skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully understand this perspective and agree remote work should be the de facto norm. Remote works benefits on a productivity and environmental level do seem to outweigh the social benefits. I guess I was just commenting how much I miss organic interaction with like-minded smart people in the office, and how much duller my days have gotten without that.
They would have the advantage of variable density based on demand, i.e. more of them over population centers and none over oceans, whereas LEO satellite constellations are pretty uniformly distributed because they're orbiting.

It's sort of in between a stationary cell tower and LEO satellite constellation.

But then you have to worry about them failing and hitting those population centers, whereas satellites deorbit slowly and usually burn up completely.
I fear it's another example of "optimizing" away something that made us more human (in this case, more in-person interaction).
From a French point of view, this might have become debatable lately ;)
This article is based on a piece by South China Morning Post.

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/arti...

> According to the Post, square dancing has its roots in the Cultural Revolution, particularly the great link-up of 1965 and the educated youth campaign in 1969. The damas are of middle age because square dancing links back to these moments of their youth when collectivism was an important social value in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Dao
Not yet but my plan was to just have a static HTML site which the tests could run against.
Your perspective is actually very common: Working from home isn't for everyone and we should stop pretending like it's the only way to work. A lot of people dislike remote work. Many people like remote work but can't handle it for various reasons.

Internet forums like HN will always overrepresent preferences for remote work because they're biased toward people who enjoy socializing over the internet. Most people don't go online and engage in random discussions. They do it in person, and they like it that way. A random sampling of active HN commenters is going to be much more enthusiastic about remote work than, say, your average junior who relies heavily on organic interactions to grow in an organization.
If someone is bothered enough about whale hunting to get triggered by someone working a whale boat, they already know there's no whale hunting operations out of Hawaii.
It’s not about being picky, it’s about knowing your worth. If an employer chooses a ham-fisted approach of forcing everyone to work out of the office, then they will have to pay the consequences of their top talent leaving for companies that are more flexible (and often pay the same or more)
There are levels of "mature." Many chip plants, some of which were built to nurture home grown tech, have fallen far short of what is old hat to TSMC.
Very similar situation, relocated to the Bay for work a few months before the first shelter in place.

It’s been rough. Don’t have any real advice, but at least know you’re not alone.

Edit: I think it’s important to focus on where we go from here. And at least to me that actually means more remote. I would rather be able to work remotely from amongst my existing support network than attempt to roll back the clock to a pre-COVID style of office work.

To each their own.
100% all of this.

Thank you for taking the time to explain <3
Vrimp sounds like something I would stay far away from. Other than that, sounds cool.
I'm not sure what we're discussing here. "WFH" is a common, casual shorthand for any sort of arrangement where you work while being at home - I've only seen the term used to summarize, not to trick or mislead people. It's worth noting that Amazon's formal message (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/amazon-offering-t...) identifies what they're offering not as "WFH" or "work from home" but "more flexibility as we return to office".
In what way is Australia more agreeable uranium selling partner? I really don't know
I think you're oversimplified and over-regimenting. Cities are like organisms. A healthy city needs a large number of different kinds of organs and systems all working in concert. Some may not be entirely essential—you can live without an appendix and give up a kidney—but almost all of them need to be in place to have something someone would call a thriving city.
>That's exactly why for me as a customer the stringent review process is a bonus.

Nobody would force you not to continue using the Apple Store or maybe an even better store with even better reviews and with an actual quality static analyzer. Apple fans will say that evil apps will go to the bad App Store, then this would be a great news for you and if for some reason a super quality not evil app will not be on the App Store you can then ask yourself why good apps don't want to.

For sure you will get the option to install a numberous number of GPL software.
Fixed url: https://www.womensrunning.com/culture/diversity-in-running-t...
Same here. I'm not getting the point that you are making though.
Not the OP. But some of it also has to do with work life balance. If you dedicate yourself to the startup hustle there’s not really time for bars/clubs/libraries every night of the week. But for some reason staying up late, solving problems, eating with your coworkers, etc feels like a form of socialization. With COVID isolation, it just feels like a solo grind (I suspect this is part of why YC is biased against solo founders).
This is the other point I wanted to make (but frankly I was too scared that maybe it’s just because I suck at meeting people now that I haven’t socialized like a normal person in a year). It just seems harder to meet people _in general_ than it did even two years ago. Like where is everybody? Does everyone stay home literally all the time now?
GNU Guix and reproducible builds. That software can be bitwise reproducible and explicitly declared feels like an exit ramp from the relatively brittle systems that are standard. It feels insane to me that only now these concepts are coming to fruition. Afaict, Guix and Nix invalidate the need for things like puppet, ansible, etc.
Mixture of Experts, aka not all 10 trillion parameters are used at the same time, just a subset that is an "expert" on the "task at hand".
So you're mad about a game unrelated to the GP, that passed through the review process anyway?
> You know who also is not on the gold standard? Every other country where a large range of conditions exist.

