skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just started reading a book of Mark Twain’s “Short Stories and Tall Tales” I picked up on a whim at a used book sale and they’re all really quite enjoyable. I think The Danger of Lying in Bed[1] is my favorite so far.

[1]http://www.online-literature.com/twain/3261/
I just looked into it and the Git issue has been fixed for V6 already: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/commit/0a5f11fb3720515...
Action Quake II was the pinnacle of these for me. Such a fun game.
> Part III has been long sought after. Glad to see it’s out there (and that it’s release doesn’t jeopardize anything)

Well, 21% of it is released and out there. There's still 66 sections that were censored.
I'll add one more thing - the physical space makes it much clearer what you should be paying attention to. If there's a group of programmers standing behind someone's chair looking stressed, there's probably an outage I can be helpful with.

If I see an engineering manager and a product manager have what sounds like a rancorous conversation, that's something I am going to check in on later.

If I see someone always coming over to my team, I'm going to ask who they are because I probably need to know them.

All of this simply doesn't happen so easily in full-remote, and it has huge cumulative networking, team-building, etc effect over time. That said, I am not looking to come in to the office every day either, but I'd love to have at least occasional (weekly/monthly/whatever) in person connection to people and teams I work with.
Wow. In that article he wrote his own operating system and sold 600 copies, but had too many compatibility issues with Windows and so had to abandon it.

Huh.
>You say that like the company's purpose is to be as bad to employees as possible.

Where? I don’t see that in what they wrote.
It might be worth noting that the Ganges/Padma, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers combine and drain to the sea in Bangladesh. So, a dike would need to confine not just the sea, but the combined rivers; or you would need a really phenomenal pump, probably orders of magnitude larger than has ever been constructed. It is not easy to find out the annual water flow exiting to the sea from that system. And, it is not the only one.
These are accounting definitions.

For example, if a corporation has no profit, common for startups trying to get off the ground, they pay no corporate income tax. This is the case because corporations pay income tax on profit not revenue. Having no corporate income tax would only shift that burden from the economic use case to elsewhere which is what happens with the FAANGs and multinationals. That elsewhere ends up as brick and mortar and individuals. BTW, tax fairness means lower as well. Brick and mortar and individuals would pay less if the FAANGs and multinationals paid fairly.
Working from home all the time and avoiding an office is probably amazing if you are single or married without kids.

Let me just say, you are all a bit naive... heh. If you have kids (and they are at home 24x7 because they are too young for vaccines) - WORKING AT HOME SUCKS BEYOND BELIEF. I would give literally anything to go back to an office and get some work done in peace and quiet. We all know housing is tight in the Bay and if you have a "normal" 4 person family in a "normal" 3 bedroom 2 bath house, that's fine unless somehow both adults have to work from home and bigger places are financially out of reach. It's beyond amazing to me that this point hasn't been raised AT ALL in this debate. I think you are all naive tech-bros :)
humanproxy! Good username
It's hard to tell from the readme; can you expose an entire project directory (with terminal perhaps?) for collaboration?
Most people that I know get very lonely working from home.

I saw it in my developer group, where all single people would try to go to office during covid, because it's so lonely at home.

Colleagues with small kids are unable to get any work done when there is no babysitter.

I personally have no problem working from home, but I see that's a real exception. And even I don't mind going to the office once every week, just to get the social interactions and be away from home once in a while.

So I think you are right that people who don't want to go to work at all is a real exception.
My car's "check engine" light has been on for a while now, but it still runs with no serious repercussions, guess I can ignore it. You see how that logic would be flawed?
As an IC, the people who dislike talking to their coworkers are ignoring the effect that Zoom has on team cohesion. Personally, a single in-person meeting is more effective for getting to know my coworkers and bonding with them than any number of Zoom lunches and socials and happy hours. And even ICs have to talk to other people to exchange ideas, get buy-in, and solve cross-functional problems. It's _so_ much easier to do that when those people are also your friends rather than strangers. They don't need to be friends you go out with after work everyday for drinks, just friends you know well enough to have a conversation with that isn't awkward. This dynamic was very apparent to me having worked at a company that did have cohesion and one that didn't.

I used to think ICs should just be able to code away in a cube but lack of communication has much larger costs than being slightly less productive because someone interrupted you. Now more than ever building the _right_ thing is more important than building the _best_ thing. Maybe some people here feel they should just be able to code away because their EMs have handled the buy-in part and they just get work assigned to them but I think lower level SWEs should be a more active part of the conversation rather than a Jira ticket consumer.
Got to admit that Lost is a great example of not resolving things properly. I wonder though if that's because it was impossible, or just the JJ. Abrams's style. He's said in an interview that he keeps an unopened box on his shelf that he never intends to open, just because he likes the feeling of a forever unresolved mystery.
> because I never see them "together"

That sounds like a very common problem which is that many companies somehow don’t share visual representation of their organisation effectively. I routinely ask that during interviews and it’s generally a scramble to get me nothing.
This is a great way of arguing, you've now listed three things bad with BitCoin. Wait, which side are you arguing?

