skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been searching for a natural way to browse pre-eternal-september Usenet. Google Groups is less than ideal.
Billionaires spending frivolously is better than billionaires saving
I've found the WFH debate to be a great proxy for finding people I definitely don't want to work with.

Everyone has a preference. But in my experience, the people that whine the most about having to go to an office are generally the people everyone wishes would stay home anyway.
I am an optimist about low code platforms and apps. I think sufficiently patient people with a disposition for a bit of logic can successfully achieve solid work.

Recently I witnessed some friends get quite far by using a game engine called Unreal which allows people to use a “no code” alternative to C++ called Blueprints.

It can get a bit unwieldy when enough logic is created but if you’re disciplined about the diagramming etc it can be mitigated.
I'm currently having the same experience.

Unlike virtually all other email providers, Microsoft does not cooperate if you follow standard email practices. You can follow all their instructions, sign up for their monitoring tools, submit issue reports, try to build "reputation" and if you are self-hosting they will still have a high likelihood of silently dropping your emails after their server tells you it got them, or putting them in the recipients spam even after being marked as an approved sender.
I had to use this for a client project once (per their request) a few years ago and as a developer it was an absolute nightmare. But I guess it's not meant for developers...

There were so many quirks and limitations that I wouldn't ever recommend it to anyone. It's to app development what Macromedia Dreamweaver was to web development back in the day, except worse because you can't edit the code.

I don't want to be overly negative so I'll say that I do see value in it for those who have no technical skills or programming knowledge to create some sort of prototype, but that's about it.
What are you talking about?

The damage is already irrepairable and the new public debt taken on during this relatively short time cannot be returned. It's irresponsible enough.

Adding more to it with the intent to do it "indefinitively" would only hasten the collapse of the economy and employment.
100% agree! And I don’t think the approach needs to be “first, do no harm”. I would be very happy with “move at a normal pace and do your best not to kill anyone.”

But “move fast and kill people” is ludicrous and it’s exactly what Tesla is doing.
ARGs for promoting nothing seem to be on the rise (I don't have links to back that up though.)
When you have 58% of the voting share in a $1T company it doesn't really matter if you are surrounded by yes-men. You kinda can do whatever you think is cool.
Psychiatrist here. This is true, and most people find recovery eventually without a formal program. Working with a doctor can make it much less comfortable in many cases--and in the case of opioids, can offer several options that can be lifesaving by preventing return to use and overdose.
I am so thrilled to have Facebook paint custom tailored advertisements onto my optic nerve with a laser.
I gave it a try (it's free for now). It gets rid of the noise very well, but my voice become a bit robot-like and almost sound like I'm speaking with a running nose.

Still, very impressive. I can see myself buying this if they make the voice a bit better.
As long as it gets you a blog post.

Did you also notice how the TLDR is at the end of that whole rant?
I hate these solutions that drive people towards having more and more meetings and working in committees.

If this is how you want to work with some people who prefer this mode of working, good for you. Go ahead and do that with that group of people, but just please leave me alone.

I want to work alone in a solitary and quiet setting with focus.

[Edit] I read a bit more, and it's even worse than I thought. You want me to be online all the time, and break my concentration every 30 minutes to talk to other people? How do people work this way? Perhaps I have a strong introvert bias when it comes to work, but even then, how do you build something creative with quality working like this?
The sense of sitting in office is a tremendous waste of time and potential is inescapable.

I work in the engineering industry and am lucky enough that I get to have privacy and my manager is good. I ensure I do my work and well at that.

But I know friends in IT who absolutely loathe the feeling of being in a monitored jail cell.
I never noticed the extra modifiers on Japanese keyboards. That looks incredibly useful (in a tiling WM at any rate)

I am definitely putting a Japanese layout trackpoint on my birthday wishlist.
I think the biggest issue is that those who are most moderate, most interested in nuance, and the most correct are most likely to be grey rocks. True believers who are committed to their views are most likely to be outspoken, since they value that belief above other considerations.
In short, we will breed a society dictated by extremes.
If I was a PR person and I had the choice of not doing my job and agreeing with toxic boss that "California is forcing businesses out by not ignoring my type of toxic behaviour, put that in!" or being bullied and possibly fired for raising the point that they are maybe not 100% right...

Not that this is what happened, still bad bosses reap bad behaviour.
Once I visited a lignite coal mine in western NoDak. The owner was fond of showing a collection of semi-fossilized root balls and tree-parts that were dug out along with the coal. Dates to 55-65Mya.

