skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Remote-only cuts out the in-person experience entirely, which is problematic for building teams and culture"

This is stated as fact everywhere but I've not seen supporting evidence anywhere.

I spend about as much time in my day speaking to other people as I would have done productively and by choice before. The only difference now is that I'm more able to avoid extraneous meetings and other drags on my time that don't benefit from my participation (because they're largely irrelevant to my work and vice versa).

In any case kudos for taking this step which I'm sure is not an easy decision to make given that it's a fairly seismic shift to how most companies approach work and employment.
tl;dr yes. I'm still reading but there seems to be a long list of reasons.
In most western countries you aren't allowed to put something like that on TV and would probably end up in jail.
But what's legally binding? Can't the lease just be abandoned and you refuse to pay? It hurts reputation, but if the demand is so high for renters, they can reestablish reputation.

I guess I should have googled:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/SF-tenants-brea...
Lego is the most reputable company, Disney follows
Actually, they’re saying “when we ask you to do something we consider unethical, you can’t say we told you to do it”.
> No one knows if it is true or not

We know it's not true because:

(1) details in this new hoax mail are the same as in previous Russian Hunter disinformation. They were investigated and found not to be true. 1) FBI found it false, 2) The Republican Senate Report on Hunter Biden found the story false, 3) DOJ investigation started by Bill Barr just find the story false.

(2) All details over this laptop story left out by NY Post story are ridiculously absurd.

People who take this seriously don't do even cursory followups for the news they find interesting. Everything that is posted on a news site comes out of blue as totally new thing. This story has history. This "new evidence" was found to be false previously.
For what it's worth a large amount of the DOE work (where they have the super computers) is open source. You got ORNL (with Summit and soon Frontier)[0], ANL[1] (soon to have Aurora), and LLNL[2]. I think what needs to happen is that things could be better organized, for example ORNL has [3] which still open sourced but not grouped under the ORNL GH. Also if we got to code.gov and search "ORNL" and "C++" we only see DCA++ which isn't on the GH but here[4].

I think as long as code isn't sensitive to national security (LLNL...) it should be open source. But I think the big problem is that organization and discovery is very difficult. code.gov is an attempt to solve this, but it doesn't do it well.

[0] https://github.com/ORNL

[1] https://github.com/argonne-national-laboratory

[2] https://github.com/LLNL

[3] https://github.com/ornladios/ADIOS2

[4] https://github.com/CompFUSE/DCA
> If I had one of those machines, I'd never get anymore work done.

Hint: The entry level is at USD475. ;-)
Somehow I am always surprised when I use a new PDF tool and discover that it, like all the others, has failed to use transparency to make signatures look right. No real signature fails to cross something already on a document, but every time we get this stupid blank box around the signature...
Looks a lot like Mighty! https://mightyapp.com/

I've been working on a productivity oriented browser (early alpha here: https://cloudsynth.com -- sorry landing isn't complete yet). It's very obvious that those inner rendering frames can be handled by remote servers. We've managed to reduce a lot of chromes memory usage by sleeping/unmounting unused tabs transparently (where we can) and have seen a ton of performance improvement. Looking forward to swapping out the chromium rendering layer to a cloud one down the road!

The security implications are interesting too. Moving the 'sandbox' to the cloud for security purposes seems like the browsers definitely missed some of their goals.
a) its the nypost, a tabloid.
b) what stories? I keep seeing this. I see very little printed about trump that doesn't end up true. I also don't belong to FB so I legitimately have no idea what you're talking about. As I said in my reply, please supply links to any double standards cited.
The volatility of the market makes for easy profits. Did an excercise on marketwatch in school one time. I traded random symbols that met my criteria and made a fat virtual profit. I kept it going after the experiment and realized the only reason I did well was because of the variability of that time for the market. I would kill to have some extra cash to invest right now/3 months ago, panicked laymen make investing easy.
These aren't very good examples of what is currently possible using a decent FDM printer. (Prusa Mk3s for example) While not beautiful, PLA prints are pretty darn smooth and surprisingly strong if you orient the print in the right direction. (you don't want to stress the part on the axis of the layer stacking)

I bought one a year or so ago and while definitely still in the "toy" category, you can do some neat things with them. That said, woodworking is going to let you build way nicer things, but you don't get to just click a button and have it reproduced, nor share plans with others. But ya, FDM doesn't print things that are "nice" really, just functional.
>although flying jetpack from a boat sounds sketchy.

