skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laszlo Bock was recently interviewed on this topic via Fortune (article below), and I tend to agree with him. It will be a slow roll over time for most companies returning to work (see Apple taking harder stance) with some exceptions on hybrid model 3-2 at work vs. remote.

> Bock says that after three to five years of flexible work models and hybrid plans, the normal in-office schedule will prevail at Google—and beyond. He predicts this transition will happen over the next few years, telling Bloomberg it’s the “boil the frog method.”

https://fortune.com/2022/04/04/former-google-hr-chief-laszlo...
When I was reading the comment, I thought the same: why don't companies just accept that they have one good project, focus on it 100%, stay good at it, and when the market dies, the company could die with it. There is no shame in milking one product for 20 years, providing a living to hundreds/thousands, then just scale back to maintenance and eventually close things down.

It doesn't really happen in practice, because no "visionary CEO" will say "we couldn't come up with a better idea than what we are doing now, so let's just call it a day in terms of exploring other ideas, and focus on this one product".

My current company is a retail company with both lots of physical locations and web shop/mobile app. We always try to come up with features that users can use in the physical stores, and those features get practically zero traction. Nobody is willing to say that the people who go to the stores, in a big percentage, won't use our apps, and the people who use the apps/web shop don't care about the physical stores. Every product person wants to combine these two, and I don't understand why.

(I guess, that's why I'm not in charge of business decisions :))
This sounds like pure speculation, which is fine, and I appreciate your comment, but would also like to hear from the poster who made the original comment since he works in that industry.
Show HN: A color palette design tool for websites
Hi HN,

while building something entirely, I realized that there is a lack of tools to pick colors for websites and web apps. While there certainly is an abundance of tools for color palettes, but they mostly give you three to five bright or pastel colors. Not what you need for websites. For that, you need one or two primary colors, and then stuff like text color, background, and so on.

So, together with another web dev I built a small web tool that allows picking exactly the colors you need for web projects and live preview your palette on a selection of demo websites.

The first version of the tool is online at https://colorsforwebsites.com. Free and no sign up.

We are already using this to for early stage projects, so I hope this provides value for you as well. Of course we are also happy about any and all feedback.

Cheerz :)
So you’re saying he bathed apes?
Isn't this what city planners want? People driving less. People living where they work.

I'm not hearing the drive less, live where you work crowd celebrating. Am I just not looking in the right places?
If you got RSUs before tesla went up 20x and didn't sell you've likely got a million in tesla stock. 4 years * 20k a year * 20x up = 1.6 million.
I see that we're sharing our lists of magical FFmpeg incantations – here's mine: https://github.com/doersino/ffmpeg-koraktor
I've been using firstname@lastname.com for ages and this doesn't happen to me. Usually it's "huh that's neat", but I also have a very unique last name
I enjoy living in a big house in the country, but I also enjoyed city living. It's nice walking everywhere and not having to own a car!

I think the big kicker is that city living in the US is drastically overpriced.
And when you want to make the code readable you try to space things out, split things in small functions, use longer and clear variables name. I guess they are asking for running the code trough a minifier so their implementation gains some points.
All he did was miss a comma (an optional one, no less!). You must be a high ranking member of the Grammar Police! Or maybe the Benevolent Pedant's Association?
> CS programs are really bad at covering these fundamentals. Students aren't learning such basics as version control, ci/cd, cloud platforms, linux, etc.

Good. Those aren't 'fundamentals' of 'CS'.
In theory pensions should be paying out what you payed into them. It's basically a bet that you will die before you pull out more than you put in (plus whatever interest/gains was made on your money).

Social Security is more like a Ponzi scheme in that it pays out retirees based on current income. There are some savings, but it was always a more or less direct payment of the old from the working age. The only thing that keeps it from being a Ponzi scheme is that they aren't pretending that it's some magical money making scheme that is generating "returns" to pay out to the early investors. The accounting is all front and center.

IMHO for something to qualify as a Ponzi scheme there must be a form of deception involved. Investors must think that they are realizing outsized returns and not because they are in on the scam. Obviously the guys at the top know it is a scam, but the vast bulk of the participants must be kept in the dark to keep it running.
> What's the kind of work Tesla does?

