skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the comment you are replying to said was that it is a mathematical formalism and not a physical model, and that they are still working to construct a physical model. So, it is not a physical theory, but the only people trained in it were first trained as physicists, and are employed by physics departments, and everything in it is constrained to fit in a physical theory.

The situation is far from ideal; there is no other plausible candidate for a physical theory compatible with gravitation and quantum field theory. But at the same time, we have literally no means to measure any case where they interact meaningfully. We can measure a fountain of cold neutrons falling in a gravitational field, but only the extremely weak field we are in. So, while it is a problem that nobody can devise a test for a physical string theory, nobody can devise a test for any other theory that would seek to fill the role.
Steam Deck emulating switch with Yuzu and Ryujinx
This was almost never my experience.

The actual time to get feedback in an office is between four hours and two days. Managers are almost never at their desks because they are attending meetings all day. Same for senior engineers. If you need a quick response IM is your best option.

Your whole team of engineers will almost never be in the same place. Someone will be in a meeting, somewhere. Or hiding trying to get work done. You might get lucky and the person you need to talk to is at their desk, but they will be busy trying to catch up before or after a meeting.

In office communication is already asynchronous. Every day you will run into these problems. The idea of (especially open) offices fostering communication is a complete fantasy.

Email and chat are the way actual communication is done in corporate America. Synchronous communication isn’t feasible.
before the pandemic, we used to gamify that at work -- who could go to the store, buy $x, and get out in the least amount of time!

definitely a gimmicky thing to put on the receipt, but I do miss these little "fun" things
The response is very good IMHO.

They donated money to charities assisting, they said AUP may be used to report bad content, and they said they are a communications platform and thus in principal aligned themselves with freedom of speech: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Points to Github! Now, if you'd just fix that whole prefer-to-force-branching and max-one-fork-of-external-repo-per-account bug... :)
I think a small percentage of people are self-motivated, and more productively at home, but watching this all play out for the last 2 years makes me realize that an awful lot of people are going to try to get away with absolutely anything they can - including working as little as possible - when allowed to be on their own.

It's not that they're trying to "get away with absolutely anything". It's that their survival incentive is not to get fired, and they've been operating in that mode for years if not decades. The less you do, the less likely you are to inadvertently piss someone off and lose your job. Overperformers get fired faster than underperformers, who can usually kick around in the system for years.

Take a risk and win, and your boss makes more money. Take a risk and lose, and your income drops by 100%. The incentive structure rewards doing as little as possible, and that's not even necessarily a bad thing, because there are organizational situations in which it's better for people to be underutilized than overtaxed and therefore unpredictable.

Capitalism is an abusive system, but there's no escape because the legal system is on the abuser's side. How do you survive an abuser, if you can't get away? You become meek, reactive, and passive.

Remote work isn't for everyone, and unfortunately there is a non-trivial percentage of the workforce that actual does need someone watching over them to make sure they do what they are supposed to be doing each day.

They weren't getting much done in the office, either. In fact, in the office regime, the problem employees were interfering with other people's productivity. In the WFH world, they do less damage.
I worked on the software for the Ageis and Iron Dome systems. The program got off to a rocky start but once we got things dialed in, it's accuracy became exceptional
I don't understand how you could think the rise in stock price is related to anything specific people at Google did vs massive spending increases by companies in google ads since it was one of the only ways to advertise with the lock-downs.
Interesting! Would it be fair to say that on one hand the US is incentivized to have the US dollar maintain its role as the main reserve currency because it enables access to lower lending rates, but on the other hand too much dollar dominance exposes the US to greater risk?
How many bank accounts does an average person have? Even for the most extreme cases, we're looking at the low hundreds of statements annually, at the maximum. If you're not an average person but instead a business or an archivist, then you need a custom system anyway.

I'm really not trying to criticise or diminish the value of your system. All I'm saying is that even without an additional tag (or hybrid tag+hierarchy) overlay, a hierarchical system can be quite useful as long it's well thought-out by the user.
Ukraine's tech diaspora races to mobilize Silicon Valley in war with Russia
You could save even more money by firing your staff and winding up the company.
I don't know about disappearing for days and weeks, but as a manager I can say that in practice, performance problems are often subtle and hard to detect.

