skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tahoe is definitely not a super wealthy area for permanent residents. It's the same as a lot of tourism driven towns. Lots of middle class and lower middle class folks who work in the tourism industries (skiing, casinos, etc.).
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Hours and $ are different units with nonlinear impact on happiness, so comparing percentages is fraught.

It's not a 25% increase in work time, it's a 50+% reduction in free time.
That's highly debatable.
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I think that lots of people will be willing to reduce pay, to stay home. That will also act as an incentive to corporations, to use remote workers.
Not everyone who works in NYC is a NYC resident. The entire state of NJ basically exists for people commuting to NYC. half of the entire state is basically highways and parking lots.
22mpg sounds like fleet average. I don't think the average commuter who could work from home is getting 22mpg, probably close to 30 average. I don't think the frequency of trucks and vans relative to cars and crossovers is not high enough within those demographics to drag down the average that far.

I'd pad the estimate for carbon saved and say like 3.5ton/yr per work from home employee.
> Certain images are CSAM by _context_. They do not necessarily require those within the image to be abused, but rather that the image at one time or another was traded alongside other CSAM.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, how can we know this is actually true? Every description of the NCMEC database's contents that I've seen is incredibly vague, and as of 2019 it seems like there were fewer than[1] 4 million total hashes available. I would think that if it genuinely did include innocent photos of people's kids, the number would be much higher.

> ...certain well-known images are known to flag. Such as Nirvana's controversial cover for Nevermind.

I've heard this multiples times now, but I've never been able to find any evidence of it actually happening. The only instance I could find was one where Facebook removed[2] that Nirvana cover once for containing nudity.

1. https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/uk-us-collaborate-crack-...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/28/facebook-nirva...
The European vision of living in dense, walkable neighborhoods, with easy access to quality amenities without the need to drive makes sense, to me at least, as the answer to this problem.

I'm not advocating for staying home; I'm advocating for less driving. It may not make as much of a difference in the E.U., but if we're aiming to be carbon neutral, less driving will be necessary, or, at least, extremely helpful in achieving that goal.
Lots of people in Europe also take the car to work. At my work I would say definitely more than 50%.
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Google pays well, but not the most. (Unless things have changed recently.)
Public transportation doesn't do autoscaling.
This is needless Apple apologetics.

They deserve to be raked over the coals for this, there's no world where their current design is a "good" or "right" one.

Child abuse is a serious problem, but building a surveillance panopticon is not an acceptable solution to it. Better investment in education, health care, and reporting hotlines are the way forward to stop this issue at its source.
> I use customise to put the "open new window" icon onto my buttons, next to the address bar.

Note that ctrl-shift-N opens a new window.
There is also SMSHub (https://github.com/juancrescente/SMSHub) which, as far as I see, does the same but additionally is able to deliver incoming messages to an API endpoint.
(Assuming space expands evenly) we don't notice the expansion of space inside objects because the electromagnetism and gravity are vastly more powerful on the scales we care about and nullifies the effect. That's why atoms and galaxies in the Local Group stay together, but everything farther away is flying further away.

If expansion never stops accelerating, one day in the far future it will overcome all the other fundamental forces and everything will be torn apart in a Big Rip.
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> And if your company continues to print money decade after decade while paying upper management 20-50x what a worker makes, maybe that's not the worst thing in the world.

This seems at odds with the normal HN view of Google, which is that they can't do anything right but have such a good thing going with ads that they basically cannot fail. If this is true, then an inanimate object could lead the company to success. I am not convinced it is so extreme, but I am definitely not convinced that paying Sundar billions and billions less would actually change the company.
This is apple’s answer to not decrypting / unlocking phones for authorities. They found a way to keep our data private, while still being able to detect criminal activity. Oddly enough, most ISPs already scan for CP on the wire. So not even sure this is a necessary next step.
I need sources on two claims:

> The cost of commuting on the environment is extremely high.

Reasonable, but source please so I can learn more.

> If 20% of jobs permanently switched to remote, the impact on carbon emissions would be immediate, and extremely positive.

A more extraordinary claim. I also need sources to learn more.
Having extra laptop or phone chargers so you never have a situation where you have forgotten your charger.
The solution is trivial:

Show related bookmarks at the top of Google Search results.

It blows my mind that neither Google nor Pocket implemented this feature (natively and/or as a browser extension).
Yes, thank you. This is the only theory that explains observed reality.

