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What this article (and every other article advocating RTO) misses is that this is not about WFH / remote work.

While yes, there has been a move toward fully remote companies (this existed before Covid - e.g. Gitlab), I've never seen this as something that would be broadly adopted - this suits a certain niche, it's great that it exists, I think that niche should grow, but I can't see it ever approaching majority.

Leaving aside fully-remote working, the debate in most cases is about choice and autonomy. While many engineers had flexible working arrangements before Covid, many did not (and the vast majority of non-engineer office workers didn't either). Now these arrangements are the norm (despite managements fighting to remove them).

Personally, I much much prefer working from the office. I have a nice work setup at home now (after much tuning over the past few pandemic years), but it will never be ideal for me. If I were working for a fully remote company, I would need to rent shared space to avail of some of the mental health benefits outlined in this article, and it would still be far from ideal as my work neighbours would not be colleagues.

BUT... I absolutely would not be happy to give up the ability I currently have to stay home if/whenever I need to - it's enormously liberating and allows me to conduct my day-to-day life much more efficiently and happily.

I don't think anyone arguing for WFH is really advocating fully-remote for all (which seems to be this author's assumption?). They're advocating for worker autonomy.
The title of the article should be "30 year old data scientist who lives in London misses social interactions at work."

Going to work in an office everyday isn't so bad when you live in a city, have no responsibilities, and have a <30 minute commute to work on public transit. Especially when you're 20-35 and maybe don't have a ton of friends outside of work. I get it. I moved to a new city for work at 25 and didn't know anyone there. The office is where I made friends and had most of my social interactions. But we still had a work from home policy that made sense for folks that needed it.
It is called risk and humans are risk averse.

There is always a risk your company doesn't become the next unicorn.

There is always a risk your society fails to grow exponentially for two thousand years. Our current track record is that exponential growth happens until it stops, which is pretty bad news for anyone whose math assumes that exponential growth never takes a break.
Well he was going to give his own money away, and in an effective manner which the landlord probably wasn't so maybe there's a Robin Hood angle on stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
AppLovin offers to buy Unity Software in $17.5 bln deal
Yes, it's here too: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/09/uk-braced-fo...

The day with 40.8c (105F) was bad enough, London is not built to cope with that record. But also it hasn't rained since.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat...
Who do you think is more successful/ safer: the humpback whale that let’s its kin die, or the one where they stick together against predators?

To generalize, draw on your “experience” (movies, thought experiments) from crime, business, sports, society etc.

‘Altruism’ only appears so on the individual’s level but there’s zero surprise this is an evolutionary advantageous trait from a species perspective, so, frankly, I never understood why we make it out to be that mystery.
Unless you're bumping into walls or tripping over your own feet all the time, that's probably not true.
I recently read her A History of CLU (can be found from the page linked to above). It was quite interesting to see the design principles, and the various design decisions they took.
You have to go through the big banks so that they can get their fees (but you have to launder huge amounts, too).
I have basically fallen to the side of the Copernican principle on this.

Consciousness feels like it may at least partially be our fancy word for “soul” in the 21st century.

Measures of basic intelligence appear to us in crazy places in the animal kingdom. We will find it is not special at all.

I believe we are nothing but of a bunch of chemical states, the patterns and flow of which could be replicated in another system, natural or artificial.

On this planet, we just have the fastest, most complex and efficient processor going at this time.

Edit: I should add there may be more to human intelligence than “just” patter recognition, but that seems to do the bulk of the work.
This too... :(
From a biological perspective, what's interesting about this is that REM sleep hasn't been observed in insects before. Insects sleep, but the REM phase only occurs in mammals and birds. I think some people are reading too much into this.
I think ARPA-E is actually already working on climate apart from energy. I have seen their researchers talking about everything from low-land-usage/climate-resilient agriculture methods to carbon capture.
They already implemented measures to allow higher discharge temperatures than usual for certain nuclear plants.
Author here - Sounds like you're in a similar situation (just 10 years ahead of me). I think this would work great for you, but you clearly have been doing something right to keep the marriage afloat for that long!
Rustc may still need to do runtime bounds check if it can’t conclude that a dynamically computed index is in-bounds.

The length is known statically, but whether the index is in-bounds may not be.

The binary search GP talks about is exactly one such case, go on Godbolt, write up a simple binary search (with a static size so you get code), and you’ll see that the compiler checks against the literal array size on every iteration.
I use Logi Options too, but while it's stable for me, it still uses a bafflingly high amount of CPU. But if I don't run Logi Options, then mouse buttons 3+4 stop working :-/

It's been like that for years.

