skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN has a tendency to explain every little thing with conspiracy theories. It can’t be a clear explanation based on incentives and people taking the path of least resistance, it must be malice. I’m not a psychologist, I don’t want to psychoanalyse why they think this way. But it is a bit tiring to interact with such people.
I find some of these sorts of discoveries interesting but often wonder what the point is. On one hand I like aspiring to learn about the universe, but on the other it seems like there is such a vast amount of wasted resources that could be put elsewhere.
Working from home is merely a benefit that has grown in popularity, comparable by importance to health insurance in certain industries, but fundamentally it is a benefit.

The decline in productivity can be attributed to a broader decrease in workplace morale in most American corps, for many obvious reasons. Contrarily, I have not come across stories of productivity issues in smaller organizations with effective management and engaged employees.

We are on the verge of a significant labor transition from poorly managed mega corporations to companies that prioritize employee well-being, trust-based management, and shared goals. Many of the top performers from big tech are already either founding these better companies or joining them, conceding to lower salaries and benefits to get some of their work satisfaction and morale back. Eliminating a valued employment benefit like remote work will only alienate more employees and hasten the shift.

In other words, if your Glassdoor ratings are below 65%, it's not work from home, it's that a large proportion of your employees hate working for you. And you need carrots, not sticks, to improve morale. I cannot believe this even needs to be said.
Waymo feature request: self-driving car waiting for a pedestrian for period of time, it screams "fool, I'm about to drive, so if you step in front of me, I'm driving right through your dumbass". Needs some little robot hands for deaf people. For those who simply aren't looking, it should use a water pistol.
The same principle applies in the USA. If you are best friends with the (D) party leaders, you are virtually immune to prosecution.

https://jeffhead.webs.com/liberty/liberty/bdycount.txt

(R) party is left to exist as a group of useful idiots who never pass any meaningful legislation that isn't immediately dismantled by (D) establishment within a few years.
There are plenty of competitors in the observability space, what's another one? The real issue is once your company is on a platform, it's very costly to move off. The biggest consideration is that it won't be a drop in change for all employees, so the retraining needed is substantial across all teams. Far easier to train employees in cardinality, and the cost implied by it, and to expose the cost for their particular monitoring to their teams.

This may come as a surprise but when giving money to a for-profit company, not only are you paying for corporate bloat, but you're also paying for the CEO's lavish compensation package, free lunches, and very costly health insurance for their employees. You're even paying for employee salaries while they're not doing work while on vacation!

If that's a big problem for you, Graphana may be the better product for you.
Or MASSIVE numbers of people that simply aren't working and are reconfiguring their lives to require a lot less money?

The constant downpressure on paying labor is now at the "quiet revolt" level.

The good news: if companies hate WFH, then why would they like outsourcing? It's basically the same problem, except with 3000 miles and 12 hour timeshifts and a language barrier.
Thats completely wild. Did coinbase go into trace mode and log every blockchain append to datadog? I cant even figure out how anything could cost that much.
> I could probably make a living out of extorting corrupt engineers.

Why don’t you walk the walk instead of merely talking the talk.
How is "productivity" being measured? The only source I can see is https://twitter.com/GregDaco/status/1654126098794565639, where "productivity" is a quantity, is there a economics-specific definition?

Also:

> U.S. productivity plunged 2.7% in the first quarter of this year compared to last year, EY found. That’s a 0.9% year-over-year drop. Concurrently, quarter-over-quarter output grew slightly (0.2%), and hours worked grew 3%. That means people are working longer hours and barely putting out more products, because they just aren’t as productive as they used to be.

Is 0.9% significant enough to not be a rounding error (especially considering "productivity" is a very broad measurement). I want to hear devil's advocate for how this shows anything.

The rest of the article is speculation from a chief economist and 2 CEOs that this is caused by WFH and increased job-hopping.
Pittsburgh, PA has plenty of houses under 100k. Here’s one that’s less than 250 miles away from you. Although this particular one is not a countryside house [1].

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1401-Cresson-St-Pittsburg...
I agree. Many applications log for the hello of it and log unnecessary information.

We have concepts of debug, info, warn and error… but I think we need apps to be developed with the concept of log concern.

For example take sshd. For infosec they are interested in IP of failed attempts, operations might want to know connection failures, etc.
We tried Datadog, and due to how they bill, our DD bill was more than the services being monitored. (At the time, we used a lot of short-term spot instances, which billed by the second, but DD billed by the hour per instance)

We reached out to DD to try to work something out, and they agreed to cut the bill in half, but only IF we signed up for additional services.

