skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends a lot on how you define productivity. If it's heads down hours, sure.

But on the flip side, here's some things from my experience that I would count as productive:

- saw someone looking angry at their computer for several days. Asked them what was going on. After a chat realized his project was never going to work so we canceled it. It would have taken weeks/months for us to realize this if I didn't see him physically boiling at the desk.

- need a quick chat with Bob and Alice. Saw they are at their desk, just rolled over and had the chat because they happened to be there. Vs trying to find time on calendar, ending up weeks later.

- crown jewel: ran into a dude I used to work with, now in a different department. Turns out he's working on something similar to me. That started a bunch of conversations, ended up combining efforts and building platform. Now running essentially 3 businesses based on 1 tech investment. Wouldn't have happened if I didn't bump into him in the elevator.
Are you a litigation attorney?
For some toys like Lego people seem to get particularly rabid if you suggest they give them away.
Yes. "We're like a startup" is a bit of a tipoff that a) the company is no longer like a startup and b) the company has completely forgotten what it's like to be a startup.
no conflict = no interest
a more primary source, without all the ads: https://forbiddenstories.org/story-killers/the-gravediggers-...
Allen Institute for Brain Science and AI2 were never going to lose funding. Waaaayyyy too many people employed and involved with them with a fancy South Lake Union building they built. I'd love to see financials from them because they pull in a lot of research money and act as a tech incubator/investor. They're probably pulling significant revenue from those ventures.
Dude, Gary Wilson had her name posted over 10,000 times claiming she was in porn and all kinds of nonsense before he killed himself. What a f-ing nightmare. And he was the one who got a defamation firm after attacking all those women for > 10 years! What a joke.
Part of my gripe when React moved to class syntax was the loss of auto-binding, not that its an inherent part of prototypes or anything but I didn't get why that should be sacrificed for 'a standard', unless there was stuff I'd forgotten were important gains
Yes. Compared to all those right to repair bills just coasting through Republican states.

Oh, there are none.

Edit: Basically your complaint is that Democrats deliver worse than ideal results because they are influenced by corporate money, which you claim is somehow worse than Republicans not even attempting to deliver results because they are influenced by corporate money so much more.
You will signal your obedience and adherence to sociopathic executive management and meme-driven "leadership," peasant.

/s
Thanks for the info! 8.8% still sounds like a lot, but definitely less than I was expecting.

Edit: Other sources from sibbling threads say it's much, much more than 8.8%.
It also kind of dictates that the employee dedicates square footage in his or her home for workspace, but also has to deal with commute, attire, transit schedules etc.

Yes, I can just elect to do 5 days/wk in office, but it seems like at least one of those days will be a pointless commute to interact with no one, plus all the other negative things about commuting.

Being in Seattle I know a _lot_ of people who have made lifestyle decisions about where to live and what kind of house to live in based on the assumption that WFH (specifically at Amazon) would persist.

It's going to be somewhat disruptive and seems like another de facto layoff.

However with this kind of layoff you lose people who have the most alternatives first.
Thanks a lot! Actually, <lp-theme/> is a webcomponent. It might not be recognized by your IDE, but it's a valid HTML tag for that specific use.

This component then inherit a shadow DOM where all the magic happen.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precursorism

states it more clearly

"... a characteristic of that kind of historical writing in which the author seeks antecedents of present-day institutions or ideas in earlier historical periods. This kind of anachronism is considered to be a form of Whig history ..."
>The biggest surprise to me is that it feels like there wasn't very much guidance or mandates on _how_ to work remotely

There are multiple billion dollar companies that have been full remote for years and their strategies are public. This hybrid stuff with 3 days in office will be worse than full remote or 100% in office. My guess is it's just a way to get rid of people without having to do more official layoffs

most people who complain about not being productive with remote work are basically trying to work exactly the same way as they would in office. Processes need to be documented and when to use different channels for communication need to be defined
It seems pretty clear to me that neighborhood level power grids are the way to go here. Large grids, long distance transmission and massive infrastructures are all a waste. Imagine if you could cut up a coal plant into small pieces and distribute it? Maybe a simple local neighbor grid sharing to cover a single failure.

I don't think power companies can (or want to) shift their thinking to local. Are their profits lost? Government subsidies lost?
He was grumpy because he was vastly overpaid, but snubbed for the CTO role, and knew his job was on the line.
I suppose it depends on the nature of the work, but if your job entails making something, it's not an option to not do any work. You might find cases of surreptitious outsourcing, but someone is producing something.

