skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My company’s core philosophy is that there are only 20 productive “creative” hours of coding in the average week. We employ our devs and ask that they aim for 17 hours of billed time to our clients; the remaining 3 hours is spent on our internal sync and calls with clients. The rest of the week is theirs: if they want to keep coding, do it; if they want to mow the lawn, that’s great too.

After almost 8 years with this model, I think the evidence is overwhelming that we maintain somewhere between 85 and 90% of the productive output of our 40+ hour/week counterparts.

I’m excited at the prospect of a positive shift in work/life balance coming out of the massive WFH experiment that’s happened over the past 18 months.
Well yeah if the whole company is doing remote first, everyone is going to be in exactly the same boat, problem sorta solves itself.
Probably.

Good news is email addresses are cheap, and it's unlikely that the bans are based on anything other than the email. Have had problems with PayPal in the past, and had to just make a new account.
This is a good question. As much as I find them hard to stand, there are cases where having an ideologue in the back of your mind (or one on each shoulder) makes it easier to play out a situation in one’s mind.

In other words: I don’t need a rule per se, just an argument. I’ll work out the contingencies on my own.
That's really interesting.

I wonder whether its because a large load of capacity needs suddenly in unaffected AZs put abnormal stress on things like networking to the whole unaffected AZs.

My only experience there is in Azure, when they deployed patches for the Heartbleed etc issues, for a few weeks things were much slower in CPU power (our response times just shot up 20% for no reason then recovered a few weeks later) and there were network related timeouts that were abnormal and it all settled down eventually.
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> Honestly, I really enjoyed being a leader for a technology organization, but right now, I absolutely hate it. There seem to be others who cope better, but it's certainly not for me.

Managing people in-person requires you to develop certain skills. Managing people remotely requires an overlapping but different set of skills. It is not harder or easier, just different, and like any skill, it can be learned with practice.
Yeah he’s good. Helped me with an issue I had. The particular issue I have is actually in puppeteer. But I need a .net library so that’s why I mentioned it.

Not trying to downplay his project cos it’s actually really good.
Is the problem “objectification” or just people being embarrassed about naturally private things becoming public? If someone makes a deep-fake of you taking a shit, is the repercussion of that a “societal issue?”
So what you did here was google something then cherry pick examples that support your findings. However, if you dig into the sources you'll find the authors are part a network of psuedoscientist eugenicists.

General consensus among proper studies is the opposite: behavior is not highly heritable.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2015.06.006

Table 1 is quite extensive. Nearly all of the two dozen studies show less than 10% heritability of the measured behaviors.
Well it depends on what you're designing. For a general-purpose OS used by everyone and their grandmothers, it makes sense to have them in mind and let the more advanced users customize the settings. And I would assume non-computer-savvy folks are indeed the largest demographic too, though I don't have data on it. And also, if you believe it's a good thing for the world to become digital (say, to reduce carbon emissions), you need products and services to be accessible to most kinds of users.
Why not aluminium, a lot cheaper to store and transport.
You're a pretty terrible manager if your metric for employee productivity/utility is butt-in-seat-time. In fact, you're so terrible that you're the problem, not any employee you might be "managing".
Bad cops abuse their power for fun. Peoples lives don’t matter to them. Makes a bad name for good cops.
the "partially destroyed" virus is not a covid virus.

example the johnson&johnson vaccine [a vector vaccine] is composed of attenuated [part destroyed] human adenovirus [thus non reproductive] that has an insert of conformationaly stabilized spike sequence. this makes ease of shipping and handling, but lacks good efficacy if you are immune to the adenovirus
Thanks for this! Yes there is no doubt that there is an effect, of course, but it doesn't rule out the booster shot being possibly very helpful in strenghtening immunity
As someone opposed to sales taxes, I'd rather the federal government stay out of it.
The article defines "thought leader":

> Uncontingent advice is what I think of when I hear the term thought-leader - someone has a single solution that seems to fit every problem.

Apparently it's a reference to folks who always confidentially advocate the same go-to strategies, regardless of context.
It's all wonderful until something goes wrong.

What other options are there? I'll go with the CC option if nothing else works.
Nonsense. When I'm coding I want to be left alone to code. Often I need to talk to people as well, and I can do this very effectively over Slack, video meetings and screen sharing. I work on a team that was mostly in-office before COVID but I was one of a handful of remote people. Everyone was able to collaborate effectively when needed. Prior to that I've also been in the opposite situation where I worked in the office with teammates who were remote. It's really not that hard.
And the men in porn whose only job is to stay hard and pound away aren't objectified?
Oh absolutely, and that was never my claim. That is however the implicit claim of Critical Race Theorists. It’s a racist claim, which is why I’m challenging your support for it now.
Is it feasible for you to contract?
I hadn't read about the CHIME (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) telescope before.

