skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you tie the company's future with employees closely, with great incentives to accomplished milestones for effective contributions, it does not matter where they work from, they might work even more as a remote player.

Earning a stable and boring fixed salary, some will opt to do the minimum to get by, there is little downside of that at least for a few years. The leadership team needs to stay creative nowadays instead of saying "back to office or you're fired", how to do that? refer to paragraph 1 above.
>Think about it this way: is a digital image a symbol?

No, a particular digital image is not a symbol but output data from an image making event. It can be sybmolized however for easy reference to that particular output data.
I too would like to know.
Coupon is used in metalworking to mean a sample you can submit for destructive testing that is representative of the whole piece under test.

A weld coupon, for example, is a piece of test material of the same thickness and weld preparation as the main part being welded but is not integral to the part itself. That coupon is then sawed off and submitted for destructive tests like impact testing (to determine minimum operating temperature), tensile strength testing (specimen is pulled apart to find how strong and stretchy it is), and crystallographic etching (looking at the crystal structure of the metal to see if it has defects).
Then how do they know you are working? (more importantly, how will they know they can interrupt you?)
It's just the first four that are mangled (maybe from last year's list or something?). But after that it seems okay again
I love how excited the author is about this post. It sounds like some promising discoveries are in the works.

Of course I have no idea what any of this means. Maybe somebody could share a layman's explanation? What would be the benefit of "hold a free electron in the middle of that cube"?
The raw scan data is certainly not uploaded, however the resulting stiched together "map" is uploaded, because there is a cloud side service that turns it into a more traditional map for end users to see in the app. (And it does a mediocre job of this). The user can make certain limited edits to this map to specify keep away zones, room divisions, etc, which it translate backs to the internal mapping format, and sends down to the robots. Uploaded mapping data is also used to to show an after cleaning report in the app that shows what areas the robot managed to clean, and what areas it was not due to clutter, closed doors, etc. It also show spots where it detected larger amounts of dirt, and information about which areas are carpeted vs not.

The actual processing of camera data, pathfinding etc, is done locally. This is actually a necessity, as many houses have areas of terribly poor Wifi coverage, so they simply can't rely on the cloud for this.
Today, can an indie developer command much larger royalties than this? I would think/hope so? What kind of a cut do stores like Steam take? ~30%? Does that leave the other 70% for the indie developer?

I suppose the indie is still responsible for marketing and all kinds of other stuff.
I like remote work and have been doing so for more than ten years. I have found that the way people interact and socialize is different in-person than it is through remote tools:

- Chat workspaces like Slack requires very different etiquette
- Zoom and video meetings requries a different etiquette. You can't use body language to signal when you want to speak. On the other hand, the chat backchannel enables interactions you can't do with in-person meetings.
- Writing and speaking engages different areas of the brain. Someone who is good at speaking is not necessarily be as good as writing, and vice versa
- In-person work favors good speakers, and remote work favors good writers
- The intuitions for how much to communicate is different between in-person and on remote. If you are used to in-person work, remote work requires a communication style that will feel like overcommunication, but it is not.
- Socialization on remote, distributed teams are less spontaneous and requires more concious effort
- When there's an in-person gathering with some remote people, remote-people tend to get forgotten. Decisions and ideas favor the people in-person.
- When I joined my first distributed team (that's not as a solo contractor), the engineering manager made sure the team still got together periodically, because there are some things you can do in-person that is not so easy with remote. This can include going to conferences. It is far easier to get to know someone as a person (and not as their role) in-person than it is by remote
- Some line of work favors remote than in-person, and vice versa. Software engineering can favor remote ... but not as much for creatives (like game studios) or sales.

Perhaps one day, we'll see "How to Succeed at Remote Work Companies" in the self-help/career sections of the bookstore.

The company I work for now organically grew into a distributed company. It did not start out that way, and the fully remote guy who came in before me pioneered the practices, equipment, to make that happen. (E.g. company all hand meetings were remote Zoom even though most of the people worked in the same office). The engineering team embraced remote-first, starting with the remote, morning standup. Some of the sales team in the field would remote in from time to time. When the lockdown came, the sales team got hit the hardest. They made it work, pioneered things like social time, and ended up embracing it when they hired remote from all around the country. Remote became part of the company culture.
Its the worst of both worlds. The benefit of remote work is that it gives employees the flexibility to live where they want, and eliminates daily miseries like a commute, both of which the pandemic have proven to be massive priorities for employees. It opens up potential hires to anywhere in the country (or even world). It also allows you to focus on investing in software and practices aimed at maximizing remote effectiveness. You also can potentially greatly downsize or even eliminate a physical office.

