skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I could walk 5 min to my office, would I still want to work from home?

I walk 5 min to my office and I still want to work from home most of the time. I like going to the office as well, but I prefer staying home.
Ed Lee:

Lee has been credited with catalyzing San Francisco’s tech boom early in his term by passing a business-friendly tax-exemption that he (correctly) predicted would help lure economic development into a distressed part of town. Called the Central Market-Tenderloin Area Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion, it waived payroll taxes for companies whose payroll exceeded $1 million in exchange for a community benefits agreement, and a commitment to build in the Tenderloin area. After Lee used the exemption to harpoon Twitter in 2012, it became sourly known as the “Twitter Tax Break.” Other tech companies like Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Dropbox followed Twitter into the city, bringing with them municipal grants, large philanthropic donations to non-profits, and increased local purchasing—in exchange for whopping tax breaks diverted from the city budget.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/what-ed-l...

Without Ed Lee's tech friendly policies, San Francisco's tech industry might have never boomed the way it did.

As a resident of San Francisco from before the tech era, during, and after, I can recall just how awesome and transformative the first wave of tech companies were to the city. Those companies were Twitter, Uber, Airbnb. Maybe a few more that I forgot. They kick started the tech wave. Many tech companies spawned from larger ones.
How so? Apple's already announced support for 3rd party passkey stores to integrate into the OS (to allow passkey authentication in apps), and the 1Password extension supports passkeys across the major browsers (though support's in beta).
is it only allowed to live in behemoths?
I'm not a manager and agree that in an office I'm more productive, but at home I'm much cheaper for the company and the company gets more for their money.

Realistically at Google I'd probably be an L5 or L6 software engineer so let's say I'd make somewhere around 400k USD. Working from home in Spain I make 80k euros and I cost the company around 92k euros with taxes, so let's round it up and say I cost to the company 100k USD per year.

I'm not 4 times less productive for working in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Spain, so even if I'm not in my peak productivity I'd say the company gets more for their money.
> - Implement Green New Deal but add a metric tonne of taxpayers money to support Hidrogen because Shell says so

Hydrogen is pretty much the main hope for truly carbon neutral replacement of industry use of natural gas (huge in Germany for instance). Long range transportation could also probably use it - modern day batteries are simply impossible to use on e.g. medium and up range aircraft.

It's not simply a "because Shell said so thing". France is also investing massively in hydrogen, in multiple local companies Shell has nothing to do with.

> - Start a Ban on ICEs but then push it back another 15 years because Exxon says so

I'm fairly sure the ban on new ICEs is for so out in the future because it's simply impossible to replace all automobile manufacturing capacity much quicker; and if anyone is lobbying against it (do Exxon even do business in the EU??), it's existing EU-based manufacturers that have to retool their entire supply chains to produce EVs. Most are on their way, but EVs are still a small part of their portfolio and manufacturing capacity. Not to mention the drastic loss of employment that will come. It's just not something you can do with short notice.
I have been watching Google Search Console closely for little over a year now due to several projects I have on it and have observed similar issues.

These patterns predate the GPT3 and ChatGPT changes.

Patterns I have seen:
1. New site does not get indexed, though it satisfies all of Google's requirements.
2. Old sites slowly lose pages from it's index. Sometimes pages get added again but the net change is always negative.
3. New pages added to existing sites also do not seem to be indexed.

OTOH, if there are indexing issues that Google warns about, you fix it and mark it as fixed in Google, those get verified around 2 weeks later and has a sizeable impact on impressions.
It's not just the commute. It is so hard to focus in an open-plan office, which most tech companies still insist on.
I was skeptical of the Dyson Zone – until NYC’s worst air quality ever
Agreed. And I am not aware of a heapsort that can take advantage of SIMD, so our not very well-tuned heapsort is about 20 times slower in practice than our VQSort (vectorized quicksort).
Oh Peter was definitely selling his new book at the time, but his mannerism came across as quite manic.