If you wanted to add more things to your list, try "the majority of people buy it because they hope someone else will buy it for more in the future."
Apple Park is nice for the amenities but the open plan does indeed suck. Still open plan at Apple Park is still a step up from my previous open plan office in Sunnyvale. Same shitty open plan but worse amenities.
It's a CSAM case. They're probably trying to prove he's the primary user.
Yes this is regular occurrence on gcp
This is a failure of the job to be done though. The JTBD for the execs at these companies forcing in person work isn’t to be efficient. It’s to make themselves feel good. They feel better when they see asses in seats. It’s really that simple.

If efficiency had literally anything to do with it we would have all been remote since 2005.
> It is what happens when you tell students repeatedly that business is bad, and anyone who starts a business is a thief (ironically, that primes you for scammers).

Can you elaborate? I don’t think I follow.
We design military aircraft to fly into warzones. They are very much PvP. We design them with various countermeasures to deal with rockets and ejector seats if those fail. Yeah, planes will be shot down and pilots may die despite these precautions, but skimping on the ejector seat because "hey they might die anyways" is totally unacceptable.
Unlike the USA which taxes it as if it were an asset but regulates it like a legal tender in an attempt to kill it.
:) It's more that employees became familiar to each other through frequent small encounters, which wouldn't have happened had each group their own common facilities. The important conversations weren't expected to happen with one party frantically holding it in.
How did they know?

I didn't tell them, "I'm about to switch to the microphone", I switched to the microphone and they told me to stop and they claimed it was using all their bandwidth and to go back to using the phone instead of the microphone.

I'll take the downvotes, that's fine, but how did the people complaining know I had switched to the microphone and what were they complaining about?
> Everyone would be going back into the office... if there wasn't a shortage of skilled workers to fill positions.

A different way to read that is: people would do as told and not ask to work remotely because they could get replaced.

But that applies only if the company does not care about the employees and wants cogs instead.
Is there any cellular phone service that throttles to a usable speed (say at least 1.5 Mbps)? I was looking forward to the spread of 4G because I naively thought throttled speeds would also increase to "3G equivalent" instead of "2G equivalent".

I use Mint Mobile and last month I hit the 4G data cap of my "unlimited" plan (30 Gb). I tried to buy more data, but it can't be done on the "unlimited" plan. I could not buy more data for my "unlimited" data plan after my "unlimited" data plan ran out of data. Other plans let you purchase additional data at an expensive price, only the "unlimited" plan doesn't.
Potentially, but it depends on the task. You need thousands of threads to get real performance boost, and hashing is an inherently sequential task, not really GPU-optimized (hash functions in the Merkle-Damgård family like SHA; you can do Merkle trees too). In fact, I'm not sure why anyone would want to hash on a GPU, unless, say, they wanted to hash lots of short strings as some kind of science project or something.
Infrastructure isn't something that individuals have the option to fix on their own. Housing across the US, let alone in Seattle, is at absolute crisis levels. And the rise of internet-based voice comms is a recent development (< 5 years) relative to housing and infrastructure development cycles.

There are multiple extant comms technologies which are well established, widely distributed, and work quite well at vastly lower bandwidth than IP telephone or videoconferencing. Look inward to see those who are rejecting the use of technologies which are equitably available, distributed, and adequate to task.
> Zoom

I’m both a remote maximalist, and a Zoom hater.

I reconciled this by eliminating meetings. Turns out, 99% of all software can be built, managed, scaled, and sold asynchronously.
Seconded.

I recommend watching his seminar recording on YouTube before going through the book.
Not to take anything away from Bangladesh, but the parent is correct. The current government in India has managed to self inflict multiple wounds on its economy, allowing Bangladesh to pull ahead.
Stop being sarcastic.
As someone who really only does numerical computing, and mostly with Julia, I'm curious. Could Julia use some help from PL and systems people to be noticably better for people like me? Or would you guess it's already on an ideal trajectory if numerical science stuff is all I plan to use it for?

I know their goal is to really be an all around good general language, so what you said makes sense for that goal regardless. I'm just curious if you have insight into gains that the numerics people like me could get that we might not know enough to know we're missing.
What's an IC?
When I'm trying to take care of basic bodily functions, I don't need some exec using it as an opportunity to manipulate me into workplace / social interaction.
The market did react. BTC was down and then turned around on the hourly that this was announced? Or am I missing something?
HK is de jure and de facto part of China and subject to its rule, and although China allows some amount of self-governance, national security issues (as tapping a submarine cable would be) are within mainland control.