Logitech's hardware is great, so I don't know why they think it's OK to push out such shite software.
> I would consider 10% of a country voting for a party as first preference but less than 0.7% of parliament seats (by which I mean a single seat) being allocated to them (as was the case in Australia until the last election where it's still around 2% representation) to be unrepresentative by any reasonable definition of the word.

Is this is a consistent outcome or an anomaly?
What's unprecedented is the insane population explosion of the last ~100 years. It's only good to have major reduction to saner levels.
Not true at all. If they are able to log into your e-mail, then things will start to fall apart. But just getting your phone will not allow anyone to break into your MFA secured accounts. Your phone is something you own, but they still need something you know (i.e. your password). I feel like you might get a more nuanced perspective by looking into security related topics, specifically around authentication.
so like... screeps?

is there a comparison somewhere?
It could be used for privacy purposes also...
> Throughout history, the most effective combatants, revolutionaries and insurgents have been ‘devoted actors’ fused together by dedication to non-negotiable ‘sacred values’ such as God, country or liberty. Military incursions nearly always plan for maximum force at the beginning to ensure victory. But if defenders resist, or are allowed to recoup, then the advantage often shifts to those with the will to fight as they increasingly harness resources against their attackers who are maxed-out in terms of what they are able, or willing, to commit: consider Napoleon and then Hitler and their onslaught against Russia, or the United States’ invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Throughout history, those willing to sacrifice for cause and comrades, and for their leaders, have often prevailed against more powerful forces that mainly rely on material incentives such as pay and punishment.

> Even when defeated and annihilated, the heroism and martyrdom of those with the will to fight often become the stuff of legend. Consider the Judeans under Eleazar at Masada, the Alamo defenders under Travis, Bowie and Crockett (note: that these men supported slavery or other unacceptable positions is irrelevant to the point here), or the Group of Personal Friends who fought to the end, defending the Chilean president Salvador Allende against Pinochet’s putschists. Or take the last holdouts at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol in what might well become a centrepiece of Ukraine’s national creation myth, along with its president Volodymyr Zelensky’s celebrated reply to a US offer of evacuation: ‘I need ammunition, not a ride.’
The primary goal of internship (except when its a legal requirement for certification) is to built relationship and networking. You are trading work in exchange for access to professionals in the industry, with the hope of using that in the future. In that context it is obviously a worse trade if all the interaction is done on the phone or through a webcam.

It is a very different situation for people who trade work hours in exchange of getting paid.
What does that have to do with insects not generally having REM sleep?
I’m not totally clear on the point you’re making, sorry! But to answer your question, of course I’m partial to my family and people close to me, and I think the reason is that like all other living things I’m programmed to strive for the survival of my own DNA and tribe. That doesn’t mean I don’t think feelings aren’t important or valid—quite the contrary. It just means I don’t think humans are unique in that regard.
I don't think anybody really needs to be told that zoom calls suck. Or that changes don't come with a cost. You get nothing for free. But overall a lot of people are finding that the benefits of WFH far outweigh the costs.
What country are you in? I’ve lived in a few, and I don’t have any services that require my phone. Many have two-factor auth, but I just save the keys in my password manager which I can access from any of my devices.
The "arch principle" is a nice terminology to say that we have no clue of which gradual steps led to the final irreductible complex system. Being irreductibly complex, the missing of only one part leads to nothing and cannot pass the natural selection. M. Behe gives dozen of examples.
Also time is missing in any cases, see the evolution of a little mammal into a whale for example. In less than 5 million years a little moppet becomes a giant submarine with at least a hundred new coordinated organs and functions. Have you ever designed a complex system ? Each function has to be designed, and each interface has to be taken into account for both sides. And all this through a code, and in a code the finality must precede the result.

About the eye, which common ancestor to squids and vertebrates is it ?
Maybe you’re just stuck in The Matrix. Not implying you should be alt right, but maybe stop thinking about everything in relationship to what you perceive as “alt-right,” which is a spurious term to begin with.
I really don't care about my work enough to care if I am heard, to care whether I produce anything, or to care whether people I will never speak to again after I leave the job laugh at my jokes.