I will never use their services again, and will always share this story when their name is brought up.
I didn’t interpret the grand parent comment as defending this practice at all.
Yeah, I disagree. It dosnt seem right to capitalize on another's mistakes by calling them out on it, and then offering a competing plan.
If you believe the NYT crossword, it's spelled in whatever way gives you the right vowels on the right place ;)

But yeah, u-turn, not you-turn.
Why would you expect that as an outcome now? The old dinosaurs have the market locked down for at least a few more years.

Every massive tech company that reigns today was built at least a decade ago.
Self hosted signoz for opentelemetry? with grafana, prometheus, loki for metrics and logs?
Can you also prevent the BGS from scraping your server? What if I don't want to pay the networking bill they would cause? How is the BGS going to pay for sending out the firehose to all the listeners?

It's still unclear to me how the federated economics will work out
Interesting, my conclusion, it depends. That particular one has back foot just barely in the frame at critical moment.

Watching Troy Grady's closeups of leading guitar players picking hands from a few inches away didn't do much for me, but watching lots of telemark skiers vids helped pinpoint variables like pole length and pole plant reach that I would not have thought of.

So, like learning piano or violin or sports/kinematic skills, read and watch vids a little and practice a lot.
Tron Legacy is an amazing visual spectacle paired with an enjoyable story.

It's a shame that this site uses Vimeo embeds rather than Youtube. On Youtube, you can pause and use the , and . keys to advance and reverse by single frames to truly enjoy the wonder of the animation. On Vimeo, no such frame-by-frame scrubbing seems to be available.
I live in the US, and for most places I travel in-country, my experience is similar to yours.

There are exceptions, of course.
the term is much more popular in Aus than in the states, in my experience. there is more of a 'ambition can/will hurt you' culture.
I think that is pretty fair, but maybe I am more interested in the "keeping it running" component. Labor of love and donations can only go so far. When a env/population outpaces love and donations, what keeps the servers online? Does the decentralized nature of Mastodon minimize cost? Or has it just not reached a critical mass?

Im more interested in the Mastodon/Bluesky approach to re-decentralizing (we had thriving forums long ago). But eventually cost does add up and monetization (or a benevolent benefactor) has to be considered.
Hiring this type of professional does not come at a "competitive rate"
Here I'm thinking that sending an email to get data back like this an odd choice compared to something like an API sending back JSON or XML or anything other than a friggin email.
Svelte is even betterer
> Daco acknowledged hearing from clients that remote work could be making employees, well, work less hard.

So just hearsay it is remote work. No evidence.
Put up a few sample notebooks. Screencap you going through the sample notebook, no audio necessary.

Just something that lets people even guess what's there. As-is, I (and I suspect many others) will just bin it, since "come back later" is just too expensive in terms of mental load. If I knew it was relevant to me, I might - but without it, you're wasting the attention you're getting.
The ML community keeps rediscovering the work of Steve Grossberg. This is very similar to his decades-old ART model.
CSCI0190 Accelerated Introduction to Computer Science BrownU
From below, I suspect most structures like that are ugly. But personally I think the new bridge span looks nicer than what it replaced. Not gonna sing its praises, but I think it's an improvement.
https://gomakethings.com/
Somewhat related - if you like the soundscape of "old VHS" you should check out the artist VHS Head, he samples music from old videotape cassettes. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiPGoIicGrAU32LR987iD9g
Exactly. 100% right.
I read your comment as:

"Let's make artificial fake work to make sure that people have something to do and money."

Hopefully we can do better than that.
If you dont mind using the console apps, it seems like you are able to query from gosky and slurp all(?) of the data with the bigsky app. Im not sure if that is intended though. I dont even have an account or invite code yet -- just on my local server.
People who aren't harmed by these things don't notice them. Their incentive is to ignore as much as possible. Turning a blind eye is literally the safest option. But when you've had it rough, you literally can't stop seeing this stuff everywhere.

If you change your mindset from ignoring problems to looking for problems, you will find that there are problems everywhere. I'd rather be biased in that way than in the former. In my position, I can't afford to ignore even the tiniest problems.
> This is about client side apps fetching arbitrary JSON payloads, but your htmx backend needs to do the same work, right? You have to work with the raw data you get from your DB (or another service) and then render based on that data.

In your analogy, the client JS code is like the serverside code, fetching over the network instead of directly from the DB, and then doing essentially the same work from there... materializing html and a set of controls for the user to interact with.

In a sense, I see your point.