I don't subscribe to the idea that you have to be at your desk to get work done, and I do my own best work usually hiding away somewhere quiet. However, with the middle- to low-performers, I admit it's disquieting to suspect that some people are working only an hour a day, but I have no way to confirm.
A non-response. Gee, I hate PR.
And, just like that, the real estate market is finally primed to calm the fuck down.
Sure, as long as $impossible is true, it works well. You can have a front end Javascript team all stuck in Portland, but that falls apart for any advanced skill set. Try convincing the worlds 20 leading experts in X to live in one city.
We have a PR that addresses the poll issue in both Windows and JS environments, but it's not yet merged (although that's what the WAPM online shell uses!) :)
> But as a counter-point, seeing a whole bunch of people who were never remote before, how little work they are actually doing, it is no surprise to me that a lot of employers are going to start forcing - to the extent possible - employees back into the office

My suspicion is those people probably don't do anything while at the office either but they are good at making themselves very visible and appearing to be productive when in an office situation.
Sadly, many places will use this as their justification to do the same.
I completely agree with you. Unfortunately I’ve seen a decent amount of adverse selection in the people I work with who’ve chosen to try to go fully remote (more in the try to hide from work than the people who would be just as/more successful being remote).

I have feeling that in 5 years companies will mostly revert back to only hiring new employees on site but grandfather in previously remote employees who have proven to be able to handle it. In 10 years, it will be almost entirely back to how it was before the pandemic. Not saying this to be a contrarian, and I think there will always be a place for fully remote teams/companies or exceptions in large companies (just as there was in the before times). But it’s really hard to see someone be unproductive or not work much and not attribute that to them being remote - and being remote will be even more likely to be blamed when a large portion of employees aren’t remote already.
These two companies sound the same... Your company allows remote, hybrid or fulltime in-office. Partner's company allows hybrid (3 days minimum), fulltime (people going above the minimum) or "transitioned to remote".
> This is part of a series of actions aimed at creating short- and mid-term economic stability for Russia, while also improving their strategic situation

I don't know if you're fully aware of what effect the sanctions are having or going to have on Russia, but anything resembling economic stability is absolutely NOT it.

Russia will face a humanitarian crisis, perhaps almost as severe as Ukraine itself, especially in its poorer regions, with anything resembling a tech industry evaporating nearly overnight, and massive unemployment following.

These effects will not dissipate in the short or mid-term.

At least I don't see them being resolved unless they massively pivot to selling petro-chemicals to China instead.
I must be about the only person who is more productive remote. I suspect people who perform well in office are not doing work that requires deep concentration for long periods of time- programmers or otherwise.

What I like about remote work:

1. No commute (4 hours a week saved!)

2. No idle chatter.

3. No shoulder tap interruptions.

4. Lunch, dinner, and snacks at fingertips

5. Midday exercise.

6. Flexible hours.

7. Better coffee.

I want to work, not warm a seat or flirt with my workwife
Fair enough with wanting to work rather than walk, but feeling aggrieved at not being able to meditate due to having to walk seems like such an odd problem to me. I can't imagine being able to get more out of meditating at work (even in a quiet dark area) than in getting some exercise and enjoying the breeze. Nothing against meditating, but it can't beat exercise as a break from sitting/standing at a desk for hours on end.
This is a weird logic. They have that data regardless of whether you work at Meta or not. If you are worried about that data, working for Meta would give a better chance (however small it is) to either influence the direction of the company, or see how bad internal controls on the user data is and act on it sooner than not working for Meta. You are not better off by simply not working for Meta.
Russia Annex Crimea in response to that in 2012. Russia's power and economy is weakening. They needed time to prepare their forces and complete their Crimea annexation. We also had COVID in 2019-2022.
See the comment about equity-based compensation altering the playing field. That's usually never public.
Amrita for ruby. That was one of my favorite template frameworks. It parsed your HTML document as HTML and used element attributes to mark which elements corresponded to which keys in your data model. Incredibly simple and unreasonably powerful.

These days.. I just an Amrita like engine I've built myself and I just use <template> elements directly in the document. It only takes 40 lines of code to match child elements to data model items and fill in the template. Your browser already has a powerful parser and literal templates built in.. why invent a whole new language just for HTML templates?

I've never been able to fully apprehend the reasoning for JSX.
Given the extent of Russia bio and chemical weaponry programs, I would think it quite plausible that the Russian president might seek to escalate with these tools rather than nuclear weapons. Other regimes have gone down the chemical path in the past without immediate or direct repercussions. Their use does not appear to immediately lead to a nuclear response, but they possess the attribute of being one of the most feared weapons in the Russian arsenal.
Hard to say how it'll shake out given that I think there's only now some public consciousness around Spotify's model not being great (I remember people talking about Taylor Swift refusing streaming like she was insane). Still, whether it's them or someone else, I like the idea of stream-to-own, so I'm a little hopeful.
I'm convinced half of silicon valley sales people are selling each other software to help them sell software
>like allowing almost any SWE to go remote that asks

Do you have the policy document or data to back that up? Asking because I am friends with a Google engineer who asked to go remote and was denied (even though nothing about their role requires them to be in-person).
There was an article in the mid 2015 timeframe about how the low income Chinese kids in NYC go to this prep center that’s $800 for a summer. Note that for the most part these are group classes, not 1:1, so you’re amortizing the cost over 6-8 kids in a small group.

