skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And finally, I feel no one else is realizing that they are happily hacking away at the amazingly well-paid branch they're sitting on. As soon as a company's IT department is practically fully remote, why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a fraction for that same face broadcasted from a few hundred kilometers further east or south? German is hardly used in business context here anyway and lower-wage countries within ±3 hours timezones abound.

Funny. If I was a person from the east or south, my answer would be: Great, bring it on, share the wealth! Why should Berlin get all the best jobs?

Edit:

Incidentally, there was a now-deleted reply to my comment that made mention of the danger of a race to the bottom, and I'd add the following in response to that:

Eh, I have a less pessimistic view. For at least 30 years now we've been frightened by the spectre of outsourcing, and in the end, those fears never really materialized. Certainly a lot of work moved to India, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and so forth, but it certainly hasn't come at the expense of tech in more expensive markets.

The reality is a) there's more than enough tech work to go around, and b) outsourcing is incredibly complicated for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with the physical location of labour. There's no shortage of factors for this--regulatory differences, labour quality differences, cultural differences, communication barriers, timezone issues, etc--and Zoom hasn't magically fixed them.
Yes.

Burnout for me was caused by feeling like I had no control over the amount of stress and pressure I was under.

Enjoyment came back when I felt free to pursue leisurely interests and work wasn’t the centre of my life. There was a long process of recovery after removing myself from the situation contributing to my burnout.
Yep.

Unfortunate is for the public schools though as there are now fewer teachers available to hire. There's teacher shortages in almost every state in the country.
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Not true at all. Most european countries are still pay per message.
I made this my default search to give it a try. I first interacted on my iPhone - was slick. Then, interacted on an ultrawide monitor--so much information at once. I would like the ability to add sources to search. For example, search HackerNews or industry specific websites.
It all depends on the context. If it's a web application that can't connect to some backend service, for example, what exactly are you going to do with that information?
At this point COVID is about as over as it will ever be. So do you plan to continue living as you are for the rest of your life?
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Spare me the concern trolling. If your job can be outsourced, it will be outsourced. People were happily working in offices in the 90s and it didn't do much to keep their jobs from being outsourced. I don't see any correlation between WFH and outsourcing.
Last time I worked with pritunl, it was based on openvpn. So unless that changed, it doesn’t fit the “for WireGuard networks” category.
I built a privacy preserving counter for my own websites and a dashboard that looks like a Renegade BBS Sysop waiting for caller screen. I’m running it all on a Raspberry Pi 400 in my home office.

I plan to do a write up about it, but thought this was an opportunity to give for broad strokes.
> If only I had a way to write a phone app for my phone with my phone. Press 1 if you're not a robot.

That's one of the things Google Voice does, and there are a bunch of other similar "find me/follow me" services offered through various other providers or as a feature in a phone system that can do the same thing.

Unknown callers get prompted to say their name and then I can choose whether to answer the call or not.
If your entire street is willing to pay $1000/month each on a 10 year contract with serious penalties for early cancellation there definitely would be 'investors popping up left and right'.

For normal consumer pricing laying down new lines will likely never turn a profit in the U.S. in any established neighbourhood, especially in municipalities that like to extract every dollar out of unsympathetic companies as another comment mentioned.
Same here, I only caught one episode of HOTD, the one where they are at the feast and the two guys fight over the girl and then she gets kidnapped. The whole episode felt intimate, filled with emotion and natural rhythm, very personal and lifelike. Now I'm a fan.

Contrasting to LOTR where a bunch of miscast 20 year olds give wooden performances in front of sterile CGI to advance a bolted on story. Disappointment of the year.
> Perhaps design your own language that removes ambiguity.

That's what a controlled vocabulary is. It's essentially a set of tags which are clearly defined. So instead of #horses being defined purely by the word "horses," it has an attached definition along the lines of, "The category 'horses' includes equine biology, sports relating to horses, the cultural history of horses, and all other topics involving real horses. Metaphorical horses such as saw horses are not included." Tags like #horse would be redirected to #horses, since there is only one canonical horse tag in the vocabulary.
> That's incorrect.

Read before replying. I literally said "for person-to-person communication".
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Off topic but what's the app called for 5/3/1?
Yep, fully agree that source selection would be huge here
Indeed, I still remember when it was a "rite of passage" to crack IDA yourself.
Dunno. I'm of said opposite ideology and whenever I mention how I watch anything conservative, I almost always get a surprised response like "why would you watch that crap?"

So at least from my personal filter bubble, it doesn't seem like there's too much of a tendency to rage-watch conservative content just to hate on it.

