skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That feels... unrealistic. Apple pays well, and the folks who work there are likely able to find another job like... tomorrow. I doubt there are many financially desperate, mentally unstable people working there.

That said, I suppose it could occur at some other type of job. But pinning that on the CEOs is really unfair. People had a job presumably where they went into an office. The companies decided, or were forced to decide, that people could work from home to ride this thing out. Now that anyone who wants a vaccine is vaccinated in most places, it's not 'evil' to ask people to come back.
That was a congressional decision and an awful one at that given that foreign purchases would have kept the production line alive.
At Google, for example, a director can easily earn 3m a year, while a senior engineer earns 300k a year.

A VP can easily earn $10M to $50M a year. At that level, the compensation varies a lot, but it can be 3x-10x from the director level. Stock compensation is really great.

Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Airbnb, Coinbase, Salesforce (maybe), Oracle (maybe), Square (I could name 10 more) would probably offer similar compensation ladder

> I certainly hope OP is communicating ways to be successful and secure, not how to strive to be in the 1%. For most high school students, "rich" means being able to easily pay their bills, have a decent home, and have plenty of disposable income. Only people who are already quite rich define "rich" as having the luxury of choosing whether or not to buy yachts.

Being born as an average citizen in a developed country would probably put you in the top 1% of the world already. Very likely.

If this is the case, what is the point of the question?
I don't think that is the same response - I think your dog is getting excited because you're signaling you want to play. If you pretend to put a treat under a cup and lift the cup to show no treat is present the dog won't be amused, they will be annoyed. I'm not sure dogs have a sense of humor in the same way primates do.
Also, if these answers contained any code, it might end up the most used code you've ever written.
He didn’t keep doing that once he got into academia.
It's a distinction without a difference- one could argue a less primitive species wouldn't have found itself caught in world wars. The man-children starting world wars are paralleled by the children-children killing each other on the island.
Related: Scouts being goaded and manipulated into fighting each other -- don't. They remain civilized.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/16/a-real-life-...
Battle brews over banning natural gas to homes
Please read my last response above. You people crack me up trying to feign ignorance demanding that the reprehensible part of drug use be formalized like you're some dense automaton. The very fact that half the thread takes offense at my use of "degeneracy" is precisely because I touched a nerve and likely some repressed vice repackaged as morally sound recreation.

I likely have met more drug/psychedelic users than you ever will and could assert there is a near -1 correlation between such individuals and good moral character. If you need a textbook definition of the latter as well, please ask your parents.
> That combined with the ridiculous housing costs in the bay area makes me wonder why anyone (especially more numerate people) would tolerate not working remotely.

Maybe some people genuinely like living in the bay area. It is a beautiful place.
Which makes an awful lot of sense! Its a pretty effective way of 'infecting' others with the knowledge that the situation is not dangerous without the burden of having to develop a language.
The issue is that most people who want to be in office want to be in-person. The location is secondary to the fact that you’re with your coworkers in person.

If coworker A prefer digital communication, and coworker B prefers in person communication, then there is no way A and B can both be happy. A can stay at home, and B can go to office, but B is now far from home (commuting) but still over zoom. The only way to not waste people’s time is for All remote, or for A to completely not get their way and get dragged in person.
A HVDC cable from Sahara to NY would loose 20%, but solar is 33% more intense in a Sahara. Basically it saves on overnight batteries and is a hedge against weather and other factors.

Also as solar install itself is around 50% of its cost, it's probably cheaper to do so in a dessert in a country with low labour cost than over your house.

Dunno how to run the numbers tho. I'm sure it's relatively simple.

Edit:

Grid scale solar "levelized cost of energy" is 30-40 $/MWH, or 36-48 $/MWH if you account for losses across ocean (3.5% per 1000km).

Cost of HVDC cable, based on Singapore link - 4,500km @ 3GW - $5.6b. Western Sahara to NY 5,600km = $7b.

Wastern Sahara gives you 5.250 kWh/kWp per day. I now need to calculate how much power can you pipe thru the lifetime of the cable. Then compare that with grid scale batteries.

15.75 GWH per day or 172 TWH per 30 years.

$7b/172twh = $0.04 / kwh for transmission, excluding maintenance.

Battery storage is 115-150$/MWH or 0.115-0.15 $/KWH. So kinda looks it's cheaper to have HVDC.
My advice would be (per the other person here) to ignore home-manager when you're getting started, and then, when you're ready, treat it as a dotfiles manager on steroids.

I've never used it to manage visible directories in my ~/, but for ~/.gitconfig? Absolutely :).
I don't want to carry this on forever, but I will add this: the interference from the ionosphere is large, yes, but the difference in error is related to geographic location. For example, the error from the ionosphere at two points on the earth 5m apart is very similar. This is why things like CORS base stations and GNSS post-processing work. The range limit on those that NGS uses is 70km. This can be extended to the error from one frame of the solution to the next. The same is true of other error sources: the a priori error is large, but the error from one moment to the next for a receiver is small, for orbital elements, atmospheric noise, satellite clock error, etc.

