skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: Googler

managing a small product engineering team. I have to say WFH has a considerable impact on productivity. Coding is actually fine, but the problems are:

1. Designing over VC is very difficult, especially for something entirely new. 3~4 people working on a single whiteboard is far more efficient.

2. Personal relationships are difficult to grow, especially for newbies. Usually those things got grown via coffee chats, launch meets, ad-hoc talks, but those are all gone. You know, a lot of cases, whether you know someone in the other team matters a lot. I don't have a word to describe it precisely, maybe "lower team coherency".

3. Really bad work-life balance in general. When busy and everyone's WFH, boundary between work and life really got blurred. There's nothing like "gotta go, chat tomorrow" stuff.

Those are things may not be easily tracked from data, but really harmful in the long run. I cannot imagine how to manage effectively after another year of WFH.
its like china saw american capitalism and said "i want that"
What amount of effort should the government put into prolonging a 65 year old cancer patients life?
To determine this you'd have to track how many companies raise funds and how much they raise (at what valuation) both inside and outside of YC. From my own view on this supported by quite a bit of data I would say that YC is as close as you're going to find to a stamp of approval in the start-up scene, it has a substantial effect on your chances to raise funds and on the amount you will raise when you do.
True, but it’s especially worth paying attention to here because the cost to us goes up when they switch over to Medicare and the actual cost goes up because they now have a more difficult condition.
Because the White House has more power than Will Smith to break up Google.

I'm not attributing to that, but I think the biggest threat Google is being broken up or regulated to death. And considering D control all branches of government, they're the party in power. So I don't think its unfathomable to think that a trillion dollar corporation would want to draw attention away from a small vocal minority of people that isn't happy with the president.
> My options now would be to spend a minute or two watching it or reading the comments

Fully agreed with you on everything you said here, but that specific line I quoted sounds a bit optimistic to me.

You would only waste a minute or two if the video author decided to actually start his video "for real" from the very beginning, instead of spending the first few minutes on his entire life story (that is not even related to the video content) and asking people to like and subscribe. It became so commonplace, these days I instantly start liking videos just for not wasting the first few minutes on things completely irrelevant to the actual content (which would be somewhat fine for entertainment videos, but definitely not for things like DYI tutorials and lessons).
You realize it's sarcasm right?
If that was really the case Google would just sell all these. Do you understand how costly it is to maintain offices?
I don’t think it’s possible to be completely data driven about a company-wide cultural change that you can’t a/b test. A year or so after they make the decision, though, I’m sure they’ll have data on whether they have a spike in losing employees to competitors like Facebook that are more remote-friendly.
Just read some of his comments about Iran on his wiki. It shouldn’t impact the recognition of his achievements. Ironically though I was disheartened to see that a student reaching out to him was shot down because of his (valid) views on the Iranian government.
I love the crazy mechanical stuff they came up with before solid state analog electronics matured enough to supplant them.

Spring and plate reverbs, oilcan delays and tremolos, tape recorder based delays and other crazy rube goldberg contraptions which could produce some amazing sounds.
I'm a pausible customer. They're doing pretty good work, just the basics really and that's enough. I wish they reduced their prices instead of giving 5% to charity. If I want to give to charity I'll do it myself thank you. I feel a little bit like it's just a lot of feel good marketing and barbone software I'm paying for and might churn one of those days. Maybe I'm not the only one. I have very small number of visitors to monitor and your first plan is quite far from free. It's affordable, but not for everyone.
If you don’t trust esr, why would you trust a source that can be edited by anyone in the world including esr*?
The White House is just the last one whose videos dislikes are being made fun of and shared in memes

I'm sure YouTube consulted with their biggest customers and partners before removing a functionality that increases engagement
I'm a senior manager and also a hardcore introvert. In my many years of office work I would actively avoid having lunch around anyone from the office as much as possible. Lunch is my only alone time when I'm crammed in an office all day.
It's better to present your alternative hypothesis than engage in personal criticism.
If the price of BTC keeps increasing then you would be foolish to spend it, lest you lose out on gains from holding onto it. There are lots of people who "punch themselves" for not buying Bitcoin back in 2013 or something but they forget that they wouldn't have the hindsight necessary to follow this strategy. For all we know you could have spent 10 Bitcoin on a pizza. But once you understand the deflationary nature, it becomes obvious that you shouldn't buy pizza, just hold onto it and do absolutely nothing.
Curious, do the members of your team have activities, hobbies, and relationships they are involved with outside of work? From what I have seen the folks itching to get back to the office are the ones that don't have many outlets outside of work.

