skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly it seems like the trend has only picked up. I haven't seen a new office buildout in the past 5 years that had individual offices except for sometimes for the managers.
The govt is unpopular already among the demographic that uses Twitter. So it won't make much difference.
I never understood why someone would live over an hour away from where they work. There's been numerous studies showing the number one cause of unhappiness/dissatisfaction at work is commute time, especially when it reaches over 40 minutes one way.

If you live in San Jose, getting to Apple would only be 15-20 minutes.

I once had a coworker who lived an hour and 40 minutes away, literally wasting almost 3.5 hours of their day.
It is pretty cheap to get a setup that outperforms built-in laptop equipment. I have one of those knock-off 1080p webcams ($30-40) and it is more than enough for zoom. My lighting is a clamp light which reflects off of the wall behind my monitor.

For sound I have a bottom-of-the-line boom microphone which was probably $10-15 new. Sound quality is merely ok, but it beats a built-in laptop mic.

Then I clean the room and run it through OBS so I can crop the video and know how it looks before I join a meeting. To me it's foolish to not put some effort into the zoom setup, given what is at stake when interviewing for a job you actually want.
> If your responsibility is for the organization working well into indefinite future, you have a different and much more complicated concern.

Ah, this probably illustrates a lot of the disconnect. Most tech workers have relatively short futures at their companies.
The open floor plan thing was to make commercial real estate costs cheaper. Having individual offices requires 2x to 3x space. Then you have significant additional fit out costs - for example you now have to air condition say 1000 small spaces instead a couple of large ones. You have to pay for partitioning, separate cable runs, your door costs. Might sound silly but if a 100m office fit out can easily double or triple. So overall 2/3x fit out cost + 2/3x annual rent. All of a sudden why wouldn't you promote open plan working?
Because the guy who is behind this thinks that other cryptos are just an experiment that couldn't work, but bitcoin is the holy grail and just appears to be slow/expensive.

Video interview with him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1pSf_akaig
I am glad that they have come together, finally. After a serious threat from social media companies like Facebook and Twitter. Social media companies have grown too much in power. And they are misusing it all the time.

The decision of Google to build RSS support in Chrome is also part of the same plan. Now you don't need an account on TW, FB to follow someone's blog.
TOTP-based 2FA wouldn't protect you against a password breach, since the breach would most likely include the TOTP seed alongside any password hashes.

WebAuthn-based 2FA would; but AFAIK there isn't really a way to store WebAuthn keys in password managers at the moment.
> Depending on details, it may not be an unreasonable request.

No. Under no circumstances is it acceptable for governments to ID readers of a news article. Such an act is a direct attack on the freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of the press. IMO it very clearly crosses a line on what law enforcement can and cannot do in a democratic society.

Note that law enforcement has (over)broad powers for investigation at their disposal already, and they were able to find the suspect "through other means." There was no justification whatsoever for the subpoena.
A submarine cable is much more than just a peering connection.
This is a very well written / designed visualization. Very informative.
open floor plans and remote are both good at scaling up employees without having to move the company to new office space.
I would take that in a heartbeat. Also fifty percent cut for par work during child rearing years (which I was able to negotiate for myself but was a thought fight). And yes I am blind. I suspect it is a bit of posturing mixed in with a bit of not hiding ones true but shameful beliefs.
His Wikipedia is interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers

For example: “Figgers also has a license spectrum band from FCC”. The citations there are a student-run uni newspaper in Ghana, and the news site of a Florida State University radio station.

If the guy isn’t all he claims, he’s done an excellent job of layering together successive Wikipedia-credible sources and then using those as a springboard to more and more credible news stories, culminating in coverage in WashPo and the BBC.

I am pretty skeptical, but if I’m right to be, also pretty impressed by his press coverage game.
Silk Road had categories, like any e-commerce application, that weren't created by end users. The first category in the sidebar was literally "Drugs".
Or

openssl rand -base64 12

If a couple attempts at that doesn't generate a password that satisfies complexity requirements, add, remove, or change a character or two before pasting. Change 12 to a larger or smaller number to change the length of the generated pw.
Not being snarky- the FBI claimed they were looking for a pedo and found him elsewhere.

It could be a smoke and mirrors response to get people to say “well in that case...” but the article does answer the question.
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Yes, I was - and it still exists and gets updates. 1Password goes out of their way to not promote it though.
Perhaps they should have?
From the book: ""excited" is a string, which is a sequence of characters."