The second point is definitely a problem, though. Software engineering managers really should come to the role by way of software engineering. It's really difficult to determine the impact of a particular engineer, otherwise. Remote vs. on-premises doesn't significantly change that, though.
There’s massive federal involvement in East Palestine (of which FEMA is a part, but not the biggest part). But a lot of the things FEMA would fund in, say, a natural disaster are things Norfolk Southern is responsible for here (and which EPA – federal, but not FEMA) has already secured a commitment from them to pay for.
Family Guy had a futuristic episode with a gag ad “Watch Family Guy on Fox, now owned by Disney, now owned by Netflix, now owned by Pornhub”.
Why Trouble Is Brewing in Restaurant Tech Land: An Insider's Perspective
Having watched them kill a dozen or so of my friends, yea.. they can keep their heroin.
'We will invest more in India' says Sundar Pichai
> In 2019, 2 guys named Kevin Croker and Joel Weiner demonstrated that the universe's expansion rate varies based how heavy the space next to it is.

Does it expand faster next to heavy object or slower?
You also need to compare:

* natural gas -> home furnace -> fire -> warm air
vs
* natural gas -> fire -> heat -> electricity in massive generator -> home -> heat pump -> warm air

The latter is, surprisingly, something like 2x the efficiency because while large scale electricity generation from gas is only about 40% efficient, you can get a COP in the neighborhood of 5x on the heat pump.

The part that isn't obvious is that the fantastical-sounding "5x" isn't really about energy efficiency but rather about changing the problem from "generating heat" to "moving heat from one place to another".
Maybe try uBlock origin? It does it for me on Firefox (desktop and mobile). The alternate front ends can be nice too.
I took a work from home job 3 months or so before the pandemic, because I was already sold on never going into the office again. It's not that I'm extra-productive at home, it's that I was operating below my baseline level when working in the office, with its many distractions. For me, I consider the office a hindrance more than than working from home is a bonus.

In late 2019, when I switched to remote work, it was not particularly hard to find a WFH job. It was a little harder than finding a job at an office. There were certainly fewer companies who offered it than there are now.

At the end of quarantine, I think it's probably easier to find a WFH job than it was before the pandemic, and (ignoring the current job market) not much more difficult than ever to find a company that will let you work from the office if you want.

What I mean is, people generally have a better set of options with respect to choosing how they want to work today, compared to late 2019.

So, it's a good thing, except we still have to allow time for things to settle down. Companies who make all their employees return to the office will lose some of those employees, and companies who allow WFH will gain some of them. In the end, I still think it's a better situation than before.
Well I'm not holding my breath this is going to work for real. But, yeah, good initiative, at least some easy intel can be extracted from everywhere in one sweet sweap.

But again, humans do war, that's the way it works, it has been like that since when? a million of years?

Some new technology won't change all those gens and more important, the cultural memory teached by societies around the world: "war is a way to solve problems".

So, nice you did this, but better get ready for fighting involving AIs in the conflicts.
My biggest gripe with this more-productive-in-office take is that for the last 6 years all of my teams have been distributed (by the company). So those gaps in between replies still exist, now I'm just sitting in an office instead of at home.

Edit:

To further my rant. This distributed teamwork was occurring long before covid as well. Half my team at an insurance company was based in 2 other offices in Florida and in Chicago when I was on the west coast.
What feels sluggish? Load speed, and/or something else?
Under some elementary scenarios (and using some Postgres offerings), you can do a full major upgrade using logical replication (even with replicas). It depends on your situation, generally I agree, any sophisticated use of Postgres (lot of views, materialized or not, fast changing schema, large objects, and so on) makes upgrades a pain and is generally somewhat of an unresolved problem in my opinion.
The "stupid (but winning)" strategy is a good one it seems. They apparently get pruned before the AI works out that they can win.
Remote work is really rough with junior engineers. I'm trying really hard to help people but it comes in PR comments and scheduled zoom meetings instead of how it came for me, conversations over lunch, someone standing over my chair when I ask them for quick help. It's been so hard to scale people up. If I were a junior engineer I'd want return to office, but they seem to be the least likely to want it, because they've never had to come into an office before.
Yeah could use some more info. I added examples for the Python API. There’s some benchmarks buried in there. But it’d be nice to have a simple comparison in the readme to loading from a CSV or something like that.
> All you have to do then is burn/grind that kelp, and sink it in deep ocean trenches.

That could destory the ecosystem in deep ocean trenches if they are turned into massive sea weed rubbish dumps.
Pretty cool, but small suggestion for improvement---maybe add a banner with a TLDR on who killed him?
More targeted training won't do good, but why wouldn't more search help?