From the wikipedia article:

> The telescope's low-noise amplifiers are built with components adapted from the cellphone industry and its data are processed using a custom-built FPGA electronic system and 1000-processor high-performance GPGPU cluster.

that's super interesting. My limited exposure to radio astronomy relies on a lot more custom collection hardware (super cooled LNAs, with hydrogen maser clocks, ...) and mostly pure software processing. Seeing this very COTS hardware with careful processing systems is neat.

> The telescope consumes 250 kilowatts of power.

woah.
Thanks, I’ll give that a try, I’d prefer they just rectify it but they now just close the support chats with a blanket answer after I open them…

Seems crazy, I provided video evidence from inside the apartment and outside the apartment after they asked and then they just ignore it as the host doesn’t want to refund.
I am sorry I laughed so hard. Frankfurt in PDT.
> There are a whole lot of people in cities like Pittsburgh who will be happy to get 10% less than Silly Valley to get a remote job.

Do you think people in Pittsburgh shouldn't have jobs?
I really enjoy writing command-line utilities to make my system admin job more efficient:

https://github.com/jftuga?tab=repositories&q=&type=public&la...

Any feedback is most welcome!
so, well over 140 Celsius then as there are saunas that are that hot and breathing in them is fine.
... for a Twitter-owned newsletter platform, excluding competitors like substack, etc. Limiting it like that seems a bit risky given the current climate, no?
Productivity cargo cult will never die. Enterprise is predicated on this; but let's take the obverse of this cynicism: there are jobs, and people in them. This serves its own purpose.
>he obtained from his wife, an Amazon finance employee, to place trades in Amazon stock–making a profit of $1,428,264

>Bohra engaged in illegal insider trading in advance of 11 straight earnings announcements.”

>He and his family members have paid $2,652,899 in disgorgement, interest and penalties.

And 26 months in prison! This is why if you're going to do any kind of trading yourself -- never touch the company you work for.

Some more info on the original SEC filing as well: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2020/comp24923.pdf
The FDA has a process for approving vaccines. It seems to work reasonably well. At this point I have no issue with their process, which should, hypothetically, identify any long term effects. There currently are no preventative treatments for COVID that have completed the FDA approval process. The J&J shot at least uses a method previously used in an approved vaccine, but in that case (Ebola), the calculus probably makes more sense for those in areas prone to outbreaks.

It’s not about an arbitrary time, it’s about following an established protocol that has been used for every single other injection I’ve been given. (I’m currently going through allergy therapy, so I get a fair number of injections every month.)
It seems like they should be categorized along the lines of libel and defamation for the more malicious usages that intend to hurt a target and those that are effectively IP theft shouldn't be allowed either. These videos are effectively publishing lies that some person said or did something that is not true. It may be hard to find culprits in some cases, but there needs to be some kind of repercussions to fakes that harm individuals. Those producing content by themselves or with small organizations as a business won't have a lot of resources to launch lawsuits and only those that have enough resources might be able to fight them with lawsuits and DMCAs. Maybe elected representatives should push through some kind of legislation drafted to protect those with fewer resources to at least deter individuals that might target them (would be surprised if no one elected in California hasn't thought of doing this yet).
Klarna valued at $46B in SoftBank led funding round
I'm so glad to hear that last bit: seems like the deployment story in Elixir has really improved lately.

It wasn't long ago where the only posts in here would describe it as the biggest headache!
How did his wife get no prison time?
I once drove a Volvo from the late 1970s with almost the same interface except one better: the air conditioning was a knob rather than a button, so I could select how "hard" the compressor functioned independently of the thermostat slider for the heater core and the slider for air routing. It meant I could dial in how much dehumidification I wanted while running heat in the winter and using recirculate to keep out some of the nasty truck exhaust and dust from sanded mountain roads.
I don't disagree with you - and I lived in remote Africa for three years, so I've seen a thing or two - but I also think it's very important to remember that without taxes our lives would be immensely different.

As I mentioned most of the stuff we have now simply wouldn't exist. Would we do other things? sure. But don't imagine we can have this level of luxury and ease.
They potentially give you diabetes.
This is a textbook case of "humble bragging"... and I love it!
Reading the article, I agree with the Author's sentiment. But the battle is not only for the Management it seems. As as example, if you are stuck working from Home due to pandemic with toddlers at Home and you are unlucky not to have a large house where you can have your total privacy during work hours from the entire family, you will struggle a lot to focus.