I'm not sure who this book is targeted at. While "a sequence of characters" is not an incredibly complicated phrase, it's also not very understandable to someone at the age when one typically reads picture books.
> Don't insult the interviewer

If you are the type of person who insults others at work, please...please insult me in the interview. It's so much better to find out this type of thing earlier rather than later.
For what it’s worth (to you and anyone else reading) I was able to obtain that note because I have an ADHD diagnosis and my doctor understood (upon explanation) that I have pretty severe cognitive difficulties under sensory stress-particularly auditory overstimulation.

This wasn’t meant as a comment saying I got a doctor’s note casually (not that I think you’re suggesting that interpretation, I’m just realizing it’s important to clarify). I got it because I was sincerely concerned about the cognitive impact going into the office as demanded would have on me and my work.

If you have a similar response to sensory stimulation, I highly recommend looking into it! I’m coming from the perspective of it being common with ADHD and ASD, which aren’t the only bases for it; if you mean headaches literally, do yourself a favor and talk to your doc about why sound or any other sensory issue might be affecting you that way.
> I can’t think of the last time I actually spoke to anyone on our UI/UX team because I literally have zero reason to set up a meeting with them and if there isn’t a work reason to interact it doesn’t happen anymore

This is what I really dislike about remote work. I was looking forwards to mingling with non-programmers, but when you're new to the company and working remotely that's basically impossible.
But wouldn't it be even more convenient to just not use 2FA in the first place? If you're just going to store your TOTP seed in the same place you store your password, why even bother?
It’s unpaid work, overwhelmingly done by women.

Child care, elder care. Cleaning the house, cooking the meals, getting the groceries, checking the homework, packing the lunches, scheduling the playdates, planning the parties, booking the doctor’s appointments, getting everyone where they need to be, paying the bills, making the calls, preparing activities.

As for taxes, we’ve chosen to allow income inequality to reach ridiculous levels. There are other choices.
Why would people sacrifice time for a better home for their family? I guess love for their family?
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If you can't afford to cross-browser test, and you don't have a Mac, I'm not sure why you're building an extension for a Mac-only browser then? Someone has to test it on a Mac, register for a certificate with Apple, etc. In the end, buying a Mac is the easy part?

And there are services like https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate/selenium/add-plug... where you can basically rent Mac VMs on cheap monthly plans. Or GitHub Actions, as I pointed to earlier, has a free tier with free minutes on an automated Mac terminal.
Because legislation rarely moves without a lobby pushing it one way or the other. And the ISPs have powerful lobbying at their disposal.
Two common reasons:

1. Buying a house

2. Renting a better place
I think the fundamental argument against early abortion is itself not religiously based. That argument goes like:

1. There is a secondary organism (life) within the womb upon conception.

2. That life will become a human being. Therefore:

3. That life must be given the same rights to not be killed that other (fully grown) human beings have.

Where is the religion or logical fallacy in that line of thought?

We even see aspects of this logic applied within common law, in that a pregnant woman (regardless of the length of pregnancy) that is murdered is considered a double-homicide.

I think it's unhelpful to approach a highly-contentious subject with the thought that the people on one side have absolutely no logical reason for believing what they do. I say logical, because the implication that something is religious is a way in modern rhetoric to defuse the opposing view by implying that the person holding it is not approaching from any sort of empirical worldview, but instead only deriving their argument from some ancient document of (whichever) religion.
How to Create Hanging Indents
Those work in any POSIX shell, and also zsh.
I just keep a (symmetrically) encrypted secrets file on my main work machine with a strong pass phrase stored in a gpg-agent. It's simple (emacs will happily transcrypt it simply by opening it) and amenable to straightforward backup/duplication wherever I need it, though obviously it does assume a command line and that I'm not exclusively on a phone or whatever (not that that's impossible, but...).

It also has the advantage of scaling in a straightforward way to other secrets that aren't "passwords", like credit card and other account numbers, SSNs for my kids, addresses for relatives who keep moving, etc...
Does anyone know what remote work processes Apple has used to ship such good hardware in 2021? I feel like these employees might have a point - Apple has shipped earth shattering hardware improvements on the Macintosh in a mostly remote work environment.
Lightning is basically a way to avoid trading on the Bitcoin blockchain by passing transactions through third parties.
World class recording studio plagued by unexplained radio interference
> How do you find where the script itself is?

No program can do this portably.
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The hit charge was dropped, but only after he was sentenced with no opportunity for release. The veracity of the claim has never been proven nor disproven.
I remember a production outage of some database, I can’t remember the db details, but it was when my then three year old hit the limit on her ability to enjoy Sound of Music alone. The last half hour or so of the call was done with a toddler sitting on my shoulders.
In the Bay Area houses are extremely hard to transact and jobs are very easy to change. You can’t keep moving around with your job.
> I never understood why someone would live over an hour away from where they work.

