skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were low intensity fires. Many areas burned every 3 years on average before 1850. These same areas haven't experienced a fire since 1900
A green history of the world [pdf]
Seems like their life would be dramatically better if they didn’t have some horrible car hellscape based commute. Pity cities are designed and spread out so because of cars.

Then making the office more comfortable and flexible without people micromanaging would be the next thing.
I use ⌘-1/⌘-2 for English/Russian layouts. It's better than using a switch key because it's deterministic - you don't need to look at the layout indicator or whatnot.
The Wright brothers, in trying to figure out how to design an airscrew (propeller), assumed it would work like a ship's screw, and went looking for the theory behind it.

There was no theory, ship's screws were designed by trial and error.

So the Wrights invented the first propeller mathematical theory. It produced propellers that were 90% efficient, about double the efficiency of other experimenters' ad hoc propellers.

Double the efficiency meant the Wrights needed half the horsepower to get into the air.
>Do open source projects have an obvious "run this script to configure your complete dev environment in respect to this project" ?

./configure
If you have a company with more than one office I think having some meetings with remote participants is an unavoidable truth. Perhaps not every meeting - but anything requiring collaboration between teams or features groups could require it.
This straight up incentivises poor practices to hide any potential liability for one corporation. I can understand limiting liability especially when the other party has no leverage at the negotiating table, but incorporating such bad actions in contract should be illegal. Well, there is no real international law or way anyone can raise this issue i presume.

Also should not important contracts like these be public by default ?
> You have to pay for your own.

You have to do it anyway. The rent did not went up due you being at home during day.
I started at a company in February and was basically remote-only until June.

A drop in empathy, trust, relationships for me was very small. It's there, but for work related stuff, I believe it didn't actually matter. Everyone was nice with me and we got things done. Whenever I had questions, they would help me out.

We were since then a couple of times in the office and talking to them in person was nice, I felt I could ask more questions, I got to listen to their unfiltered opinions as we could have spontaneous 1-1 conversations in the office. It was also because we didn't make time to "just chat" online, except for online watercooler team calls, but with 3-4 people in the call, we pay more attention to what we are allowed to say.
You pay more for less than if you did it yourself and it isn't hard to find where they've cut corners to lower their costs.

But also critically the people buying pre-builts are obviously not interested in doing it themselves. That is why the market exists, right? So like its fun for more serious people to dunk on them in Youtube videos or whatever but I think its something pretty overblown.

Also if you're really willing to spend some money, there are plenty of Boutique vendors (Falcon Northwest) that will gladly sell you a capable and well-built computer.
Recently I was trying to connect to a meeting on a train journey through a rural lake district with less than ideal connectivity. Zoom with screen share (cam off though) was more functional than text mode Slack, which kind of blows my mind. I miss IRC.
Considering many assault weapons are rifles and many assault rifles are assault weapons, please excuse my imprecise language.
My first 100% remote job was w/ invisionapp.com a few years before the pandemic. Best decision I've ever made.
I like my Windows 10 UI. I'd miss a lot of things if I were using an earlier Windows. That said, I prefer Linux UX, since I can (and do) make it what I want (and it turns out nothing like Win 10).
Demanding immunity for the soldiers in foreign countries and threatening the international court of justice doesn't help either.
Oh hey, Microsoft is breaking another open decentralized standard again as they are pushing their own proprietary alternative. But let's keep pretending they changed.
It is my opinion that if you are against remote work being the norm, you're a dinosaur and best get out of the way of progress. The amount of time people would win back to spend their life however they want by not commuting is astronomical, the environmental impact of not having so many transportation devices on the roads as a result would also be massive. If you somehow think that your need for water-cooler talk is as important as that, well, it isn't.
because china is not an open market system. so whatever the government says goes
what? there is "ls" but no "dir" command in the terminal? and what about the "c:/ #" prompt???
oh swaks seems nice. Thanks
I enjoyed the article and it was very clear to me. Thank you for writing it.

Singling out details and sidetracking the comment thread about this one detail is just a thing that HN tends to do frequently. Usually the first few comments determine the tone/topic of the thread instead of the article itself. Which is not always bad.
Hopefully congregating is more for you than just gathering for work.