I'd add that they probably consider the scheme to be better than the alternative (which is how others do it, including Google IIRC), namely checking photos once they have been uploaded. They have gone to some lengths to do more on the device instead of uploading user data, in Siri for example, but also Photos.app face recognition etc.
how does one learn this power and enlightenment? I easily have over a thousand tabs open across several browsers. Sometimes I go back to review them and am gladly surprised. Or sometimes I don't remember why I was looking at a thing, but it's still interesting.
Would be good if it was having any noticeable impact at all. I was hoping to get a nice discount on the stock.
Application size here[1] is 1.8MiB, Ram 131MiB (release build -> make build)

[1] Freebsd13 x64, Nim Compiler Version 1.4.8
Sounds funny. The real reason for google office is unlimited work, you have food, relax aka dance/yoga classes on site. It’s not necessary to have a home. Home is a rudimentary stuff for google workers. The whole your life is your work. It’s great for a company.

But keep8ng employees on long distance force people to look around: on a local restoran, outside activities, local community. And in one moment person who wasn’t involved at to the life, started to wake up - finding interest outside of work, so the work is not a top priority any more. And it’s bad for a company, because independent people has a decision power in comparison to dependent one
That would require skilled politicians that knew what they were doing.
In the case of the USA, people staying home to work might have a positive impact on social interaction in the long run.

I'm pretty sure a large part of the reason why Americans are so lonely compared to the rest of the world is that the suburban bedroom community model physically divides us and makes it much more difficult to get to know one's neighbors. By the time you get home from work at 6:30 in the evening, it's time to cook dinner, and, once you're done cleaning up, there's not much time for anything aside from watching a bit of TV before you go to bed.

And then the weekend rolls around, and your time is dominated by catching up on all the housework and errands you didn't have time to do during the week because of your long commute. So you're not really getting to know your neighbors then, either.
> He is so rich I doubt he is compensated in any way that's meaningful to him today.

Yet they still pay him a ton (executive comp is public). Weird.
> The standard HN top comment will have no grounding in facts but will simply assume the worst intent possible of everyone involved. This cynicism is mistaken for wisdom.

The last decades of politics have shown all over the world that modern politicians act primarily on the whims of those who line their pockets, which is way too often contrary to the best solutions for their constituents or the ability of the planet to support human life.

That cynicism, itself a symptom of the erosion of trust in democracy, as well as populist tendencies, doesn't come from nothing.
Even less for US workers, they mean.
For this kind of thing it's helpful to think about the dimensions and units involved.

In mechanics, "impulse" is a word for a unit of momentum. Momentum has dimensions (Mass * Speed), or (force * time), and can be stated in units of Newton-seconds.

"Specific" impulse is simply Impulse per unit mass of fuel (i.e. Newton-seconds per kilogram). The convention of stating it in units of seconds is based on Earth gravity (Newtons per kilogram).

If a system has specific impulse of 100 seconds, 1 kilogram of fuel would be able to accelerate a mass of 1kg at an acceleration of 1 G, for 100 seconds.
It’s also awful timing. After what, 18 months of productive WFH now they want to cut salary?
The U.S. solar industry has a Chinese problem
as a musician i get far more pleasure out of some pieces of wood or bone than a phone could ever give me.
I guess in a purely commuting way, perhaps.

But if 100 employees are all at home and are heating/cooling their houses all with different levels of insulation and efficiency, how does that compare to an office building that is controlled and built to be efficient?

Or the amount of electric they use to power their home workstation and radio, rather than a shared office radio? Or lower power machines.

Or the more shopping trips for lunch or deliveroo orders - because I can't just walk down the road to grab a sandwich.

Or those who now drive or catch the bus/train after work to go for a pint - rather than stopping in on the way back.

I'm totally all for staying working at home, but I do recognise that it's not just the commuting that has an effect here
To me the most fascinating thing here apart from the idea of a software signing standard, was that I’ve never witnessed a remote key signing ceremony before.

I’m used to the root ones where they take laptops out of safes, etc.

But no reason why this can’t happen right?
Nonnegative always includes zero, unless the author had muddled thinking themselves. Since positive is >0 and negative is <0, their negations are nonpositive for <=0 and nonnegative for >=0.
It is cost of labor, not cost of living. The pay cut to move to hawaii is the same as the pay cut to move to montana.
You can interpret the comment you are replying to a bit more charitably.

Basically, people have concerns other than money. And on the margin, those concerns make differences. (Just like on the margin, extra dollars also add up. Even if the impact of any one extra dollar is very _marginal_.)
It was always a HN mantra that one got paid for the value they create. I guess it is more likely that where you sit is more important than what you do.

Also, I see a lot of comments about higher productivity in the office. Google has had record revenue and profits during this time. Clearly that wouldn't be the case if productivity was negatively impacted.

This seems to be more about what's good for managers and less about what's good for the company. Managers usually are incentivized to grow their budgets, not shrink them.
IMO one of the main problems is that opening a new tab is much faster than finding an existing one.
Ironically the best alternative comes from an HK company.
Not being able to understand why what you're saying is impractical (and just plain rude) is itself indicative of a mental fault.

