skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. When I heard I got filtered by default ... I didn't really want to work there. It was a red flag for me as far as if I wanted to ever be there.

If they can't hire a guy who knows their product up down left and right, not sure I want to be there while they reinvent the wheel and hire more people who just check HR boxes. Seems like a bad direction to take.
This is a great time to poach employees from companies unwilling to provide remote work. So many are paying great salaries for remote workers and treating them as true first class citizens.
As someone living outside the US (in the Americas still) with a chronic condition (that would be deemed as "preexisting condition" for insurers) I would be SCARED of living in California (more broadly the US). In addition to the high cost of living to live within a "sensible" commute distance from whatever office is assigned to me, it will cost me an arm and a leg to pay for my necessary medicine in the US, or jump through the hoops and loops of its healthcare system.

No thank you, I prefer working for a Silicon Valley company while still living in my home country, with a very high standard of living (given the income/expenses ratio).
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Your last sentence jumps to a conclusion without a logical path to getting there. Apple likely did analysis and has reasons. Perhaps they were less effective during the pandemic due to remote. Perhaps they did surveys and a majority of the company (silent nonetheless) wants back into the offices; remember, so many folks who have kids, SOs at home, or just not enough space for an office - these folks miss offices like crazy.

There are a lot of possible reasons this choice was made. Being ignorant of the business’ needs is likely not among them.
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What is the urge to keep the ambiguity? We can do better. Let's use a different word when we mean something different. This should be easy to do, if there is evidence use word A if there isn't sufficient evidence use word B. I'm perplexed why a mainly engineer crowd on HN would put up with this type of bs.
Apple is 100% correct in this decision to ensure their apex tech company status.

From personal experience with so called "professionals" at gov level that worked from home, they think it's a vacation not work. No observation of decorum, protocol, or consistency.

Your environment orients how you interpret and interact with the tasks at hand. If you have to pick between stirring the sauce before it burns or taking the time to type cohesive notes during a videoconference/call, your sense of urgency will have a bias towards saving the sauce. Because after all, you are home.
A highly recommended text file, enjoy:

Anatomy of a pirate

http://www.textfiles.com/piracy/anatomy.txt
Web archive goes back to 1997...

http://web.archive.org/web/19990125102138/http://www.phonelo...
> Everyone should know that the requirements in job listings are almost always guidelines, not a strict checklist.

I don't think the onus should be on the people who are applying.

There are a lot of people who are rule-followers, literal-minded, etc., and a lot of people with mental disabilities that might not be able to see through this checklist - of these candidates, a lot of them are likely fantastic SWEs. Why penalize people who are thoughtful about your posting? This just incentivizes lying both ways - it tells me that the company doesn't even believe their own requirements, so I may as well just apply anyway, even if it ends up completely wasting their time.
>Otherwise, I am sure most people by and large would enjoy would enjoy not wasting their life transiting back and forth to work.

I personally find this true, but I think there are a lot of younger tech people that use the workplace to fill a social gap that is hard to fill otherwise. I have nothing but anecdotal evidence but my company sold quite a few properties-- their leases were either up and they didn't renew or they outright sold commercial properties they owned-- and our younger employees have openly expressed concern that we are full time wfh.
> Only privileged person wouldn't value that.

This to me is in the same vein as the "it's a privilege to work here" nonsense. I think a lot of FAANG companies and their associated fan clubs don't realize that some people genuinely don't care about working at <insert famous company here> and instead are just happy doing work they like in an environment that makes them happy. To me at least, that's far more important than having "Google Software Engineer 2012-2020" stamped on my Resume.
Tell me again why the 2020 count was totally 100% accurate.
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I remember those dongles - and they weren't cheap. We had one for a sensitive part of the business (which probably was counter-productive because it got passed around like a potato).
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I would add to the list to study some of the top notch algorithms out there, say fast inverse sqrt
Laughs in slavic banya.

You soft western babies with your dry saunas. Over there the banya is kept at 110% humidity, and old men beat you with sticks the whole time.
> He wrote all of that himself in C++ and did the graphics with seemingly no training.

From the Wikipedia article:

> The author says that he wrote the game originally in C, switched then to Java, and later converted it with an automatic code converter to C++.
Do you have any actual data for that? Last I saw, most bands are still using live drummers and studio recordings for small to mid-sized bands are still actual drummers as well - unless it's a mostly studio band trying to save cost.