I prefer wfh for the very reason that it allows me to congregate more - early morning surfing with friends, midday gym with friends, afternoon training with friends, evening dinner with friends. All far easier to do when you’re not tied to a particular location all day. Doubly so when factoring in commute.
Reminds me of Joel Spolsky's Hammer Factory (original is sadly no longer available):
https://www.danstroot.com/posts/2018-10-03-hammer-factories
To be fair, it seems like he works in a really shitty place. I guess lot's of us have better conditions at work. Also "having to wait to reheat your prepared lunch in the canteen" sounds idiotic. If people have to bring their lunch, at least have enough microwaves in the office....they are like 100$.
Are you in SW? Over the last 20ish years of being a SWE, most of the time I had the option to work 40-100% from home. That's as an embedded SWE, which often means I'm dealing with HW. I just setup remote controls and measurement devices and WFH. I keep hearing people talk like they're going to be forced to sit at a desk 100% of the time. Is that really the case?
10 years ago I worked for a startup that wanted to exactly the same.
Basically it was a toolbox where you could add things such as a map, an image gallery, texts, documents.
It was back in the days where everyone wanted to have an app even if they didn't needed. For example restaurants.
The project failed, it was just way too complicated, both for the end user and the development of the project itself.
Also a lot of stuff was faked.
When some one would order the App, it would still be "Compiled" by a developer and "compiling" meant basically coding what the customer had ordered within 2 days.

Anyway, at least in their case you had access to the final source code.

EDIT: I just wanted to add that you are probably far better of if you hire a random guy from India on Fiverr to the app for you.
> They use far less hot water than warning by hand

This must be based on a horribly inefficient method of hand washing. Google says that a modern, efficient dishwasher uses about 3 gallons of water per load. I just went and measured the volume of my kitchen sink to roughly where it gets filled to when I'm washing an equivalent of a full dishwasher's load of dishes, and it came out to a bit over 3 gallons.

If it's not summer, I then let my hot sink water sit until it's cooled down to room temperature to avoid wasting heat.
IME it's also a good idea to organize periodic get-togethers to "coalesce" some collaboration aspects that are harder to manage remotely.
Governments don't like self-hosting, because they need to ask for data every time they need it. For big hosting providers like Google, Microsoft, Fastmail and others they have mails already. So there are incentives to make it harder and harder to self-host...
This is a great project. I recently read the books "Your brain on Porn" and "Quit Porn and get Rich".

Porn induced erectile dysfunction is now incredibly common. Younger and younger men are taking viagra and cialis and finding it doesn't help them. Those drugs are for older men that need help getting blood to their penis.

For these younger men who have been viewing hardcore internet pornography (not Playboys like I did as a kid) often see these videos before even having their first kiss. The drugs don't work because the problem isn't physical but instead is complete desensitization to real life intimacy of any kind.
I wonder how everyone would feel about WFH vs. office if highly paid, highly valued employees weren't forced into literally the smallest possible space for a third of their day. If we all had our own real offices and a work space not architected to be as abusive and "efficient" as possible, would we think differently about how nice it is not to go to the office any more?

Likewise for city design where commercial space is highly concentrated and disproportional to residential... if workspaces were spread out and there weren't hubs with way more jobs than housing... maybe commuting wouldn't be so long and so unpleasant and the thought of working from the spare bedroom or the couch would seem ridiculous.
That's because he has huge sections of his sky blocked.

> It's implied that this is due to the trees obstructing a full view of the sky

It's not implied, it's explicitly the reason...

> but I have actually heard these connection dropouts are just about universal due to the constellation not having enough infill.

That used to be the problem. Most users now report (you can see them talking about it on the starlink subreddit all the time) that they're now going days to weeks without a single drop.
This is U.S. thing, right? People in Europe are using public transportation to get to work from the edge of the city with no problems. Come visit Prague to see how it's done :D
Time is something being stolen from employees. We have one life to live. A company isn't even alive.
One thing I noticed is that while more experienced people are productive working from home, it is devastating for fresh starting employees. Work from home eliminates learning through osmosis. If anyone has a work around this let me know. I am surprised no one else has mentioned it here.
>it shows how ridiculous this is

Does it? If the other comment is to be believed, this law bans high end PCs which use more than 11W while in sleep mode. This is an absurd amount of power to draw. Most devices use less than 1W in sleep mode. Using so much power shows extremely inefficient design.

If this law can cause companies to fix their buggy firmware this could result in a massive power savings with virtually no effect to consumers since these devices never should have been using so much power anyway.
Okay, yeah true.
I can feel the "I invested in a nice work environment" part a lot.

At home I have an insanely comfortable chair, very nice keyboard and mouse, two stellar 27'' displays on a very large desk. At work none of the above plus a shitty 2010-era work computer with a 5400rpm rotational drive that takes at least 20 minutes to boot and 10 to open visual studio alone.