I am having trouble thinking of a job that requires a minimum of 40 hours in the office plus untold many hours that can be done either remotely or in the office.
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The performance improvements between .NET Core (any version) and (just) .NET 5+ have been pretty astounding. I've seen some incredible micro-benchmarks where the same code running in .NET 5+ hugely outperforms anything running in a version <= 4 (both .NET Core and the old .NET Framework). Factor in what you can do in memory-bound code by rewriting it to use .NET 5+ things like Span<T> and stackalloc there's no question that at this point you should be able to get much better performance out of .NET 5+. If performance was your bottleneck in .NET Core, the latest .NET versions (6 [LTS] or 7 [Preview]) may be worth checking out.

GUI stuff is also what happened in .NET 5+. WinForms and WPF were both added to .NET 5. There's some porting that needs to happen and not all old WinForms/WPF code will be happy on .NET 5+. The biggest remaining "missing piece" from a GUI perspective is that a lot of old WinForms/WPF code used WCF for service code. I think porting WCF to use simpler REST services is easy enough and there's lots of people doing that with gRPC services in .NET 5+ too. There's also the Open Source CoreWCF project that is trying to hit compatibility with the most used bindings in WCF on top of .NET 5+.
Where Did the NASA Expression Steely-Eyed Missile Man Come From?
How often do you think an individual piece of debris is impacting other objects? Most space debris starts as something in orbit, and if it's at a high enough altitude, most pieces do indeed stay in orbit. There is clear precedence for this.

https://swfound.org/media/6575/swf_iridium_cosmos_collision_...

"Analysis by both NASA and outside experts indicates that more than half of the Iridium debris will remain in orbit for at least 100 years, and much of
the Cosmos debris will remain in orbit at least 20 to thirty years."
I'm not going to address whether paying workers less for the same job when they live in different areas is appropriate, but if you are willing to go along with the premise that it is than the reduction from 200k to 150k isn't out of the question for the areas involved. You didn't give exact areas but I put San Francisco and Denver into 5 different online cost of living calculators. Denver tended to be the most expensive area in CO these calculators had data for. They didn't agree to the dollar but in general the cost of living in Denver was reported as about 38% less with an equivalent living standard salary being $124,000.
I've been doing this for close to a decade and sometimes salespeople and customer service people will ask to confirm, but that takes 5 seconds and isn't awkward (in my opinion.)

It has more benefits than knowing who leaked your email, it lets you easily filter your incoming email by who you gave the email to, and when your email is leaked it lets you shut off that email address. Of course you can also filter your email by the sender's domain, but that isn't as consistent, and doesn't help at all when your email address has been leaked.

It's true that you do have to set it up so that you can send email from the addresses to avoid not being able to reply by email, and you will want a password-manager or something to remember exactly what email you used, for convenience.

Personally I'm glad I've done this, it's made it much easier to organize my emails.
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We have been in business since 2008 and are looking for people for multiple positions. Even if you're not a developer and/or designer, we'd love to hear from you and how you'd be an asset to the company. We are a small, entirely remote team of 12. All work is handled through email. Meetings are only for brainstorming sessions and optional. Work is at your own pace for non-time-sensitive projects.

We regularly use the following:
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I strongly disagree. I've also been using a catch-all domain for more than a decade and giving each sign-up it's own name@mydomain.com. I can remember one small issue. Otherwise it's never been a problem. The problem has been getting marked as spam for running my own mailserver. But it's all worth it in the end.
Lately, our Ring has been unable to load recorded or live video at least half of the time we try to access it. Sounds like it's a great time to cancel.

We're looking to replace with another product and are considering the Eufy products. I like the fact that all video is stored locally. Does anyone have any experience with Eufy doorbells?
Square Outage
GCP loses money. They just reported their best quarter for cloud earnings. Negative 931 million dollars in Q1 2022.
I stopped reading Ars regularly when they started replacing articles with videos. Apparently that was a commandment to them from on high, so I expect the authors don't have a lot of control on the final form of their articles.
Money is not important, but only after you have enough of it first.
Some will certainly try to "get back to normal." They didn't weather the disruption (i.e., pandemic) well, and are still struggling. The easy and obvious solution (to them) is to return to the good ol' days of no WFH.

On the other hands, the smart orgs are focused on figuring out how to use the disruption to their advantage.

Of course, in the short term, there will be winners in both camps. But WFH is not a fad, just as the internet was not a fad.
To be fair, open borders being necessarily beneficial is a bit of a presumption though. Some people are open to foreign aid, but not all of those people are open to open borders, and that being imposed could also affect their stance on aid.

