skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm massively in favor of WFH—but I think this is a bit of an absolutist take.

I can see plenty of people who are enjoying WFH, but would be willing to return to the office if they no longer had to work in a cube farm, but could have their own private office, that they could decorate to their taste, and where they could play their own music. And, perhaps most importantly, have a door that they could keep closed so that if anyone wants to interrupt them, they actually have to knock first.

As someone who has done a 30-minute commute to a cube farm, a 45-minute and a 5-minute commute to a private office, and WFH, there's basically no reasonable amount of money you could pay me to go back to a cube farm, but if I didn't have specific personal reasons for wanting to remain fully remote, I would be very willing to consider another job in a private office.
Imagine randomly accusing someone of multiple murders on the internet with absolutely no proof.
Thanks! It looks awesome and better but also more expensive (and slightly less "out of the box") than TheC64, at least when I got mine.
Hacker News automatically removes the word "How" from the beginning of submissions (and then Title Cases them for good measure) - so I believe submitting that title would instead result in this:

I'm Helping My High School Peers Learn About CPUs

I might be wrong though, it might only do this with "How to ...".
Entirely discarded? So the child is a clone of the parent of the corresponding sex?
The reality is "being informed" is not all it's told to be. What am I going to do about 90% of the stuff? Nothing. So why stress myself out about it?
How does the dual income effect never get mentioned? In these articles its like you work from home in a vacuum, and going from remote to back to the office should be as trivial as flipping a lightswitch. The vast majority of coupled these days are dual income. It is so much simpler to find a place to live when you both work remotely, than to try and find some middle ground that is as convenient as possible to both workplaces, but this hard sought convenience goes away with the snap of the fingers should one of your jobs change. Now you are back to square one trying to triangulate housing between two offices and perhaps a school or this that and the other thing.

Remote work just makes that entire concern irrelevant. You can now live in the same location all your working years if you wanted. I see people talk about things like not having to commute as being big factors, but this benefit of not having to uproot I think is even more significant. Moving is terrible.
Containers/docker/kubernetes and embedded systems that use e.g busybox is what I’ve seen. Also macOS (used to?) ship ancient bash versions, but there’s recent zsh so that’s mostly fine.
> Those who are happy to return to the office in general are those who do not like WFH and prefer more contacts and a change of scenery.

Or those with distractions at home. They can WFS, but I can see them being ok returning to an official office.
I don't know if it's true or not, but it's a reasonable hypothesis. There has been no evidence that RTO decisions are being made on data, studies, or anything other than what management feels is right, either. So all we have hypotheses.
Making offices bigger and nicer will

1) mean fewer offices (per unit space, since they are bigger)

2) make people more likely to come in (since they are nicer)

The point where those cross over seems like a good target, the highest number of happy office workers you can fit.
even if you like the place, hard to beat lunch with the wife
> The only real solution to this is some kind of legislation that makes it difficult to carry on with business as usual.

I have watched the voluntary full body scans at TSA checkpoints for years and have concluded people do not care to opt out of any data collection. The people don't care, or how many people do you see opting out of full body scans at TSA? People gleefully pose for TSA's new and voluntary facial recognition.

People go along with coercion even by government, so why do you think we can rely on government to solve privacy issues?
Why would they go public at this time? It seems like companies do this because they need a big infusion of cash. I’m curious as to what would be going on in the company to warrant this.
Am I the only one who didn't know that UPS drivers were paid 6 figures? This is news to me.
I find that absurd. How can giving the police information that can exonerate you always be a bad idea? It seems like people have entered this weird behavior where they follow guidance blindly.

EDIT: And after watching some of the video the presenter seems to be making the case that you should never interact with the police. And maybe even moreso -- maybe never communicate at all w/o your lawyer since there are laws you may be breaking at any point in time that you may not realize.

If prosecution doesn't care about the truth, and the police happily will comopletely fabricate out of thin air, and you regularly break laws you aren't even aware of -- it seems like talking to police is a relatively small problem.
What if Procrastination is part of the process?
A look inside why people put off work and maybe why it's a good thing?
I've only skimmed so far, but this looks really great. Good work!
The data Apple uses depends on the country. In Denmark, for example, it's OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap asked Apple what it would take for them to use OpenStreetMap elsewhere. "Make it the best data there."
Want employees in the office? Have an in-office culture and hire people who want to be in-office. The market is available enough now for people to just work remote if they want.

