skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The comment you’re replying to has nothing to do with response time.
I think you just hit the nail on the head right there.

There are a few things that I've realized make the difference between remote work and in person. When you are needing to talk to a team mate, working remotely you can just message them and get a response quickly, but this has the effect of interrupting them (or you), which can derail their train of thought. Sure, your still interrupting them when in person, but you can see that they are actively working on something and wait a minute or two for them to notice. They may also see you out of their pariferal vision, which alerts them without really interrupting them, so they can continue their thought before moving on to yours. It's possible to delay replying to a message, but for me personally this means I might take longer to reply to the message than I should because I forget to come back to it (also I swear Slack doesn't always play the notification sound).

The other thing I've noticed is that the lack of interruption can actually negatively affect me. Seeing others getting up for a break can trigger me to also take a break, which can prevent me from getting too lost down a tangent (or spending too much time on Reddit). Since it's in the preiphery though, this allows you to continue with your train of thought while still also being able to see it as a reminder. This allows you to better choose when (or if) to respond.

I think what message apps need, is to slowly fade in alerts, instead of harsh instant alerts. So you notice them, but aren't interrupted. This won't necessarily help with the tangent (or Reddit) problem, but it will help with the interruption of teammates.
uTorrent is definitely NOT Java --- the binary itself is a few orders of magnitude smaller than a JVM! You might be thinking of Azureus (since renamed Vuze)?
More objective reporting on the withdrawal: https://sfstandard.com/city-hall/mayor-breed-peskin-ballot-m...

TL;DR: Seems Breed is close to a deal with the Board of Supervisors that would obviate the need for the ballot measure.
The 1970s Mastermind commercials aren't effective, because the mix of vitamins that's injected into bread and pasta no longer has that Gene Rayburn-esque quirk of making everyone crave earth-tone clothes. So Wordle is the next best thing.
Bring Back Risk
I got that after commenting but would prefer if the locked swatch stayed in place so I can see how the hue (or a combination of hues) works across different media
The biggest reason for the decline and fall of Java on the desktop is that better alternatives came up that succeeded. Somewhat ironic that Java on the desktop failed, but JavaScript has been wildly successful (despite the handwringing about Electron on HN).
I wouldn't use it as my primary system. But I do keep some of my old laptops to perform experiments on. e.g. running minimal NetBSD, Alpine Linux, etc.

My primary system is a beefy desktop running Debian Bullseye. I'm wary of installing unproved software on it. So I first install unfamiliar software on a spare laptop, sometimes with a clean OS install. If the software works as desired then I install it onto my primary system.
It's also rather harder to exfiltrate data via rowhammer or meltdown than via, say, unrestricted filesystem access so even if it's technically possible, it will be less prevalent.
After two years of mostly WFH, I think I'm ready to go back into the office. For me in particular, in the last six months, "work from home" has started to turn into "living at work". Work cadences are no longer meshing well with home cadences. I've gone in a few times a week in recent weeks and the structure of the day, including the quietude of driving home, is a relief. The only issue with returning to the office I'm running into is that drivers on the highways are considerably more aggressive now vs. pre-COVID.
Do you use it for anything that you couldn't do better on a newer laptop?
This is totally unproven. We have no idea how the market as a whole is going to react. Most companies are going to follow the leaders on this one, and Microsoft and Google taking a clear stance will heavily influence the rest of the market.
ohhh ok i see. thanks for replying, i really appreciate it. im going to think about that.
I am willing to bet Patrick sleeps while wearing a Covid mask.
People land in weird places when they try to carry around just the principles. Like, "network controls are evil and should never be used". That's not at all what BeyondCorp says.
> Call it cliche, but you do win people over with kindness and decency.

You are probably familiar with the work of Dale Carnegie. A large part of HN find his work to be overrated and obvious at best, while personally so far I found it enlightening and found that the world would be a better place if people actually followed its advice. What is your opinion on his work?
I kind of doubt it. His entire family got covid already.
An interesting distinction is that all Japanese (and Chinese, and Korean) fonts are monospace. Unlike western writing, all Japanese characters are exactly the same width.

This is the reason for the so-called "full width" characters, to fit western writing into the same character boxes as Japanese characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms
Quantified Distortion Unit. It's a telco measure of voice signal quality, from the 64kbps and before days. 1QDU was the maximum tolerated impact on a voice call, and was the goal for line card compression to try and mux voice calls together.

It's not just zoom. All digital av processing ads delay. Some removes av sync. Decoherence of visual lip sync and sound interferes with any perceptual clues you get looking at people and beyond 50ms we start to detect it.

