skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I've been working remote for 4 years now.

1. This is your strongest point. I've missed the whiteboard a bit. But you just need to find other ways to sketch out your ideas. Even a google doc, which is pretty primitive as these kinds of things go, it pretty easy to use instead.

2. Personal relationships require investment and deliberate choice. Schedule some open mic time. Keep a zoom room open where teammates can interact but with the expectation that they needn't be 100% engaged. This is a substitute for talking over the cube walls or the random break room interactions. Also spend time in non-work conversations via slack or talk a bit about non-work stuff before or after normal meetings. You'd do this in the office as you walked to or from a meeting room. It isn't as easy to just accidentally build these social relationships. Working remote you need to build the habits that support them.

3. Keep your work space and your personal space separate. Set some time boundaries. Encourage your team to put a cap on their daily work. Remind them. You have to learn set and stick to healthy boundaries. Too much time on the job leads to productivity drop in the long run. Keep your team productive and happy by helping them be aware of the issue. As a manager, watch out for perverse incentives driving overwork.

There are zillion little moments of ad hoc communication that happen face to face. Now that their absence has helped you discover that they are valuable, ask yourself when they occurred and how they worked to your advantage. Once you have some idea what you're missing, then you can start to engineer a replacement. As a leader, it's important that you model these behaviors for your team.
>>>The purpose of health credentials is to securely prove that a person has received a vaccine or PCR test.

But god forbid You ask a person to show picture ID before voting. And enough with this garbage that private companies can discriminate because they are not government. I am not anti-vaxx, just anti-bullshit. FAFO
Maybe you should get friends outside your work?
No, you can't. If it takes 30 mins to drive to office, it'll take 3 hours to get there by buses.
The only one of those things that has any claim to being a secret is SSN. And that ship has sailed - at this point it would be a public service to publish all SSNs so we’re all forced to stop treating it like knowing an SSN means something.

The rest belong in public directories, where they have been for decades.
>Of course because of the economic blockade against Cuba they are forced to be creative on how to use the available resources.

Yes of course, Cuba's economic woes and abysmal civil/tech infrastructure are entirely due to the economic blockade. several decades of a certain repressive, individuality and development crushing political system and its economic theories have nothing worth mentioning to do with it.

This itself is more than a little piece of misinformation, blaming Cuba's problems entirely on the US (though the US and its misguided blockade have their share of faults)
Seems like an odd thing to do for that. I take a short drive each morning to get my coffee and then come back home. It's my meditation/alone time/change of scenery and i get to continue my day working uninterrupted at home.

People think that the things they do at the office (beyond work) are impossible to replace in "real life". They are, office is the actual virtual life
> Another one-party democracy that worked well, at least for a few decades, is Singapore.

Well, if you and your neighbors vote against the ruling party, your garbage pickup gets cut off, and maybe your water.
Google doesn't strike me as the kind of place that'd care about whether or not its developers feel insulted.
Imagine conference call with strangers
For your idea, you could do what a lot of kids toys do, where they have a "cartridge" (puzzle piece, alphabet letter, whatever) which has some notches, so it pushes a combo of switches to select what sound to play

Could also do it with barcodes

i did this with toggle switches in my car, and they're binary, so the 4 gave me 16 options... per mode, i had a mode button too, in radio mode it was either podcasts, a few SDR options, and a few mp3 music genres

then i decided the toggle switches were gonna get embedded in my face if i got in a wreck so i took them out ... there's a reason all the buttons in cars are round and plastic, I guess.
I don't need "them" to analyse it, I want it for myself.
Disagree completely. All metrics at my company, gamedev, show throughput is down ~66% since WFH

Me, I want to go back to the office. Like hanging out with my work friends.
They don’t publish the data itself they just compare a hash of it to a hash of whatever you submit for comparison.
I don’t believe that. Everyone else is cargo cutting FAANG. If they go back to no remote then everyone else will follow and if you want remote work it will be as hard as it’s historically been to get it, ie 1:10 ratio (making the particular ratio up) for available remote jobs to remote seekers.

It’s the same as “if you don’t like it here and don’t mind not having a roof over your head, you’re free to quit and go work somewhere else with better conditions”. It’s not as dramatic in SE because we’re in demand but it’s still not trivial to do everywhere. And it’s even worse for less in demand jobs.
Amazon uses crowdfunding to minimize risk
You’re verging into conspiracy territory a little too much here.
Truth is, there are good economic reasons to cure a disease or cancer: because the cure can be priced according to its (great) value.

Quick examples include:

* Hepatitis C - can now be cured in ~95% of cases. When the various drugs were released, they made many billions for the manufacturers, as the economic case for their use was clear.