I work at a company where we're in office all the time. This is what I like and that's who I like to hire.
> The center cannot hold

The center isn't just insecure managers. Plenty of people want to work together... together. I happen to run my team remote, but to reduce a real issue to insecurity is to starve the conversation of meaningful contributions.
I haven't read the whole thing yet, but initial impressions are that this looks GREAT. Being able to communicate concepts like this well in writing is a rare skill, it will serve you very well in your future career.
I still remember two person offices. Real doors, large desks, large whiteboards.
They give some examples of things bad actors used port forwarding for in the blog post[1] announcing the removal of the feature.

[1]: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-f...
For some reason that link isn't working for me, but this should: https://old.reddit.com/r/90s/comments/10giw53/busytown_usa/
> They give you the least they can possibly get away with.

And employees should take the most they can possibly get away with.

When an employee doesn't behave like that, he is acting against his own interests.
> I'm not going back to your stupid building to talk about sports in the break room

Talking sports and politics are the main reasons why you won't find me in the break room.
> The increase in price and latency will probably result in my ordering less stuff.

No, you just stated your generous intent. You have to order the same amount in order to properly support the UPS driver. Ordering less stuff will reduce the demand for UPS drivers, causing some to be fired. You have now harmed UPS drivers, treating them unfairly.
> The middle manager who is awful at their job and so insecure they need to "see employees working" is costing the business

What makes you think upper management in public companies isn't mos interested in self-preservation also?

The idea that upper management is some benevolent and wise dictator while middle management is a different class of incompetent morons is strange.

They're cut from the same cloth.
He didn't say it wasn't a difficult job, just that the C-suite were always able to work flexibly, and afford to have a second flat next to the office (or in extreme cases, force the office to move near to their homes).
Yeah, for me the breakout interesting thing about this post was that it was written by a 17 year old.
Indeed, in my original post I tried hard to stick to relaying the facts without too much editorializing, to let people make up their own minds as to the level of frustration what I describe evokes in them. But if I were to get to the point - I would express it in the words similar to yours - “what the actual fork?”

Here’s another mini-anecdote. On my iphone I have Amazon Prime app where it allows me to download episodes of Peppa Pig for my daughter to watch when we don’t have internet. Recently I wanted to cast these episodes on an AppleTV hooked up to a big TV in a hotel. It wouldn’t let me - because you are not allowed to use Screen Mirroring to show protected content, and AppleTV was connected to WiFi, but not internet - so it couldn’t verify licenses.

So bottom line - here I have content that I paid for, stored inside a protected from ground-up encrypted mainstream device, but I can’t play it on large TV in the same room, because there’s a bunch of likely complicated technology sitting there worrying about “what if i somehow got around it being licensed!”.

But even I did in fact circumvent their copy protection - has anyone stopped to think whether its worth getting in the way of millions of their customers lives streaming their legally purchased content just to stop this one guy who managed to jailbreak their iphone? Have they completely lost touch with reality?

All of this feels insane to me, especially being rather familiar with constant pompous rhethoric coming from Amazon and Apple about their customer-focused philosophies.
There is nothing healthy in eating out.
Internet is a different place now. People bring their personalities and identities in. Don't think there is anything wrong with it. Also nothing wrong with being more patient with very young people and more impressed with their achievements IMO.
It’s mere existence. If Amazon isn’t considering it I’d be surprised.
Not only CPC is a legitimate government, but it is effectively supported by the West. Do you mean that practically all governments of the world have agreements and deals with an illegitimate entity? They would be otherwise collectively gilt of making ilegal dealings.
Also, schedule flexibility. If I hit a point where my brain is a smoldering pile of ash I can get up and go do chores or get some sun by checking the mail or something, instead of sitting at my desk staring at my screen praying to the gods of productivity that my brain will start functioning again.
I quit my tech career to fix my sleep and it mostly worked. I sustain my lifestyle through iOS app revenue, and when I have sleep trouble or wrist pain, I simply rest. I recommend reconsidering your career choices.
My favorite story on this thread is that during the hybrid period, GS CEO threw a fit when out in the Hamptons because some analyst (fairly junior role almost at the bottom) had the balls to go introduce themselves during a workday lunch at a restaurant.

He couldn't articulate a specific, valid complaint like "I was out at a client lunch and they were goofing off" or "I was on a vacation day while they were supposed to be working".

He was just mad that underlings had the same flexibility that he, as CEO, had always had. This being the same CEO who jets around DJing on the side for fun and has connections to do so at pretty high levels. So even the "cool CEO" is in fact, NOT cool.

