skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remote vs. in office has no difference in productivity from what I've seen. Most of in office communication is still over slack/chat. When collaboration is needed usually a tv screen is needed to screen share since two people sitting at one laptop is uncomfortable, and video chat screen share is better for that anyways. On top of that you don't have to wait for a meeting room that may be booked at the moment you want to collaborate.

Another big thing is the psychological effect of being a chair warmer. Sitting in an office environment, and being "seen" gives the impressing of working. Imagine seeing someone in their chair before and after you leave each day. It gives the impression that they are "working hard". With remote only there is no chair warming, you have to show results.
Yes. That is what the article is telling you.
I have a friend who's physically in the UK and works for a US company. I was interviewing for a remote job in the UK while being physically in France.

In both situations, the setup is a local company (possibly self-owned) that bills the actual company. So you're not UsCorp's employee, you're an YourOwnCorp employee, and UsCorp is YourOwnCorp's client.

This way, all taxes and related issues are handled locally. Sure, there's overhead, but from what I've seen it's worth it.
I’ve noticed a big decline in performance recently on my 2020 MacBook Air (pre-M1) — a lot more fan activity and some apps completely freezing (iMessages and Slack in particular, but also StarCraft a few times).

I’ve been wondering if Apple’s latest software updates are optimized for the new machines at the expense of the old ones?

Not sure how Apple could optimize for both architectures simultaneously, and if they faced a tradeoff, I’m pretty sure what they’d do…
> The Big Apple's experiment "leaves the EU in the dust" because it uses "active" ISA [intelligent speed assistance], which forcibly slows vehicles, versus "passive" ISA, which tells drivers to hit the brakes, per TNW, a tech website owned by the Financial Times.

Holy shit!

Definitely of many minds myself. Overall the goal is very good, and it is so frustrating seeing people going way too fast. Particularly in neighborhoods, which like a challenging place to add ISA everywhere.

On the other hand here in DC there's a number of corridors where driving the speed limit would be basically unsafe, way lower than the flow of traffic. And in general I just don't like seeing ever expanding computerized control over the world.

> In July, the European Union mandated its use in new models of vehicles; in 2024, it'll be compulsory in all new cars sold there.
Culture, language, timezones, etc. will still be a factor.

What I think you can probably safely say is that, within the US say, you'll probably have some degree of normalization of salaries over time. You'll probably still have outliers with the biggest/best-paying tech companies, some areas of finance, particularly well-funded startups, etc. But, as was already the case before, a lot of companies simply won't even try to match the top-tier salary bands. And mostly they'll be fine because hiring practices are simply random enough that no one really skims the cream with their processes.
IME: This aspect of things has not proven to be a problem in practice; Slack and videoconferencing works well, FWIW. Managers are mainly complaining about forward planning not working as well as pre-pandemic, but they’re unwilling to actually change to fix that problem, which is how you get rigid hybrid plans and not flexibility.
> We absolutely add, remove, and change things about the UI

Please consider stopping with that UI changing thing :)
Which is exactly what I'd expect from a privacy fork.
You may not be but the company might be.
It's also easy to lose your livelihood or even life if you fail to eject something from your company's possession after you have reason to believe it contains certain materials of abuse. Federal and state prosecutor opinions differ, so clearance from local or state LEO (as done here) basically means dick. If you're wrong, then you get thrown in prison where you hear stories of "chomos" getting raped and shanked. If google is right, maybe they get a little bit of advertisement money. Imagine if this father did something later and the prosecutor uses this happening as evidence that this content was 'knowingly' harbored by the company. Seems like a bad calculus to me, just cut the guy loose whether he is innocent or not. You don't have the same rights to private service as you do rights in public.
Hmm, the smallest model I see is still 4.3MB, are there smaller?

My quick read of the stats offered says that the smaller model's accuracy suffers considerably. I could definitely see running similar tests on it though!

