skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A) I think there's a lot of confounders here (like the global pandemic and such) that make it to difficult to infer anything from correlations

B) Engineering work is pretty inherently long-term in its impact I think, especially at big public companies. Most such companies I think have "revenue engines" that'll continue to operate on their for a bit even without much engineering input

C) I suspect the negative aspects to remote, if they exist (I think they do, but :shrug:) are also going to be most visible in the long-run. Relationships between people and teams start to deteriorate, new hires don't feel as integrated, etc. I think these kinds of things take a while to slowly build up in an org before they start to have significant effects
Aw man.
Only for people that dislike it.
Interestingly Germany flew MiG-29s until '03 (sold to Poland)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-29#Germany
Speaking for myself, I need the structure and am currently getting very little done. A lot of us aren’t trying to scam the remote work system, we’re just hanging on by our fingernails until the office opens back up.
Fortunately there is still a chain of command. He can't just press a button and launch nukes.
> All else being equal, switching to a longer lens won't make the relative size of the elements of the image change at all.
You can simulate the results just by cropping photos taken with the wide iPhone lens. There will be no difference between the perspective of a cropped iPhone picture and an uncropped picture with a longer lens.

Right. I haven't read the article yet, but perspective is about where you are not what kind of lens you are using. A new perspective cannot be simulated by cropping or distorting an image.
This is a fantastic idea. All the benefits of Amazon (fullfilment, prime shipping) but with a better user experience.

Now that I think of it.. they do experiment with things like this. For example, near the top of my Amazon homepage right now, I see "Influencer fashion finds". Clicking in reveals some kind of modernized QVC social media livestream experience.

Further down on the homepage is a combination of what appears to be algorithmically curated shopping lists, and human curated lists.

It's all very messy and disorienting to navigate, but I guess they're.. trying?
That government in 2014 was violently overthrown by a popular rebellion. Unlikely they'd be greeting Russians as liberators after that.
It's very strange. There must be some vision to create a unified BI + Data Science platform but it's very pie-in-the-sky feeling to me.
I hated it because it took 5-10 minutes. I’d rather use that time working, or meditating, or doing anything else of my choice than having to walk. It’s also pretty messed up when it rains, or is cold, or I have a disability or a foot in a cast. Etc etc.

Having to do things not essential to a purpose is better to make them optional.

If I like working, I can walk around while on the remote meeting
So roughly as difficult as selling chorizo toothpaste. Capturing hearts and minds is tough all over.
The best US air defense missiles are launched from ships. (These are so good that, like the S-500 they can shoot down satellites!)
No? You may not like it but it's very obviously not fraud by any definition.
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A more convenient value to measure is measuring the intermodulation distortion [1], since it does not require measuring harmonics that can be pretty far away from wherever the center frequency is.

It may be a bit of an overkill for audio, since I am not quite sure how consistently these systems usually perform across their entire bandwidth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-order_intercept_point#De...
Huh, it's the physical world version of building a single product company on top of an unsupported API.
Correct. And to the parent comment only for people that like it.
Last I checked just about every major tech company has been doing just fine this past year. A lot of us won't be returning if required.
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Yes if me helping on several different tasks is more beneficial than isolating and working on one.
Right?

Like...one time I was deep in the mental flow, headphones on playing some nice orchestrated video game music. Totally entranced. Someone came up and tapped me on my shoulder and I damn near shit myself.
>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.

wut?

2 years on remote and in majority of the cases I've been able to talk to somebody within 1min.
Not impossible, but very unlikely → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30534756
Nobody is trying to prevent you anything....but he's right: surviving the blast and the fallout is one thing, surviving the collapse of society another
Because after Russia "wins" comes the propaganda campaign, which will involve public executions and reeducation "camps" aimed at "proving" Putin's story about a Ukrainian Nazi genocide. This doesn't end with Putin going home and the violence ending. What will happen is that Putin will take Ukraine, and then the violence continues and gets worse.
Battery-electric train will charge itself using gravity
what a bizarre invented dichotomy.

what all these "disappointed commenters" wanted was for Bandcamp to continue to provide an excellent service, charging enough to stay in business and grow at a reasonable rate while allowing artists, who did the vast vast vast vast majority of the effort represtented by each sale, to profit and - unironically - connect with fans.
How is it fraud?