In head bone conducted audio along with your own ear hears things as you say them. So your own speech is instantaneous unless you incur some DSP delay somehow wearing headphones and it then collides with bone conducted sound. Now in any teleconference system you have a visual of apparently local people and an actual of 200+ms of delay, loss of sync, and a confusing outcome.

I do hate zoom. I hate all of it. I also know it's the way of the future.
Since you mentioned Spotify, I would like to plug my favorite music site and app, Hype Machine (hypem.com) which combines the simplicity of RSS and a curation of blogs to make a great discovery engine (once you found the right blogs to follow)

It’s a bit of the best of both worlds, aggregation and app features like a solid tech company, and human magic that feels like local music store rather than top 20 radio stations
Everyone says that until their health starts failing and you realize the way to death is a slow procession of fear inducing, painful medical conditions that tortures you while youre on your way out
>So don't replicate it online. Having a different venue beyond a job is also an option.

Any examples that you've had success with?
I'm curious about this, I try to stay up on what's going on in the crypto world and it's my understanding that the vast majority of crypto blockchains are still using proof-of-work, which is what I imagine "planet destroying" is in reference to.

Per wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake

The biggest proof-of-stake blockchains by market capitalization in 2021 were Cardano, Avalanche, Polkadot and Solana. Other prominent PoS platforms include Tron, EOS, Algorand, and Tezos.

There have been repeated proposals for Ethereum to switch from a PoW to PoS mechanism. In April 2021, the Ethereum Foundation announced that it planned to switch to a PoS system by the end of 2021. This has since been pushed back to the second quarter of 2022.

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So if most of crypto transactions are conducted on proof-of-work chains, which do require burning large amounts of electricity, why would this make you think someone doesn't know about the current state of crypto. What exactly about the current state of crypto is incompatible with this critique?
Ah, but that also implies we're missing "underlord" to go with it then.
It's mostly a realisation most organisations are illogical, bloated, developer unfriendly and/or too undocumented.

We applaud ourselves for self-studying, being fairly educated on average with backgrounds in being taught to self-study effectively and finding information online. Yet somehow the idea of juniors doing those exact same things, with or without digital aid of seniors, is unthinkable to many.

Surely somewhere this story feels off.
Java is a great idea, but the language is miserable. From the nullable concerns to the failed object model to the horrific runtime on runtime Spring (DI) monstrosity. Testing in Java is painful enough to signal that Java has a kong way to go. Statics ensure you can have pure functions but Java testing all but eschews their usage without complex setups. Booting up Spring in tests just to run methods that depend on opaque interactions is considered cursory.

A generix UI/UX (OS) model is the most complex and difficult type of software that exists. Games are hard, but not in the sane league. There is no Java OS because the language is insufficient, which is to say, it is suitable enoigh for other things, but I wouldnt say its great.
Should also add that I detest those kinds of influence operations. Much like hacking, there is white, grey, and black classified activities [0]. I'm a bit old-fashioned and prefer to stick toward the white hat side and dabble elsewhere only when necessary, and not treat it like a fair selection.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...
The people advocating for a move back to the office are managers who's jobs seem more and more pointless the longer remote work is happening.
>Out of scope until labeled terrorists.

You don't know how big this goes. It started with 9/11 and eventually gave the president unlimited power to use all forms of necessary and appropriate force against all forms of aggression. This includes using agencies to spy on their own people.

Right after the 9/11 terrorist attack, overwhelmed by mourning, congress gave the executive branch broad powers related to terrorism that still exists to this day. That power is scoped in a 60 word document voted on by congress.

That document effects how the government operates to this very day.

To see how it all started listen to this podcast: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/60-wo...

There was one person in that podcast who saw the future for what it was before anyone else. She made a stand and risked her entire career to stop what was to come. Ultimately she failed and that's why we are where we are today.
$600B of reserves of RF, which are frozen, is the cost of a just single major city. It's not enough to cover loses from Russian war, because Ukraine lost 2 major cities (Donetsk, Luhansk) and whole Crimea at the beginning of the war. Everything confiscated will be just a little fraction of lost value.