For the issue of the gradually-increasing-error type of attack you mention, this article restates the point I've been driving at[0]. Their example is not chip-scale, but in all other respects it's the same. Note that they separately describe using a source of location-truth, but they still describe a method for spoofing attack detection that just relies on a cesium clock.

This[1] article is a good read, too, though their setup was GNSS-only, no IMU. They detect spoofs down to 2m (the shortest distance tested) with CSACs, but do not detect spoofs at that distance with classical receiver clocks.

Again, this doesn't completely remove the potential for spoofing attacks, it just reduces them. I don't have numbers on the actual limits in position change over time that would be detectable. But the principle for detecting gradual spoofed shifts is valid.

(and yes, I did look up these articles to respond.. not sure what that says about my time-management, but it's an interesting topic :)

From article [0]:

"Certain spoofing attacks work by producing and broadcasting a falsified version of the GPS signal, but at a slightly greater power, which tricks a GPS receiver into locking onto the spoofed signal. Once the receiver has locked onto the spoofed signal, the false signal gradually phases out of sync with the GPS signal, causing the GPS receiver to report a false PNT, one dictated by the spoofer. The incremental phase out makes the spoofing attack very difficult to detect.

...

For a trusted input, TADA uses an atomic clock frequency. In simple terms, for each second measured by the incoming GPS timing signal, TADA counts the number of frequency cycles generated by a cesium clock. If the incoming GPS signal is valid, TADA will count exactly the expected number of Cesium frequency cycles. But if TADA measures a higher or lower number of timing signals than expected, it will display the difference. A difference outside the acceptable margin of error will prompt TADA to alert its users that the GPS timing signal is possibly being spoofed."

[0] https://www.mitre.org/publications/project-stories/tada-mitr...

[1] https://www.gpsworld.com/innovation-getting-there-safely-wit...
I’m on iOS 14.4.2, so I think it’s Safari 14.
This is excellent, I’m glad there is some leadership here versus the Wall Street ‘we need to be back in the office six days a week’ mantra.
I think their calculations are based on 24 hour days (1 hour roundtrip * 260 days). Vacations and work are based on 8 hour days, however, so in reality it's more like 30 days (6 weeks) of vacation time. And 30 minutes each way is much closer than most of the places I've worked.
The law is like 100,000 lines of pseudo-code written by a humanities major who never took a CS class.
I don't see how you can call it "hogging". Having a high reputation doesn't prevent anyone else from getting a high reputation too.

For me the reputation points are a proxy for how helpful I've been to other people overall. I like being helpful. Suddenly seeing that score go down for absolutely no reason would be very disincentivizing for me.
Don't think so. It is very difficult to walk away from RSU grants and I'm sure Apple is a great place to work at. Most people I know have already told their managers how they plan to work moving forward irrespective of company announcements on return to office mandates.
Exactly my point. It's a huge difference.
The third option is actually just finding a new job.
That's a pretty clever system. I'm not at all against advancements in ballot technology, I just think their explainability should be considered.
Bold of you to claim that Cupertino would ever let someone build rental housing near the Apple HQ.

(The current city planning commissioner has actually said that Apple employees shouldn’t be allowed to live there because they are all single men and will hire prostitutes.)
I feel like you're projecting. Or, at the very least, operating under the assumption that your exact experiences reflect everyone's.

I live by myself. There is nothing in my home that can/will distract me, aside from the internet--which I can just as easily use as a distraction from an office.

When I was at the office, it was not uncommon for someone to walk up and strike up a conversation that lasted 20 or 30 minutes and was completely unrelated to work.

And, on top of that, there's currently one single person I can think of of who a) I interact with regularly at work and b) works from the same office as me (if I were to go back to my employer's local office).

(Also, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that your entire "argument" is an Appeal To Tradition logical fallacy anyways)
>I do remember reading a fairly compelling case that the art of fiction-writing has got noticeably better over the last 500 years or so.

I've thought about this a bit since I've been trying to break into fiction writing. The thing I noticed, imagine how incredibly painful it was to edit your first draft back in the day. In comparison, these days we have month long contests (for fun) to write 50,000 word novels. Even though these are typically terrible, there are some that do get published and people enjoy. These stories are edited heavily. Not just grammar or spelling. Scenes are re-written. Added. Removed. Paragraphs moved. Erased. Added. Find/Replace to change a name. Etc. It's barely an inconvenience to do this on the computer. That's not easily the case with handwritten or typewritten pages. You end up re-typing it all out to see the next draft, just to notice how you need to butcher more of it and do it all over again. Page reformatting by itself is a God send.

