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Nowadays you can just rent a Chinese military satellite for the few minutes that it'll be above your house. You'd be surprised at their resolution ;)

Of course, there's also publicly available US offerings like

"SecureWatch® is the premier cloud-based subscription service for secure and timely access to Earth Intelligence, simplifying your ability to map, monitor and detect change for any location on the globe at a moment’s notice."

EDIT: Found the price info for satellite rental again. $6300 per 30 seconds at 15cm per pixel resolution.
for the engineers that I've seen going back to the office (where I work right now, we have the choice of WFH or not, as we wish), I've not seen any correlation. Though I haven't seen any managers coming back, I guess they're happy managing things remotely
Sure but I think that's a good thing. I would rather we slowly lift millions of people out of literal poverty than sacrifice ~5% of our day (1/16 awake hours) in commute just to gatekeep our jobs.

Plus there are other barriers. WFH can be every day except a monthly lunch or social event with the team. Or it's WFH save for on-prem things like hardware upgrades. WFH doesn't have to mean fully remote... just not an office environment.
Quite a few of the usual suspects seem to be absent.

Pragmata Pro, Fantasque Sans Mono, Fira Code, Go Mono, etc.

Definitely expected to see Anonymous or Space Mono on there, though I don't particularly care for either of these myself.
I think this is a generational fault line that's pretty common even in good relationships. Older generations could get by making way less pragmatic choices. Many of the older generation graduated into an economy where the default state was almost full employment. Long term unemployment, or being stuck in a dead-end job, was for losers. So even nice parents often look at their kids and think their kids are losers or doing something wrong because everybody they grew up with who had the kind of problems their kids have were really dysfunctional people.
I cannot really engage with your question. First, because I am not an expert in philosophy (a Philistine, if you will). Second, because it is not axial in the identification of causality, such as we normally think about it.

You see, in the pragmatist view of a statistician (and in the math that goes with it), randomness - for example in the form of statistical independence - is not required to identify causality (or causal parameters of a model).

Instead, we need the "switch" variable to be uncorrelated with things we do not observe, or can not adequately model. This requirement holds for a random experiment as much as for an observational study. However, you will quickly convince yourself that this is an assumption. It depends on the data and how we got it, it depends on what we assume about the factors at play, and it depends also on the model and how we take into account factors that influence the outcome.

Specifically, the identifying assumptions for a causal model are untestable. Let me emphasize this again: Every causal analysis is fuzzy, because they are only causal based on the assumptions.

As such, the question of true randomness is somewhat ancillary: Statisticians know that the idea of causality is by default not a philosophically "true" concept. This, of course, leads to a pragmatist view.

One last point: Between free will and flipping a switch, and a causal analysis, stand many assumptions about the data, the measurement, and so forth. In that sense, statisticians probably do not feel that a random flip switching is less assumptive than any other causal analysis.

Related to this, let me offer you the perspective of social scientists. They feel that human behavior IS influenced by other factors, just as a machine or physical system would be (broadly speaking). That is, they would reject the notion that free will is indeed (or at least always) random.
In such studies, for example, choices from individuals would also be subject to intense scrutiny with respect to unobserved influences or other factors that might endanger the exogeneity of the observed choices.

Causal identification has been likened to a Zoo, with many kinds of animals in them. I am sure the philosophical idea of causation is part of the Zoo. On the other hand, statisticians speaking of causal analysis find themselves unable to "prove" any sort of causality, even weak forms as indicated above, without underlying assumptions. Case in point, a randomized controlled trial is chock-full of identification and exclusion assumptions. They are just standardized and accepted.

Sorry again that I have to rely on the statistical view - it is the only one I know a little bit about.
I know I'm the old man screaming at the clouds here, but the biggest problem I see with this is that it leads to engineers being pushed to outcompete these systems in iteration speed, which is impossible.

An engineer might get the task to make some feature, and the manager goes and uses bubble to make it and sees it only takes an hour, the engineer sits there for 5 doing it, you can imagine the rest.

The engineer might take care to make the code maintainable, fast, and expandable for some other feature that is planned, but nobody up the chain of command cares about stuff like that.

It's the kind of thing that makes the developer's lives harder, the apps more bloated, all to get the features out faster to the users for a few years until it all breaks down and you have to rewrite it.