IMHO, RF should give Cuban and other territories, confiscated by USSR, back to Ukraine as compensation for 8 years of war and massive destruction of Ukrainian cities.
Related:

Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25148942 - Nov 2020 (207 comments)

Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254569 - Jan 2018 (153 comments)

Why Japanese web design is so different - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8975735 - Jan 2015 (6 comments)

Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718067 - Nov 2013 (129 comments)
In the post he says:

>I had noticed that my cashflow for the previous 2-3 months seemed to be tanking a bit

A bit? Revenue from all US customers went to zero for three months! That should have been a giant hole. This is like driving your car into a lake, hearing a "bang" as the engine explodes, then complaining that there's no "you have driven into a lake" warning light on the dashboard.
Strong beliefs from investors. I don't think there is much rationality at play here.
what.cd the hell happened here?! My beloved Bandcamp! to Epic Games!?
Actually, most tech companies have employment agreements that prevent exactly this sort of behavior. When you are dealing with IP, you don’t want this leaking to a competitor. And when you are a big tech company, almost any other tech company is potentially a competitor.
I'd argue pairing is BETTER remote where you both have comfortable access to all your screens. While one person is writing production code, the other can be googling/writing repl style experiments/whatever and in easy communcation while they have the person writing code up on a second screen or at least a background window easily brought back to the foreground.
The problem is Zoom and Discord are doing multiple streams. But it really shouldn't be a problem.

H.264, even on the high profile is not CPU intensive on a 2014 machine. Unless you are watching 1080P with 5-10Mbps, which is not the norm for internet video.
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> I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.

On the flip side, there are people that prefer a company where everyone is remote. They want to be able to resolve any issues quickly over voice calls or slack, and do not want to feel at a disadvantage because they are isolated from in person discussions that could have just as easily happened over VC.
So over 800k people over the age of 50 have died from covid in the US.

Are you saying that it's "dishonest" to estimate that at least 1% of them are grandparents involved in childcare? By napkin math this more than works out; I'll also hint that if you spend even a minute researching, the stats on how many of these people are likely to be grandparents, and how many grandparents are child carers, are readily findable. If you care to engage in an honest discussion.
This headline is entirely straightforward ...
I doubt that China explicitly made such a request, they tend to be more subtle. Putin would have been well aware that invading during the Olympics would have pissed off the Chinese. He didn't need to be told to wait until the Olympics finished to invade.
> I’m not mixing anything.

Working from home and, working using flexible hours are two different things.

> GitLab comes to mind.

Which got acquired by a billion dollar company. Do you think Gitlab was not successful in remaining independent because the rules which you want are not scalable?
Well, since we're theorizing: my theory is that he's f*in' goofy!

Which reminds me of an old joke:

The judge opened the courtroom proceedings: "Mr. Mouse, as I understand it, you're petitioning the court for a divorce from your wife because she is insane. Is that correct?

Mickey sighed: "No, your Honor, what I'm saying is that she's f*in' Goofy!"
What about things like man pages or other offline documentation, shell completions, init service files (ex. Systemd units), .desktop files, mime type files, etc.?
What If San Francisco Does Not Recover?
I don't believe you are describing even 5% of remote software engineers. And those 5% would find ways to not do anything even in the office, but then they could also distract others so they are better off at home.
I have worked at a couple of FAANG. When I wanted to get things done, I would hide in a meeting room, or I would work from home.
The office is the most unproductive environment (at least for me). People will interrupt you all the time, for random things, chit chat, coffee and what not. Having head phones all the time did not make any difference.

I wish companies would understand this.
A mixture of both is the usual approach I think.

A central government delegating most of the day to day management of citizen's environment to local, highly autonomous entities is a common pattern.
The thoughts do come up out of nowhere, unpredictably. But with practice, I can choose whether to inhabit them, or simply note them with quiet amusement and let them pass by. I can also pick something to concentrate on, and stay mostly focused on that, while those extra little thoughts just flutter in the background. This all seems to me like an enhancement of free will.

(Meditating almost daily.)
Would this be its speed relative to the moon?
We don't exhibit complete control over our thoughts, that is provably impossible and anecdotally obvious when reflecting on errant thoughts we have experienced.

Free will is about behavior, not thoughts. Our free will is demonstrated by our ability to consciously choose whether and how to act when presented with thoughts and emotions.
Is Urs Hölzle coming back from New Zealand?
The one at 7m30s looks basically identical to a bit that shows up on Jimmy Fallon pretty regularly with celebrity guests.
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Supposedly it is better now given all the people who have decided to WFH. They actually have nice comfy common areas again. This is what I heard during our VC lunch today, I've never been to the office myself (technically my desk was there, but I started during the pandemic).
>This is, in theory, supposed to result in web apps that feel as fast and snappy as native apps.

