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> If what makes you happy is a condition in which someone else is unhappy, that person is unlikely to react well.

I really hate zoom meetings. Unfortunately if everyone just does whatever they want, then even the in-person meetings get dragged onto zoom because there’s at least a few people who are remote and need to dial in. Early on as we returned to office we even wound up taking a lot of meetings in the office over zoom from our individual desks because there was so little point getting into a room together with so many others online.

“Everyone do whatever you want” as a WFH/WFO policy is kinda like “everyone do whatever you want” as a “no peeing in the swimming pool” policy.

> Generally, the stance of the WFH crowd is that each individual should get a choice of what makes that individual happy.

It’s pointless weighing my hate of zoom against your hate of commuting or general WFO, but it’s definitely not the case that WFH crowd just wants everyone to be happy while the WFO crowd wants to strong-arm everyone. On the contrary, as my preference is for hybrid flexibility it often seems like the most vocal WFH proponents would like to strong-arm every business to be full-WFH.

I kinda like my company the way it is—and that won’t work for everyone, but maybe it doesn’t have to, right? The full WFH folks can look for companies that do that; the WFO folks can look for that; and the hybrid folks can look for that. And everyone is free to compromise based on the other aspects of the job.
No, what's super shady is people who are so entrenced in something that they defend and get aggressive when people talk negative about it.

I have been using Firefox for over 10 years now, and if they do something stupid I'll be on here complaining with everyone else. If they crossed the line I would definitely look for another browser.

The problem with Brave users seems to be that Brave can do no wrong. Bundling crypto in a browser seems absolutely insane to me. Remember all the shit Firefox got for bundling Pocket? Difference is, Pocket actually makes a little bit of sense in the context of a browser.

At the end of the day, it's thin veneer over Chromium and IMO they won't be able to block manifest v3 forever. Firefox can.
It was, first with P3P and then with DNT, and adtech undermined these every time. Back when P3P has been supported in IE, Google used a deliberately bogus P3P header to bypass it. Google has also been fined for abusing a loophole in Safari's 3rd party cookie protection to bypass it. Google will not take your browser's "No" for an answer.

AdTech just doesn't want cookie consent to be easy, because they know it would kill their tracking business. The popups are intentionally cumbersome and annoying to make people associate privacy with annoyance, so that people will be tired of them, and give up on demanding privacy.
I submitted a request[1] to DDG to add a !swurl bang! Hopefully it goes through.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
I would agree mostly, but this comment a little on the extreme side IMO. You sound miserable.

I can relate as this is exactly how I felt the first 6 months of the first child we had - they are between 4 and 7 now. I was and still am a pretty selfish person with lots of hobbies, but most of them had to go to the backburner for the time being. Once I was able to get over myself things started going a lot smoother.

Of course there are times I wish I could be mountain biking, fishing, etc., instead of one of the many tasks that involve children, but I find myself looking forward to spending time with them these days. They are getting to the age where I'm starting to take them with me to enjoy the things I love as well. I imagine this will get higher in frequency as they get older.

From one selfish person to another, hang in there.
Government jobs don't have NDAs to interview (at least - not any I've ever seen (including up to TS/SCI (though, there you already have clearances, so that's a bit different)))

I've interviewed for a few different types of gov't jobs ... none have ever had NDAs
https://teachable.com/ might be useful to you
It's much more likely that putting "unreasonable" constraints on a work-from-home parent with small child would fall afoul of labour laws than someone working multiple jobs.

Also, Zoom has gotten surprisingly good - the "high" setting on background noise for "barking dogs" actually works frighteningly well - people on calls have apologized for their exploding dogs because the UPS guy assaulted the doorbell and we've heard absolutely nothing.
It's impressive, I tried in French (my native tongue) and it seems "it" understand I was mocking it, then I tried in English on a serious topic and 'it" didn't understand what I was saying (talking about ALS and a protein) as if "it" were a layman, non specialist of the topic.
I feel like this is one of the most successful trolls of all time.
I don't see anything in this design approach that is inaccessible to people living in and embracing capitalism who still want to preserve in themselves a healthy humanness. People are free to manage their own desires in whatever way they choose; consumption and Jones-chasing is optional. Making an honest, useful, tangible object is both a practical and a spiritual good, and too important to be held a political hostage.
One of the reasons I have been pushing hard for full work from home at my company is purely economical. Having to work from the office is actively degrading my quality of life, my wife and I have a child on the way and we are stuck in a 1 bedroom apartment because we simply cannot afford to buy a home anywhere in the city which my office is located. My pay would have to at a minimum double to even qualify for a mortgage in the city I am in.