In office work benefits are often said to include the socialization, and in particular "water-cooler talk" that is supposedly better for collaboration. When everyone is going to the office, the company can also invest into more extensive facitilites, including amenities that make being at the office more pleasant (a gym, catering, etc).

With hybrid, you are simultaneously eliminating the ability for employees to live somewhere where they don't need to commute to the office regularly. You also make it so that investing in remote-friendly tools, and office amenities, are both required and less beneficial than if you just picked one. And if "water-cooler talk" and in person collaboration really is that much more effective, then you are still reducing the capacity for that happening by 40+% or more by letting employees work from home 2 or more days a week.

I personally vastly prefer 100% remote, but I don't really see the point of hybrid if the company is going to insist on people coming back to the office. And in my case, it would literally be impossible since I (and many others who have been hired since the pandemic started) are hundreds of miles away from the office.
What is more rewarding?

1. Relocating to an obscure town in Texas to work intensely with ambitious engineers on hard space exploration technology.

2. Building a truly breakthrough software system (eg metaverse/gaming/crypto) with ambitious engineers in a fully distributed company?

I find it hard to see how a company doing (1) would lose against a competitor doing (1) in a distributed fashion. I also find it hard to see how a company doing (2) would lose against a competitor doing (2) in an onprem fashion.
John Oliver claimed that he did that 4 months ago -- buying sensitive data about members of Congress, but once he got his YouTube views, he dropped the topic. Controlled opposition.

https://google.com/search?q=john+oliver+privacy
Different methodologies. SO's most loved metric is % of people using the language who want ot keep using it. If you look at the most popular languages (as in used by most people) in SO's survey, the top 3 are JavaScript, HTML/CSS and Python.

As far as IEEE's methodology - it's not even described which makes the whole article kind of pointless.
That's fair, but you have to admit - the triple headphone jack, side-facing cameras, and dual power buttons (for 2x the power) were nice touches.
> Is it even possible to build new housing when the population density is already at 20k people per square kilometre, like in the cities mentioned?

Absolutely. The most expensive parts of Manhattan have tons of 3-4 story townhomes that would become 12+ stories practically overnight if the zoning allowed it. Not to mention all the single-family detached homes near subway, PATH, and LIRR stations nearby.

> There's a trend towards urbanization because people move to where the jobs are.

Look at how many people stayed in or moved into NYC after their jobs became fully remote in the last 2 years. It's a lot.
Also you can't get descriptions for languages at the bottom with no bar. Hover should have been triggered on label instead.
This doesn't match GitHub's top languages [1]:

1. JavaScript

2. Python

3. Java

4. TypeScript

5. C#

6. PHP

[1] https://octoverse.github.com/#geographical-distribution-of-a...
I know it was a rhetorical question about how to produce such tracks en masse, but Sonic Pi would be reasonably good at this if you ever did want to algorithmically generate a ton of tracks using the same stems.
it's returns already 2,816 documents.
no, that is not a honeypot!
My first question is does talent matter though?

Most startups aren’t pushing the boundaries of any technology. I’d argue most companies wouldn’t know what to do with real talent.
And to highlight, those are the national numbers (12% as of time of writing).

The current numbers for Saxony are at 28% [0].

[0] https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/landtage/sachsen.htm
Those damn Brazilians.
"Live your entire life as someone else" is not a solution.
Armadillo Run – a fun, realistic physics-based puzzle game (2006)
Armadillo Run is a physics-based puzzle game in which you build structures to lead the armadillo to the exit of each level.

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH4SS2oG_uc

I spent hundreds of hours playing this game. The physics were so fun to exploit, you could literally complete a level in a hundred different ways. I realised it hadn't been submitted on HN before, which is surprising considering how good it was.
Biocontrols have potential, but they have certainly not taken over. We will always use a combination of herbicides, genetic engineering, RNAi, and biocontrols. The key will be finding a balance between these technologies.
Exactly. You need to be either neutral or favorable towards the superpower. If you are not, and you seek national interests at the expense of Washington's interests (e.g. nationalizing resources, competing with the USD), you will get wrecked.
To save anyone else the trouble:

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The book’s core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence—sometimes called artificial general intelligence (AGI)—is for mathematical reasons impossible. It offers two specific reasons for this claim:

Human intelligence is a capability of a complex dynamic system—the human brain and central nervous system.

Systems of this sort cannot be modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside a computer.

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If only the people building the AIs were this stupid!
it's not a monopoly because there are alternatives, and it only has a 10% market share in the US (https://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats/all/united-sta...).

