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Same here. Apparently it's a UK thing. In Southern California it would be "Valley Girl" (as memorialized by Frank Zappa). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-LArv-sEQU

Also, it seems that some group successfully petitioned the Oxford University Press to remove "Essex Girl" from at least one of their dictionaries 'after a campaign group called the Essex Girls Liberation Front said using the expression was “very offensive”.'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/05/essex-girl-r...
Perhaps reveal themselves would be the better phrase. It'd be odd if they primarily revealed themselves near to and observing the US military, but that entirely makes sense if they're of terrestrial origin.
Agreed. The above reads like dated marketing from dinasour companies trying to convince people that office life is amazing.

“Imagine the hallway conversations that could start the next…” it will make up for your 2 hour commute and 3000 one bedroom apartment!
It's a bit overblown if there's no active pandemic thanks to herd immunity, but I wouldn't be against it (if it was a work policy, and not a law)
I agree with most of the parent comments. Commuting costs can be reduced, I biked to work when possible, and it was not possible when my kids were at school, which will be the same once things settle down. So it was the same cost with or without remote work.
No, I don't, but I'm suggesting that the UI could well be (or especially, earlier have been?) confusing enough for a lot of people not to realise they could use the same one on them all.

Just, say, google some programming question, get directed to SO, create an ID and post your question. Some time later, google an OS -- or maths, literature, whatever -- question, get directed to a different SX site, and repeat the process before (or wholly without) realising they're parts of the same whole.

Possibly do the same a few more times, and hey presto, you have umpteen SX IDs.

Seems utterly plausible to me. Not you?
Have you ever read about a Tor network in the news and wanted to drink until you have liver damage?

Quit being smart enough to justify evil apparent.

At least I don't have to worry about where my monero or zcash is going; you do. Cash is anonymous - but mine at worst came from a strip joint, drug deal or hooker.

And you work in national security at Anduril. Please be a normal consistent person.
I'm obviously an outlier, but I live an 8 minute (peaceful) bike ride from work. I hate commuting, so I optimized for that for this job, and working from home last year was absolutely a net negative for me. Distracting kids, poor work-life balance, more expensive (AC, food, water, etc).

I think the lesson here is, some companies can be remote-first, some companies can be in-person, and different employees will prefer different environments based on what's going on in their lives and the choices they make.

It should not be the case that one "tribe" should try to impose their preference on the other, which was the case pre-COVID (e.g. almost everyone was forced to be in-person), and I suspect fear of a return to that status quo is what is driving a lot of these discussions.
True but my point was more than you will find every CEO that forces people to come back make a similar statement.

Also - Apple is a large company. Not everybody there is working on the next big thing. I'm sure there are plenty of people doing their job at Apple for money alone like anywhere else.
So they would know which techniques to change? The reason not to share is obvious.
In the Bay Area I found it to be nothing but a draining slog when not able to work remote
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> Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it.

Now Bon Appetit on the other hand...
I wish people would not flag comments like this. I don't agree with the commenter at all, but killing their comment doesn't help us have a conversation about their concerns. It's critical that we resolve these conflicts and not do what we (as a society) have been doing for years, where we treat people like an "other" and shun them because we don't want to deal with them.
It would be interesting to visualize trends by clustering car designs using t-SNE or similar methods on neural network embeddings.
Sometimes you fetch a large dataset and only show one page at a time in the DOM, or render it as a line in a chart or something. At a previous workplace we had CSV responses in the hundreds of megabytes.
I like logging in and bookmark answers I might need later.
Having done more than my share of coding in VB3-6, I can tell you that VB in any incarnation has never been "low code". If you think that WinForms or XAML in Visual Studio is any less RAD or somehow "more code" than the VB<=6 IDE, you are wearing some amazing nostalgia goggles and I wish I could believe in a world you seem to think existed.
I don't think this project will use the traveling wave technology that purports to do that. They seem to be separate initiatives.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments to HN? You've done it a lot, including in this thread, and it lowers discussion quality considerably.

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This isn't "our backups need to be WORM."

This is "there are no backups."
What’s odd is the already distributed teams are effectively remote from different regions. So they need to drive into an office so they can jump on zoom?
Inserting randomness can help prevent denial of service attacks as well, by making it harder to manufacture pathological hash collisions (which can turn ~O(1) operations into O(N) operations).
As a former Apple employee, I disagree that Apple is that different- YMMV depending on the group of course, but there are people who are overworked and underpaid drinking the kool-aid, and there are plenty of people underworking who wouldn't be able to get a similar job at a big company. I do agree that they tend to compensate you in brand value/equity instead of top of market salaries though :D
We get it dude: you’re a far-gone extremist and you’re extremely stupid.