Why? If takeoff fails it's likely to hurt a lot less than over land and if you get hurt your buddies can drive a direct line to within feet of you. Exhaust blast is trivial to solve.
It's 1554 UTC as I write. There will be a live demo of this on cloudflare.tv in 6 minutes if people are curious.
I worked at a large media company and we held internal meetings essentially telling people how to vote. The media we promoted was aligned with this: all extreme left wing. It’s just as bad as trump. We’ve all lost.
The OSH Act applies to work performed by an employee in any workplace within the United States, including a workplace located in the employee's home. [0]

[0]https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/1999-...
Yes, that is another fair rewriting of what they are saying.

Obviously they make their own ethical judgements when enforcing their own rules, as do we all.

My guess is that they wouldn’t object to the discussion though, if it didn’t make them look bad.
In job description on Angellist website, you mentioned that VISA sponsorship is not available and on HackerNews you mentioned VISA is available. Can you please let us know if you guys can sponsor visa or no?
I'm interested in the assumption that if you're going to whack a statue around the head, hitting the face makes you an even more terrible person.

Like, what is bad about hitting a statue? And what is worse about hitting its face?

Can you talk more about that?
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> Their investor, the Mark Cuban caricature, Russ Hanneman

I didn't know that's what they had intended. I never once thought that's what they were going for.
> But most people don't know that there are massive tax benefits to working from home (at least in Canada)

That's generally not true for workers in the US. If you are self-employed, yes, you can take a home office deduction, but not if you are a W2 employee.

The US used to have an "unreimbursed employee expense" itemized deduction, but even then there was a pretty high floor (had to be more than a couple percent of your total income) so most people couldn't make use of it. That deduction was eliminated in the 2018 tax law.
I remember the paper jams but currently most consumer printers die through built-in obsolesce before the paper jams happen often.

We're trained to spent much more money for business laptops and probably we should for printers, too? Well handled ThinkPads last for many years and when the hardware struggles to execute the software in decent speed they - remain to work. Lenovo (and IBM) make money with reliable hardware.
That's not at all the same thing as what's happening here by a long shot though. Not even in the same arena. Can you truly not see that? Also, not countless. i can count that quite easily. I want droves of links showing this horrid double standard I keep hearing about.
(Haiku developer here.)

Ultimately a lot of the things Haiku "dictates" are at levels that 99.9% of people, including developers, do not care about: the window manager and display server, launch interface, package manager, etc. Certainly those decisions have consequences, but ultimately (for example) do you really need the freedom to decide whether you want ALSA or OSS? People just want audio to work, and programmers want a sane API to work with it. The internals matter little to most people.
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When we're printing trillions of dollars, you gotta put your money somewhere or you'll get negative returns.
this gets posted about pretty regularly so maybe reference the discussion from 6 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22839563
> if these businesses move away from places people commute to and move into places where people actually live,

Here in the UK,I'm hoping this will happen. We've been suffering the 'death' of the local high street for years, and many local communities are non-existent because there are no longer local social hubs. For every coffee shop or pub closed in the centre of the cities, another could open in a rural area. We'd all be better off for this, I know it.
How does the licensing work? According to the GPL FAQ[1] code written by government employees is public domain and can't be licensed with the GPL. I'd imagine similar restrictions would apply to other copyleft licenses.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLUSGov
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I never see ads on YouTube. I think my ad blocker is sufficiently good at blocking them for me.

You deserve better then to be shown ads.
The article also says that they will remove videos that contradict the people they've decided are trusted experts.

> YouTube says it already removes content that disputes the existence or transmission of COVID-19, promotes medically unsubstantiated methods of treatment, discourages people from seeking medical care or explicitly disputes health authorities’ guidance on self-isolation or social distancing.
On a minor note:

> it is prima facie wrong that one of the rules of the App Store is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules of the App Store. I’m hard pressed to think of an exception to this conviction, not just on Apple’s App Store, but in any sphere of life — whether a harmless game...

There is a card game called "Mao" in which one of the rules is that you're not supposed to explain the rules. The base game is similar to Uno or Crazy 8s, and then, when you win a game, you get to define a new rule, which you name but don't otherwise explain, and then start enforcing that rule (giving penalty cards when others break it). Others are expected to guess the rule by observing its application. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_(card_game)
It is very simple. There are two things happening here. One: the Fed has invested trillions buying everything under the sun (not just t-bills) to prop up the markets and make it look the economy is fine. Two: interest rates are being held artificially low by the Fed and have been for a while. So people are desperate for returns and the only place to get it is equities.