I think modern writers are able to revise their work more often and easily in far, far less time. Just one example, I type about 3-5 times faster than handwriting. That iteration process builds up more skill, thus, better writers. Old school writers, especially pre-typewriter, probably went, "First draft is the only draft" more often than we think (minus minor corrections of course). I think the typewriter allowed the feasibility of multiple drafts without losing your damn mind, but the word processor makes it almost normal practice for many pro-writers to have 10+ drafts. Some even do full rewrites for their second or even third draft NORMALLY.

At that, the amount of professional stories someone would hear or read was minimal too. Most things were new to people even if you weren't original. These days, everyone has a huge backlog of stories they've read/heard over the years. Probably one year of someone's entertainment consumption was a lifetime over 100 years ago. I read somewhere that the average well-educated person (not scholar) in the 1700-1800s read in a month what average folks today (not even well educated) read/hear in about a day. Another example, if you want to make a comedy show, you have to see if Simpsons, Futurama, South Park or Family Guy already did the same gag because people will go, "You're unoriginal". Even South Park had an episode that Simpsons "already did it", and that was a decade ago. The bar is just super high now because of both storytelling skillsets and expectations from audiences.

Just an observation from an idiot.
A-10's still hold the sentiment as the best CAS.

There are actually better fighters on a $/hr basis. The A-10 is a bit pricy to maintain. The A-29, propeller plane, holds a promising position[0].

Helicopters tend not to be the platform of choice, but I'm not well versed enough to know why. Many times it comes down to which branch flies helicopters vs fixed winged aircraft. And simply that branch doesn't have the "rights" to fly the right kind of craft given the mission... weird stuff.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Attack/Armed_Reconnaissa...
> It's simply that California's strategy for economic success was that everyone bought homes in the 70s, then banned any new homes so their property values would go up forever.

No, its not. California hasn't banned new homes, and its not the case, either (even loosely) that everyone in CA bought homes in the 1970s (the 1970s were actually a low point in CA homeownership rate, which reach its all time peak in 2006, and is currently well above where it was in the 1970s.)

There are real state and local policy issues that contribute to the homelessness crisis in California (and some of them—like Prop 13—do indeed stem from the 1970s), but its not, even at a loose and hyperbolic level that might contribute to understanding despite being cartoonishly oversimplified, “everyone bought homes in the 70s, then banned any new homes”.
Matt Levine has covered this deli as well:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-19/everyo...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-20/hometo...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-30/hometo...
> Maintaining a remote team is significantly more management and communication overhead than simply having people in one place.

I’ve managed both types of teams and haven’t found this to be the case at all. In fact, quite the opposite. Asynchronous communication as the norm is a lot less demanding on ICs and managers. In person meetings are rarely an effective use of time or energy.
I totally agree. I'm someone who struggled at first but has since found it really good, and I think would ultimately choose the very sort of 2/3 scheme being discussed by these large companies— in office for meetings and team bonding, home for focus and flexibility.

But my parent comment was specifically with respect to the business about part of school being the socialization stuff, and if it's relevant whether or not your kids "want" that.
The commitment is to do some work for some money.

Anything else is just fake bs.
Async and Await Explained in Short
I don't think there would be a lot of people quit over this decision.

With rounds of survey, I think Apple execs must have factor that into their calculus already.
This article is about the details of zip file handling in the Shell Extension... Reading the first few paras I thought they would talk about the struggle it was to implement a shell namespace extension. I did a somewhat crappy one 20-something years ago and I still remember how confusing it was. At the time is spent all my days writing various COM things. I was very comfortable doing things like hand editing IDL headers to avoid changing GUIDs. NSEs were still the most baffling, brittle and confusing interfaces I've ever seen
The F-16 (designed 1973/1974) has relaxed stability, which means if the stability augmentation system fails near a stall or abrupt maneuver, the plane is lost. So lots of crashes in testing are to be expected, though in hindsight they could have used an unmanned version to iron out the flight control bugs.

During an initial taxi test it actually had a roll control problem, so had to be flown off and landed - that's pretty bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting...

https://medium.com/@alexjun/interesting-aircraft-of-the-day-...

