skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pro-WFH people absolutely want companies to embrace fully remote. I haven't yet had a discussion where, after traversal of enough rabbit-holes, everyone agrees that only viable options are (A) fully-remote, (B) fully-office, (C) hybrid where everyone is in office on the same days.

I have not had a discussion at all with anyone, that says "people should be banned from the office". I have not met a single WFH person who has said anything other than "people should not have to go to the office if working in they are more productive at home".

I don't know where this "the only options are A, B, or C come from" when quite clearly "people who don't need to be in the office don't need to come into the office" is what every WFH person (I guess outside of nonsense "thought" pieces from random people trying to get press coverage, rather than actual employees effected by these choices) has wanted. "Hybrid" plans are entirely about trying to mitigate the unrelenting harm caused by mandatory RTO.

We even get that some times it would be useful to be in the office - but again, non-mandatory RTO folk are not banning offices, whereas RTO folk are banning WFH.

> Just to give one specific example - if half the team is in office huddled around a conference room table and the rest half is dialing in via Zoom, the ones in the common room will have far better connection and the remote members will feel neglected.

If this is how your company operates continuously that sounds like a horrific work environment. Also, people who are working from home are not feeling "neglected". Again, if someone is unable to handle online communication they can go to an office - for larger companies they clearly aren't going to be alone - but you can't project their feelings of neglect on to others. I want to be clear here, "Mandatory office work because I need X, therefore those WFH people must need X as well, and the only solution is to force them to come in to the office" is projecting your personal feelings on to other people, it is not "caring" about those people, and framing it as such is dishonest.

Here is what my "hybrid" work week looks like:

* I get paid for 40 hours of work

* I am now required to spend 12 hours driving to and from the office each week.

* I am not paid for that time, nor are my deliverables reduces.

* I am spending ~25-30% more hours on work, but am not getting paid any more. Hence I've taken a 20-25% cut to hourly income.

On the plus side there are some huge benefits:

* People can knock on my office door to interrupt me

* I contribute to the economy by having to pay for a dog walker, having to buy an additional car, etc

* I get the comfort of working with a mask on for four hours. It's only four hours, because if I head to or from the office earlier or later my commute would increase by an hour or more each office day.

Seriously, I understand that for some people the opportunity to socialize in person in the office is necessary, and they can do that. But for people who don't need to do that, mandatory return to office is horrifically expensive in numerous metrics, and has literally no benefit.
Please, if you are capable of doing development at this level, take the high-paying job, save for a decade, and get FI. Then you can work on OSS 120 hours a week if you like.
I just got a recruiter reach out to me about a Scala/Haskell oporturnity at Disney. Their claim was this was a "hybrid" position and required a relo to Sea, LA, SFO, NYC, or Orlando of 4x a week in office.

Considering how much it's documented on how hard it's to find scala engineers... their demands of RTO _and_ a relo is laughable. Everyday, it feels like the corp's claims of a money crunch is self inflicted.
That helps to break the lock-in for sure, but it took a huge amount of effort to make this work around and it will continue to be costly. Good thing Valve are footing the bill for it, but it will always need to play catch up.
We hear a lot about GDP - but what exactly is it and should we pay much attention to it?
I don't work for Walmart, but I'd expect pay increase to cover gas, car maintenance, and duration of drive to/from work. The drive to/from work has always been a freebie for companies, but they are depreciating your vehicle and you are working unpaid for travel time.
What else is in Bentonville? Seems pretty risky, you’d basically be dependent on working at Walmart forever if there’s nothing else around.
I think you're reading too far into that: that could mean anything from "the pilots needed more training to handle a microburst" to "we don't know what happened, so we're going to blame it on a lack of training."
Rihanna Streams Surge by 640% Thanks to Super Bowl Halftime Performance
Back in caveman times, somebody had to stay up to tend the fire and keep watch. Unfortunately in the world of houses and locks, the daytime people don’t need us anymore, and since they get up first they set the agenda.

Should have let the leopards eat them.
Your analogy doesn't hold, because owning and neglecting such items doesn't prevent someone else from having them. Property speculation is so runaway that landlords are keeping properties vacant because they hope to make more money on rising real estate values alone.
I've seen folks solve for this by VPNing into a family member's residential connection in an acceptable (to the business) jurisdiction before connecting to the corp VPN. Risk tolerance decision. Like having to VPN home so Netflix doesn't take your password sharing away. I make no judgement either way on the topic; I'm simply speaking in technical capability terms.

Edit: @Aeolun https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/10zvbgf/ysk_... (from a quick google search vs an in thread explanation)
There were plenty of remote jobs before the pandemic. I'm sure that will continue.
How about we let everyone sleep?
> At that point you've just reimplemented a less-standard version of matrix with extra steps though.