A company can be registered in a tax haven but have its main office in the US.
I think such an office environment leads to lower productivity. I too present no evidence for this claim.

Personally I think I’m right! We should do it my way.
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I hate everything about this :/
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82% of all staged forces as of this morning according the US DOD.
What does every Software Engineer want to ask their CEO?
People do that with car insurance and jobs with residency requirements.

I used to drink with a bunch of fireman who lived about 300 miles away - they had to live in the city or adjacent county. They’d have a flophouse in the hood shared by like 20 guys and crash there once in awhile when they pulled overtime as well as get mail.

Travel scams are similar too. If a company will reimburse travel if you’re 50 miles from home, people will “move” so they can bill the mileage tolls.

It works great until it doesn’t. If you want to give up your cushy Google gig for a few thousand bucks, good luck.
One theory I’ve seen is that Russians lack reliably working IFF, the friend-or-foe system. This would explain several friendly fire incidents.
> How can Romania as a NATO member possess a MIG 21

Romania was a Warsaw Pact member before it was a NATO member

Also, the US, which is also a NATO member, possessed (and operated) MiGs, including MiG-21:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4477th_Test_and_Evaluation_S...
Traditional dynamic web servers can solve a lot of the same problems that SPAs and event front-end frameworks like React solve, by just applying software engineering principles to the whole stack. That's what Novo Cantico[1] does, and a lot of what I've been trying to say in my blog posts[2] that explain Novo Cantico.

[1] https://github.com/sdegutis/Novo-Cantico
[2] https://www.novocantico.org/blog
Well no, that’s not fraud. I’m not using “fraud” to mean “bad.” I’m talking about actual fraud.
> but expect total control over your life for that margin.

Data point: I work at Google and the amount of control they have exerted over my life is significantly less than any previous job I've had, including random minimum wage jobs in high school.

FAANG companies want high productivity at fairly intellectually challenging work. You get that by treating people like humans, not machines.
https://indiehd.com/ sells FLACs.

It doesn't have a ton of music currently, but the payout to musicians is very good, so it could become more popular in the future.
-3 downvotes? Amazing what kind of crap the HN community has become.
Where did you get this from? The book recommends 14 days underground if you are in an area hit by fallout. After this, radioactive fallout will have decayed to levels that are not immediately lethal. If you have a reliable dose rate meter that can detect high dose rates, use that to judge if your area is safe.

Underground shelter should ideally have one meter of soil between occupants and all surface area that could contain fallout. Air should ideally be filtered, water should definitely be.

You have around 30 minutes after the blast before fallout hits the ground. Rain accelerates this. You can use the prevailing wind direction to judge whether you are downwind of a detonation. Ground detonations produce fallout, air detonations hardly do.

Lethal effects from a detonation is the initial, instantaneous flash, then pressure wave and explosive debris/structural failure that accompanies it, then radiation from fallout and radiation from ingested radioactive material.

This is a quick recap after reading this book some years ago.
The fundamental conclusion I reached is that all of the pain originates by having your state divided between client & server, and then being forced to synchronize the two.

Doesn't really matter what technique or framework is involved. The worst trip I've had is with angular 2, trying to put humpty dumpty back together again via tons of janky API calls.

The best solution I have used so far is probably Blazor. In server mode this gets you pretty damn close to 100% state lives on the server. I've had to write some javascript, but even then the abstractions for interop make it very clean throughout. I use eval to dynamically run methods against the client. This allows me to avoid having to serve any custom javascript source (aside from the blazor client js).
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I think the eventual outcome will be that each company will have N+1 salary scales where N is the number of locations in which they have offices. Each office location will have a pay scale for jobs that the company requires be done in that location, and there will be one pay scale for all remote workers.
I get a bit annoyed hearing about the 2 hour a day folks. They are probably forcing their peers or managers to take on more work than is their fair share.

I'm in management now .. as an engineer, I most certainly used to work over 8 hours a day (probably 12 hours, counting all the time I spent studying to keep up). Now, in management, the hours have actually gone up .. I now have to worry about things my team is doing 24/7, have to deal with a ton of human, infra and organizational issues, being open to meetings at any hour of the day, in addition to staying technical (my direct code contributions have gone down but my engagement with codebase and overall non-code issues has skyrocketed). I am in a large company and do AI research (so work and what I enjoy are the same, and doing cutting edge research is pretty much as hard as it gets).