What a bizarre premise. We don't build SPAs as alternatives to native apps. We build them as alternatives to server rendered web apps.
I must have been off. Then it is precisely the same policy as Google.
The phrase "ponzi scheme" has been thrown around liberally in regards to cryptocurrency, especially on this forum, but I've never heard a convincing argument that it actually fits the definition.
That’s what you usually have a contract for. Just like you’ve got one with your hosting company, your CDN, etc.
I love that Shimadzu ad with the DeLorean in the Edo period later into the article.

https://randomwire.com/wp-content/uploads/japan-back-to-the-...

江戸時代から科学の子ども。

"From the Edo period, science's children."

My translation here may not be super great - it's backed up by looking up and seeing that the Shimadzu Corporation has always made instruments for educational scientific measurement and was founded in the Meiji, 1875, which is only in the decade after the end of the Edo period.
People are always going to have this feeling of "I can't believe Y was not as conscientious as I assume I would have been in X situation". It's hard to put ourselves in other people's shoes.

I don't know what else is going on in this guy's life, except he's got kids so that's already a lot.
Is there an extra fee for this Stripe Tax integration extra ? If not a separate fee, will they refund partially given that no alerts or alarms were raised for this behaviour ?

All I can say is they probably built this in a hurry and the workflows weren't really tested or checked by humans. I call it "But CI is green" syndrome.
You are assuming that a large number of their customers are from the U.S. not knowing what business they are in, their customer pool might be 90% Canadian. The whole world doesn't necessarily target U.S. customers.
> It works well when you already have a bunch of personal relationships between teammates that were established while the company was in-person.

Clearly you have no idea how much churn is common in SV. At google after a 2-year tenure your "percent" (what percent of SWE is newer than you) reaches 50%. What personal relationships do all those who were hired remote and never saw the inside of the office have?
I have seen on social media GPT3 bots arguing about some hot topic issue, when you post its given a sentiment score, if favourable to the current agenda of the news story, it is boosted, if not only you and your friends can see it if they try and manually find it.

Some people even had obvious Nivida generated faces as profile pictures.

Its all about controlling what you see, most people will join a crowd, or if they are against a crowd they don't say anything because they, at the end of the day want likes and supportive comments not the hate that comes from going against the grain.

The comments on a story is not separate from the content of the story.

This sort of thing was happening very often 2020/2021 less so now, they might have just gotten better at it.

I am reminded of the London bridge terrorists attack MI5 had a whole catalogue of social media content, posters and news story's ready to bring the country together. I might be able to find a link if I dig through my archives.

Who knows that story I read could have been disinformation.

Written text is a broken medium.
That's how paywalls work for the most part
> Some people prefer in person. Some people prefer remote. Some people can’t or won’t acknowledge that their preferred style isn’t best for everyone or every company.

I think a lot of the difference is that the people who prefer remote are just asking that they be given the choice to go remote. However, many of the people who prefer in-person are also expecting everyone else to go in-person. I recognize pros and cons to both remote and in-person, and believe what is right for me might not be right for others. If you give a team of 10 the option, and 9 of them choose remote, should the 1 person who likes in-person be able to make everyone else go in-person, so he has that "in-person experience"?
I"m guessing these people do not move very often. I have one rule when helping friends move, I don't move books.
Many LOL's - Thanks! - I needed That!
As I see it, part of the drive behind tools like Scoop is to overcome the limitations of the binary-shipping strategy common to Windows developers. They are successful at this, I agree, but only partially successful. They come from the tradition of programs like Ninite, which were explicitly built as ways to make the binary approach suck less than it did before.

I see the success of these programs as essentially stemming from the insertion of user interests in the form of a maintainer-like process. Sure, they're still working with the binaries, but the actual process of installing and managing these binaries is controlled by users, for users: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/tree/master/bucket

This means that you get moderation and in many cases modification to the behavior of the program. In a freeware environment like Windows that's full of shitware, at the very least you can in many cases strip out the ads. That's absolutely not nothing, but at the end of the day it comes from a group of user-maintainers stepping up and saying to developers that no, you cannot simply do whatever you want on my system with your software. That's ... sort of the whole point of a software distribution, in the Linux world!

When I want the latest version of a CLI tool on Linux, I simply `pacman -S package`. That's it; one command. I don't see how it could be any simpler or better than that, and on top of that I'm getting the benefits of moderation and integration with the rest of my system. Perhaps you are emphasizing latest version here, and hinting that you don't get that on Linux distros? That depends entirely on the distro; a software distribution is (roughly) a collection of user interests. An Arch user wants (and gets) the latest versions of all upstream software. A Debian user does not want this or see constant updating to the latest version as an advantage, so that's not what they get.