But there's a difference: When you materialize the html on the server and send that over the wire, the browser does all the work for you. When you take the SPA approach, you must re-implement much of what the browser does in JS, and hence the well-known trouble with routing, history, and so on. You can argue that React/Angular/whatever takes care of this for you at this point, and to some extent it's true, but you're still cutting against the grain. And even as mature as the frameworks are, you will hit weird edge cases sometimes that you'd never have to worry about with the browser itself.
Like statistics about Qanon (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/11/16/5-facts-a... ) I would guess viewership is more bipolar.
Given your username, one would assume that you know the 3 uses of a money. But you know what they about assume-ing. I use bitcoin on a daily basis for the most important usage of a money - store of value.
I know many of the senior folks at Datadog and they aren't stupid.

They wouldn't hire someone dumb enough to spend $5M a month on their product.
Raymond Chen has about a million blog posts describing some of these efforts.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
The talk of essential and incidental complexity is, in practice, far less useful than it seems. It's just very easy to just agree in trying to just get rid of incidental complexity, in the same way that it's easy for people to agree on getting rid of unnecessary, wasteful government programs, until the second you define which ones you mean.

Every time I've had that argument at work, ultimately there's no agreement of what is essential. In one of the worst cases, the big fan of the concept was a CEO considering themselves very technical, who decided that everything they didn't understand was obviously valueless and incidental, while everything they personally cared about was really essential complexity, and therefore impossible to simplify... even though the subsystem in question never had any practical applications until the company failed.

So ultimately, either the focus on avoiding incidental complexity is basically a platitude, or just a nice way to try to bully people into your favorite architecture. A loss either way.
This sounds more like hopium to me. I'd sure like some of what they are smoking, but that doesn't make the reality any better.

You would think these people would be educated enough to know how supply and demand actually works, and how if inflation goes up, you are paying your workers less. Completely disingenuous.

You get what you pay for, and arbitrarily abusing your staff by changing the metric goalposts every few months to justify churn to pound pennies breaks trust, as much if not more than making them RTO during the pandemic, risking their lives on a job role that can be done completely remotely because you believe workers work best in the office when you really just want to justify the outlays you're stuck with having an office.

I know people who died because of that.
Htmx actually can be used with these restrictions, there is an extension to do client side rendering from a JSON response [1]. And you can make htmx send JSON requests instead of form data [2].

The idea is easily extendable to any template engine, so you can keep your device response minimal while enjoying the simplicity of htmx. I will admit though, this approach gets funky much faster, than returning HTML fragments, so you probably shouldn't exclusively build your app with this client-side-templates

[1]: https://htmx.org/extensions/client-side-templates/
[2]: https://htmx.org/extensions/json-enc/
You can't because some people hosted extremely popular files (often starting with p- and ending in -orn) on the few GB that your local ISP gave you. And your local ISP suddenly needed to serve hundreds of terabytes they didn't have in their peering budget.

So now you need caps. And enforcement. And exceptions. And suddenly, you have a cloud service provider. And they've invested a ton into making the place nice, and there are teams drawing salaries keeping this running, and "succession protocols" aren't making them any money.

What you're asking for is infrastructure. Humanity to date has not found a way to finance long-term working infrastructure that doesn't involve a government, because that's the only body that invests in the commons. (Yeah, sometimes we pretend we can privatize, and then you get PG&E, and everybody suffers)
Great feedback—will add tomorrow!
> Zulip’s support strategy is, as much as possible, to solve the reported problem
> it’s not how most companies handle their support load

This is so sad, Alexa play despacito. If "most companies" no longer actually solve issues through customer service, what is even happening to the world?

I'm starting to feel like the purpose of customer service is actually to waste the customer's time with the impression of helpfulness until they no longer have any energy and give up pursuing other avenues.

Presumably to prevent upset customers from leaving bad reviews, trying to contact anyone else at the company, or threatening legal action.

It's just de-escalation and exhaustion.
I’m still baffled that most people in the US (generalization based on the fact that tipping still lives on) accept tipping over making employers pay (or go out of business, if they can’t - capitalism) livable wage to their workers by making it a law.
Sitemap footer is not the best idea since I lose my scroll position.
Ask HN: Did Chrome's (Dev Tools console) autocomplete just change?
Specifically, did Enter used to select the first autocomplete choice, and now only Tab does? Enter works for all choices down the list besides the first one. My pinky muscle memory says that Enter used to finish the line.

This coincides with my installation of VSCode suddenly preferring global autocomplete names to local ones, almost to the day; and I can't find the settings to change either. The net effect is giving me the impression that I'm suffering from early onset dementia. I just wanted to know if I'm the only one running into this.
It would be interesting to see the effect LLMs apps like ChatGPT and Co-pilot will have.
> Being on a dating or hookup app is evidence of temptation, but in itself no more than that.

