skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Vancouver I used to spend anywhere rom 80 to 120 minutes commuting one way to downtown core from the suburbs. It was brutal. You then get to the office, have to make quick small chat, settle down, get coffee, go to the bathroom, and another hour has passed before you are reading emails. meetings and then its lunch time. come back and you settle down again, go to the bathroom, meeting. 4 hours remain to get work done but you can't leave at 5 because of traffic. so you stay behind.

Those times I save I directly deliver in value working remote. I can work more hours and I can be more efficient since I'm not tired. not to mention the ridiculous tax and rent costs due to property prices that do not reflect local wages adding to the stress.

yeah, NO THANK YOU. I get local recruiters hitting me up and not only is the salary here ridiculously low, they are either hybrid or require showing up at the office. Vancouver recruiters are a special breed: they won't list salary ranges, and get angry when you ask for it, require 2~3x the work experience for the same position elsewhere, and 40~50% haircut when we have the highest living cost in the region. There's a reason why most of its workforce in tech do not speak English at the office, they rather have new immigrants who can put up with this toxicity, and the management exploits them. Modern day colonialism.
This is also the only way I can make sense of twitter, skip the 'feed' or whatever it's called[0] and go right to my curated lists.

[0] as an aside, I only just made the connection that 'feed' is likely an abbreviation of 'newsfeed' but also brings a strong and stark connotation that I'm livestock to be fed
> The dev can't be a freelancer because a freelancer with a full time, fixed hours, single customer is illegal in many places.

In many countries where that's the case, it's fine if the company you're freelancing for is foreign (IANAL). Because as you say, there's no other simple way to do it. Though you can also use services like remote.com.
You may be interested in the discussion at <https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/4534>, especially the linked PR <https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/pull/4546>.
I thought services like remote.com would help solve those problems ..
Or, perhaps, the reverse...
Yeah, sure. We don't advertise it, but if you get in touch with us on support@apify.com or through the chat widget, we can create a proxy-only plan for you.
That's a practical explanation and I appreciate the honest response. What I find baffling is why, clearly writing zeroes and ones in a bank record is speech, and without some outside context linking the funds directly to violence, non-violent speech at that.
I’d also add the opportunity for provocateurs to cause problems: e.g. inducing vaccine hesitancy (back when the covid vaccines worked, but let’s not focus too much on that).

My feed is still filled with how all of our public service problems must be caused by the 1-2% that were put on unpaid leave for refusing to disclose their vaccination status. I’m sure the 1-2% could help, but the issues are much larger than that.
The EU method is to 'advise' dropping speed remotely. The NYC method is to physically slow the car.

I am all for making USA car driving safer, some of the worst driving I've seen anywhere, but how does the NYC method work in an emergency and the car really needs to accelerate?
> It used to cost like $3 1999 dollars to rent one VHS for 3 days, now it’s $14.99 for a month of watching as many of hundreds of movies / shows as you have time for.

The difference is, I picked the $3 movie to watch. The streaming services are limiting what I can watch for $15. If I want something really good, I have to pay for it, individually.

I have long theorized Amazon Prime releases shows that are free on Prime until they are rated enough to decide whether the show is any good. If it's good, it's no longer on Prime and you have to pay. If it's shitty, okay, we'll leave it on Prime. I quit using Amazon's Watch List because I spent a significant amount of time scrolling through shows to add them to my watch list, only to find later that they were no longer on Prime and I'd have to pay for them individually. Fuck that.
The current system is in place only because all of the US companies that benefit from cheap labor provided by the likes of Infosys have lobbied for it.
After 2.5 years of remote work, I feel like I'm living in a dystopia already.
Gelsinger Sees Intel’s Foundry as the Future of Chip Making
"Your remote team is my company's opportunity."

Purely anecdotal based on my own experience, but at my company we have some people who work in an office and lots more that work remotely. The in office staff contribute more ideas, work, fixes, and functional software than the remote teams by a factor of 4 or 5, or sometimes, depending on the in office worker, 10 times. Those are hard numbers right out of our project management system. It's simply easier to hash out hard problems in person that it is on a remote team, and the context is key. You have all the little asides, ah ha's! and comments collected up that provide a better picture than any remote team can get unless they have their headsets on the whole time.

Not that you couldn't have a good remote team - I just think the methods of communication available are not best suited to our monkey brains. We're social animal, and we work best socially.

What this has allowed us to do is beat out other development teams, both inside and outside the company. Hasn't gone unnoticed - we also get the most important projects and are paid the most. When it matters, the in-house people get the work.

