skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been mystified by the state of remote work at Google, because I understood that they pushed pretty hard on being in the office.

And yet I've had many video conference calls with various teams at Google over the last 8 years and in every single one, most of the Googlers on the call were obviously dialing in from home. I even flew to Mountain View once for a big all-day meeting. I got there, met my coworkers in the lobby, and was escorted to a conference room by a manager who dialed us in for the video conference with all the engineers at home. I can't think of a time I've interacted with a group of Googlers in their office.

Was this really not the norm? Is it the norm for engineers but not for everyone else or something?
> and killed their golden goose in their so-called "20-percent rule."

This is factually untrue. The only difference is Google is much larger, making it harder to launch new products.
Beware consultants and lobbyists bearing already prewritten regulations. If you read many of them you will find they little more than a way to lock in more monopoly power. There is a balance but you have to look at side effects. I saw one set that was proposed by 'liberals' the 'conservatives' called it the worst thing ever (it was really bad). Then a year later a bit of flippy floppy in who was elected. Proposed by 'conservatives' the 'liberals' called it the worst thing ever (it still was). It was almost verbatim the same thing. It was written by a lobbyist.

My point? Regulation in a company that is trying to establish or defend a monopoly can use it to lock others out more. They will use the rule of law a tool. You have to be careful just throwing it out there and not look at side effects. Regulation like any tool can be used for good or evil.
The first graph establishes that there is no clear trend or clustering in the data points. The second one lets you visualize just how many years are around the 10% average or not, and then the argument is expanded from there.

They seem to serve their purpose pretty well. There's probably a nicer way to display that, and maybe combine them as one of Tufte's principles would suggest, but I don't see anything that would make him weep here :) What do you have in mind?
That is wishful thinking in most cases, because unless you are targeting a startup without ageism agenda, unless the techonology is listed as something that you actually worked on (side projects don't count), the CV won't survive HR review.
Kind of wish they re-ran the code to bring in the 2010s-2020s! Really appreciate that visual - my code is just from 70s until now .. I should build it as a heat map like this one.
Is Covid-19 Fading from Our Lives? Consumer App Use Provides Clues
No, she isn't.

And my interpretation of the original question wasn't why someone wants to be vegan, it was why someone would want to eat vegan imitations of non-vegan food.
I just bought the new Apple TV this morning. I'm exactly with you. Been a Roku user forever, but there's so much pressure to sell the hardware at a loss, that they have to extract money from everywhere else. As far as I can tell, I just paid the full price for my Apple TV hardware and now this is the end of it. But, we'll see, I suppose. I've never used an Apple TV before. Hoping for the best! It seems nice.
I don't understand your point. If you're serving a file from AWS to ten people or to a massive userbase what happens ? Does AWS pricing change once you have a certain amount of traffic ? No, you pay per GB delivered. Apple should offer that kind of pricing, or a price per user (download) if they want.

And Apple should also be free to offer the % as an alternative if they wish, "don't want to bother with details ? Just stay entirely within Apple's system and pay 30% and that's it". But not strip the possibility of paying by use.

Because again, if I have 500 millions users, delivering a 5 MB update costs the same for a 5$ sub as it does for a 50$ sub, yet Apple's bills 10 times more to the second one.
You still don't end up at "percent of revenues" but rather some kind of AWS-like bandwidth charge for distribution.

Which the developer should be able to opt out of by self-hosting.
Israel crush: Witnesses tell of people 'thrown up in the air'
So if you get an omelette at a restaurant, I can call it an eggless omelette because I didn’t have to cook the eggs myself?
Based on the competitiveness of googles hiring process I imagine there's a pretty big pool of candidates for them to choose from though.
They should try to get the organists at St. Burchardi to look after one of them.
They seem like they are doing a good job because we don’t have anything better to compare to.

America is one of the best countries in the world, therefore its leadership has to be smart and competent.
What's the point of esign if they are never going to confirm it with the esign service?
Yes but it means nothing if consumers are not buying the hardware with Linux. The average consumer is not going to put Linux on their computer if it’s not as simple as downloading a browser or upgrading an operating system.
virt-builder can usually build out a disk image in 15-60 seconds if the template has already been downloaded and you're running on baremetal. Might be 120 seconds if you have to use nested KVM or TCG.