We've apparently entered the stage where the deciding factor between who wins, man or machine, is just an arms race.
Maybe ChatGPT is more like a human than I thought. It makes crap up just as much as the next person.
21st century Jenny[1]... only this time it's got an area code so the victim really only has himself to blame for not redacting his number in that screenshot.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny
Things have changed a lot in the last few years. This is a React Native vs. Ionic React+Capacitor responsiveness demo: https://twitter.com/magnemg/status/1404073426193690634?s=20

You can achieve 60 fps with webapps now: https://ionic.io/blog/ionic-vs-react-native-performance-comp...

With the Shared Element Transitions API you even get smooth page transitions (even for MPA's with full page reload): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mv0_jsWhoE
I didn't need any more reasons to avoid working at Amazon. Their work culture is famously toxic and their way of back-weighting the vesting schedule is perfectly constructed to make people endure abuse in the workplace. But this kind of attitude toward remote work really seals the deal. Truly an F-tier workplace.
It has nothing to do with herbicide, just some bullshit.

As with most successful rural populist movements, you follow the money. The company who owns a nuclear plant in New Hampshire funded the opposition to competition.
Wow this is so interesting, thank you for the link.
When I was put on a medication for a mental health disorder, I gained 50+ pounds in 3 months. My eating habits did not change. Explain that.
> But if my_func reads from, say, B1, it will not automatically re-run when B1 changes.

Is that a conscious design decision, or a technical limitation? I would definitely have expected it to automatically rerun by default.
Consistent in certain aspects, not all.

> If for example, they did rough extrapolations in the 50s, and then in the 90s they were able to do an exact and exhaustive count, it's a problem.

That's not a change that's happened, smaller volumes are still analysed, but no that's not necessarily a problem.

At such scales, "small" samples can be totally fine and have an extremely high chance of matching a complete analysis. That's why polling and sampling works.

The problem shrinks even more when you're looking at averages over groups. Smaller samples are noisy, not biased. Averaging over many doesn't lower bias but it does lower the noise.
Is there a standard folder tree of tiles -> PMTiles archiver or is that the wrong question to be asking?
Morphine abuse, not morphine deaths. The sad fact is that the illegality of these drugs is the factor fueling the creation of dangerous variants.

People gonna use their drugs.
Next horror movie idea : Doxed/hunted by the whole humanity because AI spewing your private information.
In other words, Microsoft has taken all of the fun, and much of the reason, to use Sydney away.
This is actually not great, because everyone else doesn't benefit, because it's in a DM that nobody else can see. In an office people near by will benefit too by being in earshot.
It was a 2.37% click through rate. That is pretty solid, where do you know of that gets click through rates consistently higher than that?
The views are nice, but the time on page stats from social media tend to be horrible. One of Simon's screenshots shows over a million pageviews with 43 minutes of time on page. This isn't a long blog post, but it is fairly information dense. Out of 1 million unique views, this is only enough minutes for a couple dozen people to have actually read the entire post.

Most of my blog's traffic comes in from Google, and I most of my posts that see a reasonable amount of traffic will have at least average 1 or 2 minutes of time on page.

If I get a spike in traffic to a page from Twitter, the average time on page will drop to 1 or 2 seconds.

When someone comes in from search, they are seeking information about something specific. The folks dropping in from Twitter are infinitely more likely to immediately click on something else.

I don't know that I write much that would be of broad interest to the Hacker News audience, but I would be much happier to see traffic from here than from Twitter. I would bet Simon's 49.5k clicks from here got him way more engagement than 712k clicks from Twitter.
To me this is a story of one AI beating another. Yes, there were humans involved on both sides of the equation.
> since all of the read-only parts of openSUSE MicroOS have now been moved to /usr, the upcoming 4.2.0 release of transactional-update would also be able to apply new snapshots without rebooting

Huge improvement, reboot to activate was a major downside.
Her criticism doesn't have much substance though, she says explicitly she can't follow one of the main arguments of the paper. I skimmed the paper myself, and it is quite esoteric, but it doesn't seem like nonsense to me. I wish she would react with more curiosity about it, and actually dig into it a little!
Disagree I have to fight them. Every political system is eventually jettisoned by generational churn.

Medicines we keep using keep proving their value to the present through experiment. We have binned plenty discovered in the past but later revealed to be snake oil.

As ephemeral gibberish does not exist it is naturally lost to time as those who memorized it die off. What’s literally true remains always verifiable by experiment.

I can find academic papers, political arguments we are in violation of the old ideas today anyway. How do we know we even abide them as intended and aren’t just abiding arbitrary math for staffing institutions described by the Constitution? They are not like organic chemistry where cause-effect is obvious. Does “America” give rise to society or people engineering together casually referring to some old gibberish when pressed? How do you test for existence of political ideology except by populist poll? Democratic majority rule. But that’s anti-America which is to prevent majority rule!