I am here to extract the cash required to have a safe and enjoyable life. Working on adtech and security tech is a means to an end.
ICE cars are way lighter than EV cars with a reasonable range. It's not a cliche, it's a true constraint of reality, which EV enthusiasts decoupled from reality frequently seem to forget.
Author here - I added an addendum to the end of the article. I write notes in a notes app (I use notion, but you can use whatever). Then I usually text it to her (though email would work fine). I keep it very simple, and I type a lot faster than I write by hand.
This is cool! Let me know if you'd be interested in using Algolia for the search piece. It would be a fun implementation and should fall under the not-for-profit program.
Dumb valuation aside, Airbyte seems like it will wipe the floor with Fivetran and other pay-per-record data pipelining tools. Open source, decent community, you can host it yourself... Orders of magnitude cheaper.
Same, although my donation is not recent. I need to re-up.
Don't eSIMs have an even worse failure mode? If the phone itself dies then there's no SIM for you to take out and put into a new phone immediately right? As I understand it you have to first find another phone (with a working line!) to call your provider with, hope that it's within their business hours, and wait on hold for who knows how long, until you finally get it set up? Because of course you don't have anything urgent you need to take care of in the meantime while you wait for your carrier to give you back the keys to your digital life right?
Who Built the First Electric Rock 'N' Roll Guitar? (2019)
That would be a very practical approach, and also could be fun for children as it's not a dry topic.

On a more general level, I think we (as in any society that's not too far gone like Russia) need to educate our young about propaganda and how to not fall for it.

Social media has been a game changer in terms of the spread of propaganda, if nothing is done about that then I fear we'll see the end of humankind in our lifetime.
Can you solve a system of coupled Schröedinger equations and know what my wife will want for dinner? I’m only partially joking of course. What I mean is that physics conveniently formalizes what is most conveniently formalized, thus giving an impression of all-encompassing knowledge and predictive ability, when in fact it’s only a small fraction of what is. And I’m saying this as a PhD in chemistry.
I have returned to the office and I’m glad I did so. There’s so many opportunities and connections that working from home had me missing. I’ve been back at the office for four months now and my productivity has definitely increased, and I feel a lot more plugged into my career. My company put in a lot of effort to bridge things for those who want to work from home, but… They are absent. Unless we are on a phone call or a zoom call, they don’t really exist. I forget about them.
Meanwhile the west's governments are prioritizing short-term inflation curbing rather than addressing climate change in their campaigns. We are all screwed.
Commuting costs money too. The article portrays paying for “focusing-as-a-service” as a negative, but it’s probably cheaper for a lot of people than paying the extra commuting costs to come in to the office. Seems like it could be a completely valid trade-off in a lot of circumstances.
> The guy playing John Dee is David Thewlis, one of the best cinema actors of all time.

He's Lupin in Harry Potters, for a quick reference (for others). I take it you've seen The Landscapers? Exceptional performances from both Thewlis and Olivia Colman. I came to Sandman as an adult, and I was not a comic reader as a child. Maybe that's why I love it, not having the fluency to recognize the uneven writing and things you listed as weakness? I remember being absolutely floored when I read the first few, and also being convinced it could never be successfully adapted. I thought there were so many nuances, so many allusions to myths and folklore woven into Gaiman's writing that a film adaptation would absolutely butcher the original material by its inability to render all the shades; (e.g. the Cain and Abel sub-story is played for laughs and misses the sinister undercurrent - it is after all a story about a man murdering his kin and lying about it to God).

So far I'm pleasantly surprised by the series. I thought the casting and costuming of Morpheus dead-on. In the book he's drawn as a tall and pale Gothic priest. I appreciate that the production design tried to keep close to the visual framing in the book, I look at each frame and I could see the original in the derivative.

I'm worried that the complexities of the books and its branching anthologies, after the world-building phase is done, will be reduced to stupid modern clichés, e.g. "when dream dies humanity would die" and similar treacle. For example how are you going to make sense of the story where Dream meets his friends every 100 years for a drink at an eternal tavern, I forget who was there, Newton and Pascal? That's not an episode to view but a novella or in its best form, a 20-page comic.
Doesn't ring a bell. If you can give more details about who said it, that might help someone find your answer.
I could not get anything to work with M+K, none of the RTS controls I am used to worked. Left-click select, right-click move did not work. Left-click select, left-click move did not work. Select with control (no click+drag?) selected stuff but I could not get the units to do anything.

I gave up.

Would strongly advise the author not to break from convention here.
Yep. Most people who prefer the office really prefer that everyone be in the office.
That's the one, thank you so much! Skimming it quickly, I now remember the Haskell.

Funny to have forgotten how to find an article on a memorization technique.
I like this new word "esthetics"! It's like a cross between ethics and aesthetics. How to do the right thing and make it look good too, I guess!
I'm in my mid-30s and by now most of my friends are people I had worked with. A lot of people used to meet their future spouse at work. The friends from work have been a lot stickier than those I had made in college due to similar interest and experience and overall level of maturity. After college I was socialized at work. I got a lot of hard won lessons about how to interact with people and maintain professionalism. I couldn't imagine leaving college to just spend 8 hours a day at home in front of my computer.

