skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? Yes they do eat dogs in China. Countries like Vietnam adopted the practice from China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychee_and_Dog_Meat_Festival
the bar was lowered for the express purpose of lowering the population of asians at TJ. that is plainly discriminatory and racist - "there are too many of you asian folk here so we're just gonna trash our admissions to get rid of you"
Note that the tenet of Buddhism is non-attachment, not detachment. They are different.
Cue the mass exodus! Backwards policy that is even worse than it was before (where managers could let people work on their own schedule, as an agreement between the manager and the report).

But those magical hallway conversations...
Well, the US tried to invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs out of concerns about Russian influence and military buildup close to the US mainland.
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You can nearly always find a qualified individual who already is saying what you want said, just needing a microphone to say it louder or at the right time. That's how expert witnesses tend to work for instance.
*smurfing
Mayor Breed withdraws proposal to gut city’s surveillance oversight law
On rethinking my statement I've realized I should encourage the Californians to stay in California and not spread communism to the rest of the country. So yeah, you can't escape the bad things by moving, stay there.
I was thinking about the exact same thing. I lost most respect for him in that fiasco. He even said he'd stake his reputation on it, so I guess it's appropriate.
Like most work related policies, I think this falls squarely under “it depends.”

I’m an in-house video producer for a tech start up. I absolutely do not need to be in the office most days, let alone every day.
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Testing Picolibc with the Glibc Tests
wow, thanks for this link, I wasn't even expecting a 1Password solution, but the very first item on that is exactly what I was getting at.

Though this seems to be maybe aimed at enterprise, I hope they continue their tradition of releasing features on personal as well.
it would be in the ballpark of $12M/head. Really rich.
Never heard of legal Epic having legal problems because of addictive games. Can you elaborate?
The above post said "lowered the bar for one person..."

The bar in the new system was the same for everybody. It was simply a different method of judging candidates. There was no "these groups get a lower bar because they are black or hispanic."

Notably a group whose admission went up with the policy change was poor asian people.
A policing operation in one of their “own” cities against unarmed people and dumping a bunch of land into the sea/intimidating fishermen. Like I said they don’t have any combat ready troops. It’s basically all LARPing with a big budget. Which we should all be glad about.
"Productivity trough" god that sounds like absolute hell.
Oh he's Putin's friend or otherwise "owed", and his words will not be found offensive, but only because it's him.
But being a market, Bandcamp's user's are actually artists and listeners, so Bandcamp having freedom to do what they want doesn't mean they can suddenly start giving all their music out for free, unless they change to a Spotify style model of listens = payout.

I wouldn't be surprised if the acquisition is to provide royalty free music to the games industry via Unreal Engine, as was the case for Quixel, but none of this is really good news for artists trying to make money unless Bandcamp plans to pay the artists out of their own pocket for a royalty free side.

All of that is speculation of course, we'll see where it goes. It's just a weird acquisition if it's not for integration I feel.
I think the point is that France, Germany and the UK (and all of Europe) used to engage in wars of conquest constantly throughout history.

After WWII the victors decided that needed to stop and they decided to trust each other and get along.

For some countries, peace is more important than trying to redraw borders through force.
He wasn't collecting address information for US customers, so the invoices hung in a pending state. He didn't check to make sure the integration was working correctly until a customer emailed him to ask why they hadn't been billed three months later, so there were a lot of invoices to clean up, which he apparently found to be very annoying.
All Google offices have a bit of a collegiate feeling; the NYC office just channels The Big U.
Even if what you're saying is true, I don't see the problem with everyone working less in the remote world. If everyone secretly wants to work less maybe we should all just work less. If we collectively need an excuse like remote work to do what we all actually want to do, then so be it. Everyone wins...
You are mixing two things. WFH has nothing to do with working different times.

Some employees work in the office from 9 to 5 while others can work from 8 to 4 in the same office. That is between you and your manager.

> You can build a highly scalable and successful business without following any of these "rules".

Which billion dollar company has done it without following these rules?
And more links to hype and monetary amounts invested in startups most of which aren’t even crypto coins startups that where funded in 2021, or gasp 2022. If you’re spending that much effort and not actually comparing the number of new coin startups let alone my other points, I am in awe of your tenacity if nothing else. Good luck, your going to need it.

Anyway, this is public so I can always just link to it.
And still another step back to normality. Money speaks and as we get into 2022 we get back to normal in time for 2023...

About 2 years too late but nothing needs essentiality than a good old economic depression.
I had a friend in IT saying this this literally 20 years ago, although we didn't know the burnout word back then. I couldn't understand it at the time. But I learned, and am now retired. I occasionally get a twinge of something about not grabbing a huge FANG paycheck for a year or 5, but remind myself that money is a tool, not the goal.
It can be, and is, both.