What I advocate is more like forgetting they exist by not teaching them. We can teach how to create together versus destroy each other, without the history lesson, and measure for impact literally to avoid carrying forward snake oil.
Some of these computers rely on parts that are hilariously simple individually, it's in aggregate that it becomes a computer.

For example, even a child could manufacture this with $10 worth of tools and parts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10#/media/File:KA10_mod_en...

Keeping machines from the 00s running is going to be a hell of a lot harder than keeping machines from the 70s running
> But the primary driver of the size of the homeless population is housing costs

You're flat out wrong here. It's drug addiction, alcoholism, mental illness and in some cases a complete lack of a social safety net. There is free housing, subsidized housing, shared housing, and more available to low/no income people all over California, Oregon and Washington. The majority of the homeless population does not take advantage of these programs because they require addiction therapy. They stay on the streets because drugs can be legally consumed and purchased without consequence. The sooner we listen to the police, fire fighters, and first responders who are on the ground dealing with these issues every single day, the better. Doing yet another study to prove it's housing costs and not the rampant out of control drug problem is worthless.
And from what I understand, the ship itself isn’t allowed to be touched the field is. Hence why folks are wanting it marked as a grave.
It sounds like the issues you are facing are more to do with the specific people and their attitude towards collaboration than with WFH specifically. You either don't need a response immediately, or if it's important to you or the business then you should be calling the person that has the info you need.

Even outside WFH this isn't solved. There are many distributed teams out there, you need to come up with a way to work with those that are on the other side of the earth to you.
while you always want to be careful with database load, that generally wouldn't be a concern for user defined types. In the example case, operating on the composite type would be more efficient than the string alternative for the most common operations (sorting, comparing, extracting sub-fields)
I think you're taking me for someone else. I do not make these decisions.

I support them, though. I'm a tax payer too, and I live here, and I like the fact that this city is a lot nicer now.

And there are parking spaces. Lots of them. At the edge of the city. With fast public transport to the center, and if you combine the two, the parking is incredibly cheap. It's a win for everybody. I have no idea where your weird entitlement comes from.
Not afraid to admit I never got rid of mine. Doing so would feel like throwing out a part of my soul. To me they are rich characters with inner lives.
Likewise, I think I’m now at 12 years majority remote. I actually prefer working in an office, but I moved out of London when my son was born and all the good jobs are there. I find a good balance for me is to be in the office once or twice a month, and on those days I don’t expect to get any real work done, it’ll all be either formal meetings or less formal catching up with people.

At least in my experience this hasn’t really held me back, even in predominantly office based companies. I definitely miss a bit of gossip, but I saw a steady stream of promotions over the years, ending up in fairly senior management, and I had good relationships with everyone I worked with.

I’m now in a different job which has a very remote focused culture - there is an office, but apart from one guy most of the technical team don’t really use it as much more than a hub for meeting up now and again.
Except in the rare case where a new idea emerges and is introduced fully formed in its final stage, there are precursors of present-day institutions and ideas in earlier historical periods so seeking them would just be normal history.
Some call it "sketching". It's similar to how artists would trace a few lines for structure before filling it out.

Another common approach is prototyping, where you build something that will be disposed for the purpose of learning. So you really won't feel any shame because you have to throw it out anyway.
parents focus would be something like on Teams, a work-centric platform where generally people are online while working or are required to be online.
I imagine the only con is extra spent brain-CPU cycles? Balance that against the benefit of a self-induced feeling of loving and the mental benefits that come with that like stability and stillness.

I think it'd be great for mental health
The synth toolkit seems clearly separated as a separate project 'AMY'.

But it does seem to be two things - the syncronization and network software/firmware, and the ESP-based hardware.
Yup, exactly same situation here. My company jumped on the bandwagon to hire a lot of remote workers, some in different time zones even. Now some meetings are at awkward times for everyone involved.
8AM meetings, 5-6PM meeting, etc.
7AM-10AM for deep work was my go to sweet spot before everyone clamoring for meetings and slack during the day. Now it's just more meetings that could've been an email.
It's also possible to use Notion / Logseq / Notes.app in a very brutalist, low-system way. I work at Notion but a huge system like this that's big on filing would never work for me. I use it like Notes.app, except I create databases for filing stuff like interesting links, furniture shopping, and a few other things, as needed. No upfront big shenanigans, and certainly no filing workflows!
Also the fear of people abusing ADHD drugs is causing massive amounts of harm. I have a legitimate issue but the drugs are highly controlled and I am viewed with suspicion. It's very very hard to get the drugs I need and I am treated like a criminal during the whole painful process. Meanwhile I could easily buy $100 of street drugs that would last me a YEAR with much less pain and suffering and hoops.

The government needs to get out of drug prohibition. It doesn't work. Let the medical community handle things. The DEA has no business setting production limits or even existing for that matter.