Taiwan is more complicated; it may be de jure part of China, but there are two governments that de facto govern distinct territories.
I haven’t heard of a single company that switched back.
I have experience with them in two places, one good and one bad.

The bad experience had no separation between the engineers, kitchen or sales people. Sales tend to be extra noisy- high energy, always on the phone, etc. Kitchens are also loud for the obvious reason.

In my good experience, we had physical separation from anything not engineering. People moved and talked around you, but it wasn't obnoxious and frequently informative to overhear.

Of course, I wouldn't give up working from home for anything, so it has become a moot point.
I think it's the classic case of "when customers tell you something is broken, they are usually right. When customers tell you WHAT is broken, they are usually wrong".
I suppose if you say it with a superior tone and act like you know better, sure. It's all in the delivery. If you ask it as a genuine question, assuming that you don't have the answer, then I can't see how it would be taken that way by most people.
JP followers: What hatred?

https://youtu.be/v-hIVnmUdXM
Probably narrows down the list of suspects to a few thousand from a much higher number.
I think, unfortunately, the big tech companies might disagree with your take on this issue. They continue to invest millions in new and "re-designed" buildings based on open-office plans.
If videoconferencing has so many drawbacks and hassles, and adds nothing to the interaction while clearly detracting from it significantly, consider using an appropriate voice-only comms alternative.

This will not only satisfy the needs of the session, but also level virtually all of the differences between those in areas of good or poor Internet service, with long latency, or with different access to technology and equipment based on wealth or circumstances.
No, but Nash was the first (AFAIK) to prove that every Riemannian manifold can be isometrically embedded in an Euclidean space of sufficiently high dimension. See, e.g., [1,2]. Previous embedding theorems (see Whitney embedding [3]) preserved topology but not necessarily geometry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedding#Riemannian_and_pseud...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_embedding_theorem

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_embedding_theorem
It is not widely reported that US cryptanalysts--in particular, a single husband-and-wife team, the Friedmans ACKed in the preface, and their students--decrypted Enigma messages by hand as readily as Bletchley Park with all its bombes, albeit in smaller amounts because they mostly intercepted South American traffic. They also decrypted all Japanese communications leading up to Dec 7, 1941, and after.

Notably, the FBI never had any capacity for cryptanalysis. What they got, they got from the Friedmans.

"Between Silk and Cyanide", by Leo Marks, is deeply enlightening, in particular about spycraft and its failings in Britain at the time.
These are certainly valid concerns you raise, broadly speaking. However, as mentioned in numerous other comments, there is a compelling case to be made that remote work is more productive for a lot of people. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if it also affected retention. Far from the suggestion that some people simply can’t be bothered to commute as you rather dismissively suggest.

In any case, the fact that this may make things marginally more challenging for management in the near term as we collectively adjust to this reality is, frankly, a pretty lame justification for opposing remote work categorically.
It would seem so, yes. But I disagree with the GP’s premise: claiming economies rise and fall based on monetary policy alone is like claiming the Roman empire fell because they debased their currency. It’s a contributory factor, but certainly not the only one.

We’d need to assess the merit of anarcho-capitalism vs collectivist democracy to understand whether disempowering governments would in fact decrease economic stability.
Any idea what nudged them toward spending their time in shared spaces? It’s been a while, but I remember working in buildings where most employees had offices (or, at least, cubicles) and they mostly used those instead of shared spaces.
I wouldn't learn C++ by learning LLVM if that's what you mean, or at least have one of (say) Stroustrup's books on the shelf.
He just posted another demo where you kick your feet to accelerate a la The Flintstones -- https://twitter.com/GoingHandsfree/status/140136648492059033...

Pretty fun to watch!
Roberta and Ken Williams announce their first game in over 20 years
Yes, if you realize a profit on forex trading, you do have to report it as a capital gain.
I’m very much inclined to agree with your wondering. I feel that there is a certain personality type that despises the open office, and that most others are fine with them.

Anecdotally, a group at the company I work (pre-Covid) had the opportunity to contribute to designing their own new working space, as part of an empty floor was being retrofitted for them. The standard at our company was either individual cubicles or quads, but these folks chose open plan of (as far as I know) their own free will.

For anybody wondering, this is two teams of about 12 or so developers each, mostly relatively young.
Depends on the type of company. At a sufficient size you end up with offices worldwide and where you are matters less
> the government will accept payments in BTC.