It is not that I do not like going to the office (on occasion), its that going to the office degrades my life outside of the office.
Anecdotal success after 40 is real. But the statistical distribution means that you and your friend are lucky. My friend circle has a lot of couples in it who have had fertility problems. Often it isn’t spoken of.
I am such a person. He is not wrong. If it's not applicable to you then don't take it personally.
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No thanks, I'll stick with Firefox and support a non-Chrome browser and that also doesn't have cryptoshit to worry about.
> I always saw tech as the field where a disproportionally large amount of people truly love what they do. Mostly, because it takes so much grit and persistence to get good at it that most people wouldn't succeed unless they see something in it beyond putting food on the table.

I went into tech because I fell in love with programming as a pre-teen. I love building things. I love the everyday magic of typing incantations and seeing the response on the screen.

I'm also a world-class introvert. If I never had to interact with anyone in person besides my wife and kids, I'd be a happy man.

You're conflating "I don't want to be in the office" with "I don't love my job", when in fact the exact opposite is true. I love my job more than ever now that all the parts of it that I disliked (such as my boss wandering in and starting a conversation in the middle of my flow state) are gone. And I don't think I'm alone here—most people I've met have been programming since they were kids are also extremely introverted. Whether it's cause or effect, there's a strong correlation.

People like me don't want to avoid the office because we dislike our job, we don't go into the office because it allows us to spend more time on the parts we've always loved.
We may be talking about different things, then. Would you be willing to give an example of acceptable intolerance? FWIW, in my mind, when I say 'intolerance' I am specifically not including legitimate policy disagreements or opinions about behavior.
Those are all things they should already be guarding against though for the most part and definitely not a cost incurred per unit. If they're not already doing tons of work to secure against malicious employees they're a joke of an ISP to begin with.
https://archive.ph/0JJQp
Exploiting Xbox Game Frogger Beyond to Execute Arbitrary Unsigned Code
The general approach that I take, is that an error message is one of the most stressful occurrences that a user encounters, so it's incumbent upon me to make it as pain-free as possible.

First of all, unless I'm writing an engineering tool, my users aren't geeks, and don't especially care why the error is happening (geeks always need to know why). They just need to know that what was expected, did not happen. If there is a remedy, and it can be simply stated, then I can add that, but it needs to be short and simple. Longer stuff needs to go into some kind of secondary screen (which probably won't be read).

Also, I take the "shopkeeper" approach. The customer is always right, and it's never the customer's fault. I avoid any hints of blaming the user (even if it is their fault), and try to be polite and helpful[0].

Of course, the best way to deal with errors, is to avoid them. I try to design good affordances.

The rules are different for SDKs, though. In that case, I tend to send a great deal of information back. I take advantage of Swift's enums, and the ability to associate data. It can allow me to nest error reports.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...
> It doesn’t acknowledge the fact that planning will be required for road trips to ensure optimal charging times.

Why should it? If I need to become an amateur logistician just drive my car across the state, that car is not fit for use outside the realm of dedicated hobbyists.
Getting back to school. I’m losing money on this project.
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45

> They added UI to the browser to claim users could pay individual site creators who'd signed up, but had scraped the names and photos of site creators who'd never heard of them. Brave planned to take the payments after they were unclaimed for 90 days. When caught, they claimed the funds were held "in escrow" but later admitted there were holding the funds themselves. Story broke here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
Fees for moving data around the cloud persist despite rising customer ire
This is what I did. Took 2 1/2 years and didn't write a line of code for two of those years.

I simply fucked off and traveled the world. Half the time I didn't even know what day of the week it was.

It was glorious and it cured my burn out.
If you dislike some companies, you probably don't want to ever see their content, risk to load any kind of tracking information, or help them with an increase in traffic. I'd love too a turn off feature, or a filter of some kind
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> WFO is shit and delivers measurably lower work.

Where are your measurements? Most of the replies here are level-headed discussions, with statistics or points.

This reply is mainly about your disdain for WFO, nothing more.
> Yeah sure a volcano could explode from below your desk. Whatever.

It seems you're the one not even pretending to be honest here.

Obviously we are talking here about the sort of potentially dangerous work where there are serious risks to begin with.

> The point of an interlock is to keep the place where you’re supposed to be safe for as long as you’re there. And stop you from being there if it’s unsafe.

How would an interlock keep the place you are supposed to be safe? An interlock just stops something from running when its activated. When you shut down something to go inside for maintenance or whatever, an interlock stops someone from accidentally turning it on while you're inside. But when you're not inside and something is supposed to be running, the interlock is not going to do anything to contain a mechanical failure.