Just fuck off out of society, you utterly useless piece of shit. You contribute nothing but whining and crying, you worthless baby.
Well, it's not so recent but have you heard of the Vega missions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program#Balloon
The proton enable thing will go away in the next version. The compact mode will probably keep working a while longer but as they recovered the UI option for it, the writing is on the wall...
If that's supposed to be a joke, it's in poor taste.
Less stress probably, but don’t they pay pretty well?
I feel like this is basically a cookie cutter declaration you make as part of an acquisition nowadays, not too dissimilar to “sorry we can’t provide feedback for why we rejected you as a job candidate.”
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For me, it's Canada:

"Routine childhood immunization: 2 doses of any measles-containing (MMR or MMRV) vaccine. The first dose of measles-containing vaccine should be administered at 12 to 15 months of age and the second dose at 18 months of age or any time thereafter, but no later than around school entry."

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications...

Many school boards require it, along with DPTP, hep-b, and others. Maybe it's a socialized medicine thing?
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Agreed. Pretty lame the logic is “imagine the hallway conversations that spur innovation.”

Didn’t Einstein work on relatively writing papers and mailing letters to his peers?
Why does everyone here just assume that everyone’s commute is as bad as theirs? There are many people in the current working generation that avoided the soul-sucking suburban commute from the start.
Because years of hysteria over nuclear power, fueled by nuclear weapons and a few accidents in the insane 1940s power plant designs used to quickly make weapons-grade plutonium, have created almost insurmountable PR barriers to anything nuclear no matter how safe.
Yes. 2.8 was the big UI change which made it a lot more familiar to folks used to the "mainstream" 3D suites/apps.
> * I had a stronger work/life separation. I rarely turned on my work laptop at home.

This is imho the worst part of WFH. Some people come to work at 6:00 and go home at 14:00, some come at 10:00 and leave at 18:00, and some even later. If you're in an office, the latecomer can just check the early birds office, "oh, you're here, can we ..." / "he's not here anymore, this will wait 'till tomorrow". With WFH it's constant emails and work calls, and for a lot of people it's hard to separate work/home, turn the work phone off (especially in small companies, where before the plague, if someone called you in the afternoon, it usually meant something horrible has happened).

The second thing i'd miss is all the non-work activities that happen at work, from random chatter, to lunch, practical jokes, etc. Also when dealing with clients, the after-meeting-beer usually solved a lot of problems with a lot of one-on-one chats, and informal talks about rwhat the issues are,... this is hard to do on zoom/teams/..., especially if there is a higher-up present, and the engineers are afraid to honestly say what's bothering them during day-to-day work.
Exactly. Google was similar to apple then walked it back to much more flexible , honesty way more appealing and forward thinking
This is a bad faith argument barely worth a response, however, imports are on US soil. That's the difference. The EU thinks it can dictate to a non-EU company what to do on its non-EU servers because an EU citizen visited their website. It's ludicrous and laughable. The EU is 100% within its rights to regulate what happens within its borders to its heart's content, right up until the moment they purport to tell foreign entities what they have to do.
But using much ram is still bad. Using much whitespace is viewed as a staple of modern design. I don't like it either, I have enough empty space on my wall. I buy my screen to display information.
Because he's for some reason differentiating with respect to y.

You're right, "implicit differentiation" is nothing more than just differentiating both sides of an equation. Pedagogically, it is a bit of a step up from "here's a single expression that denotes a function, differentiate it". You have to recognize that differentiation is an operation on functions, and then you have to realize that something like "9=y^2+x^2" really means "9=y(x)^2 + x^2 for all values of x" (or equivalently as an equation of functions, the constant function 9 = y^2 + id^2) and that it's valid to apply the differentiation operator to both sides.

Many calculus courses probably gloss over subtleties like this or expect students to be able to "intuitively" grasp them (and many very well may), but I can see it leading to confusion.
same as these guys: https://usnc.com/mmr-energy-system/

Molten salt storage buffer like in concentrated solar.
I wonder if they have the integrity to apply that to cigarette smoking, drinking alcohol, engaging in unprotected sex (while infectious with STD), or having a lifestyle that causes obesity.
This is almost the exact opposite of the truth. People who know what they’re doing don’t blindly follow some checklist. Doing this properly requires deliberation, or an implausibly large decision tree.
You just used circular reasoning so justify a metric.