On the other hand, for many of us who do have significant non work passions (rock climbing for me) as well as social circles around these activities appreciate remote work because it allows us to structure our lives in a way where such activities coexist with work more easily.

The interesting thing is that for work centered people, remote work has reduced social connections, while for more interdisciplinary folks it can do the opposite.

I have personally worked 100% remote for 7 years now, but before that I lived and worked in San Fransisco. I never attended a Friday night work happy hour because every Friday night I would be in the car driving 4 hours to go climbing in Yosemite.

Now, I can work remotely from a town with great outdoor access and spend my Friday nights hanging around with local friends instead instead of in the car.

Remote work has allowed me to have a more balanced life filled with more things I want to do and less I don't. Have the years of video meetings made my professional career less productive? Perhaps, but I have still worked on plenty of cool projects with plenty of great folks along the way. Some of them have even become close friends. And even if it has suffered, its been worth it!
Not only that, but being aware of the environment as being "cheating-enabling" means that when they lose the cheaters can blame the competitor having better cheats, rather than having lost because they're a worse player.

I win? I'm the better player!

I lose? They had an advantageous cheat!
Sadly as long as google dominates search there is little chance that any other video site will get any traction since Google biases towards youtube and away from start up steaming sites.
(Non-Google GAFAM anecdote)

Same, my team has gone way through the roof in productivity, delivering more than ever. At some point we actually ran out of stories to do even with more work and had to come up with more.

As a note, over than half the team already WFH'd at least 1 day a week in normal conditions, and there was sufficient team trust that everyone would do the right thing, nobody minded if you ran out for errands or lunch unannounced - people would quickly check if any meetings were scheduled usually before running out, items were completed ahead of schedule. I've been doing a 30m-1h nap in the middle of the day and that's helped a lot too.

I've also managed to not catch a cold or flu for the first time ever.

My previous daily commute was min 1-2hrs each way in completely stopped traffic on a standing room only bus/train with multiple transfers and involved waking up even earlier than that to not be refused entry to an overfilled bus.

I've seen a teammate or two be playing actual games (ranked apex legends in this case) during meetings but honestly, they were still responding, answered questions, and that meeting could have been a slack thread but some other teams are not nearly as competent at reading README.md.
> Like/Dislike ratio can also express approval and disapproval for the subject itself, which is also valuable.

No it is not. It only causes unnecessary frustration for content creators. Some of them may give up instead of trying again.

And for viewers, their recommender is likely already good enough to recommend good videos ignoring dislikes signal.
This is a straw man argument. Yes our financial systems use power but they provide the corner stone of our societies. They do provide actual tangible value.

Bitcoin doesn’t create value at al in any sense.

And HF trading is a different beast, you won’t hear me defending them. But pointing at others is just whataboutism, to distract from unpleasant facts.

Boiling the oceans to make a few people rich(er) is not a valid reason to exist.
Maybe it's rather better to ruthlessly focus resources on a few things rather than know a little but not enough about everything.
Yep. :) I signed up a couple months ago for historical market data because I'm a sucker for that, but the added features since then have really cemented it as a good decision.

I haven't played in a few weeks though, from a combination of the friend I usually play with being less interested (and not wanting to level/quest much without him) and being busier myself. That's sad, because it really is pretty amazing once you get the hang of it (I just stared at beginning of this wipe) and have someone to play with. Playing alone is fun too, but with one or two good friends is really something special.
Which, that breakdown and encapsulation happens faster at higher temperatures - it’s a pretty predictable chemical process. At scalding hot or higher temps, the surfactants can sometimes break down or form weird side products though.
Woah - that is surprising. I wonder what the cause of the dislikes is on these videos? Is it targeted or just no overlap from Biden supporters and YouTube? Or they're not happy with Biden. Very telling that YouTube are moving to remove the dislikes though..
It would be less if, for example, the focus was on intervening at 55, 45, 35 ...
> Dragon Book spends far too much time on parsing

I've thought this before, but I think it's a shame that parsing is lumped in with compiler courses. Parsing is such a huge subject, and I'd say that the Dragon Book only lightly touches on parsing (because it's a compiler book afterall).

CS course designers of the future - separate compiler courses into two separate subjects 1. Compilers, and 2. Parsing!
What environmental problem? You mean creating additional incentives for new green energy investment? (Which is now the cheapest form of new energy...) “Environmentalists” need to be less myopic, you are holding us back.
The title and article feel slightly misleading.

It is allowing some offices to have people who want to come back early, come back.

It is sticking by its commitment of allowing WFH until September and looking at hybrid models for after.

Personally, a hybrid model seems ideal to me. I dislike remote full time.
Is trans rights progressive? This seems to be one of his big objections to the current ACLU.