The decision to work as remote-first or office-first is, as I understand it, much more broadly available than it was. You are given the option to go remote-first and not return to the office at all. Returning to the office is optional.

If you choose to go office-first, then you will be expected to actually be at the office. In that sense, return to the office is mandatory.

The only thing that's really happening is them saying "you need to commit to one approach or the other, and act accordingly". This is understandable, you need to plan office capacity and other such practical considerations
It doesn’t need a control group any more than a cancer study requires a control group before it can determine whether or not the cancer patients have cancer.
It's team and role dependent, so it pretty much is "both" at the company level.

This seems win-win to me. Teams and orgs that consider remote-friendliness important can operate that way, while teams and orgs that don't think that can keep the team colocated. Ultimately, it means the vast majority of people's preferences are accommodated. Worst case, changing teams at Google is very smooth.

If it were truly "optional" for everyone even without manager approval, that's effectively "remote" because some people not being present means the team works in a largely remote fashion, and it also means space planning for expensive offices is very hard and result in office layouts that are not as productive.

For a big company with 100k+ employees, this seems like a good call IMO because it allows all working models to co-exist, and it can easily be tweaked after seeing how RTO goes.
In big tech companies, who gets fired has very low correlation to performance. Instead, it usually comes down to:

(1) people who make their bosses look bad are first to go.

(2) next are people who are perceived to cost their bosses time, regardless of whether it's their fault.

(3) after that, it's usually the infanticide cases: i.e., the people who did nothing wrong but haven't been there long enough to establish themselves.

The infanticide is especially ugly, because (a) it means the company is firing people basically at random, and (b) it rapes the shit out of the resumes of the people affected, because they now have <1 year jobs to explain. The reason it happens is that, empirically, most of the people cut in mass stack-rank purges are new members of underperforming teams... who, by inspection, have had the least to do with the team's underperformance.

Underperformance does get people fired, but rarely. It's at least as likely to get someone promoted, because underperformers usually have a career's worth of experience of being shitty, and therefore have developed such political skills they can easily fail up every time.
> You can just fire people.

Not at Google, you can't. Firing someone who's performing abysmally still takes up to 6 months, between all the process and PIPs and paperwork and shit.
My recollection is that nobody really had wifi or cable internet before about 2005.

Webapps over dialup was a complete non-starter, so you had to have desktop apps.
Microsoft's refusal to port WinForms is truly the most disappointing part of its cross-platform efforts, in my opinion. They have Mono, they can get it working, they just choose not to.

I wouldn't build a production application in WinForms, WPF and friends are much better for that. But, for quick&dirty or even moderately complex tools for experts, VS + WinForms simply has no equal. Some Python-based designers come close, but they definitely suffer when it comes to distribution.

With modern dotnet tech, Microsoft could allow us to build a (rather sizable) single, statically linked binary for any architecture, with the impressive performance of the dotnet JIT and native controls.

After working on Android designs, I've got to say, XML is fine for UI design. You need previews and visual inspectors to get an accurate idea of what you're doing, but describing what control lives where and what properties it has is a perfectly sensible use case for XML.
I know what you mean. I have tried to pick up meditation at least a dozen times, and I can never get the thoughts to stop even for a minute. Every morning I sit and try observe my thoughts, it just feels like I'm going through the TODO list for the day, with random interrupts of things that bother me or that I should worry about.

So I used to think meditation is impossible for me until I started doing the "morning pages" exercise recommended in the book The Artists's way:

> Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. There is no wrong way to do Morning Pages–they are not high art. They are not even “writing.” They are about anything and everything that crosses your mind– and they are for your eyes only. Morning Pages provoke, clarify, comfort, cajole, prioritize and synchronize the day at hand. Do not over-think Morning Pages: just put three pages of anything on the page...and then do three more pages tomorrow.
via https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/

After doing this 3 pages (on letter paper folded in two 5.5"x8.5") of writing down all my worries, thoughts, plans, and other random thoughts that come to my mind right after I wake up, I have been able to sit for 15 mins and experience moments of "mental silence." I'm not levitating or achieving some deep insights (probably not possible with 15 mins), but definitely a good way to start the day.

