skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the productivity question, if you're interested in some soft (very squishy) numbers, I can provide them.

I manage four small development teams and the one metric I track is velocity or velocity per developer (VPD). If you're familiar with scrum, you probably have a sense of what this means. (Note: this data is tracked in an open spreadsheet and not used to reward or punish but rather to adjust and adapt.)

Anyway, we went full-time remote from in-office 9-10 weeks ago. We did have some experience being partially remote (team members in different offices) before this. A comparison of avg VPD for last 3 sprints in-office (WFO) vs last 3 sprints (WFH):

Team | WFO | WFH
1 | 8.6 | 7.8
2 | 9.2 | 7.6
3 | 8.1 | 7.6
4 | 7.5 | 7.7

This the first time I've actually compared them and I'm mildly surprised WFH is lower. Of course this ignores all sorts of caveats and qualifiers (like adjusting to a major change of environment and a pandemic!)

My impression is that productivity has held more or less steady and VPD will eventually not be too different from where it was.

I've also talked about this individually with members of my team. The consensus seems to be leaning toward a flexible mixture of WFH and WFO. That's the future I'd like to see.
this is very informative. I wouldn't have believed it, without the first person perspective. Before i read this, it was simply unbelievable to me that people could be that bored without any life outside work. Speaking as someone who really values free time and has tons of hobbies and things to do outside of work, it's just unbelievable.
>Advertisers are ultimately pulling ads because of the will of the people, so if you're going to follow this one step further you see that the public has censorship power and that's what we want

They only pull ads because they can. If all platforms are banned from allowing removal of ads on specific videos, then those advertisers will have the option to (a) advertise, or (b) not advertise.

Will the opt-out of YouTube (and every major platform) altogether?

In fact, the public will also understand it's not up to the advertisers and the story will end there. The people can then try to boycot YouTube itself for having a specific video, but that wont go very far either, especially if it doesn't touch the advertising money.
If people can work remote and don't have to commute, that's quite a bit of time saved that could be used getting involved in your local community. I couldn't disagree more that this would lead to a worse loneliness outcome and not a better one.
Yeah, I am - eng lead at Shopify here and actively hiring. What were you wondering? :-)
Their subscription model is strange—it’s $49 per year, which isn’t a lot, but it FEELS like a lot because there is no monthly option like most publications.

But events are a huge portion of business for pubs like The Atlantic. It is sad to see these cuts though because they are really putting out some of the most important thinking around this crisis right now, cutting stuff that digs beneath the surface and highlights the broader trends at play.
1. Loans: it seems you've forgotten these exist.

2. Private garbage collection companies: just because a municipality doesn't have money to buy a robot truck in cash, doesn't mean the private garbage collection company that serves most of the surrounding municipalities doesn't.

3. If you actually look up the prices, the numbers are so skewed in the favor of automation that even without loans or private companies, I very much doubt there are any cases where this would take 10+ years to amortize. Your $20/hour collector translates to $30K/year if they works 30 hours/week, or $300K in 10 years. Is it your claim that robot trucks cost $300K more than non-robot trucks?
> If you're already deficient the outcome will be that it gets even worse for a deficient person.

Exactly! I definitely agree with all points you made in this follow up.
Bush was 100% correct, you either support the war against al-qaeda or you support it. Indifference means terrorists can use your country/resources, being hostile to them means you're "with" america. It doesn't mean you support everything America does,it just means you support the need to combat terrorism.
the unit tests I could write from home there... oh my god.
Four Tips for Surviving Full-Time Remote Work with a Toddler
> So is there an implication that this money has instead gone straight to the patent troll's pockets

Neil McGovern said elsewhere¹ that GNOME "have not paid RPI or Leigh Rothschild for this settlement".

¹ https://lwn.net/Articles/821137/
i think therse a good subset of people who dont really care that much about their careers. atleast from my experience working at fang. they just like the high pay and WLB and dont seem to care about being promoted or advancement.
No. Customer Obsession is Customer Obsession. You can do plenty evil in the name of satisfying customers. They aren't even remotely the same thing.
Minimalists don't use frameworks
Google’s entire business is pathological mass manipulation of what people think for hire.

Using Google software and services is dangerous and irresponsible. De-platform now!
Someone probably used the argument that "you can reduce costs due to salaries" when pitching this to Zuck. They should have cited the rental savings instead.

> Likewise, Twitter and Facebook will be competing against each other in the lower COL areas like Oklahoma!

The market should recover when this new reality matures. Lots of engineers are currently willing to relocate and the current market is still incredibly competitive. Good talent is hard to find and easy to lose. That will not change.
I wouldn’t worry about all tech companies going WFH. Probably most will have a mix.