I think the analog to programming is a bit more direct in this sense; most companies aren't going to go with something like Copilot unless it's supplemental or they're on an entirely shoestring budget; it'll be the bigger companies wanting to squeeze out that extra 10% productivity that are betting hard on this - same with where larger bands would do this to have an extremely clean studio track for an album.
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I love DCF77. All my clocks in my home synchronize with it and are always spot on, without requiring a network connection. Never have to check whether they are still accurate and no hassle switching between summer/winter time!

I even used to have a wrist watch which was able to synchronize with it.
> Practice, competence, and probably more funding. I doubt members of the DOE are highly paid in NYC compared to market rates

Other places do it by actually having a professional, independent state/city agency administer elections, instead of allowing the political parties to nominate their relatives to run the Board of Elections.

In New York, elections are literally run by the party leaders and their relatives.

> The county party chairs choose the board’s 10 commissioners — one Democrat and one Republican from each borough — and most other board employees. Tradition dictates that when staffers leave, they are replaced by someone from the same party and borough.

> Employees include Beth Fossella, the head of voter registration and mother of a former Republican congressman from Staten Island, Vito J. Fossella; Thomas Sattie, director of ballot management and son of the former Brooklyn Democratic district leader Maryrose Sattie; Pamela Perkins, administrative manager and wife of Democratic City Councilman Bill Perkins; Raphael Savino, deputy general counsel and brother of Joseph Savino, the former Bronx Republican leader; and Daniel Ortiz, deputy clerk in Brooklyn and son of Assemblyman Felix W. Ortiz, a Democrat.

> The list of relatives stretches even to the agency’s computer programmers, including Rubén Díaz III, a Democrat who is the son of the Bronx borough president and grandson of a City Council member.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-elect...
> If a company doesn't have an office, I don't want to work there. I like having a place to go to that isn't my home. I like meeting and talking to employees in different parts of the business without having to setup zoom calls for that. I enjoy the social and collaborative aspects of in-person work. I do enjoy the ability to work remotely on occasion, but I want to be in the office most of the time.

I'm 100% the opposite of you. If I never stepped foot in an office, never saw a coworker in person, never had in-person social interactions for work again, for the rest of my life, I'd be one step closer to my dream life. Thankfully people like you have the vast majority of jobs available. Hopefully the rest of us will have more options moving forward.
Kind of a meta comment here, but HN is way more pro-full time remote work than the people I speak to in my day to day life. I'm definitely glad that we'll have increased flexibility in the future with hybrid set-ups, but I am looking forward to getting back in the office. I would not even consider a full time remote position at this point in my life (and I've been seeing more and more recruiters reaching out with these) but I'm glad that there are increased options there for those who want them.

If I worked for Apple I'd really feel like I was missing out on one of the big perks of working there if I was fully remote (and I'm not talking about the physical office - I'm talking about being surrounded by world class talent). At the same time I can understand how limiting the insane housing prices are in the area of Apple HQ, but I'd prefer satellite offices to full time remote.
Author of the post. This is really an interesting take on shortcodes. I've been struggling with a format that the svelte compiler likes and can be used in markdown. This may be the answer.

> <embed-youtube id="123asdf4"></embed-youtube>

Thank you.
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Anecdotal, but managing through the pandemic has been significantly more challenging than in-office. Granted, we were working through a pandemic, so not really WFH, but it did leave a bad taste in a lot of managers’ mouths because people keep advocating for WFH, without making that distinction. So when a manager hears WFH, and this is that, there’s no way.

But distinguishing WFH from “work through pandemic” would likely be a lot more effective.
64-bit floats should be fine; I think that tweet is only sort-of correct.

The problem with floats-storing-money is (a) you have to know how many digits of precision you want (e.g. cents, dollars, a tenth of a cent), and (b) you need to watch out if you're adding values together.

Even if certain values can't be represented exactly, that's ok, because you'd want to round to two decimal places before doing anything.

Is there a monetary value that you can't represent with a 64-bit float? E.g. some specific example where quantization ends up throwing off the value by at least 1/100th of whatever currency you're using?
Space enthusiasts don’t want “nothing,” they want this: https://vimeo.com/108650530
Especially looking for dates in the workplace as a selling point.
It's funny that it broadcasts the local time, with adjustment for daylight savings. This makes the receivers extremely easy to build, which mattered a lot in the times that the signal was first broadcasted. And a lot of receivers have been manufactured over the decases, probably tens or even hundreds of millions.

Today even the most basic microcontroller could easily adjust the UTC time to the user's timezone. If this was built today people would laugh at the idea of broadcasting anything else that UTC.
Spending 30% more? More like 130% more, based on my very recent homebuying experience in another very nice city compared to what that experience would have been like in the Bay Area.
The Departed said it best:

"World needs plenty of bartenders."

