wrong choice leading to someone's death.

It'll look bad on the brand when the news is reporting how, "Google self-driving car kills family en route to Disneyland".

I'm not saying self-driving cars are dangerous, but it's just the numbers. People will die and self-driving car deaths will be shocking news and make headlines for a long time. I wouldn't want my brand name anywhere near them.
How do you know if someone is being fairly compensated? My stance is that a market is likely to produce more accurate prices than any individual could, but maybe you disagree. It's true that minimum wage is very low, but it should be the job of the government to support people who aren't compensated enough to support themselves.
>I just don't think we have the communication tools to support productive collaboration between people who hardly ever meet.

How do Open Source projects achieve it?
That's a line of thinking that if you take such a position you should probably not take the role.

Alternative: if you are a banking government boss type of position and go work in the private sector, don't work for your 'opposition', instead use your skillset in an unrelated area. It's pretty silly that we have to spell this stuff out for those people or even make laws about it since it's to blatantly obviously unethical that you'd think that even they can see that.
If you're not a car owner, how do you get around in vehicles?

I offer that it's entirely possible that the tracking you are attempting to avoid, you may be already entirely subject to, via things like Uber or your mobile phone.

I doubt there's any meaningful way to avoid IC/Telco/FAANG location/movement surveillance these days.

This is not to say that your decision is wrong (it's the same reason I cancelled my Cybertruck preorder!), just that I think people like us may be out of luck.
Apple Arcade has some really good options these days, esp considering it's only $5/mo https://www.apple.com/apple-arcade/
Does anyone know how their product team will handle this?
That's an interesting point, but I don't think he's going to be getting many points there and it's coming at an existential risk to his core customers.

Musk is starting to 'look bad' and he's burning political capital for no reason.

Conversely, there's a real opportunity to look like a hero and leader here.
At least some of the Bay Area stuff is probably due to proximity of the main office.

At least, that is what was explained by a friend of mine that decided to stay at the Venice office - that it's easier to advance in all ways if you work in the Bay Area.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ghcfn5/dddd... (ignore the subreddit, it's actually an excellent analysis about how liquidity operations are inflating asset values)
Hello. Everything that happens in the human body is biohemical in nature.

1. Get pro-active
2. Take a wormer. (Vermox in Europe) - 2x tablets per day for 3 consecutive days. One tablet am, one pm. Repeat quarterly.
3. Stop all Dairy produce intake (As they say, PERIOD)
4. High dose Vitamin C (Water soluble so you piss it out fast) so 500mg per meal per day
5. Ubiquinol or less(er) effective Co-Enzyme Q10 - 2x tablets per day. One tablet am, one pm.
6. Hot Yoga 3x per week or get on your bike and cycle 2 hours per day.
7. Take a daily Pro-Biotic
8. Visit a nutritionist and get expert analysis of your diet.
9. Change your acceptance mindset and get active.
Go to WAR. Empower yourself. Become an expert on defeating Alzheimer's and report your findings back to everone else.
I wish you the very best of good luck. Now, get to work.
The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.
One of the interesting side-effects of everyone working from home has been that group videoconference meetings have been more equitable, instead of those in a physical meeting room vs. those calling in.
They don't really have to be American, just organized in the US and having "significant US operations." So American Honda, for example, can now be funded by the US government.

Since it's an indirect funding facility, these company bond issues can be used for stock buybacks, i.e. executive comp so the taxpayer doesn't just subsidize executive compensation via the capital gains rate, it now can fund it directly. The smart money never wastes a good crisis!
Unless you're working on something complex, Make is pretty great. My only complaint as a regular use is the lack of support for spaces in target names.
I would love for more companies to embrace this just to open up the candidate pool for positions.

There are so many positions at Microsoft, for example, that I would have loved to apply for, but they require you to be in Redmond, and I'm just not in a position to relocate.
It's not as effective because we are in a pandemic. People are working at home but also worrying about the future, looking after at-risk people, looking after children during the working day, not properly set up for WFH, dealing with neighbours being at home too during the working day, dealing with not working out, not playing sports, not watching sports, not doing hobbies and not socialising with friends.
I don't understand why you don't just use slack or email?