Also, whether for better or worse, that commute time is often working adult's (who has family) only 'free' and 'personal' time during the weekdays. I took the train and that sweet, sweet hour of no interruption was a bliss - I could browse the internet, listen to music, read tech articles or just chill. Now, I close the laptop and boom - the family is right there...don't get me wrong, I love them but I also love to have my sanity and that healthy separation from my family which the work on site afforded.
Would love to see the same penalties applied to members of congress who used info from private briefings at the start of the coronavirus pandemic to make stock trades. :|
From the article

> As part of the plea agreement, Bohra’s wife will not face criminal charges. Bohra’s wife is no longer employed at Amazon.
> The telescope consumes 250 kilowatts of power

A better investment than bitcoin, IMHO.
How do they prove this? A lot of people play earnings. Amazon is not an obscure stock. In fact, making an earnings play on Amazon is probably one of the more reasonable safer things to do compared to what the world is up to now days.
... that is impressively hostile design. I would think the ladders would be have a cable alongside so a climber could attach a hitch or a ratchet wheel or something that wouldn't need to be re-hooked every rung but would still brake in the event of fall.
So, your conplaint is that your AirBnB in Tijuana was...in Tijuana?
I’ve been doing fully remote teams for years and one thing that took about 2 years to get used to is how to utilize meetings differently than in person.

Some of the biggest disadvantages of remote work is that it is harder to “just grab someone”, social isolation, and communication isolation (ie- people not talking to each other.) Meetings can partially solve all those issues and get used as such. However, because they are such a useful tool they get over used and I had to figure out how to say no to meetings, how to end meetings early if they’ve accomplished their purpose, encourage people to leave meetings if it turns out they aren’t needed and how get better at ad hoc remote communication without pulling together a meeting.

It took a while but I think I’m actually spending less time in BS meetings then before because there is much less pressure to stay or preserve a meeting no one had to walk to or book a conference room for.
Idea: Send ads to jedberg but not everyone.

The problem with ads, no matter how "personalised", is that they are sent to everyone by default. Almost no one changes defaults. Often there is not even an option to opt-out. Whether two users got the same or different ads ("personalisation") is not the issue. The issue is that they were sent ads when they did not conscisouly request them.

Thus, the fact that jedberg likes ads is not an argument for sending ads to everyone. In the same way that if some user dislikes ads it is not an argument to stop sending ads to jedberg.

Users are not being given a choice. When they are given a choice, e.g., to reject tracking on their smartphones, the result can be a decision that the online advertising industry dislikes.

Tech company employees can call themselves users, but there is a serious bias and conflict of interest that other users being subjected to ads do not have.

What if we just send ads to tech company employees. The tech worker cohort. They will not complain because they believe ads are "necessary". Problem solved.
If your stack is so deep that you're worried about serving malware to users for them to execute, you might want to put a warning on your site so users understand the risk before executing scripts.

The fact that the above sentence sounds unrealistic nowadays is extremely depressing. If malware distribution through web browsers wasn't already the norm, it'd look like common sense.
I understand the plea deal, but why. I am assuming they had evidence she gave him the data. Why let her off?
Some people want their cars to be like iPhones, but is that really what's behind this?

I mean, take TVs. Pretty much every TV has "smart TV" features embedded, to the point where it's hard to find one that doesn't. I suspect this is because the manufacturer gets some kind of kickback from streaming services to include their app and to show ads and to gather data about what people are watching and in the end it's actually cheaper to include an embedded processor than it is to leave it out and lose their kickbacks.

Similarly, those "smart car" features can be monetized by collecting valuable data and introducing subtle suggestions on where to go. It's hard to imagine a car company seeing the kind of revenue that Facebook and Google pull in and not wanting to get in on that. And they can even justify it as good for their customers by saying "we need these computers to collect training data so the self-driving features we deploy in the future will be better and safer."

I can imagine a future where "dumb car" features are actually luxury features. Only high-end cars lack the smart car features because it's cheaper to include them than leave them out. Maybe that already describes the present.
> So you want a mechanical door lock, manual windows, no car stereo, no power steering, no thermostat, no cruise control, etc...

I used to own a Datsun 720 pickup (built 1982) that matched this specification. It even had a manual choke; starting the truck without flooding the engine required a bit of skill.

It was the best vehicle I've ever owned. On the rare occasion it needed maintenance, I could do everything myself. I didn't even need a workshop manual, because it was all intuitive.
Gained 1.5 million. Lost 2.6 plus two years in prison and his wife's job. Not a great trade.
I would think "Twitter" is a closer synonym.
They get special treatment
Is there an equivalent of the Haskell Either monad & do-notation / Rust Result + the ? (try) operator?
>I think the ability to maintain a convincing presence in all-day Zoom while still getting your work done is the new meta-game for engineering. And I hate it.

The other side of this is just doing minimal work but being "available" which I've heard from plenty of friends & acquaintences
I mean within reason obviously. Obviously your employer can't force you to get up and do jumping jacks at 3am for no reason either.

But as it pertains to work, provided it's not illegal, yea they can pretty much force your hand on a lot of things.
Perhaps, but this doesn't discount the article's arguments.
Could have bought a few houses around town and made more money.
Why don’t you sign up for a coworking space, or work from a library, cafe, or similar?