I actually bought one of Peter's books and found it quite enlightening at the time, but then found out that some of it didn't quite like up with reality and he seemed unwilling to adjust some of those view points.
> The synergy of having hardware people walk by you and clarify assumptions is priceless.

Is it worth the price of mass daily commuting on the wealth and mental health of employees, and on the planet?
Why wouldn't Reddit charge end-users for the API access?
This whole situation around Reddit and 3rd party apps is based on the fact that they wanted to charge $$$ the app _developer_.

Why wouldn't they charge that app _users_ instead?

You download the app, it grabs a personal API key and starts using it. If you are a light user, you'll remain within free tier allowances. For heavy users the app would prompt to pay up a bit, just to offset the loss of the "ad revenue", to pay for the API infrastructure plus some profit margin. If the user numbers of 3rd party apps are as claimed, this should end up being a couple of bucks per month if that much. If Reddit feels greedy, they can eliminate the free tier completely and it will still be largely fair - you get to choose between free ad-based default experience and 3rd party apps.

Finally, those who use API to vacuum user content for their ML training needs, they will just fall into the super heavy consumer category and be billed accordingly.

This is a dead simple solution to all this circus. Why isn't this considered? What am I missing?
Bang! Unix shell magic inside of Jupyter
Hey, I'm also interested in knowing. Please do let me know if you find out how they created that.
Yeah, liberals never stick to dogmatic beliefs. That's why they all insisted that Johnny Depp was the abuser because he's a man.
It’s great if you move there with $1M in your pocket for a down payment. I think a somewhat boring city, but the access to nature is unparalleled (well, at least comparable to Denver or SLC).
Tell me you're not a gardener without telling me you're not a gardener
Am I talking to the hive mind of HN? If not, let others think for themselves.
My commute is 3 hours both ways. Bearable 1-2 days, but not 5. 1 day is enough to have most periodic meetings in person if everyone on the team comes the same day. To make office less empty different teams can come on different days so much smaller office can be used. The problem is many companies bound by long term contracts so a large office is a sunk cost.
Which means being always behind. I rather have the Typescript team improve the experience, on their bootstrapped compiler.
I wrote a TUI tool (runs over SSH in a terminal) for managing simple WireGuard configuration on the server: https://github.com/andrianbdn/wg-cmd

You just run it on your server and it does most of things, including generating WireGuard keys for clients and showing QR codes.
I am not sure why the downvotes. My comment doesn't imply that we cant or shouldnt have mechanisms to factor out bias or other human nature traits. I think it is precisely because it’s in our nature that we should actively seek a fair process. Nature wont change but the process can.
This thread is an amazing case study in the wide range of natural ability people have at using their hands.

I think I'd take an entire year to be able to use that!

Maybe going the opposite way would be more effective, a mirror in front of you so you can see the keys with your peripheral vision without moving your eyes.

Similar to how you can always see your fingers when typing on a phone. I can type without actively staring at the keyboard on my phone pretty well, although that may because thumbs only is just fewer points to process than ten fingers, for those of us who have trouble paying attention to multiple points at once.
+1

Also during my time there, yes there were roles with direct reports outside, but if you kept your eyes open you quickly saw that there was effectively a glass ceiling outside of MTV, NYC (and for some groups, LON or ZRH).

People would consistently get promoted more easily for less impactful projects, and getting headcount and approvals for projects in satellite offices was damn near impossible.

If you wanted to get ahead - To L7 or L8, even L6 on some projects - you had to relocate.
and you conveniently left out the part where we are:

A) Very handsomely paid

B) Not as tied to an expensive city (if remote is an option)

C) Able to ask our employers to pass on office space savings to us.
How can you type in English with your foreign accent? I can barely make out a word, and your pronunciation is terrible.
US CDC sets first federal target for ventilation of indoor air to lower risk
No. I don't like it either. I really had two points, my personal disbelief in his line of reasoning AND The guardian taking a both sides approach. I undersold that side,a point you make better.
A Swiss hospital turned an underground ‘bunker’ into a day-lit jungle
Yes.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/human-genomic-bycatc... ("We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies")
I live in a relatively small city of Spain, working for a considerably big consulting company. It takes 30 minutes to walk to the office from my home, and I'm on remote 1-2 days a week.