Humans are very complex.
US Charges Ex-OpenSea Exec with NFT Insider Trading
A good hint will be what the company did during the pandemic. Did they tell people they were free to move outside of the area? Did they open hiring up to everyone (as opposed to hiring locally even during WFH)? How flexible were they on remote work before the pandemic? Those kinds of companies will find it very hard to go back to "everyone in office". What are you going to do, tell everyone that you hired outside the core area that they need to move or be fired? I'm sure some companies are doing that but it will be terrible for morale and the company in general.

I do think that the balance will shift a bit more back towards being in office, but it will happen via current companies failing and new companies starting as "in office." Obviously there will be the hit in hiring but some people will think it's worth it and it will be easier when starting fresh vs. de-transitioning a company that went remote.
>This is a point that seems to be conveniently left out by most return to office advocates.

In my experience these tend to be executives who can afford to live on expensive real estate close to the city center. And therefore, have a very short commute.

That's how cities where I live and people who I talk to live are laid out anyways. Downtown core is most expensive, and then the further out you go the cheaper it gets and the more painful the commute to the downtown core is.
> that Rawls contorts himself to avoid a framework that just boils down to 'maximize utility' -- is more or less on point.

It clearly doesn't though and is specifically constructed to avoid overfeeding utility monsters.
Supposedly Monero is better at being anonymous than Bitcoin/Etherium, but NFTs are all on Etherium
Investors are pressuring management to act in a way that they understand. Many investors have not learned anything in the last few years about productivity and so are reverting to what they know. They need to be educated and willing to learn from the information they are provided. This may be asking too much.
Does PageRank perform poorly because the nature of linking has changed, or has the nature of linking changed because PageRank is no longer the main arbiter of search results?
I have been working exclusively remotely for over a decade as well. I also occasionally reminisce about working from the office. There were some really great aspects of it. At the same time, there are lots of great things about working from home

Recently I tried to see how those tradeoffs stack up against each other. I had an insight. A lot of what I missed about working from the office had nothing to do with working from the office. It had a lot to do with me being younger, without so many family commitments, and a lot of free time and flexibility. Concretely, in my 20's and early 30's, I would have preferred working from an office. But later on, I vastly prefer working from home. The tradeoffs get weighed differently depending on what stage in life I am at.
Bitwarden Adds AnonAddy Integration
I cant get over the fact that American employees are using a soon to be ending once in a lifetime opportunity where they have significant power over their employers to push for policies that make them easier to be replaced by people who will live much better lives at a quarter of their salaries.
Been using simplenote for some time. Goal was to have just unobtrusive text notes, accessible via phone apps and browser, free, that allowed nesting bullet points (I write a lot of notes primarily using bullets)

Simplenote.com has been great for all of these usecases.
Objects in orbit are primarily cleared by atmospheric drag, with two major variables: height of perigee (lower causes more drag) and object mass (lighter objects are slowed more). Following an impact, some of the debris will be cleared quickly, but some will not.

"On 11 January 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite missile test in which one of their FY-1C weather satellites was chosen as the target. The collision occurred at an altitude of 865 kilometres, when the satellite with a mass of 750 kilograms was struck in a head-on-collision by a kinetic payload traveling with a speed of 8 km/s (18,000 mph) in the opposite direction. The resulting debris orbits the Earth with a mean altitude above 850 kilometres, and will likely remain in orbit for decades or centuries.[18]" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome#Anti-satellit...)

Kessler syndrome requires the rate of debris creation be greater than the rate of clearing and the rate of clearing in higher orbits is very slow.

https://amostech.com/TechnicalPapers/2012/Orbital_Debris/NIK...
"Simulating a commute" seems a little silly compared to just commuting as normal? Once you've committed to the time, there's nothing critically deficient with my work-office or my commute that they need replacing.

Maybe I also understated how the change of scenery from working in a different place was also helpful. It marks a mental shift between work and home but downtown is also just more visually exciting and interesting than home.
So your facts are:

- Elon Musk basically says that he does not trust his employees enough to let them work from home (which may or may not be justified, I don't know them).

- You get one or more days off.

And your conclusion is:

- Your company may be preparing to end remote work.

I don't understand why?

I'd personally draw the conclusion that you apparently work for a company that is doing well at the moment. Nice!
Yes. I ended up abandoning handbrake for a lot of reasons. For a long time its libraries were horrifically out of date (it was many many major versions behind the x265 trunk) and I don't feel like its "presets"/"batch mode" works properly. I always felt like I was second-guessing whether my manual settings were getting overridden and replaced by presets when inserting a batch.