Anyway, there is a huge difference in collecting data and using a metric as a goal. Process improvement may involve measuring what specifically was causing delays and possibly changing things. Or perhaps using a more complex classification system where anything involving company X will always take an extra N days and everyone needs to know this ahead of time etc etc. The point is you need to make complex tradeoff perhaps company X is worth the delay.
Great job, wish you cash out[0][1] / next level pretty soon.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27327892

[1] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

2 months to this, impressive
Did kids wear masks while socializing before we invented school?
Exactly. Subtle not subtle choosing a days to really make it hard to live anywhere reasonable
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Right, like every release of any component should vary some detail that the spec doesn't guarantee. Especially, all hash functions should change on every release -- at least when building in debug mode.
Firefox color lets you easily customise those colours: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-color...
I live close enough to bike to work. I'm sure I don't spend a meal's worth of gas but I guess I spend 20 mins a day. Its not that strange at all.
They're not interested in any feedback.. The lack of tab separators was acknowledged by the design team yet still ignored.
Not everyone spends a significant amount of time commuting by personal car to the office. I see a lot of angst about hypothetically long 1-2hr commutes when the average commute in major tech cities is ~30 mins, and of course you can always control it by living closer to the office. Sure, not everyone is willing to make sacrifices for commute, which is one reason why it can be a competitive advantage.
I guess 'announce themselves' has connotations of a speech; I meant if they wanted to openly show themselves.

For example, I can't really communicate with the various animals in my vicinity, from dogs to bees, but I can certainly tell whether or not they've noticed my presence. I feel pretty confident that alien visitors would be aware of the existence of human life and its proarteacts (cities, infrastructure, vehicles) even if we were not considered very interesting or sufficiently advanced to communicate with.
I loved the layout, the design seemed very creative and original, I also really liked the animated interaction, clean design and clever charts choice.
My counter, and anecdote, to this is the IT Dept recation is not so much a "slippery slope fallacy" but rather a reaction to past actual experiences

it is ironic that you bring up Access because that is one the tools I despise the most, our helpdesk is routinely indated with requests from people that pass around Access Databases with custom data links either to Excel files, or ODBC connections that are not standard but rather customized by the "power user" that created the database, then they share the database and it generates all kind of errors that the non-power user can not fix so IT gets roped into spending our time fixing not only users system to establish the needed data links, but also moving things around and reconstructing the databases so it actually works in way that is shareable

The IT Dept has also spent countless hours correcting Access Database connection issues, and schema issues when we move servers, upgrade platforms, or do anything on the prod system that end up breaking the Excel and Access "Low Code Applications" that consume data from these services because the end user lacks the technical ability to fix them often because they were created years ago by people that have left the company or retired.
Yep, random talks about random stuff, lunch together, practical jokes,...

if you're a person who can make friends easily, even at work, you're missing a lot.
Cyber privateers sounds like an interesting idea. Except instead of hunting criminals they hunt for victims. The government pays them bounties, then goes to the victims and says "We're fining you $X, and $Y per day until you fix this."
I think for such teams it doesn't make much sense to force them into office. A new joiner in such a team should be allowed to indicate his preference for remote/office, which should be asked again in a year.
Yes that would be a setback. But I also wonder why they didn’t start in the US. Not asking you, just an interesting question.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? Your account has done a lot of that and we're trying for a different sort of site.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. That would also include not calling names or being snarky in comments here.
This is the fate of much good literature - forcing recalcitrant high schoolers to dissect something that doesn’t talk to them which can result in a life-long hatred.
I wonder how a VC would feel if a startup said “we have some ideas but our real innovation comes from people just randomly running into each other in the hallway. Will you invest?”
It depends on specific situation:

* I spend a lot more on gas than on the electricity delta

* I spend a lot more on food and drinks when I am in the office than at home; in the office I buy, at home is all home cooked. The food at home is also a lot healthier.

* the team I manage is spread in 2 other offices in different countries, nobody is in my country, so going to the office achieves nothing

* the extended team I work in, also spread even more, only one person in the same office as me. We already talk too much, more is not better

* spending 1-3 hours a day commuting (varies a lot if I ride the bike or drive the car, time of day and if it rains) never helped anyone

* I am not distracted by home life, I am too busy for that

* I am one of those very few people things are escalated to when the fan gets bent, so there is no much separation anyway

But I recognize there are some benefits of being in the office, even if overall for me it is not a net positive.
Thorium it’s just marketing hype. Reactor design matters more than fuel type for things like safety. People get fired up about the large supply of thorium but the fuel is not what drives the high cost of nuclear power.
My enjoyment of remote work has varied heavily based on the company culture, the type of work, and even my own evolving life circumstances.

