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Ask HN: What prevents you from hiring remote workers?
There are many innovative remote work products on the market these days.

It looks as if there are products for anything - from hiring to training to creating virtual co-working spaces, etc.

For example, here is a product for training/evaluating remote employees: https://www.background.webcam/

For creating virtual co-working spaces: https://ovice.in/

And there are too many products/platforms for hiring to mention here.

What is still missing?

What prevents you personally (as a CEO) from hiring remote workers?

Your opinion is very appreciated!
how would that help? The window width of my iPad is larger than my desktop
Thanks! I think the tech stack actually deserves an HN item of its own, as I don't think many people know this is possible and may resort to something like rqlite without really needing it.

I don't expect everyone to read the full FAQ, so TL/DR:

Every user gets a separate DB file, and a cron job syncs their records with a read-only[0] DB file with the same schema. That way, writes to individual DB files won't block reads from the "global" one.

It's not a fit for every use case, but so far it seems to be working fine here!

[0]: read-only for incoming requests, not for me.
> the reality of working in a competitive, high-stakes engineering environment, where your boss WILL call you while you're on vacation, where you WILL go 8-12 months without finding a qualified candidate, where you WILL feel pressure to deliver products by deadlines.

This sounds like an unproductive environment?

Like... a boss shouldn't need to call reports on their vacation, that's why engineers build systems and automate things. Being unable to fill a position in 8-12 months suggests the hiring process is broken.

I'm all for the importance of hard work, but I'd suggest an org like this is working hard but not smart.
I can guarantee you that “Nothing can ever be better, so why try?” will definitely not work to change policies. But it would make one a stereotypical Democratic senator.
Nuclear will never win the economy of scale war with renewables.

Solar is extremely amenable to mass manufacturing. You can pump out solar panels by the millions. Then it all goes together with various metal brackets, wiring, and electronics, all of which have long been mass manufactured. They're made in many places and have uses in multiple industries, and there's plenty competition.

Wind is very amenable to mass manufacturing. Generators, gears, various nuts and bolts can all be mass made. The actual towers and windmills are definitely more specialized though.

And trailing way behind that is nuclear. You need to deal with radiation, use exotic alloys, and have a bunch of very specific tooling and instrumentation with lots of regulations and certifications. Plus lots of redundancy to make sure nothing bad happens.

And they have exactly the same "cheap electricity". A solar panel just sits there and makes power, only it comes for cheap from a factory in China and you don't need various backup systems. You can just build more solar instead, which produces more money.
Isn't the answer extremely obvious?
Girls grow up faster than boys, while boys have a longer growing period that extends further (or is equal to) than the schooling period.
I'd be interested in seeing an extended study in the general differences between the study progress of girls and boys seperated by school year and age.
That Civic didn't even have power steering. I think it was a fancy option that the previous owner didn't feel they needed. If you were moving more than 1 mph you could turn it easily if the tires were properly inflated. You could feel the texture of the road through the steering wheel and stay in your lane by the feel of the worn pavement. If you were elderly or disabled, it sucked terribly. However it was a good little shoe car for a teenager who didn't have much money for gas.

One thing I absolutely hate these days is cars without a shifter lever. The stupid knobs that killed Anton Yelchin, the new Ford junk that won't shift if the car doesn't have battery, etc.... Also, electric parking breaks.
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Personally, I find it hard to appreciate the stdlib when every identifier is optimized to use the least amount of characters. There's a module called `shlex` (what does that mean?), there are two types called `pwent` and `grent`, a type (can't find it again) has a size field called `sz`. Various types have single letter fields. There's a `chown` function under `os` and another one under `fs`. The "interface" for streams is defined by the very generically named type `vtable`. There's also a dedicated module just for creating a temp directory? There are dedicated modules for `linux` and `unix`, but then various os level types are defined in a catch-all module called `rt`.

Also, no data structures? I don't see maps, arrays, sets. No support for custom allocators (where's the `mem` module)?

The roadman mentions TLS, smtp, sql and http (no json?) but you're not too concerned with people wanting to use it for web development?
The brain imagining stuff doesn't look all that impressive.

The thing that seems to keep popping up by high quality sources is magic mushrooms curing depression.

In the now post-cannabis legalization world there's going to be political push for medical other drugs. So I take this psilocybin stuff with a grain of salt. Yet it's hard to discount these quality sources and surprisingly results.

I've never done 'shrooms' so I can't speak to any personal experience but it does get me curious.
One person's fluff is another person's meaningful gesture. A $100 gift is worth more than a $100 bill to many people.
I'm ADD and suspect that I had a burnout in 2020(not diagnosed, but in retrospect I am quite sure).