Every other country follows usa. After the second world war finished europe was reconstructing and depleted of any financial power
so america set the tone in finance since it was the biggest winner. That s how we got the removal of the gold standard and dollar as the reserve currency for every other country.You make it seem as if every country reached the conclusion that gold standard must go by itself.
If sea levels keep rising a lot of coasting could be like this.

In the netherlands they have flaoting houses in the canals, but stationary AFAIK
Past few days? Where have you been for the last 70 odd years? Difference lately is it's become more credible for bunch of reasons around politics and capability.
> I’m gonna go against the HN grain here and, despite having been fully for remote work for the first year or so of the pandemic, come out and say that life has really gotten a lot more repetitive and frankly disappointing since covid and the death of the office. I kind of miss meeting people in the office.

There's a big difference between 'remote work' and 'forced to work from home due to a global pandemic'.
When faced with a case where SV is a natural fit, I've long been in the habit of (ass-u-ming I get to make that call, of course) specifying PostgreSQL COPY style TSV as the interchange format, and using more 'normal' TSV to make it easy to get data exports into Excel and friends.

That's turned out to be rather less annoying than any other approach to SV I've tried over the years.
i worked at company that is remote first and they did a company retreat every year (as well as team-focused retreats, like engineering, support, C-level).

it was a blast -- you got a week of "free" travel w/ your SO (because it was just once a year, they paid for your SO to come with you).

i loved it, because it was a time to get together, have some drinks, chitchat and do some super productive work.
To some extent what you're suggesting is what https://revolt.chat is already attempting.
I have a bunch of friends on IRC, we generally hang out in a single channel (it spun out of a topic specific channel but we sorta moved to been adjacent years ago).

That acts as my digital water cooler since I'm remote forever.
I'm actually disappointed in this. These two were fighting the unsustainable expectation that all libraries or frameworks must be free. As long as we have that expectation, only developers who win the VC funding jackpot, as these two did, can be fairly compensated for doing substantial full-time work on libraries or frameworks. And what's the business model now, anyway? Those VCs are going to expect a return on their investment. Giving away the software and trying to sell something else can lead to some perverse incentives. There's no shame in demanding compensation for the software itself; I wish the Remix developers had kept up that fight.

And yes, I bought a Remix license (an indie one). I'm not even using it, at least not yet, but it seemed worth supporting.
https://www.harborfreight.com/9-hp-towable-backhoe-62365.htm...

You said basic. :shrug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fK6EtRXqS4
I agree with you. I worked remotely for two years pre-pandemic. Never again.
Congrats team! For those not close to the React ecosystem, here are the main things to catch up on with Remix:

- Kent's website breakdown: https://kentcdodds.com/blog/how-i-built-a-modern-website-in-...

- Beta launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dOAFJUOi-s&t=1s
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GAF Energy has opened a San Jose factory to make integrated solar roofs
I'm forty, and for what it's worth I'd be more than happy going back to the office if I had a short commute. But the drive home can take as much as 1.5hrs depending on traffic, and it was a little soul crushing. I've had so much more time since going remote.

Maybe younger folks are more likely to live closer to their work? Haven't looked into it at all, though.
A normal social calendar provides a few hours of interaction per week. That's important and healthy, but it's still a lot less than 40 hours of ambient presence. I think only sharing a household can substitute for that.
Vaccine mandates aren't new.

No. But mandating a brand new vaccine is new. We don’t know what the long term effects are. Nothing about COVID or the way in which tyrants around the world are using it to seize new powers is normal.

People at the FDA are resigning left and right [1]. Nobody wants their name on this thing.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/anger-frustration-at...
Last I heard (and I believe this could be wrong) my professor said that we basically understand how a single neuron works. That like basically if we do X input we get Y output, up to some accuracy. He used this to discuss the idea behind neural networks -- that each neuron is simple enough to model, all we need to worry about is the weights and the dynamics of the network as a whole.

How much of a simplification is that? And how much does the accuracy of such a model matter, in the grand scheme of things?
Relatedly, I think this is part of what fuels more extreme social groups. If you don't have rotary/bowling/church/golf whatever group that you hang out with in real life, and you've got nothing else, then when you finally find a group they will be more likely to be a group that by its very nature has a stronger set of convictions; enough so that it overcomes the social norms and inertia and gathers in-person.
Have you wondered why your life on its own is repetitive and disappointing? Would you be making the same positive statement about working in an office if you didn't have the option of working remote?
I didn't realize it was a joke until I saw the author's newsletter about it today. Should've caught it earlier, though, given how different it is from his usual high quality.
My next big move will likely be completely out of tech as well.