All that said, the matching tensorflow offers from my understanding is also not exactly what I'm after. I'm primarily concerned with matching identical-to-humans images, possibly with small modifications such as size changes. Think more "are these two images identical" vs "give me pictures of dogs"
Literally all of societal progress is built on the back of "that thing we used to spend a bunch of time/money on, well we made it cheap and can now redirect that productivity and resources elsewhere" for every conceivable value of "thing", food, clothes, written communication, transportation, energy, consumer junk.

What you are arguing for is a non-starter. Society will not accept higher costs for any duration of time. Some route around the problem that is driving up prices will be found.
To be honest, Twitter didn't manage expectations. If I register on such a platform, I expect my mail/pwd combination to stay reasonably safe. Reasonably, because there is never a guarantee.

The rest of these expectations are entirely on the users. If people take security as seriously as they proclaim, they should not have registered. To now demand meticulous access controls sounds a bit neglectful to me...
Twitter locks accounts for verification and then turns around and sells the phone number used to verify the account to advertisers. This kind of behavior can only happen in thoroughly rotten companies.
What do you mean "those who can"? Everyone works there because they want to, no other reasons. If you work at Twitter and don't want to anymore, it's trivial to leave, and you won't struggle to find a new position elsewhere. It's not like Facebook where your work history is already a bit tarnished by not having left it already.
How can you possibly tell without knowing what exact data is being collected, how it is being used, for how long it will be kept, and where it will end up?
And Slashem, because of new roles/races/tecniques/maps/objects.
> Hybrid models will always struggle and 1/3/1 is going to be probably the best you can do.

I think you should elaborate on why the hybrid model is a struggle, I personally don't see it as one.
I place them in a folder `Books`
This is not a nuanced argument or compex issue. Include an OFF switch. It's that simple.

Personally I refuse to work with or consult for companies that don't get this. It's a matter of professional pride. If I wouldn't use it myself, I'm not going to foist it on my users.
>You’re ascribing the worst possible motives to someone based on your hatred of Elon Musk.

I'm not going to claim some big conspiracy here, but I do find this beyond coincidence.

I don't think that this is coming out now because Mudge is acting on behalf of Elon. I think Elon's Twitter bid (and ensuing drama and upcoming lawsuit) and this revelation are part of the same agenda. For better or worse, it looks like influential powers that be are going to take down/over Twitter.
A library written in SQL is called... a view. If you are repeating yourself in SQL to the extent you're reaching for a library, you might be doing it wrong. Take advantage of your DB's facilities instead of fighting it.

Or alternatively, if it's for things that really are mutating state and involving biz logic... a stored procedure.

Date & Darwin proposed the addition of "operators" to the relational algebra in their "Tutorial D" description of alternatives to SQL. That is, instead of "stored procedure", the addition of a type system matching on relations ("tables") and their tuples ("rows") and then the ability to create user-defined programmatic "operators" (a bit like OO methods) for those types.
True, I think the rhetoric and The article are focused on killing the negative concepts around remote. To the extreme in pointing out that most of the common tropes are not accurate. The problem is I don’t think anti-remote people understand that in some cases there whole team may want to be remote 100% of the time, and that it’s not right to be in the mindset that those team members should be forced to come into an office to satisfying there need for socialization, in fact unfortunately in that situation maybe they need to change fields or companies.
Ask HN: Do you still use Docker?
Specifically talking about the Docker Inc. released Docker. Seems like since they were sold all of their thunder is gone, and they left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths with the moby split. I rarely see big Docker news on HN anymore when it used to be the biggest threads. I'm wondering how many people still use it, or have moved on to using pieces of the Moby and OCI projects standalone, Red Hat's podman, or something else entirely. If you still use Docker I also would like to hear what you think of it in 2022, whether you use Docker Desktop, etc.
Excellent point, and the difference here is really interesting! Residential refrigerators use a mixture of 90% ammonia and 10% water. This is not very dangerous at all, but it also isn't nearly as energy efficient as pure ammonia because it has different thermodynamic properties.