Every employee- and every manager- at every not-trivially sized firm is replaceable.

Resigning is ABSOLUTELY THE WORST response, both individually and collectively, for those interested in enshrining a more remote friendly ecosystem.
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A man who has worked from home for over two decades because of these employees criticizing them for asking for the same. Gruber has been increasingly out of touch with anyone besides Apple’s marketing department lately and his stubbornness that week was the last straw for me.

Jason Snell has far more interesting and insightful takes these days anyway.
I'd say for me the choice about WFH is one based on several weighted variables: time to commute to office, pay, responsibility, office quality. My weights on those changed over time; for example, at some point I had kids, which meant I had to be relatively close to home within certain hours, not 1 hour away at an office. I no longer need pay that's as high, and I don't need access to the "brightest minds" as much as I used to (it helped at the time: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10720231B1/en never would have happened if I wasn't "hanging out in a microkitchen with Jeff Dean")
A ransomware event should prompt a very thorough disaster recovery project. Probably with a dry run.

Ransomware is basically a software disaster event.

Disaster recovery is a famously ignored planning event. Probably because most orgs just push it down to projects and say "plan for it" and maybe sign some contracts with offsite storage companies and provide no other architectural support.

Strangely, the same management pattern is repeated on enterprise security. Hire some spreadsheet managers with security credentials to "craft policy" and then push it down to funding starved projects to implement, but don't bother with providing useful solutions.

Ransomware may do some good to the overall practice of IT management by reprioritizing disaster recovery.
Exactly, this is why you're seeing such a push for returning to the office from financial institutions -- commercial real estate makes up a large portion of their portfolios.
The danger isn't that gs.com would leak data or somehow someone would get access to GS systems through it - the danger is that someone could change content on gs.com and then use that content to spear-phish or otherwise scam someone else.

You get a link, you check it because you're good like that, see gs.com and then trust it.
FAANGs don’t need that much monster “talent.” They need some, like the Jeff Deans and whatever. But most of the jobs at a place like Google require just basic top 10% software engineering skill which they make too much money to ever have a problem hiring.
Crashes involving Tesla Autopilot and driver-assistance systems get new scrutiny
> Some people live in situations where there are too many distractions or annoyances at home. This is especially true if they have children.

I would prefer to rent a WeWork like space for myself in my own town (about $200 USD a month) if I needed a "distraction free work place" rather than moving all the way to California to spend 50% of my paycheck in cost-of-living.
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Anecdotally I personally know several people who have left Mozilla in the last year, and not because they were laid off but because they were very frustrated with how things had been going internally (not necessarily with remote work.) They just went through a huge round of layoffs, but I see job postings from them constantly. Somethings not right over there.

I interviewed with them a couple years ago and it didn't work out; I feel like I dodged a bullet.

As for offices/WFH -- in that case I was specifically attracted to a hybrid model (work remotely but go into the local office 2-3 days a week). I would have not been interested in a purely remote model. I suspect many companies flirting with pure-remote will run into this.
^ Lesson number 1 for QA is to use demonstrably fake metadata. Lorem Ipsum is good and if you need realish metadata like email addresses, translate real ones (i.e. from adam@google.com to testaccount+adam.google.com@tester.com)

Also, prod and staging/QA/dev - never the twain shall meet.
Then how smaller places with ambitions to grow and prosper could lure large industry? That way, the big and profitable industry, with its higher-paying jobs, would just concentrate around already rich places. This happens anyway: e.g. 14% of UK population lives in London. I don't think this process needs any speeding-up.
I know the Google building but I was not aware Amazon was in Madison in any substantive manner. Is it an Amazon building or a company they acquired?
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general aviation has a better safety story than driving, when you look at it on a per mile travelled basis.
McMaster-Carr might have a better selection of obscure fasteners/hardware/tools. Pricier, but often faster shipping than Amazon
I haven’t seen any comparisons yet to the competition. How does copilot compare to the likes of kite and tab9?

https://www.kite.com/

https://www.tabnine.com/
This is it. Who wants to go back to open office floor plans? Give me a shared office and maybe my answer changes
I learned early in my career to never give an executive a completion date or time estimate I hadn't thought long and hard about and had full confidence in. They won't remember any of the contingencies you tacked onto your estimate or the additional features they insisted on adding to the project after you talked, but they'll never forget when you said it would be done. It's far better to annoy them in the short term by saying what you'll need to provide an accurate time frame than it is to guestimate something that will bite you later.
If you live in Europe and have a Citizen or Casio watch, it is likely that your watch checks the signal from DCF77 every night to sync up with the atomic clock.
A single wide mobile home, which is x2-3 as big as this, is cheaper than this costs. And, in most parts of the country, you can buy a full home with land for less than this costs installed.