It's like getting mad at all the other idiots on the road making traffic, lol. What do you think you are?
FYI their monthly subscription doesnt have multihop and thus offer an easier avenue for metadata matching
Snap Circuits looks awesome! LEGO + breadboarding

To date myself, for me it was the computer game The Incredible Machine, which was a Rube Goldberg physics puzzle game... in 1993 on DOS. ;)

Critically, the failure-iteration loop was tight, which really impressed "if at first you don't succeed, try try again" on my younger self.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbSMKGQ_rU&t=27s
Damn, I'm sad after merely looking Syringomyelia. Medical science needs to hurry up and figure out how to fix all the problems with bodies.
All of this RTO discussion comes from the idea that being in the office is the standard that must be "returned" to. Another perspective is that WFH is a paradigm shift and is now the objective standard. From that perspective: if you are asking a worker to shift from my new standard, you had better be offering enough to make up for the huge costs that working in the office incurs. The costs are so high that not many employers could really justify paying what it is worth to the worker.

Maybe it is time for employers to pony up or STFU.
It's the result of decades of union busting and pro-capital class propaganda. Everyone forgot labor is sold, and its price has only ever increased outside rare boom times by collective bargaining.
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It won't. The push for open-plan spaces was motivated by cost-cutting.

Layouts with many closed offices would cost far more to build, and take up more square footage to host the same number of employees.

At a time where savvy businesses have dropped their commercial leases / gone full remote, and the more conservative / less accepting of change ones are left holding the bag, I would not expect anyone to make big investments into office space.
Yes, absolutely, and this is going to be one of the hardest tech challenges to solve. I've thought a little about it, and it's probably unrealistic to think that we can translate every single PG statement into a SQLite one, especially when PG has extensions. So we're probably destined to use the local SQLite database for queries we can parse and understand, and forwarding all the others (both reads and writes) to the upstream PG server.

This slightly breaks model of having a local copy serve data faster, but if only the minority of queries use a format that we don't understand in SQLite then only that minority of queries will suffer from the full latency to the main PG server.
At my previous job, when they did their return to office rollout, I remember the head of our department waxing on about how much he missed being in the office with everyone. He missed it so much, he went on, that while he would previously have kept his office door closed so he could work in peace and quiet he actually kept it open (that day) so that he could hear all of the din of the office.

This brought me great comfort when I struggled to hear anything during any of my meetings (all of which were still remote in nature due to a diversely located team).
One of the best shell skills you can have is knowing when to write it in another language.
It amazes me how everybody was talking about threads about a month ago and then... Crickets.

You should just try Mastodon. Recently I found I can get >50 boosts+favorites frequently with my mirrorless snaps.
Offices are a vast improvement over open plan.

But ultimately my work day is still 2-hours longer vis-a-vis commuting AND I am required to live in a much more expensive area to make that commute at all, essentially reducing my wages yet further. WFH is a 25% shorter work day (8 actual instead of 8 + 2) and I can live in a 20%~ cheaper home, how are you going to compensate that?

You can either offer me WFH or increase my wages 40% and give me an office. Seems like WFH is the economically most efficient for both employer and employee but what do I know?
I think it comes from being a software engineer in US the last 10, and especially the last 5 years, is probably the greatest working conditions of any worker ever in human history.

There are a large number of people, namely on HN, that have never known anything other than $120K+ compensation, constant stream of offers for changing jobs, all while working from their home and doing about 4 hours of real work a day.

I don't think a recession is necessarily coming, but a reversion to the mean is going to leave these people obliterated.
SpacetimeDB: A new database written in Rust that replaces your server
We (Clockwork Labs) have been developing this database for several years as the backend engine for our MMORPG BitCraft (https://bitcraftonline.com). 100% of the game's logic is loaded into the database and then players connect directly to the database instead of to any game server. All the data is then synchronized with the client (trees, player positions, buildings, terrain, etc). We think it will substantially decrease the complexity of deploying a live service.

We've released the code under a BSL 1.1 license which converts to a free software license: https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB.

Our Discord is: https://discord.gg/spacetimedb

BitCraft is written in Unity and SpacetimeDB works out of the box with Unity, although we also support several client languages as well (Rust, Typescript, C#, Python).
Thanks for including a search provider for HubSpot and best wishes with the launch.

Disclosure: I'm one of the founders of HubSpot so a bit biased. :)
“Please do not make it public” (Tencent’s Sogou Input Method)
Fair enough and well argued.

I guess I’m just expressing a bit of anxiety towards picking of payment processor, and also wish there were concrete stats on the issue.
> However, the apology [0] says that the creator did not "intend" to participate in AI that can "create zero-effort impersonations of artists." I'm not sure if the wording is unintentionally vague, or if there is some way his project could be used in that way.

This seems FUDdy. "Intend" isn't in the apology at all, and the wording that is there says clearly that generative AI came after prosecraft, so there's no way the tool could be used for it.