YMMV, of course, this is just one place, but I think a lot of people who want to work at home aren't interested in their success as making their work life easier.
It must be disheartening to Twitter engineers to know that their competence may result in Parag Agrawal stabbing them in the back.
I think music, especially pop music, is in a completely different ball park than text or images. An AI can't just make a catchy song only with a training model and some rules. Successful musicians have a feel for what we will like and what will be trendy. An AI can't do that, at least not for a while to come. Well, thats just my thoughts, I'm not an expert on this.
> If someone isn't fluent in English how are they going to be fluent in code?

By being good at programming and not English? Writing code is more like solving mathematical problems rather than writing English essays...
This cuts both ways though. Working from home my "circle of communication" has gotten much smaller than it ever was before, because I don't run in to people.
I just swapped to LibreWolf so good thing I don't care about RSS feeds
> Of the largest 1,500 companies by market capitalization today, around 200 weren’t profitable during any of the last three years. But instead of punishing them, investors have rewarded them with a total market value of more than $2.3 trillion. Wall Street hasn’t been willing to attach such high market values to unprofitable companies since the late 1990s (and even then, the total market valuation of the unprofitable companies wasn’t even half of what it is now).

Please stop posting this. It only makes Marx's falling rate of profit[1] look correct.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_prof...
What a bombshell! Maybe Elon Musk's complaints about Twitter have more merit than anyone expected.

Anything Elon or crypto related is still being spammed heavily with giveaway/impersonation bots. Nothing has changed. The spam/bot problem is as bad now as it has ever been, and likely is worse than assumed, because it includes not just obvious spam accounts, but legit accounts that have been taken over by spammers or repurposed for spamming. So there is a % of accounts which are obvious bots and than another % accounts that exhibit bot-like behavior. Given how much time Elon spends on twitter and his first-hand experience with scammers using his name and spamming his comments, I think his assessment is probably more accurate compared to what twitter is claiming.
You have a point. There is no way to block access to resources given the nature of the product, but they could, at least, make more effort to create a better community/environment around the tooling (regarding data handling).

> extensions may separately send telemetry, that do not have to adhere to the main VSCode telemetry configuration settings.

From what I see things that should never happen and should yield a block from the marketplace.

Like you mention, in the end of the day that is not enforceable, but more transparent data privacy policy would show some good faith from their side.
Makes sense, but only if interpreted as 'mass of dried material (i.e. soil only, not the water in it)' then I guess?
Well in theory I'd agree with you, but in practice your assertion that people would vote the same party nationally and at the EU level is demonstrably false
I'm in the rare camp of those believing the employees will crave back the office at some point.

Maybe not in the crazy expensive cities with long commutes like LA and SF, but everywhere, yes.
The thinking is that VCs will stop funding startups period.

In the post dotcom bust startups were exceedingly rare, and what's happening right now is much larger than the dotcom burst.
Idk why but I can't help but think remote-first feels so dystopian. I joined and left a job that was 100% remote, and tbh I barely remember working there. I can barely remember names or anything I did. It was like Severance. Now I'm hybrid, and feel way more "connected" (whatever that means).
Hmm. s/pasilla/pueblo/ - a pasilla is a dried pueblo I believe, but I'm far from expert in these matters. TIL that you can make a chilli relleno with a pasilla. I think I'll try it.
If I want to talk about what happened on Johnny Carson last night I get in my DeLorean and rev it up to 88 mph. WTF have we become.
Have you made good friends amongst your colleagues in your remote company, during the remote-work era ?

All the trustworthy people i know from work were people i socialized with in person, at the office, around coffe-breaks, post-work drinks, etc. I don't see something similar happening over Zoom meetings and my guess is that 95% of people are like me in that regards.

Now, this may not be a big deal over the short-term but I believe that an actual company culture need actual tangible human bonds over the long-term.
Thanks for that. Been looking for something like this for a long time.
My point, which is not a joke, is any media funded by the government will soon find itself pushing only the point of view of those in power in the government.

This is inevitable.
A couple of centuries back, wasn't most of the world population subsistence farming in conditions broadly described as serfdom?
Vivaldi is very reminiscent of it. It's even by von Tetzchner.

(And I guess SeaMonkey still exists.)
I was thinking of blocking its endpoints, except I don't know what they are.

I wasn't aware I could configure firewall rules for specific applications. Any hints where I could start looking at that?
That stopped being true about ten years ago.

Now, you pay for the product, and you are still the product.
This response is nothing more than a smear towards Mudge, backed up with exactly nothing. Content free CEO-speak like this only makes Mudge's whistleblower statements more credible, not less.
Big win for working 100% remote, at least for me, is that it suddenly makes it possible for me to potentially work for any IT company in my entire country without having to switch cities or commuting. That's the deal for me. The moment a job description says 4 days remote, 1 day at the office... that already kills it (e.g., imaging living in Frankfurt and working for a Berlin-based company... or living in Seville and working for a Barcelona-based company)
San Francisco’s $20k designer trash can struggles to contain trash
you should definitely check out the merchant of record model. Funnily enough, I work in the payments space and this is a use case we see all the time - as businesses start scale and hit tax thresholds, they start implementing even more tools to handle this on top of their existing payment stack.