The telling thing would be what the gov't pays in (e.g., for tax returns). Do they pay you back in BTC? or fiat?
Sigh... I laughed hard at your comment, but it reminds me of just the sheer amount of idiotic shit management comes up with... It's like they're living in a totally different universe from the ICs.
Individual contributor. Someone who doesn't manage people.
Something to keep in mind is that cell phone video cameras are relatively limited in what they can capture with good fidelity from far away. Smartphone lenses are designed around taking photos of people and landscapes, not distant moving objects. Not that they can’t, mind you, but if you’ve ever tried to record video of a plane in the sky it tends to look small and barely visible.

It’s kind of like taking a photo of the moon, even when it looks huge in the sky it ends up being a tiny dot in the photograph.
> the candidate demonstrates that they've had the empathy and self awareness to consider how their call setup affects others' ability to communicate with them

This, a hundred times. It your software mutes mikes when someone else is talking, you need to notice and adapt with an awkward silence to let others speak. This is good.

The most blatant example of this to me and somehow invisible to others was my previous boss. He had a lot of remote calls that he would take in the open office. Because of the isolation from his head phone, he spent six hours per day berating people, yelling in the open office. That, everyone noticed. But there generally was signal issue, lag, etc. and he would always say “There’s a problem on your side.” The assumption that the other side had to fix something, that presumption… It hurt me more than him trying to address a wifi issue by yelling louder for the following 55 minutes.
Not as long, but Sound Transit 3 had a 25-year time horizon, from 2016 to 2041. Most of the voters who considered it would be retired before the 60th mile of light rail could affect their own commutes. It's similar in terms of building something that will primarily be used by a later generation.
Bill Gates paid $30.8M for this book 25 years ago (2019)
95% of the "business" stories that the BBC covers are about people overcoming adversity or some other disadvantage. 95% of the financial scams in the UK market themselves as a way to "fight the system" or beat the rich people (look at r/SuperStonk, it isn't active knowledge, it is a moral crusade).

In both cases, the logic is: you can't win, everything is rigged, anyone who is rich already stole from you because weakness and disadvantage is morally superior, you deserve to win because you are disadvantaged...

Enter the guy, who is just a regular guy, selling you a forex trading system to settle your score with the baddies.

Btw, if you don't believe this search for forex trading scams. Almost all of them are: I was just a regular guy like you, I started with £500, now I have this shiny car (rented, ofc), and I am sharing these secret "rich person" systems with yooooooooooou...this is your only opportunity to get rich because the system is so unfair (the only way to get people to take risks that would seem stupid in any other context is crush their self-esteem, and tell them they have no other choice).
Individual Contributor, usually. A non-manager.
Honestly a lot of people talk about how much they hate skeumorphism, but in the early '10s when most of the existing vendors abandoned it, it broke my heart and basically destroyed any love I still had for GUIs.

First Microsoft abandoning skeumorphism with Windows Phone 7 (and later Windows 8), then Apple going to war against skeumorphism in iOS 7. That one-two punch just broke me, and it especially hurt when Apple did it specifically because of Susan Kare's history with the company. I've always despised Jony Ive's entire design aesthetic ever since the original iPod came out, but when he neutered iOS my dislike of him became intensely personal.

I still say that if I ever win the lottery and become a billionaire, I'll hire a team to make a proprietary mobile OS just for my personal use that's built around skeumorphism and trying to imitate either iOS 6 or maybe even translate '80s and '90s Mac styles to a touch-first platform.
Upgrading a blockchain without forking must be like herding cats. It's not even really a technical problem at all; it's all about convincing users to run your new software.

Buterin complains about "people problems" in the article, I assume it basically boils down to that.
If you don't stand up for what you want, why is that anyone's fault but yours? I get not wanting to be the squeaky wheel... but in the end, it's your loss.

And you can voice your opinion and work for what you want without being a "sqeaky wheel" - which I take to have a negative connotation as a "complainy pants".
Very calming as it mimics slow, relaxed breathing. Patented by Apple in 2002. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6658577
Does this really mean "the miners don't like it?" They, after all, have the power to say no.
haha yeah, the idea is to do one radically different use case every single day for 100 days straight so I don't always have time to make them smoother

I did do another whacky one today that is a lot easier to do. It's called "Flintstone Mode": https://twitter.com/GoingHandsfree/status/140136648492059033...
Just because people say it's "taking up their bandwidth" doesn't mean that's what's actually happening.

It might be causing some other kind of issues but a microphone can't really "take up someone's bandwidth"... That's not really how things work.
Individual contributor. A bit of a misnomer since once any project grows beyond a small handful of engineers the work becomes largely collaborative.
Gaia’s nervous system - under construction by her monkeys in boats
Can you provide more details about how this works? I'm stuck with Zoom meetings that I feel are long and ineffective, but I'm not sure how to sell my manager on eliminating them.