Plus at home I can listen to the news while doing mundane work tasks like replying to tickets and emails, have some relaxing music on, access to my whole kitchen, and so on.

Commuting one hour each way sucks hard too. I hope we'll never go back to full office work, I feel like I got my life back.
You make it sound like the guns are using loopholes, but it's more that a lot of these bans are against a bunch of random miscellaneous attributes of the gun and don't make sense to begin with.
The scientific method is not based on proposing a hypothesis, and then having people on the internet offer half baked rebuttals or dismissive comments.
Trying to read between the lines, why are most companies pushing for a return to the office?

Does it really just come down to the personal insecurities of management.
There's a pretty massive 0-1 difference in weekly WFH.
Hopalongs
But some people like to discuss things that some people like but some people don't like. Actually, most things are not universally liked or disliked (except ice cream).
I realized that the OP can correct these actions himself. If he is in a useless meeting then he should speak up and work towards changing that policy.

If he doesn't have good equipment he could work with management to lobby for better equipment or bring his own there.

Instead of working for 4 hours then "doing whatever" he could make meaningful changes in the organization but he chooses not too.

Maybe it isn't a terrible place to work. Maybe he is a terrible employee.
Lol, works as expected:

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How to Build Custom Insurance Software?
Looks like great fun with very big numbers.

I wonder can something similar be defined in terms of Lambda Calculus?
Simply not true.

I’ve been programming with bubble from “technical aware founder PM/founder” and bubble is liberating.

In the past i’ve built a webapp that :

- Renders desktop

- Renders mobile

- store in database

- after a conditional form

- create a complex journey of to do list with defaults based on answers of previous cond. form

- connects to an external system with cron daily

- sends email daily from backend

- uses plugins from community

- much more

The deal with bubble is :
- resources cutting 10X
- if you manage to understand the adequate scope (serving up to multiple thousands) with no such fancy ui, with not blazing extreme loading perf (since no focus on static)

Bubble is :
- Build 10x faster a custom ish layout with custom logic to get your first 10k users. (NPM available if you code)

Does it scale to infinity? No

Will you need code after that. Most probably. But you got there with 10x less ressources
The vast majority of software being written today is still CRUD applications centered on a database using a groupthink architecture where every noun gets a table and everything you ever want to know about that noun goes into that table. They're extremely brittle, completely un-reusable, and virtually un-maintainable. Meanwhile the front-end tech is iterating rapidly because we're at the very beginning of that sigmoid curve, not toward the end. Software engineering is still very much a baby discipline. We are brand, brand new, and not nearly as advanced as you seem to think.

Meanwhile Bridge Engineering, a 4000-year-old discipline, is still inventing new ideas and is still done almost entirely by human engineers. They use computers to multiply their expertise, but in no way are the computers "designing the bridge" for them. Why would automation make software engineers obsolete when that hasn't happened to bridge engineers (and shows no sign of coming)? Apps have been "building themselves" for decades: it's called a compiler.

How do you manage complexity? With software engineering. Writing software without writing code is like trying to design a bridge without doing math.

And if it's those crappy, un-maintainable, un-reusable CRUD applications you're saying no-code will replace, then I say: good riddance! But even if no-code is more successful than its wildest dreams, it's still just automating that lowest tier of programmer. Meanwhile, better abstractions, programming languages, type systems, mathematical advances, training programs, techniques, and architectures have been raising that water level every year for a long time. Even a good no-code solution has a very limited expected life when it's competing with that.
I went back and it was pretty great. My colleagues are real homies, secretaries are real hot and I get to use the gym as much as I want so I can lose the kilos lockdown caused me to gain.

Will definitely be using home office more often tho.
Countries could implement their own local serialization and tracking, as a defense-in-depth layer of accountability. It would at least provide data for the next round of negotiation.

Statistically, some injured parties will belong to families with legal expertise, who will be motivated and equipped for legal discovery of the root cause of any injury.
It does. I enjoyed the book Functional C by Hartel & Muller a lot:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Functional-C-Hartel-Mu...

It uses SML, had fun learning this stuff on the train with termux and vim.
I just want my own office. That's all. I'd be pretty okay with going in if I had my own office with 4 walls.

First job of my career, they told me I would have an office of my own. First day I come back do for full time (I had interned there too with my own office), they tell me they're switching buildings to go open office in about a month's time. I got a precious few weeks with a personal office, and then it was all gone. I hated this change of scenery mmediately, but I guess I got used to it after a few years.

Working from home took me back to that zen. I didn't even know how much I missed it - how much I needed my own space to feel productive.