Are you on the spectrum? If you are, why don't you just stop being on the spectrum? :)
thats so cool!
Definitely the Revelation Space series is awesome. For something a bit different, Revenger was really cool - it has two sequels now that are on my queue to read so I can't speak to them.
Meanwhile, Oregon has dropped its requirement that high school graduates be able to do arithmetic, read, or write.

It's a race to mediocrity in the United States
Until recently I had a home-office contract in Germany. The contract gave them the right to relocate me, which seemed like a funny clause 15 years ago, nowadays I might worry about them actually doing it as part of some policy alignment.
So you want us to discuss your donation pitch rather than the software?
The "Entfernungspauschale" is not tied to the mode of transportation. You get a tax write off for the distance that you commute (regardless if you walk, drive a car, take a bike or ride a train). But I do believe it's the wrong incentive.
Can't wait to deal with false positives.
Same way oil is priced, at the market clearing rate. Maybe it's $60K/yr and we have happy Indians and Romanians and no Californians.
Exactly. Not sure why people get surprised, this sort of things (company wins, employees lose) happen all the time. I imagine that since this is HN, people here have Google in some kind of a throne and they think Google employees (engineers, mainly) have some sort of privileges that make them immune. Well, Google is just like any other company out there and Google engineers are just like any other employees out there, peons with zero power of decision. I hope I'm wrong and Google engineers take a step forward to avoid this pay cut, otherwise this will happen in every dumb IT company out there as well (because, if Google does it, it must be good).
> sublet that 17000 sqft.

Who to if everybody is working from home?

Not that they are but there also aren't an infinite supply of companies that want to rent office space when many workers are now either WFH or hybrid working and only going in a couple of days each week.
How do we know they aren't?

Anyone with your credentials to social media/any cloud service like gmail could send CP on your behalf to get you flagged and interrogated.

Good luck mounting a defense against a subject this taboo. Even if you win it will follow you forever.
I do this my having two windows open side-by-side (a 32” 4K monitor and a tiling window manager make this easy) and just drag a link from the left browser window over to the right. Not as nice as simply clicking, but usable.

If you’re willing to change browsers if necessary, Firefox has a Side View [0] extension that offers some functionality, though it’s just an “experiment” that hasn’t been updated in years.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/side-view
Commuting is no doubt a large contributor to carbon emissions. But, suburban and rural living lead to car-centric lifestyles in general. Driving to school, to the grocer, to entertainment and dining, etc. Plus all the infrastructure to support that - more roads, giant parking lots, etc.
Do you think they should reduce salary for people who have paid off their mortgage? Those people also have lower cost of living.
Are there any alternatives to iCloud Photos?
Last year I bought two Nintendo "DS Lite" and one Nintendo "New 3DS". The DS Lite were a little small for my hands, and that's how I ended up buying the "New 3DS". The "New 3DS" fit my hands nicely and had a comfortable screen size. I bought all of these things second hand off of the equivalent of eBay/Craigs List in my country. I also picked up some DS games and a couple of 3DS games for free.

My original plan was to have a go at homebrew for DS, which is why I bought the DS Lites in the first hand.

I ended up not doing any homebrew for any of them, but had fun playing the games that I got for them.

After having played all the games that were worth playing I sold all of it. Ended up even making a buck or two. Not like profitable business basis kind of extra money but just a little more than I had paid originally, because I'd picked cheap ones when I bought and I also had the games I had gotten for free which I included when selling them again.
Absolutely this. My father was an immigrant from an eastern block country. Just a regular family, his father was a salesman, his mother a secretary. Father was valedictorian of his high school, speaks 6 languages, ect. Scraped together enough money to study at a British grad school, finished in 1 year as valedictorian. Then he immigrated to America. So someone looking at his math achievements might think wow, they really teach those soviet immigrants math well! But it was more like the best of the best immigrate while someone more average like me would be stuck in the old country.
I'm astonished by the lack of security of these cards. In Europe we have a digital COVID certificate which consist of a QR Code, easily verifiable and unfalsifiable.

Anyone vaccinated can download a PDF version of this certificate with its social security number in France.

I understand better why US citizen have trouble to travel in Europe since there is actually no proof that one is really vaccinated.
It's just a hyperbolic way of saying "climate change is real". Bringing a snowball into the US Senate is a hyperbolic way of denying reality. So they're different in that sense.
Isn't this a Show HN post?
Google is continuously hiring and growing.

If they can slow down the growing of office space without slowing down hiring, that's a win.