And while I don't think conservatives spend that much time hate-watching leaft-leaning content either, they definitely do a fair amount of hate-raiding that should make an algorithm think that "conservative video about X" makes people also enjoy "video about X".
10-15k per student per year beats out nearly any public school system in my state. They only _just_ raised the starting salaries to a bit under 40k.

edit: also - homeschooling/private teachers are much more efficient. An elementary school day takes more like 2 hours instead of 7, and there's basically zero after-hours work. Do you know any teachers who would give up public school to work 2-3 hours a day for 70k a year with no all-night grading/etc? Cause my bet is it's a huge majority of them.
"The quiet guy who just likes listening to intelligent conversations and chiming in when they can" also misses the social interactions that happen by default in an office.

Overhearing conversations about other tech stacks/problems, conversations about vacations or plans, conversations about random political/education/local/global events - and learning something from those conversations is what's missing for me.

Switching from a vibrant office built around a family doctor's practice, with people who'd worked there for 15 years - to working from home where the only regular conversations with your wife are about her manual labor job or the details of what needs to be done around the house - has been super frustrating.

I don't want to go back to spending 30 minutes each way in the car, and going into some random office at a new job seems painful. The office building I was at was closed and the team's mostly disbanded, so that life is gone.

I miss the intellectual stimulation and I'm not sure how to get it back, the loneliness of not having someone with the same interests as you is killing me.
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Yacht brings pleasure user experiences on writing Kubernetes controllers. It is built with minimal dependencies, which makes it easier to downgrade/upgrade module versions.

It must be the most light-weighted framework with minimal dependencies that you have ever used.
There's no doubt I think that some people are smarter than others.

And that some people appear much smarter, more confident, charismatic, etc than others, in person, in conversation, even in debate.

They're not necessarily the same set of people though.
I think you're spot on, and I made a similar comment above.

It's easy to say "they can figure it out". Sure, in a restful state. But the people we're asking to take action already have a lot on their plate. Using plain, conversational language whenever possible with exceedingly clear steps means less mental exertion on the receiver. And since we need their help, anything we can do to make it easier on their end helps us.
Given the choice, I'd never take a hybrid role. It means I still need to keep the "infrastructure" needed to get to the office (eg a car, public transport around me is terrible), but it sits unused 90% of the time. I can't get properly comfortable working at home or in the office because I'm constantly in between the two. Its just not for me.
Logs can definitely be a form of documentation.

I write software that is generally run low in the stack, quietly doing some mundane tasks that are business-critical but rarely thought about. If one of our clients has to mess with our software beyond the occasional update, that was a failing. Not all software is like this, but lots of it is -- its value is that no human needs to be involved.

I need to write log messages with the expectation of an audience who doesn't know much about the software -- it's been running uninterrupted for months or years and suddenly something has gone wrong. If the log line doesn't tell the user how to solve their problem, I will end up getting a call.
I've been working remote for a year and a half now at a company that has never had an office. First off, I will say that I really love remote work. Despite that, I do miss the social interactions that you get with your coworkers.

When your social interaction is limited to time before meetings start, you lose a lot of what you had in an office. I personally have never worked a job where I didn't like at least a few of my coworkers, and I always felt like it made my days a bit more fun when I could stop by Chris's desk to chat before we grab a cup of coffee.

Remote work attempts to emulate that, but a video call can have one real speaker at a time, where a physical room can have multiple side conversations that don't interrupt each other. We've done off sites and those are a blast since I finally get to talk to my coworkers in person, but those are obviously temporary.

All that said, I love remote work. I love that I can move back to my home town with low cost of living and be paid the same as I do working in a higher COL area. I love having no commute, and I love slipping out to do async tasks like laundry.

I feel like the social fix I'm looking for can be answered another way, but I don't know how.
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I understand your point, I also enjoy a lot interactions with my colleagues ! I am quite surprised to hear that in the Berlin startup scene, home office is becoming the norm. I have been working (and still am) in startups in Lausanne (Switzerland) and home office has been very much reduced since the 'end' of Covid restrictions.

Most companies would allow for a day or 2 per week, but not much more. And I did not hear many complaints about it: my colleagues are also all happy to be here together. It was the same in my previous company.

Maybe it's heavily dependent on your company and I just got lucky (to our terms) where I was.
100% agree. My life used to be all about tech / software engineering, especially when I got started in the industry and was learning a lot. One day I became burnt out and realized my life was so one dimensional, all I could talk about was different tech products and software engineering. I decided to put my work on the back burner and focus on instead trying various hobbies.