Instead, perhaps consider a billing platform that handles payments, subscriptions and sales tax all in one. With the merchant of record model, you remove the need to worry about sales tax altogether, the payment provider does so on your behalf (including liability if there is a miscalculation). Shoot me an email if you want any more info nick.read @paddle.com, happy to provide more info
Factory farming is also an engineering challenge, with legitimate business reasons - its way more economical. I think most of the time horrible things just make sense, in some other framing.

My point is - something being useful is a very low bar. It's not the point of the discussion here. Maybe some privacy zealots won't acknowledge this, but telemetry can be very useful, and at the same time a breach of privacy.

And regarding Microsoft, it's also about their attitude towards it. It's their way or the highway. It has always been like this - the software might be the way it is, but regarding their business dealings they are and always were ruthless. That's what made them great. So now what we see is a continuation of their previous attitude. And a slice of the current zeitgeist which is always-on internet with everyone slurping up user data.
A statement from a lawyer saying "this is older" isn't evidence. Until the lawyer shows an example of any form of whistleblowing predating Musk, this is still on them.
IMO: Whether they make money off of it or not doesn't matter. They're collecting and storing gobs of data that they don't need. It's arguably not their data (i.e. the branch and repo from my .git directory), so they shouldn't be collecting or storing it.
As a contrary point, I lived 5 minutes on foot from the office and still greatly preferred staying at home (even though I didn't expect that to be true before I switched to remote).

The ergonomics of an office workplace can't compare to the extent I can customize my at-home office and kitchen supplies to suite my exact needs.
Yeah, I didn't think of it as an overly obscure usage, but neither Merriam-Webster or Wikipedia list the definition. Dictionary.com does. Maybe its time to edit Wikipedia over lunch =)
We still have all day breakfast out in Seattle, just not the full menu. My go to is sausage patty, round egg, yellow cheese.
I can very much believe it. A CEO can, if they play their cards right, block the CTO from accomplishing what the CTO set out to do. Budget is not the problem. Approvals and alignment with board members are the problems. And if the CTO still decides to push forward, the CEO can still fire the CTO for underperformance which is exactly what you see in this story.
utter lack of any credible competition whatsoever

There is no low-level API to SQL servers to create competition, so this is like saying CSS has no competition in browsers whatsoever. Yes, it does not, because it was never allowed. Let's go make a browser competition as part of our weekend, or at least RDBMS, sure /s. ORMs with their "relations" etc are basically better DSLs over SQL databases which try to hide rough edges from an innocent user.

concisely, effectively, efficiently expressing ideas, it's unquestionably successful

Yeah, "group by case when cond1 then v1 when cond2 then v3 else v3 end" instead of "group by alias1". Because, you know, it's declarative, but not really: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3841804/3125367

Or fetching thousands of rows out of explosion of "select t.a, t.b, p.propname, p.propvalue from items t left join props p on t.id = p.item_id". Or inability to join two different subtables like 'props' and 'per_city_prices' simultaneously without exploding into infinity. Of course you can always make 3 queries and join at your place, which is neither effective nor efficient nor concise. A business wants simple [{a, b, props:[{name, value}, ...], per_city_prices:[{city, price}, ...], ...]. Can SQL do that? It can not.

Or getting corresponding non-aggregate values along with min/max results, which requires very funny self-joins if it's already e.g. a windowed aggregation.

SQL is cool for these relational... matrices(?), but sucks as a programming language in both syntactic and semantic parts. Some servers fixed few dumb parts of it, but not generally.
Could you tell whether any particular batch of corpspeak was generated by a GPT3? Or do you even need a GPT3? Could you tie a vocabulary list to a random number generator and just a little bit of logic, and create convincing corpspeak?

As the Cluetrain Manifesto said, this stuff sounds literally inhuman. And we crave genuine human interaction, and corpspeak isn't it.
I think youngsters are very nuanced, actually, but their political tactics are adapted to a full acknowledgement of an algorithm as a player in the political landscape game. Take the teenager who took being dunked on by a republican politician for being fat and used it to make herself viral in raising like 700k for abortion. That's not a kid who is caught up in a craze-- that's a kid who is fully aware of how social media functions and is using it to politically outmaneuver opponents. I think they look bizarre, but that's because the landscape they have to "win" in is bizarre. The incentives are twisted and the genz know it.
Right.