The wild card is that things may seem easier when people have no choice but to WFH, but once things open up completely, there could be a shift back but inevitably everyone would have already had a taste and some may want it permanently
I would say that if it cannot be decided whether a comment is sarcastic or not, then it actually sits in the saddle point of the truth.
The GDPR have extra-territorial effect.

For example if you are in the US and operate a website in the US and get a visitor from the EU then the GDPR may apply to you with respect to that visitor.

The question is then one of enforceability but that's the reason why some American websites have GDPR notices or restrict access to visitors from the EU.
Do you really think that with the world being more connected than ever, so many collaboration tools being created over the last years and VR evolving non stop, the office is still going to be a thing ?

I would be very surprised if in 50 years the concept of an office even exists anymore.
Fitness and being fit—especially the right fitness activities—has become a major status/class thing. Lots of articles about it over the last, oh, decade or so, which might pass for documentation of the phenomenon, plus what you can see if you've just been looking around and paying attention to trends, media, and marketing.
Strikes can also have the opposite effect; like Bacon's rebellion which ushered in an era of racial tensions that are felt to this day [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion
Except the case when you are considerably cheaper than the people working at the desk next to your boss.
> I don’t believe they actually miss the tourists themselves. Tourists are merely delivery vehicles for food.

I’ve recently taken to the idea that intellectual stances and embodied experiences are not derivable from one another. Each toolkit is separate, and weird things happen when you try to extend one into the other.

For example, I felt it emotively when reading your comment, that the intellect is extraordinarily good at reducing everything into nothing, because it is a core presupposition that we must view things mechanically, to have mechanical proficiency.

Similarly, to have emotional proficiency, we must make our emotional presuppositions. This is not the obsolete definition of “myth” as stories we make up to make us feel good, because that’s again a framing of a reductionist intellect.

What I’m trying to limn is not anti-intellectualism, but that there is no common framework to contain both of these separate modalities. Don’t let the stomach cannibalize the liver, we need both.
Such as their website and their agenda on their websites. Go to their websites and read words printed there.
In so many words, we fucked up our economy because we didn’t have a robust/flexible/scalable approach to managing the quarantine.

It’s an epic fuck up for sure, it’s getting even more epic now that places like California are still extending the lockdown.

We didn’t have the courage to lockdown sooner, and now we don’t have the courage to open up sooner.
It's my fault - I let my print subscription lapse because someone gave me their free New Yorker gift subscription. I didn't feel like I could keep up with both plus the Atlantic RSS feed still has a lot of good stuff for free.
Solve for the equilibrium. Market salaries at the top hubs will eventually go down, and salaries outside them will rise.
Comment of the day!

#learntocode
If they would have called it what it actually is, a 3% increase, people would not click the link.

>The proportion of credit-card accounts entering "financial hardship" programs surged in April by 3.2%, to 14.7 million, credit-reporting agency TransUnion said Wednesday.

Just another journalist calling a 3% increase a "surge"...

If anything the increase is surprisingly low.
About 600 Tyson Food Employees in North Carolina Test Positive for Coronavirus
Maybe presence in the office, to teach others in the office, is (supposedly) work $60k in the example above? (Seems silly to me, but that's what the management could claim.)
Choosing is part of the issue, and at that point it is not longer "built-in". People make friends with those physically around on a regular basis–I can only think of three environments where making friends is "built-in": school, work, and church. You never have all three, but at least we always have just one.

I get that all it takes is to find a meet up of like minded individuals that meet up regularly, but sometimes even that is hard to find.
That was my point, it wasn't in the beginning. YouTube's initial success wasn't caused by curation, which is the implication I was replying to.

I'm not sure the discovery/recommendation algorithm is the same as curation. It seems to me these are related but distinct fields.
this despite granny's TOS clause clearly granting perpetual likeness rights in exchange for periodic babysitting
I'll just point out that I did not oppose undertaking both simultaneously.
Lower student to teacher ratio. That way you'll get faster feedback as to what's not working in any particular case. Let the student tell you what they need.

Practical examples, like word problems, but concrete.
Who decided this at YouTube? What's their name? They weren't elected and they have no accountability to society for making decisions in our best interest. The WHO states that healthy people should "only wear a mask if [they] are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection."[1] This is contrary to current guidance in the US. In a democracy, as in science, no one gets to say what is true and what is false. We have allowed Alphabet to grow into a sprawling corporation that pervades our everyday lives. We cannot now allow them to dictate what is good and bad, true and false, venerable and deplorable. This is dystopic.