I've since changed jobs, and I kinda dread having to go to the open office nightmare once this is all over. The facilities are way nicer than my last job, but it's still an open office.

Open. Office. As. Implemented. In. Our. Industry. Is. Stupid.
This is for prebuilt machines. Seems pretty easy to test. Turn the thing on, put it in sleep mode, then record the power draw from the PC PSU. Monitors are not included.
Because to make something actually useful (rather than something technically perfect but useless) your team needs to be the kind of gestalt entity that chatting about the sports team helps to create?
So....better suffer now because otherwise we might suffer later? No, thanks.
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Not just MS, RAD tools were the big thing about 20 years ago

Total failure,

From reading the comments here, sounds like the no-code, the rebranded RAD, has the exact same problems again.
Windows does this too since Windows 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstantGo
Can you elaborate? This does not make sense to me
Why can you not use wake on lan? Apple devices still have full networking capabilities while using less than 1w. It doesn't take over 11w to wake on lan unless the firmware is insanely inefficient.

This law will get mobo vendors to fix their products causing power savings world wide.
Could be the new dailywtf!
> You could actually browse most forums without logging in

Working on a public discussion/chat app that's a bit more forum inspired with no walled garden. If you're interested it's in my profile.
I really wish that it was easier for non-technically minded people to submit blogs to this list.

It would really help if the owner of this site made a web form that didn't require you to have a Github account to submit things (or even understand how to hand-type the weird json format that they want)

I estimate that extra amount of user abrasion is preventing something like 99% of people from submitting their blogs.
There is a view called "recent topics" for that. E.g. https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#recent_topics
If your work is so locked down they give out cards that take 2-4 hours to jr. devs, then working from home is probably just as productive if not more than the office - for the reasons eloquently laid out in the reddit post.

But if you want to work on new technology with a ton of unknowns (which I personally get more job satisfaction out of), in my experience you need that human connection and in-person collaboration - at least at first. Maybe that can work fully remote. But my fully remote startup experiences have been abysmal.
There are a lot more gamers than there are bitcoin miners, so it ends up balancing out:

https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-playstation-cloud-gaming-en...
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/video-games-...

We need to ban gaming if we want to solve the climate emergency.
Sounds like the relationship is dysfunctional in both directions.

On the one hand, the employer set up a panopticon in the office, with crappy furniture, lots of interruptions, a crappy office kitchen, no decent food (i.e. needing to bring food from home). Garbage in, garbage out. Of course nobody is happy to sit in traffic to come to an environment like that.

Then we have the author, who has the mistaken idea that the number one most important thing that you do at your job is your directly measurable productivity. Not relationship-building, just pure "shut up and let me sit down and get my work done." Personally, I'd prefer it if engineering work didn't go the way of Amazon warehouse workers, because if "productivity" is the sole metric of an employee's performance, just wait until your employer decides to try and optimize it.

Best of luck to the OP at the dice roll that is the next company he works for.
Australia has the same thing for over a decade. From what I see, the vast majority of people bring their bags back to the store to use again.
Any "archived" way would require some serious effort to emulate the delay. Especially if you chose to experience it from (say) Australia.
Well, there are also huge human costs that go along with working alone all day, and in the same environment as the rest of your life.

For example, commuting, while not nice most of the time, has one great impact on life: it allows you to break from work, which is not happening when you have sleep/work/hobbies/life at the same place. I'm not saying you should spend 1h in traffic or subway, but 20min and walking would be a great way to change thoughts and separate work from life.

Also seeing your colleagues for real, and spending some time with them, as they are humans, is a great way to have better empathy and better work relations: using only remote tools doesn't provide such a human behavior.
Adapt or leave. Couldn't agree more. Any time I worked somewhere I felt my needs weren't met I tried to work with my managers to fix that. It is different for everyone but you should at least try.

And if it doesn't work for you after trying, quit batching and change your situation.
Not sure about the definition, but a "cubicle" without high walls is not really a cubicle, right?

I have worked at Google and a cubicle would have been better than the open source we had.
Where Do Poppers Come From?
I graduated into this mess and feel like I've been cut off at the knees.
One programming teacher told me 20 years ago: "you think your technical skills will make you advance your career, wrong, it is your interpersonal ones that will do".

I'm not very good at it, but since then I try to work on both sides.
Do you only have a single office? Because even back when we worked at the office, we had people split between multiple offices so we had to do teleconferencing anyways even if no one was remote (and usually at least one person was remote as well).
‘The unsung heroes of Australian fauna’: how quolls help us understand the world
is this the same article?