I ended up for a while just "caring less" about work while still getting my work done and putting all of my heart and soul into my hobbies (mostly Muay Thai and Running). Ironically, I think the time of putting engineering on the back burner has re-ignited my interest in it again. So it's not like you have to "care less" forever.

I've come to realize that I think life is cyclical like that and we need to be able to drive our energy towards new and interesting things, or even our families and the burn out is a signal you need to turn your energy towards something else. Your craft will always be waiting for you on the other side.
I do, but as far as I understood slide to type was not the default, I recall having to go find a switch to turn it on when the first beta that included it came out
Existential: I am glad you are still doing therapy. Have you talked to a psychiatrist? That may be helpful in your situation.

Tactical: Do you have any family or friends or house of worship kin with kids? Offer to take them out to do something fun - go to the playground, go on a hike, go rollerskating. The best part of “other people’s kids” is you can give them back once you’ve spoiled them.

Check out hedy.org and go to your local library and offer to teach kids to code. All it takes is a web browser.
I think there are many “subcultures” (for lack of better description) within WFH and WFO. You’re describing two of them, but there’s also a group of WFH’ers that believes the whole organization should be remote as to standardize the processes to be asynchronous, and there are WFO’ers that still like to work from home one or two days a week.

There’s also WFH but within the same country, WFH globally across all timezones, etc etc etc.

As such, I personally consider it more of a company culture thing rather than WFO vs WFH. Where does the company fit in these philosophies.

There’s definitely no such thing as the WFO’er that wants to force their preferences upon others any more than there are WFH’ers doing the same thing.
Depends on where on the covid-panic-scale your local government is. In Germany there is still talk about waves, mask mandates and possible restrictions.
It's lost time, simple as
I mean, depending on where we're talking here, I think my girlfriend would love being a f/t goat hearder.. can you hook me up?
Don't send people somewhere else to learn how to fix the error. The more steps and indirection you add the fewer people will bother doing it themselves, especially if they can bump it to the developer. Make it easy for people to fix their own problems by being explicit, direct and complete. List all the steps and use formatting to make it visually easier to consume.

So your error message while a far cry from the worst I have seen is also pretty far from the good ones I have seen.
The company “office” is a left over concept from the factory - industrialized labor in a shared space. The work-from-home benefits to individuals and society far outweigh the work-from-office benefits to individuals and companies. If you need companions to work, then companies could readily support work groups with shared desires.
Seconded. 70 hours is too much, even over a fairly short period of time let alone years. Everything you do above ~40 hours draws on finite reserves, getting back down to a sane work schedule is critical if you want to recover.
You seem far more sociable than myself or most of my peers!

This discrepancy makes sense but is by no means unusual. I think this line of work both draws introverted people, and encourages it through stress (deadlines, etc)
The US shouldn't have any say over where the borders in Europe are drawn. NATZO shouldn't have any particular say on where non-NATO countries borders are, and NATO shouldn't be picking up random European countries either. Ideally Putin would also not be launching invasions.

But the response to any one actor doing something horrible is not to start walking up the escalatory spiral towards wiping out all life in the Northern hemisphere and a lot of lives in the Southern one. Escalating isn't going to make anyone better off. It shouldn't be happening, I'd quite like to see what 2025 brings.

If the EU wants to mobilise troops and stir up war they can, it'd follow a lot of stupid EU policies. It is going to make them worse off too, but at least maybe the nuclear war might stay in Europe? I'd certainly be on board with them preparing for war, but just don't do the foolish thing of fighting on the Russian border. Go have a proxy war in the middle east. Fortify Poland. Let there be some buffer states.

There is always the like-Iraq option. Let a country invade, write an angry UN letter, wait for the costs to force the occupiers out. It worked the first time the Soviets tried to control the Ukraine and with the Ukrainians using diplomacy and far less firepower.
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> The benefit is that our collective genius isn’t mined by mega corps and rented back to us.

That sounds like a downside to me, not a benefit. You're basically arguing it would be better if Copilot, Stable Diffusion, GPT-3, etc (which all included copyrighted works in their training set) didn't exist. I'm just not seeing that.
I think a sabbatical is a great suggestion. It's length depends on a balance of your financial situation and bank balance addiction and goals.
Free market believers aren't wrong on their belief that a free market has a kind of morality. Instead, they are wrong on their belief that free markets exist.

