skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree. In my experience, pre-pandemic companies did sometimes try to co-locate small engineering teams especially if, for historical reasons, they were mostly already clustered in one specific location. But companies also don't necessarily want to restrict their hiring to an hour radius of a given office, people want to move for various reasons, and some degree of collaboration with other groups is needed in any case. And, once you're distributed at all, you pretty much have to act like everyone is remote anyway.
Point was that $45k (from my very brief googling 20 mins ago) seems to be 10x of average annual programmer salary in the Philippines. I admit I do not know the COL - like purchasing a home in the Philippines, but that could vary very much from country to country. I used Philippines because it's a country with very low salaries.

But then again, purchasing a home in SF or NYC is very expensive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562815
Basically, the best studies show no link e.g. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27584...

The American Cancer Association doesn't list talc at all when talking about risk factors for ovarian cancer: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/ovarian-cancer/about/new-resea...

J&J is winning most of the cases in court, or having large verdicts overturned on appeal, but there are supposedly something like 38,000 cases out there and each one has an outside chance to end up being like the one they lost in Wisconsin state court which initially awarded over $4.69bn to 22 plaintiffs (reduced to $2.11bn on appeal).
I live in a safe seat but feel that if I lived elsewhere then I could get the same effect as AV by just voting tactically.
Tangentially Related:

The experimental artist Arca released an album[1] in 2020 which consisted of 100 AI-generated remixes of her song Riquiqui. It was part pretentious artsy experiment and part marketing stunt for some AI company, but an interesting concept nonetheless.

[1]:https://open.spotify.com/album/3bd81d2yQGiDRzckcQ42dr
Is the joke that they came up with 18 useless features without mentioning USB-C?
> Jeopardy. I'm glad the IRC gaming channels are popular, but the #jeopardy channel is usually so crowded the game becomes a typing race rather than a trivia game.

Oh man, I remember that! I was always pissed that the IRC server I had access to had bad connectivity, and I had bad connectivity to it. Even if I knew the answer right away it was impossible to be first.
Yup. I've used that with my normal "last name backwards" company name before. I tend to send Christmas and Birthday gifts to siblings with the company field filled in. "Kinetics," "Orbital Bombardment Division," "Relativistic Research," and assorted other things have made their way in, but "Heavy Industries" just has such a nice ring to it.
Someone should leak everyone's nudes from google photos/iCloud etc.

Including names and everything.

That would wake people up.
How does Parallels Windows 11 run Elden Ring or Red Dead Redemption 2 for example? To me that would be a better comparison.
If you think you will be able to tell by looking at a period of 6 months whether a contraction (that hasn't actually even started yet in terms of total employment) is just a regular recession or the apocalypse you prophesize, I have a brooklyn bridge to sell you.
Here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Oracle
Yes? Boys aren't restricted to superhero underoos and boxer shorts you know!
If I was Borg I would take offence
Shenanigans can go on for a lot longer than 9 years without anyone noticing.
Nice, thanks. I didn’t know x86 was that bad in this regard.
It's still the recommended way to use DOM objects from C/C++, right? interface-types/host-bindings was stopped so I don't see any other solution than anyref-ing your way to hell (or JS wrappers). Are we going to bring hat pointers back?
If socializing worked for your group you are by FAR the exception. I can tell you that my company tried everything over the years to get a solid socializing experience for remote workers.

It. Just. Didn't. Work. It's far too different and people just didn't want to go to remote socializing events. Sure, there were pockets of people that played online games together or other niche activities, but these are not inclusive.

Speaking of people from all over the world, at scale timezone differences also become a huge problem. No, not everyone wants to attend work meetings or social events either after local work hours or extremely early in the morning.
Tomato flu outbreak in India spreads to two more states
Why the focus on Remote Startups tho? There's quite a few of Remote big companies. Or at the very least flexible per team.
> by a factor of 4 or 5, or sometimes, depending on the in office worker, 10 times.

These are very specific numbers - how do you measure this?
> My recommendation is to shed Twitter as a user.

I never understood why tech people have such a strange enamor towards Twitter. Can’t be an industry power dev without it. Can’t start a company without it. Having a healthy Twitter following is often more important than having actual users—even to investors. Twitter is digital hype.

I agree. It’s time to replace Twitter. The only question is what exactly is it that anchors people to the platform? Even though it’s hard to imagine, we know that news motivates people (it happened with the WhatsApp -> Signal exodus). Where’s the “Signal for Twitter” we can all migrate to?