Since I had tried to meditate so many times before and failed every time, I found the morning pages helped a lot, and I would recommend to anyone try this out. Then again, my ADHD is more moderate than severe, so the same approach might not work for everyone.
>It is mostly orgs like Sales that have hard rules against remote work

That seems weird for outside sales (i.e. large accounts) given you're often near your customers and (in normal times) should be in customer meetings rather than sitting in an office.
I suppose some people will find ways to dismiss anything, but the idea that small fiber neuropathy could objectively occur in multiple patients due to psychosomatic illness when it has never been observed in any other mental health issue should be enough to dismiss the idea entirely.
Bandcamp is just a store, they don't own rights to do anything other than sell music.
Wow. Did not see that coming. I love Bandcamp, tho strangely stagnant as a product, but I loved its chill communal vibe and lack of tryhard tech for techs sake.

Wonder what the future holds with this acquisition.
Concentration meditation (samadhi) might help. The whole idea is that you should learn to nonchalantly bring your awareness back to the focus of your meditation whenever you get distracted by some other fleeting thought. Distraction will happen, whether or not you have ADHD - but it should also not matter. You're also not simply relying on willpower or higher executive function, which would of course be very stressful and tiring for those affected; you're learning to focus your attention via an entirely different path.
> I admit it's disquieting to suspect that some people are working only an hour a day

A tiny minority might be doing that but I dont think the vast majority work only 1 hour a day.

Are also saying that you can figure out an employee is working only 1 hour a day when you are in the office?
A lot of this resonates with me. Programming takes on a more enjoyable form when you can remove ego a bit, and worry less about padding your resume and learning your 1000th tool.

That said, it can be fundamentally hard to strike a balance on that with a client.

>Should a client need [...], I'll go with it. But I'll do so only when it's the simplest and most maintainable solution to the problem, and not because I want to be the greatest of programmers in my or other people's eyes.

"Simple" and "maintainable" depends on who is maintaining the project after you, and what they know, and what programmers at-large are likely to know. I also tend to make frontends that heavily rely on server-side and jQuery. I know that an SPA might be better sometimes, but since it will take me 10 days to learn a new framework (say 30-90 to learn it well), it's never the simplest solution _from my perspective_. But, it might be fine to stick to my old ways if the client just wants speed, or if I know I'll be around for a while, or if I'm confident any newbie can come in and quickly understand/overhaul my work.

I think it's also just ok to admit to ourselves that, even if it's not ideal for a client, eventually we want to work in a way that's mentally comfortable and familiar. You want some adventures to spice things up now and then, but too much too fast is overwhelming. Wanting to work with a familiar stack seems comparable to wanting your usual snacks, noise level, view, temperature, etc. As we become less desperate for salary, or as priorities change, it ideally becomes easier to say no to jobs/clients that can't accept a certain stack.
I'm not sure about always having Flacs, but a lot of "DJ" specific music platforms like Beatport have the ability to very easily download your catalog as files of various formats. The music curated there is of course leaning toward music you'd use as a DJ but it's pretty broad still.
$800mm was confirmed on the SNOW earnings call. 80% stock, 20% cash.
Office Space
Engineering offices need an exec to serve as site lead. Whoever was there left or moved, and I guess they couldn't find a replacement. There is now an engineering office there again, so someone must have wanted (or been willing) to move there.
That is really a vaulable conception of it (and LOL funny). I suspect Putin psyoped himself.
We should take the man at his word: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1241553311024603140

> I am materially wrong about the most consequential thing I've had to have a view on in 15 years. You should probably degrade your estimate of my ability to think through complex problems.
One counterexample doesn't make an argument "weak", if there are thousands of cases to the contrary.

About what percentage of FOSS developers do you suppose make a living wage from their software?

It's like pointing to a successful pop singer or pro athlete as an example of how it's possible to get rich doing those things. Possible? Certainly -- but only a minuscule percentage of the kids who start out in sports or music ever make it.
Depending on how the rest of the team prefers to work, they can be, in the same way that two in-person workers at a predominantly remote company could be less collaborative if they do most of their conversing/deciding in person instead of on Slack/Chat/Email/etc
Google's preferred method to "fire" a lousy programmer is to make him a PM.
You are not paid the value you create. The value you create has nothing to do with your salary(other than whether you get fired if value < salary). Your salary is the least your employer thinks they can pay to get an acceptable candidate. As they expand the pool of applicants they figure they can find people willing to work for less.
Yes and other things haven't been proven either...

Its been shown by example, this distinction doesn't change the fact that money and productivity go hand in hand.
Counter examples are counter examples and certainly they exist, but several large scale examples of it not being sustainable prove the risks are indeed real if it's mismanaged...
Banana Pi’s latest compute module features RK3588 chip and up to 8GB RAM
Sure, but that is way faster than "wait for them to quit."
The argument here seems to be that LSD can be dangerous, meditation is kind of like LSD, and therefore meditation can be dangerous.

It does seem like a possibility, but you'd think if someone were going to write about it they'd try to present evidence of some sort to support the point.
Winforms is undead.