Pure ammonia is dangerous because it has an extreme affinity for water and it will dissolve into any water it comes into with. If you breath in ammonia gas, it will dissolve in the mucus of your lungs and draw in more water from the surrounding tissue, flooding your lungs and killing you. If the ammonia is already mixed with a little bit of water, this isn't an issue (hence why you can have ammonia cleaning products in your home).

All that said, I was wrong about E-S chillers. I did some more reading and both E-S and absorption chillers use hydrous ammonia.
It also created the "Hackintosh" problem where people could take normal Intel PC hardware and put OSX on it, although Apple didn't try to do much against that except to sue a couple of companies providing dongles that supposedly made making Hackintoshes even easier than it was.
Maybe there are dependencies on closed source libraries or API's which report telemetry? I'm no expert on this though.
I'm looking to leave my employer at the conclusion of this project (April/May 2023). Full remote ranks first, 4:1 hybrid next, full onsite not even considered.

I imagine this is common across the industry.
> McDonald's is too short-term in its thinking

It's not credible that a corporation that grows from one restaurant into world dominance is guilty of "short-term" thinking.
wont just blocking from host file would be sufficient? add certain domains and ip addresses to the list
I don't get this. If you have a coworker that enjoy having lunch with you... what's stopping you both doing so? I mean, even if you both work from home, you could still schedule a lunch together in the city, right? If you both live in different cities, well, I guess before COVID you weren't having lunch together that frequently.

100% remote doesn't dictate how (or with who) you eat lunch.
Their disclosures are similar to this: we check for bots, use a process, the process could be wrong.
Cold Email = Email Marketing
And in typical Google fashion, you get flatlined and there will be no recourse.

> “You have to talk to Google,” Mr. Hillard said

One of the most impossible feats in the modern world.
> What's the alternative?

Expose the setting to extensions (if it isn't already), and set a policy in their extension catalog that extension telemetry must honor the global setting. It isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing.
A couple of decades maybe.
I'm not sure it's a question of having top talent. What I see happening is that any given organization has a minimum acceptable level of skill and experience for developers in order to be acceptable for hire. There's no concept of "well we'll hire this kind of crappy person for the open job because that's all we can get". What remote work has done is to make the pool of available candidates that exceed the competence bar massively bigger. I have seen this play out in a medium sized SV tech start up -- they were able to staff up during the pandemic at a much higher rate because nobody cared where the candidates were located. This seems like a Rubicon that can't be un-crossed -- once you have a ton of people in Seattle and San Diego and on the east coast, and people who decided to move back to their home town in Kentucky, there's no going back to on-site folks who rode the bus in from Gilroy.
https://recurforever.com/
Thanks! And people that don't have pulseaudio can replace `paplay` with `pw-cat -p` from pipewire.
How are preferential equity schemes handled? i.e in the UK, best case tax rate on equity is 10%. But if you're not on government-approved scheme, you'll get taxed at around 55% in the event of a meaningful exit.

When I've raised this previously, the point has been dismissed as "45% of lots is still lots", but if you're doing an expected returns calculation and considering other jobs (like a large well-paying org with RSUs) it becomes quite meaningful.
I agree. I think the problem is companies that try to do a hybrid model, and end up using tools and workflows optimized for on-site work, which makes the remote experience very subpar and clunky.

In a remote-first company, everything (tools, workflows, etc.) will be organized around that remoteness, which yields much better results (and doesn't make remote workers feel like second-class citizens).
I agree with this. If a rental doesnt have white walls wood floors or dull tiles I wont rent it. White walls makes a place feel spacious and I want my white furniture to match.
Also it supports creating blogs from your notes

https://listed.to/

And you can self host it too

https://github.com/standardnotes/app
Why non-remote employees are commuting (in anger), remote employees are spending time with their family, exercising, working on their hobbies.