ACLU used to advocate for gay and lesbian rights. At the time it was viewed by conservatives as a bad thing generally. But now it is accepted and seems like they were on the right side of history.

I feel that trans rights is basically the same thing as gay and lesbian rights were previously. Not widely popular but important to advocate for.

James is just being a standard conservative and arguing for the status quo (conservatism is generally based in keeping things the way they were.) Where as the ACLU is advocating for equality in a place where we previously haven’t given it.

In fact in the light of James conservatism this article is stereotypical. It is better the way things used to be and this change is all bad. But in fact in the past the ACLU was controversial and it only seems less so in hind sight.

In general the article boring. Lots of words though but in the end boring.
Oh well that explains it. I'm surprised they didn't see that coming.
Vinyl is cool again tho. I’m not “going back” because I never had it in the first place. It’s a collectible piece of art you can listen to!
> There would almost surely be a censoring effect no matter what age cutoff you pick

This seems to be an ethical argument to make the age cutoff 0: in other words, medicare for all.

> surely at some level health econometricians are involved in this type of policy and are aware and facilitate whatever trade-offs are being sought.

I feel like this article would not be massive news if this was true. The other case I recall that would be like this is when oil execs held back info that they were causing climate change. That seems to me to be completely different, however, because that was a private company and we're talking about government employees here.
Downvotes aren't cancel culture. Trollish at times, absolutely. Potentially useful for brigading activities? Yes.

I think it's disingenuous to conflate negative feedback of any kind with 'cancel culture' (an overly broad and imprecise term, to be fair).
Ah yes. Because wealth transfers to the rich via money printing and bailouts isn’t something people should try and avoid.
I can second Lamport's series of video lectures. I worked through them recently and found the teaching and the examples to work through very engaging.
Something HN should totally do as well. There is a report link for inappropriate posts already. Dislike button doesn't serve any good purpose.
Reindeer Cyclones Are Real, and You Definitely Don't Want to Get Caught in One
> "There's network effects on mobile platforms, you could not make a new one even if you had 500 billion you could spend on it. The existing actors just prevent you to create a new one."

First it's network effects, then it's the existing actors preventing you. Make your mind up.

> "I don't like monopolies, I couldn't care less about the iOS interface."

Then use a Pinephone. That nobody else you know uses it, and nobody develops for it isn't Apple's fault. Apple's 30% appstore cut isn't bringing people from Pinephone to iOS, if anything it should be pushing the other way. I know they have negligible market size - the point is Apple iOS has big market size by being good and your plan to respond to this is to make it bad from sour grapes.

> "You're missing the point completely, in a market with competition, you are supposed to act and react according to the competition, the only change Apple ever did was because of a real threat of antitrust lawsuit... That's basically admission."

Fortnite was not competing with Apple though? Epic gave people a way to buy Fortnite on Steam, and then a way to install Fortnite free on Android, and people didn't want that. So Epic came after Apple and blamed them, irrelevantly, and the judge was leaning to Apple's side.

> "No, that just tells you that even the most popular game in the world could not make it outside the play store."

That just tells you that app stores are doing something people really really really want.

> "That tells you that Google's claim that "you can sideload anyways" are just complete BS"

Except you can sideload anyways, as evidenced by the fact that you can. What it tells you is that /people don't want to/.
I think your judgment is clouded by this insistence that you're doing math rather than something which is squarely in the middle of the cs/math venn diagram. Relational algebra has an accepted notation for left outer-join (⟕). Do you think `I><|` is preferable to `LEFT JOIN` because mathematics™? If I were to sample 100 TLA+ specifications, do you think I would find more people specifying things like paxos and concurrency models, or would I find people doing algebraic geometry and number theory?
A 65yo still has on average 10 to 20 years to live. Further they are often grandparents and today's "two working parents" economy is built on thinga like unpaid childcare from many grandparents.

Also they are people.
I don't think the language of "rights" makes sense here. It conflates things like free speech or religion, which are self-serve rights, with something someone else must provide.

Rights as in the Bill of Rights can be sued over endlessly in the courts. But the courts aren't a good place to sort out resource allocations, like doctor with patient.

Imagine one person suing to be a pateint of a particular doctor (perhaps a specialist with uncommonly-good outcomes). Or someone suing for frequent helicopter ambulence rides from their remote cabin in the woods.