The F-5 was the first new jet fighter design (1955/1956) without a fatality in test, which is notable enough to often get mentioned. It was a Mach 2 airframe with initially Mach 1.3 engines, so not a toy, though it was the smallest possible design to use standard weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_F-5
Sorry, my previous comment was probably overly dismissive. I'd argue that developers and users of the F-35 already understand that stealth gains are not permanent. Countries and military organizations that purchased the F-35 definitely hope that the stealth advances last longer than 2025, but they will pay for improvements, new planes, and new tech long before 2070. It seems comically naïve for them to take claims of "2070" at face value without verifying, but that's just conjecture on my part.
The reason you used to think Brussels sprouts were bitter and then “got over it” is they actually were bitter and since then they’ve been improved to taste better.
Notorious studio perfectionists Steely Dan commissioned a custom drum machine during the recording of Gaucho because none of the session drummers could play to their standards.

http://rogernichols.com/wendel

Clocking in at ~$150K, it probably was a bit more expensive than this guy's project.
You posted a tangential rant disparaging the comment section of another website. The voting system is the most appropriate response to flamebait.
Buybacks are very popular in crypto. Its call token burning. Binance does it all the time with BNB.
In this particular case, by commitments I mean fully commit to in-person collaboration. This doesn't mean sitting and working at your office desk instead of your home desk, it means actually making an effort to collaborate with other people. Sometimes in a spontaneous way, sometimes in a planned way.

Collaboration is done better in person. I believe anyone who disagrees with that is actually only disagreeing for selfish reasons (i.e., they want to continue WFH), or they go through mental gymnastics to justify it in their head.
Sometimes you're forced to work with older technology, and it's nice that you can still find answers to questions that many would consider obsolete. I'd hate to see a clean-up effort that makes that information go away forever.
I don’t know, I work at a technology company and I am excited to go to work every day (because we are inventing the future). The research teams are fun, and the vision is exciting.

I also am fortunate to have a strong work-life balance and try to only work 40 hours a week.
When my son started getting into fart jokes I told my wife he had a strictly classical approach to comedy and told her the oldest recorded joke was about farts.
It's not like they can't call the FBI or whatever federal agency and have them do it for them.
> has got noticeably better over the last 500 years or so

If you're writing a book longhand, the motivation to not improve it would loom very large.
I wish I could say my experience matched yours, but SO is an extremely frustrating place for many of my errors and problems. I don't think it made programming worse, it did make it better...but it's far from a panacea, and often a question has answers that are so outdated that the solutions no longer work, the solutions aren't complete or have bugs, or it's close to my error but not the same error, or a different solution. I'd say that's my experience about 1/2 the time I use SO.

I picked up a book last month to learn Clojure...how does SO help to learn a language start to finish? I don't even typically refer to SO for syntax questions, I'm sure it has that information but it doesn't seem like a very convenient place to index it. But maybe that's my subset of languages...

I probably end up on stack overflow a few times a week, and it is helpful...but I'd be fine without it if Google would just return better results.
There are varying levels of commitment to one's work, wouldn't you agree?
Ultra-light carbon fiber sphere can fly, run on land and float on water
Then why are Russia and China developing stealth aircraft of their own?
That’s a very cynical take. Morally indefensible? That’s an incredible hyperbole. People may quit sure but CEOs are responsible for getting value to share holders and many honestly do believe that in office or hybrid model works toward that goal. If it was only about office space they could write that off and be done with it.
Calling something religion can start a shouting match or an echo chamber. Rarely a conversation. It doesn't matter if it's accurate.

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why do the drones need to be controlled by a pilot who's already flying an aircraft? Couldn't a drone sensor platform perform the same task with remote operators?
This doesn't surprise me, I assume Apple has a lot of contractors/H1B's. It would make sense they want them at the shiny new HQ they built to keep a closer eye on them. Be a shame if no one was using the campus after they spent all that money. Tim Cook is Apple, his whole life is defined by that Company, he expects it to be the only thing in his employees lives too. There are shareholders to satisfy that would demand no less from the employees....back to work slaves....
Closed. Off-topic. Not a good fit for our Q&A format.
I'm remote anyway but if I were to need to commute into my city office (as opposed to the nearer suburban office) two days a week, I'd probably just spring for a hotel room one night per week. I'm a 90 to 120 minute commute and that's tolerable maybe one day per week and the occasional two but not much more.
Pointless pendatry over words doesn't move discussion forwards. I wouldn't personally use either of those words to describe Nazis, which is largely what WWII "happened for".
Bad press is fine, a good plane at the end is good
I took a quick look through it. I didn't really get it though. If it's used clothes, why are there people selling large quantities like a business? That doesn't seem like a compatible idea?

The prices seemed lower than average new retail prices by a bit, but not much. There's no obvious way to signal clothes were purchased from depop as far as I could tell...

The only conclusion I can draw is that the used aspect has to be a sort of gimmick used to define the store brand, but in reality most of the money is made on niche sellers doing original products chasing a very long tail of fashion.

Am I terribly wrong?
“Drastically reducing the chances” is all you need, because everyone else has also gotten vaccinated and there isn’t a supply of bats dropping fresh virus on you to constantly challenge it.

The COVID vaccines really are so good there’s not much reason to take extra precautions as long as you’ve gotten one. Variants don’t even matter since it’s not the flu.