This could be true, merely having an application doesn't mean someone is continuing on to do other things. The problem is that a priest isn't understood in a Catholic context merely be a private person. Publicly going on one of these "dating" applications and identifying oneself in such a manner lends itself towards the sin of scandal among other issues.

> I do wonder if any of the priests were on these apps to try to identify any other priests who were on there, not because they themselves were gay.

This would need need to be considered, but it seems unlikely. First, this idea is highly unlikely since without data analysis (which was done by the group discussed iirc) you're essentially exposing yourself to material you find objectionable go a goal that has minimal practical likelihood of being successful. On top of that, the kind of priest who would want to expose bad behavior isn't the kind of person who would ever considering using these applications. Also, if my memory serves me from when I first heard about this, data/information was simply referred to the relevant bishop who in turn would choose if/how to proceed.
I felt that same feeling in ~2009 when I first joined Facebook, before it had ads. I think new communities in general tend to feel more "pure" in the beginning. Of course keeping that intimacy long term is the challenge.
Macarthy was disgraced by 1954, and almost universally reviled for the lives he ruined with his slander. I think you can point to him as an example of what happens when demagogues go unopposed (even for a time) in the American system, but not as the normal or desired product of our political system.
https://archive.is/nwZKw
Yes, there are plenty of tutorials and videos out there. Hell, vim has a built in tutor.

I would not recommend learning vim from ChatGPT, or much of anything serious. Use it as a reference, not a source of truth
This I agree on. I'd also add based on my experience, consultancies add to the issue. After 20+ years of meddling and pushing the latest idea we are still not productive
My small team had to choose between New Relic and DD and I found New Relic's billing model to be more appetizing. It was per seat and you could switch who was in the seat. Unlimited instances and most of the features were covered under that seat besides some extra things like HIPAA / Finance related stuff. They also have "regular" users that are free that can make dashboards and such. DD drove me nuts with their crazy amount of sales calls that just seemed to balloon.
After a sales call that I was unimpressed with, they began calling my engineers in order to put pressure on me to re-engage.

Harassing engineers is a hard no.
"to companies that prioritize employee well-being, trust-based management, and a shared objective"

These are neither sufficient nor necessary. There are (and will be) companies that succeed without prioritizing one or more of these. And there are (and will be) companies that prioritize all three and yet fail.
It's pretty funny to me how quickly all the comments are saying this is a conspiracy against WFH. Maybe at least entertain the thought that on aggregate people are less productive w/ WFH?

IMO there are a still a ton of benefits outside productivity such as life satisfaction, housing costs and maybe this can cure the fertility decline that make it worth the productivity decline.
No way do we want the internet to suck even more like those other services
What I would have done is removing the free plan for new subscription, but the existing free subscription should not be terminated.
Quite the opposite. Several divisions in my organisation and others in our group have decided to gradually move to a model where about half of us work from home for the medium term, and that number is expected to increase over the next five years.

They are already saving a significant amount of money by giving up our old offices. The mode of engagement between staff and across teams has obviously changed and continues to do so, but productivity is back to pre-Covid levels. We meet in person when there's a real need, say once a week or two.

Even allowing for the possibility that the contents of the article are true (which I seriously doubt ... it reads like sloppy reporting and cheap sensationalism) this is one man's view, biased and coloured by his own interests.
> Addresses are classified as either verified or flagged on-chain through soulbound NFTs. A type of NFT that has no trade value as it cannot be sold. Once minted, it is stuck to the given address.

This should probably be called an "addressbound NFT". Is there anything that would prompt it to follow a bad user to a new address or wallet?

I'm mostly cryptocurrency negative, and have never used any cryptocurrency. I presume you've thought of a variety of means your tool can be abused and have taken action to ameliorate that abuse in advance?
Sounds like the problem is having "sprints". As far as I know, most teams at Google and Meta don't.
I think when many people say decentralised they mean federated, or something along those lines.

Email and IRC today are, as far as I know, highly centralised, but not in the same way that, say, social networks are.

Even the web is somewhat centralised (and I suppose always has been, to some degree) but it's clearly and successfully federated.
I think this is the point of the client side check though - if the user makes a typo (e.g. gamil.com) then the client side validation can prompt them to check, before the server sends the validation email and annoys the owner of the typoed address.
This is either AI generated, or their editor quit. Wordy in a weird, duplicative way.
HuggingFace space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hysts/Shap-E
>The good news: if companies hate WFH, then why would they like outsourcing? It's basically the same problem, except with 3000 miles and 12 hour timeshifts and a language barrier.

I had similar argument with my previous employer, it was simply about “culture” and “team work dynamics” and other BS, ironically, when most of management team was allowed wfh but denied for software/engineering team