* previously-untreated DLBCL (a type of lymphoma) - can be cured in ~2/3rds of patients, and many trials are ongoing (and have been run previously) to try to push this percentage higher. A treatment adding extra cures would be valued highly.
From a purely financial point of view, if that's all that matter, yes, you may compare streaming/vinyl/CDs.

... those are _different_ markets:

- Streaming is about subscription to a right to listen to music passing by, attached to a specific set of account (with all the metrics that come with it).

- Vinyl is about physical analog copies that you can transmit to someone across space and time and that are barely trackable.

Edit: but indeed, huge markets crush small ones...
> The expansion of the universe does violate special relativity

I am curious as to how?

If, we take as axiomatic that there is no such thing as "an object in motion", only "an object in motion with respect to another object", i.e. motion is not a property of an object, but a relation between two objects.

And that since it's 4.3 light-years to Alpha Centauri, therefor a cause (e.g. a radio wave) sent from Earth today cannot have an effect (e.g. an Astronomer writes a paper about it) at Alpha Centauri for 4.3 years, and vice versa. There is 4.3 years of "Absolute elsewhere" to get through first where there is no possible cause-and-effect relation between events. At the other side of our galaxy it's around 100 000 years. And further out, objects are not just far, but receding from us (or us from them, equivalently)

Assuming an unbounded and expanding universe, for very distant parts of the universe receding from us at lightspeed (or speeds faster than light?) and us from them, equivalently. So lightspeed signals from there never reach us, by definition? That part is is utterly unobservable, permanently Absolute elsewhere. The universe's observable edge is a slowed-down red-shift that trails off into the unobservable. In other words, the at no time in the future will those signals have an effect on Earth, or us on them. So, they can't have an effect in our future, let alone our past. No impact to causality at all?
> throw that investment away

Sunk cost fallacies etc
“Well Google use primary colours in their logo, Brian”

LOL, thanks for the laugh! :-)
It's one of my favourite films.

The weird thing is I watched it before going to college and now I am working for several years it still feels super-relevant to the modern workplace.
thanks man! first issue will be around the 10th / 15th of April
Am I the only one who doesn't use terminal multiplexing? I used to use screen back when I would have eternal shells open on remote systems via SSH, but why would I need to do this locally when I have a window manager?
Google doesn't make decisions based on data. Google makes decisions based on what gets someone a promotion.
Awaiting the Next Historic Solarstorm
Ask HN: How to study programming language theory as a non CS student?
Hi,
I would love to understand programming languages on a more abstract level. What do they have in common and why? Why has language A feature A but not feature B?

I am an EE/Robotics student and program everyday but I feel like am lacking some deeper knowledge about programming languages which holds me back from becoming a better developer.

What course/book can you recommend?

EDIT:
I have written quite a bit of code in Python (Pytorch/Tensorflow), do my coding interviews in C++, and also have experience in web dev with JavaScript (NextJS). I am looking for a CS50 like course. I was thinking of going through the "Writing an Interpreter in Go" course. But would rather learn something less implementation oriented.
What is the measure of productivity? Lines of codes added/removed? Functions written? Jira tickets etc? How do we exactly know that if they are tickets, they are exactly the same size before and after the pandemic?

And is it the same for everyone? Like for HR, sales, marketing?
It's terribly short-sighted to try to portray a whole society on it's economic growth rate.

From that nonsense, it becomes even more foolish to assert that Japan (a G8 nation and the 3rd largest economy in the world) is not "functional" by focusing exclusively on it's economy.
The FT article is paywalled. There's an equivalent story here at Bloomberg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-31/deliveroo...

You'll have to skip past the typical anti-UK anti-Brexit sentiment that fills journalism these days. The article tries to make it sound like Deliveroo over-shooting their IPO is an indictment of the entire country where it's based, except:

"Among the five biggest deals in London this year, Deliveroo is the only company that didn’t receive the highest targeted valuation ... Doordash Inc. has slumped 24% this month, and European rivals Just Eat Takeaway.com NV and Delivery Hero SE have also fallen this year ... The company and its banks also sought a premium valuation for the stock. At the offering price, Deliveroo fetched 6.4 times last year’s revenue, versus a multiple of 5.8 for Just Eat ... Deliveroo is the largest IPO in the U.K. since e-commerce operator THG Plc’s 1.88 billion-pound listing in September. Like THG, Deliveroo listed with weighted voting rights on the LSE’s standard segment and therefore can’t be included in indexes such as the FTSE 100, despite its size. While the stock will lose out on fund flows from passive strategies that track these benchmarks, the same situation hasn’t prevented THG’s shares from surging 26%"

So there's not much to this story except an unimpressive startup IPO. But there are lots of those about these days. This one is 8 years without a profit - could be worse given the number of "startups" reaching 15 or 16 years without a profit.
You’re absolutely delusional about modern day USA. And if you think that being tortured by USA on some other soil is better, well, sucks to be you.
Is this 1st April joke?
Bizarre 'worm tornado' has scientists baffled
As an example, Gleevec has turned CML from a terminal cancer into a chronic, manageable condition for most patients. Life expectancy for CML is nearly the same as the general population now. [0]

But Gleevec doesn't work on prostate or breast cancer.