Other users have mentioned white-boards and brainstorming sessions .. those are harder to replicate but still.
>we've proven we can be just as productive when we're out of the office.

I think it's very important to realize that if we are or are not productive WFH, there will be others who feel the opposite.

Working from home doesn't work for everyone, or it doesn't work in every case. Maybe it can be further optimized to work better for most cases, but currently it's not.

* Speaking as someone who recently started a new job two weeks before the government SIP for the Bay Area and has had to mostly virtual on-board and ramp-up. It has not been an easy experience. Maybe it's the on-boarding/ramp-up for my team that's not optimized, or maybe it's not easy simply because I'm not already a full-time remote worker already. Some people who enjoy WFH and get remote jobs probably don't have the issues I've had, and that's okay too. But I think it's unrealistic to expect everyone joining a new company during this situation to be properly productive through it and potentially WFH indefinitely. For my company in particular they've already mentioned we'll get to WFH for this through the end of the year.
One of the good things I felt about the book, though I have read only a few chapters is that, the use the Scheme-based system, has made the notation more concrete and lucid. No vague and confusing notations like the traditional treatment.
If you take preventive measures less people get infected thus less time required to stop the virus spreading.
You may also find value in diagram.codes (I'm the author)

It's focused on non technical users so the syntax will always be very simple (at the cost of flexibility but that's on purpose).
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OP/mods: this needs “(2019)” in the title.
Same thing here. Only 16% of the books I've read 2015-now were written by women. Needless to say, as soon as I've realized that, I've picked up a book written by a woman and prioritized a few of them in my to-read list. So far this year I'm 3/7, aiming for >50% this year.
Did some searching around and found a hidden fork, have you tried this?

https://github.com/Alpha-Drive/universe-windows-envs/tree/ma...
I'm not sure that I understand this sentiment. Is the worry about COVID specifically (and hence would be abated by a vaccine or herd immunity), or is it about increased awareness of all infectious diseases? My lack of understanding stems from a (perhaps naive) assumption that social distancing will eventually go away along with the threat. I'd be glad to hear others' opinions on the matter.
The graphic at the top and the first few paragraphs come off as extremely patronizing, if not propagandistic. Then he goes off on a rant about sovereignty to cover for TON's lack of legitimacy.

Not a good look for Telegram, and good riddance to TON. I realize this blockchain garbage is probably never going to die but it is good to see the real world doing what it does best.
> I can't see this being good for employees...

... that want to live in NYC or SF. For everyone else, who doesn't want to live in places like that, this is awesome. (And that's a word I never use)
Does anyone think differently of the UK right now?

Like from my perspective it seems like an isolated island of hooligans, distinct from a civilized society.

Even when it comes to the language, continental Europe speaks a more easily understood version of English.

With their self isolation and general dysfunction, it really seems have handicapped the point of the UK, like as a financial center or place to consider for anything.

A perspective.
I recommend you set boundaries and expectations.
This looks really neat! Is it possible to have embedded diagrams. For example, Gitlab lets you embed a PlantUML[1] diagram in any Markdown or ADoc file using a proxy server. This makes it really easy to write and serve documentation.

Personally, I'm a fan of PlantUML. Having an svg served in a browser that has labels linking directly to the relevant entity (code, resource etc) is a huge plus for new hire onboarding.

1: https://plantuml.com/
Godel, Escher, and Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter
As someone who gets dropped in on a lot.. it's not great. Even when something productive comes out of it it normally has made some other work unproductive.
Meaningful communication happens between your ICs. The weekly hour-long team meeting where the manager polls the room and nobody has anything to say is just a waste of everyone's time. Reducing what you have to say to an email has the effect of distilling and refining it, and in many cases leads to the realization that it was wrong to begin with, or doesn't warrant saying.
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"Sick man of Europe" was originally used for the Ottoman Empire, so it does seem suitable to use it for UK in this case.
I think you are right. It is even less of a battle in some aspects, but at least for very rare insects it can be more of a battle in that the cost of messing up is higher.