This is a lovely balance. While the vast majority of my team is distributed across the country (and Europe, too), having the flexibility to stay at home or work alongside colleagues from other projects is great.

Need to focus on development one day? I'll stay at home, since it is more peaceful and my equipment is better (long live big screens with high refresh rates). Want to not worry about cooking and have lunch with other people? I'll go to the office.

I'm also quite active too. It can be a bit tedious, but walking at least 6km everyday does wonders for your health. Specially since I'm a type 1 diabetic.

Nevertheless, my contractor is far from perfect (I could rant for hours about how absolutely crap our company laptops are for developers). But it seems like these kinds of situations can only happen in small, compact cities; which is usually the case for Europeans and rarely for US cities.

I'd highly recommend hybrid to anyone who can afford it, but, as always, your mileage may vary
Avast has a well-documented history of selling people's browser data. Random Developer #155767 does not, and is therefore more trustworthy.
You're not the first one to reply to the OP saying that. Seems like even on Hackernews people want to farm Karma. But for what reason? To then eventually sell their accounts to spammers perhaps?
I keep seeing it as my train comes into Peterborough station.
And what if it were race/ethnicity?
He is talking about the difference in difficulty of local vs remote, not the difficulty of managing full stop.

And he is right, managing remotely is a minimal change. I've been managing and working with people remotely for years, as has everyone who deals with coworkers not in the same office as they are.

It doesn't matter to me if they are in an office in another country or in their jammies at home in that same country, they are thousands of miles away from me.
There are some excellent ones in German by Heise, check out https://www.heise.de/select/ There are others too, there's still a fairly healthy market for IT magazines in Germany.

They also still come as print publications. The iX magazine is focused on software development. Not affiliated in any way btw.
> That doesn’t mean the performer who made the version...

She didn't make it. She sang a part of it. And it isn't as if they knew how successful this recording would become.

I'm not Brazilian, but I'm a fan of bossa nova. The way some people are talking in this thread as if the entire song was created by Astrud seems absurd. The position completely erases the work done by the men who pioneered bossa nova as a genre. Do you actually listen to this music? What do you do when listening to this album? Do you fast forward past the lengthy saxophone solos?
Not that I disagree, but it's not "no one". There are more countries than just Turkey with the letter ü :)
> Homes are full of distractions

My office has a loud sales team, a loud sales bell, chairs that nearly touch each other back-to-back, A/C that dries out my throat, people who spend 20 minutes chatting at desks, stupid policies that I can't keep up with (and daily moaning about something in Slack) and lots of viruses.

My office has none of that. The biggest distraction is the nice view out of my window.

Horses for courses and YMMV

All it took was a little discipline not to be tempted to some chores doing the day. Pretty easy to overcome that
As a fellow ADHD’er and soon remote worker could you share any ADHD specific tips to be successful?

I’m both excited and hesitant as Remote work should let me work when I’m productive more (ie evenings) with exercise and chores in the afternoon “deadzones”, etc. That and not spending energy masking in an office environment.

However there classic adhd problems to contend with like keeping schedule, etc. I also find I need people to stimulate me. I’ve been thinking of a coworker spot in addition to my home office.
I think it makes perfect sense in its immediate context, my parent asked a question about the morality of tax evasion, I gave some examples where there was wide consensus that people not paying their taxes was moral, but it still would have been referred to as evasion. Other people were bringing up examples of tradesmen and stuff, not just crypto. I will leave it to the federal government to render the final verdict on SBF but he ain't got shit on Gandhi, that's for sure.
There's a lot of conflicts in the world. I bet you're neutral on many of them (because you don't even know them). Does that mean you actively support the winning side?
> Odin instead takes the position that everything is zero-initialized by default...