$ virt-builder fedora-33
[ 1.5] Downloading: http://builder.libguestfs.org/fedora-33.xz
[ 2.3] Planning how to build this image
[ 2.3] Uncompressing
[ 8.6] Opening the new disk
[ 13.8] Setting a random seed
[ 13.8] Setting passwords
virt-builder: Setting random password of root to mZbPJw9d1ZHgowBk
[ 14.8] Finishing off
Output file: fedora-33.img
Output size: 6.0G
Output format: raw
Total usable space: 6.0G
Free space: 4.7G (79%)

By the way, interesting virt-builder factoid: It uses a STRIPS-based planner to optimize the order of steps when building the image, so it doesn't waste time doing multiple copies.
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https://github.com/rwmjones/guestfs-tools/blob/0cffcbb7848af...
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs-common/blob/74bc5c5...
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Have fun with it!! My dream car is an RS3 (or basically any Lotus). I can afford it, but I don't think I'd use it to its max enough to justify the cost.
Because some porn is very objectionable. This is a case of the whole basket being judged for its rotten apples, and I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
Friends and family keep asking me if I'm moving out of my metro area or if I'll move to the deep xurbs. But I've held off any such machinations exactly because of this. My employer has embraced WFH beyond the pandemic but all it takes is a couple bad quarters and a new CEO deciding that working from home is "part of the problem" and "work from the office" is part of some shiny new turnaround plan.

And you never know when you might need a job and the best you can come up with is one with a company with this kind of control freak attendance culture.
https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/avif-webp-quality-se...
I have trouble reconciling complaints like this with the argument that Apple should charge for App Store something based on the cost of operating the store. How do you price the engineering hours and strategy risk that go into opening an Apple feature like Siri to 3rd parties? Should it only be users who pay for those costs through their hardware purchase? Certainly not, since it’s impossible to predict those costs over the 5-6 year life of a new iPhone.
Anyone think that users will eventually become desensitized to the "malicious software" popup? If the process is this complex and buggy I imagine a lot of developers simply won't bother with notarization. Eventually if enough legitimate apps don't bother the popup will become common, and users may be annoyed more by Apple than any particular app. Like how the "run as admin" prompt just became an extra automatic click to many users in Windows.

It's not like the big development shops that do take the time to get the notarization process working get a special green checkmark by their app. After the app has been launched the first time, it's back to an even playing field with the apps that didn't notarize.
EC2 micro instances are free.
When compared to non k8s-based PaaS solutions like Heroku, using a managed k8s offering like EKS can be expensive. For those who are running small scale projects, k8s is an overkill and the benefits of scalability and stability might not be enough to justify using Porter.

However, the underlying EC2 machines added to the $72/mo management fee on EKS is relatively cheap, and we've found that if you are using more than 4GB RAM/4 CPU on Heroku, the cost on EKS starts getting cheaper than Heroku (at scale, using EKS is substantially cheaper than Heroku). That said, we are actively working on partnering with independent cloud providers with cheaper k8s offering for those who are running small projects. At the moment the cheapest option is to use Digital Ocean with Porter, which can be as cheap as $35/mo. With regards to Qovery, AFAIK, Qovery also runs EKS and does not yet have the option to use cheaper cloud providers like Digital Ocean.
It’s your saying, but it doesn’t read that way to me. It’s not your fault but it’s a consequence. Just like with a campfire, perhaps this gives people an ounce of solace with unwanted attention, i.e. you’re dealing with this because you’re lucky to be pretty. It’s still not right to have to deal with it, but it’s reality.
> What possible upside could there be

Taxes? Could be that municipalities gave them huge tax write-offs assuming they would bring lots of jobs to the area, and now they may have to write all that off if they don't bring people back.

Management is also terrified of not having hands/eyes on people. They are already so disconnected from people and have no concept of how to manage remote work, that they literally feel powerless without an office to monitor/control their workers in. They can monitor when you sit down at your desk, monitor your internet access, phone calls, structure meetings, and enforce culture. Remote work forces them to admit that they won't have nearly as much control over their workforce.
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I’ve had my “smart” TV for more than three years, and if the OS stops working or ceases to be supported, there are 4 HDMI ports I can plug anything into.

It’s as smart, or dumb, as I want it to be.
I have young kids and WFH. They go to childcare/preschool during the day. For me, a flexible WFH schedule has been extremely helpful while starting a family. That said, I understand not everyone’s WFH environment is the same.
Google employees are some of the most highly compensated people in tech. I wonder how many people decide to stay at google rather than taking a 30%+ pay cut?
Why would the amount of work change depending on the size of the userbase? Isn't it more a function of the complexity and maybe the purpose of the application? Even if it did then the current model makes no sense since they don't charge free apps with huge userbases anything at all!
I think the main point the (grand?) parent is saying is that "Apple is in the phone business" isn't a reasonable description of Apple. I agree that Apple hosting itself on its own platform is an abuse of market position (especially for something as peripheral as music), but to claim that music/audio isn't a/hasn't been core part of Apple's business model is ridiculous.
I also love Squoosh. A fantastic peace of software
There was no relationship drama. Don't misrepresent a situation just to make it easier to jump to conclusions. I'm not on the #MeToo train but it certainly sounds similar to how things tend to go down.
I’ve never experienced membranes wearing out but they sure do get extra mushy over time. I guess it’s boiling frogs.
I guess the core difference is that whatsapp and amazon are wildly popular, while other "swapping/selling" platforms barely hang in there.