Cancers happen when mutations in a cell cause it to proliferate uncontrollably; the genetic circuits that need to be activated differ by cell type. For instance, prostate cancer can be treated with anti-androgens, since testosterone is required for prostate cells to reproduce. The cancer can evolve to resist anti-androgen therapy by mutating the androgen receptor so it's always stuck on. It's all circuits, and all the circuits are different.

0. https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/103/7/553/2517175
You may want to consider disabling password-based SSH logins altogether and sticking with keys instead.

Also, you can reduce a lot of noise by changing the port number:

Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24542104

Why change default ssh port? https://serverfault.com/questions/189282/why-change-default-...
Here's something similar that you might be interested in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmGaXEmfTIo
The incentives for market-based research aren't wrong, but they do have a limit. Investors aren't going to spend ten billion dollars on research to find a cure they expect to make only one billion dollars profit from. They aren't running charities. Many other people are running charities, of course, especially for cancers. If you want to help fund them you can. Many people do. The govt also funds a ton of research.

As for the motivation to not pursue a profitable cure because you'd rather make more money from treatments, this isn't really the options you get to choose from. The real game they play is to choose either to find and sell the cure if one exists, or to sit back and watch the just-as-smart competition find and sell that cure instead of them. Their profitable treatment loses out either way.

Cancer affects many many people who are healthy otherwise and would have had many more productive years. It isn't just a disease of old age. Especially breast cancer. Either way, elderly folks are the most prolific voters, so there's the incentive situation for the govt.
I think that MS is at this point fairly concerned with the "long game" for .NET, i.e. get the next generation onboard now, reap benefits for decades to come. Or equivalently they noticed that .NET wasn't "cool with the kids" and set out to fix that.
I think it's a fallacy to say that pharmaceutical financial interests are not aligned with actually effectively curing diseases.

First, when they cure a disease we don't sudenly become immortal, it improves our life quality and expectancy and new diseases become more prevalent at a later stage, so they don't lose their jobs.

Second, even if slowing down research could effectively allow them to benefit longer from existing cures, generally you have competitors and inertia tends to not work well in adversarial conditions.
We would be friends. Any pics?
Okay, so lets assume you're the product owner for Windows settings. You have full, dictatorial control over the Windows settings experience. Windows 7 has reached maturity, and you and your team are starting planning for Windows 8 and beyond. You have identified a number of major flaws in the Windows settings experience, and you want to update it for the future. What do you do?

Note that the Windows settings codebase is huge, has thousands of possible settings options that you can set, and the specific esoteric behavior of those settings is relied on by users, developers and sysadmins every day.

MS clearly decided to re-do the settings system over multiple Windows generations because it was too big to do in a single release cycle. During the transition period, both Settings and Control Panel tooling will be available, and used by many users. Is there any other alternative?
Right, but they have to look at that data to create those hashes, no?
Free virtual intranet service OmniEdge has available to download
What a neurotic thing to complain about. "Oh no, my pretty pictures are slightly smaller. Apple doesn't care!".
It doesn’t have anything to do with airflow but does with whether or not cars are faster in reverse.
I believe that Unicode has multiple representations for Latin characters with diacritics: ä can be represented as a single character, but it can also be represented as two characters, “a”, plus “add two dots to the previous character”.

You can convert between these forms.
Joke's on y'all, I wear floral shirts every day.
There’s lots of evidence of this from just her Twitter feed: https://mobile.twitter.com/alimcollins

Here’s a Michael Moore tweet cheering the lockdown of Trump’s Twitter account, which she retweeted: https://mobile.twitter.com/MMFlint/status/134698500682517299...

A couple weeks later she retweeted this complaint about someone she’s politically aligned with being banned: https://mobile.twitter.com/shanavwhite/status/13537020136164...

She retweeted a call to deplatform Fox News from ads networks: https://mobile.twitter.com/designationsix/status/13494883553...

She was also a key proponent of renaming 44 schools in SF, including removing the names of historical figures who she sought to cancel, such as Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-francisco-school-re...

But leaving all this evidence aside, it’s pretty clear that the progressive movement and its adherents are generally pro-censorship/deplatforming and anti-free speech. Just last week we saw progressive politicians summon tech CEOs to pressure them into increasing their censorship regime: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hea...
No, that's not how VCs work.