I'm not sure when I will do it, but I've been setting aside a little money every week to buy/take over my wife's grandpa's business (handcrafted furniture - they sell 50-90 pieces per month all on pen and paper and over the phone and personally deliver the products).

I'll probably work on automating most of the more laborious parts (rough cutting templated pieces is one of the biggest time sinks, the other is hand spraying finish), and recycle more of their waste either into more furniture products or into something like wood pellets for heating or cooking.
I’ve been thinking about exactly this!

I really miss the ‘low effort’ social interactions that in-office work provides. “Want to get lunch?” is one of those.

Question: does this app already exist? Can I facilitate this in my life without building the app (easy part) and building a significant user base (hard part)?
What's so wrong with letting every employee make their own choice? Then, after 6 months or a year or whatever (to get everyone a chance to get used to it and be confident in their selection), survey everyone to find out who wants to keep working from home. Those that don't - allocate them a desk in an office. Add some additional hoteling desks for travelers or normal WFHers who need to visit, and then adjust the size of your office space to match.
We don't transcode video, so no.
Something like what happened with Arm China.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326447-arm-china-seize...
That's a great counterexample.
Would it be possible to get in contact with you outside hn? I’ve got something which might interest you but I’d rather not yet share publicly.
I guess it still drives some traffic worth profiting from ads, but you can read the whole story here: https://daveverwer.com/blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-tim...
Mostly right except Indians and Pakistanis make up most of the police force, business owners and government workers as well.
Discord has a bot API but using any unofficial client ("self bots") can get your account banned. The Discord Matrix bridge warns about this, saying that attempts to use the friend request API from a bit will probably get your account permabanned (and the feature isn't active by default AFAIK).

Discord doesn't seem to go after unofficial clients as much as they could, but if this client becomes popular they'll probably go after them.
My take is that the lack of interaction and socializing is not actually dependant on being in the same physical location day-in-and-day-out.

There are a lot of ways that people socialize online. They just aren't built into the remote work culture.

There are many startups looking to address this with more social virtual work environments. But really it's a matter of what people do rather than not having tools.

For example if there was an always-on video-chat on its own monitor, people could just unmute that. Or something similar but with different locations such as water-cooler A and water-cooler B.

For me, having been remote for about ten years or more depending on how you count it, they have mostly been very small startups. And the other people involved actually generally have had other jobs to do. So they just didn't have much time available during the week for socializing. But part of it I feel is a lack of interest in socializing. Which you can say that forcing people to do it by being in the same space is an advantage but maybe another idea is to adopt traditions/culture and software that make it more fun or easier to socialize online.

I just wish people would log into the Discord more. But I think the fact they don't do that every day means they are a bit checked out of the project realistically.
Wow, I've just tried it and it's really good. As mentioned in the article, I already had winget in my PC. So I was able to use winget upgrade and it listed all the apps that I can upgrade(None of them were installed using winget but it still worked).

It's a huge improvement over downloading new version of VLC from their website for example.In total it upgraded 10 applications. The only annoying thing was that it still had to open GUI installers for updating applications. I'm also not sure how does it handle applications that are currently open during the update
> China's position is that a declaration of independence from Taiwan constitutes an act of war against China by what is essentially a US/NATO proxy

Right, and one could also say that America's position is that China isn't allowed to invade Taiwan, so I guess if China wanted to do that, it would need to trade something of value to America to let it happen, and I'm not sure China has anything to trade that matters to America. This is the US-Sino agreement -- China isn't allowed to invade, the US isn't allowed to recognize independence. The situation can only be settled with diplomacy. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy for more information about this agreement -- which both the US and China signed.

So you see, China can't really prevent the US from recognizing an Independent Taiwan, but neither can the US prevent China from attacking Taiwan. Both of these balance. China can sabre rattle, sort go up to but not actually invade, just as the US can go up to but not actually recognize Taiwanese independence. For example China can violate Taiwanese airspace but then leave without shooting at anyone. And the US can open an "office" in Taiwan that isn't quite an embassy but does some consular work. And perhaps an American official might visit that office and shake a few hands.

It's a weird tit-for-tat.