I fear a generation of young people growing up with wfh won't be socialized. At many jobs you have to interact with a wide variety of people. You learn about power dynamics, office politics and effective/poor leadership. You could think this stuff is BS, and maybe it is, but its important to understand. Work is also great moderator. Many young people live in a bubble and surround themselves with people exactly like them, with their same politics and beliefs. It's easier to be an activist on slack, and without the awkward looks from your colleagues, you won't realize its not being well received.

At this point in my life wfh is convenient. I have dishes to do, kids to pick up, a relationship with my wife to maintain, but I still miss work from home. I'm just glad I had the chance to experience in person work when I was younger
For most standard web applications, it is true that the RDBMS stores all durable application state; it's also the case that you avoid ORM caching because it introduces more problems than it solves.

Saying "that tends to ensure what is and isn't side effect free is massively obfuscated" really depends on the ORM; if it's an ORM that tries to make an RDMBS "quick" like an object, then I agree (this is something I hate about Django's ORM), but if it's a query builder style ORM then I disagree, as it basically creates a DSL that wraps around the SQL which is already purely functional.

What I'm getting at is that we shouldn't conflate what should take credit for creating sanity in how applications persist state. I think that credit should go to the RDBMS because it exposes the power of the benefits you ascribe to FP, to any programming language that can bind to an RDBMS. If that is the case, what do you really need FP for in general purpose line of business software engineering?
It’s a trade-off. It’s very convenient for me to pay with ApplePay. But there’s a risk I won’t be able to pay for groceries if my iPhone is out of juice.
> only US persons faces criminal prosecution for sanction violations

Not true. Anyone in U.S. jurisdiction faces criminal prosecution. That's a far more expansive set than U.S. persons.
> On the other hand, empirically, it is not unusual to see straightforward C programs being dramatically faster than comparable C++ programs written in enterprise style, and to also build much faster.

Your only comparison cases are cases where the code in question was re-written in C. This most likely means that everyone already knew it was slow and so the re-write also fixed the fundamental problems. If the code had been rewritten in C++ it would also be faster - and since C++ allows some optimizations C doesn't it would be even faster. (it is known that if you switch from gcc to g++ your code often will run faster if it compiles)

There is a reason for enterprise style C++. Most of the time it is still fast enough, and it is a lot more maintainable.
The reason why it can be valuable to research common sense is that every now and then, we discover that common sense is in fact wrong. Those are the discoveries that lead to paradigm shifts.
> you need to call them up to reset this

My bank sent me a super key (some colorful QR code) to setup new 2FA devices, which I need to securely store somewhere.
I disagree. Jury nullification sounds plural, but a single juror can nullify everything; I’m voting this way because I think the law is wrong.

That decision has nullified the process, and could lead to a hung jury. Or that one person could convince everyone else. I think you might be confusing the hole with the part, and not grasping the power of a single juror.
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For github & google, I'd put my own money on it being >80% in 5 years. Maybe not a whole year's salary though, I'm a big baller
You ask this as if there are only non-legitimate uses. Do you think businesses often give away their revenue data to their competitors for free? Of course not, so if you want to do business on an open ledger then you have to have a way to obscure transactions so that your competition doesn't get to know exactly what your revenue stream looks like.

There's nothing sinister about privacy. It would be a logical fallacy to assume that just because sinister things happen in private that privacy itself is sinister.
Thank you for the clarifications. This is very interesting. The parallel with Gates did come to my mind as well.

> I'm not very knowledgeable about crypto, but I don't understand how the definition of crypto means this?

Crypto doesn’t really power real-life use cases outside of trading crypto assets and associated financial services. For real money to come into the space there needs to be an influx from outside. Usually that means VCs and, more largely, retail.

I’m not necessarily arguing here that the crypto space is a drain on society, as I think that’s contentious, but the claim that most real money in crypto originates from people outside of it should be a truism. To me this makes SBF’s approach something misguided, as they’re reallocating capital from people at large to a single person. Even with the best intentions I can’t see this as a humanist approach. Some charitable projects do require massive funding and opinionated goals, but isn’t that what nonprofits and politics are for?

I guess it does come down to whether someone sees making money off of crypto as having strong negative externalities or not. If SBF was simply creating value by democratizing access then it’s just a regular job. If he was propping a scam industry that drains retail investors of real money then it’s a net negative even with EA as the goal.

Still, the inherent long-termism within EA seems to make it easier for people to embrace very Kantian views that maybe discount their short-term impacts.
If you're going to jail for 15 years, isn't running up a debt with your lawyers the least of your concerns?
His book "The Vital Question" is eminently readable: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1555361842
This is mostly about lack of rainfall and not temperature.

Climate change causes more extreme weather, that doesn't imply this summer will be one of the coolest for the next 100 years?