Had COVID 2 weeks ago and since then I can't really focus even with meds and sleep refreshes me even less than before.

All that being said, do you have some resources to share? Sounds like I could be one of the people you describe...
How else could they let the end user know what's going on? Due to pinning, it's either present a phony certificate, or completely fail the connection and give the user no indicationo why.

Of course, accepting the phony certificate will immediately leak your cookies to the middlebox, along with giving it permission to read any credentials out of local storage. So as an end user you should not accept it.
On that note, I have amazon manage my custom domain.

Now I'm terrified that I'll return one too many pairs of socks or something, and get the retail consumer part of my account banned (we buy a lot of stuff on Amazon).

Does anyone have experience with what happens to AWS resources (specifically, domains) when that happens?
Ignorant European here, I fail to see any connections..

> They said that Apple's reasons for implementing the policy don't stand up, and that the policy is wasteful, inflexible and will lead to a "younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied" workforce

How does this even work?
> Celebrate progress. Burnout is often caused by a feeling of stagnation. Seeing the progress you’re making day-to-day is hard. Managers should create space to celebrate small wins and reflect on the mountains you’ve climbed.

I really appreciate this one. As a very high conscientiousness and med-high neuroticism person a manager asking for a "status check" on a project actually sounds like "You did something wrong that gave me cause for concern/doubt" which causes an inordinate amount of stress and self doubt that I'm truly giving it my all -- which leads me to push harder regardless of how hard I already am...

Celebrating progress allows me to say "Yeah, things may not be on our desired timeline, but also we're making progress and that timeline was unrealistic... We'll get there so long as we continue to invest".
The alternative to providing APIs to detect features is to keep using the mess we're currently using. Previously, I would see you're using Chrome version X and know what features are available. All the APIs do is shift from using hacked together string.contains(...)/string.indexOf(...) calls (with bad lookup tables) to a proper format where I can just ask isXAvailable().

Basically, the same information is there, just in a more accessible way. And if you disable a feature in your browser's settings, isXAvailable() will now return false while UA checking says you still have it.
Boys tend to have more physical energy, and it must be "burned off" to "get the wiggles out". Their recess breaks need to be more intense and supervised so that some don't fall through the cracks. It works, it's just not popular because it requires treating boys different from girls. I'm just the observant messenger.
Super interesting. Any references you can share?
Widely distributed as a pdf if you're not interested in funding Mankiw. Thst said, I think it is one of the better introductions to the topic.
Shanghai patient taken away in body bag while alive
It's possible to graze chickens. They will eat grass (along with insects and anything else they find).

Search Joel Salatin for more info. He has a number of sustainable local systems for chickens, pigs etc.
Sense raises $105M to bring real-time home energy data to the masses
link without tracking: https://godocs.io/fmt
If I had to design my brain I’d make it a RAID too
Software helps design ways to convert chemical waste into drugs
That's from now until the first reactor. It's not the time for each reactor after they're in production.

In the US at least, a lot of wind, solar and long-distance transmission projects have also faced long political delays. That doesn't imply anything about our technical capability to build them, and the same is true of these new nuclear designs.

And China, for one, will certainly not hesitate to build stuff like this, once they're able.
Try https://lens.dev if you’re interested in portable data/social graph that is onchain (disclaimer - I work on this)
I don't think your logic works. It ought to be very cheap to buy a climate scientist too, but despite that the oil industry has failed to produce a substantial number of climate scientists who don't say anthropogenic climate change is real. Economists have broad agreement on issues like rent control (they don't like it) and carbon pricing (they do like it), and that still counts for something.
Yep. At the end it is market making, in markets where speed is of the essence to be competitive. Funny thing is, now firms in the industry want to be termed as Market Makers rather than HFT since the media has turned HFT into a very negative term.
For anybody who wants maximum risk, and wants to lose money as fast as possible, and in the biggest amounts, there is always the Cryptocurrency Futures market.

A bit like Negative Chess...
I’m curious too but in a large scale. I have some goals that are very long term because they have to be. We’re talking a decade out.