It is a pyramid scheme and must pop someday. Really just depends on how/what/when the Fed does.
Fun fact: the amznamznamzn user account was created 11 hrs ago
How about the Republic of Wisconsin? The divorce doesn’t need to end with only two parties.
https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_FAQ

To be exact they aim for compatibility with Server 2003.
We don't know one way or another. Just because you don't like the Senate report doesn't mean it is untrue. The FBI did not find it false; it has not commented.

How do you explain the pictures. Are they deep fakes?
So how does that change things? If they're dependent on Google for revenue, then they're vulnerable to Google's influence.
Good luck if your a junior living in a studio apartment with no space to put a desk let alone have a spare room for office.

Exactly why do you seem to be on the employers side here
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It's psychological, but it also goes from an understanding that profits, in the rigid economic sense, don't reliably exist.

A profit is gain realized by buying things, recombining them using innovation, and selling at a favorable price. A true profit is something you make, again and again, and with diminishing returns because prices move and the gap closes, as with arbitrages. Rents, which are more reliable, are payments you collect because you own things. (You may use those things, or you may, using the more common sense of the word, rent those things out.)

Most "profits" are actually just rents. Rents extracted because the company owns real estate, rents extracted because of brand presence, interest (which is a rent on money) through financing programs, rents extracted because workers' need for daily survival has them systematically underpricing their labor, and rents on political capital (favorable regulatory environment).

Getting paid because you have a great idea is intermittent, and usually requires taking on a lot of risk, and risk is something established companies hate. Getting paid because you own something is easy-as-shit and forever reliable. Where does the car industry make the bulk of its gains? Not on selling the cars, but in financing. It's an evergreen business, so long as there is capitalism-- there will always be people who need money they don't have, and it will always be an easy business to collect the vig.

Regular businesses eventually stop innovating-- they have plenty of smart people, but the bosses don't want to take risks because they're busy collecting personal rents by holding management positions, and obviously don't want to lose that-- and their "profits" converge to the rent roll on the resources they own. That's just how it works. Average equals mediocre, the latter used non-pejoratively.

That said, it's not sexy to imagine that one is investing into companies that have become mere utilities, that will continue to collect rents on the resources they own (of which a person can buy a tiny fractional share of the ownership) but not really do anything interesting.

These ultra-capitalist non-profits (non-profits-for-now) create the illusion that they're something different... that they're "rocket ship" companies run by people with supernatural talent and "vision", that they aren't rent-seekers using capital's native advantage over labor for reliable but unpulchritudinous gains... which is what all large companies are... but, instead, a kind of "new company" that is going to innovate moonshots and synergize us up a new century of prosperity, freedom, and magical puppies that never poop. Smart investors recognize that all of that is bullshit, and that these tech unicorns are just as exploitative as traditional companies (and, in fact, probably more so) but they also realize that dumber investors get the warm fuzzies and that there is therefore a premium.
If you are genuinely asking, there are people, myself included, who don't think virtual interactions are a substitute for building relationships. It's the same reason I want to transition to meeting someone in person after talking to them on a dating app. I can totally understand that everyone is different and may not think the same. For instance, if the only advantage of in-person interactions at work you can think of is goofing around, I suspect you are better suited for remote work.
Well isn't it pretty much the same with all other discussions on the Internet.

No one wants to discuss, they just want to make a point. It is similar situation with Apple's App Store. You see people, even on HN defending Apple, saying it is Apple's Platform they can do whatever they want. Which is fine as a statement, but without really ever addressing the question raised by the counter party.
What is unethical about letting the consumers know how much they are paying Apple for the privilege of using in-app purchase?
Your company paid for that 5k monitor I hope ?
Considering that al-Maqrīzī felt the need to write about the Sphinx missing a nose in the 15th century, that seems unlikely...
Arrival traffic at 6k feet is 5-10 miles away from the airport. Someone on a beach with a smartphone is gonna have trouble imaging a human-sized object a mile in the air and 5-10 away.
sometimes "that's a penis!" really isn't up for debate: see U+130BA: EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH D053.

anachronistic thinking is an ever-lurking danger, though, which is why i'm not amazingly confident in this interpretation, but brought it up out of curiosity.

We do know that body-part substitutions were at least in literary use in the ancient near east, so it's not totally implausible: you can fairly confidently swap foot/thigh for genitalia in ancient hebrew texts, when contextually appropriate.
Unaligned loads and stores are not atomic.

Misaligned loads and stores that cross page boundaries are handled by the OS and hardware together. The OS must ensure that the post-condition of the page-fault handler leaves both pages on either side of the boundary in an accessible state.
No, the entire point of critiquing the author's qualifications is to break apart the idea that, because the author is well-spoken, they are therefore correct or even reasonable. If the author had declined to publish a miniature biography beside the article, then I would not have said anything. I haven't, for example, examined the rest of his body of work; I don't have any predictions to make about what else he may have written.