> Exhaustive field setting does remove uncertainty and I was very skeptical about just leaving things to zero-initialization, but overall I would say I prefer it. It really does work out most of the time...

Vlang does this as well (also influenced by Wirth/Pascal/Oberon/Go). Overall, this is an advantage and greater convenience for users.
It is funny that you mention it, I also had this feeling. There is very much a pattern and rhythm palpable from ChatGTP's answers. Together with an almost mathematically nuanced position. I wonder if this is inherited to the model or the because of the layer written on top and/or the prompt. Many times when I try and make a query to it I can already predict the exact dry content it will give me. Which is too bad because I usually use it as find refuse from being able to predict the dry and useless SEO spam a Google query would give me.
Yep. Mine were filmed with one of these. But dad would film for a few minutes, put it down, smile and wave, hand it to mom.

Having something strapped to your face is a different beast.
I miss Byte Magazine but not the annual PC Magazine Best Printer Edition tome.
It's like saying you can go to your garage and emulate being a car
You're probably right with regard to Slack, Discord. However, some Electron apps require access to the filesystem or other APIs that these installed web pages wont't support (as far as I know). FS access is listed as a wishlist item in the article.

Electron still has a lot going for it if you need access to system APIs or you want it to be cross platform.
> I wonder how non-technical users will react to this behavior.

I stopped using it. And each time I go back, it doesn't get better. Maybe next year.
But "Caucasian" is (was?) used for people who for many generations weren't anywhere near Caucasus Mountains.
Brave has its own Rust implementation of an adblocker embedded in the browser: https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust; so it does not embed uBlock Origin (but the filters are mostly compatible)

Disclaimer: I work at Brave but not on the browser.
Ding dong crypto is dead -- good riddance - now all the blockchain "experts" can rebrand themselves as "AI" experts :).
HashiCorp just let go 8%
Most serious electron based applications are not single threaded.
The EU should've just mandated websites to follow the Do Not Track header. That would have saved everyone a lot of effort.
2600 is still around.
Maybe you're just not a good remote manager?

No offence.

Perhaps you're a fantastic on-site manager. But you should consider the probability (from what I've read) that remote management isn't in your toolkit ... and it is a distinct skill.
I like the overall idea a lot but I felt that the Gherkin language itself hamstrings the process - for four main reasons:

* Excessive verbosity

* Not type safe

* It lacks story abstractions (i.e. you can't flexibly create variations on a scenario, extend existing scenarios, etc.).

* You need to fiddle with regexes.

A side effect of these semantic/syntactic problems is that gherkin stories end up being too vague to be useful - i.e. the meat of the story is often missing.

I created a StrictYAML based alternative with python that I think has all of the benefits, fixes those 4 problems and doesnt suffer from traditional "YAML" problems: https://github.com/hitchdev/hitchstory

I call this "BDD with meat".
They just released a new beta last month. Doesn't seem very "stopped" to me.
I've done that in the past, back when I was running Linux on very slow & apparently somewhat fragile solid state devices on a netbook, and when trying to keep traditional drives as quiet as possible in a desktop pretending to be a server that was on all hours, but for the most part I leave logging on and not overly buffered these days. SSDs are quiet and reliable¹ ATM.

--

[1] though for anything I care about I still RAID1² everything

[2] with devices from different sources, to reduce the chance of both dying at the same time (or the second dying before the first is replaced and the mirror rebuilt)
What database do you use for storing metrics?
I started learning programming (C++) when I was 12-13 (2000-2001) because a guy on QuakeNet told me I should learn how to code if I want to learn about hacking. All these years later I'm very well paid to create distributed systems in technologies I could've never imagined back then.

The funny thing is that I want to stop doing that and have other problems instead, because I'm just tired of everything that has to do with what (mostly) web development (and other distributed systems) has become and this incessant either layering more things on top of other things or adding extraneous things.