I'm not convinced. I read this entire thread, but I never see a real benefit for users or programmers, just managers who enjoy pumping up some metrics so they can advance their career.
Well, learning how to code is not the only issue. Tooling installation, deployment etc is, at least for me, even after having written code for almost 40 years, a huge annoyance. I want to think about problems and logic; I couldn't care less about what editor I use or any of that and I care even less how it's deployed. As long as it's up and fast, I don't care. And this is still not that simple still, after all these cloud advancements to do except for the most trivial cases (static-ish websites).
Wait until they pass 35 and find that getting up and moving about is not just an annoyance but vital to keeping your body away from a state of constant little nagging pains ;)
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My wife has made the same observation in her own workplace and refers to these people as 'the wanderers', although judging by their impact on productive output they should probably be identified as intruders.
> Technical skills almost solely put me in the 1%.

What percentile would you rate your technical skills?
> ... how companies survived until now with all kinds of outsourcing ...

All of this involves varying degrees of transaction costs (ie. how hard is it to have everone aligned, communicating effectively, etc). Outsourcing is usually done for (parts of) jobs that can be easily carved out into fairly complete packages.

For example, have the QA team offshore, or outsource the design or slide-deck preparation. Most dev outsourcing is also done at least per-component if not per-project.

True distributed teams are HARD. But having everyone aligned, on the same page and motivated, if half (or more) of the team is remote, means a lot more effort on clear communication, management, etc and many office patterns will need reworking.

As one example, onboarding (esp junior) team members is much harder, as new people learn as much by osmosis as by reading the documentation.

This is not to diss WFH - I prefer it to office esp. cubicle hell - but we should be realistic about the challenges involved.
More or less, since Turkish people had their share of unsuccessful and successful coup attempts in the past, it is not unimaginable. I would understand why it would look staged to outside observers. However, if a complex and dynamic process with many moving parts fail, it fails spectacularly.
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Looking at the other posts on HN about the topic, I think I'll really feeling burnout: I most probably need a change of career between different IT jobs (from automation tester to something else) or even a most drastic change, I still need to figure it out.
The problem is, as many do, I need an income, I cannot afford to just stop working and take a sabbatical.
What's your advice on how to cope with the situation? Thanks!
Forgive me for my ignorance (I'm not in the saas biz) but $300-$500/mo seems eye wateringly expensive for what is essentially static content + abuse detection and metering.

less than $100/mo buys you an absolute beast of a VPS at some hosting provider that could alone handle way more than that.
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I think a lot about PinePhone, PinePhone Keyboard, terminal and emacs org-mode. As a journal, to-do list, notes etc. I'm very tempted to buy them, when the keyboard is released.

But I have a Gemini PDA which is basically the same thing but more integrated and I never use it.
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Interpersonal skills are like salt in your food. It makes the food better, and sometimes it may cover up some imperfections. Sure, some absolutely bland food will be better to eat than a pile of salt but thinking it has to be one or the other is not the right approach.

For full time employees going through a career with no interpersonal skills is very hard, they stick around with the same bunch of coworkers for a lot longer than consultants. If your technical skills are top notch and you lack interpersonal skills, doing consultancy not only makes more sense financially, it's also much easier.
I like how the commuting constantly grows and grows in these threads. We'd probably get to 1 day commute if the topic goes to 1000 comments.
I said it before, and I stand by it: to me, all these re-appearing discussions about "programming fonts" are - to the most part - bike shedding.
except that you're basically being recorded while doing this
My gosh. I've just been reading the interview requirements. I need to study spectral analysis, amongst other things. Then sit through a "1-2 hour" interview. To take the interview I MUST be on my home network, I must have my VPN etc. disabled. I must use a laptop/PC, not a mobile device. Can't use CLI for IRC. Other requirements as well.

I've never seen anything like this. I understand that raising the bar to entry is good for a community. What ever happened to having a seedbox and provable good ratios elsewhere.

Is the community/content exceptional?
I wonder how much of that is currently being heavily subsidized, and prices will rise. One significant difference is access to old content -- we might just not need anywhere near as much new content, which will makes things cheaper in the future.
Doist's Twist thing is the "real thing".

Forum threads/email convos for focused convos, stream-y chat otherwise. Mixing the two ends up being really messy IMO.

It does mean you gotta kinda move around, but I would kill for Slack to implement an "inbox-y" form of conversations, so I can actually keep track of open loops
I don't think that's gonna be a real problem after a short adaptation time. Managers will learn the limits of the tools.
Of course, if a product made by bubble is sufficient to solve the problem, than the engineer did a bad job when making a custom solution.
> nobody bothered to contact the owner of the house

Did they mention anything about this one way or the other? Maybe they didn't know who the owner was or how to get a hold of him? Or maybe they did try to contact but didn't get a response? Unless I missed some part of the passage.
I actually feel that MS Teams is the best thread implementation (I haven't used Flowdock, but I have used Zulip). The app performance is a little slow which makes it feel slightly clunkier to use, but the UX for a normal Team channels makes everything be in a thread by default, and makes it completely intuitive.
Likewise, I've used several OSS projects that I'd be quite happy to fix bugs in or develop new features for, but every single time I've been put off by having to decipher some mostly undocumented or otherwise horrendous build process.