It was being strip-mined, and it was close to the surface too. "Western North Dakota contains an estimated 351 billion tons of lignite, the single largest deposit of lignite known in the world... enough to last for over 800 years..." - https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/Mineral/nd_coalnew.asp
I think what has changed is mostly people’s “literacy” towards coding, automation, APIs (integration), etc.

Where before concepts like a logic branch and a loop were very foreign I think a lot more people know what they mean.

Also the industry has learned that 80% of the uses cases are around CRUD and different ways to enter data and view data.
To be pedantic, only the ones that posses the binary need the source code for something to be open source. Since they did not publish the binary and since they have the source code we could say that it is actually open source software.
Give us content creator tools and let us do the rest.

What ever happened to Second Life, anyway? I never tried it, but some of the ideas seemed cool.
The problem becomes when one group unilaterally attempts to force an [arguably bad for certain demographics and teams] choice without giving options.

The way I see it the problem is that if you let people choose (no matter what, including 100% office or 100% remote), then it's fine.
> OK, I can see you are just drawing conclusions without doing any real research.

Do i need to remind you that you literally copy-pasted your "conclusion"?

You have given me no reason to proof me wrong.

Saying "do your research" is exactly the reason of my conclusion and answering with that statement is another way of saying: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Eg. Helium Network HNT - decentralized hotspots?

Like i said, nothing new. Decentralized mesh networks already exists and those solutions are inferior to an ISP forcing a hotspot option, existing options, esim or mobile hotspot.

It's absolute bs that their "Network Coverage" page only shows info about their Blockchain and price, not actual wifi coverage that is of interest for customers, lol.

https://explorer.helium.com/

This is how it should look like: https://fon.com/maps/

Masquerading their Blockchain as a product doesn't make it useful in real-life.

At least give something that is actually useful instead of "i don't know an answer, but check this and that".
> * 3rd party app (Charles Schwab) was not usuable to execute an options transaction. App usability bug.

Seems like a Charles Schwab problem.

> * QR codes would not scan, but would scan fine on my gf’s iPhone. Hard to imagine a Google Pixel camera can’t see these well?

Wouldn't scan with the default camera app? A different camera app? Because the ability to read QR codes is an app function, not a camera function. Works fine on Samsung Android phones.

> * Battery drain was way worse than iPhone. Had lots of anxiety about this

Pixels have relatively small batteries. Which iPhone? Hardware makes a difference.
My reaction - so what?

Facebook has been heavily investing resources into the metaverse for a while - building up various experiences, snapping up game studios, even Occulus itself!

They just haven't bothered calling it a metaverse until now, but make no mistake - they are the leaders by a mile.
Oculus never took off. The other two you mentioned were already vastly popular (Whatsapp was the most popular thing in the EU back then, now taken over in part by Telegram.) The purchases were made not out of a grand vision for the future, but simply to hinder and squash competition. The internal emails that have leaked from the company over time show as much.
Integrations, and the number of API-as-a-service tools like Twilio available today. The core idea's the same as previous shots at no-code dev, but the number of things you can do, the features you build into a product, just by integrating with another service, is staggering.

The same way things like Twilio/Stripe/AWS speed up standard development also make no-code development more valuable.
Yes, I did read the article, and have listed details it would benefit from to allow further investigation.
> These companies are at war trying to capture our attention on smartphones. Imagine what they'll do to win when we're all plugged in.

I don't disagree that they're competing for attention, nor that the field is perfect for someone to come along and show us something we weren't expecting (like VRChat; made by two people). But this is Facebook, not DARPA or Skunk Works. Their core offerings are a website, a photo sharing app they acquired, and a messaging app that they also acquired. This is fundamentally an advertising company. The wildcard was a consumer hardware company that they also acquired. This is not DNA that can innovate a 'metaverse' into existence.

You can't just grab a couple of executives, a bunch of mid-level managers, and a few hundred developers and demand that they innovate and expect anything to come out of it.
And ya gotta have one or the other, right?
I’m interested in what these things do better than Salesforce, which is incredibly powerful Apps for gaps foothold, and allows both code and no code development.

I suspect the answer is that they don’t require you to buy seats for all the users, but wonder if anyone is familiar with both.
I don't know, it's all a big pass for me.
I remember the same eventual "system got into broken state" issue on a laptop with XP. After reinstalling everything the third time (including wireless network drivers from a USB drive and at least a billion service packs shudder) I figured out how to take a disk image with a linux live-cd and save a clean iso of a fresh install with updates and my preferred programs pre-installed onto a separate partition where I also carefully mapped all my user data directories. If windows started being screwy I'd pop in the LiveCD, run some commands to format the OS partition and reimage it from the iso on the data partition, and after applying a couple of patches I'd be up and running again. I think I got the whole process down to like 30 minutes at one point.
Where's my mic drop ascii thing? Too long anyway.
Type "bsod" in the terminal. An input box will pop-up asking for a message. After that a BSOD with your message will happen. Just like in the old times of DOS.