Point is .. when people boast how little work they do, it makes me wonder who is the poor slob who gets to do extra. We are software professionals, and professionals need to act by a certain creed and abide by an unspoken ethic. Maybe this is my immigrant roots showing .. as I grew up, my folks always taught me to make sure I'm worth the salt I'm paid. I certainly have had periods where I was in a funk (especially early on in my career) but when a job just didn't gel, I left and tried to find something more engaging.

I certainly don't feel I can coast for a few months. Who the heck are these companies that are so relaxed. Pls don't say FANG (or MANG or whatever). People I know at the senior level work really hard too (from my peers). It could be certain areas of a large company, and it could be for some short period where people can get away with coasting. I don't think this is really sustainable with how competitive today's software landscape is.
Oh, that’s such a good idea for documentation - thanks for sharing!
It comes for free in mature SPA routing frameworks as well. Who is implementing history management themselves?
There may be a confounding factor or two there.
im planning on moving out of state in a few months from high cost area. what i've been told is that my salary wont change but I will be at "top of band" in the new area.
Neither is the inverse.

If company can pick arbitrary locations around the world to be their HQ, or Trump can use Mar-a-Lago as his residence, then so too can every other citizen following the law and paying their taxes.
To an extent. But this is a terrific reminder to me that the life I’ve been able to live would have been impossible if I didn’t have the right combination of timely luck and dangerously stubborn determination to escape my home town when I did.
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It should also send someone to your house to open the file for you.
I love the tl;dr for practitioners part. All ML papers should have one.
If you drop the requirement that you have a reasonably-sized flat image, you can get a perfect representation... as long as you stand in exactly one spot to view it (or throw it into VR).

If you intentionally use a nonlinear perspective like the Turner painting in the article, you can get an image that looks great flat, and still produces a wide angle of view and "natural" dense of depth with low perceived distortion, and will look fine from across the room or up close. It probably does a better job of recreating what it is like to be there than a mechanical linear perspective photograph. The only problem is you can't get images like that out of a camera.
I used to get a cold around every 6 weeks from working with people and being in the office with freezing airconditioning all year round. Since working from home I haven't been sick in two years.
You would think that Mountain View based Google, being registered as a Delaware Corp, would understand the benefits of legal residence being different than practical residence.
> SPAs only suck as much as we suck.

We suck pretty bad. SPAs are often the default because that is what the framework dictates and nobody trusts a JavaScript developer to delivery any kind of quality product without some epic massive framework, including ourselves. This is the standard for hiring, performance, and delivery and nobody dares deviate. If its not an NPM package written by an anonymous stranger or an API on the framework its not an option. We don't trust each other and management doesn't trust us, so let the framework dictate our every decision.
Hey, thanks for the second release. I’ve purchased a hard copy last month, right after it came out. Very good read.
I think a more non-fraud tactic would be to find the cheapest area in a high cost of living area and minmax on that dimension. Especially if it’s by county, then there are likely unfavorable areas within that county.
What do you mean? I voluntarily go to my company's office every day because I hate WFH. What's hypocritical or contradictory?
I imagine over time the permanent employees will be "managed out".
From what I know they trade in multiple currencies including yuan.
I agree 100% that the growing divide between winners in the information economy and losers is a major source of societal ills.

We should address it by making the lives of blue collar workers better (higher minimum wage, universal healthcare, high density housing), not by making the lives of white collar workers worse.
> Would be nice if Europe and the US would seize Putin and associates' accounts and donate them to Ukraine.

I agree with this. Ukraine already has sustained tremendous damage, and of course it will get much worse before this ends. Take everything possible from Russia and give it over to Ukraine to help rebuild. Assuming they win. God I hope they win.
In the article the figures of 18% vs 36% are mentioned rather than 15% vs 97%.
I've always thought it funny how theology changes to suit man's needs/purposes.
When my team when remote, it was clear people worked extra hours. I actually was concerned about burn-out.
> Nobody designs their IT infrastructure so that nothing is trusted

aren't all internal amazon services doing this every-api-called-authenticated thing?
> The problem is the mixing and matching of state management.