I could have dived into the log files and looked more closely at what it was doing but, eh, I'm at the level where I just want a batch script where I can see exactly what it's doing upfront. If I want batching/task management that is more advanced than a batchfile can do I'll set up SLURM workload manager.
What is this luck you speak of? Everyone has an equal learning opportunity and the software is free.
Exact same story here. Previously we had a few remote employees because the option was to let them go remote or lose them. ~3 months into the pandemic, when it became impossible to hire engineers, we said "fuck it" and accepted that we'd become a remote company even once the pandemic was over, just so that we could access the wider talent market.
I've been using Kagi for a while now(maybe 2-3 months iirc), and it's been a great experience. I've hopped between 4[0] search engines in the past year, and I've finally found one that works really well, is private, and does what I need it to do. My thanks to the Kagi team for delivering a great experience, I've enabled my premium account. 100% worth it for me.

[0]: Ecosia -> DDG -> Brave Search -> Kagi
>It's clear to me that you and the doctors know that... But then why is this metric even mentioned?

I think we all agree as well that tobacco smoking is bad and should stop.

But not only are we never getting there, we also know this isn't the sole source of lung cancer or cancer in general.

It's even possible that some new chemical or something else anytime in history might show up and start causing cancer far worse than tobacco. This is a proactive measurement that is necessary ongoing the rest of history or at least until we eliminate cancer in some manner.

We also ultimately always want to be trending downwards. It means we know what we are doing and are improving the situation. If the situation is regressing, that's fine but as expected the appropriate people analyzed WHY. The answer they found... politically problematic. Same reason I'm flagged and unable to post on HN now.
It took me 4-5 hours to read and understand first few chapters of Kubernetes in action, I annotated a lot text as notes on the Oreily site, but didn't have to go back to it. I didn't have to do any security and account management stuff, it was being done by someone else. After 3 years of working with plain Kubernetes and OpenShift, I still didn't have to go back to the book. Basic concepts in Kubernetes are easy to understand, if you're working as a developer to deploy your apps in it and not in DevOps managing it.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-in-action/97...
Had no clue IMDb was that old
I've had some of the same experiences as the author. "Do you work for..." or "You must be a big fan..." And plenty of "How do you... "

A few sites actually check for and prevent you from putting their domain name in as email (probably something about having employees sign up... ?) so that's a bit annoying.

I think it's worth it. Among other things, if any one alias becomes tainted enough, I'll throw it on a burner account so those emails go into a black hole, instead of my spam folder. And I'm always using a password manager on a computer, rather than trying to remember email when I visit a retailer. (Often, these days, if I'm in person, I just make up some kind of abbreviation - instead of "Ollies@", "olbgo@" because I don't care too much and even if I forget where it came from, it's not a big deal.)

And there's a slight security benefit if one email + password leaks, though these days every password is unique too (was not always the case... ah the naivety of my internet youth.) I don't think email addresses get sold "a lot" but they sure do get breached a lot and end up in the hands of spammers. Cadillac@ actually got sold or breached quite quickly after I signed up for a free car brochure, about a decade ago.

With my current host (NameCheap) and Thunderbird, it's very easy to change my from address - it just works without any hassle.
I mean... Every modern editor I have seen can and will crawl in some cases. Is there a class of hanging that is more common for emacs?
around paywall : https://archive.ph/wsVN7
I just read through who’s hiring post here and almost every post offered remote or hybrid. To my memory there was one offering onsite only and it made them look sad. Most companies don’t want to look sad.

I know some of the major banks who were adamant about return to office have quietly surrendered that hybrid is here to stay.

You’ll find all sorts of companies though and I suspect if we head into a recession the remote rights crowd will lose ground.

What I am waiting for is the day that accounting gets the CFO to realize if they got more people working remotely they could reduce real estate. Once the emotions of the situation die down sooner or later the accountants will point out that productivity didn’t drop during remote work lockdowns and there’s money that could be saved. This is the moment things really shift. But that’ll be 5 years IMO.

Edit: to be clear they already know these facts but right now it’s all emotions based decision making. Once the emotions fade and a little water goes under the bridge a profit motive in cost cutting will be the thing that strangles in office work. If you think about it it’s quite a luxury to spend that much money just to collocate bags of mostly water for their social pleasure. And accounting doesn’t give a rats ass about your social pleasure.