Having gone back and forth between in-office and WFH and between IC and manager in both circumstances, I have no doubts that in-office work is more productive than WFH.

The only exceptions are when the office environment is truly terrible. WFH is more productive than being in an office full of constant distractions, or an office with broken HVAC in 90-degree heat, or an office with a bully executive who enjoyed yelling at people. In those circumstances, WFH was simply a partial band-aid over a company that didn’t care enough about employees to treat them right. Eventually the interrupters learn how to ping you on Slack 20 times a day or the office bully realizes that they can terrorize people remotely at 9PM. WFH didn’t solve any problems, it just buffered them with distance. The real solution was to switch to a company that cared.

That’s not to say that WFH can’t work. It can be made to work, but we need to be honest that it adds overhead and inefficiencies that must be compensated for. Given a choice between in-office and full remote, the same team will be more efficient in-person.

Candidly, I suspect many employees feel the same way. However, it’s becoming taboo to question the superiority or WFH in online discussions because the WFH fans are very defensive about their preference.
Not compared to peer companies. If you’re already at Apple, you could probably get a job at Google with way less stress and more pay.
I don't think it's an odd opener at all as it assumes the reader knows the argument and that by now they should know better (that its not true).

It's probably a fairly fitting opener given that it then dives into perception of input latency, which is a less common or discussed topic.
> I often do/did paired programming, and over-the-shoulder code reviews. These are easier in person

I’m sure I’m not the only person who has the exact opposite experience with this. I can’t think and get mentally blocked when I have someone peering over my shoulder or I’m staring at their screen. I find this kind of collaboration so much easier if I’m in the comfort of my own desktop setup, sharing the screen over Teams/Skype whatever and communicating verbally over a quality headset.
Strange.

I will grant you the less stress but Apple opened a new site near one of my company's offices and we have lost quite a few people over the last year to them. Everyone has said they are offering a substantial raise and huge amount of stock.
Interesting -- I was just in Woods Hole earlier today, and in fact saw this article pop up on Hacker News while walking by the Steamship Authority. Always strange to see your small slice of the world crop up in places like this. On that note, the Steamship Authority is such a fascinating choice of target for such an attack. Probably very low friction, as I can't imagine they have any sort of sophistication behind their technology stack.
If you do differential equations, techniques like this are essentially your bread and butter.
It's like an OS that has builtin salt/ansible/chef/puppet.

Because Nix language describe the OS instead of what to change/configure it's superior to these tools, and solves the problem that supposedly same machines are drifting apart.

For example if in the CM you tell it to install a package, then change your mind and remove the entry that does it. The package will remain installed.

With NixOS if you remove the package from configuration, it's gone.

I personally really like Nix's building capability. For example I can use it to generate a minimal docker container. It requires some knowledge, but I can also modify compilation options in dependencies (like remove unneeded functionality).

It looks like there's also an option to similarly build lightweight OS images[1]. I haven't tried it yet but looks cool.

[1] https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os
I had to switch back to drip for this very reason. I compensated by getting a good grinder and a solid whole bean subscription.
> Unfortunately such policies lead to higher costs for consumers and lower economic growth.

Money circulates faster with more well-paying jobs which would result from increasing on-shore manufacturing.

I think the key is to phase tariffs in linearly over several years (perhaps even decades). That gives the domestic economy time to adjust wages for the higher price of domestic manufacturing and doesn't have an immediate negative result on foreign countries. It should drive foreign countries to improve human rights and labor laws to avoid tariffs and stay in the market. Domestic investors should see increasing tariffs as an investment opportunity instead of a cost, and balancing the rate of tariff increase could be another tool for the central banks to encourage growth.

> Worse, these policies also tend to lead to war. One of the big reasons we've had relative peace between world powers for the last 75 years is that our economies have become closely intertwined, so no politician or corporation can stomach the economic costs of war. If global trade starts to break down we'll head directly into World War 3.

That's why increasing tariffs slowly is appealing; it doesn't destroy global trade by disruption. Countries with minimal labor laws would face a choice; fully isolate (like North Korea) or gradually improve human/labor rights to remain a functional part of the global economy.