skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is a giant legacy company that has been around for decades now. All its executives have set their lives up around the idea of commanding a fiefdom of underlings, in person, in the Bay Area. Google execs have the ability to totally ignore the rational pull of a much cheaper distributed talent market, because Google is a Monopoly minting Monopoly-level profits.

"Monopoly does what it wants" is not interesting, nor is it big news to me.

What's more interesting is all the companies that are never going back, and all the companies started in the last 2 years that will be remote-native going forward. Given the tight market for talent right now, and falling stock prices for growth companies, I'm already pulling out the popcorn now.

Google executives have never had to think seriously about silly things like "cost-structure" before. In this next market cycle where Growth takes a back seat, it will be very fun to watch decisions like these pile up to eventually bite them in the rear 5-10 years from now.

I can see it now, investors tanking their stock price in 2026, wondering why an old company that hasn't innovated in 10 years is paying 50,000 engineers half a $million a year to sit inside the most expensive real estate on earth and do nothing.
> It follows that these citizens are to be drawn from and reflect the diversity of the US.

No, that is a non-sequitur. Being an "economic and cultural elite [...] well rounded and ethical steward" does not mean that the proportion of Asians in higher education must be forcefully decreased. Are Asian-Americans not valid "economic and cultural elite[s]?"

No, the only thing that would logically follow your statement is a rigorous meritocracy that filters to let individuals rise to the top based off of objective measures. Race should not be considered - doing so is plainly racist.
You think Japanese web design is different? Take a look at their TV shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaxG-Wc8kCU
Until he publicly reckons with how he got it so wrong, and what he's changed about his reasoning process as a result, we should degrade our estimate of his ability to think through complex problems.
Calling it "intelligence" is just tiring at this point

I doubt they intended it that way, but I immediately read "intelligence" as in "mass surveillance".
If you're a fan of Tower Records, check out this great documentary: "All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records".

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_things_must_pass_the_ri...
Reminds of Osama bin Laden's Letter to America:

> The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.

Blaming ordinary people of Russian for the actions of the Putin regime is the same.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver
GOG is much better when it comes to games, although there are a very small number with issues (there is one they sell that is effectively only multiplayer and won't run without anti-cheat software installed, also GWENT is an online microtransaction thingy but there since it is made by CDPR). Almost everything works completely offline. The website isn't perfect but not that bad (quite a bit better than Bandcamp) and you can download from the website or use a client.
> Doesn't really sound like an application, but a website.

That's probably the key thing - most companies building SPA's don't really need an application but a website. There are many interesting products that need to be applications because of the functionality they need, but for every one such product there's at least a dozen that does not.
"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."

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if that's Epic's endgoal. But the music industry is a gargantuan behemoth with paper thin profit margins, and Epic is already struggling enough battling the mobile market (a much more lucrative market where the fight makes sense).

I can't see any significant push like that happening for a decade+. This and the harmonix aquisition are probably just the foot in the door needed for those plans should they want to push one day.
Seems odd to have the juniors and poor performers sit around in an office together while everyone else is at home
Fwiw, I'm born-and-raised in the USofA and I couldn't tell you the difference, I think that person was just an asshole.

(Though I suppose I also have learned most things from tv shows and the internet.)
The author might be more correct than he imagines. I suffer from bipolar disorder, which was “activated” during a heavy meditation period 5 years ago or so.

My therapist now advises me to stay away from it. She says that meditation is a form of “self hypnosis” and that I should stay away from daily practice, which is what I had previously.
It sounds like it's just Silicon Valley's "making the world a better place through scalable fault-tolerant payment APIs", except unironically.
I currently sync with FolderSync on Android. That syncs a Google Drive or Dropbox folder to your phone. Then use that folder with Obsidian
Using them for everything and everywhere as a default option might have been a mistake. SPAs in general are not a mistake (but generalised headlines do bring in the clicks so there's that).

As a user, when I'm using an "application", on the web or the desktop, the last thing I want is for the entire UI to be reloaded for me after every action. For applications it makes sense to be run on a single page, fetching only the data when it's required and that's it.
Maybe argue the inverse-- that most of their employees aren't actually productive? They're at over 150k FTEs and probably well over 100k temps/contractors, how many of them are doing things that materially impact revenue versus steady state or just looking busy? Every refresh of the golden goose Adwords makes it easier to just plug in a credit card and blindly spend without ever hearing from an account rep who manages 100's of other SMB accounts. Once they have so much inertia on their yellow page 2.0 search & video ad monopoly, where else will advertisers turn?
OP said they prefer to resolve in person rather than Slack/Zoom/etc. They weren't projecting, just expressing a different preference for what they find productive.
The transfer part is straightforward, but the hassle with crypto is usually trying to convert it to/from the local currency at either end.
>I think the poster has an issue with their company that they are projected onto the industry.