Yes, they are locked in to some leases and have bought some buildings. But at any one time, some leases will run out, and some buildings will be transacted.
You don't threaten to leave, the whole point of unions is to attempt to equalize a negotiation when workers can't easily get another job. Dockworkers don't threaten to go work at a competing port, they threaten to stop working and shut down the dock.
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Interesting random data point, I just checked Apple Music and the Nevermind cover art is not censored.
There used to be a ‘decline’ link that dumps you to the main page of text.npr.org, but at least you could have taken a guess which news item it is from the title and ID in the other link. Apparently they considered that design insufficiently user-hostile and changed it.

I expect they’re eventually going to disable the text.npr.org domain.
I think they would never reach the end of the 354th day, because they'd be caught in something akin to Zeno's Paradox: the closer they got to c, the more time would slow down for them.

You could draw up a table mapping shipboard times to Earth times: the length of time passing on Earth between each onboard second/millisecond/microsecond etc. would get longer and longer, with the final moment at which the ship achieves c never actually arriving.

ETA: basically what @ninkendo said (but they said it better, and first).
> convenience factor aimed at getting people to do "just a little more" is even more greatly amplified by just enabling WFH

I can absolutely attest to this. Since WFH, at least a couple of times a week or on the weekend I'll have little a-ha moments or things I want to test. I reason I'll just quickly log in to my work laptop to play around for a few minutes... that often turns into a couple of hours. It usually results in the problem being solved and me riding the 'high' for the rest of the evening/weekend.

That never would have happened without WFH. I'm not even complaining because I'm doing it on my own terms and am in no way obligated to do it.
> Screenshots of Google's internal salary calculator seen by Reuters show that an employee living in Stamford, Connecticut - an hour from New York City by train - would be paid 15% less if she worked from home, while a colleague from the same office living in New York City would see no cut from working from home. Screenshots showed 5% and 10% differences in the Seattle, Boston and San Francisco areas.

This makes no sense.

For employees who are required to work in the office it makes sense to pay more at offices in places with higher costs of living. That's because your pool of potential employees is only people who live there or will move there. The company is requiring that employees live in a specific area so must pay based on the costs of that area.

For full time work from home employees the company has no reason to care where the employee lives (other than regulatory--they might not want employees who live in areas where dealing with taxes or regulations are complex or costly). Hence the company should have one uniform rate for full time work at home employees, high enough so that they can get fill all their openings.

If that means that the rate is too low for people in NYC why should the company care as long as they can get enough people from Stamford and other places with lower costs of living than NYC?
Don't be ridiculous, you're just making assumptions based on your value system. I have children and I've passed on higher paying jobs (perhaps not double but 50%) out of principle. I also wouldn't work for Google whatever the compensation, and there are plenty of people who don't value money above everything else.
Yeah I have gotten to know my neighbors a lot better during COVID. And it is nice. And when I change jobs I won’t loose them.
My Honda gets about 20mpg. My BMW about 25mpg. Maybe I'm the exception that proves the rule, but I seriously doubt 30mpg is remotely close to average (for office workers) in the US.

Edit - The Ford F-150 is the best selling "car" in the US by a long shot. That isn't all fleet sales - a significant number of normal people own trucks for one reason or another (myself included - Honda Ridgeline).
SMS "2fa" almost always makes things worse, you're better off never sharing your phone number with large companies like Apple.
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> I have rarely seen anything which is feature complete. Either UI needs revamp because it's stale and not in current trends (like fashion industry)

Stale UI is very different from not being feature complete. vim and emacs are very stale UIs, but also as close to feature complete as I need, and thank God no-one feels the need to update them for modern UI preferences (or, rather, that those who do feel that need can do it without taking away my experience of classic vim).
Interesting. I'm symmetrically not used to think about those problems from an american perspective. Thanks for the insight.

I can indeed see a world where working from home might in the short term infuse some life in local life, from neighbors to associations etc.. So maybe it's actually a positive change!
If you spent your time developing this software and then you gave it away, doesn't it stand to reason that your time is worthless?
But WFH is not commuting.
If you think that highlighting how a statistic is misleading* is moving the goalposts then I'm happy to continually move goalposts, but you might learn or use the definition of "moving the goalposts" correctly in the meanwhile.

If you don't like the fact that the studies show no evidence that masks are of benefit, that's your problem, but don't try and attribute any fallacy to me without providing a damn sight more reasoning and evidence as it gives the appearance of you wishing to smear me to cover up what you lack, a valid, considered, and persuasive argument.

* or worse, being used to mislead, which I don't think was happening from @tablespoon but I wouldn't put it past those who'd jump in with ad hominem and think it was a worthy contribution to the debate.
Whenever this topic comes up people present being social at work like a good thing. Everyone in all the jobs I've had were big drinkers, some of them probably used drugs, and some of them even used to boast about cheating on their wife. Not having to deal with these people any more than necessary is a blessing.
For web applications I make an application shortcut, so then its a separate window instead of a tab.