This disclaimer carries a lot of weight, and puts yourself into pure theoretical modeling:

> Absent negative externalities or monopoly effects

Anyway, we are biologically inclined into doing commerce. So you will find out that people have a great deal of easiness into adopting pro-market beliefs.
Some people don't read anything that isn't an all-caps command. They have learned helplessness from seeing too much useless error text in the past.
>You are wrong in pointing your finger to the business: we the buyers are to blame!

That's a faulty logic. History has proven you can't just leave the responsibility to the profit-at-all-cost free market to run things and then blame the individual consumers for the consequences. Otherwise we'd still be buying polluting gas guzzlers while LA and other cities would still be smog filled hell holes.

Was it the fault of consumers that decided to only buy polluting cars 50 years ago? Or was it that consumers just had no say in what manufacturers were making and were stuck with an offer of only polluting cars?

The solution was, you guessed it, government regulation from the EPA and EU to fix this and forced all auto-makers and industry to be less polluting and it was a great collective success that improved the air quality in our cities.

Same with e-waste and wasteful consumerism. All this can, and should be government regulated for the sake of our environment. The reason it's not yet regulated, is because unlike with car emissions, the environmental damage has been offshored from the west to developing nations on the other side of the planet.
Ukraine’s economy seems to be growing again
yes they are, the essays in the books are placed in right order to build up the various challenges and the respective way to look at the challenges and solve / ignore them.
As if it hasn’t been the norm for companies to outsource white collar jobs and fire people at the drop of the hat for decades now. I don’t see WFH as enabling anything that wasn’t already enabled from that perspective.
this is a classic. i wonder what other programming games are there though?
If the office was so amazing you wouldn't need to force people to come in.
For me, switching teams and eventually job helped. I switched to a domain (ML) where I had little experience but for which I had a lot of interest.

That said, coding for fun recovered separately from that. When I was burned out, I did not find joy in writing code for fun anymore. Through Advent Of Code, I recovered that aspect.

Today (years later), I don’t get to code at work anymore, as I’m an Engineering Manager. Partly made the switch because I was burned out on coding again. And by not doing it as part of my day job, I find myself enjoying it more after work again. I now only code things that I actually want to - without deadlines etc.

I think what I have come to understand is that it’s a cyclical thing for me. At times I really want to write code, other times I just had enough of it for some months.
I think its weird people read on tablets; seems like it either encourages bad neck posture or your arms will get tired. I read on a windows laptop with "android subsystem for windows" with the kindle app installed. Then I turn the window into the approx. size of a paperback and I can scroll with my mouse scrollbar. So I minimize eye movement and hand/arm movement. https://ibb.co/5xxFSGd
Use the error messages you wrote! Send them the link they sent you, and move on.
Finally! I’ve been wishing browsers did this for me for a long time. This might be the reason I finally switch to Brave as my daily driver.
I think your are agreeing? Choosing to care less takes the pressure off. People take their jobs too seriously (except maybe doctors) and work too hard. Chill out, no one is going to die and that deadline was made up by an incompetent project manager or exec anyway. If you don't enjoy your job change your company, or change your company.
Sure, that's totally reasonable.

The PM can bring those constraints to the table; the Engineer brings other constraints from their perspective; and the Designer brings even more.

Then they work together to creatively explore the problem space and converge on a solution together.
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I would say this is more "why it is important that Richard Stallman doesn't have kids". The guy is a maniac.
Thanks for the podcast suggestion, will take a listen.
When people don't bother to master their tools they only have themselves to blame.

Even back on the DDJ days there were articles about them.
>through an instant rewiring of the brain that doesn't require any practice

How does the rewiring system know what the ideal end state is in advance, and how does the alien evaluate if the new state is fit for purpose?

I'm with you on justice though. A parasitic species might have a completely different view of rights and obligations than we do.
The advice I've been given by people similar to what you are describing is to ensure you have at least 80 hours of help per week from multiple nannies, au pairs, or family. Then it is a matter of how much of your time you want to carve off for the kids vs must carve off. I haven't tried this, but I'd consider something like an au pair if I had a larger home.

I used to work 100+ hours per week, and that got significantly reduced after having a kid. I have been mostly embracing fatherhood since I imagine after age 10 their interest in me will be negligible.
> The list price of the Docker Business subscription will go up by $3, to $24 per user per month (Business is only available on an annual basis).

I hate that this has become an acceptable way to list prices. It's not $24 per month, it's $288 per year! "Per month" implies the customer can pay that price every month, and also stop paying on any given month.

In other news, Docker Business is going to cost 3.3¢ per user per hour. Except you're required to pay for the hours you're asleep, because the service is offered "on an annual basis".
World War 2 comes to mind