We'll be writing WinForms applications in the 22nd century.
Putin is ex-KGB, so it's probably fair to say that almost any public communication that comes from that state to have a tinge of psyop to it, yes.
Great now the rest of the tech industry will follow. The flexibility of remote work was nice while it lasted.
The implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices
>Foreign gov't, certainly. Ours? As honestly as I can claim, I never knew of any Psyop folks conducting operations on those sites, nor did I ever hear of any directives for Psyop folks to use those platforms as viable mediums.

They were smaller then and it was still illegal for the USGov to do domestic propaganda before 2014. Twitter is famous for having literal PsyOps officers on staff.[1]

1. https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-executive-revealed-psyops-s...
Last time I sent money to someone internationally Etherium really was pretty convenient. The Coinbase fees were a little high but otherwise it was near instantaneous, I already had some anyway, and I didn't have to deal with any real hassle.
Yes, that was the wording! I couldn’t find the Tweet so I forgot exactly how he phrased it.

And yes, that’s exactly what I did.
Anecdatum: a coworker who joined mid-pandemic was approved for remote work.
There is something called "EHS" and unfortunately there is lots of woo and pseudo-science around it, but also some legitimate anecdotal reports. Hopefully as another commenter has suggested you can do some double-blind testing to see if that's truly the cause.
All of your concerns die away in a hybrid enviroment.

And I disagree with your "tap on the shoulder" problem. That is easily resolved with a one line email/message which can be answered equally quickly with a one line answer without all the social BS ... if it needs more than that then it is interfering with productivity at that moment and a short or appropriate meeting can be scheduled to elaborate. Anything else and ... sorry, you don't value good work.
Google has always lost top people to the next hip large-but-not-too-large tech company as they try something fresh / try to win the tech stock lottery. It was Facebook over 10 years ago, for example. You could get counter-offers to not leave for FB in that era. Is the current attrition any different?
Have you seen https://systemd.io/PORTABLE_SERVICES/?
What TikTok Reveals About the Russian Advance
> The company only wants to pay you enough to keep you and if you move some place cheap well they don't need to offer as much.

I think that depends what your other options are. It might work if everyone in the industry offers you less based on where you live, which is almost collusion in my opinion.
> more like a lifestyle business.
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Bandcamp is 100% a bonafide operating business. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but perhaps you're seeing that they were just trying to run "Business as usual" and equating that to a lifestyle business as they weren't chasing growth.
Yeh exactly. Same thing happened in office, seems easier to hide with lots of water cooler chat. Covid provided the cover for slackers to get even slacker.
My company was very empathetic to covid needs including reinstating forced leave due to sickness/family reasons.
Oh I thought this was an article about the manga/anime Berserk who's main protagonist is named Guts.
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> Well, the US tried to invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs

Well, it gave some Cuban exiles a ride to the Bay of Pigs and then cut them off without promised support.
This is a great overview. They seem to be implying that banks that are otherwise not required to abide by sanctions (say, one located in China) can easily bypass SWIFT restrictions and transact with the affected Russian banks directly. How true is this part in practice?

I'm going to ignore the last bit since that is tangential to the topic and ripe for starting a flame war.
> becoming more and more full of himself?

No, you've just upped your expectations. Public figures are still humans, with all the flaws and mistakes that come with the experience.

> Unless "Internet at Stripe" is some internal Stripe group

Maybe the generous interpretation is that patio11 knows his audience reaches beyond individuals employed at digital companies, maybe folks in finance or government or education. Stripe isn't a well-known provider in brick-and-mortar, or used by fintech, so on a topic on something like SWIFT it makes sense.
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Patio11 on this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2020/04/21/japan-coronavirus/
I was at the office yesterday and was shocked by how little got done. Hanging out, grabbing snacks, going for lunch, commute. I got much less long stretches of time of freedom where I do most of my productive work. Everyone sees that you were there doing stuff so I also felt less pressure than wfh where I felt bad if I didn’t get what I talked about in the standup done
It's a wonder cities don't just fall apart and stop functioning completely without someone taking an attendance headcount everyday and peaking over their shoulders to make sure they are doing their job.
There was the Kalibr strike on an airbase with >40 dead, plus some missiles in other air bases.
I wonder how you would build an encrypted messenger like like Element (app.element.io) without SPA style.

I think it's not even possible, since you are required to process incoming messages client side and must not send any private keys to the server.
When It Comes to Climate Change, Wealth Equals Adaptation
> Yes I could prefix with "01", "02", and sort alphabetically, but those are cumbersome workarounds and reordering is a pain.

BASIC line numbering:

010_...

020_...

030_...