skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's now been in the workforce for decades: presence in an office is mostly a waste of time and money. In my experience, those who demand "facetime" do so because

- it's part of a political power/control game

- "this is the way we've always done it"

- they buy into the myth that "magic" happens in hallways conversations and nowhere else

There are plenty of large companies (and god knows how many startups and SMBs) who have recognized what a colossal waste it is to maintain permanent offices and mandatory facetime. It's time for the rest to stop pretending it's 1980.
A group of people who all agree to like and engage with each other's posts, to try and drive up everyone's clout.
> esp-link: While being very affordable, it offers no transport security.

On your local WLAN? Transferring mainly Linux kernel boot logs? Ok...
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Seriously? Not everyone is meant to be home owners.
I've worked from home for years, and found the same thing - it's made me look like, maybe not a 10X dev but definitely 2X.

But now everyone else I deal with is WFH too and... It turns out they don't appear to be benefiting in the same way and performance has probably dropped on average.

Give it a couple of years and most people will be back in the office as before, I expect.
Right, and there was even Multics in 1969. I was giving some benefit of the doubt, but I feel like Ingall’s quote was pretty dodgy even in 1981. Maybe it was tongue in cheek, or being intriguing and controversial just to get readers? Maybe there is some point of view that I’m completely missing?
The D compiler speaks C11 now, it'll be ready for prime time in two or three releases based on speaking to Iain and Walter.
I'll admit we're nearer to elite than most, but billionaires and politicians would privately mock this statement.

I think we should all acknowledged there's well to do peasants (us), and then there's true elites. There are more levels of wealth than are typically acknowledged in conversations like this, and it leads to very muddy arguments.
Pointing out hypocrisy would only be a fallacy if I tried to use it as an argument that the actions of Belarus are moral. I am not doing that.
in the US we had laws protecting the privacy of mail going through the postal service, and conversations over the phone. now facebook and google know our every thought and move.

new technology is like the wild west for govts and corporations, and you can hold a larger crowd hostage with a gun than you can with a knife.
I'd love to see something like this with the ability to upload my own card decks (front and back) to play deck building games etc.
I think its a generalised thing. Old Hands will lament that new hands didn't have to suffer nearly as much work/wear/time to produce something very similar.

It's about the seeming unfairness in cost of producing, not the end product. Everyone benefits with the new way (assuming its actually undeniably better). The newcomers also don't have the 'back in the day we had to...' stories either, and will make some mistakes the old hands wont with the new technology.
> I feel it should be opt-in

Yes, and "opt-in" as in I send a form with my physical signature, not some EULA that I clicked sometime when I was distracted.
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Yes. To a large extent, the positions of the stars are fixed with respect to each other. It's just the Earth that moves around. You're trying to get latitude, which you can get from the altitude of a star above the southern horizon, and longitude, which you get from when the star passes east to west. Choosing another star doesn't get you out of having to measure which direction is down. The "which direction is down" question is the answer to "where am I on Earth" - the telescope and timer are just there to set your frame of reference.
I'm not being blind to reality. The only unions I have ever interacted with have been good ones. I've only ever heard about bad unions on Hacker News; even police unions are good at being unions (though when you're unionising against the people, that's an inversion of the power dynamics a union is meant to promote, so I still don't like police unions).

Believing second-hand rumours on the internet would be less intellectually honest than believing my anecdotal evidence.
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Agreed on mass transit, I also think wearing the mask outside during pollen season helped a bit with my allergies, so there's a few use cases where I'll probably still wear them. Especially because I've collected so many different designs at this point.
Repeating the parents question: How is your (satirical) statement boastful?
It would be nice to have a protocol where the HTTP client can say "I'm on a limited connection, give me the good stuff" - as often I only need a few kilobytes of data but I cannot view them until the entire multi-megabyte site finishes downloading - which it never does.

Of course it would immediately be abused to mark advertisements as "high priority".
I am surprised that no one mentioned that mouth, tongue and throat muscle exercise have been proven to significantly improve snoring and apnoe.
This article isn't about Naomi Osaka; it's about a guy reveling in sloth. He's pretty explicit about just not wanting to contribute to society. He doesn't want to work, he wants to sit on the couch and watch TV.

Refusing to encourage a narcissist is not the same as bullying them. I hope he gets the help he needs, but he's going to have to want it first.
The end of hitchBOT: [1]

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Those jobs suck and pay 9 bucks an hour.
Ha, only unexpected if you haven't been watching how every other language adoption goes. Otherwise I agree. :)
Many fully remote companies are giving reduction of pay from HCOL cities... this still may work out but not always a straight comparison.
Oh man, is that worse than driving? I'm in London, so I don't really know what it's like in SF. What's so exhausting about it?
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Sorry, no. I don't have a blog or website or anything. The closest thing I have to a devlog are some posts in a private Facebook group dedicated to the Holden Commodore.

I think this project is almost 12 months old now.
Lately, they have been good. I don't blame you for mistrusting them because it took at least 4 scandals (I lost track), but they seem to have sorted it out.
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Google got a pretty big fine in US due to not properly gating things for minors on YouTube (based on COPPA law). I guess this is now the result.
Most government or government-adjacent (sépaq, Hydro Québec) websites are pretty decent. There's a few awful exceptions like the SAAQ disabling their online services at 11pm, as if their servers need to go to bed? Or the city of Longueuil's tax portal which looks like it is from the 90s!
The issue is the eviction moratorium has forced landlords to house people for free for over a year.

The government changed the rules of the game and left landlords with the bill. That’s the problem.
Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has publicly stated that they're 99% sure that the 5-10% of the crafts they are not able to identify are not technologies from foreign governments. He's also mentioned that the Pentagon is aware that Russian and Chinese governments are also in the same position and have been working to figure it out.

These craft pull 500-800Gs and have been measured to be going 13000-20000mph+, so it's highly unlikely that they're made by humans, unless we've figured out a way to not turn into goo at that force, and use materials that could withstand that force as well.

Whatever these things are, they're not weather phenomena, nor illusions, especially when they've been visually identified by countless navy and air force pilots, and picked up/measured by military radar, satellite systems, and other instruments. Pretty sure the military would have easily ruled out weather phenomena/illusions given their budget and capabilities.
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> I compete for positions with people all over the world. Who can complete with a fraction of the salary I need.

Perhaps. On one hand, the office was clearly one barrier separating onshore and offshore talent. On the other hand, there never really was a lot preventing companies from setting up offshore offices to attract cheaper talent worldwide. The fact that many US jobs remain still quite expensive compared to the developing world implies to me that there are still some barriers there above and beyond the ability to drive to a shared office.
> Ultimately, some companies will move to completely remote work. Most will go back to at least a hybrid in-person model. For the latter, I suspect that most WFH employees will eventually go back to the office once they realize that they're second class employees and that they're effectively frozen out of the traditional career progression model by being remote.

I disagree. This is a problem if the majority of workers are in the office full time and only a small group are remote. If the office is entirely WFH or hybrid, then everyone is a remote worker. Also, the traditional career model has been changing drastically even before the pandemic. These days workers need to move horizontally, across companies, to achieve any kind of progression in their careers. The vertical move up the corporate ladder is becoming a relic. Mind you, I'm not saying that is good or bad, just commenting on the current situation.
Why put a person in it? There a place for human pilots when decisions need to be made but for (say) an SR-72 there's no need.
I've used this a lot with my team for our remote "happy hour" since pandemic started. It's been a great way to interact and blow off some steam. I'm surprised that there isn't baseline templates for blackjack, poker, spades, and other common card games although the site makes it easy to save configurations once you have something that works. Highly recommended!
It's such a shame that Facebook was allowed to buy WhatsApp (and Instagram). WhatsApp itself seems truly pro-privacy, but that counts for diddly-squat when it's owned by Facebook.
> I wholeheartedly agree with all of the above—assuming that you are your own client.

Yes, I was talking from that perspective. Just to remember people that not everything has to be the best possible ever.

> The difference between a car made in 2015 and a car made in 1980 can easily be as dramatic as walking out with superficial injuries—or certain death.

I was replying tongue-in-cheek. This is certainly true, and I appreciate your concern
It’s a tool in a developers toolbox. Some use it, some don’t. Similar to the debugger vs printf debate.

These apps can be useful for testing, developing and exploring APIs and they can function as GUI for services that don’t have one.

For example a former client used Postman as a client to perform administrative tasks for which there was no UI yet. Most of these tools have feature to save common request flows and share them with your team.
...there’s also the notion that some bosses, particularly those of a generation less familiar to remote work, are eager to regain tight control of their minions.

“They feel like we’re not working if they can’t see us,” she said. “It’s a boomer power-play.”

I'm not an "OK Boomer" kinda person but this is spot on. However, I would add that it applies to the Boomer generation and older. I worked at a company a few years ago that was started by a man who was in his late 80's at the time. A good man, I should add, but he was all about "butts in seats" (he is also a former Marine).

He didn't understand technology at all and was constantly at loggerheads with my boss about where her people were. She never could get across to him that just because he didn't see us didn't mean we weren't working. We took the department from barely breaking even to being the most profitable in the company in nine months, so, obviously we were doing something when our butts were in different seats.

COVID accelerated remote working but I suspect it won't become fully embraced until the Boomer generation of managers and company leadership retire.
What's the power draw like? I couldn't find anything in the datasheet
It seems like everyone is articulating ‘emotional hostage taking’. This is actually a very very common thing amongst Asian (all of Asia) parents. It usually goes something like this:

Look at how hard your parents work for you, and here you are not doing this and that, or doing something that don’t match our values.

And this is a constant lifelong guilt-burden that they utilize. It’s almost as if they feel entitled to something just because they had to do stuff in life ... like work a blue collar job.

The stuff that the new American generation is doing is a remix of that age old form of abuse.
Yes, they put up fences to funnel animals. There are indeed measures for how effective they are.

It sounds like you're bothered that this article for popular consumption isn't an entirely different piece about the same topic.
There are adapters which let you charge and listen to music at the same time, this one[1] for instance is only £1.49 which is low enough that I might give it a go if I need it, sight unseen. But you're right, I've not needed this functionality yet.

[1] https://www.shein.co.uk/2-In-1-Charger-Cable-Adapter-p-21317...
The issue with your argument is the government chanced the eviction rules ex post facto.

Yes, the poster is taking the risk that they tenants cannot pay, but they also took that risk with the assumption they could evict them and replace them with a paying tenant.
I thought mortgage relief (especially for the pandemic) was already a thing? https://www.consumerfinance.gov/coronavirus/mortgage-and-hou...
Outsized returns...any idea what returns are for landlords? It only takes a single bad tenant to wipe out years of profit (speaking from experience). There is a difference between having tenants not pay and evicting them in 90 days (actual law)...and having tenants you can't evict and are told they don't need to pay for over a year (government changing law on the fly).
Hope you are happy with this the current situation then. I know that I am not because I do not wish to share my id with Google.
Pain (among other experiences) exists as a gradient compared against both your average experience and any outlier experiences (good or bad). A result of living in a more comfortable, advanced society is that things that seem smaller to someone on the outside are bigger on the personal level. These people aren't inherently weak or soft, it's just that the worst thing or day they have experienced is pretty good in a global sense, but pretty bad in a personal subjective sense.
I'm not a Java developer, so I wasn't aware of Thymeleaf.

How does it compare to the Java implementations of TAL?
Fair points all around. Thanks for the clarification!
I noticed this. My android phone is also harassing me for proof of birth date ("to help comply with the law"). I previously just signed out of google, but a couple of weeks ago i signed in for some reason, and can no longer find the way to sign out again. Android is the last google thing I use... looks like it's time to finalise the elimination of google. edit: ah, i think i do a remote sing-out from another device.