If the key is not just creating a social platform, but also a hype engine, maybe what a competitor needs to realize is that hype doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You have to do silly algorithmic things so that content can go viral. Maybe the secret is to be open about how you manufacture hype rather than do it behind closed doors? Maybe in a way that people can verify it was done fairly?
There's a missing pun opportunity for naming this, it eludes me right now
We have to keep current day expenses in mind as well. It's true that noone in the future would be dragging waste back from Antarctica, but noone now wants to drag it there either. Same with shipping it across a continent or ocean into a desert. And if we're talking 10k years into a post apocalyptic future, your deserts may no longer be a desert.
Exactly this in my opinion. There is a galaxy of op-eds, federal govt weigh-in, angry debates all largely hinging on this premise being true or not but not admitting to it.
My leaderships idea of improving remote work culture is playing bingo at the all-hands. That's not even sarcasm.

I don't feel like I particularly thrive in a remote environment, and you're right, I didn't really have to put thought into work social events(which I enjoyed), it was kind of an added perk. But I also recognize the benefits of it, and am certainly not complaining!
Speaking personally - if you have a fun product and a Discord, hiring is a breeze. Talent finds you.
> levels of need of social interaction

That's what your personal life is for.

Related: https://archive.ph/Ji4nM (WSJ - Americans Are Breaking Up With Their Work Friends)
Sure the article focuses on Mudge because the's blowing the whistle, but Mudge and Rinki Sethi (ex-CISO) were fired at the same time.

When you fire both your chief of security and your CISO months after you hire them, it's weird. Even if your chief of security had personal failings, why fire his boss? If the boss falls on her sword for direct, that certainly makes me think to take what their saying seriously.
So is Musk guilty of defrauding twitter by using aggressive acquisition tactics as a pretense to get access to internal nonpublic information to use against them?
Later....

I already have a downloaded version and I like very much what I see. Soon I'll have a hardcopy. Still not sure how I missed this given its prominent position amongst texts on the subject.

Anyway, glancing through the book pretty much at random I've seen many phrases that tickle my fancy and pique my interest. For instance, take the 2nd para on p151 wherein he's discussing Newton's Laws of Motion and force, it's pretty hard to stop reading a paragraph that begins "It is a curiously ironical development of history that,....". Further down the same page when discussing gravity he makes a very straightforward statement but with a twist:

"Thus, the laws of gravitation can be expressed as follows: Two bodies suffer a mutual acceleration, in the direction of the line adjoining them, which is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them."

Here, 'suffer' conjures up the notion of imposition - of gravity imposing an acceleration on bodies which otherwise wouldn't be the 'natural' order of things. Had he used words like 'experience' or 'influence' it wouldn't have been nearly as effective writing. From the little I've read so far I note the way he writes forces me to think laterally, in effect he's forcing me to perceive things from a different perspective.

In fact, I'm already half way through Chapter 8, An Attempt to Build a Physical Picture of the Quantum Nature of Matter, as it's a breeze to read it's so well written - it's not only informative but also entertaining which is a rare quality for a physics textbook.

Mind you, that's an easy chapter as there's not an integral sign to be seen anywhere. ...But I note they're not forgotten, they reappear in great abundance in Chapter 9! :-)

It's excellent stuff, thanks again for the info.
> “Hippocratic Oath” equivalent

Excellent idea! This would definitely apply for investors, entrepreneurs and software devs, like myself, if you consider those "respected" :). I took an "Ethics in Computing" course in college, and our reading contained a lot of Sherry Turkle. I don't even think doctors are required to take the Hippocratic oath, they have a lot of power over our lives as does law enforcement. And as technology becomes more-and-more of the fabric of reality (a disturbing trend, IMO), we as technical people have more responsibility for what happens.

Thanks for your insight.
> on the train

> 30 minute cycle

The vast majority of Americans don't have this option (unfortunately)
I've heard their interview process can take upwards of 80 hours.
I think that is OP's intent. Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Data X
> and actively encourage 'water cooler' talk.

I can't help but think the reason companies like Apple want employees to return to office is so that managers can "be more on top of them" (aka track their producitivty).

It's interesting to see that at some companies, water cooler talk is encouraged. I used to work for a small mom + pop business where the owner saw every second we weren't working 8 hours a day as a wasted opportunity productivity wise for his wage dollar he was paying us.

That's an extreme example but, where does the answer typically all? How much water cooler talk is encouraged, allowed, monitored, tracked? It's not hard to spend a few hours a day shooting the sh*t on Slack (or get together and go to a 1-2 hour lunch with everybody in office who can't really concentrate/is looking to do anything to pass time)... I don't know if management would like that?
> Telemetry is godsend for developers, since it lets them track down actual product usage and issues.

Extremely true. Data gleaned from actual usage instrumentation is radically higher quality than self-reported.

> Telemetry is a privacy nightmare for users, since it sends data to the developers outside of an average user's control - data which is probably easily associated with an individual and kept for eons

None of that is usually true. In the common case, users don't care (after all, MS has the telemetry to estimate how many users disable telemetry). And product improvement data is pseudonymized and usually worthless after a version iteration.