> stating that the biological sex exists and in human case there are two sexes is sexist.

You got it! Sort of. It's not a problem to use the concept of biological sex, but it's completely wrong to say that humans have two biological sexes. The main problem is in the assignment of chromosomal configurations to sexual configurations; humans have a dozen or so intersex [0] configurations which don't fit neatly into binary gender theory.

And this has real-world consequences. There are many countries which have canonicalized various sorts of human-rights abuses based on the binary theory, mostly by establishing some sort of concentration camps for homosexuals. The author's writing forms a small but real brick in the wall of these camps.

> If that's so then the most biologists I've met are jest sexists and I should probably call the police and denounce them as petty criminals.

This is the error. It doesn't make sense to criminalize sexism, and indeed it's not criminalized in any jurisdiction that I know of. Instead, what's criminalized are specific deleterious pragmatic aspects of sexism: Sexual harassment, genital mutilation, conversion therapy, forced emancipation of trans children, human trafficking. When biologists are sexists, they are usually being reductionist as the author is doing, by minimizing and ignoring the diversity of the real world's biosphere; they are not directly advocating for the harm that is done by other, more hateful people, based on their reasoning.

Also, yes, my priors are that people are 99% racist, 80% sexist, 85% delusionally religious, and 20% fascist; this gives me a weak but steady belief that the typical person I talk to is, in some way, a sincere believer in deeply harmful and falsifiable cultural beliefs. I'm in the USA, for what it's worth; hopefully it's not like this everywhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
wow that's really cool. I had only seen the "Iron Man" style jetpack demonstrations that hover a few feet or the jet suits that I thought usually jump from an airplane but I'd never one of these take off from the ground. Must be a really amazing feeling.
you don't need a $2-3000 desk just to hold a computer and some monitors. you can get a large desk with electronic height adjustment from ikea for about $400.

I'm a junior engineer and I already happen to have a nice chair, computer, and monitor at home. my desk is a piece of trash from walmart, but it gets the job done. altogether, it's about $3500 worth of stuff if bought new. I wouldn't be happy to pay for all that in one go for work, but it wouldn't be an extreme hardship either. I would gladly pay that in exchange for permanent WFH.
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Great anecdote, but I have at least a thousand stories like this in Windows.

My favorite one is how a guy in my office one day was not able to print. Well he could print, but only from applications that used the really, really old Windows printing API. So basically you could print from Notepad, and that was it.

We tried everything to get printing to work, but could not figure out the problem. This led to a wipe and reload of the OS. After I got it reloaded, I tested out printing, and it worked great. Success!

Next day, he comes in and is again not able to print. Turns out that the problem was due to the drivers from his personal HP printer at home. The printer was auto-detected, and Windows automatically downloaded the new driver for that printer. That somehow fucked up the entire printing subsystem again so no printers would work at all.
Yeah I thought it was just a bro-VC type person rather than anyone specific
Such assumptions break network request retries and/or relies on proposer-identity, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv
>like suppose you are struggling to recover from alcoholism. you might want to confide in your close friends. you might not want to share this with friends from work. you almost certainly should not share this with your boss, even if you consider them a friend.

I would absolutely share this with my "work friends" and even my current boss. When one of my previous bosses shared with me that he was having trouble at home with his spouse, it wasn't like he suddenly became a bad boss. If anything, it helped our work because it gave me the opportunity to be more understanding when he seemed more worn out or needed to leave early for the day to go spend time with his family. If he had told me he was struggling with drinking, then I would know that maybe we should go play sports rather than to our weekly happy hour. We build each other up, both inside and outside of work, because that's what friends do, and it has the nice side effect of making our professional careers better, too.

Perhaps I just have had a lucky stream of working on unicorn teams, but I would hate to work at a company where I couldn't share details of my life with the people that I spend 40-60+ hours a week with. Obviously every workplace and relationship is unique and you aren't going to share everything with everybody (I'd share the above details with my current boss but by no means with all of my bosses), but I don't understand this attitude that you shouldn't share anything with anyone that happens to have a common employer.

To me, work is just another facet of our relationship alongside the many other facets, no different than if we had met through volunteering or went to the same gym. I don't share everything with every coworker, just like I don't share everything with every other person that visits my gym. But I also don't shy away from sharing things with someone just because they are my coworker, just like I wouldn't shy away from sharing things with someone just because they also use the same weight set that I do.
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So now every RC aircraft is a "drone"?