skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't wait to get back to the office.

I don't have dedicated remote work space and that really eats into my productivity. Also being home and having no external pressure to keep working I can already see any breaks people tend to take are way longer than what they would take at the office. (Now someone is going to tell me that this just shows that people need more breaks, but I don't believe that)

It also helps with my physical fitness. Now it is super hard to go to the gym in the morning just to come back home. When I commuted to work the gym was just on the way and it was easy to get out of the bed and go work out.

Food is also big draw. Now I have to worry about what I eat every day and make my food. That's extra stress and cognitive pressure that is completely avoided when I get to just eat lunch from office's cafeteria.

And of course other social aspects i.e. since I am already outside it is easier to do other stuff, but when I'm still in my underpants at home after work it is way harder to dress up and go do stuff.
You know how in history, occasionally the good old king would die and his crazy nephew would take over and burn all the peasants? This was possible because the king had absolute power.

Now, you might argue that this absolute power in this case is being used for good - but given the brush the US just had with accidental Nero, it’s worth being wary of how tools and powers might not only be used by current powers, but by future ones too.
> the downward pressure on wages will probably become a norm for WFH

That depends on where you live. If you live a population center that currently has very high wages then yes. Otherwise you've just potentially gotten access to much higher paying jobs than you would've had access to before.

So what we should see is a geographical evening of wages. Which I can only really see as a good thing.
Getting payed less is an idiotic thing. You use LESS resources working remotely. I suggest you use that statement as a screener for finding companies worth your time.
This is really remarkable. I was especially impressed when the AI was instructed to write out the rules of the game it had been constructing piece by piece, and totally nailed it on the first try other than making "asteroids" plural instead of singular. Longterm memory and cohesion were demonstrated at an exciting level. Super cool stuff!
Nobody wants attrition, but it does happens. In the long term competition for WFH jobs is basically by timezone rather than by geo area. That means as an employee you're competing against a bigger talent pool, and as the workforce renews itself, we should expect a trend towards equalization of pay across WFH roles in the same timezone.
This is why it's important to negotiate as a group and to consolidate interests, because that's just what individual owners of big companies did by incorporating.
Only if you want to tap into like 10% of your BTC. You'll also have to make sure you put some of the loans to good use in the real estate market for example.
I think the preferred method is to link the paywall and add an archive link in the comments.
Probably because people think he is being anti-Semitic by posting the facts about over-representation of Jewish enrollment in top universities.

When you couple that with the fact that the data shows that "white supremacy" at college universities is kind of a myth and that there is another "supremacy" altogether, albeit one we're not really allowed to talk about in "polite society," you can expect a lot of downvotes.
More importantly, why can't Thunderbird and Firefox just integrate with GNOME Keyring / KDE Wallet to retrieve the m...primary password without prompting the user on startup?
And thanks for writing your comment about his comment.

I think I sail the same kind of ship as you, at work I'm like a jack of all trades and pretty isolated. Took me long to realize it wasn't my fault if management put too much on my shoulder and I have no peer to share with. It's a management issue if our bus factor is 1 on many project.

While I often get praise from my CEO the impostor syndrome is part of my daily routine.

Out of work, I'm currently in the process of finally releasing to GitHub a half-baked side-project I invested 100+ hours of personal time but was really too ashamed of to publish. It's not perfect, it'll never be and it's ok. Maybe it will even help me migrate to a better workplace.

Lot's of comment int his thread ring a bell for me!

Thank you all!
I never said that it has to be in Silicon Valley either. I'm pointing out that it is in Silicon Valley and that this is a particular fault with these big companies that seem to be resisting a distributed work force.

Why are these large companies choosing to concentrate their work force in a geologically precarious location when their employees are telling them that they would rather work in a distributed fashion?

It all just seem so short-sighted to me.
I'm one of these people. I didn't even know there was a non-subscription version when I bought it.
They're doing it to be woke instead of doing actual work.
Check out the schedule for tick-borne encephalitis vaccine:

http://mri.cts-mrp.eu/download/AT_H_0126_001_FinalPL.pdf

1st dose,

2nd dose 1 month later,

3rd dose 5 months later,

1st booster 3 years later,

additional boosters every 5 years

I think it would be great if we had effective covid vaccines with such a schedule
Many cities I would think. My spanish teacher lives in a big city in Venezuela and they use water tanks and electricity is rationed.
This depends on so, so many personal and professional factors:

1. Your line of development is popular (I wish PL/I developers good luck with their job searches!)

2. That you're geographically located in a "hot" location and you can easily relocate (which is frequently not the case, due to family concerns or other concerns) <<or>> you like remote work and are good at it.

