skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with some qualifiers. I think some of us went all out with 'its just better' due to incessant onslaught of corporate propaganda telling me spending 2 hours in traffic is akin to meditation and 'me' time. Those ridiculous statements caused a lot of people to go into messaging overdrive that, arguably, lacked nuance.

Personally, I can attest that in person has some advantages over remote ( training comes to mind ), but I agree with the gist of the article that a lot depends on the audience ( some people don't need constant hand-holding ). And that is just two facets without touching the fact that not all jobs can be remote ( although a lot could be ) and some industries are ran by, well, old people who only know of one way to do things.

Is it harder? It can be. My team was fine, but some of us were already fighting for off-site schedule pre-pandemic.

After pandemic started, I made an obvious prediction that we will see some differentiation in companies ( full remote, hybrid, in person ). Workforce already voted for what they want ( remote jobs see 3-4 times the applicants ), but it is a larger cultural shift and companies would love to keep remote as a carrot for 'top performers'.
I'm committed to remote, too, because the alternative (local pseudo-feudal crappy employers who generally underpay) is worse. But now on my own terms and with an employer I choose rather than the half-assed way that it was attempted at Google. And without my kids at home.

Probably, actually, I'll end up renting a desk out of home somewhere nearby.
Strong same, I've been working on a 14" laptop for the past 2 years with no external monitor or keyboard. A second monitor makes me twice as productive at procrastinating.

Given I can only reasonably have a single application open (which is an IDE with full documentation/intellisense inside) it means I'm forced to focus, apart from right now obviously.
The actors would need to learn the new characters and lines? That takes time they rehearse a lot. Or are you suggesting the same characters are used? But then you'd have yourself a regular series with different adventures each episode.

Film industry does already use props over and over. A great one that comes to mind is the scale model of the city that was bought and sold from studio to studio, movie to movie: https://beforesandafters.com/2019/03/26/a-visual-journey-ins...
Maybe there are “hit pieces” because there actually are downsides to working remote? For the average HN user it’s probably great, but there are plenty of reasons why it could suck. Personality type, job type, living conditions, internet options, etc.
Meta:

Right now there's thirteen top level comments on this story, and only one of them isn't heavily downvoted, flagged, or dead.

At least some of the comments on this story objectively shouldn't be flagged, because they're made in good faith by reputable accounts, while most comments could be taken straight from Facebook.

On a five hour old submission with 200 votes you'd normally expect some worthwhile discussion, but the few people who try are struggling.
The harsh winters beat the wildfire smoke of the bay area. I moved to Chicago last year and couldn't be happier.
> how did all those Software developers survive all these years??

With great difficulty, and/or by having printed reference material in a readily reachable position - think program listings, magazines, reference books, paper notes.
The title is presently misleading.
For now, Microsoft is adding the capability to ban players. Some examples of why someone could be banned would be due to toxic online behavior.
It may be. I am not saying the possibility can be ruled out, only that we don't know at present. The WHO doesn't explicitly state that it's sexually transmitted because they don't know that it is, and neither does anyone else.

For example, the 'atypicality' of the presentation could simply be a consequence of MSM who are used to getting sexual health checkups being more comfortable with showing their genital sores to a doctor or nurse than other population groups.

I'm not sure if the presence of genital lesions is necessarily even a good indicator that transmission was via sex. See e.g. https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/4/4/ofx168/4588539
Over the last decade, I've seen less and less mentoring. Even before COVID and in office environments.

I agree, and for this reason, I don't like the framing of the editorialized headline, which lays blame only the Junior employee. We also have to consider this a failing among management, whether that be a direct supervisor who isn't taking an active enough role in the junior's development, or a higher manager who is giving out too much work so as to leave no one time for development.

ETA: the submitted headline has since changed.
>And monads changed the way I write code in mainstream languages.

This is my main takeaway from Haskell and other FP languages and it is what I always tell others. FP is the "paint the fence" of code. Learn FP and you will become much more proficient in every other language that you end up using.
It's also almost entirely arbitrary since Google lets iOS and Android app developers work off laptop (there isn't much a choice with iOS because the toolchain won't run on a gLinux workstation anyways).
So, all 45 of you are modifying yaml templates and dockerfiles?

That sounds like a spectacular duplication of effort to me.
i imagine one could try use the location hash. it isnt send with the request
I just so happens to be a bit interested in tools and startups. Thanks for the product!
Nature's no code frog optimizer
Working remote is a skill. It's not something you automatically know how to do, it's something you learn how to do.

It takes time and effort as an individual, and more time and effort as an organization.

If you don't put in that time and effort, you won't be good at it, like any other skill.
No it's not pretentious at all.

What I find pretentious is when you love the slower stuff but hate all the popular stuff and dismiss pacing as even a relevant factor.