Imagine someone photographing sharks. They're in a shark cage to protect them. Compared to outside of the cage, they are relatively safe. An interlock might ensure that they are indeed inside the cage before a bucket of chum is dumped to attract sharks. But an interlock does nothing to protect them from a failure of the cage - maybe due to poor maintenance part of it rusted, or perhaps there was a defect with some of the welding to begin with - as far as anyone is aware, the photographers are in a "safe" place but really they're not.
The goal of writing better error messages isn't to help the people who never read error messages, it's to help the people who do and who you never have to hear from.
For me, never.

For most of the other people in my life, they are primarily searching for products, books, people, and ideas for recipes or various projects around the home.

So I totally see the utility of having these social media sites in the feed.

On the other hand, this reduces privacy even more than stock google, basically broadcasting your search terms to a whole bunch of bad actors, so I won't be recommending it to anyone.
As someone also from Europe in my experience it's the other way around, people move to Germany and Switzerland for their children to have a decent life, which in the United States is a luxury.

The liberals are not the ones in the United States destroying everything, always voting against anything that would make life better, including against veterans. The liberals are not the ones fighting against human rights, including reproductive rights and worker rights. The liberals are not the ones promoting conspiracy theories on a daily basis, suggesting authoritarianism and domestic terrorism as solutions. The liberals are not the ones in bed with the fossil fuel and tobacco industries, or Russia. The liberals are not the ones that keep supporting criminals like Trump, who just stole nuclear secrets and sold them to Saudi Arabia.
Said space can also be rented in a dedicated co-working space (close to home or close to other place of interest) providing both the benefits of a space dedicated to work and the benefits of no commute, rent flexibility (you can choose a more preferable housing opportunity since proximity to work is not a factor), social mobility (you can choose to live in a different city) and personal security (a lot harder for physical harassment in a power imbalance context to happen when you are remote, a lot more likely for other forms of harassment to be recorded).

The fundamental drive of WFH is the opposition towards lords attempting to dictate how people live their lives. If a subset of workers want to work from the company office, good for them. If a subset prefer to work from co-working spaces, good for them. If some free spirits prefer to work from a tent in the mountains with a satellite connection and solar panels, good for them. If some prefer to switch environments, good for them.

This is the same as installing (side loading) apps on iOS. One group desires freedom (to install whatever from wherever) and does not care what others do (use only the official store). The other group (those who like the walled garden) prefers that all others do as they do (only use the official store and nothing else ever, preferably making it impossible or illegal).

I will actually express this in even harsher terms.

Mandatory WFO is a communist notion, it is fundamentally undemocratic and fundamentally un-American. It values uniformity the same way communism does. WFH values freedom and autonomy. So going forward, I will call all those who want to enforce WFO when it is not necessary: Commie-Bastards.
The best part of "I don't care about cookies" and "Cookie AutoDelete" combo is that you don't even have to think about it, because even if it accepts everything, it will be cleaned. 0 mental load required.
I think a better way of putting it is: "don't get too emotionally invested". Writing code I often times get emotionally invested in it's success, but with a job you have to create that clear line of "I care, but I'm not emotionally invested". I really want to fix that bug in the system but if 5PM hits, I don't have the emotional investment to keep going into the night like with a side project, I can get to it in the morning.
Ah yeah I almost forgot about The Hobbit, you said it, it was far too long. The difference with LOTR is that is doesn't include LOTR in its name, unlike Amazon's new show. But yeah they're trying to milk the cow. Yeah we're not getting younger.
Handling uncertainty and risk is probably the number 1 challenge. There's a lot of stuff where it can take months/years to really be able to tell if it was the right decision or not (and often even then it's not obvious what was really the cause).

Another factor that was mentioned in the article:

Even the average manager can't function without a higher-level
manager above them. What is it that makes an executive? I don't
know, because I'm not a professional in this area. If I had to
take a guess, I would call it "functioning without recourse"
—living without any level above you to take over if you falter,
or even to tell you if you're getting it wrong. To just get it
done, even if the problem requires you to do something unusual,
without anyone being there to look over your work and pencil in
a few corrections.
I'm not introvert but I don't care about WFO. I disconnect myself from work and, boom, I'm at home with my child.
I think this is a serious case of not understanding different types of roles and intelligence. Yes, a VC is going to be able to make great small-talk about emerging tech ideas. Why? Because they're constantly bombarded with new ideas and people trying to persuade them to invest in different new projects, and in order to gain access to those deals it is table stakes today for them to manage their brand. So yes, they'll have some insightful things to say - most of which they'll likely have picked up somewhere and else and are just laundering. This isn't indicative of them being some kind of ubermensch the likes of which mere scientists could never hope to be.

A research scientist spends years working away at incredibly difficult problems and if they're super smart, and quite lucky they might push their chosen area of research forwards significantly. But this focus is not going to make them interesting to make small-talk with, because to really understand the issues that they're interested in you'll need a huge amount of existing knowledge.