3. That you can easily handle interview stress (a ton of people can't) and that you're good at interviewing (which you can improve at, but you need to spend time, plus see: stress).

I'm probably forgetting a bunch.

In any case, the balance is tilted a lot more towards big companies.
> > 125 Mbps?
> 10 TB / 1 month.

That's ~32Mbps.
Part of this is promotions. There's still no real parallel technical track for career advancement. Senior/Principal/Fellow track ended up being a management track in disguise, with all the managerial responsibilities and little of the authority.
https://archive.is/qK9Mk
Point 1 and 2 are right on the money.

Being self employed makes it easier for companies abroad to hire you - international invoicing is orders of magnitude easier than international hiring and usually comes from a different budget post.

Choosing a business vertical and running with it is the secret sauce to getting ahead. I’ve focused on insurance and pensions and being able to speak the same lingo as the business people on day one has been a game changer.
This is shocking to say the least...

Seriously Fuck Massachusetts!

Justice seems to have taken a step backwards, another appeal should set this straight.

I would like to think the federal court of appeals will bann this practice. If you can't teach a kid w/ autism with out a taser, you shouldn't be teaching. Wtf...

Who the f@$k thought it would be a good idea to put a shock collar on a kid in a classroom... and then expect those kids to be productive... Wtf

Damm what are they smoking in MA
I like Thunderbird, but several months ago a strange bug happened that caused one sent message to overwrite another sent message (IMAP account). I've noticed only because I needed to resend contents of both messages, and I was really surprised to find that Thunderbird overwrote contents of one message with another (Subject of the overwritten message was intact).

It was a one time bug and it might be caused by my IMAP provider, not Thunderbird, but still I'm worried. I keep almost all my emails, dating back to middle of 90s (although in different formats and accounts), and I would like to be 100% sure that all of them are intact. Now I don't have that peace of mind.
Your response did not have enough italics, I couldn't interpret it.
FWIW... quick feedback:

1. Please add one sample course (demo)

2. Login vs Register is confusing

3. You may want to differentiate teacher vs student dashboard
> You can teach a group of socially awkward and introvert people an entire 4 years course of how to be a charismatic socialite and most of them still won't become one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdhEIy-1CG8

(Very vulgar language in the video, but it makes the point well.)
> You can choose 1, or 2, or however many you want.

That way you could also "choose" not to pay for cable. But the reality is that if you want to watch all the latest popular shows and movies you have to pay for 4-5 streaming services.
Just rent an office space or coworking desk. Problem solved.
It's not resource utilisation as such that is the issue!

More that it crashes constantly!

It could be the volume of files it's churning through. But still... 'cmon Google!

If I use new Drive with my personal account, that only has ~200 or so files. Then no real issues.

However, when I tell it to sync to a Google Drive account that has ~200k files.... then it chokes.

I'm also telling it to download the files and store them on an external SSD, so they can be backed up by a 3rd party service!

With a large number of files, the new Drive client isn't having a good day! :-)
Note: the Chrome-only stuff I mentioned runs in a sandbox environment and will not make any difference to the global market. Public projects will work just fine in FF.

But of all the things I am actively fighting for, like decreasing the emission of greenhouse gases, preserving nature and the furthering of various struggling causes that will truly make a difference, I just can't be bothered to take on this fight as well.

Good for you that you can afford to be furious about something like browser market share. For me that's nowhere near the top of my list. Maybe it will move up some day, but at this time I don't feel the need to raise a banner for it.
Yeah, of course, less humans = less problems for the planet. But that's an extremely unpopular idea, so you won't find any politicians to support it. Plus, the current growth-based economy (which BTW is also a major obstacle for long-term sustainability) is much harder to keep up with a shrinking population.
> I'm making an assumption here, but I imagine as a matter of policy, every bank keeps on record if a bank account is local or foreign owned.

Nope.

There are also some territories where there are significant cross country pollination of bank accounts - Australia and New Zealand are good examples. The EU is attempting to force cross territory banking without any limitations. Virtually nobody in the Middle East has a bank account in their actual country of residence.
That could be a valid concern, same way as evolutionary pressure pushes viruses to minimize symptoms (symptoms that are not it's spreading mechanism).

But the special party trick of Sars-Cov-2 has always been spreading before symptoms even appear (it just wasn't very good at spreading, before delta) which amongst other things ruins that evolutionary pressure effect.

