skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can see the need for cross-domain (e.g. UX or graphics) specialists to have high-accuracy monitors but for most devs I don't it as necessary, as generally speaking you have an IDE with a bunch of code (text) and probably another monitor with your terminals, web browser with documentation, instant messaging app, etc. pretty much all of which is text-based.

I was speaking specifically to the domains that serve use cases where display quality matters. Quite a lot of us at least overlap with that. Basically all FE web or GUI dev, any end-user image/video processing, pretty much anything that puts graphics on a screen that aren’t UI SDK builtins.

> With regards to viewing angle, I have a nice dual-arm monitor mount system that allows it to be easily repositioned (limited 6DOF) as I change sitting posture throughout the day. Maybe something like this would help you?

I have challenges with hyperfocus which include uncomfortable stillness for prolonged periods of time. I also have a puppy who reacts to very small motion adjustments during work hours in a way which becomes a huge ordeal. This is another reason my Comically Large Display (described in another comment in thread) works well for me. I think adjusting a mounting arm would be counterproductive for me.

> I will say I usually score badly on colour perception tests (not colourblind, rather the tests where you have to order a number of very similar hues) so I could be missing a whole bunch of subtle colour errors that would irritate regular users :)

I don’t do a lot of color accurate work but color/luminance wash is a huge problem for me if I have to deal with it. Like a background task that never stops until my brain is depleted. Having a panel that doesn’t distort that way in my peripheral vision is essential for me to be able to work.
Maybe you missed the part where I did not dismiss the results of the study.

I simply took the next logical step and pointed out that vitamin D has not been proven as a preventative or cure for COVID.

That's right. Vitamins don't prevent or cure COVID.

Really? We're arguing this in 2022? Cartoonist Scott Adams, and 1991 relevant music artist Right Said Fred tweet this study and we think we've got the secret to free, cheap COVID antivirals?
Going to an office to write software is absolutely insane.
I like going on fridays and leaving early to drink beer with coworkers.
I think that HTTP(S) is not a good protocol for real time chat. However, Matrix does have the advantage of being open source. (But, I prefer IRC; it does not require specialized software to use it, and does not add too many complicated things (although some implementations do, you can mostly ignore them).)
Any other Tor Browser users get b15acf0466e7b2da06cfea09b1ab2cda? TBB is of course meant to resist fingerprinting...
Nope.

I have a dog that keeps me company. And I don't particularly enjoy driving and sitting in an office with grumpy people that I have barely anything in common with.

Also - haven't had a respiratory sickness since Jan 2020 - which means other people were getting me sick in the office.
32 times in a country of over 400 million. Your definition of "massive lottery" in this context is interesting.
> For every person who sings the praises of remote work. There are 10 people who slack off with Netflix, YouTube, friends, etc. during work from home.

Like they weren't sneaking in reddit and HN the whole time they were in the office as well. Just with the constant mental stress of getting "caught" doing exactly what everyone else was doing.
This should be mandatory reading before anyone is allowed on the Internet. And also, this one:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
For me the sweet spot is working from home with a place away from home I can go when I feel like it. This could be a coworking space or coffee shop but my favorite is the public library near me which is not too trafficked, has excellent Wi-Fi and is a great place for everything but meetings.
Not sick of it per say, but sick of its current iteration. Too much is attempting to mimic in person.
I can forgive people certainly. But if (for instance) a public figure has espoused some pretty abhorrent views then I'm probably not going to bother looking them up or engaging with them specifically - we have an excess of talking heads as it is, and they've made clear that they are prone to holding those sorts of views. I wish them well in another career.

Yes, people can be redeemed and forgiven. But that doesn't mean we don't take their past into account at all, or believe the first set of crocodile tears or profit-preserving contrition that they punt out to save face.

Let me throw it back - Would you trust a new medical testing company headed up by Elizabeth Holmes?

I wouldn't, regardless of how genuine her regrets and apologies on the matter seem. That doesn't mean she shouldn't be able to get a job and live a life, after she's served her time, paid her dues to society and demonstrated she's moved on. Perhaps she'll achieve something honest and good with her life. But I'm never getting a blood test from Theranos MkII, regardless.
I think my views have changed over the course of the pandemic— originally I was thrilled by not having to commute, being comfortable, having an easy way to take a break.

Now in 2022 it sort of feels like living at the office, and the lack of separation between the two can be annoying. The flexibility to pick when I want “intense focus” time at the office has been working really well for me. (Thank goodness my company allowed us to be hybrid.)
WFH is so much better for 2 reasons: can focus, no commute.

Other great reasons: not spreading germs. get chores done during lunch break. see more of kids. look after pets. easy take holidays where you work from another location. own office space. decent coffee machine. not being caged in a city centre during lunchtime. bring in washing if it rains. be near school if there is a problem (like kid is sick). conversation over zoom means both of you get to work at a desk and have good ergonomics while solving an issue.
I have both the Dylos and other sensors. The Dylos is a very sensitive instrument that reports raw counts every second. There is no smoothing, no translation to PM2.5 scale. For the paranoid type it works REALLY WELL for providing direct feedback on the impact of an air filter- or on the impact even of minor contractor work. PM 2.5 sensors- quality ones- have their place. But the difference is kind of like the difference between reading labels and following FDA guidelines on nutrient intake vs getting a blood screen. Sometimes you want the blood screen. Dylos is a good device for that.
Is there some pet peeve you have about the world, which you wish to change? If there is, and you can put your finger on it, making it happen could be a very fulfilling thing to do.

I just figured out my pet peeve, the design principle I wish to impart to the world... after watching this video recommended in a different thread

Bret Victor Inventing on Principle -- https://youtu.be/8QiPFmIMxFc

I wish you luck if you find yours.
My wife deserves nearly all the respect for homeschooling. She does the lion's share. I help with checking the work and mostly science and math.
He has also not been hesitant to use his money to shut down Gawker by bankrolling Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit. When it became public which claims would make Gawker’s insurance pay for the defense and damages, they specifically dropped those claims so that Gawker would be responsible for the damages themselves.

This is an article from the NYT before they knew it was financed by Thiel: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/business/dealbook/gawker-...
>Facebook doesn't enable those interactions very well

I never looked to FB to enable making friends, I was dragged onto it because people I did meet elsewhere prefer to use it. So I don't know either how it's supposed to work or how it does work.

A weird (to me, probably not to a FB employee) thing that happened after my previous comment was...

I clicked on the "show me less" option next to "people you might know" (because it has been showing me former co-workers, who are fine people, but not friends, and I don't want them to be).

Then it collapses, but like three items down in the feed, there is a duplicate with the same people!
I'm a social person. I vastly prefer working from home. I've been doing so for the past 8 years. My work days are short. My time with family, hobbies, and friends is long, peaceful, and uninterrupted.

Working in a remote first organization is better. No asses to kiss. Just results. And ample amounts of free time.
Do you get embarrassing flashbacks of previous behavior or any pangs of worry that you'll regress?

Have you ever tried nudge those "old versions of you" towards your current direction?
Back-to-school line at Office Depot, the guy ahead of me is a teacher buying class supplies from his pocket. So, let’s fund supplies.
If I'm not mistaken, you are talking about aliasing, and you are going to see that no matter what. There are always going to be assets made at a certain size and scaled to fit the particular element on the screen regardless of DPI. You'll perhaps see aliasing less with a 1080p screen since older UIs are built with them in mind, but these issues will be there regardless. Web pages will be this way on any monitor since they are always scaled.
Work from home but head into the office once or twice per week. I’m liking the mix of comfort at home without losing connection with colleagues.
I used to like Electronics World, and even subscribed for a while, but I haven't seen an issue for years and it doesn't look like they are really set up for US subscriptions any more. They used to do a nice job of straddling the line betweeen a high-end hobbyist magazine and a trade rag. Better technical content than Circuit Cellar.

For audio, the US-based audioXpress is similar. Hobby articles with a bit of a trade magazine slant to the ads and editorial content.

QEX is the best of the ham radio magazines still standing.

Elektor is fair, on par with Circuit Cellar and Nuts and Volts. Weren't they publishing in the US for a while?
At the start of the pandemic, I knew I would miss working with people in person, but thought I would be totally great with WFH.

Now, I know that I badly need some amount of in-person time with my coworkers on a weekly basis, or I go crazy.

It's a motivational thing for me. I thrive on solving problems for and with other people, and there's an "out of sight, out of mind" effect for me over zoom. It's just harder for me to get my brain going.

I wish I were better at WFH - maybe with the right type of work I would be. I love everything else about it! My home office setup is awesome, I always hated commuting, I love the flexibility of doing chores during the day or getting some work done at 11pm because I don't feel like sleeping.

But man, I miss people.
I think the cavalier attitude stems from the fact that a lot of people work on software that’s really not that important in the grand scheme of things so it’s not a huge deal to break things down, make mistakes, and ship buggy code.

There are a lot more people programming social media sites than there are programming train traffic systems or missile controls—I have a strong feeling those that work on these sorts of projects have a much different attitude.
I would strongly prefer WFH or at least a hybrid. But I’m more than happy to work from the office if it’s a competitive advantage in the common era.
I am very interested in this question of psychological profiling people through how they behave in an activity. People would be getting better results going on dates if the dates were designed to (1) be entertaining, and (2) informative.

With freedom to choose the frame, in less than an hour you should know an awful lot about the other person and since you got them to talk about to talk about themselves about subjects they want to talk about you: (1) you haven't been stressing it about presentation of self and (2) they probably like you more than they did before.
I've felt this way for a while, and have heard others say that as well - after OKC got bought by match group they gated all of the useful features and turned it into a swiping-based tinder clone.
What's stopping you from leaving the house?
For me it's the same. Perhaps a bit of preference to working from the office ( I'm also nearby).

But I've noticed that our jr programmers haven't improved since 2 years ago.
Could you link the video? Sounds cool
Actually, because differentiation is a limiting process, this relies on the bounded convergence theorem or monotone convergence theorem. However, I imagine this would hold in most distributions under consideration.
Work from home but within reasonable driving distance (2 hours) for a day or two in person event (usually some portion work oriented but mostly socializing focused) every month or two with folks in similar situations. I like this balance much better than my previous job where I was work from home but never got to meet everyone because it was a large company and we were all over the country. There was still ~weekly mix of getting together with local folks at the regional office but looking back it still seemed more often than I like. That said I like each much better than at the job prior to that where they had an aversion to people not being in their office chairs every day. All 3 jobs were in the same field and closely related outside of seniority.
I wonder if this is true.

Is there any guide to finding these ideas that I might be sheltering myself from, that I should not be sheltering myself from?
> When Apple removed Magsafe

...and F-keys!
Cool. I get a different fingerprint every time. Although that doesn't prove that I'm not fingerprintable by this approach (one difference may be responsible for changing the hash), I'm kind of pleased.

My setup:

- Firefox

- Enhanced Tracking Protection

- uBlock Origin

- NoScript

- Privacy Badger

- Privacy Possum

- HTTPS Everywhere

- Clear URLs

- Decentraleyes

- Smart Referer

- JavaScript Restrictor
I had a subscription for a long time, I think I cancelled in 2008 after being unhappy for a while.

The worst one was Scientific American, I loved that one, and it dove worse.
In this link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqldQzGV-lY
A TypeScript Perspective on Go
Yeah. I'm working from home. I'm loving the convenience and the ability to use, for example, my favorite keyboard. But working in my bedroom and livingroom has kind of ruined those rooms for me. I think I'd enjoy it much more if I had a separate home office room to go to.
Working from home means I get to see my wife and children for more hours of the day. It also means that I get to choose when I will allow myself to be interrupted, rather than sitting in an open concept office and being _continually_ interrupted.

I've been working from home for over six years. I never want to return to the office. I will change careers before I return to a software development office.
I worked professionally in an office from 1998 to 2020 and remote from March 2020 till now. There is absolutely no comparison. Working from home is so much better than working in an office that I will quit any job that wants me to work in an office from here on out. Fortunately my current company (a Fortune 100 company) is saying that at some point everyone will have to come back to the office T-TH, except for IT/programmers/developers.
microfluidics is kind of like computers (integrated circuits) for liquids
Nice idea! The more data the better, from my perspective :) Presumably a lot of the code overlaps, but there's also probably plenty that's only in FreeBSD.

I would love to extend this even further to include projects on GitHub, but once you step outside the distro build systems it gets impossible to actually compile them in any standardized way. I might try to do some kind of best-effort (try ./configure && make, cmake, etc.) though.
Thank you, interesting!
My wife (pfizer) and kids (unvaccinated) had it, I never got it, and I kissed them all goodnight every night. All cases confirmed through pcr tests, I did multiple as well. Wife had a stuffy nose, kids had no symptoms.
Agree. I go in once a week to pick up a shared lunch for everybody and we hang out and play some board games
I’ve been remote at least some of the time for the last 4-5 years and fully remote since the start of the pandemic (which is what I intend to do going forward).

I totally understand why some people would rather be in an office, even those who are “just” writing code. But I’m just not a very social person and I value time with my family over in-person social interactions with my coworkers (despite my current coworkers being very nice and awesome people).

There’s also just zero need for me to be physically colocated given the work that I do, so any benefits are greatly outweighed by the commute and lack of flexibility that comes with a requirement to be in an office everyday.
Wow!

That's the best read of what's going on with the 737 Max system and the MCAS software that helps to drive it.

Totally understandable now.
20 years for me - since late 2001. Loved it in a 450 square foot apartment in a very lively Brooklyn neighborhood; I loved it in my peaceful 2br apt with a view in Seattle; I still love it now with a house and a toddler (still in the city).

I started my career in an office - a very fancy one at that with an incredible view and great coworkers. But office life has never been for me.

> I have 7 kids and we homeschool

Impressive.
Is revenue likely to continue growing if the user base is ... shrinking?
Why was the Peter Thiel thread removed?
There was a positive discussion around Peter T. that was just removed. Can HN advise why it was taken down?
No, I didn’t. If you read it even with that sentence attached it still applies, as I clarified in my followup comment to you. It just wasn’t needed for that particular reading, and your reading was not the strongest plausible interpretation. The goal posts have remained unchanged.

Furthermore, I read through some of your other comments and might add: I haven’t found one in which you’ve been anything but negative. Please consider reading through your comments and adjusting your general demeanor on this forum; I’d argue there’s a reason every third or fourth comment of yours gets downvoted.

That said, I think we’re done here. Enjoy the rest of your night; or day, wherever you are. :)
Can you scratch your own coding itch ? Have you customized your dot files ? Could an employer do worse than you ? Would you pick yourself to code yourself out of a life or death situation or pick a random person off the street to help you ?
Tesla doesn’t have to be safer now to follow this reasoning.

If Tesla’s approach ultimately succeeds in getting FSD working and into the mainstream, then for each year earlier that happens than it otherwise would, up to about 30,000 lives are saved, millions of injuries prevented, and roughly $1 trillion USD in total lifetime value is preserved as the worldwide accident rate goes to zero.

In that context, FSD should absolutely be civilization’s next moonshot.

That’s to say nothing of the other economic benefits besides simply killed and maiming fewer people and destroying less property.
> His theory of change might be that it's worth destroying American democracy in order to preserve American hegemony because he believes it's a fundamentally better world with America as the sole superpower

This is the logic of autocrats. In this supposed less violent future, I'm guessing Peter Theil sees himself and rich people like him as the elites in charge of post-democratic American hegemony, don't you think?

I'm sorry if I'm not convinced that this billionaire, who owns a mass surveillance company literally named after a fictional surveillance technology that was used to deceive people, is advocating for the destruction of American democracy and the subsequent elevation of his own power for altruistic reasons.
Since you invoked "US right", I'll assume you're not American. Criticism of "cancel culture" is not limited to the right wing. If you think it is, then you haven't done your homework.
Not an online website, but I found my typing ability increased considerably after playing the typing-of-emacs game (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TypingOfEmacs). Because the penalty for mistakes is extreme (losing 1 out of the 3 lives you have), it encourages you to type with perfect accuracy.

There's a 2-3 second timeout to motivate you to type fast. Also, it pulls words from the buffer you have open, so you can practice on a set of words that you use regularly. It starts with short words and gradually moves to longer and more complex words to see if you can keep up.
Yep. Agreed. There comes a point at which silence is no longer an option. Navigating family gatherings has probably always been treacherous. Hard to know when to remain silent, and commiserate later with the obvious target of undeserved criticism, and when it's egregious enough to say, "No more!"
It's a lot worse in other places like Italy, Japan, and South Korea.

The U.S. fights the ruined culture through: (1) immigration and (2) little stigma for single motherhood. Modern places where women are forced to uphold traditional values to raise kids are in free fall.
No nah nope. You don’t need an app for this. You need the classic hierarchical file system and good folder and file names. I put it all in a VeraCrypt volume so it’s secure if the device is lost or stolen.
i'm happy with either during my actual work time, but commuting is a huge negative. wfh all the way.
If people can access resources you don't think your browser exposes, then in fact your browser does expose those things. You just didn't realize it.

Security does imply privacy, because one of the most important things in warfare is keeping information away from your adversary. If your browser is freely giving away information without a care in the world about who gets that information, then of course that information will end up in the hands of your enemies, and from there it can be used to do something you'd more readily recognize as a "security breach."
Same, I do marketing and have been working from home for almost six years. Nothing could make me work in an office again.
I'll never go back if I can help it, my happiness and productivity have increased dramatically. I wouldn't mind having the OPTION to go into the office every once in a while for social reasons.
The article is about the US right, written by someone on the US right. The US right makes a lot of noise about it. The UK right does too.

It's massively hypocritical given their history. This article points out that the fringes of the right have now started doing it, my contention is that the whole of the right has been doing it for decades.
Good question. Too many variables to predict what will happen:

- The user base may not shrink, if they figure out how to build a competitor to TikTok.

- Some of the new projects may bring more users

- They can monetize WhatsApp
The absolute absurdity of sitting in an open office, and pretending to program the full 9-5. That's just not how work like this happens. Why do companies pay their developers high salaries, but then tie one hand behind their backs like that.

For me? Never again.
I haven't had kids yet, but I think having them is the most important thing I can do with my life. I can't fix society's problems. I can't even be sure I helped a nonzero amount even if I exerted myself to exhaustion for my entire time on Earth. What I can do is raise someone who is exposed to my principles and ideals. I can carry my meme on so that they may exert themselves for a lifetime that yields an infentesimal result. It's the only way we'll ever make it.