I think the folks that have an anxiety about product use data collection don't realize how worthless individual data points are. The data is pseudonymized out of necessity if for no other reason; it comes in as such a firehose that it has to be immediately analytically bucketed or it overwhelms storage at the volume these tools get used. However, the telemetry options get defaulted to "on" because volumes of data are invaluable for concrete analysis of how the product is used, counts on feature access frequency, understanding pain points in usage flow, etc.

I've done some work in this space (not for MS) and am happy to answer any questions people might have that aren't "Who did you work for?"
Why do you think there has to be some kind of tradeoff with regards to technology? Aren't there plenty of large and mid-sized companies with modern tech, more stability than a startup, higher pay and offices?
- Triest is mapped with several names (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/179180), ‘Trieste’ being the standard one.

- Naples is mapped with many names (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/40767), ‘Napoli’ being the standard one.

- Florence (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/42602) has ‘Firenze’ as standard name.

A renderer can choose which name to put as label on the map, usually it’s `name` or `name:locallanguage-abbreviated`.
Would you be able to leverage singer taps / targets?

https://www.singer.io
I am convinced that in office software teams produce more and better code overall than remote ones do. I am remote now and go to my office about a week every two months, and those weeks tend to be ones I can rally the team to get big initiatives done. I put in the same effort when I'm remote but it just doesn't work out the same. You can blame tooling, you can blame the company not being remote-first or remote-forward or whatever, but I honestly believe the reason there are so many champions for remote work is simply because people want to do it and it's easier or more comfortable for them.
The point of my previous comment is that I don't see many people swapping their car for an ebike. That would be the key metric to judge this scheme (alongside the actual cost to taxpayers...)

I am sure some people will use the scheme but probably because they were thinking of getting an ebike anyway and a replacing their car for a new one...

It's the usual and main issue with those schemes: they are political decisions and don't always make practical or economical sense.
Personally, I prefer having access to an office because it means I can separate work and home, I can use the commuting time to decompress e.g. walk and listen to an ebook/podcast, and I can use my office space at home to do other kinds of work.
This is the correct answer. Use GrapheneOS and synchronize your photos to your NAS. Nobody needs to use Google or Apple "cloud" for photos.
I don‘t know what happened, because I‘m 100% sure I posted the right URL.

https://blog.koehntopp.info/2022/08/23/mysql-gipk.html
Is the share Link I get from Twitters Webview.
If you just run Linux / *BSD on the hardware, what are the strings you are referring to?

Every time an article comes up reminding me of how great the M1/M2 laptops are, I think about maybe getting a used one in a few years to run Debian on, but the soldered on SSD worries me (especially since early Apple software issues burned through erase cycles).
He's using an x86 license key for ARM Windows.
Good.

Time to get the rest of the other Big Tech surveillance machines created by Apple Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp, Amazon.com Inc., and especially, Alphabet Inc.

To downvoters: So you want more worldwide surveillance from the Big Tech companies then? Do you trust them not to abuse or collect more of your sensitive data like your passwords, phone numbers, location, etc? That includes TikTok's US 'secure cloud provider', Oracle Inc.

Looks like there are lots of users here that are too scared to admit or confess helping the current tech dystopia that they are creating.

This lawsuit can only be a good thing in clamping down on the daily mass surveillance done by these companies.
This is so lame. Apple would never allow a 3.5mm jack even in a parody app.

(j/k, fun stuff as always by Neal)
China's tech juggernauts form metaverse research institute
I learned a lot about Mudge by reading "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World."

For anyone wanting to explore 90's security nostalgia, it's worth a read. For anyone wanting to learn where hacktivism comes from, it's worth a read. For anyone wanting to learn about how security consulting has evolved over the years, it's worth a read.

Mudge is a very cool and capable individual. I am slightly surprised that Twitter would ignore someone of his talent and respect, and choose to air their dirty laundry in this manner. It's as if they have no idea who they hired. That, or C-levels think they can outpay $$$ any PR against Twitter to control the narrative. Either way, if Mudge is whistleblowing, there's probably some bad shit going down.
Right, but the louder opinions like yours are, and these are the ones that surface most in the public debate and wrapped in some good-for-productivity ideas, the more fuel it adds to the fire of moving everyone back in office.
And running those databases were Sun machines. Sun's CEO, Scott McNealy's famous comment, "You have no privacy; get over it," is all the more ominous in light of this. The fact that corporations now have all the data on us just brings them into parity with the government.

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
But was he fired by any of those shit shows?
Unmasking the Resolution–Throughput Tradespace of Focused-Ion-Beam Machining
One of my pet peeves but apparently it's not a new thing.