Lack of housing / housing affordable at your price point (even if it's high). I don't know the peninsula, but I doubt that 15 minute drive is a 15 minute commute, due to rush hour.
Tell how stable it is to the Venezuelans or the Zimbabweans or the Russians.

And Usd isn't doing too well in the last 2 years.
> Rich people have submarines, what's stopping some rich dude from doing this and betting against the markets? (Other than jail time if caught)?

Now, that makes me think. What, if any law would you be breaking presuming this was done in international waters?

I mean, I'd assume you'd probably just cause an armed response from /someone/, but I imagine it'd probably be a extra-judicial process.
A Billion Wicked Thoughts, Talks at Google (2011)
If you don’t keep up with an issue, maybe try Googling before making a comment like that. Amazon’s position could most generously be described as “defensive” during the months-long feud with Sanders that led to the increase.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-amazon-worker...
Added this great quote by Uncle Iroh as a TLDR to the article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drvAftwsTlU
In no way would it take them 15-20 minutes to get to the office. Unless you worked off rush hour.

I lived in Sunnyvale for a while. Hour of sitting in bumper to bumper traffic just to get to/from Mountain View on a shuttle.
Developer education. Frequently things like data structures and simplicity seem absolutely absent from many developers who instead seem more focused on composition, syntax, and code style.
There are no parts.

I was pointing out that JP has trans feminists on his show. The idea that he is hateful is just fucking dillusional.
Living down in SV is boring as hell for all the time you're not at work, and it's hard to get paid as much up in SF if you don't want the instability of startup life.
In my opinion if you go open office as a company everyone should work in the open office including the higher ups
Wow, so you mean change home just like that to live near office. I am not at Apple or even in bay area etc and at a distance of just 9 mile on a straight stretch of road. But from home/office it takes 45-60 min during peak hours. One possible thing I should do is to permanently rent a room in Drury Inn near office, especially since they have great corporate discount for us.
Your mention of “uncontrollable distraction” reminds me:

When I was interviewing for my current job, my son was 4 at the time and we were both at home. About 10 minutes into the 30 minute interview he came into my office and proceeded to climb over and around my back for the remaining 20 minutes of the interview.

The fact that my interviewer handled this with total calm impressed the heck out of me, and she later relayed that my ability to continue interviewing while this was going on impressed her as well
FWIW, almost everyone at Pixar has their own office, with doors, walls and everything. Some people share an office with one other person. There are communal spaces, and some cubes, but nothing even remotely like the massive open office plan at most tech companies.
IIRC libfuzzer doesn't necessarily depend on clang. It is coverage-guided so if gcc could generate the instrumentation to emit the coverage data, it would probably just work.

Way back when AFL was around but libfuzzer didn't exist yet, I think AFL came with a modified gcc that did that instrumentation. Maybe now that's upstreamed?
I raised this in another thread, but how much collaboration does the typical software engineer need? It obviously varies by company (Pivotal being the extreme), but in every company I have been in, there have been days where I have needed no substantial interaction with anyone else beyond maybe 5-10 Slack messages.

Now, as a software engineer with a product manager, information mostly flows one way as well, except for pings back to indicate when work is complete. On teams where software engineers are more than implementers, I can see this mattering, but a lot of us are implementers, and the advantages of quiet time to work outweigh in person time spent for the minimal decision making we do.

I could wipe out virtually every meeting I have beyond daily standup and very little would change.
It's more about not having their hands tied. Once a service becomes a requirement (like telephone service), they're much more restricted in how much they can charge, at what point they can cut off service, reasons for cutting off service, minimum service levels, and they'll also be required to provide service to money-losing regions.

This would be on top of losing their net-neutrality battle, which has the potential to bring in a lot of money should they have a decisive victory.

As a for-profit company, the only logical choice is to fight tooth and nail against becoming a common carrier.
I wonder how many of world’s economy screw-ups would have gone if USA wasn’t able to shove their currency down everybody’s throat. And which ones would have stayed?

What’s the relevance of such central currency today? Especially a currency that’s the fiat currency of just one nation and that’s not even like Euro!
I suspect that corporate real estate will go the way of legacy costs like pensions.

I'm excited for companies who can use this to their advantage, and can deliver with higher productivity and better margins than the entrenched players.
Simply don't join the meetings. For this not to fire back, it's also simple: inform the organiser in advance that you won't join, that s/he should let you know if your presense is absolutely necessary for input, and to email the outcome if relevant to your work.