Ironically (or perhaps obviously) the OSS projects I've used that have approachable build processes and requirements don't seem to have easily-fixed problems...
The most important thing to remember is that any prospective purchaser is looking for a very good deal -- for themselves. So if you do decide to go ahead, get experienced and competent lawyer and accountant to handle the details. You will need to be comfortable with paying some considerable fees for their services, if not, then you really do run the risk of agreeing to a bad deal.

The personal question to ask yourself is whether there is anything else that you would rather be doing? and if so, how much money in the bank/investments would that require? Then only consider offers to buy if after closing costs, consulting services and TAXES you will end up with more than the above amount.

IMHO only walk-in / walk-out deals are safe. Earn-outs, guarantees, hold-backs, etc are effectively money taken off the table. You have to remember that post-acquisition everything changes and you are unlikely to be happy with those changes. The cost of subsequent legal action and the stress are simply not worth it.
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There's a narrative that I hear often about Corvo island:

Corvo is a small island in the Azores archipelago, which is home to less than 500 habitants.

Every time a police officer, joins the island, it usually has a bit of a tough time, as it tries to write fines and issue warnings to the small population. The small population, not only disregard its orders, but they actually shut them out.

Since there's very few establishments, the police officer, eventually, has to comply with the population.

To be honest, I don't know how much truth there is, in this story, but I don't find it hard to believe.
Communicating/planning/overhead are part of productivity. So are 1 to 1s with good managers.

But the people who wander around telling jokes and drinking coffee are just socialising and (possibly consciously and deliberately) raising their profile.

They're not doing anything of value to others.
Looking at the home page it's a nice small forum, reminds me of 'back when' before the big social networks took over. I've been active on and running them for close to 20 years now.

But the activity of that one also wanes and waxes, and the community is mostly active on our Discord channel now. But, I and the other 'regulars' have changed too, we don't have the mental energy, time, arsedness and powers of concentration anymore to read and write multi paragraph essays in threads spanning the ages.

Thankfully there's a lot less drama and crazies as well. We've seen some shit.
> Do you guys think maybe when the next recession happens we will see unprecedented offshoring due to companies not being able to pay 160K to a developer with 3 years experience?

Has been quite like this since early 2000s.
I have had CI/CD pipelines, in offshored projects, where the amount of issues that would creep in was unberable, despite unit tests and whatever best practices.

So for the teams to have anything at the end of the CI/CD that could be either demoed, or tested, multiple stages integration stages of green builds were introduced.

A full multi-stage CI/CD integration pipeline from a devs machine, into what became known as diamant build, would take about a day, assuming all in-between-stages were green on first build.
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It's not about income but ability to generate variance in income.
Seriously, WTF? Its his private property. There is legal system last time I checked, and citizens should abide by it. Some mob rules about 'blight on a small community' perfectly ignore that the same fucked up community a) let the house be destroyed by some arrogant a-hole neighbor; b) knew perfectly well who it was; c) lied him & police straight to face, including priest.

These were his childhood friends and 'friendly neighbors'. Because of sea view? That's one fucked up small community.

Defending such behavior takes some serious moral twisting or plain absence to make it look OK.
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Shutup son. I am 69. But I cannot type with my thumbs, like people under 30. I need always two hands to use the phone.
Switched to the win 2k theme and felt an instant rush of nostalgia.

Say what you will, I think that the Win9x UI was fantastic and much better than the Windows 10/11 ones.
I've been using gather for months now. The free 25 user plan is more than enough for the small side project I'm working on with a few friends, and even normies absolutely fall in love with Gather once they get into it. The art style is low-quality enough to not feel uncanny, and the maps are beautiful with great effects.
This was a great read. I do some bartending in a very modern bar in Germany and it is sooo different :)

I also see the point where he says that he wants his regulars to come in, but also doesn't want them to come in for their own good. Pretty hard to serve these people so your bar makes money, knowing that it doesn't do them well.
It’s the poorest who have most kids in NYC or DC, though, more than middle (by NYC standards) class.
As programmers, we spend many hours a day looking at text.

You may not care what font someone gives you, and that's fine.

But we all have different eyes, different tastes, and different priorities.

I care enough about it to have spent some hours customizing my own personal proportional programming font.