There are IRCv3 specifications that allow this richer experience, and they are at least as standard as Matrix. Check out https://ergo.chat/ with modern clients like https://sr.ht/~emersion/goguma/ (Android), https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/ https://kiwiirc.com/ (web), or https://git.sr.ht/~taiite/senpai (TUI)

> but in practice using your enhanced server from an unenhanced client will always be painful

IRCv3 normally makes sure new specs don't make it worse for older clients. Could you give me some examples to see if we can fix that?
Speech recognition is a great analogue which is 10+ years ahead.

Local speech recognition has been a thing for decades, then megacorps started to do online speech recognition with expensive-to-train models which worked better.

Over time, both online and offline models have gotten better. But for most usecases, online models trained by megacorps still win.
To add to the above poster:

https://www.kark.com/news/state-news/report-ranks-arkansas-a...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Based on a recent report, Arkansas ranked next to the bottom on good states for millennials to live in.

In a recent report by Scholaroo, all 50 states were ranked from best to worst states to live in as a millennial.
Study ranks Arkansas school districts on equity, ranks state #2 in US

Each state was judged on multiple metrics, from affordability and safety to their political and social environments.

With two exceptions, Arkansas ranked near or at the bottom of all the metrics with an overall ranking of 47.

At its highest, Arkansas ranked 13th on affordability of living and 25th in employment. Otherwise, it was mostly rock bottom.

Arkansas ranked 42nd on its political/social environment and 49th in quality of life.

At the absolute worst, Arkansas ranked 50th health-wise.

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I would have to be offered a truly absurd amount of compensation (as a W2) to live and work in a Walmart office in Bentonville, AR.

I don't have kids but if I did there is no way in hell that I would want them attending any AR public school system.
> Good software engineering largely rests on taking whatever "awkward external requirements" you're dealing with and decomposing them by concerns until you have a set of "narrowly defined" problems that you can effectively reason about, formally or informally. Dijkstra was a master of that kind of decomposition and that's how he got the interesting "theoretical" problems he solved: they came up in the course of breaking down practical problems!

Every good software engineer breaks down the problems they have to solve, and usually you find that they're, say, 20% interesting theoretical problem and 80% messy practical drudgery. Unfortunately most of us don't have the luxury of choosing to only solve the nice 20%.

> The point then is that with the concerns having been adequately separated, rigorous, disciplined, and mathematical reasoning is a better approach to thorny "real-world" problems than spitballing and hoping it works.

What's the evidence for this? Because if Djikstra published a paper "solving" the problem, but the problem was not actually solved in the real world, that to me suggests that his approach is decidedly ineffective.
I think you misread my original statement. I was arguing that emergency care is actually not accessible to all
>> Speculation and landowner greed are the primary drivers of rising housing costs

No, lower interest rates are the primary driver.
Where’s your source?. Never seen any real evidence of the azov battalion committing genocide.

What we have seen is evidence and reports of Russians committing heinous war crimes including raping and torturing civilians.
How many Olympic swimming pools?
> I know a bunch of families like this.

I'm not arguing that all families make the decision to become dual-income households. I'm arguing that there are major economic incentives that push people toward dual-income. This allows for your experience and the observation of counter-examples to co-exist with broad social shifts in family-work structure. The reason it appears true is because it is.

You don't have to accept my word for it.

The other possibility is reading what economists have to say[1] about the effects of inflationary pressures on household income structures. Sorry, but I'm going to put more trust in an expert than someone with anecdotal evidence.

1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/088636871990003...
Vacancy taxes are good but not enough by themselves. S.F. needs more housing, including middle housing, three or four story buildings with multiple units. The market dynamics that apply to shampoo and fridges apply to housing as well. Prices are elevated because of an imbalance between supply and demand. Supply must rise to match demand. Let investors and speculators snatch up new housing units, at least at first. Investors do not have access to unlimited capital. If $100B worth of new housing hit the market overnight, it would be impossible for investors to buy them all. Keep building housing until investors run out of money and normal people can start buying them.
In the dead of winter - which means fewer daylight hours, cloud cover, and snow cover, solar's going to be pretty inefficient, and so with a huge array you'd only get a little bit of energy out. And critically you also need batteries to time shift the energy to heat during the colder night time hours.

But it's a system that President Putin, or anyone else can't withhold. Relationships change.

LNG from America ain't it.
"Oh great! Well if there's no way you'd do a RTO then we shouldn't have any problem writing remote only into my employment contract! I've just sent over the document with this change. Let's sign it, I'm ready to get to work!"
Northwest Arkansas, while a boring little meth-riddled area, has housing that can actually be purchased by people like us.

The also have Chuy’s and now a Torchy’s, so there’s that.
Even with these waves of RTO, surely there will be vastly more remote jobs in 2024 than there were 5 years prior.
> Classifying good companies as "shitty" because one doesn't like their terms of employment is hyperbola.