I'm currently re-orienting around a possible switch to game development.

(For those who might think I'm being impossibly naïve; I have plenty of lower-level experience and have worked at 2 game studios previously, it's not that foreign of a world. I originally left to do consulting because it paid significantly better.)
The concern is not about trust but gatekeeping the providers.

For example in the case of email, you generaly dont worry about google reading your email but we should definitely be concerned if gmail allows send & recieve from only few domains or providers it chooses.
Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Bivalent Vaccine
What is KnockoutJS and how is it relevant in Magento 2?
If you have just started to learn Magento or have already been doing for some time, there is a higher chance that you have not given a deeper thought about learning Knockout JS. But, it is vital to understand Knockout JS as its “data-binding” concept has been used pretty well in some crucial elements of Magento such as minicart and checkout.
You can emulate commute fatigue by standing next to your nearest busy street to absorb the noise pollution for 45 minutes before and after the working day. You can't emulate the lack of commute fatigue while working at the office. So there's no downside and only upside vs. from office.

The optionality argument makes the decision pretty obvious to me.
The primitive "filter taped to box fan" model worked fine for me in Portland during the massive fires of 2020. Maybe not the greatest thing for the fan, but my indoor AQI sensor would go from reading like 250+ to under 100 pretty quickly. And of course, the filters basically turned black in a short period of time.
That's a very interesting site.

I got Average system cost [EUR/MWh]: 101.9 which is more than nuclear, when solving for renewables + storage + hydrogen.
You comment is flagged. Guess the mods here are no different lol.

Anyway, for me, "Narwhal baconed at midnight" was when I realized the site was overrun was kids. Slow decline while obsessively looking for alternatives since then.
That's actually a good way to put it. I wouldn't say they're mentally defective though, because many of these people are quite intelligent but are made "stupid" by social phenomena.
I think parent talks about people in South Africa referring to themselves as ‘African American’.
Question, don't we have enough food production[0]? Basic search says we're doing well enough in that regard.

[0] https://news.thin-ink.net/p/we-produce-enough-food-to-feed-1....
There's a lot of places that care about performance now, but in many if them, instead of optimizing your own business logic, you would be building performant platforms so that others could build their own business logic on top of them, be it V8 or Unreal.

Honestly, I think that this separation of concerns makes much more sense.
it's actually really frustrating-- moved to sf during the pandemic. it was empty but didn't feel so bad. it feels way worse now, lots of shops closed up or moved, a lot of sketchy areas downtown, the whole foods closed mid-market, so i'm moving to south bay. can definitely afford it, but wanted the car-free life.

coming from europe, it's sad and disappointing. last time i was in sf was in 2016 or so for work and it felt way better, and that was commuting to soma and walking around market at night
This was extensively discusseds by Apollo developers themselves, also in HN threads. There are technical hurdles on how to implement this (don't remember the details atm) but the more important point is that Reddit is not interested. They don't want money from subscriptions. Serving the API costs them nothing. They want the much bigger ad/tracking income -> having the userbase use 1st party apps.
My friend. Of course you don't know what he is talking about. When you ask a fish what is water? It doesn't know. It was surrounded by it it's whole life.

When you ask a reddit mod what is bias? It doesn't know. It was surrounded by it its whole life.
Because it's much easier to charge Google a gazillion dollars for access to the reddit firehose than to nickle and dime the user base.
San José has a downtown that's not so terrible.
similar thoughts here but I think there will always be a successor to a good community, and if you experienced it before, you'll be able to find the next one
Also highlighting the E-6B Mercury (and the upcoming EC-130J), which among other communication options has a 5-mile (!) VLF antenna it deploys vertically in midair (!!) to establish limited-bandwidth communications with submarines.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=en-qekZX4ws

But I believe that's only good down to ~60 ft. Anything deeper requires the really long land-based ELF arrays.