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It's hard to find places that have anything in the middle. It's either fully remote, they may or may not even have an office anymore, and they act like you're crazy if you suggest having some sort of standing office space available without special reservations or advance notice. Or on the flip side, they want you in the office 3, 4 days a week, 8-5 or whatever, basically pre-COVID requirements.

I agree I think the best of both worlds would be some sort of schedule, maybe ~1-ish day a week on average. Personally I'd love something like Monday-Tuesday in the office every other week. But everybody is different, which in turn makes it really hard to coordinate and make everyone happy.
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The author is a Cessna pilot. It's very, very different, from a jet airliner. High altitude flight with swept wings has little in common with a low-and-slow straight wing Cessna.

http://www.gregorytravis.com/About/

He also writes about runaway trim: http://www.gregorytravis.com/WhyDoesNotPresent/ and assumes that Cessna training on stab trim is the same as for a jet airliner.

It isn't.

He also seems quite unaware that the flight previous to the LA flight that crashed also had MCAS activation, recognized it as runaway trim, and recovered by simply turning off the stab trim.
A DAO trying to free Julian Assange has raised over $6M
> or it'd be a built in feature

It is a built in feature. People can generate wa.me URLs for their account in settings.

That is a domain owned by WhatsApp. It's not some unofficial service.
None are artists. Suprise suprise.
Working from Home is great for 3 things.

1. It makes you to do work. End of the day you have to show your progress. WFH forces that coz everyone will now focus on your output than ever.

2. Forces documentation of your work. Everything needs to be documented.

3. You exactly know how your time is spent and with whom.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to start anything. It was my initial observation. But was it really the point of my post? Or are you just poking to poke...
I hope I never have to commute to an office again. Working from home full time has been a dream come true.
Efficiency: judging by the state of healthcare I sincerely doubt the legacy financial system will go away quietly.

Fraud detection: I'd be very concerned about false positives here.

Observability: forcing everyone to opt into a financial panopticon will have unintended consequences.

Security: we really struggle to hold any organization accountable. Public organizations are not magic, was anyone held accountable for solarwinds? The office of personnel management? If anything holding public entities accountable is even more difficult then private entities because of politics.

Responsiveness: The ability will be there, will it be used effectively or responsibly?
While I agree about aviation, rail is an entirely different problem, and big heavy things move great.

For freight in the US, the worst case segment I know about is ~700 miles. This can be handled with about 400-500 feet of battery cars, which is probably 5%-10% of train length. So the worst possible scenario is pretty close to feasibility with current tech.

If railroads were to start investing in this level of battery, beyond saving a lot of fuel costs, they'd have a couple hundred MWh of battery at every rail station. This would be a significant grid asset, at least at the moment. In a decade, that level of storage is probably going to be extremely common. But in any case, there's significant opportunity for demand response payments, if not using the batteries for replacing peaking power on the grid.
> In my experience, remote work typically has no direct productivity downsides, but team cohesion absolutely can take a hit

I'm sure this varies based on the type of work you're doing, but I found the hit to team cohesion led to long term productivity losses. At first we were getting more done than ever. As time went on our raw work output day-to-day did not decrease but a lot of unneeded work that previously would have been headed off at planning and discussion stages would get through.

This was on a team that is specifically doing speculative high risk/reward work so that might be applicable to a lot fewer people than I imagine.
At start of pandemic was working from home, but with a company I had previously worked in person. I knew all my coworkers, and had plenty of in-person history with them.

Now I work for a different company. I’ve never met any of my coworkers. None of them are in the same city. Most are on different continents.

My ideal situation is working in office for a year, then work from home.
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I'm never going back to work in an office. If companies stop with WFH I'll become a freelancer on Upwork or whatever.

Sure, there are many advantages to being in the office, learning and career-wise. But those advantages are related to just one aspect of life: work. With WFH I get perks in every aspect of life, plus it is healthier for me and to the environment, while also being better to the community I'm in - I get to spend my money here locally and not in some corporate park.
Ernie Zelinski's "Joy of Not Working" book was useful and eye-opening for me at about that age.
Using taxpayer money to promote religion has been held to be equivalent to an "establishment" of religion. This means that any schools funded by the tax man have to be strictly secular, even in their "elective" activities.
I would have thought it was easier to electrify the yard and use pure electric powered prime movers instead.
> Are you single/married/married with kids

I think I'd have already gone completely insane if I were still a bachelor when this pandemic WFH experiment has been thrust upon me. I go stir crazy when I'm home alone, but I'm not really a social butterfly either. Work was a good compromise.
i work from home and have the option to work from an office but the office is shitty and has an open plan. so no, i’m not going to commute 1.5 hrs round trip so i can be uncomfortable all day and be distracted by my coworkers (who i like otherwise).

but give me an office with my own space, a nice view, natural light, and a walkable neighborhood, and i’m very much in.
Could Luxury Homes One Day Fill America’s Languishing Office Buildings?
Is part of the prompt missing? Should this be "I currently work from X, [but] I prefer working from Y"?
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I'm an EM who went from full onsite, to hybrid, to full remote. This is my favorite topic.