These may be interesting questions to settle, but the language of "rights" is unhelpful.
Growing up my siblings and I made the same discovery about an old organ my parents had. The first time it happened we were scared to death -- it basically sounded like metallic thunder. But after that we would trigger it on purpose by jumping up and down or just tapping on the organ itself.
Because it can be corrected by anyone in the world whereas the former may only be corrected by esr.
Additionally, the soap itself is binding to oils (which often frees up dirt if it was trapping in or under an oily layer, which being hydrophobic will stop water from washing the dirt off). Soap itself doesn’t do a whole lot against dirt.
I once, naively, bought into the benevolent dictator spiel. The coordinated hit on Parlor dispelled my rose colored glasses respective to that narrative.

It's all BS and past time for Apple (and Google for that matter) to be forced to open up and allow authorized alternatives to the "official" stores. And yes, while there is a generic open sourced version of Android, let's be honest - the one everyone wants is Android integrated with Google's services and for that one you have to go through the Play store.
I see that it is sarcastic in form, but it doesn't address the meaning of the initial comment, which was about sitting down for a meal and chatting, not about food.
I think social media companies underestimate the value of negative feedback.

Also ranking-wise is a very strong signal to have
Once you have mastered the top-down ("is this really the minimum? Or is it a local minimum?") approach, then you could attempt to bottom-up with an end product very firmly in mind. This way, you could skip aiming for parts that you might have thought required which were in reality redundant, or secure the existence of a piece you had once thought superfluous.

After you had bottom-upped a few times, one might even try to figure out a necessary order for the steps and possibly gain some more insight into evolution that way.
If you could find it
I don't understand how the belly flop is even possible.

I'm far from a rocket scientist, but I thought that rockets were kind of like soda cans - very strong on the long axis, but not at all perpendicular to that.

If you make them strong in both directions, I wonder how that doesn't make them prohibitively heavy.
I had a popular website which had 20MM views per month but made most of my money through ad banners. I tried direct sell for banners, links etc but they never materialized because you could actually pay cents on the dollar to do that through a network.

Also, one thing I learned on the website was that having 20 million views on your website does not equate to a consistent amount of money because the ads don't pay the sam e in every country.

For example, I had some ads pay $20CPM and some that paid $0.00001 because they were fillers, so I had to tweak my low fillers by signing up with local country ad networks who could provide better CPMs.

In the end, it still did not evolve into a large shift and the average was still lower, good but not great.

I think that these days, running your own website is good, you might still get 50MM views but not much income because ads are still not going to give you the best returns which is why some or more websites are shifting to a paywall. For the most time, everyone was good with ads, because that was what worked. Now it's paywalls and it will trend that way because they get the most value and a consistent payment that way (not many cancel active subscriptions over a period of time). Ads will still play significant amount of money for direct sellers like Google, Facebook, Twitter & Amazon, but not for third party sites who will have to find different ways.

There is also the upgrades to search engines and facebook/twitter etc to now keep you on their own website for everything and corner a full $$ vs paying third party websites a cut, which is why we see snippets etc in search engines and then people engage there more and click on a higher paying ad to them.

Also, there is ad-blockers, which means you are not getting any impressions on some percentage of the visitors in the first place.
You make it sound as if immune evasion is a binary thing. It's a spectrum. We don't need to worry about 100% evasion suddenly appearing and it's definitely not what we are seeing with B.1.351 and P.1. There are somewhat lower antibody titers with current vaccines, but they are still very effective both in antibody and T-Cell response it seems.

"Proof" from Manaus would have to be replicated in lab settings and all the data from lab tests show that there is some slight immune escape for P.1, but by no means is it total.
This.

Also, relatedly, speaking as someone who worked in National Cancer Institute-designated center, I can say that the reason why cancer has absolutely kicked our ass, that no one talks about, is actually because of paywall stuff like this.

If you want to solve cancer, we need to abolish patents and copyrights. The combinatorics are still far outside our capabilities. At least 90% of the efforts of all cancer researchers are wasted, and we have less than 10% of the brainpower we need to solve it.

Cancer is a political problem.

Let's hope someone can get the truth to Biden. I have hope that he would have the courage to do what is right.
It's starting to get there, yeah, though I think any sufficiently-popular language eventually gets there at a certain age
I think most people wouldn't "normally" get a checkup like this because it's extremely expensive to not just go to the doctor, but also deal with any issues that may be diagnosed.
Google use to be a good company to work for.
Running websites with CSP is an interesting experience. You'll discover how much crap is injected into people's website view. Extensions referencing remote scripts, weird browsers injecting their content (looking at your ucweb), website being framed for both bad (clickjack overlay) and good (translators) purposes, bots injecting their own helper JS, bots that don't disable their internal CSP reporting (looking at you cookiebot), AVs which try to patch CSP header and break it (Kaspersky).

Essentially you will find there's a whole wild west out there that you don't normally think about.