I can’t find the ability to motivate myself for something that only might offer reward and only after a decade of focus. I can occasionally muster the motivation for maybe two weeks to a few months at a time, but it always falls apart soon after.
This is the company that asks teens to spend their last dollar on a brick with a Supreme sticker on it, right? Or am I mixing that up with another brand manipulating children for cash?
The Bitmap Brothers – Remembering the Music of Amiga Pioneers
I don't have any clear answers for you, but one interesting note here is that a recent paper showed that it took a deep neural net to be able to simulate the "IO" of a single cortical neuron. So that should give you some idea of the complexity involved compared to artificial neural nets, Re: your disclaimer.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08966...
It would be interesting to see the breakdown of how much of the location data SafeGraph/Veraset gets is from "free" apps that commoditize developers when they integrate various advertising APIs.
So why does it exist?
I learned this lesson the hard way, when they just re-paved our street I took my dad's truck out and dry steered on the fresh asphalt. It carved a rut in the road. It's pretty bad for your tires too.
This ExtremeTech post is a link to the hrtapps post that was discussed last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195914
GitLab has documented how to still be a startup after IPO: https://about.gitlab.com/company/still-a-startup/
You're claiming that the government paid to build the reactors? Do you have a source?
How does it differ from the sleep/hibernate I'm currently using in Ubuntu?

My XPS 13 has hardly ever been off since I bought it (2018 model), I enabled sleep/hibernate with a tweak, and it'll last weeks just sitting there "sleeping" if I don't use it.
It's too bad that scumbags took advantage of LLBean's lifetime warranty so they ended it. You may still be able to send it back to them to repair, but a few years ago it wouldn't have cost you anything. Maybe worth a shot if you really love it!
It’s not a stereotype. It’s statistics.

https://developerpitstop.com/how-long-do-software-engineers-...

The people who want to work from home and are being forced to work in the office, by definition aren’t “content”.

As far as the living arrangements, if the impetus for you leaving is to find remote work, how will changing to another job change your living situation?
I am sorry, I misread it as getting to those numbers as an employee at a trading firm rather than as an applicant. I agree with you. The very, very rare cases where this has happened is for people with exceptional records elsewhere, and many times they are joining new places as partners rather than a regular employee.
> You knew these things were a requirement when you signed your contract, right

This is not entirely fair. Pre-pandemic, remote work was much more difficult to find.
The ThinkBook Plus is pretty cool, and I'm glad Lenovo is still trying crazy things, but it's not a great successor to the Yoga Book C930.

It's much larger and heavier, really just a traditional laptop with e-ink bolted on. I'm sure the typing experience is far superior, but the Yoga Books were trying to be a totally new type of device. They were truly groundbreaking - actually introduced new possibilities for how a computer could be used.
Lol I assume you don't pull anything or do any sort of off roading, do you?

The smaller truck will get stuck. I guess you could try to winch yourself out every time it does.

But at that point use the bigger truck to pull a side by side and off road with that.
Japanese firms turn to four-day week to improve life balance
I wish I had Youtube car repair videos as a kid. So many things are so much easier now that I don't have to rely on a Haynes manual with skipped steps and barely legible images.
I'd shorten that to "Maybe it's time to admit corporations went too far pressuring the average worker".

It took me a long time to realize it, but work/life balance in the U.S. is weighted far too heavily in favor of business, at the expense of the individual and their family and community.
This reminds me of a product that I'm not sure exists that I want sooo bad.

I've got a precious pair of jeans, and a hole right in the crotch. I want a patch I can glue on, no needle required, that is stronger than the existing cloth. Is this a thing?
Gleam
Are people who are convinced by this logic aware that the vast majority of Apple employees don’t work in Apple Park and instead in extremely unremarkable office buildings throughout suburban Bay Area?
My memory from the old Swedish nuclear debates is that the generated waste heat is about as much energy as the generated electricity.

There was talk of heating cities with the waste water, but "nucleophobia" killed that idea, as usual.
No. Because in C++ no segfault may be thrown at all. You can put a for loop around an out of bounds memory write and it may hit a segfault at index 300 for no apparent reason or the segfault likely even happens AFTER the for loop.

The examples you posted are typical complaints. Those errors don't hold a candle to out of bounds memory errors though. Typical solutions in the examples you posted involved people suggesting breakpoints for really complex datapaths. The solution to the problem is straightforward however tedious.

One of the bugs you posted involved a bug in the interpreter. If that's the case all bets are off.
Interesting, would you add RenTech and TGS into the "traditional hedge funds that incorporated quant methods into a fundamental process" bucket?
>Intel Core i7-10710U Comet Lake processor (RRP $443), which was, apparently, the most powerful laptop-oriented Intels at the time.

No, that would be the i7-10870H, which has a higher base & max frequency, and on high performance settings will support sustained workloads much better before throttling down. Intel's "U" chips are one of the the low power flavors. Not horrible for very short burst but pretty bad for sustained loads.

I'm using the equivalent H from Gen 9. Work initially "upgraded" me from a 8+ year old xeon to a Gen 9 i7 "U" processor, and it was like stepping into molasses so I insisted on the H. Battery life is significantly worse but I can actually get work done on it, and switch to low power mode if I need to stretch things. (Even then it doesn't last as long as a U, but it's a good compromise for me)
I'm glad I've learnt how to sew.

- Repaired a rucksack
- sports kit
- night clothes
- ripped jeans
- I've fixed my son's pricelessly irreplaceable red toy dog. (We joke (not joke), car, or toy dog, we save the dog)

Each time has been rewarding, and calming in the repetitive nature of the task.

I followed the instructions here:

https://www.instructables.com/Finishing-the-Case-With-a-Slip...
This is not the title of the article and is highly misleading by suggesting deliberate action.

From the article:
"Chinese district authorities have fired four officials after an elderly patient from a Shanghai care home was believed to be dead and loaded into a hearse."

Actual title is much less sensational:
"Shanghai: Authorities fire four officials after elderly patient blunder"
>Is having both a normal social media account & a federated version okay?

Of course it is. There will always be a small number of [insert thing here] purists, it's best to (mostly) ignore them when they moralise about only using [thing] (but don't completely ignore them, they're usually on to something, despite the hardline position).
In this case, that video is the story. The "article" is not much more than a caption.
> In the end, the team at ActiveCampaign really showed up. The majority of our team will continue 4-day work weeks through the end of the year.

But then what? They have to accept a 5-day work week again in 6 months or find work somewhere else? Getting an extra day off a week is a huge benefit, and I bet losing it will have a pretty big impact on those that had grown accustomed to it.
I just got a framework last week, and I was quite disappointed with the supposed “Linux support”. It’s absolutely not “out of the box support” as they claim on their marketing material. I had to do a number of tweaks to get into a usable state using Fedora 35, their recommended Linux distro.

I love the company’s mission, so I’ll cut them some slack on v1 but it feels dishonest. They should really iron out all their problems with BIOS, audio jack, suspend/hibernation, grub before selling the idea that fedora 35 is fully functional. Just be honest!

EDIT: I’m looking for a reasonable dock/KVM switch lmk if you have any recommendations!
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls.
I don't mind .app and it has the extra guarantee that it's always https.

I've used Namecheap forever and it's a good price with the least hassle. Not all TLDs you're interested may be there so could use a backup. The CloudFlare registrar is good too but have very few TLDs.
Tails 5.0 is out – Key new features
Yes, and the management solution is to blame the people being managed for not liking it
The first snippet of code I see on that page requires me to understand way too much syntax. It's nice to see smaller snippets of code when first exploring a new language to decide if it's worth the effort to learn the syntax and language features.
Poor form smoking in a suit! Those people are doing what art restorers do when canvas paintings get damaged and they weave the canvas back together. Its amazingly impressive.
I couldn't find a link to the actual opinion, but I think this is just COVID vaccines because the argument presented in the article hinged on evidence presented that the vaccine did not materially decrease transmission (versus what the court considered inadequate evidence to the contrary from the health office).

The court cited a three-pronged test for public health restrictions, which included "proportionality", which means that the suffering caused by the restriction (loss of access to society) was proportionate to the public health gain (apparently minor decrease in transmission risk)
Apple knows what form of work is best for Apple. If it turns out they are wrong, they'll eventually suffer in the market as the result of making the wrong choice.

That said, being remote or hybrid first seems like it would be a huge competitive advantage for a least some teams in Apple...like the Facetime team.

I tried using their "new" like zoom Facetime meeting with a URL feature for a work-related meeting. The lack of basic functionality like a text chat to share links and other notes in shows that Apple either doesn't actually use Facetime for their own remote meetings or they have no idea how most people use these types of tools to collaborate.
You could build one for SES. You'd need to write an Amazon CloudFormation template that configured all the things correctly.

The result would be a screen or two of auditable gobbledygook that took a week or so to write. Somewhere in there, there'd be a pointer to an EC2 or ECS image, among other things.

It'd be a learning experience, and very tied to AWS. I wonder if someone else already did this.
3-meter-long giant squid found stranded on Sea of Japan beach
It's quite disturbing to read how seriously some people around here are taking a silly nerd rant written <checks watch> 13 years ago.

Have we seriously lost all humour? Goodness.
I like boring chips. Don't mess with them or I'll kick you in the chillies.
this only works when people take thier phones everywhere they go
Complexity/costs/uncertainty of hiring employees located in states other than the one our business is located in.
Rather than sneering over your superiority, perhaps you could say something about a more sophisticated model.
It’s probably not a good sign for the future of hacker news that the all the real responses are sinking to the bottom of this comment-space and the top two comments are cynical anti-intellectual tirades.
Don't Write Your Own Kubernetes YAML Generator
I played with one; really nice hardware. Probably the ultimate digital note-taking device but for that price I'd expect it to do a little more. Had no idea it was hackable, that makes it much more interesting!