Throughout the pandemic we surveyed employees and they largely preferred to WFH. A lesser but significant cohort preferred a hybrid setup. Almost nobody at all was in favor of full-onsite. I was in the hybrid camp. I thought I could have the comraderie of the workplace and the dynamism of a bustling city, plus enjoy the comforts and efficiencies of WFH. On paper it sounds great. In practice it doesn't work at all.

As an employee: I found that the office felt empty and dead which made me question commuting in. Nobody was really around to go to happy hours or have events. A significant portion of the people I wanted to be around were opting to stay home more.

As an employer/manager: We found capacity planning to be hard. You can't save by scaling office space down if everyone is hybrid and still coming in on the same days (tues, weds, thurs, obviously). You also can't have a lively environment with A/B days and half-staff, and it creates headaches around who needs to be in together and when people want to be there. Communicating is easier if everyone just joins the meeting from their own laptop _wherever_ and doesn't need to arrive to a conference room and fight with some silly speakerphone-camera-tv thing.

So I'm ALL IN on remote work. Does it have downsides? Of course. I miss bonding with coworkers, going out to coffee/lunch, and impromptou hack-sessions. What I have gained is different and so much more valuable: Hours of extra time per day to devote to family, friends, health and hobbies. Work is work, and life is life. It's a revelation to realize that you don't _need_ to be IRL buddies with coworkers, just do great work together, and then go do your own thing.

Commuting is literally wasted money and life-- Full-stop. Corporate workspaces are redundant if the work can be done from home rather than letting that space go unused. This is just trimming wasted time and money and putting it somewhere more useful. I also find office attire to be insane. Countless individuals stressing about what shirt/pants/shoes combo to wear... ironing and paying for dry cleaning. Just go on your zoom call wearing something and use your brain to get shit done. Thats the whole point of work.
I love your terminology of Comically Large Display and shall use it always. I keep threatening to drag our 55" Sony main TV into my office for work from home usage. I actually tried using it as a display for my Raspberry Pi once, it was fantastic. Though I hate to think of the computing power differential between the two devices.

The 43" LG monitor you mention is really tempting, especially considering pricing on the 32" 4K IPS monitors I was just looking at. Do you have any advice/caveats for prospective buyers?
Frankly, don't expect to be able to type all that much faster than you already are without extreme measures (unusual keyboard layouts, stenography, etc.) - you're already well above average.

Typing 110-120 wpm, your fingers are hitting ~10 characters per second which is a pretty impressive feat if you think about it; most people will never be able to achieve much beyond that, even with dedication & practice.

One thing you can do is ensure you have a decent keyboard that you're comfortable & familiar with. I'd recommend a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX brown switches (light tactile feedback without the annoying 'click' of blue switches) - but ultimately, keyboards are highly subjective.
I'm working from an office now but my direct coworkers are all in other cities. I think actually working colocated with the people on my team is close to my no. 1 criteria for any new/teams jobs going forward. Maybe not totally ignoring comp, but I could definitely imagine taking some comp hit if it meant getting to work with a team again or not.

I think the most interesting thing about a lot of this is how wide the spectrum of desires is. It ranges from "you couldn't pay me enough to work from an office again" to "you couldn't pay me enough to WFH".
The same way you support any causal claim, by controlling for confounders. What gives you so much confidence that a suboptimal microbiome is tautologically accompanied by "nasty and humiliating" IBS symptoms, to the degree that would cause depression? Are you under the impression that everyone with a measurably poor microbiome automatically has nasty and humiliating IBS symptoms?

You can assume that everyone involved in performing, analyzing, and reporting the study is incompetent, but at that point why not just assume that the entire article is inaccurate and that one can never understand anything about the world?

I'm the last person to slavishly believe scientific authorities' interpretation of evidence when it's clearly done poorly (see: all of Covid). But it's bizarre to claim that researchers wouldn't have thought to rule out the most basic alternate hypotheses, especially when they have the data to do so.
With a central digital currency, they could presumably dictate what kinds of items could be bought and sold.

If their goal was to spur consumption, they could block some types of investment from some or all people at any random time.