To see all available commands in the terminal type "help" or "bins".
Or that's someone that spends 3h/day commuting
Never trust something foolishly titled “All you need to know”
It sounds like you have a story to tell.
This elevator crashed down the shaft crushing this poor guy in the door. So sad...

https://nypost.com/2019/08/22/video-shows-moment-man-crushed...
I loathe that I'm being asked to go back to an environment of constant chatter for a knowledge, focused job.
I totally feel the draw to both. Personally, I really like the freedom of WFH and it wins out against the benefits of being in office for me. But I can see the appeal to being in office too; there's something really nice about working with your teammates, especially if you get along with them and learn from each other.

The thing with your attitude though, is that you're saying it only works for you if everyone is in office. Basically that everyone has to be in office for you to enjoy your office environment. This only works on teams where everyone feels this way. And that's a perfectly reasonable approach to hiring for a new company. The problem is that people have been WFH long enough that every team is likely split on 'team-in-office' sentiment. If a company wants to require staff in office at this point, it should be for building new teams, not applied to existing teams. Then people with the same sentiment as you can choose to transfer to those teams if desired.
Majority of the long posts I've seen on reddit have the tldr at the bottom...
NASA and India discovered water on the Moon
I used to get ads for Bubble on Facebook, the ad comments were always fun to read through...
Why should your preferences dictate what other people do? What makes your preference for having people in the office more important than their preference to want to work from home?
lucid dreaming is the best one can get into a real-world like experience with full sensory feedback. I've been meditating for over seven years and have many a times got into a lucid dream wherein I'm aware that I'm dreaming and can create experiences, objects at will. Have traveled into space (floating beside stars), flying with raining, climbing on mountains, lifting heavy incoming vehicles like buses and throwing them away etc.

Now if a device can hook into one's lucid dream and manifest things .... that would be creating universe the way you/device wants

edit: I don't have the control on when the lucid dream comes. Usually when I desire it it comes soon (during my short day-time naps) But I've heard from an expert meditator that it's possible with a technique to get into a lucid dream at will
Looks like I got downvoted for not spending enough time on Reddit.
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reading your comment and thinking of Wix
Absolutely. x86 standardization has made generations of developers forget what it was like coding for a specific machine. ARM is still far behind despite the enthusiasm.
> Declarative goal based development. You type in English what you want the application to do,

Isn't that just code?

I'm convinced that for sufficiently complex "no-code" solutions, you just end up with a poor mans programming language.
Like I said, it's ok to have a preference. People that whine about it are toxic.
I’ve been working remotely more than 10 years now.

I get the idea that some people prefer to be around others, to have face to face conversations etc. And some people do not have the best home environment. Maybe they have kids and would prefer an office. And maybe, they just like working at an office. That’s fine.

What I don’t really understand is that people complaining about being in pijamas and being in the house all the time and stuff like that. Just becase they now work from home. At what point working at home meant that you should not shower for a week and have ketchup stains on your face?

Just wear the thing you want, meet with people you like and do as you wish. What is the hold up here?
Don’t forget fort-nite. It’s free, has concerts and movie screenings and runs on most platforms. It seems to be meta versing without even realizing it.
> I'd love to get into stenography but it seems like the amount of memorizing involved is akin to learning a new foreign language, too much to learn as a hobby.

Why learn when you can invent your own shorthand, more natural for you and unless you want somebody else to read the shorthand - not an issue and even then can just translate with a script.

When I started out programming (COBOL) in the early 80's we had a choice of typing coding sheets to send to the typing pool or use one of the terminals and type them ourselves.

So I did my own shorthand and a script (was Honeywell Bull DPS88 running GCOS 8) that would expand the shorthand into the code, of which for COBOL, was lots of typing tokenisations to be done. I expanded it to do most of the Identification etc, pop the date written in and that. Heck I even had it generating a test framework for the code and all this allowed me to churn thru programming faster than the analysts could keep up. Personal best was 26 programs written, tested and signed off by auditors in a day. In a way I kinda wrote what would be known as a framework in a sense in the end as had common aspects like error handling handled automaticlly by the translation. So in the end I wasn't having to type much in for some programs.

Moral being, why learn something complicated when you may very well be able to invent and use a more natural form yourself and evolve it from there.
Says who?