When you break down a game into these many sorts of conflicts and see which ones the player feels joy for winning and which ones the players struggle against with no benefit even when they win, it hints at an interesting framework to evaluate games by. It feels deconstructionist almost to the point of absurdity, but so far I don't think it crosses that line.
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A question.

Do y'all feel that a trend towards remote work benefits mid/senior level employees at the cost of the development of junior employees ?

IMO, it is the same difference as in-person schooling vs online schools. As convenient as WFH is, it really isn't conducive to hands on mentorship.

Tech companies might not mind it, since the attrition rate in tech at the junior level is incredibly high anyway.
Not asking for any sympathy — not asking anyone to care about my problems any more than I care about theirs.
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Abstract representations of events arise from mental errors
I often laugh when looking at companies solving the problems for working remotely, while you look into their job openings to see none allows working remotely, in this case, 7 out of 13 positions aren't remote, not bad but still surprised.
I heard the median time for hospitalization is 10 days after first symptoms, so continue resting and taking care of yourself.
We are an adaptive species ... just because some folks are strong in-person (due to years of experience at it), doesn't mean they won't adapt to have better digital communication skills when it becomes a more prevalent practice. I think people will be fine ... even if there's an adjustment period :)
Coming from the background of a family business that operates in the field of industrial coatings: in a related note, keratin-based paints & resins were touted as being “the next big thing” pretty soon (about a decade ago).
This is cool! I was hoping it would look something like:

‘’’
import diagrams
calc_d = diagrams.new_diagram(“calculator_123”)

calc_d.Datum("SuperNumber")
class SuperNumber(int):
pass

@calc_d.Service(“Calculator”, “takes numbers and operations and operates”)
class Calculator(object):
@calc_d.Endpoint("Add", calls=["Increment"], main_data={"b": "SuperNumber})
def add(self, a, b: SuperNumber):
out = a
for i in range(b):
calc_d.multi(calls=["Increment"])
out = self.increment(out)

@calc_d.Function("Increment")
def increment(self, a):
return a+1

def integration_test():
calc_d.instantiate("Calculator")
calc = Calculator()
...
‘’’

EDIT: Dear dang and YC Hacker News, I would love to create code blocks using surrounding triple quotes..
You're grinding an axe that has little to do with what I said.

Your defined split of "structure" and "presentation" is orthogonal to my choice of "layout" and "content". Currently both HTML and CSS define layout and content. Layout being defined as the positioning and arrangement of panels within the viewport, and content being defined as the material displayed within those panels as the author intended. That emphasized part is important.

The issue with styling in HTML had nothing to do with the use of tags and everything to do with the fact that they could not be classed. So the chosen tags had to be duplicated in entirety for every instance, which was a maintenance nightmare. Later versions of CSS saw it become more powerful than the original HTML tags. (Aside: This makes it ironic that it seems to be becoming idiomatic to inline styles for HTML templating. Templating solves code duplication, so it no longer requires classing.)

But the HTML+CSS tools for layout are extremely primitive. There's lots of things to point at here. One simple one is that HTML often has superfluous structure that is required only for the CSS-defined layout to work. A more complex one is that it difficult for me to say I want the footer either at the bottom of the viewport or at the bottom of the content, whichever is lower.
this book continues to represent one of my highest ideals. monastic orders that may form in the possibility of eventual hackstability
Europe is more than the EU, unless you're suggesting countries like Switzerland or Norway are also not "of Europe"
> Unfortunately, we – the 96% of the world’s population living elsewhere – are dependent on decision makers elected by the 4% living in the US.

Calling your bluff on this one. Other world powers are available if that's really your argument.

It turns out that if you want customers in the US, then yes you have to follow US law.
The government can print money to resolve that situation.
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