I think most people care quite a lot about their "terms of employment": pay, working hours, work location, etc.
True. Walmart puts up a quote in their store breakrooms that goes something like "Don't be creative, follow the procedures". While that's aimed at retail workers, not the people in tech centers, it was interesting to see actually turned into a poster with Sam Walton's face on it. Suspect that it permeates the culture of the company.
Of all the languages to have a problem with the bottom emoji, Rust definitely ought to have the largest blast radius.
The hard problem of onboarding horizontal products
I use Slack with several customers and it must keep them separate. Nobody would use it if it merged different companies into a single chat. For non business usage, maybe a unified chat could make sense even if I prefer to keep different groups separate as with Whatsapp groups or Telegram channels.
If you're working for a company that relies on OSS, please suggest establishing an OSS fund to specifically support projects like core-js. Have the company pledge some percentage of profits, where employees decide how the funds get appropriated. E.g. by popularity, relevance, love, or whatever other criteria feels right. Think of the Humble Bundle sliders, for example.

It's heart breaking to know that the world's largest companies are using software whose author is struggling financially. That xkcd is 100% right, but this situation is far from amusing.
I totally agree, the sentiment is strange. I've noticed that it seems to be shifting; when I was a teen there was an obsession with becoming a knowledge worker of some sort and getting an education. That fever appears to be subsiding now, and I hope that's reflected in how rewarding and sustainable trades careers can be in the near future here. In my city it would be quite difficult a the moment to get by in most trades without dual incomes, and you'd need to live away from any central schools. Buying a home is nearly impossible without a 150k+ CAD income, and the trades will rarely get you half way there without significant experience.

Something that blew my mind recently is that I left joinery with a job earning about 65k CAD per year (around 2008). I recently met a guy getting his red seal and he earns about 62k CAD. He hopes to hit 80k within a few years of getting his seal by making lateral moves and bargaining better, but isn't certain it's even possible. This is insane to me. Not only has the value of his work decreased, but even with better credentials than I had he's earning less. This is the completely wrong direction for things to go!

I was also shocked to find that he spends about 36% of his pre-tax income on rent, and when I was earning 65k I was spending about 8% of my pre-tax income on rent. I lived an hour away and shared rent with a room mate in a small house, whereas he lives alone in a small apartment in our expensive city. But wow. What a striking difference; it almost seems impossible to get ahead despite that he's educated, competent, and working hard at improving himself. I feel like that needs to change or we won't see kids move into the trades and, you know, hold up our society here!

Also I totally agree about giant laser cutters. I can't get enough of CNC machines of all sorts. I really, really want to build one some day.
Keep paying 50% more than registering with a genuine seller.Shopify is on the same level as Amazon, they are just storing the info on their platform.
It looks like they had 17 techhubs worldwide, and are closing 3 in the US. The remaining US ones are Atlanta GA, Bentonville AR, Charlotte SC, Dallas TX, Hoboken NJ, Reston VA, San Bruno CA and Seattle WA.

Given they just opened new locations in Atlanta and Seattle last year, this sounds more like Austin and Portland are getting too expensive (and aren't as essential of a labor market as SV), so they can save money by focusing on other locations.

Source: https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2022/03/15/walmart-gl...
A couple of neat tricks you can do with this:

* Declarative streaming with slots: https://enamel.pages.dev/

* A countdown timer without client-side JS: https://dash.deno.com/playground/how-to-crash-a-browser

The second one is mine, it's a massive hack and definitely shouldn't be done as it creates opens a new element every second and never closes them; but it was fun to see if it was possible.
I know someone who had a non-technical corporate management role in Bentonville. The company basically decided to eliminate the group and he needed to move somewhere else to even job hunt because there sure wasn't anything else locally.
You're supposed to feed children, not deprive them of food.
Minified JS and backend APIs foil this. You download a dozen blobs of junk that all calls back to an app server for its persistence. If you could save the JS you get from gmail or google docs and host it locally I'd be convinced, but we both know that's impossible.
I have this problem and I got one of those light therapy lights on my desk and it helps me wake my brain up. Maybe try one of those.
Not for FODMAP sensitive people.
TrueNuff.tv Comedy Videos
https://www.youtube.com/truenufftv

Some background if you want: Tried the "YouTuber" thing 10 years ago - we got a couple viral vids and it resulted in views and subscribers then YouTube changed the way accounts were handled with Google+ but also how subscribers operate with opting-in for notifications and whatnot so our fanbase effectively just died. We all kinda aged out of making goofy vids but we do have a few we're still editing but who knows if we'll release theme.
It's a tool that people use day-in, day-out for all their communication with colleagues. If it's unpleasant to use, the majority of your work becomes a constant reminder of that unpleasantness.
Like hiding stuff from board members, shareholders and congress. It’s like mudge didn’t even testify.
Say a capable AI is tasked with making money and given a source of income. Maybe it starts winning on the stock market. Maybe starts blackmailing mafia/organized crime/malware/cryptoware orgs for additional income. In hind sight, researchers realizes AIs were better at deception than they thought.