Or heck just tell your spouse you need some me time and get out of the house for an hour a day.
This sounds like a fantastic place to work.
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If such an AI were out there, somebody would’ve already made a trillion dollars on the stock market.

If (when) that level of AI becomes feasible, it’s going to be created in the private sector, and they’re not going to be interested in toppling nations.

Although they’re actions with that AI could very well lead to the same effect.
I would guess twitter
Russia fines Facebook, Telegram over banned content
You forgot bongoDB
May be they would have to risk a trial to convict both but he would plea guilty to protect his wife. If the state believes he was the most responsible then they may judge a guaranteed conviction without the cost of trial to be worth it.

The wife (and family) lost 2.6 million, plus her job, and the husband - so it's not like she got away with something, just avoided the worst of the punishment.
Investing in RudderStack
Why create a new model for each airport? That doesn't seem right. Delays are compounding and many are regional.
As long as trust exists, fraud will exist. The only way to eliminate fraud is to eliminate trust, and trustless societies are pretty dystopian.
Hard to guess right 11 times in a row.
Personal experience from using Avalara for six months:
- Returns were processed via a queued batch job. It could take between 1-3 hours after submitting to process a return. Avalara had a countdown clock on their website showing the estimated hours/minutes remaining until the return would get processed. I have seen the countdown clock show 1-3 hours plenty of times (quite frustrating). This was the case 6-12 months ago. Perhaps Avalara has fixed this issue since.

- The 1-3 hour wait made filing quite difficult when the original return had an error. Submitting a second return to cancel the first required another 1-3 hour wait. Then submitting the final (third) return required another 1-3 hour wait. Filing one state easily turned into a whole day ordeal if there was an error.

- Support from level one/two staff for difficult tax questions did not help. Level one/two staff gave a vocal repeat from the online help guide. Level three support was acceptable however.

- Tax returns filed with Avalara are done via a rather cumbersome spreadsheet. Don't expect someone to hold your hand. Rather, it requires many trial and error submissions to figure out how to make the Avalara engine work.

Note: A basic "shipping product" business like Amazon/Walmart would do fairly well with Avalara. However, a company that does complex construction projects will have challenges. We ended up reverting to filing taxes manually.
his wife would have been in a black out period where she's not allowed to be trading Amazon stock if she works there. i'm not sure if the blackouts specifically applies to the husband, but him doing this 11 times right before an earning call? its kinda blatant

edit: Blackouts include the employee and all family members. You can not trade during blackout periods.
If you only do it for one stock, do it for every earnings, and have a win rate of 100%, that becomes pretty obvious.

Also, by the way, they were legally not allowed to trade during those times at all, due to her specific job and the blackout period that cme with.
These aren’t thought leaders. They’re insecure employees trying to justify their existence. You see it in most tech companies, particularly after employee 100 joins.

As a leader of an early stage high growth biz, it’s critical to prune the team as these folks emerge. It’s not a happy event, but not everyone is the perfect fit for their current role and sometimes tough changes need to be made.

Not making these changes leads to A players - the innovators who ship - having exactly the experience described in the post. And they tend to leave as a result.
They can't arrest a husband and wife for the same crime.
He pleaded guilty so it doesn’t matter in this case
That someone is the office owners
Sometimes, the features are really must-haves though. Let’s say it’s march 2020 and your boss wants you to design a mass-market covid vaccine. You have three requirements: it needs to be safe for human use, it needs to be effective at preventing covid, and it needs to be possible to manufacture. If any one of these is missing, your design is useless. I think a similar dynamic is visible in many software projects.
> For me, the biggest downside of working from home is how easy it is to get distracted by non-work. I go grab a coffee and end up putting dishes away, cleaning up, etc.

Sometimes taking a short break like that is the best way to make progress on a difficult problem though. Realistically we probably get 2 or 3 hours of actual work done in a day. Everything else is a bonus and it comes and goes over time.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: You can write absolutely anything you want on your resume.
I think the J&J vaccine uses an adenovirus that can't reproduce in human cells. It's missing something or other it need to reproduce and only grows in a specialized cell culture.
...your tone?
Spread this in your org, it's amazingly pragmatic and eye opening:

https://codahale.com/work-is-work/
He and the wife pleaded guilty, so presumably they had enough proof. From the article it seems she had material access to finance data and was under obligation to not do trades so they would just need to prove he spoke with her about it.
I'm not conflating it, I'm just looking at it in isolation.
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How much of the spike protein is coded for?
By that logic, who’s to say “things won’t change” again, such that they find there is cause for concern after all?

I’m not saying that’s what I believe, but if you’re admitting that we’re “changing and updating our beliefs as evidence comes in”, that also implies that we didn’t — and may still not — have all the data in front of us to make decisions.
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This would be an amazing feature!!