Is that bike shedding? I don't think so. I don't even have a bike!
I'd say another role of a manager is protecting the team from external interference and time-draining activities. You don't get to see that side of it as a team member, or shouldn't if your manager is doing a good job.
What if you are just building a generic CRUD app?
I mean, nothing is stopping you from making friends outside of work too though. It’s just another avenue for socializing. WFH though means that socializing is likely completely off the table. Fine if you’re not into it - sucks a lot if you are. I really miss lunches with my coworkers. It was almost always the highlight of my day - if I didn’t do anything else after work.
This is baffling. It's a good hook to listen to the podcast, but I'm not going to.

My second thought was about insurance. The house is gone, it's up to their investigator to determine the cause. In the worst case, they say, too bad. thanks for the premiums.

My first thought was to build a big ass fence at the property line. Generally be an ass, using my property in the least helpful way possible.

given the dearth of information about the story I'm still a bit befuddled. given the timeframe 1994, it's understandable there isn't much available on the internet. I doubt an island of 120 had a local paper, I doubt even more that the archives would be online. Apparently no records were found for the court case.

There's a temptation to victim blame, there's a temptation to think Presho and Digger cooked up a scheme to get a little attention for the island and Presho's career. I think there's more information, but it seems unattainable.

He won the court case, but got a pittance. There are no answers from the trial.

In the end, I suspect this is a story that will end up much like "where is the other sock" it will vaguely nag at me for a few days, then fall out of mind.

Interesting situation, possibly worth a listen, but clearly no satisfactory resolution is possible (for me anyway). Another fabulously unimportant unanswerable question to irritate my psyche for a few days.
There is also a trend towards four-day work weeks to account for. I work 4 × 8, and Friday is a good day to have off; you get a long weekend and unlike Monday¹ shops are open in the morning too.

1: This may be a Dutch phenomenon, but many shops and amenities are closed on Monday morning. Especially with the gradual increase of shops being open on Sunday afternoons.
hmmm dark mode gives me headaches. Why would dark text on light background be dumb?
Yeah, loved doing that exact same thing too :-) Turtling was incredibly fascinating in SC for some reason. Especially once you built the Tier 4 infinite power generator from one of the races.

And yes, I tried it couple years ago and unfortunately I don't think it's that well optimized for multi-core CPUs, the game was massively slowing down for me, but my i7 was at like 50% usage at most.
I wonder if wearing a reflective face shield would be a more effective deterrent to interruptions. If people can't see your face then they would probably be much less likely to engage in conversation. You could just take a normal face shield and put reflective sunscreen window film on the inside.
That's fair, but you might as well just outsource all development if you're not going to use any code at all. It's the same liability, same opacity, etc.
> Often I have seen people put a lot of effort into testing things that really doesn't have much payback compared to what they could be testing instead.

90% of the "unit tests" that I've observed in the wild are checking for things that a modern type system would easily prevent you from doing.

The "unit testing is a magic bullet" cults seem form in environments that use weakly typed or highly dynamic languages like Javascript that let you pass anything to anything and only blow up when you execute one particular branch at runtime.

A good reason to use Typescript, Rust, Python's optional type hints, etc. is that they point out these problems for you as you're writing your code, so you don't have to unravel your mess three days later as you're cranking out 10 pages of boilerplate unit tests that only cover two functions and aren't even close to being exhaustive.

Use better languages, stop wasting your time testing for typos and brain farts, and focus on testing higher-level aspects of your design that your language and tools can't possibly know about.
Well, in the good ol' times there was NADA:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140813120630/http://www.bernar...
Setting Alexey's personal working style and focus aside, what are people's thoughts on virtual co-working in general?

Seems like there is a huge portion of people that have long since discovered that cities are not for them, but still yearn for some kind of group form of working.

There's been attempts as far as 2008 in Second Life[1], but also others in platforms such as discord, slack, minecraft. One popular zoom-based community for this is called Weekend Club [2]

Is this the future?

[1] https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/worki...
[2] http://weekendclub.co/
Yes, I loved it. Anyway uncomputable functions find all languages weak.
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Ingenuity disables its optical height detection system a short distance over ground because kicked up dust could interfere with it. It proceeds downwards until it makes contact with ground. To reliably detect the acceleration of that, they have to "slam it" into ground at a speed of approximately 1 m/s.

Edit: here is my old comment on this and the submitted article from which the information was taken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27009678
Flexibility is key, IMO. A cube/personal office might be desired, but it doesn't solve the time & cost problems associated with travelling into an office. And there will be some like me who prefer an open office environment to an enclosed space.