Which of those two employee types do you think will have have better work output? I'm have a pretty good idea, but am not totally sure.
> There is no way to turn this off.

What if you added domains to host list
Well, physical distance might be a factor: they're 500 miles away. Previous company, everyone I worked with was 1000+ miles.
How do you deal with health insurance, pension, unemployment benefits, &c. ?

Sounds like a massive headache
My wife asked me why I was carrying a gun in the kitchen

I said, "Decepticons"

I laughed

My wife laughed

The toaster laughed

I shot the toaster
It's good PR for Microsoft.
Not only that, it seemed like a reason he wanted to buy Twitter.
I assume you don’t keep in touch with people through social media or texting then? Or would you not consider those remote people actual friends since you can’t collaborate with them in physical locations regularly?
host files?
You set up a camera to cover your front garden and if you happen to cover a portion of the street leading up to your property you are breaking the law. That's genuinely absurd. Keep in mind these apply to residential systems also.

The rest of your quote is just as ridiculous.

> There are no logs of video surveillance processing operations.

It's a private system, why should there be.

> There is no deletion of the personal image data recorded by the video surveillance within 72 hours

Genuinely insane
I'm not seeing anything about a core dev sitting on a special fork in that article, and I was under the impression that it's _other_ companies which specialize in porting to consoles that have their own maintained version of Godot, namely Lone Wolf Technology and Pineapple Works.

W4's monetization plan would make them having their own well-maintained "special" fork a viable option in the first place, as Unity and Unreal already do.
The car color one can be explained; people used to order cars much more often than they do now, so you'd order exactly what you want including wacky colors. Now you're probably just going to buy what they have, which means they have to have non-offensive colors.

Whether this is what happened to everything else is hard to say, but that's at least the short answer for vehicles
In addition to the chemical ones others discussed, there is informational "garbage collection" as well. There are a bunch of motor tasks that only show certain types improvement after sleep - not time, sleep. There are also rodent studies where you can do a learning task and then "clear" part of their hippocampus using optogenetics. If you clear it before sleep, they forget what they "learned" if you clear it after sleep they still remember it. Again, multiple clever conditions to control for time and separate it from sleep.
Usually these sorts of systems have very detailed logs and those logs are kept for a long time for things like lawsuits. In the hypothetical scenario you're describing the other party would subpoena Twitter and they would corroborate whether or not someone logged as that user or not.
I don't believe it. There is always a catch. Can you share any job descriptions if possible ?

EDIT: There you go. I found one job description that says "Remote anywhere in US". It doesn't say anywhere in the world:

https://boards.greenhouse.io/recur/jobs/4171929004

I also found examples of hiring remote but specifically in Asia Pacific. Are you saying those people are getting paid SF level salary ?

https://boards.greenhouse.io/recur/jobs/4625482004
What happens when an employee is fired or quits ? Does he qualifies for unemployment benefits ? And who pays for it ?
I was part of a startup that was pure remote circa 2013 based on popular OSS projects.

I was quite spoiled to experience what would become the norm after a pandemic.

I wrote a blog on my experiences of being "remote first". Funny enough, it includes this author's tweet that went a bit viral.

https://jondouglas.dev/remote-first/
I have no love for Google, but Takeout is very easy. Check a checkbox, receive a tar/zip file and you have your originals. Not really a laborious process, unless they changes it last week or so.
> 2. Is it evil?

You're making the mistake of anthropomorphizing the lawn mower. It's not evil, it just is.
People don't do that unless they are paid somehow. It's organized activity if you search properly under each time it trends... One or a few accounts will post a keyword or phrase, and then all the subsequent accounts will constantly post with the words spelled exactly the same. Twitter suppresses coordinated activity from many other accounts, and it's against their rules, but somehow they allow it to go on regularly for certain topics like KPOP and BTS, and it results in a lot of streams and album sales only for whoever is trending.