I think funnily enough, we've had a real piece of evidence about whether these CEOs and VCs really are galaxy-brain individuals. We got the release of the Musk texts for the Twitter deal. What did it show? These guys are mediocre. They're sycophantic, group-think bros who know that the primary way to play the game is to suck up to each other and never criticise.

If you're going to define intelligence as someone's ability to entertain you at a cocktail party then yes, slightly behind Paris Hilton, Jurvetson is your guy.

If you want interesting insights, you can go and listen to people like Scott Galloway, but he's not a genius, he's just a rich guy who has enough money to have a team researching stuff so that he can provide interesting insights. A resource a researcher neither has nor needs.
thank you brave!
This is very typical of HN - complete ignorance of anything other than tech, and even within the tech sector.

Loss of TSMC would result in chips shortage, but not when it comes to critical and military infrastructure.

There's a lot of resources at stake, and semiconductors are just one part of the whole.
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It's especially not true for frivolous things, go for it unless it will absolutely ruin your health or finances. Why would a nice car NOT make you happy? It might not give you lifelong fulfillment on its own, but then nothing will, you always have to find new goals and work towards them as a journey.
Spotify would have to compete with other websites that can share these works so the price would be driven down so they won't be profiting much if any more. Instead people would have easier access to all of the works created years before.
watch the feature film 'Arrival' (2016) for an implementation.
You mention Komplete — is there a Kontakt player or an alternative for ipad? Or do you have a way of converting kontakt instrument into something else?

I think you can get a lot out of ipad as a plugin host, by using IDAM or something like Sonobus. A few FabFilter AUv3s and you've basically saved the cost of an iPad. Plus, the touchscreen for control.
> As a neutral observer of a continent with such budding talent

You don't seem to be very neutral.
You can move left to right and vice versa using the mouse wheel if your mouse supports it.
> This setup will automatically accept or reject, whichever works, the cookie nonsense and get rid of them once you're done with your tab.

By clicking accept you opt into all kinds of tracking, not just cookies. You can't delete tracking data stored on the server.
It’s time to repeal the Jones Act
> Retirement and tired have the same root.

This does not appear to be true.

"retire" is from French retirer, to pull (something) back -- as e.g. a general might do with troops that need to stop an attack.

"tire" (verb) goes back to Old English tiorian, and its etymology before that is not known and in particular doesn't seem to come from French "tirer" or its Latin antecedents.
It was a bit too strange, for me (I know you didn't ask me, but I like to butt in).

I love the stars, and that was what attracted me.

However, I found myself not liking the characters too much.
> I haven't seen many good arguments that WFH produces superior work outcomes.

Why should you want _arguments_ about a question for which there has been actual research? "Superior work outcomes" is a fuzzy thing to measure, but when units of work are clearly countable and it's agreed what constitutes "done", there are multiple studies that have found that WFH employees were more productive (i.e. did more in the same period of time), and since the pandemic there have been multiple findings that WFH employees were putting in more work hours (i.e. previously dead commute time became productive). Admittedly, the kinds of work that support this kind of clear measurement are generally not product design and development, but more like handling inbound customer calls, and for employees with some experience. The gold standard I'm thinking of here is Bloom et al from I think 2013 which did an actual random controlled trial. In that call center case, literally handling more calls per hour was attributed mostly to having a quieter environment, but workers did also work longer.

I think the main challenges aren't around "superior work outcomes" at the individual level, but stuff like training junior team members through interactions with their more senior colleagues. This is harder to measure, often isn't someone's "main" responsibility, and so individuals who appear to be succeeding at their own work can be less impactful on these secondary and indirect benefits.

All of which is to say, I think the personal fulfillment vs company benefit framing can be a misleading one. _which_ company benefits are most important? Does everyone in the company agree on that prioritization? Have you tried actually _measuring_ those, rather than just seeking "arguments"?
Maybe I have some sort of Office-PTSD or something, but I make it very clear to my coworkers that we can be friendly, but we aren't friends. You don't need my cellphone number, we don't need to go grab drinks after work, etc..

I've just noticed that if you turn your back for a second, then out come the wolves.

Less coffee pot talk the better as far as I am concerned. I have my friends and life outside of work, and I like to keep them separate. As the saying goes, "you don't shit where you eat."
Exactly! The team has to be aligned, because if a critical mass of people are working remotely, the office ceases to offer any advantage. It's okay to prefer working from home—but you should find a team that also prefers working from home, so people who prefer the office have that option too.
Even their example of terrible, "Whoops something went wrong" is miles ahead of Chrome's "Oh snap!"