Many many people have this attitude and they actually dismiss MCU stuff as raw garbage, too base level for their intellectual tastes.

I repeat. Your post is not pretentious to me at all. It's what I come here for. Thank you.

I agree with you there are movies that require a huge slow as hell build up in order to deliver a huge pay off. I agree and I like those movies despite the slow pacing. But those movies imo would benefit from better pacing regardless. I've seen people quit watching before the payoff and forever have their opinion of that movie forever tainted.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1541318055636369409.html
> (18-meter diameter, about 19.5 yards)

This is an unfortunate mix of precision and approximation.
> I really started to feel the lack of human contact and socialisation.

Was work the only place you got this? I'm so glad I don't have these extended socializations and don't miss them the slightest. In my experience, they were all just useless banters and people trying to form hierarchies/comparisons/political interest groups.

Any company that tries to move away from full WFH are holding themselves back. Given the option of working from home, most people will choose WFH.

Maybe its different for a single person who doesnt have much human interaction outside of work. Even so I feel like those interactions don't necessarily degrade significantly via video chats. You cant smell them through the screen and that might be a good thing.
I think the TV mini-series is very good.
Yeah. The pacing on that is even worse.
Which country are you talking about?

The laws differ between what law enforcement can and can't do.
Doesn't have to be tech companies, Target can work out if a woman is pregnent.
How is "not being a top performer" an insult?

Not everyone is born/made to be a top performer at work. And that is fine, especially as it is probably the least interesting quality in a human being, especially outside of work.
>> Amazon starts at $18/hr

I think it's a lie. AFAIK they pay warehouse workers $15/hour.
As you start your message with lying, the rest of is BS.

Safety, by the way, means not being afraid of being shut by a right-wing delusional maniac.
Just curious, IaC scripts committed to code repo or separate repo?
The context is the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis
I think you would benefit from changing your attitude a bit. You’re not going to change the system, so I’d suggest changing your mindset from “how do I get a job without a technical interview” to “what skills do I need to improve to pass more technical interviews.” I understand you have ADHD but that is an issue faced by many people and there are a lot of pharmaceutical options to address it available today. Additionally, saying that contracting is not an option because you wouldn’t have full control of the result is a massive red flag to me (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31893663) and makes it seem like the ADHD is not the main issue at all.
Snowden revealed that you're in danger if you're "an interesting person". Politician? Journalist? Civil rights advocate? These people have all been encrypting their emails for a decade.

It's the first time in, well, a long long time, that an average person might have something to hide, simply for the crime of being female.
* Id rather spend money on something with value.*

Sure. But you have to have enough money to choose that. But I've been in the position where spending 2-3 times more on bread meant that later on, I'd go hungry. Buying two loaves is generally better than one if you are doing poorly. At the time, I was handwashing clothes in the sink using water heated in a boiler, since I couldn't afford the gas to heat air or water.
Vitalik Buterin Talks Georgism, Crypto, Voting Systems
Show HN: Yuzu – The Stock and Crypto GraphQL/Streaming API for Rapid Development
Hey HN!

Excited to show off Yuzu, the stock market and Crypto API we wish we always had.

We built Yuzu to solve a problem we had while working on a prior project: current market data APIs are not built to enable rapid prototyping and scaling without a significant amount of upfront data engineering. In our previous app, a portfolio tracker, we had to ingest 30 years of historical data for stocks, crypto, ETFs, and mutual funds just so that we could re-expose that data to our frontend in a more efficient way. The number of API calls we would have had to make otherwise have made the app unusably slow.

This is why we built Yuzu to power frontend fintech use cases with a first-ever GraphQL API and unlimited streaming connections for live price data. We believe that you should be able to prototype and launch your app in days instead of weeks without building up your own data warehouse of market data. Just one API call to fetch everything you need and you're off to the races.

The API is live now - use the code "demo" to try it out and sign up to get your own free API key for personal use.

We're excited to show this off to the HN community - excited to hear your feedback
I know there are a lot of groups working on how to prevent AI disruptions to society, or how to mitigate their impact, but are there any groups working on how to adapt society to a full blown unchained AI world?

Like throw out all the safeguards (which seems inevitable) and how does society best operate in a world where no media can be trusted as authentic? Or where "authentic" is cut from the same cloth as "fake"? Is anyone working on this?
If you've read the book, the movie is a supreme disappointment. Such good stuff in the book that disappears in the movie.
Debugging CrashLoopBackOff
I don't agree that copilot will hurt junior hiring; Co-pilot is just a tool that even juniors can use to make them productive even quicker.

In fact, I think it will allow juniors to contribute faster and for high-school drop outs, code bootcamp grads or single moms to get hired more easily since instead of a steep learning curve, copilot allows them to quickly produce.