Couldn't the same be said of you? I don't think anyone is asserting that one system is the best. If an entire team/company is able to be happy and productive in a remote-work situation, then more power to them. Its often the case that some people prefer remote, some don't. The ratio varies between companies. Personally, as a manager, I would prioritize overall team happiness and efficiency over placating a few individuals.
Lonely is an incredibly accurate way to describe working at Google. Everyone says the office perks are there to trick you to stay, but our work area was quieter than a library and no one hung around. If people were talking they'd legit catch themselves and be like, we should grab a conference room. Incredibly polite but also an uncomfortably quiet environment.

I think a lot of people just wanted to put in their hours and get home to their families. I love pool but never played with anyone on the table one floor down because it just wasn't a make-friends environment. I think I shot the shit with someone when I got into work a handful of times in the more-than-a-year that I worked there. Huge reason I left.

This isn't even coming from a social person. I prefer WFH. I don't particularly like going out. However, if I'm gonna be forced to be around people I'd at least like it to be pleasant.
As a beginner, in zen, for example, it is advised against meditating alone as your practice may just turn to fortifying your own beliefs, views and opinions.

That's why there is a sangha - a group of fellow meditators who will tell you if you start drifting too much away and will advice you.

Don't practice alone. At least not in the beginning.
You can’t smoke weed and play video games all day at the office.

Not that I did that.
I think other companies will emerge as leaders with more progressive flexible policies. It just makes sense for that to happen.

Don't be so quick to assume others will follow Google. Google has not been a leader in anything during COVID.

I think the days of companies following Google ended long ago. Hell, Google mostly follows Meta's lead these days.
It's easier to brainwash and gaslight the employees when you control their environment.
"Mandates" is too strong a word. All employees were given the choice to apply for remote work or transfer. It turned out to be only a small minority of employees who chose it, and almost all of them were approved. So there's been an effective option not to come back in person for folks who prefer it that way.
If you maintain that the idea of applying a computation machine to purposes besides calculation wasn't particularly "influential", I question the usefulness of whatever definition of "influential" you are applying here.

Even one of the critics quoted in the "controversy" section of the Wikipedia article (which isn't about how "influential" she was anyway) grants that much to her:

> But [Swade] agrees that Ada was the only person to see the potential of the analytical engine as a machine capable of expressing entities other than quantities.
Flexport (YC W14) is hiring software engineers, esp. with logistics experience
It's boilerplate stuff, but my only experience with Bandcamp is buying a couple FLAC quality albums from artists that are too small to be signed onto a structured record label, or don't want to have additional middlemen between them and their fans. Was thinking something akin to Patreon with a well-functioning desktop app that goes beyond only having music offerings, like live shows or additional interviews with the band. Though other comments saying artists may need to have an exclusivity agreement in place to get this revenue sharing arrangement may be valid, the overhead of having to go through the traditional record label/publisher model is essentially rent seeking with providing no additional value.
Do you really think in 10 years it will be like it was 5 years ago? REALLY? We still aint past the GFC, 14yrs later. In my lifetime, i doubt i will see 7% again. Definately not the 30% that my parents payed.

As much as life is cyclic, in 10yrs time we AR/VR will be worked out and there will be even less reason to be in a physical space with someone.
WTF is the java mascot suppose to be. I've never understood it. Is it like some sort of modern art champion? Is it ironic? I have no idea, I just don't get it.
Saying someone copied your work and broke the law doesn't mean that that they did. That's why we have tribunals.

Personally, I'm all against what they did with Fortnite and PUBG - they didn't broke any laws, but the surely reworked Fortnite into PUBG,instead of creating their own thing (it is now). But that's a long shot from saying they committed a crime or that their acquisitions turn up bad.
He didn't punch a toddler in the face. He was wrong about something in some tweets that probably reached an audience smaller than a mediocre college football game, I don't see how that obligates him to apologize or otherwise prostrate himself.
So I'm a "super commuter"; I can take the Metro North from the end of the line to NYC, although I usually go for Amtrak for several reasons.

If I were to go fully remote, I would take a pay cut ... but it would be almost identical to my commuting costs, once you account for rail fair, parking, vehicle mileage, taxes, snacks, etc.