After a while, you can stop informing them as they've gotten used to your absence and realised you aren't needed. Whoever remains in these meetings tend to feel even better selling each others thin air without practical participants making negative comments during those discussions.

It worked for me. Of course beware there could be retaliation on principle. If that's the case you better update your CV and start seeking another remote position anyway.
He's really not controversial though?

All of his "controversy" I manufactured in hit pieces that misquote and take things out of context to push a narrative that isnt based on objective reality.
Somehow, serif fonts look wrong on a dark background. Could it be my association of dark backgrounds with terminals?
Non-paywall

https://archive.is/3KpEK
Keep in mind, the users on blind are not necessarily representative.
Stories are not tasks. Stories are "placeholders for future conversations." [Beck]. Sounds like Scrumfall.
> lower level SWEs should be a more active part of the conversation rather than a Jira ticket consumer.

All fine, though in practice I have found that building the "_right_" thing equates to building the vision of the loudest/senior most person in the room irrespective of merit. Until that culture changes, I am more than happy to be a Jira ticket consumer.
Except on mobile!
How did they even know you had switched to a microphone if you didn't tell them? How did they know to blame it?
It’s hard to argue with the results that Steve Jobs achieved.
My impression is people who live far here are either:

(1) Ones with family who want rent/buy cheap and they'd live in east bay or somewhere much further south (e.g. Gilroy, South San Jose). Its understandable being its expensive here.

(2) Young (and/or single) 20/30 something people who either dislike living in suburban environment, or just find it "uncool", or just need better social life. They are actually spending more time in commute + spending more money in rent.

I live in San Jose, pretty close to work, but am considering going into category 2 (will use the company shuttles). But if things were perfect, I'm fine with a nice spacious suburban house and save those 3 hours.
Same. If I didn’t have a crazy Californian commute if love to go into the office. The new space ship campus looks amazing. I’m sure I could make it work. A lax approach that allowed for teams to decide how best to work be it fully remote or fully in the office or somewhere in between seems like a better solution than a one-size fits all one. But TC is the boss and if he doesn’t relent then people will have to adapt or leave I guess.
> Zoom lunches and socials and happy hours.

WTF??? My god, I cannot imagine sitting through something like that. Is it really a thing?
> If you're hybrid, you can't really live further away in cheaper areas

While I haven't done this (yet?), I've had coworkers who have, and they've successfully lived farther away in cheaper areas. :) What I've seen happen is one of two things:

(1) They live far enough away that the commute is hellacious (say, Sacramento to San Francisco, which can run 2+ hours by car each way and 3+ each way via transit), but they're willing to put up with it one or two days a week.

(2) They live far enough away that daily commutes are simply infeasible and just come in for a few days to a week every 4–8 weeks, staying in a hotel. This may or may not be paid for by the company, depending on what they've negotiated.

(N.B.: I'm aware that there are people who have done daily commutes via plane from, say, LA to SF, but that sort of thing seems to be pretty rare below the executive level.)
Until managers realise they can actually manage in writing, and the fact it gives back plenty of time to actually engage directly with the few individuals who need more 1/1 interactions to address issues they are having. I think managers benefit even more from less meetings since they have even more meetings in the first place.
That works, but doesn’t account for the long-term storage of already used passwords, or for the synchronization of passwords generated on different computers.

The system I use handles long term storage, generates the same password for a given website multiple times (with support for changing the index used to generate a given website’s password for things like password rotation—each index is a completely different password), allows passwords to be regenerated from memory if one memorizes the master key, and allows one to have a secure generated password without there being a record that one has generated a password for a given site.

It has protections against trying to guess the master key based on a generated password and the generated password are themselves difficult to crack (a given password has, by default, 60 bits of entropy, but this can be increased if desired).

The weak links are the master key, and the fact the passwords are placed in the clipboard. I use filesystem encryption to protect the master key and only have the master key in two locations (two: Just in case one SSD or computer dies, I have a backup). Browsers do not allow easy access to the contents of one’s clipboard (this is why one has to use Ctrl+V instead of Edit → Paste when using Google Docs in Firefox), so that attack surface, while there, is limited.
You can get around that if you search for link urls in archive sites.

Someone usually will have archived the article there.

If you feel a bit more ambitious you could make a bot that runs on a vps somewhere and automatically scrapes news articles.
I don’t think all companies are as adversarial towards their employees as this makes it sound.
Great companies recognize they benefit when they are proactively trying to do what’s best for the employee as well as the company.

Companies that I’ve seen do it well have an executive level employee advocacy position. Typically in a human resource department, but less concerned about the policy and regulatory requirements and is specifically tasked to be a champion/voice for employees.