This is the game that is being played. The US is betting that it has time on its side. With each year that passes, the Taiwanese consider themselves more independent in their own consciousness. China is betting on rapidly becoming so rich and such a pleasant place to live that the Taiwanese will want to reunify in order to enjoy the Blessings of Beijing. Everything else is either play-acting or dangerous stupidity. Because I think Xi is a smart guy, I think he is play-acting and for a domestic audience. Whenever there is some problem like electricity blackouts, or some corruption scandal, Xi does some provocation against Taiwan and people fall behind him ready to avenge Chinese honor. But I know there is a non-zero chance that I could be wrong, and perhaps Xi really means it. That would be disastrous for all sides.

So international disputes are not really settled by one side having a position only, there are multiple sides, each needing to compromise on their position. Being rigid often ends up backfiring, particularly for a nation locked into the dollar system and one that isn't food or energy independent.
> The GP comment I credited described the "maximum amount of loan" as a function of buyer income and interest rate.

But the price of the house is set without reference to buyer income or interest rate. It therefore cannot depend on "the maximum amount of loan", which is an incoherent concept anyway.

The government program juices demand by making financing more available than otherwise. This raises the price of homes. But that's the limit of what we can say.
I assume most of this is simple survivorship bias. The kind of people who become executive leaders are the those who thrive in that specific office environment, so naturally they will want to preserve it.

It's like asking polar bears what temperature to set the thermostat. They're going to want it like the arctic because that's their home.
Wait, China uses TSMC? I'm surprised PRC govt allows that.
The "symbol: Type" notation is the "scientific" one for programming languages since "forever".

It's not that "modern" languages are doing something new. Everybody was doing it like that, besides the "C language family". They're the outlier, not the other way around.
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I don't know why these companies with massive in-person offices don't just convert them into mini data centers. Maybe have 1 or 2 top level floors reserved for in-person meetings or executives but the rest of the building can be used for housing data centers.

Most businesses wouldn't even need to an entire floor.
Wfh really disrupted the days cues that indicate time and serve as reminders and habit triggers.

Wfh is great for some people, but I also find it monotonous and reduces daily variety amongst a number of other not great attributes more work related. My ideal is a 2-3 day in the office. Different options work better for different people.
This is a trend, not a fad.

A megatrend!
I suspect it was a bet on worse is better.

Whether it was a good bet is debatable, but given Crockford's focus on "try and leave out as much as possible" I can certainly see it making sense at the time.
Have you been sleeping for the last half year? It was on the front page of HN a bunch of times.

Even this, from an Apple fanboy website:
https://www.macobserver.com/columns-opinions/devils-advocate...
I’ve seen this message over and over again because I have a hacker news RSS feed of the word “spreadsheet”. I’ve flagged this post because it feels like Groundhog Day with this spam. Stop please!
Well, yes. If not "everyone," certainly lots and lots of folks are just staying home whenever possible. Because we are in the middle of a global pandemic.

I think this has much more to do with "we are in a global pandemic" than "you can't meet people doing remote work." Certainly, there were a number of larger groups that I used to hang out with consistently pre-pandemic, but now have totally abandoned. I'm not interested in maintaining an online relationship with those groups; their value to me was in the face-to-face moments.

But that's just not a thing right now.

I'm certainly not going to go out of my way to expose my family to people who may or may not even believe in vaccinating themselves.
There's a couple living on a cheap ass floating tent/home (it literally uses barrels to float) in Sweden I think. Pretty cool. Also narrow boats in England are cheap and rather nice. Could start there.

https://youtu.be/jljkK9HMa44
It's a bit like trying to deal with Facebook without having a FB account .... no phone numbers, no email, ....
My team pre-covid had half the team in New York and half the team in Warsaw. Post-covid, we have 1 person in New York, one in Philly, 2 in California, and 1 in Warsaw. We could've never set up a team like this if we were expected to be together in one office.
Not only that, but pilots must go through extensive medical examination in order to get their medical certificates, and for Airline Transport Pilots (ATP) they need to get them renewed every 6 or 12 months, depending on their age. They are entirely used to their medical status gating their employment!

Just make COVID-19 vaccination a requirement to pass your medical, and be done with all this hand-wringing.
Passive-aggressive Taiwanese anti-china propaganda is such a funny genre.
Wasn't amazon but this is exactly what happened, they mandated "back to the office, no exceptions" last summer, I put my notice in and went to work for a company that was 100% remote, within a year I got promoted from lead upwards.

Turns out sometimes not only is the grass greener but it's much better tasting as well.

Ironically the place I left announced a "developers can work from home forever" policy a couple of months ago (after they'd lost 7 out of 9 senior devs off their 9 teams - the attrition rate wasn't much lower for non-seniors).

They are so fucked it's not even funny - literally decades of accumulated domain/business knowledge walked out the door.
I sympathize; this sort of thing is very frustrating. However, it's better than it was. I was working on iOS apps 7-8 years ago and it was just like the story above, but each review took 2-3 weeks.