We already have different legal classes of investors based on wealth: you effectively need at least 25K in a broker to be able to day-trade, and the requirements to get a designation of accredited investor are even more substantial.

It would make it trivial to assign different rights based on wealth in a digital system and use it to enforce policy.

It’s an authoritarian’s dream.
I grab Nuts and Volts, Servo, or Circuit Cellar every once in a while at Micro Center.
I found that for the first few years, but eventually got used to it. 13 years later it doesn't bother me. Having a young family at home with me definitely helps defeat the loneliness though.
HN Moderation and Censorship – Community Discussion
HN is a highly moderated platform that uses several “tools” to silence dissident views including shadow banning posts, removing posts, applying penalties to accounts, account bans, downvoting posts, etc.

I completely understand these actions as it relates to spam or bot activity as all platforms must use moderation to provide a good user experience, but these moderation weapons are primarily used to silence alternative viewpoints and subject matter that does not agree with HN moderators.

Although moderators believe they are acting with good intentions, there are many consequences to portraying the HN platform as an “open” social news community, but secretly silencing opposing views.

The primary issue is creating a narrow filter bubble. Secondly, reinforcing narrow social, technological and political ideologies.

As a community we should keep open the discussion of how these moderation tools are silencing posts and the wider effect they have on HN readers who believe they are reading unfiltered user submitted and generated content.
Thanks for this! I'll try that next time.
The 737 Max is not aerodynamically unstable to the point of causing these crashes. Any airplane can stall in any attitude or at any airspeed. The Max is not inherently unstable or aerodynamically unsuitable for flight.

The Max could fly without MCAS just fine, but pilots would have to be re-trained. Airlines didn't want to foot the bill for such an expense so Boeing applied the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) to literally augment the maneuvering characteristics of the Max to match the 737-NG, which pilots are already familiar with.

Bugs in the system then led to runaway trim which caused a stall and crashes.
I agree for the most part, except that I once had a software job where I had my own office, and it was the best. I could spend half of the day with the door left open, and fix my coworker's problems, and then spend the rest of the day with my door closed doing deep work. It gave me a great sense of what pain points were effecting others, but also allowed me to shut off the distractions when needed.

I absolutely cannot get anything done with open office floor plans. And commuting is life wasted.
Not sure how useful that report is. Look at how they score..

Was the current head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections?

The US 3/4

Do laws, policies, and practices guarantee equal treatment of various segments of the population?

Canada 3/4 - because Indigenous women went missing?

Are there free and independent media?

US 3/4
Canada 4/4
Switzerland 4/4

- Shouldn't these be reversed?

Seems like randomly rating to get some predetermined result. What do many of these things have to do with press freedoms?
> If I was in the office I would not want to talk to anybody unless we had some prearranged meeting on a specific topic.

This is the sort of honesty I’d love to hear when interviewing candidates.
It's like the Illuminati. There are signs hidden everywhere.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3ylmm4/a_staggering...
Wow. This sounds just like me.

Remote work really started getting to me around Jan 2021, at which point I started taking hour long walks every evening as a way to clear my head. This worked up until a point, but after another 6 months and getting vaccinated, I knew I had to have a change.

For the last 6 months I've been biking into my office, which is nearly empty. I spend my mornings in a coffee shop and afternoons at my desk with a big monitor and keyboard. Per our building rules, I need to be in a closed office alone to work without a mask, but it's all worth it. There are a few other people who come into the building and we all sequester in offices. It's weird, but I'm loving this lifestyle.

My work-from-home setup was actually pretty nice, but I really need to get out of the house and have a place that means "work" to my brain. It also feels good to come home at the end of the day. I still miss my coworkers. Would love to get back to a world where we could have in-person meetings again and all the rest, but I'm getting the sense that I'm in the minority.

FWIW, I consider myself a "social introvert". I like to socialize, but it's a draining activity (like playing sports) and I always need some alone time at the end of the day to recharge.
I completely agree that the commodification of dating is a big part of the problem. The same reason it's hard to read a long blog article or pick a show on Netflix are why app dating is so hard. I find it quite easy to land first dates, but they rarely lead to second dates or more. It's really hard to want to put energy into trying a second date when the first date didn't blow you away and you have a large pool of other matches to go out with.

I find that most first dates end with mutual ghosting, I'm not even sure if it's appropriate to call it ghosting if it's mutual. In many of the cases there probably isn't long term relationship potential, but in some cases there could be if the effort was put in by both parties. But why put in the effort when you have someone who you've already fantasized to be better that you can go out with in a few days? If people had fewer choices they'd be more willing to put an effort into making a connection with those choices and see if a relationship can blossom.