Also, all of those companies believed enough in their idea to raise funding and pay developers. You want someone else to build your thing for free, which I don't think is too inspirational. Maybe if you had a pitch deck and some designs that could illustrate your points I might believe you, otherwise it's just dev begging.
I see it now. It goes away once you click a concept.
You'd need to constantly clean the printer and refill/change ink.

Better to use print and mail service.
But the analysis assumes you timed the market "perfectly" and sat out only on the 10 best days.
Off topic, but one of my CS professors was part of the original Simula group. Had long sinced moved onto more formalized approaches, i.e., denotational semantics. On more than one occasion was heard to say "the only good object is a dead object."
Hokusai is also the father of modern day comic books, and manga.

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/hokusai-the-father-of-manga/

A prolific artist.
I'd recommend Packer and Terraform for this. Packer to provision the machine images from unmodified vendor ISOs and then Terraform to provision the network and VMs.

https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/qemu

https://github.com/dmacvicar/terraform-provider-libvirt

https://blog.ruanbekker.com/blog/2020/10/08/using-the-libvir...

I include the blog link because there is some nuance in how to get the path right for community Terraform providers that aren't in the Hashicorp registry. The documentation on the GitHub project isn't quite up to date with respect to how the latest versions of Terraform expect the plugin paths to be set up.

I've done this pretty successfully with all the major Linux distros minus Arch, which requires some bootstrapping to get an iso that Packer can work with (no such thing as an answers file for Arch). It's not that big a deal, though. Just find some instructions on how to create and mount a cloud-init iso in addition to the installer iso and use that to add an ssh public key so you can script the installation steps externally. I actually think Packer can do this, but I just haven't gotten it to work yet and have relied on shell scripts.

Hyper-V actually has a very comprehensive PowerShell module that is pretty well documented, by the way: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/hyper-v/?.... I've found it pretty easy to use and actually got the Arch auto-provision working on Hyper-V in Windows before I got it working in KVM in Linux.

Another thing is you can just use the cloud images and cloud-init for bootstrapping everything pretty easily, even on-prem. cloud-init has a "no cloud" config option, as mentioned above, where you just mount an iso with the config data as a DVD drive and cloud-init will find it automatically when the distro iso boots.

This guy has a pretty comprehensive example of how to set up a kubernetes homelab entirely using the libvirt Terraform provider from Ubuntu cloud images bootstrapped with cloud-init: https://github.com/zloeber/k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt
But I didn’t see it, despite looking, precisely because it is not in a customary location (although I would have found it had I been more patient). Also, the layout made me think that the author was the person credited with the photograph at the top of the article. Why is the author's identity hidden at the bottom? This is a failure of design.
The only tech related one I have is a subscription for internet service for $50/mo
It's not that different than lawyers needing to take the Bar exam (have to study on your own, and not all of it covered in school), or doctors having to pass boards. In both those fields practitioners spend a lot of time outside of "work" preparing.

There will always be some sort of arbitrary selection screen as long as there are more people who want these high paying jobs than there are actual high paying jobs.
The reason they start and kill so many projects is precisely because they are measuring top-level metrics and acting on them. A developer is going to look at how much functionality they implement, refactoring they complete or tickets they close and say "Wow, I've been so productive working from home". Management is going to look at growth and revenue, execution against top-level OKRs and the opportunity costs of competing options and maybe reach a different conclusion.

The reality is that neither is probably a WFH issue as a first-order effect.
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I'm considering using it, but I want boots-on-the-ground reviews.

How does it compare to Slack?

Does it help relieve stress from support teams?

What do you do with it?
Personally, I'm not smart enough to pick individual stocks.

At some point (perhaps now) Amazon growth is predicated on cannibalizing other companies. After all, the broad market can't exceed the GDP generally for the long term.

My primary point here is not to argue about investment concepts, merely to state a concern about the artificiality of it all. Financialization is real and rather spooky.
I understand this. I'd much rather deal with the bad decisions of yesterday today than tomorrow. I guess for people that won't be alive in twenty years this is immaterial..
Nice!

Can you go in the other direction, ie push via WS into a table? Obviously you'd need the correct auth.

I had an idea of doing something similar with MQTT. Data at rest and data in motion in 1 (or maybe 1.5) components.
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I guess a Heroku hosted application counts as serverless then.
Thank you! That's a great idea, at the moment you need to go through cluster provisioning to get the feel of our product - we were looking for ways to make the product more accessible without having to provision an entire cluster in your cloud (was playing with the idea of demo accounts). We'll take this into consideration when we update our landing page next time. Thanks again :)
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At that point why not use Amazon WorkMail[0]? Then you don't have to maintain anything at all.