During my somewhat passive job search, I've only been considering companies that have an office local to me (i.e. Central London). I've been working remotely since the start of the pandemic, and I simply don't like it. Sure, I don't miss having to commute or offices with bad noise pollution controls, but I miss everything else.

Most of all, I miss being in town at the end of the day and being able to pop to the pub with colleagues if one of us needs to vent, or go to a salsa party nearby. I basically don't go out anymore; yes, this is a me thing, but it's also always been a me thing. I've always found it easier to have a social life on weeknights rather than weekends because I struggle to overcome the inertia of being at home.

This preference means some very exciting companies are effectively off-limits to me, and that's hugely frustrating; but I also know what I need.
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I would love to get a recommendation of a good glossy screen matte-er.
All of the big companies have armies of lawyers deeply familiar with these laws and regulations. They make their engineering teams implement processes to mitigate the issues with storage and processing.

Examples: replacing/removing external IDs, ensuring data can't be linked to users, aggregating data, not retaining data, only processing data within data centers (no data extracted to laptops), deleting old data, etc.

This is why it's slow and painful to work at big companies compared to startups. It doesn't mean that accidents don't happen, but it's pretty well thought out. The same applies to how they do qualitative research. It's got reasonably high standards which are fairly consistently applied. It's not perfect, but nothing is. There is a lot of job security and motivation for people to make it better.

Smaller companies have almost zero understanding of how to deal with this due to lack of resources and expertise. The only way they get compliant is by using good tools which force the user into a safer, more compliant posture.
The KPOP spam is regularly littered with bot accounts posting the same comments regularly.

If you have a platform as prominent as Twitter, making it onto the trending timeline can be very profitable for musicians. The same major industry artists regularly trend on Twitter because they command most of the profit, and then often use a percentage of that for paid and bot promotion. It's just my opinion, but Twitter facilitates and permits that bad behavior regularly because they profit off of the activity too.

There is not much more frustrating than being a creator or artist and competing with major industry forces that have unlimited funding and internal contacts within Twitter that ensure that trending is on rails daily. It's not only bots, it's the sponsored and sanctioned control of what trends that is a hallmark of the platform.
I’m a Christian and never have met such a “puritan” Christian. Where are these “puritans” that ban things in the name of Christianity? Have you met one or is this hearsay?

Also, in many of the comments in this thread, the word “puritan” is not used.

My comment remains, this comment existed to spread hate, nothing else.

Also what other vices? The word vice generally means bad things so you’re upset that this “group” is giving life guidance? Are you equally as intolerant of a doctor telling people not to drink?
How is that a lot of work? Is it a lot of work if you really are looking for a restaurant where you can dine in?
that's two acts of the UK government already. sorry if the data don't match your ideology.

but sure, you can try to brush off every fact-based argument against your idea with 'it hasn't been tried often enough!'
Years ago I standardized on a pretty flat folder hierarchy for such PDFs as well as a file naming convention such as the following examples: topic-author-YYYY-MM-DD.pdf or article-title-website-domain-YYY-MM-DD.pdf, etc. In about 2 or 3 times in my life, i have also drafted a small summary of the content of a PDF into a sibling README (text file) for ease of findability later on. This was because those few PDFs were a very old docs that were scanned in, etc. Also, the sibling README file would be named the exact same as the PDF, though have a file extension of .txt or .md or ...-README.txt, etc.

Nowadays, there are more tools available - as others have cited - which help with finding metadata. But i like to keep things simple, and because there's still way too many PDFs whose metadata starts with "Microsoft Word...", that i still stick to my file naming convention to help give hints about the contents.
> It's OK for there to not be a one-size fits all solution.

Funny, because before COVID, like 90% of the IT companies out there were using a "one-size fits all" solution (i.e., 100% office-based work).
I think it really depends on what kind of 'worker' you are. Some people can take a task, go off by themselves, and work independently for hours or days at a time to complete it with little or no interaction with others. These people are highly productive in a remote setting.

Others require constant interaction with others in order to accomplish much of anything. They need a barrage of ideas and help coming at them constantly and in every direction. While modern remote tools can help with this, an in-person office seems more ideal for this kind of worker.

In the late 90s, I worked for a startup making disk utilities (PartitionMagic). I got married and my wife was doing a residency program in another state. I was able to negotiate a remote work arrangement with my company, even though dial-up connections at the time made things hard to collaborate.

They gave me a new project to design and implement (Drive Image - a disk backup program). I would fly back to the office every couple of months and show them the latest version that I had completed. I did this for almost 2 years and was very, very productive. It helped that I was the only one on the team for most of that time (they didn't assign someone to help me until sales of the product reached several million $).