I don't really know what's better. Few choices that you put a lot of effort into, or a multitude of choices that you wait until you have instant chemistry. For me personally I've done a lot of app dating and it's only ranged from hookups to short term dating. All of my long term relationships have been through people I've meet in real life.
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At least in my case, praise has often been given out based on time of work rather than work.

I am a hard worker because I send 2AM emails (which I may have scheduled in advance to give that impression).
I think “destroying American democracy” can pretty firmly put you in the “bad” camp unless you start doing some odd mental gymnastics.

I also think “destroying American democracy” is by definition unconstitutional, simply by what the “un-“ preface means in English.

I agree people are really complicated but thankfully, there are lines people can cross that allow us to straightforwardly recognize them as “bad” without making the only bar for that something extreme like Satan.
That, and it doesn't make a good argument that supporting choice (or as the author calls it, being "in favour of abortion") is actually conflicting with not wanting to kill animals.

If your beliefs are that fetuses below a certain stage of development are not capable of suffering, pain, or desire to live, and that living animals are capable of suffering, pain, and desire to live, then this is still very much a consistent set of beliefs
Ok, you mean this thing isn't worth my attention as a front-end developer? Carry on.
>sighs could signal a behavioral state change [...] Teigen (2008) also describes situations in which sighs are elicited by a quick drop in physiological arousal, during situations in which humans feel helpless and surrender.

The source is my source. What really gets my goat is the Goldilocks findings; too little sighing and baby death occurs, too much and adult depression sets in. It's all too convenient a match for the present moral zeitgeist of the expert external savior. The study ignores ways anguish can be prevented (in adults) because it doesn't dare find fault with any actors in a situation, instead it looks to play the defeatist mindset off as natural & necessary from earliest life.
Ask HN: HN-like sites for engineering topics
While I really enjoy the conversations in the HN think-tank collective, the topics usually are far off from my area of expertise, whish is in electronics and radio engineering.
Are there sites of similar format and quality that go more into "traditional" engineering topics instead of software?
For me at least, the real answer is of course much more nuanced. I'm probably well off being in my home office. We're making it work. I get a lot more time to hang out with my wife, or pick up my kid from school in the middle afternoon. But do I miss some creative meetings around the whiteboard in the office? Bet you!
whatever "self publish your blog" means, but if it's sufficiently easy for non technical users to figure out, no doubt it's a platform that can be subjected to this law. If it's not an easy-to-use platform it will deplatform and disengage the less sophisticated internet users. The old-school internet was mostly a few eccentrics no one paid attention to.
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I've been tracking my food the past couple months and it's pretty eye opening how much fiber I've been lacking. Now taking supplements, but is there a food you'd recommend in particular?

It's silly, especially to admit on this forum, but I found the Hidrate water bottle that tracks your water consumption actually increased my water intake loads as well.
I'm in exactly the same boat. Working from home has a lot of advantages (as a longer sleeper, I can get up later, I can eat at home, I don't need to travel, I have a really nice setup etc) but I really miss having a coffee break with coworkers. We regularly do some Zoom coffee meetings or are even having a drink, but it's not a perfect replacement.

On the other hand, the pandemic really took the fun from meeting people all day, so I don't think I'd be happy in an office either, at least under the current circumstances.
Small co-working space within walking distance from home.

Get the benefits of working from home (no commuting, no traffic, closeness to family)

Get the benefits from the office: other professionals with whom to share, clear boundaries between work and family.

And even something that neither can provide: networking with people outside of your coworkers. And a healthy walk every day.
What if you WFH and others work from your home too and vice versa?
> Open concept offices are awful.

The only people I've met who seem to like them are people who do sales for a living or the exact kind of coworkers who I would really not like to be in an open office with.

I have a really nice office in Seattle. Since I am the second most tenured person on the team, I even have a water view and am right next to the snacks. I haven't seen the inside of this office since May 2020, and probably never will again.

All of my colleagues and I have agreed that we don't see the need to go back and our employer is likely going to sell our admin building (we have several other buildings for actual patient services) and distribute some of the money to those of us who worked in that building as a bonus or as an allowance to buy equipment for home.

I've visited the open offices at friends who work for Microsoft and Google and they're just awful hives of noise. I would rather have my own door and own bathroom.
The language I used allows that possibility. But, in the specific legal challenges I'm aware of in this area, that's been the constitutional obstacle to teaching creation as fact.
Glyphosate is also used to desiccate grain crops. I rather doubt the residue is removed before it reaches one’s table.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation