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The thing you're noticing is the usual thing that happens when new labor saving technology is invented:

1. What people expect: less work needs to be done to get what you had before.

2. What people don't expect: more is expected because what used to be hard is now simple

So while it may have taken a few weeks to set up a pet server before and as a stretch goal you may have made your app resilient to failures with backoff retry loops etc. Now that's a trivial feature of the infrastructure, and you get monitoring with a quick helm deploy. The problems haven't disappeared, you're just operating on a different level of problems now. Now you have to worry about cascading failures, optimizing autoscaling to save money. You are optimizing your node groups to ensure your workloads have enough slack per machine to handle bursts of activity, but not so much slack that most of your capacity is wasted idling.

Meanwhile, your developers are building applications that are more complex because the capabilities are greater. They have worker queues that are designed to run on cheap spot instances. Your CI pipelines now do automatic rollouts, whereas before you used to hold back releases for 3 months because deploying was such a pain.

Fundamentally, what happens when your tools get better is you realize how badly things were being done before and your ambition increases.
I have a variation that I use for online sign-ups only. I have to explicitly declare the alias before using it. So it’s relatively easy to check which ones I have used in the past (and the name tells me which site I used it for) and I can easily “revoke” by removing the alias. I can’t really use it when asked for an email address at a store, for example - but it doesn’t happen that often (going to real stores, I mean :) )
Don't worry about it, seriously. Vote with your feet or civil disobedience if need be.

If you want to work from home then do so. There's more options for 100% complete work from home than ever before. Will it pull back from the lockdown era? Probably. Will that affect your ability to find a job that fits how you work best -- I sincerely doubt it.

If the place you work is willing to incur attrition forcing talented people back in the office against their will there's going to be a whole industry of folks perfectly willing to attract that talent to continue working from home.
Oh after a decade sure. I was just interviewing with Meta for > $500k TC so totally believe it. I meant immediately after a PhD.
Our routine:

- CEO expresses the virtues of in-person to all employees
- CTO follows up, reminding IT that we have more flexibility.
They don't have to fork anything, they can just add a built-in OAuth to ASP.NET Core Identity. They did that with JSON and created an in-house alternative to Newtonsoft's fast JSON library once it became popular enough. I didn't hear any PMs whining about "competing with the open source community" then.
Sometimes victims deserve blame. That doesn't mean they deserved to lose their money, but if they put money into an unregulated security that they didn't understand themselves, it's hard to not put some of the blame on them.

Get rich quick financial scams have been around for a long time, I remember back in the 80's when my dad got scammed buy an oil "investment" - I don't even know how he found out about it, but they mailed him an official looking prospectus with geology reports showing oil deposits, and even a sample of oil that they'd "drilled" from one of the plots, all they asked from him was $5,000 to buy rights to the land, and soon he'd be making huge profit from oil leases.

But that profit never came and soon the company just closed up shop.

If he'd invested that $5,000 in the stock market, it would have grown to over $60,000 by the time he passed away 10 years ago.
> The chair collapses; he is injured. He files for worker's compensation. His company paid no premiums in Illinois, no coverage. Will California cover an out of state injury?

This sounds so American: Insurance and litigation for every little thing.
A trick for making friend is often to make a minor ask

i was actually thinking about that when reading the posts. are those friends asking for something in an attempt to reconnect?
> The people likely to do such things counter to security are going to click phishing links, install malware and misuse their company devices anyway.

Are you arguing that because they might make mistakes elsewhere we shouldn't bother putting any barriers up to them breaking policy, and that the only thing we should do is more training? I'd argue both things should be done. I do agree preventing LastPass from directly exposing the password isn't a very strong protection, but lets not act like it doesn't prevent any kind of password abuse. Sure, users should be more trained, but we should also create more barriers to prevent them from shooting off their toes.

It almost sounds like an argument to get rid of barriers on highways. Drivers should just know to not drive off the cliff; if people are driving off the highway clearly all we need to do is train them more. Barriers are just safety theater, people might still end up driving off the cliff if they try hard enough!

You asked for a use case for this feature and I gave you a use case that happens all the time and which such a feature prevents a large percentage of those users. You'd need someone determined to break the policy to dump the password and share it someplace they shouldn't, as opposed to someone doing it without thinking "is this against policy? shrug"
It's kind of amusing everyone here is talking about Evernote being amazing for dropping attachments and everything and I use it simply for text/links and hate that it wants to do all that extra stuff. :)
> I don't have to plug in my phone, or even look at it. I get turn by turn in the binnacle AND the heads-up display. And on top of that, it _doesn't_ do all the silly stuff that Google does to make people think it's so great, like routing me through some residential neighborhood to save 45 seconds.

Apple CarPlay + Apple Maps checks all of those boxes in my car.
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The "classic" prog still exists in Common Lisp. You probably haven't heard of it because it's almost never used. Here is the description in the HyperSpec: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/m_prog_.htm#prog In Common Lisp terms, it's a combination of LET, BLOCK, and TAGBODY.
For a predecessor that makes more sense but includes many of the same underpinnings, Amartya Sen's notion of a Human Development Index is a great thought exercise and tool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
Because most people don't want to live in the middle of nowhere. Especially if you have an Ivy League degree, come from an upper class household, and like to be surrounded by similar.

SV isn't full of the same type of people that you'd find in software in BFE. It's a different class of people entirely. It's more similar to doctors, lawyers, and IBs.
The cost of switching is pretty high. Interviews, background checks, filling out your W4, coming up to speed on a new team with new processes, etc. It ain't free or 0 stress. To get around the interviews, I think this is why some people always have interview processes going on in the background, even if they're not looking for a job. Then when they want to rage quit to make a point, they can easily land on their feet. (It is annoying when you interview people that don't accept your offer, but what can you do.)

A lot of what makes people want to leave companies is the simple nature of working with other people in a for-profit enterprise. That is not going to change by moving to another for-profit enterprise. So those people probably feel pretty stuck regardless of how good the market is.
There will be and is a bit of a pullback into the office, but I think there is a permanent and big increase in remote work baseline that will never go away.
The company a good friend of mine (software engineer) works at is transitioning to fully remote. By transitioning, I mean they're in the process of getting rid of their physical office. They're a tech company.

So while there will of course be companies ending remote because reasons, there are certainly others that are committing to full remote.
Rawls' proposed social optimization strategy is basically, implicitly, minimaxing (although I doubt he would describe it in similar terms), which is terrible for social outcomes. The return/variance pareto frontier for societal optimization is super sharp, so minimaxing makes almost everyone way worse off than expected utility maximization. Even if you're critical of EV maximization in general, it's really hard to claim that minimaxing performs acceptably at society-scale.
For me, it's about "an office". In particular, a little room- with a door that closes, and a desk/chair, that has my name on it. Not an open office, not a breakaway room that you can squat in when things aren't crowded.

If I had a little room, I wouldn't really mind. But right now the proposition is that I come into an open office that's too noisy/distracting to get real work done, then go to a conference room (often just 1 person in a 5 person room) to talk to people elsewhere. If I had an office with a door that closed, Ic ould take all my meetings and do all my head-down work in the office building.
Disregard the above; you basically said the same thing I did, but used a phrasing that made it hard for me to realize you had done so.
I know and that's captured in what I said. You have no idea what could happen to you. This actual fact replaces (or supplements) the need for the Veil of Ignorance. Maximizing the minimum actually reduces the worst case scenario you could end up in and there's nothing hypothetical about that.
Agreed.

I don't see why there is so much uproar about going into the office. If you were hired with the expectation that you go in, it's not unreasonable for your employer to ask you to return, regardless of productivity gain/loss.

Have a talk with your manager, and if it doesn't go the way you want it to, stay and commute or quit.
Other than the fact Vulkan is just an api like OpenGL and DirectX, it's high performance because it performs better than the other GLQuake forks.
I've been using email aliases for over a decade and have never experienced the leading examples the author mentions. Although I already have email accounts setup for impromptu scenarios, setting up an email alias in one minute is easy enough.
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I agree entirely. As a relatively misanthropic person, this was one of the many reasons why working in the office was miserable for me, and why the covid era has been the best time of my entire life. Moving forward I will exclusively consider remote positions, and I think other people should consider the benefits of doing so too.
Monday is a public holiday in many places in Europe.
They do. And they have branch offices as well, even in other countries. They make the choice to establish such offices, form local companies to do so, qualify to do business in foreign jurisdictions, pay taxes, etc. The point is that it is the company making the business decision to do so, not random employees who decide they'd like to live in Kerala while earning US salaries.
>this guy went on to launch another NFT startup

a16z just put $80 million into Adam Neumann's new crypto idea. Everybody is, shamelessly, out to get theirs.
Then perhaps the best way to make the universe think for us is to produce a biological computer, similar in nature to a brain.
I'm a native speaker and it is paradoxical to me, too.
Is anyone's goal of 'serverless' that they no longer have to deal with updating the OS?

Most would say even a server-ful system (k8s, or whatever) should be considered 'cattle not pets' with immutable nodes replaced as needed anyway. No update, just replace. Just like building a new image and having new pods (or serverless whatevers) pull it.
Would be nice if they also went after all the wash trading.
Apple delayed their corporate return to office, for like the fourth time in a row now: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/technology/apple-delays-r...

I don't think Amazon is entirely back to the office for corporate workers either.

AFAIK Microsoft is one of the few that dove head first into back to office.
I don't quite follow your logic in the various threads here. It seems that you are attempting to make the claim that since some cases don't follow the trend (smoking can lead to a reduction in cancer for some people), therefore the statistics overall must have been wrong (smoking leads to increased rates of cancer). But that does not follow logically or mathematically. In this study, they were looking at the conditional probabilities of what is unique about people who were non-cancerous. Since in this study they excluded people with cancer, we cannot make any claim about expected lung cancer rates, since they excluded that data up-front.

As for the other claims, I haven't done any research, but it sounds vaguely like Simpson's paradox could be starting to dominate the graphs, so they stopped publishing them. (i.e. there are other confounding variables that now dominate, so it is not worth the research time and money to continue collecting that data specifically for smoking rather than looking for new causes)
GitLab team member here.

We are all-remote with hundreds of employees as you noted.

You can read more about how things work at GitLab via our handbook and our all-remote guide:

- https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/

- https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/
> the kind of work Tesla does, remote work is suboptimal.

What's _the kind of work Tesla does_? Sure, remote assembly may be suboptimal. What about software development? Operations? Etc.

You don't need face to face all the time. But sure, be a dick and give a one week deadline for people to adjust again and see how it goes.
But they may be representative of the companies HN users have access to. So this 80% may be similar to the testimonials people will leave in the comments here.
Not sure about the specific instance, but Matt Levine's invaluable Money Stuff spent a lot of time discussing so-called "Manufactured Default": https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-10/hovnan... is an instance of how complicated these can get.

He discusses the morality of this particular issue, as part of a discussion on a proposal for the SEC to regulate it, here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-16/the-se...

Basically, Levine's argument is that as a result of these sorts of shenanigans, one giant investment fund (in this case, I guess, Black Rock, though again I don't know about this specific instance) gave money to an actual company that was employing people and doing something in the real world and that was in some kind of financial trouble. And it did that because it wanted to make even more money from some hedge fund somewhere, sure, but look at who was harmed (a hedge fund that was in the business of buying and selling Credit Default Swaps) and who benefited (a real company with a whole bunch of employees who would otherwise be laid off, and another hedge fund that was in the business of buying and selling Credit Default Swaps) and I'm not sure that the whole thing is that bad?
Analog computers are from the 19th century; they were used to decompose signals using the Fourier transform, since it's easy(ish) to get a bunch of different frequency oscillators. They used them for tides and differential equations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
Tobacco use does not cause cancer, neither does smoking. What is causing smokers to die en masse since the 1950's is what the industry innocuously calls "additives." The additives are over 300 known carcinogens intentionally added to nearly all brands of cigarettes in order to increase the addictiveness of nicotine. What is in those cigarettes could only very charitably be called half tobacco. It's the other half that is killing people, and it seems absurd when the gov't beat Big Tobacco in the 1990's, that this practice of adding death to cigarettes was not made illegal. Big Tobacco paid about half the settlement, and the rest was (for unknown reasons) forgiven in the early 2000s.
Remote work =/= work anywhere.

Companies can easily set policies to only allow work in jurisdictions they have tax and legal infrastructure to handle.

This isn't the same as requiring all your employees to come in the office.
exactly. most of the users just use it for text notes.
On the high levels of Expert play, Guitar Hero is insanely difficult. So it happens to offer a wide range of feeling mastery at all gameplay levels. I'm a mid-range Expert player, and if what I feel while I play feels even a tiny sliver like what an actual performer feels, then holy shit. The community even makes songs that utterly outstrip the "officially" authored songs in difficulty, that make Through the Fire and Flames seem like Slow Ride.

If you keep in mind that it is not, indeed, a real guitar, the sense of accomplishment doesn't have to be false. When I full combo a fairly difficult song, especially if it's one that I've gotten close but not quite got, it really feels like an accomplishment. Also, I'm active on the modding side of things for GH1/2/80s/RB, and that is where my true sense of accomplishment has rested. I've been involved with the mod projects Guitar Hero II Deluxe, Rock Band 2 Deluxe, and Rock Band 3 Deluxe, all of which have been wildly successful within the GH community.
> Third, it can't navigate a path without connecting to the satellite (seemingly for traffic data, but possibly it isn't even calculating the path locally).

I’m confused by what you are saying here. In-car navigation use satelites to know where the car is. If it can’t path plan without satelite connection then that is most likely because it is waiting for a localisation fix.

Trafic information could be coming through satelite broadcast but I doubt that it does.

There is no way that a navigation tool would receive path planning through satelite. Two way communication is much more complicated than one-way reception, and there is no way it would be financially worth doing that.
You sort of can! I work in hw for an av company and we make it work. There are some people who are required to come in, but a lot of hw development is data analysis and/or done in cad. You don't need to go into the office for that.
We're shifting back to synced hybrid in July - in office Tuesday/Wednesday, remote the rest of the week. Tuesday/Wednesday we have 'core' hours of 10AM to 3PM during which we're to be available.

Initially the plan was to return to office full time, so this is a shift in the direction of remote.
The problem with money at the top of the food chain is that there aren't that many places to invest. There's plenty of appetite for high risk/high reward, even if people sit on billions.
REITs are required by tax law to pay out 90%+ of their income, and everyone invests in them specifically for the dividend.

If the stock price gets too high, they always dilute it by issuing new shares to raise money for new projects. So you're never expecting lots of appreciation.

There's hundreds of them, and also many private REITs that are unlisted with the same fundamental idea.

Oil, utilities, REITs, small business lenders, etc. all have investors expecting management to just sit there, don't kill the golden goose, and pay regular dividends.
yes, I often say the textbook definition of a word, instead of the word, to advance a conversation and fly under people's kneejerk auto-response to the word
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As someone who has been WFH for ~5 years now, I 100% agree. I very much miss being in an office, WFH is not nearly as fun as it's made out to be, especially when my "from office" years were still very flexible, no "butts in chairs" attitude, just "here's a place to get work done and talk to your coworkers", which IMO is how you should treat any adult with a digital job.

The key is "and talk to your coworkers" though. Video calls just don't do it for me.
If you are interested in this, another great source is Martijn Steinrucken's channel The Art Of Code: https://youtube.com/c/TheArtofCodeIsCool
One advantage of remote work is that there can be no "hostile environment," and there are fewer stages on which an employee can act up.

Of course, there are people like Jeffrey Toobin on Zoom calls, but fortunately, not too many.
I mean, don't quit, get fired, file for unemployment for unfair dismissal due to unilaterally changing the nature of your employment contract.

Either that or union up.