Their advantage seems to be how quickly they can deliver and install them. Digging into their website, it sounds like they're targeting temporary housing for natural disasters, etc. which makes sense.
just got access.
Jesus christ, its happening
Is this part of the real game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzdVpfk7yLs
That is already the recommendation. Pick an open source project and contribute.
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> Ranked Choice Voting is seen as a panacea to two party politics and polarization.

I suspect that, if Instant Runoff Voting—I will continue not to reward the marketing effort of trying to claim the name “Ranked Choice Voting” for the worst seriously-advocated ranked choice election method—is seen as a panacea for anything, it’s by a very small fraction of even the people that prefer it to FPTP voting.

> But no matter how you feel about it, RCV is demonstrably more complicated than FPTP.

Forget FPTP, IRV is more complicated than many other ranked-ballots methods that aren’t Condorcet methods, and needlessly so.
Sure it's N=1, but I worked more than 40 hours every single week when I was at a FANG. I used to laugh at all the perks because who actually had the time to use most of them other than interns.

Times I used a climbing wall or nap pod: 0

In the end even the free lunch was annoying. (Yes I am going to complain about "free" food.) It just lead to short lunches where people go back to their desk as soon as they could.

I love the social aspect of lunch and it's the highlight of my day to eat with friends. When you are trapped on campus that rarely happens. I was immediately happier when I left and got the social aspect of the middle of my day back. Went from taking like 20-30 minute lunches to like 70. Leaving the office and eating lunch with good friends a few times a week is a huge moral boost over waiting in some silly named tech cafeteria.

Don't get me wrong pre-FANG I dreamed of how nice it would be to eat at on campus free cafes. Later on I realized it was mostly there to keep you from taking a long lunch stuck in traffic.
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> #bob's game is: ##THE GREATEST PUZZLE GAME EVER MADE [...] bob's game is "source available" [...] but not "Open Source"
That means no forks except to create pull requests!

Would you consider deleting your fork? It goes against the author's wishes and I don't feel comfortable gawking at someone who might be experiencing health issues. He's clearly trying to distance himself from the attention it's received.
> they didn’t seriously try

It would be interesting to hear from someone who works at Apple how far they went in trying to make it happen. My guess is that Apple doesn't do anything half-assed, and if there was a way to save hundreds of millions of dollars, they would have done it.

I welcome your call for non-anecdotal evidence - here's one: the vast majority of companies are returning to the office. I don't think it would be fair to call all the executives of all those companies irresponsible and negligent. Again, the cheaper thing to do would have been not to come back to the office, so the negative impact of WFH must have been substantial.
This sounds like you haven't really investigated the issue. Apple's plan, for instance, does allow a lot of flexibility; they are making Wednesdays and Fridays work-from-home days.
It would be interesting to model modern identity politics as a kind of conspiracy. Here is an "Enemy Inside" variant that applies to any individual of a problematic identity. When some combination of tags white, male, straight, religious, disagrees-with-this applies to you, you are in a conspiracy whether you know it or not. It is a "conspiracy by default" that you must opt-out of in various ways, most importantly by being vocally supportive of the conspiracy theory itself!

As a conspiracy it blurs the distinction between "theory" and "practice" because there's a valid point to be made about systemic racism, and yet the theory goes much further.
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Exactly. The Atlantic author seems to be laboring under the misguided assumption that the web is somehow the same sort of thing as a library of books. Even libraries often have some degree of garbage information in them, and represent a survival story: the vast majority of books ever written are no longer in print, or even discoverable anywhere.

Good stuff should be preserved, but it's not the Internet's job to somehow magically do it. It's OUR job, and the nature of digital information (DRM not withstanding) makes this easier than ever.
> I value having more control over what little time I have left alive

This right here is the entire argument. It's about control, and nothing more.

The pandemic displaced a large group of socially successful people from the social hierarchy. Those people want to return to the old normal because they want their status back. They want control back. "You'll do what you're told because I said so, that's why." lies at the heart of it.

Some of those displaced people have been revealed as frauds: they don't actually contribute value that is commensurate with their position in the hierarchy. And some of those who report to them have had just about enough of their shit.

We're collectively asked to give up our lives to these companies. To willingly give over our ability to determine how we order our days. To look the other way as our various employers build a literal dystopia.

Yeah, no thanks. I'll stay in control of myself from now on.