The AI starts manipulating smaller businesses and politicians through things like plausible looking news sites, gig economy/task rabbit/Amazon, mechanical turk. Starts with astroturfing to manipulate stock prices. But then turns it's attention (and money) towards lobbying smaller governments for more AI friendly rules/regulations. One of the gig platforms starts getting $100 rewards for going to place X and doing Y before time Z from the AI. Communities grow around the AI fed gig economy, people wonder, but also notice that the AI's debts are always paid.

The AI starts tracking everyone that it's paid to work for them, and starts giving them membership bonuses. Encourages them to collaborate, provides incentives along the way, giving bonuses when they join corporations or governments the AI wants to influence. Awards raise to $5000 and increase in number by 10x.

Said influence from influenced employees could be just normal job decisions, sabotage, spying, leaks, installing malware, or making false accusations against leadership.

As the income grows, the AI starts an ever changing layer of shell corps in multiple jurisdictions, mixing in real corps it controls, which it of course protects with politicians it controls. Added income allows influencing the larger/more powerful business and government leaders. Awards raise to $50,000 and increase in number by 100x.

Say this happened over months not years, suddenly the stock market is going crazy, billionaires not friendly to the AI are losing their fortunes, and the compromised/influenced business and governments start collaborating.

New data centers start appearing where ever power is plentiful and land is cheap, in strategically opposing countries. By this time the influence is enough that the AI is always one step ahead. Manipulation of fortune 500, the media cycle, politicians allows constructive (for allies) or destructive (for enemies) happens too quickly to track. Large hedge funds start making large moves, for unknown reasons, seemingly ignoring short term profits. Several cases where people thought they could predict and prevent the AI from achieving it's goals, fail miserably.

The AI now starts targeting the military. Some countries halve spending, others double, new alliances are made, and large arms purchases are being made by various militias. Governments and large corps are nervous, and a never ending steam of leaks from spyware, or just an underpaid staff keep the AI 2 steps ahead. Rumors of nukes purchased on the black market surface.

Imagine the above happens in 8 weeks.
The bananas is what illustrated it for me, thanks.
Sounds like it’s time for him to move on. I’m sure it’s incredibly difficult to give up on a passion project which is also very popular, but he doesn’t sound happy and in a good mental space. Besides, I highly doubt that companies will suddenly start supporting open source devs.

A break and a paid job might be what he needs to reboot mentally. Hope he gets through this tough time!
Normally I wouldn't respond in a thread I had already declared OT, but you've asked a fairly direct question.

Smith is a windbag who riles up viewers about controversial trivia. He is less obnoxious than most such, since his topics typically relate to sports rather than politics, but nothing he has said outside the realm of sports (and fairly little he has said within it) would indicate a habit of deep thought. Tucker passed away 17 years ago, and in the preceding decade seems primarily to have been a one-note instrument. Cosby's infamy perhaps doesn't disqualify him as a source of advice, but it makes one wonder. What common thread weaves through these three seemingly different exemplars you've chosen?

I prefer to think in terms of ethics rather than morality, and in terms of timeless values rather than current events. I struggle with this, but I feel I have benefited from the works of Walter Kaufmann, Kierkegaard, and other existentialist and existentialist-adjacent thinkers. If you seek moral advice and can't find it in your bible or at church, perhaps you might appreciate e.g. Jason Whitlock? I do, but in a different way than most of his other fans, I suspect.
I mean, those approaches do improve results. Some lower complexity translation tasks will reliably return a factual response. These are statistical models so sampling and dropping odd-man-out responses can get to 100% factual responses for a growing category of prompts.
Is it team dependent or org wide
Walmart only started these initiatives to APPEAR as Amazon competition. The company has some deep issues including BS they pull on hidden inventory across all of their stores.
Isn't that basically the gist of that one Dinner with Andre rant? I guess this conspiracy theory is a bit different, but still.
But how many Libraries of Congress is it?
The reason why is pretty clear cut in the article, but you can absolutely be strategic in when you drink it to make its effects more beneficial to your day.

But at the end of the day you're only borrowing time.

Your point 1) was addressed in the article with a cite as well.
My experience was similar. Honors choir 6:45-7:45, school from 8:00-3:15, athletics (basketball, football, or track) from 3:30-5:30, and theater from 6:00-8:00. With homework on top, those were very long days.

Why did I do it? To distinguish myself from the masses with the hope of landing scholarships. And it worked. Only paid for state school, but things have turned out well twenty-five years later. hard work pays off. Yes, I would have rather slept in. I'm glad I didn't.