The simplest explanation, and one that no data I've seen yet clearly contradicts, is that vaccines (most vaccines?) work just as well against delta than against its cousins. Even before delta, we knew that vaccinated could become infected. It just happened to be quite unlikely that they pass it on. Delta greatly increases the odds that you catch it when breathing air that contains a given viral load (earlier variants were so bad at making landfall that aerial spread was ruled out for months, based on the observed spread speed that was much lower than you'd expect for aerial) and now apparently you can have spread even in vaccinated communities. But their immune systems know how to deal with it, they'll clean it out faster than toddlers. Just not fast enough for spread to be completely ruled out.

Yes, this means herd immunity is off the table (that has been obvious for months). The unvaccinated will immunize the other way (or die trying). We likely won't need regular booster shots, the virus takes care of reminding our immune systems of it's existence. Yes, many dice will be rolled for creating an immune escape variant. We should definitely have mRNA vaccine manufacturing capacities on standby, it might become an arms race treadmill.
Why is that list missing gold?
> evolved for millions of years for this exact type of communication

A great many people identify themselves as introverts or antisocial, and would feel much better being excluded from all these neuron triggers.

> The information bandwidth of in-person communication is absolutely unparalleled

Yes, but that bandwidth is not all used productively but wasted on irrelevant bits which do not matter and likely distract from the topic. Implying that more bandwidth helps is suggesting that a book can only be a tiny bit as effective as a video...

> Good luck replicating body language, eye contacts, subtle facial cues etc with Slack messages.

I wouldn't try. Such things are usually unnecessary to the task at hand, and often detrimental. I'm not going to replicate the odor of what my co-workers ate for lunch either, nor other clues about their general hygiene, nor would I want to even if it was easy to do.
Doing some simple math on your "limited talent pool" in the "short list of countries" brings the total population of those countries up to:

* ~900 million people for where they use companies (and probably in the low tens of million of possible employees)

* probably ~2 billion people for where they use contracts (and probably some more low tens of millions of possible employees)

Those are <<huge>> pools of people.
Another game where that happens regularly is Eve online.
maybe put a framework on top of COBOL call COBOL-x, there use that as your starting point.

kind of joking/not joking, marketing has gotta play a huge role in that transition.
Show HN: Remote Jobs Website
> I wonder where all of the network cables go?

Remember the smiley face in the slide deck?
But guess what, chatting online and video calls augmented our communication, instead of replacing face to face.

The fact that even in this day and age, we still hold major online videogame tournaments in person shows you how important meatspace is. The International, the videogame tournament with the largest prize pool, was canceled last year when the entire game (Dota 2) was an online game. When it's held each year the tickets are always sold out and the arena is always full. You can watch everything online but it never stopped a fully packed arena.

So yeah, my point of face-to-face socialization will never be fully replaced actually gets even stronger support when you bring up videogames.
Netflix were not ever, ever, ever the only player in town.

Ever.
> I don't want to be that guy, but for this job there were lining up 300 more people.

All of which could decide to stand up for individual rights, but won't with similar excuses to the one you formulated.

I know in US culture some see it as a strength to be selfish, but yet they complain about the society and the politics this kind of mentality necessarily lead to. If all the others are selfish, why should I be the sucker who pays for having principles?

Because suckers with principles shape a society until they don't.
What's pathetic is thinking that trying to use inclusive language is pathetic.
In this case, burning the natural gas is the lesser evil, the unburnt methane that gets into the atmosphere is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2. But of course, if you have natural gas pipes going into every building, that will also lead to emissions of unburnt gas. However I don't think the problem is that huge, because methane gas leaks are an explosion hazard, so it's in everyone's interest to keep them to a minimum...
I don't think 2 is right. Only property becomes meaningless, since it's the only thing you're losing. Life and freedom only become more meaningful with time constraints, since you don't have time to do anything and everything.

As a matter of focus, we should solve those other problems first, especially since increasing life expectancy is already having bad effects, both in wealth and power concentration. Eg. Boomers not retiring, and not dying, so gen x and millenials have bad careers and nowhere to live

For another rephrasing, if I had the option to go back in time, and prolong the life of all the slave owners and the people they enslaved, I wouldn't subject the poor people to 1000 years of torture.
Not just currencies but also countries... That naming scheme is very lazy.
Thanks for keeping Thunderbird around.

Anyone that cares about it, don't forget your donations.
Accelerating notice is not always indication that your employer doesn't find you valuable, I almost always prefer to do that, especially with highly productive people: once an employee knows they are leaving and has announced it, anything they do other than tie up loose ends is more liability than benefit, and good people will do more. But their head is not 100% in it, they don't expect to have to maintain what they build, and most importantly they won't be around to ask questions of if things go wrong later, so it's almost always better to get them out the door ASAP.
No it makes local economies possible where previously all the money was sucked into the nearest city
> I can't wait to get back to the office.