The pitch deck first and foremost tells a story with the objective to get a VC interested - or not. This is a necessary but not a sufficient step in the process. Think of it as a marketing prospectus or a 'door opener' type of thing.

If a VC is indeed interested they will conduct intensive due diligence and leave no stone unturned.
Make it check for errors by default instead of blindly keeping running (set -euo by default).

Have a way to undelete files (undelete or a trash folder).

Not being so whitespace sensitive.
One of those two commands does what you think it does, the other not :
grep --exclude-dir= ".git" -rl 123 .
grep --exclude-dir=".git" -rl 123 .

Make it easier to iterate through file of a directory no matter what the filenames may contain(dashes, spaces,...)

Be more consistant between different commands.

adduser vs newgrp
-o vs + (Or-ing elements)

Use a modern regexp. For example with grep x* works but x? doesn't (you must use x\? or a flag)

Write man pages so that they are useful in the 'I have an idea what this command does and want to learn it' scenario, not just 'I know this command and need a quick refresher on a specific flag'.
If any Google employees are reading this thread and don't agree with this move, it seems like the kind of issue that the Alphabet Workers Union would be in a perfect position to help push back on. Join up: https://alphabetworkersunion.org/
Thanks guys

Wow, so life even fits on the very first 8” floppy disk.
There's nothing in GP that suggested they were referring to the economy specifically: the population has been in decline for some time, and many parts of the country are losing tax revenues.
Reminds me of the Talking Propeller Heads (TPH)[0]. Saw them open up for the Beach Boys[1] at Usenix in '94.

My sister in-law (she and my brother lived in SF back then) is a huge Beach Boys fan, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. Unsurprisingly, it was easy to get a few extra tickets.

She really enjoyed the show and even got to chat with Brian Wilson afterwards. She was thrilled. I have to say that while I'm not a big fan, they did put on a pretty good show.

TPH was mildly amusing, doing covers of popular songs with "Open Systems"[2] lyrics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talking_Propellerheads

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing)
Plans to Solve Earth’s Plastic Issue Using Controlled Black Holes
This is unsurprising. I doubt there was anyone with a modicum of understanding of the physics (even the teams doing the testing) who expected it to work. That doesn't, however, mean that testing it was a waste of time. There was an anomalous result that has now been resolved. I think it's a vital scientific virtue to follow up anomalous results until they're satisfactorily resolved, no matter how ridiculous or physics-defying they seem.

The EmDrive was always a long shot, but it wasn't the only reactionless drive under investigation. Unlike the EmDrive, which never had a plausible physical mechanism for how it could work, the Woodward Effect [0] does have such a mechanism and has yet to be experimentally disproven. It exists in this weird place where it seems to be a straightforward theoretical prediction from general relativity; where, almost by exploiting a loophole in physics, the maths says you can get thrust without propellant, and much more of it than possible with a photon rocket for the same power. This, apparently, doesn't violate conservation of momentum, either, because the momentum would be carried by gravity waves, essentially "pushing" against distant masses throughout the universe. Whether this is actually predicted by general relativity or is a misapplication of the theory, is very subtle and not something I'm capable of evaluating.

This is being evaluated by NASA [1] -- not that that says very much, NASA will evaluate some pretty crazy things, see exhibit A: EmDrive -- but they've yet to achieve a negative result. Not that that says very much either -- EmDrive didn't have a negative result until it did. Still, while the chances of the Woodward effect working are small, I would still rate it as much, much higher than the EmDrive ever seemed to be. It's something to keep an eye on, anyway. There's also this interview with James Woodward [2] that might be of interest.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward_effect

[1]: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_...

[2]: https://medium.com/predict/james-woodward-on-machs-principle...
Absolutely - in knowledge economy, insisting on physical presence is darn damn stupid.

And I don't want to hang "with friends at work" I go to "work" that has to be specified clearly and that I expect to deliver with purely professional merit driven collaboration and not friendships and gangs.

I have friends or would love to have friends out of the place where I work. I want strict compartmentalisation between work and personal life. As the company would not want my personal friends to be hanging around the workplace for confidentiality and what not - by the same token, I don't workplace "friends" hanging out with me after office hours.
I don't think remote working is in its infancy, it's more a case of the scope has been changed the recent year or so.

The benefits of remote work is mostly being able to focus and reducing the daily commute. However remote work never brings the same connection to your co-workers as being physically present in an office and in my opinion that is extremely important.

I understand very well that those with long commutes like the work from home idea, most of the time it also enables them to have a nicer house/apartment than what would be available in the city. Since that is at the cost of those living in the city with shorter commute, there will always be mixed feelings about working from home/remote working at the workplace.
I'd probably read more books.

Then I'd probably re-watch Babylon 5 again. Hmmm, that may be coming this year or next anyway...
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