The bakery also sets precedent as it did go to the supreme court, and it was used as a rallying cry by politicians on the right.
It, like everything else outlined in that blog, is designed to make you look fun and quirky.
Distributed systems architect reporting in. No I don't need you to show off how brilliant you are by "brainstorming" on a whiteboard in front of me. Please just prototype your solution.
Why write this article without explaining what you measure and how? This is just astounding.

"X is the top language"

"What does top mean to you? How did you measure it?"

"Eh."

Worse than useless.
A shortage at a certain wage level probably indicates that the prevailing wage is too low. So targeted visa programs designed to provide more workers at the prevailing wage can suppress wage growth, which, over time, really is no different from a reduction in wages.

This is why a lot of people, like me, favor high levels of general immigration but don't support targeted visas like the H1B. I'm especially opposed to visas that are controlled by the employer and restrict the personal and economic freedom and mobility of immigrant workers in the US. If employers are lobbying for visas that allow someone to work in the US only on the condition that they remain in a specific role at a specific company at a specific salary, that should raise all kinds of red flags. You're allowed to be a software developer in the valley, but you'll be deported if you try to open a small business or enter a different profession or even change employers without new "sponsorship"? I find it remarkable that so many people don't see the egregious problem here.
I did not. You replied to another poster who made that claim, and I challenged your response.

Your communication style was abrasive enough to make me stop and respond to you.
Maybe in 1950 when only half of the population was working out of home. Now everybody goes to work and evenings and weekends are spent doing house chores.

[And no, I don't want to go back to 1950 at all, don't get me wrong.]
I heartfully agree. My experience with remote working for US companies has been: 1. been hired, 2. work for 3 or 4 months, 3. the company demands a local team in your site to continue working.

Yep. Outsourcing work to other countries might be cheaper but from what I have seen there is no the same level of involvement of all parties. Much of the time both contractor and company are expendables. And yes, if you are lucky, you get to form a team and let them work for 6 months tops before client's dissolution.

Perhaps in US market startups are an attractive thing but most senior (over 30+ years) talent will prefer a solid company at least here in Europe. YMMYV
There are real benefits to having personal relationships with your colleagues at work.

I started a job a few years ago and spent the first 4 weeks in the office in SF, then moved back to Australia. The relationships I established in that first month were invaluable for the first 6 months or so of my work there - lots of things were easier for me as a result because I knew who to message or connect on slack to get things done.

After about 6 months those relationships faded to the point that I couldn't rely on those social connections any more. It was difficult knowing who to message when I needed something done outside my team; and they had no idea who I was any more.

I don't think you need to be in the office every day, but I miss going to an office at all. Those casual social connections are crazy valuable. Zoom and slack don't give you the experience of sitting at a table with people over lunch and chatting. We dismiss those relationships at our peril.
Open sourcing the FLEDGE Key/Value service
Intel, Brookfield to invest up to $30 bln in Arizona chip factories
Thanks for the explanation. I suppose you could also have a DC water heater and get some efficiency from not turning the solar electricity into AC?
To many businesses, remote workers are faceless and fungible, regardless of where they are located.

There may be time zone, educational, language, regional/cultural, tax/ITAR/regulatory, or other differences between workers located in different countries, but ultimately these differences probably do not amount to much.

If that's the case, then these differences do not support a six figure salary differential based on location or nationality. The switch to remote work in the US places US workers into the same pool as the worldwide talent market. If the only interface between workers is text and occasional video chat, then a command of ESL English is pretty much the only barrier to entry for having workers communicate with one another.
I've got a MB Pro 14", can't really use it outside at normal max brightness (500 nits); there's a program called Lunar which let's you blast the full display up to the normally-HDR-content-only brightness levels (so probably somewhere around 1000 nits); easily usable outside if not in direct sun; even in direct sun still somewhat usable. (Drains battery pretty fast though.)

Still not as nice as e.g. an e-ink display would be.

I don't think the M2 Air has this option, so I would say: not very usable outside.
Scientists are very sensitive to funding a lot of which comes from the state. So to me ‘trust the scientists’ is one step away from ‘trust the state’.
Have you considered that we live in the 21st century and if you can't handle modern social conventions, you're going to be left behind in an increasingly shrinking group just like everyone in previous generations who failed to adapt?
> We can find a way

Are you a commercial farmer? What crops, what volume?
What are the potential applications? I read the article, it was pretty interesting but I only saw things that would be odd to an expert (which I am not). Sure it’s a cool shape, but what does it do?
Understandable. There are a number of organizational or technical reasons why a system would use Cobol in 2022, and each of them would be a good reason to dread being assigned to it
I used to have a phone which allowed me to plug an external antenna into the USB port.

I sorely miss that.
It's comparing apples to turntables.

IEEE is a mixed weight of Jobs+Trending.