> I don't have dedicated remote work space and that really eats into my productivity. Also being home and having no external pressure to keep working I can already see any breaks people tend to take are way longer than what they would take at the office. (Now someone is going to tell me that this just shows that people need more breaks, but I don't believe that)

> It also helps with my physical fitness. Now it is super hard to go to the gym in the morning just to come back home. When I commuted to work the gym was just on the way and it was easy to get out of the bed and go work out.

> Food is also big draw. Now I have to worry about what I eat every day and make my food. That's extra stress and cognitive pressure that is completely avoided when I get to just eat lunch from office's cafeteria.

> And of course other social aspects i.e. since I am already outside it is easier to do other stuff, but when I'm still in my underpants at home after work it is way harder to dress up and go do stuff.

These are the typical reasons I see for going to the office and they all boils down to you not wanting to make your own food, not having the self discipline to work out at home, and getting started in the morning.

I mean, it's fine, but I think it's helpful if we realize what going to the office is just making some people like yourself more comfortable, and others less comfortable.

Because to me, that commute is killing me, and getting interrupted in the office is wiping out any energy I have at all to commit to working. At home I have food I selected myself to eat and I have a nice twin monitor setup with a comfortable chair and silence to focus. My workout routine is body weight exercises right before lunch, and I have time to relax and have a shower as well since there is no pressure.
I have the opposite problem working from home: I take almost no breaks, sometimes it happened I even had lunch from my desk and worked longer hours than in the office. This sucked at first, until I realized I couldn't do this for long and started being more conscious about my working hours.
In the office I feel I take so many breaks, short coffee chats, water cooler chats etc. I think what you say that "any breaks people take are way longer than in the office" is not extremely accurate.
Using a significant chunk of my own salary each month to pay for something I used to get for free (and that my employer should provide) hardly seems like the ideal solution.
Well, OpenSearch already has ANN search plugin. Implementation currently uses nmslib. I am using it and it works fine.

https://opensearch.org/docs/search-plugins/knn/index/
How IT offshoring came back to bite Transport for NSW
> This is why I find empirical studies so valuable: in many cases "X" and "not X" are equally easy to rationalize, so we need evidence to help us decide which to believe.

I agree with the author here, but I also see some cause for alarm. When we could see it going either way, maybe it really could. As in, the result was a coincidence. Or maybe not exactly a coincidence, but caused by some very specific details.

This investigation was on java code, but will the same hold for haskell code? Closed source code? Will it be true 20 years from now? Maybe... but I also wouldn't take the answer for granted.

And, most insidious of all, maybe we as a community will look at this and decide it's a problem to be solved, and succeed in solving it.
If you really want to blow their minds, show them websites of the Government of Spain, which have separate versions in Basque, Catalan (+ Valencian) and Galician as well as in Spanish.
I like 1Password so much I don't mind paying for a subscription. But I have to draw the line at no local vaults because there's no other way to keep work data separate without violating company policies.
On the other hand, natural selection runs on death and reproduction.

Humanity's genetics will naturally deteriorate without death.
"will buy China time"

The niche between current temperature and end of the world temperature will be exploited by growing nations until something is done about rich countries exploiting their low cost production to work around green laws

I'm done recycling, reusing and downsizing until legislation is enacted to prevent my effort toward the environment to become someone else profit.
>Food is also big draw. Now I have to worry about what I eat every day and make my food

LOL
> automatically verified

The implementation can be formally written and verified, but the specification itself cannot be automatically verified.

That's effectively what a contract is anyway - it's a specification for a 'legal agreement' which is this sort of invisible obligation that is created after it is signed (for instance, the time spent in contract negotiations is usually spent debating what should happen in edge-cases).
I am all in for WFH, but deeply agree with your points.

Having a dedicated working space is not trivial; and it's not just isolating the space, there is all the "office management" part, having well fitted furnitures, lighting, drinks, noise management etc.
Basically what was someone else's job is now each employee's responsibility. I'm fine with it, but it should be noted.

Physical fitness was already in that realm I think, though we were forced to have at least some exercise to move to the office. My hardest impact on that respect is that my calm neighborhood is less fancy than where the downtown office was, and it's less fun to just go walk for 20 ~ 30 mins and stop by nice coffee shops or museums. I could move to a more crowded place, but it's just a different tradeoff. Buying a better bike was the best investment on that front.
Simple Spark Application to Run on EMR