This is also likely why Twitter makes it very hard to scroll to tweets at the beginning of when a trend started, and why timestamps are not really shown for the beginning of a trend to the public.
Gitlab mistakenly enforces new free tier size limits one month too early
I feel like this will continue to evolve until we get something akin to virtual countries, where I pay fees/taxes into some virtual substrate that manages my access to services regardless of where I am.
Here it is transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), isn't?
This kind of stuff is one reason why it should be illegal for platforms to censor at will, it should be possible to sue them for censoring stuff they shouldn't be censoring just as it is for not censoring stuff they should be censoring. No matter how much they like to say they are fReEEeE pRiVAte eNTErpRiSes, they provide de-facto public spaces(public as in accessible to the broad public, not as in government-run) and should be treated as such. They shouldn't have the power to be legislative and judiciary of public communication.
My personal theory is colour is stimulating and we are getting a lot of that stimulation by looking at screens all day. Living in a dull space counter acts that.
Wait really? I can't download my original file? Is there official docs on this, I couldn't find it on google. Instead I had to find it on here:

https://www.theverge.com/22440156/google-photos-download-sav...

> Now you get to choose from a variety of different options: Whether you want your data to be emailed to you as an attachment or sent to Drive, OneNote, Dropbox, or Box;

So does this mean I'll need DOUBLE the storage space in my google cloud just to download my photos in original quality?

What kind of horrible dark pattern is this... We need to raise hell on this issue, it's so ridiculous.
That happened with Spain and Telefonica, the state phone/telco company.

Then they opened the teleco sector, prices went down, but then lots of small telecos and ISP's were eaten by the biggest fish, and the prices went a bit higher again (not as high, OFC, until we got a flat rate conn in Spain it was around ~1999).

We still don't have a free local call contract for example. SMS' are still paid, but everyone switched into Whatsapp around 10 years ago with smartphones and you get free calls to anywhere in Spain with an $20 internet connection, but not like the US where you have free local calls without doing anything.

Today there should be some connection for 10 EUR (~$10?) with a slower bandwidth, not everyone nets a fiber conn.
And OFC I would declare 56K internet free, forever, with just a land line. Basic for IRC, Jabber, WA, small web pages, goverment pages such as the ones for applying for dates at the healthcare service, (hello Spanish ministries, you should copy the UK one, it runs on any browser) and so on.
With the GetFileName plugin if you like to preserve the original filename.
No, it means a bread bin. A kitchen countertop box that you keep bread in.

Example:
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/magasin-bread-bin-66914300/
This is the crucial question.

Colocated employees clearly cost more in the form of office space. They can also command higher salaries than similarly-skilled remote workers because they constitute a significantly smaller labor pool.

Despite the counter-arguments in the article I do find it plausible colocated employees (ed: or maybe organizations) may be, on average, more productive.

But because there are so many confounding variables I think it'll take many years of evidence before we can empirically answer the question of whether the increase in productivity generally exceeds the costs of being in-person.

(For the record my guess is that it will be dependent on the industry and role. I think winner-take-all markets and roles like R&D and startup founders may be worth the added in-person tax, and everyone else will eventually be remote.)
I read some good commentary on this that I agree with.

From a purely legal perspective, this really shouldn't matter much. As has been pointed out many times, Musk explicitly waived due diligence when he signed the contract. Also, it's still laughable to think that Musk's real reason for wanting to get out of the deal is the bot problem (instead of the obvious reason of the market tanking), when Musk himself made the argument that a big benefit of him buying Twitter is that he would be able to clean up the bot problem in the first place.

From the court-of-public-opinion, though, I think it does give Musk more leverage for a negotiated settlement to get out of the deal, which is really what he wants. I don't think Musk really thinks he can win in Delaware, but the longer he drags things out and the more pain he causes Twitter the more incentive they have to negotiate cancelling the deal.