1. https://www.who.int/images/default-source/health-topics/coro...
And just because your house is already hooked up to your electric utility doesn't mean you can't build your own generator and and source your own fuel! Clearly the utility should have near complete immunity and let an automated algorithm cut off your power indefinitely for vague, unspecified reasons.
hun? They aren't an intermediary. The pictures are posted on Facebook. They are the primary. It doesn't matter who uploaded them to Facebook.
I think it's very likely that a UBI would make salaries for those types of jobs go up quite a bit. People wouldn't feel like they "had" to do them just to make rent. I don't have a problem with those people making more money for the jobs they do. I think they've earned that.
What data are you basing this on?
Ask HN: Robotics engineers of HN, what do you work on?
Hey HN! I wanted to know what kind of projects do the robotics engineers of HN work on? How did you get to where you are? What's your background in? Did you always want to work on robots? What are your day-to-day duties like? Thanks!

PS: Reposting this from about two weeks ago due to lack of responses.
I think the GP's point is that there's an implicit "or... what?" here. The parent would sue the child to either take down their photos, or... what? What would be the consequence if the child didn't comply with a ruling against them? The only potential legal consequences would be on the parent themselves.

In effect, the law has no leverage against children, except insofar as children can be influenced through their parents. If the parent were the one suing—because the parent also has no leverage—then nobody has leverage.
Erlang/OTP-22 (released last year) introduced TLS distribution optimizations and message fragmentation which sound very related to the problem you saw:

http://blog.erlang.org/OTP-22-Highlights/

The fragmentation in particular addresses the problem where a large message would block all other messages, including heartbeats, and cause nodes to look “down” when they’re not.
Facebook and Palantir both used to pay people up to $10k/year to live within a mile or so of the office, since the cost of living in SF & Palo Alto & Menlo Park was so much higher than the rest of SFbay. I don't know if they still offer that perk, but I can attest that the increased costs of rent within a mile of those offices would, at that time, burn up that entire $10k and then some, relative to the rest of SFbay.

Are they right to do this, given that it's probably a contributing factor to increased rents? Probably not. But I bet it was negotiated with the cities to try and reduce emissions and parking requirements, too.
Just as a contrasting datapoint, I use Upwork a lot as a client, and I've found a lot of good contractors on there. I agree with you that the platform itself is terrible and seems to succeed in spite of itself, but it's worked well enough for my needs.

I've hired cartoonists[0], editors[1], writers[2], accountants, and developers. I had the worst luck with developers because, as you say, the ratings are meaningless. They have the lemon problem[3] that good developers won't really work for $15/hr, but there are also bad developers who charge $125/hr. But to evaluate whether a developer is good or bad, you generally have to invest 10-15 hours with them. So a string of expensive bad matches can cost you $5-10k in trial hires just to find a decent developer. I think other tasks are easier to hire for because costs are lower and the outputs are more easily inspectable.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/how-to-hire-a-cartoonist/

[1] https://mtlynch.io/editor/

[2] https://mtlynch.io/hiring-content-writers/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
B/c billionaires got everything, they also want to feel good about themselves & righteous too. Thus you see a lot of virtual signaling
As a contrarian view, do our rights require it to be _cheap_? AWS + a domain name (`www.the-moon-really-is-made-of-cheese.com`) seems like something that is available to everyone.

- It's not cheap
- It's not easy

However, it's a platform of speech that is available to everyone, and if you want to scale to millions, one can add the same caching layers etc that FAANG can. We've seen this kind of thing when people were banned from twitter or whatever, and ended up migrating to other twitter-competitors. Newspapers are not required to post our opinions, and I don't think youtube is either.
Employment is a market, similar to many others. As long as there are a significant number of companies that want you to show up in an office, choosing to live in an area with fewer employers puts you in a different cohort with a lower market-clearing price.

Also, the value you deliver to your employer will change whenever there’s a substantial shift in your working relationship. To the extent that your job requires collaboration, working in the same timezone as your peers has obvious benefits, for example.
But can anything replace the west's unending consumer appetite? As big as they are, can their own people consume enough? I think a lot also depends on US elections.
This just shows that companies are on the look to exploit their workers as much as possible, i.e., to make them work for the lowest salary possible for that particular job. It really bothers them that you may take home more money than they can possibly get away with paying you.
Ask HN: Is there any open source tool for creating simple CRUD Apps?
Is there any tools that can make making CRUD apps easier ?

It should allow creating forms for data input and updates and it should be preferably open-source.

I am thinking more like metabase for creating dashboards, does any such tool exists ?

I am using Rails currently
But that isn’t true about HEIC. There isn’t a license fee.
What Is the Hiring Process of Data Scientists at Tesco?
Yes. Which is why the UBI wouldn't make nearly as much difference as people think. Nearly all the "work people don't want to do" is already done by immigrants who won't qualify for UBI (but would still be paying the VAT taxes that fund it).

That's basically how the math works out. Immigrants fund a lot of the UBI by paying into it but not benefiting from it. We would need a lot of protections for non-citizen workers to protect them from being exploited.