What you linked to is SO's "most loved" where the question asked is: "Which programming, scripting, and markup languages have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year? (If you both worked with the language and want to continue to do so, please check both boxes in that row.)"

As of now, Rust is beloved, but there are few jobs (outside of crypto grifting), especially relative to the hype and relative to other languages, and most projects are 1-person projects or a handful at most.

EDIT: here's a better graph to compare: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technolog...
Lessons learned while bootstrapping new $things
> While the number of encounters was the highest on record last fiscal year, the number of individuals encountered was considerably lower. That’s because more than a quarter of all migrant encounters at U.S. borders in both fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2020 (27% and 26%, respectively) involved repeat crossers, according to CBP statistics. By comparison, the proportion of repeat border crossers was much lower in the 2019 fiscal year (7%), before the Border Patrol began regularly expelling migrants during the coronavirus outbreak.

This evidence runs exactly contrary to both the "open border" and "unprecedented numbers" theory and indicates a change in policy that directly explains the new numbers.
The only reasonable study linking glyphosate to bee harm was designed to mimic large-scale farming application. They used huge concentrations and only found disorientation of bees, but not a reduction in bee population.

Glyphosate is not a neonicotinoid, which is class of chemicals you are probably referring to.
Please, take these lists with a truck load of salt.

Use the best tool for the job at hand. Master your tools. Don’t worry so much about ‘trends’.

That is all.
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I worked at an all-remote company. I've never suffered such poor productivity in my career. This was a company dedicated to remote work, so the processes were streamlined for it, but I found that I spent a lot of time spinning my wheels.

Onboarding was especially hard, and trying to get the attention of my coworkers was where I spent most of my idle time. Something that would have taken 3 minutes onsite now meant first scheduling a meeting and waiting until I had their dedicated time.

Things like slack didn't work for more complex issues. I remember being in a technical disagreement/conversation/argument for about 1.5 hrs on slack, and I drew a picture and uploaded it and everything got resolved almost instantly. We didn't go to a meeting because it started as a simple slack conversation and it snowballed into a bigger disagreement so we never thought "okay let's have a meeting". Once it was resolved we went about our way but having slack as the primary way of communicating is exhausting and very slow.

I quit and joined a brick-and-mortar company and am happy again.
> “If I haven’t responded to something that you’ve sent me, that’s probably because I’ve read it and don’t feel particularly strongly - so just make a call on what to do if you don’t hear back in a reasonable time frame.”

Surely there's a more effective protocol that works for an exec?

Even make a macro button for the exec that responds "dfps", so that:

1. sender is immediately unblocked and empowered when they get the "dfps", and

2. avoid accidents in which the exec would need to say something but didn't get the message, but sender assumed an "implicit dfps".
Twitter is under a consent agreement with the FTC about its security practices. Part of the allegations here is that they've been lying to those regulators.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2011/03/...
Big mushroom fan. But isn’t all the sodium and crap they add to it to make it taste like bacon, mostly what makes bacon unhealthy to begin with? The saturated fat aspect is debatable or at least not completely settled.

I don’t eat bacon much anyway so I definitely wouldn’t eat this on a consistent basis due to all the sodium but I’d try it for the novelty.
Bacteriophages attack only one specific bacteria. Even in the unlikely case that it attacked our gut bacteria, it would be only one species, which would be a tiny minority of you guys bacteria.
The article headline's assertion is true for software, but it won't necessarily be true for hardware.

In the hardware world, access to excellent equipment (and colleagues) can be a huge draw for top talent.

If you work on optical clocks, odds are good that JILA/NIST and the Boulder ecosystem will be at or near the top of your list for places to work. You just can't do that kind of work without the right resources.
> There are no pitchforks. There is no angry mob. To the degree there is consensus overseas, they arise from nationalist impulses with respect to security (India) or competitiveness (Europe).

If only the "anti-vax" mob could have been motivated towards upholding Internet privacy... We'd perhaps have a far more relevant and meaningful protest in the U.S.
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become
He just got fired in January. Preparing a 200-page legal document with references and accounts takes time. It had been submitted some time ago, it's only now that CNN got a hold of a copy.
I'm not sure why any sizeable portion of the public would know _any_ reputable cyber security experts. Twitter's CEO said the firing was due to "the impact on top priority work", and whistleblowing 6 months later isn't a surprising timeline when you need to have long talks with an attorney and get your own work-life situated.
That's horrific. The crazy thing is I think you might be serious and not trolling. It's like something out of a Dilbert comic.

Typing is good, anyplace you can get the computer to check more of your work - the better. There are practical limits and trade-offs as always, but some typing is better than none.

Microservices are usually a terrible idea. I know they're popular, but I've only had bad experiences with them. I strongly recommend against microservices in most situations.