I don't know how representative my case is, but the pay cut ends up being a non-factor in my decision whether or not to apply for full remote.
Rhetoric is rhetoric: it provides a smokescreen. Geostrategically, Putin wants what every ruler of Russia has wanted since it was the Principality of Muscovy: control of the North European Plain, in order to prevent invasion from the west.[1][2]

An empty, derelict Ukraine would serve nearly as well as a puppet state for this purpose.

1. It's worth reading some geography and history. Russia has been invaded a lot, and has a justifiable fear of invasion. Sure, the West might not want to invade now, but who can predict what the situation will be in 2070 or 2170?

2. Putin also wants to maintain the viability of Russia's warm-water port at Sevastopol. The Crimean peninsula was formerly supplied with water by a canal from Ukraine, but that was blocked after Russia annexed Crimea, and Crimea is now desperately short of water. And there is the small matter of major unexploited gas fields in the Black Sea between Crimea and (the rest of) Ukraine...
Bandcamp is one of the few sites still in existence that allow you to purchase things without making an account. I expect this will be the first feature to go. So long, Bandcamp.
Google Chrome —> Brave

Google Search —> you.com

Gmail —> ProtonMail

Google Docs —> Notion
That’s 10% of the employee base.

If half of those transferred locations, that means 95% are coming back to the office.
Why does he owe you something? Should he similarly find every other topic he's been wrong about and make sure to offer apologies and postmortems on his failures?

The dude works at Stripe, not someplace influencing government or health policies.
Even broken clock is right twice a day.
This seems like a lot of money? I like Streamlit fine but I don't see $800m of value in it or even its potential.

What am I missing?

On the other hand, definitely encouraging me to go start a side hustle building some ML-tinged BI app on top of Dremio or Fugue or Materialized or Datadog or some other contender for data platform du jour and just hunt down Fortune 500 users to give it away to in exchange for (9 figure!) clout.
Do you have books/publications that you recommend on PsyOps?
>As soon as they believe they have a critical mass of Epic store users you can damn well bet they'll treat Quixel, Sketchfab, and Artstation forums

Maybe. But Unity is technically still used in more games and is being just as aggressive in acquisitions between Parsec, Syncsketch, Ziva, and even Weta Digital. It's definitely not going to be a battle won by outspending the competition.
She's not a guy.
> so that in the end the process is not selecting the correct type of person anymore

Whether it's intentional or not, "correct type of person" really does sound like a dog-whistle. TJ, at least, hasn't defined any additional objective measures for said type of person. They are simply lowering the admissions bar to brute-force a reduction of Asians, without describing what quality Asians are supposedly lacking that makes this necessary. It's modern-day systemic racism, but people don't care because it targets a minority that's historically done well for itself.
Yes, I _personally_ believe distributed teams are less effective.

As for your other point, that research is similar to the research on working from home. It measures a controlled thing, but certainly nothing I would use to extrapolate that software engineering teams work less efficiently when people can interrupt each other with questions easily.

If you have any studies that you think are good feel free to link them, I'm open to being wrong.
I'm really unclear on snowflake's valuation along with similar companies in the cloud data space. Why are these companies worth 100x revenue?
Top down entirely. It's based entirely on propaganda that Google has the best perks and that serendipitous hallway conversations lead to innovation. Zero evidence that that is the case. And other companies have the same, if not better, perks.
Well, in my circumstances, headphones are on during focused work because I don't want to listen to small talk or a sales phone call or ... etc
The paper's definitely worth reading, although it's worth noting that:

a) This is implementation heavy

b) The implementation is tied to a specific company migrating to this approach incrementally

I would say it's a great case study for moving to a ZTN, but if I were to explain ZTN I'd probably just propose a definition. I'm technically a vendor but the definition serves me in no way.

1. Requests are mutually authenticated and always encrypted (ex: mtls)

2. Requests are authorized; policy oriented, granular, and contextual authorization

3. Requests are monitored and audited

The paper lists a bunch of ways to accomplish those goals. SSO, device inventories, an authorizing proxy, a monitor, etc.

Of course, you're right. Vendors are horribly self serving and have already significantly degraded the term and confused people.
Why would we have a negative bias? We bought the game. We wanted to enjoy it. I'm not in the habit of buying things simply to criticise them online.

You're trying to deny that it's possible to see difference in the visuals of video games, which is bizarre considering the whole point of new generations of consoles and GPUs is for the graphical improvements. I can see the difference in mesh density, texture resolution and lighting when I upgraded from an RTX 2070 to an RTX 3080. Do I have figures? No. But the obvious improvements were why I'd shell put so much for the card. Ditto for the PS5. And I can tell you with absolutely certainty: this game looks far worse on PS5 than Demon Souls does, or The Last of Us 2 does on my PS4 Pro.