I'd agree with the argument if there was no such thing as entropy and senior developers were a static resource that didn't depreciate but every company is going to need new blood just because the seniors are eventually going to retire or move to different companies for their own growth.

The big appeal of juniors is usually low salary and willingness to work long hours and so juniors will often be attractive to companies.
> If someone, for instance, has good relationships on Twitter or they're active in a Discord server, that tells me they're good at asynchronous remote communication

What does a "good" relationship on Twitter even look like? Is the author looking at specific metrics like number of posts per day, no of replies per post?

While I overall agree that hiring remote requires a new perspective and new set of questions, but ...their social media engagement? Some of the best engineers I've ever worked with had ZERO social media presence.
proofpoint does this too. Wonder if they add a separate header or query string param to distinguish from an actual user.
But this is not true. The life expectancy for an 80 year-old Caucasian American woman is over 9 years. The life expectancy a 90 year-old Caucasian American woman is less than 5 years.
I like to do a lot of communication with candidates over email and some kind of text format during the process. This is usually when communication problems present themselves.

It would never occur to me ask them personal questions about the number and nature of their online friends ... very strange and invasive.

As an aside, many recruiters like to control the conversation with the candidate and have all messages/emails go through them ... this is a great way for the recruiter to hide a candidates communication weaknesses.
Go was created by Google, a larger corp than Sun ever was.
I think certifications are 100% worth it as a hiring manager. If I see someone with certifications I know that they are at least making an effort to further their knowledge.
And the 2011, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
> https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

phat = 1.0*pos/n

There is something disturbing about that line. While my wish to believe the article was strong, it makes me want to check the claims.
Thing is, the writing wasn't much better even before Chibnall.
> None of them answered the question.

It means they will comply and give the data away.

The tech bros at these FAANG companies will give into law enforcement with your privacy destroyed and violated, something the Free Software Foundation (FSF) had been fighting to prevent and to totally remove such surveillance capitalist products made by these companies. That fight has been lost and is a complete failure.

Now these data barons will comply, happily give your data away and they do not care and won't change.
Starship troopers gets a lot of flack -- "Based on the back cover of the book by Robert A. Heinlein" was a popular critique, "90210 in outer space" was another, and Doogie Howser (as NPH was them known) wasn't a great casting choice IMO -- but the special effects are flawless and Peter Venhousen really nails underlying themes of the book and the anti-bug propaganda. I don't know anyone who saw the film and didn't want to go fight the bugs - thank goodness he wasn't remaking Triumph of the Will.
It's something that I've always worried about, but these new abortion laws do make the surveillance state a lot more powerful against women. Something like a stillbirth can now easily lead to a woman having all of her data searched through and anything in there that makes it look like an abortion happened can result in decades in prison.

I'm struggling to think of a law that had the same effect on as many people as before.
Microsoft: Recent Windows updates caused Edge freeze issues
They've already declared significant limitations to the Fourth Amendment that apply to nearly every major city in the US. What's stopping them from going after others?
2025. 3am. Clear night. Full moon shining, many stars around.

I suddenly wake up, covered in cold sweat. My heart is pumping so hard.

I take out my phone. I search the internet. Kubernetes still reigns, no simpler approach made it.

The end.
why do websites feel the need to hijack the browser's scrolling logic?

this is very annoying to browse on chrome, but it works well on firefox.
This is all that needed to be said. Aside from all the other many examples from the post-90s, Upgrade is basically the formula the author is asking for and it came out the same summer this article was written. Hollywood still makes plenty of these types of films, probably more now than before thanks to helicopter money from streaming services. Take Triple Frontier, Extraction just from the last two years. I'm not going to say those are particularly good, but they're exactly the formula the author claims no longer gets made.

The actual difference is these types of movies are no longer tentpoles.
There is a degree of interaction that can be nice beyond having close friends. None of my neighbors are my close friends and we don't go into each others houses. But we say hi on the street, and sometimes talk for a few minutes about what's going on in our lives and how the kids are doing. It's friendly but not friends. There is a lot of value in having these sort of interactions especially if you're the type of person who prefers having a few close friends to many less close ones.
That is the opposite of the the truth. In fact, you have every right but those Parliament and the common law take away from you. This has been a long-standing principle of English jurisprudence.
Wow. Speech police as a service?
On the other hand, dirigibles don't need to worry about lift to drag ratio at all on account of not needing to generate enough thrust to produce lift.

Which is why the litres of fuel per passenger km for the Hindenburg, with 1920s diesel engines mounted on platforms where fuel economy was barely a consideration compares favourably with the same economy metric for modern transatlantic flight after half a century of innovation in jet fuel economy (and cramming passengers into smaller spaces). Needless to say lighter than air platforms without comparable worries about the impact of weight on fuel consumption and with large surface areas are also theoretically superior platforms for electric engines and [partial] use of solar power than heavier than air platforms.