0. https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/
The main thing it exists to do is to route email to folders or special handlers. It has nothing to do with spam or obfuscation, and predates the concept of spam.
Yeah, sometimes you have to shell out.

Anything that can run a "real workload" is these days going to be heavily targeted by buttcoin miners and other abuse. Any free trial is ripe for abuse, and it becomes a cat & mouse game to try to identify and stop them before they waste all your resources. Is that fight worth fighting for a small business? Probably not. Yeah, you might lose a stingy few potential would-be customers but that may cost less than the fight. I bet most of these small businesses will be happy to refund your $7 if you try their service, find out that it's not for you, and explain your situation nicely.
I'm not sure about Amazon in particular, but generally companies (especially tech companies) hold some percentage of stock in reserve for employee compensation. However, the company can also buy back stock on the open market either to take it out of circulation (and thus increase the value of outstanding shares) or use it for employee compensation. Finally, if the board (as a proxy for individual owners) permits it, a company can issue new shares for any purpose including selling to raise cash for operations, or giving to employees as compensation. This isn't free money, however. New shares tend to dilute the value of existing shares. So owners often prefer to raise money other ways, like debt that doesn't convert to an ownership claim in the way stock does.
And, not mentioned in the article... you have to have an Apple Developer ID which costs £79/year ($99). Presumably if your subscription lapses any previously released software will stop working?

That is the part I find most offensive, if it was just difficult and buggy I would suck it up and work around it. But having to pay for the privilege is too painful, particularly if you're offering free software.

For my case (non GUI app) I can at least distribute via Homebrew and have the user build from source in a more or less automated way.

Another notarization helper tool is here https://github.com/mitchellh/gon
This is very good advice. It's often so tempting to get on that threadmill after making the first purchase.
Exactly. I've lived both experiences: it was perfect for me when my son, few months old, was sleeping the most part of the day. But once a kid switches to 1 nap per day, it's impossible to have a schedule to have any kind of focused work. Day care here have long waiting lists and they've been closed for half of the pandemic anyway.
Not really. As somebody who has seen both sides of a hiring process like that, the reality is the vast majority of candidates are just awful. You can probably rule out nearly 75% of applicants right off the bat. Add in hiring laws, bureaucracy, immigration, negotiation, candidates withdrawing, and finding a good person who works for your team can take months.
> email is a service and not a server.

Those aren't mutually exclusive, which is my whole point. One definition of "server" is "a service in a network". Another definition is "a computer in a network". So you can have a server running on a server without contradiction. If the user isn't responsible for managing the underlying computer, then you have a serverless server.

> which still has servers underneath it, you're just not running them

Of course, "serverless" means you don't have to worry about the underlying servers, not that they don't exist. Perhaps you were only clarifying and not nerd-sniping, but this particular nit is so boring and predictable in every serverless thread.
They weren't saying that. They were just saying that they preferred having an office. I think it's okay to want to have an office. Working from home isn't for everyone.

I pay for my own office because I really need my work space to be separate from my home space, but I understand why others would prefer to not have a commute/be closer to the family/enjoy their creature comforts/etc.
The apple device does A, B, C, D, and E - but it requires you give apple a percentage of your revenue and not let you take money off app or they remove it. It's a general computing device as long as you pay apple's exploitative fees.
Nope, never. NI might want to leave, but it can't leave because its too dependant on the UK economically.
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Remote workers are generally less productive than onsite workers for my company (100k+) employees

Threatening to quit is fine simply because hiring has never been easier for us. I’m sure it’s even easier at Google scale.
OP doesn't seem to realize that leetcode questions are used verbatim by companies other than FAANG. Do you need to know how to solve leetcode questions? That depends whether you're going through the front door or the back door. If you're going through the front door, regardless of your experience level, you are going through the leetcode hazing process because that's what your interviewers did and they have no intention of having spent hundreds of hours doing work without a purpose.
You do know they just updated the AppleTV and the remote has more buttons.

Also there is a preference so that button goes to Home screen instead of AppleTV app.
I don't know Amazon's specifics, but I believe that's how it's typically done.

It doesn't have to be that large a pool as percentage of the company.
Would a touch screen monitor with a clean UI be so hard to use?
One of the most low-value words in a headline or statement is "some".

If you take any scenario and ask a large enough group of people their opinions, there's going to inevitably be an arbitrary number (that can then be qualified as some) that will have the reactionary view that makes for an eye catching headline.

Put simply, "some" is just vague enough to allow these article writers to get a clickbait headline from a statement that only a handful of people have made. It's lazy and disingenuous, which are two words I've found myself using to describe the journalism industry as a whole lately.