Even people who really like the game generally will admit the graphics are not great. You can watch YouTube videos of people playing and there is plainly evident pop-in, low render distance and LOD issues. Also various other things like enemies walking through each other and so forth. None of it is critical, the graphics are perfectly playable, but it's well below what you'd normally expect in a highly reviewed AAA game on the latest hardware in 2022.

You can argue it's unimportant and the art direction makes up for it as many fans do, but instead you just seem to be sealioning.
Most of the high profile security issues have been either sandbox escapes or serialization issues.

The sandbox escapes were made worse by having applets in the browser.

Now that applets are not a consideration any more the sandbox (SecurityManager) isn't used very much anymore and the Java devs are looking at deprecating and removing it, so most of the sandboxing features will go away.
The paper you've linked to (https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617709589) points out methodological flaws in meditation-related research, ambiguities in the meaning of "mindfulness" etc.; it doesn't set out to prove that meditation doesn't 'work' (in the sense that it causes no effects).

In fact the paper acknowledges instances of meditation-induced adverse effects; if meditation didn't do anything at all, why would anyone experience even adverse effects? Clearly meditation does have effects.
A framework helps you quickly build Cloud or Desktop IDE products
At all the companies I've been at it's be kosher to ignore IMs for several hours if you're working on something.
>>tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily

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Bless your heart.
Zelensky: We Stopped Them
Space junk on a 5,800-MPH collision-course with moon on Friday
When I had a daily body scan practice, I body scanned so much that I didn't emotionally recognize myself in the mirror. Only rationally did I know that it was me. But it felt like I was looking at a strange man.

I stopped my daily practice after that. Unfortunately, most benefits also went away. Fortunately, a few of them stayed and for that I'm grateful :)
It doesn't matter if it's 45 or 55 or 85, at some point you're going to suffer, and quite a lot. I mentioned 45 to head off most suffering (i.e. most of us are relatively healthy at 45).

Aging aside, there are millions of people alive today whose lives are worse than you and the original commenter's hypothetical lives following a nuclear holocaust. Are their lives not worth living?

As far as "strawman" goes I've never seen an internet argument improved by someone calling out "logical fallacies". There's a reason people disagree over things and it's worth thinking about why rather than posting some stupid gotcha.
Aren't we still recording among the highest rates of covid deaths since the start of the pandemic, and it's still coming and going in waves? Hospital systems are still run on the brink of overload as they usually are. What's changed?
Is there any evidence that your bipolar disorder would have activated later or not at all if you hadn't meditated?
Meditation can cause severe psychotic episodes in some people [1]. The author may not present the best evidence but meditation is dangerous for some percentage of the population's mental health.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17848828/#:~:text=Conclusion....
Great equipment? I had to wait several months to get a modern computer since my previous 3 year old computer broke. I was stuck on a Chromebook that couldn't even process email. So, no, equipment ain't "great." And I am so sick of hearing "but the food!" Food doesn't mean squat to me over flexibility.
A calorie counter using IndexDB is a great example of something where an SPA is appropriate - like I said, "default to not writing an SPA, unless your project has specific, well understood requirements (e.g. you're building Figma) that make the SPA route a better fit".

I mainly work in the world of database-backed websites and applications, where going client-only without a backend isn't an option.
See also the presentation "A world without blockchain: How (inter)national money transfers works" from the 2016 CCC:

* https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8315-a_world_without_blockchain
https://theaviationist.com/2022/03/02/romanian-mig-21-and-ia...

Has more detail and seems to suggest that poor weather conditions may be at play
Russia-Ukraine historical fact and truth
Thanks for letting me know about https://12ft.io/ - it's a good alternative when https://archive.is isn't working, or is overlaying the article with undismissable ads (and might be good for the people who like to use Cloudflare DNS).
No, it's not. Having grown up in it, this is a very general gist: Being out ethics, connected with an SP, and probably a few other situation will manifest itself as injury. There isn't really a concept of "sin", just what's best for survival, and the aforementioned actions simply have consequences which endanger yourself and others.

Let's put it this way, yes, people try to audit out cancer and there is an antivax cohort (this is more about external control, distrust of authority outside of Scientology, causing autism, your usual suspects), but it's not necessarily against modern medicine in most ways (obviously a carve out for all things psychiatric). Once that cancer gets into oh shit territory, they are on chemo, and often times too late, but that's a different discussion.
He doesn't owe me anything.

I'm just following his advice and reducing my confidence in his ability to reason about how the world works.