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/is-ask-a-noun/
Its interesting how the numbers are differnt from Stackoverflow's blog survey of this year. Where Rust leads #1

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre...
This feels like me to a tee! I see so many people crapping on 'work social' life as if its some despicable activity that only those with no standards could partake in. The truth is that some of the nicest and best people I have met have been at work, and I thoroughly enjoyed going out and decompressing with them!

Good times.
Fundamental effect of superconductor physics observed 30 years after predicted
Hot take: Complacent engineers got us into the mess we're in now, with Eron Wolf
New book co-written by philosopher claims AI will 'never' rule the world
One thing I learned going from hybrid to physical, then moving back to remote in the last decade os that the type of people that interrupts you all the time don't learn how to solve similar problems, because asking is cheaper.

Having a history on your slack you can just search and remember the solution given.

For myself it's also easy to remind someone of the similar problem and adapt from the slack history, like similar commands and steps to solve an issue.

If more than one person asks about the same problem you can just copy and paste to a wiki and pin on the channel.

It's definitely better if everyone is on the Toyota model mentality instead of the ancient Ford model.

Then with the spare time I can actually do a lot with my remote teammates that is more social. Online games are a thing. Sharing photos of your last hike trail is another, discovering similar tastes and food recipes is also awesome.

I get that remote is not for everyone, specially people wired for social touching, but I felt extremely handcuffed in a open office space, doing my actual work by getting into the office 1 to 2 hours before everyone else.

I found that I'm more willing to socialize now because of better planning, decent schedules, and doing small talks after completing the hardest parts of the sprint, and respecting everyone's schedules by proper use of async comms.

Remote is not "anti collaborative". It only requires a different mindset.
Exactly the right term to use: Expected Value. If we have 1/6 chance of winning and each win gives us 6x, we have an EV of 0.

Poker is a great game to learn to understand EV/variance.
If you're using Chrome, you shouldn't be complaining about surveillance. That browser literally identifies everything you do on the internet with a single ID, fed directly to Google. At that point I don't think your IP geolocation is the largest infringement of your personal privacy.
When you hover over the languages in the bar chart, the descriptions are pretty wonky...

Python: 100; Description: C is used to write software where speed and flexibility is important, such as in embedded systems or high-performance computing.

C: 96.8; Description: An object-oriented language that creates code intended to be run on a virtual machine, allowing it to run on different platforms with little or no modification. Java is a popular choice for Web applications.

C++: 88.58; Description: An object-oriented, interpreted language that gains much of its power from a large constellation of libraries, including popular modules for machine learning and scientific computing.
I am working remotely for 15 years, but from time to time I go to the local office; when I go to lunch, I just socialize with anyone that I see there and I either have an informal affinity (calling them friends may be too much) or I want to discuss a light business matter that does not require a formal meeting, but can be discussed over lunch.

Also I have a coworker in my team that is in the same city, but the opposite part, around 2 hour drive from me to his place. If we want to have lunch, we waste a lot of time (1 hour per direction for each of us); if we are in the office in the same day, there is zero cost.

I found small chat over lunch or a coffee break to be very effective in building relations with people you don't directly work with. This helped me many times in the past when I had to talk to someone and it was not a cold approach, so they made time to talk to me and help.
It's equally un-credible to pretend the people who were making decisions 30 years ago are the same people making decisions today. Or to pretend that the type of thinking required to grow a restaurant into a juggernaut is the same type of thinking that maintains the juggernaut. Or that a corporation beholden to the desires of shareholders won't change behavior as the desires of those shareholders change.
How is a based 90s antenna a joke to you?

I would take it anytime over some weird USB-C!
I'm not sure why something handling herbicides makes it problematic for eating? Is it because it will then have more herbicides on it or because you feel the incentives behind GMO are off or is their some more immediate problem?
I see Kanban, I upvote !
Thanks for moving the challenge forward.
May I share with you one of our articles that talks about it, hope it helps :)
https://zenkit.com/en/blog/kanban-explained-what-youve-alway...
This is a big one that it took me a while to fully appreciate

I've found that even just turning my camera on in Zoom meetings makes a difference. Joining the standup call a little early, having "face to face" chitchat, builds up a small buffer of rapport that significantly improves empathy and perceived intent

Especially if you need to have a conversation where there might be some existing friction/tension/frustration, doing it over video instead of text or just audio will hugely increase the good-faith nature of the conversation

And of course, the occasional in-person hangout helps too, if you happen to be in the same city as your coworkers. What's important is that you each form an impression of the other as a human being, and not just as a faceless mechanism in the org that may be helping you or getting in your way at a given moment
I don't know Mudge and neither does 99.9% of the public. His timing here is suspect. If these problems existed for so long, why now?