> It's unclear whether he was planning to use the books he scraped

This also seems unwarranted. The tweet about fine-tuning an LLM came 5-6 years after the guy made prosecraft; why suggest they might involve the same dataset?
I don't quite agree with this, and I don't think it's what the video is saying. There's never, ever, ever a reason to talk to the police without a lawyer. But, under the advice of counsel and as part of a well planned defense, saying certain things may make sense.
Yeah it's amazing to think we now long back to the days of the cubicle. When they were introduced I never thought things could get worse.

When I started in the late 90s I had my own office as an intern in a huge fancy building in Amsterdam. They started the cubicle transition soon after.
this doomerism is insane. look at the 20th century and what happend, yet we made it through. and you have some people thinking somehow life is worse and its actually going downhill? life is better than it has ever been. the only way humanity will not make it is if doomers keep pushing their dumb worldview and treating it as fact that the world is worse than its ever been, thus refusing to fix any problems. maybe go read a history book
Once you factor in taxes and commute expenses, 18% is practically break-even for even a well compensated employee, and that doesn't include the QOL factor.

Indeed, middle management is the plight of modern civilization. They'll probably get replaced by AI soon enough.
I had a boss who was a VP in sales. His philosophy was "On the days I go in late, I make up for it by leaving early".
Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday
It's amazing how many poisons exist around us which can be easily used to kill anybody without much trace. Given the number of such deadly poisons, bio-attack cases using these are relatively rare.
Not commenting on whether it's good/bad, but I think it's completely different to your examples. Both of those say "here is context of my past achievements; this is an indication that what follows may be of high absolute quality"

As opposed to the "I am N years old", which is saying "here is context, which doesn't by itself indicate achievement, which may be an indication that what follows is of high relative quality"
I considered the Pi400 but, like I said, the C64 keyboard was a big deal to me. Otherwise I would just use VICE on my laptop :)

Yes, I know: you can get custom keyboards, or print labels and stick them on a PC keyboard, or 3D print a case with a working keyboard: all of that is either more involved, more expensive, or fiddlier than what I wanted.

I wanted an out of the box experience with a working replica of the keyboard, complete with PETSCII symbols on the key caps, and TheC64 delivers just that :)
Mars helicopter Ingenuity spies Perseverance rover during 54th Red Planet flight
For the first time in my life, I have space and energy to work on my fitness goals. I wouldn't be able to do that if I had to go into the office.

Ironically, I moved to California because I was told we'd be working onsite...three years later and I _still_ don't have a badge because the back to office mandate never came.

I use my lunch hour to workout because I can just eat at my desk. I wish I could afford a bigger house so I can have a home office instead of sharing my office with my bedroom but hey, Cali's expensive (but oh so nice).
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> we end up on video calls with other teams and team members anyways even when the company didn't allow WFH.

This has been my experience at every company I've been with in the last 15 years. The reason why I don't find these "increases collaboration and teamwork" arguments persuasive is because when everyone has been in the office, the work processes and level of collaboration were not different at all.
In rock climbing you'll find that protective gear follows a similar system.[1] Though of course different manufacturers choose different color schemes mostly. Being able to quickly grab the right size piece that fits the crack you're placing into is exceedingly important.

[1] https://www.summitpost.org/size-matters-a-gear-comparison/69...
They need to know if you have honest eyes
The median age here would be 40s.
As a primary back-end developer, I would love something that looked at a sample of 1-n websites and spat out similar HTML (or React code) and CSS that I could use as my front-end.
Open floor plans are even more problematic when the R&D team shares the space with sales / marketing. In that setting only one of the teams is getting any work done, I'll leave you to guess which one.
I often do dishes or laundry during longer calls. I find it easier to follow the topic when I do this over when I'm on a call AND a computer where I quickly end up working on code and ignoring the call.
Encouraging youth is a good thing. But I suspect that the youth most in need of encouragement are the sort of kids who wouldn't even have the courage to post something to HN. Maybe I'm wrong. But I think that's why these things rub me the wrong way.

These things always strike me as merely fishing for praise, while trying to stifle legitimate criticism, which is unfair to everyone else, old and young alike.
Mullvad is THE ONLY mainstream VPN that doesn't have seriously questionable credibility.
Not even Proton VPN is OK - sleuths have figured out that it's just a white-labeled version of NordVPN.

I am thankful that Mullvad is doubling down on their commitment to integrity, because there isn't an alternative.
> if there's some solid iron asteroid out there heading right for us we're totally screwed

Isn’t this among the easier to deflect? You literally smash other asteroids into it without much fear of it breaking up.
I don't think even recession will necessarily affect this. All the employees have tasted remote work. And many (if not most) people see it as a huge benefit. So any company that forces people to visit their office for whatever reason will get a market penalty. Some will pay for it with higher compensation or other goods, but I'm sure many will seize the opportunity and will happily continue working remotely.