To be clear, I'm a big fan of UBI and think it's a great idea, I just worry about the unintended consequences.
> Every single proposed UBI was either insufficient to cover people's basic needs, obscenely expensive, or both.

I don't think that's true. In a really simple model imagine UBI of $2000/month given for everyone. Then imagine increasing income taxes by $2000 for all employed workers. Then the true cost would be difference between current unemployed benefits of the UBI, which shoudln't be obscenely expensive (in normal economic times). Employed workers shouldn't care about the increased taxes because their take home money would remain identical.

That's of course a very simplistic model, but explains how you shouldn't just count the UBI amount times population as the cost.
If that video was "banned" on youtube, how am I able to view it on youtube?

The first few statements he makes are bit eye-raising and I didn't continue listening but:

"many of the people who died would've died at the exact same time anyway"

I wonder the source or how he knows. He says it so matter of factly that I'm sceptical.
Magic Leap just raised a $350M investment round, tries to secure future
Individuals seem to get a lot of value out of interacting with the community, so it's not obvious to me that the moderator's sacrifice (which primarily comes from a small portion number of individuals) is unjustified.
Yeah, and if that doesn't work, they can also, to quote none other than Joe Biden, "learn to code".
The $150k is not what your work is directly valued at, but rather an agreement of what it'll take for you to drag your ass to San Francisco, which is objectively a bad place to live if you're a human that has to make budgets, and come to work at Facebook.

Also yes, if Facebook starts to hire remote workers, then your value will drop because they now have the access to a pool of workers who don't want to drag their asses to San Francisco and can pretty easily settle for less since their rent doesn't require them to bleed money.
That is how thing should be.

Let say I shop for a gadget. I pay for that gadget not because the value it deliver but the least amount required to get the value it deliver.
> one-sided in favor of the businesses

Remember how Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and eBay colluded to suppress wages of Software Engineers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
> Why? My value to the company hasn't changed! I am still worth the same amount as I was before!

Do we have stats about he difference of hours between remote and non remote employers? I thought the main goal to have those big tech campus is to have dev stay longer at work.

If you are remote you will work less and then your value decrease
Art 6 (1) (e). You may have to fight but you'll win. IANAL.
I agree, but notice that except for pornography, which I forgot to include, I covered all of the others (sort of) with "hate speech". Banning violence/insults/pornography/harassment is an obviously useful filter for a PG-13 site, but I don't think it qualifies as curation. To me curation implies something related to the selection of quality.
I read it as reveling in the misfortune of journalists who have brushed off the suffering of the unemployed and maligned the character of protesters.
Can I apply for gov benefits from a neighboring staate I don’t have permanent resident status?
And the thing that matters isn't mentioned by BBC?

Was it a public post or private?

BBC doesn't even seem to understand the issue at hand.

Public/The court didn't know - http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/05/privacy-rights-and-soci...
> The best thing to do is decide if it's a picture really worth being upset about existing [..]

What if you've not seen the photo, don't know who took the photo, or who posted it, or where they posted it?

Last year I had a drink with a group of friends in a pub, commemorating the untimely death of a friend one year before.

The following day, at work, a manager who wasn't present the night before asked me about the event the previous evening. He said he'd seen me "in the photos" on Facebook.

I'm not on Facebook, so I've no idea who took - or who posted - photos.

Suggestions?
This is where it doesn't matter.
YouTube does not have an obligation to leave everything up there at all.

Given that this interview is misleading at best, and dangerous at worst. It's up to YouTube to decide if it wants to be used as a vehicle.

Personally I'm glad they took it down. I want to get out and would love to go back to old normal. We all would. But I don't want to get sic before a vaccine is ready, and I don't want people I know and love to get sick either.

If you're getting upset about the actions of youtube, the fact is they are full within their rights to do whatever they like with their platform.

As for the free speech argument :
Companies are not required to give space to ideas or viewpoints they do not wish to be associated with.

https://pacificlegal.org/a-first-amendment-win-supreme-court...

https://casetext.com/case/manhattan-community-access-corp-v-...
She doesn't have to argue that the utility exists for some practical purpose like babysitting - she would only need to argue that the pictures were taken by her, and that she uses them personally to look at the images of her grandchildren for her own personal happiness (which has utility).
By default you can't trust any for profit corporation. They will always do what is profitable over anything and everything else, as they are required to.
Well, my experience has been that having time to switch into "work mode" did help my productivity. But hey, maybe I was just delusional all along.
> My wife and I decided to be in a major metropolitan area because of our kids and schools... but back before, we were living in more rural, mountain areas with a lot of access to outdoors.

The schools are the main thing preventing us from moving to a small town in nature. Most of them have really bad schools. If they don't it's because they're a rich-people enclave and housing's very expensive.