Obviously they're not a pure emissions silver bullet, and plenty of other practical problems would need to be overcome for airships to fill more than tiny niches, but the evidence favours my statement.
And yet my wife and daughters think it's unfair I don't smell. You might want to visit Asia sometime - Japanese people actually object to the smell of deodorants.
Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival 2022
That could still work: when the empty end hits first, it has the mass of the engine(s) behind it, and obviously after it bounces/rotates, the engine(s) hit the ground directly and use up the rest of the momentum. But this is just guessing on my part - and of course, if the Moon's gravity would rotate the engine downward as another commenter suggests, it wouldn't work out this way...
I think at the time they just found another way in. Since they'd won all the cases and appeals so far, and since the law is clear (even if I disagree with it) I don't think they were afraid. Remember, that was the court that refused to hear privacy cases around the NSA, warrent-less wiretapping etc. And since then the court has taken a hard right swing...
c5.9xlarge -> 74 GiB memory + 36 vCPUs (EBS storage) - $1.53 on-demand (N. Virginia).
Star Wars is set in a remote galaxy where a civil war is taking place. Rebels, led by Princess Leia, are fighting against a baddy called Darth Vader and his Imperial forces. Leia steals some Imperial blueprints for a deadly weapon called the Death Star but she is then captured by Imperial forces so...

.. yes, text is great, but video can, too, be great, whether it's explaining something fictional or not. Different strokes for different folks.
Quitting Isn't Always Giving Up, Damnit
Sometimes shit doesn’t serve you anymore, and you ain’t serving it. And that is OK. Sometimes, quitting isn’t giving up; it’s recognizing a boundary, it’s getting to know yourself better; it’s having the humility to step the fuck aside. Quitting can mean broadening your horizons. It can mean making space for someone else.

Today, remember that quitting isn’t always giving up, damnit.
> For junior engineers it's really easy to fall into the trap of trying to solve everything themselves instead of asking for help when they are remote

Senior folks do this. All the time.

Despite having 10+ years of experience and leading engineers at AWS, my default is to "spin my wheels". Now that I understand myself a little better, anytime I find myself laser focused on a problem, but making 0% progress, then I either:

1) distance myself from the problem or
2) ask for help
3) both

Junior or not. Asking for help can be difficult
You could witness https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html 3748508088259971967302999598973478215811072000000 times until then. Frankly, I'm terrified.
For those with who have tough to control blood pressure, ask to see an endocrinologist and get screened for Hyperaldosteronism.

My personal anecdote - I've been on blood pressure medications since my senior year of high school.

Since then, I've had one hospitalization, seen four cardiologists, two nephrologists, many trips to the ER, regular check ups to keep my blood pressure in check. This spans over 25 years.

March, I had another really high blood episode that landed me in the ER. The cardiologist wants to bump my meds yet again because basically he has nothing else for me.

I was really frustrated.

I start to to research, and stumble upon Hyperaldosteronism. I get a referral to an endocrinologist. The blood test shows that I have a really high Aldosterone/Renin ratio. Along with low potassium (another sign). I have a CT scan, there's a nodule on my right adrenal.

Tomorrow I am having an AVS, an adrenal ventricular sampling, to tell which adrenal(s) are overproducing.
The difference is that they handle 10,000,000 more transactions per second than Bitcoin. People are able to talk, have multi person voice and video conversations, even entire communities. On blockchains, no matter how many nodes join, it’s the same capacity. In fact it’s the only tech in history that promises to become slower and more expensive with time.
Something I've wondered lately is what will life be like in a post-truth society? we already see examples of this now where a large number of people get their news from fake memes on facebook. There are huge swathes of people who live in their own make-believe world, like those believing wholeheartedly that the 2020 election was stolen.

What will life be like when you can't trust any video or interview you see because it could be completely fake? How long before someone uses this technology to frame someone for a crime? Could the FBI create a deepfake of a cartel leader meeting with them and leak it so they think he's a snitch?

I don't think we'll have the ability to handle this kind of tech responsibly.
Yeah, I saw a post that said the US has become "Chrisitian" Saudi Arabia and it is hard to argue that it hasn't (or won't be very very soon). Just look at the $2B payoff from one Saudi country to another.
Might something like this work as a robust solution:

https://0bin.net/paste/TTOdW9+B#olQ+FmoCmluokC8UdWllx8GXQtos...

TL;DR

At program initialization, clear the `environ` object, and stash the environment variables in some random location in memory. You can then restore the `environ` object when needed via a contextmanager - meaning that code must explicitly be granted permission to access env vs. being able to snoop regardless.

Curious to hear your thoughts!

EDIT: I wonder if this approach could be extended to allow the use of certain "restricted" libraries (I'm thinking stuff to do with network calls/file system) only within specific scopes - as this would defend against publishing the env vars to a public endpoint...