This. But IMHO the right solution is to make the back-end stateless and manage all client state on the client. Each request authenticates itself, and (if you're ReSTful about it) the back-end is simply a database connector/augmenter.

In this paradigm, the SPA is basically a desktop app that retrieves data from a server, built to run within a framework, which happens to be a web browser.

In case you're jumping to conclusions, know that I'm a late-comer to the SPA party, having resisted from its inception until about a year ago, for all the obvious reasons, including those bemoaned by the OP.

Why did I relent? SPA frameworks like React now handle pretty much all the heavy lifting for you. OP, you should check out React Router, which can render this post's examples irrelevant. I'm surprised that in 2022, someone writing to the web UI layer would bother to create code to manage the address bar when there are a thousand ways to not have to.
The thing that I find bothersome is wanting to force others to comply with our individual preferences. And it's all sides of everything these days.
Luckily, there will be plenty of remote firms to scoop up all the engineers Google is about to hemorrhage.

What a miserable work culture it must be for them to even have the nerve to declare this.

Downvote away, I’ll be hiring some of them! ;-)
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I'm always torn between my disdain for swinging down at the working class and my experience from the time I was 14 until I was 26,

My politics have always aligned with something far more left wing than the Democrats. Pro-private unions, pro m4a, pro welfare assistance, higher minimum wages, I wish people had guaranteed sick and vacation time, better work safety protections, better paternity/maternity leave. And a culture that saw jobs that didn't take a degree as something that could still be worked with a since of dignity.

But in my actual experience working... I worked just about anything you can think of.. Starbucks, Applebee's, TGIFridays,a BBQ restaurant, Sallie Beauty Supply, CVS, Rite-Aid, CompUSA, video rentals, grocery stores, I worked construction, painted, did lots of odd jobs.

And the types of people I met along the way.... The adults in restaurants, pharmacies and retail stores.. who eclipsed me in years anyways, to be frank, were losers.

Lazy, shiftless people who had to be told, constantly, to do the basics even when you had entire days when there was little customizer traffic or stock to take care of

People who would openly lie about "oh my back" and sit on a stool not doing shit all day, then go off to party at night.

People who wouldn't see a customer for hours and couldn't be fucked to "front and face" or do some basic cleaning of the store without being told to.. At 40, 50, 55 years old.

I can't tell you how many people at various jobs who got arrested bc they were jacking shit from the store and selling hit items. I worked a toy store in a mall during the Xmas season once and the manager was cleaning the inventory out by 30% and flipping it every week.

These were always people with kids before they were 18, or had multiple kids from multiple partners, drug use was way more open and regular than anything you see in the office.

You go to McDonald's and you see more tattoos and "grills" than you see any sense.

Do you think they give af about an ice cream machine?

But the bigger question, is why in 2022 is anyone still buying toxic crap from fast food restaurants?

Buy a bag of beans, live a couple years longer.
If you are constantly working 24/7 despite not getting adequately compensated for it, that's on you. Why blame your colleagues and not upper management?
I agree, except maybe this part.

"At the end of the day, for whatever reason, Asians are disproportionately over-represented at TJ and that is a problem"

What do you mean? Just because representation varies from the population doesn't automatically mean there's a problem. Just as an example, I remember seeing a paper about why African American college graduates made less than white graduates. The major finding was that African Americans were more likely to choose careers that provide societal benefits, like social workers or teachers. But those jobs tend to be lower paid relative to college level jobs in the private sector. We could investigate if those jobs are adequately paid, but it isn't defacto evidence of system having a problem. It seems these aggregate measures tend to have problems with interpretation, just like the gender wage gap.

My guess would be that Asians are over-represented due mostly to cultural differences pertaining to parental expectations. Even with the recent changes designed to increase diversity and give preference to undeserved students and racial balancing, Asians make up about 50% of the student population. That's still over-represented. That's part of why I think there must be a home-life influence related to culture.

That's just my guess and my anecdotal experience, but some info does hint at support for this. Such as immigration rules implicitly selecting for intelligent/successful people and that the culture in many Asian countries highly values educational achievement. In the US we see almost 50% of Asian Americans have a BS or higher compared to around 28% in the general population. Yet I have not seen any policies explicitly favoring Asian Americans. This suggests to me a likelihood that it's culturally related and not directly a problem. The "problem" would be with other demographics not showing the same cultural emphasis on education.