No, they’re not “negligible.” And frankly I think opponents of standardized testing really overestimate how much test prep even helps. TJ is 70% Asian and only about 25% white, in an area where the median white household income is well north of $100,000/year. If test prep is what causes that disparity, as people suggest, then it’s worth it even if it’s a “substantial” rather than “negligible” expense. Outside the very bottom rung,[1] it’s a matter of financial priorities.

[1] That very bottom rung is quite a small percentage of the population. Keep in mind that only a few percent of the population makes minimum wage, and most of those people don’t have school-aged kids.
Heh, I hear ya, I thought there might be a nasty oil specific mechanism I didn't know of.
GP's argument assumes

>he's got 7 billion and change left

So, I don't get you point, honestly.
I believe there are teams which will be primarily remote
Less well known, Goodreads' biggest competitor (LibraryThing) is also an Amazon subsidiary.
I go to amazon.com to search for and buy a specific thing. The occasional time I'd stop by a 4 Star or Books store, it was to _browse_, and.. honestly, probably buy things I didn't need.
Yeah, attempts to show causality there have fallen down. And single parents aren't some abstract concept either; they largely aren't neglecting their kids.
There is not a whole lot of nuance to the word "mandate". If Google was truly this amenable to requests to go remote, why "mandate" employees back to the office rather than make it optional? Sure, welcome people back who want to be in the office, but don't require people to be there.
"come back to the office we got kombucha on tap"

https://twitter.com/Jobvo/status/1496507164445356032
At a purely definitive level, no. PsyOp cannot create a campaign (i.e. a coordinated approach to influence with objectives, timelines, etc.) with US citizens as an intended audience, but there truly isn't much difference between public relations / mass communication and some core PsyOp procedures.

That said, I think our intelligence community and executive branch did an incredible job of establishing themselves as a high-credibility source from even before the invasion, allowing them to easily counter propaganda sponsored by Russia or whomever else. In my opinion, honest communication and appeals to morality / humanity will always remain effective.
I predict more startups as people don't want to go back to offices in cities riddled with crime and homelessness.
Tencent always wins
> But nothing replace morning coffee in the kitchen with colleagues!

Isn’t this what “friends” are for?
Do you disagree with 99.9999%? What do you think the accuracy would be?

Are you actually arguing some banal argument about taxonomic groupings in the edge cases or is it something else, where people can just make up their race?

Please explain why a professor had to resign for "lying" about being black:
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/professor-who-lied...

Please describe the algorithm that makes her non-black.
> I imagine 1 is not a concern for most people who have adapted to the situation over the last two years

I doubt most people have completely adapted to this. Speaking for myself, I only have one spare room that is a dedicated office (and it's also our guest room), and my spouse and I have to switch off when we need it for work. Most people don't have a spare unused room or two for remote work.
Didn't know about that! I only come from a humble hobbyist audio standpoint.
That footage is not of a cluster bomb. Cluster bombs consist of many small bombs that spread over a large area and don't all detonate at once but instead detonate over longer period of time in order to maximize casualties and make area difficult to access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition.

NATO used cluster bombs in the 1990s bombing of Serbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%A1_cluster_bombing. If it is a war crime now, it was a war crime then, where are the prosecutions of those responsible? It has been 20 years and I don't see anyone being held accountable.

I think we are now seeing a clearer picture of what happens when there is a conflict in an urban area.
In the past we got to see a video from a plane guiding a bomb to the building from above (Iraq wars) and assumed it was an isolated military installation.
Then we saw news footage of residential buildings in various states of destruction and just never associated that with the above video of bombs dropping on buildings.
If you drop bombs near residential area, there will be destruction in that residential area. Look at what truck bomb did in Oklahoma City bombing - that was one makeshift (but large) bomb that detonated outside a building and according to Wikipedia "The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings within a 16-block radius, shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, and destroyed or burned 86 cars".