Tether was 100% backed by USD too, until the lawsuits.

Then it became 2,9% USD backed.
N95 or KN95? What to know about face masks as the Delta variant spreads
Work isn’t a democracy.
The surprising source of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals
I loved going to office at Google when we had teams of 5 in separate rooms. It was really easy to do team work, talk whenever we wanted. But the walls in the buildings were torn down while the company was growing, and we couldn’t talk without disturbing other teams, while they were disturbing me, and at some point I had to wait 20 minutes after lunch every day when I wanted to go to toilet. I’m happy that I don’t have to deal with that anymore.
Catfish: https://bluesabre.org/catfish/
What do you mean by Oculus never took off?
Sounds reasonable but in practice it's a bit disingenuous to say that as the status quo is still that office is the default, often for no good reason.
Me too. You’re making me realize I’ve left my Milou to sleep alone upstairs. Tintin would never do that, unless Milou was drunk.
It is in the court filings, they are spread out and hard to find sometimes. In particular there is a link https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/13558/riot-games-ceo-fi... which outlines evidence of witness tampering, and other actions of the plaintiff. I believe some of the other filings have more information.

I honestly don't know, but I do think there is something with Riot/Blizzard culture that might make this type of behavior "normalized?". I guess my questions are more surrounding DFEH and tech in general. I don't know if Riot/Blizzard are the worst companies in the state, or are they?
Yet, you should still have code that handles them.

Eg something that automatically calls the police and ambulance.
I'd be curious to hear from someone who's built a truly complicated app with bubble (equivalent of >50k loc not just crud).

I can't think of a reason it'd be impossible to build a no-code app that scales as well as code, and I don't have evidence that Bubble has failed.
If Bubble is not a bubble, a coder should be able to sit down and figure things out intuitively and start getting better results than they would busting out create-react-app, or their java spring framework backend. Wait, that's not that unbelievable!
Exactly right.

I like to say that reality is a complex multivariate problem. Reducing it to a single variable --which is what you see out there nearly 100% of the time-- is, at best, a complete misrepresentation of what solving real problems in the real world looks like.

I avoided adding layers of complexity to my simple model because all I was after was a sense of the scale of the problem rather than an accurate number (not sure that's even possible).

Once you start to add power system transmission, conversion and delivery efficiencies the problem quickly grows. On average, the energy loss from power generation to delivery is in the order of 6%. This might not seem like much, yet all of that power is converted into heat. Which means that if we need to deliver 500 GW to homes, we actually need to generate 532 GW, of which 32 GW will be converted to heat.

I have no clue what this means because I don't yet have a sense of proportion on such matters. That is is a very large amount of energy being wasted goes without saying. I can't really voice an opinion beyond that other than to highlight that this is yet one of the other variables that needs to be considered.

Power conversion systems and charging circuits (in general, switch-mode power supplies) of course have losses. SMPS efficiencies (I used to design them) are in the 85 to 95% range. It's a complex combination voltage and current that produces switching losses. At higher voltages you can be more efficient, however, because we are drawing such high currents the losses quickly mount. In the end, you are going to convert another 5% to 15% of all of incoming power into heat.

So, if cars need 500 GW and chargers are, say, 90% efficient, the total power delivered to the building connections will have to account for the 6% transmission and delivery loss and 10% SMPS loss. This starts to add up fast. Now we need 591 GW and will convert 91 GW of that into heat (the aggregate efficiency being 84.6%.

I could go on. This is not a simple problem. And those who just hand-wave and say stuff like "solar and wind can handle it" can only do so because they have not devoted a single minute to doing some pretty basic math before forming --or believing-- these flawed ideas.
> where can investigative pieces that take months or years to create fit into that?

They don't. The problem is, they don't fit in ANYWHERE. Nobody wants to pay for that, and in fact, nobody ever has. As has been documented ad infinitum at this point, serious, long form, investigative journalism has always been cross-subsidised from other revenue streams, because at no point has their been an audience willing to pay the actual cost of investigative journalism.

Traditionally the funds came from advertising, particularly classified ads, but classified ad revenue died...what, over two decades ago now? Print advertisement revenue followed, the weird shift so many newspapers tried into video was an embarrassing disaster, and here we are, 20+ years of flailing later and no replacements visible.

Will Substack solve this? Absolutely not. Hell, by continuing the great unbundling it might make it worse by undermining the revenue stream for the 2-3 newspapers still trying to make a go of it.

Which is, ultimately, my point: Your argument seems to be "unbundling will fail, because it won't pay for the high quality journalism people want". My argument is "unbundling will succeed, because people don't want to pay for high quality journalism".