Maybe this war will finally get people to see how destructive and wasteful they are but somehow I doubt it.
That's one way to evaluate things. Another way is to consider diversity in working methods a goal in and of itself, even if it doesn't further capitalist positive outcomes.
Note: just an typical enterprise dev take, not in the Bay Area/part of the FAAMNG environment

A big part of the equation (for some) will be what kind of office they are being asked to return to? At the office my company used to have before it was acquired in 2019 everyone had a cube, not big by any means and not with full walls, but enough space to have a few pics of family, maybe a plant, personal nick-nacks, whatever, a sense of some sort of boundary to it. I could have easily been persuaded to return to that environment 3 days a week, because I did enjoy being around my peers. The acquiring company however, had plans underway to bring us into long elbow-to-elbow tables before work from home happened in March 2020. What would you call a food trough to work at instead of eat at, a "productivity trough"? I am open to tolerating that one day a week for cross team meetings (some have started trickling in already), anymore than that and I am out.
yes pull the performers down a level that will help, not.
There's a 95% chance that this is a disguised RIF.

People they want to keep will be able to continue WFH if they want. People who are on the margins or destined for the Performance Improvement Camps will have to come in and warm seats if they want to eke out a year or two more of existence.
> I think Google having a company-wide policy on this is nuts. Teams vary a lot. They should probably be left to make their own decisions.

This seems rational until you are actually responsible for managing a large organization.

First off, the article itself states that Google is giving a lot of flexibility ("Employees not prepared to return April 4 also can seek a remote-work extension, Google said. Since last June, Google has approved nearly 14,000 employees globally to transfer to a new location or go fully remote, Casey said. About 15% of applications have been denied, he added.") But it get's very difficult to manage a large company without at least some sort of consistent policy.
Not at Google. When you go remote you're paid based the same as if you were onsite at the nearest office to your residence, limits are roughly CSA (combined statistical area) in the US—not cost of living.
Replacing senior engineers with juniors isn't sustainable though and their software quality is going to get a lot worse. Probably sooner than they think.
> Do they have an incentive to publish a story that is sensational when the story could be either true or false?

It's obvious from US political coverage, especially since the 2016 election, that the answer to this is: Yes, journalists have incentives to publish sensationalist stories fortified with "anonymous sources" that may be falsified and have little to do with reality for the sake of ratings, clicks and the ilk, as well as pushing either their own or their employers' political agenda(s).

I'll say this clearly: this is true of all media, left, right & everything else.

The media has repeatedly demonstrated that they are just as corrupt as the politicians that they are supposedly holding accountable. The difference is: no journalists have gone to jail for their corruption. And no, I'm not calling for an end to a free press. We, their audience, need to hold them accountable by depriving them of the funds to keep their corruption active. We should demand our journalists hold the same level of integrity we wish of our politicians.
Second this. Navidrome is an impressive piece of work. Solid UX, decent core feature set, good performance, trivial to deploy (it's a single statically linked Go binary). I've definitely had some glitches with playback and so forth, so it's not flawless, but it's still very good.
Because the article reporting on it is shitty. Why not let the tens of thousands of Google employees who actually know what’s happening clear things up?

The people who applied and were accepted for fully remote aren’t the ones that need to go back. Only the people with an assigned desk in the offices that are re-opening are mandated to go back.

You’re getting tripped on the wording of an article that was hastily written after a reporter got wind of an email
I don't know psyops well, but I do know just a little about small unit tactics, and I've noticed that certain groups seem to use, at a level sophisticated enough to clearly indicate they know what they are doing, the public information equivalent of the small unit tactics - complementary effects, reinforcing effects, fixing the enemy, the focus on offense and movement, etc.

Is that a fair description of psyops - the information equivalent of more 'physical' tactics? How do they differ? Also, do you notice groups - political groups, companies, governments, etc. - using psyops outside military contexts?
> I have been fully remote my entire career (several decades), in fact in 30+ years have never been on site anywhere for more than 2 weeks total. Wouldn't have it any other way.

Same, I've been remote for 10 years with another decade+ on-site prior to that as a SE.

I have no issues with remote work. When I need people I can easily schedule calls, send them an instant message, email them, etc.

Every single thing I do is timestamped and logged in a database somewhere at some point. If anyone wants to know what I was working on at 2:13 in the afternoon they can query for it. Reports can be run on what issues I've resolved, what code I've checked in against them, who I was on a meeting with, when I connected to remote machines, what time I started/ended at, etc. at any given time.

I have not noticed any productivity declines, but have noticed huge QoL improvements.
That's selling Miguel a bit short. Co-founder of GNOME. Early contributor to WINE. To name but a few things. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza
Why does anyone have to justify going in to the office, and to whom do they need to justify that?
It's funny how author reinvents caching on service workers in next daily tip instead of relying on browser caching.
I wouldn't really say that - CSS3 was made in 1999 so was hardly made for SPAs.

Additionally HTML5 wasn't really 'made for' SPAs, it added features to HTML which could help support SPA's but it's main design decision was to be 100% backwards compatible with the older HTML spec. HTML5 is made for SPAs the same way that a stretched limo is made for commuting.
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