skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a long-tail of editor shortcuts I use. I find it a bit wasteful to try and re-implement them in every single program I use that takes text input. Now, if someone else has implemented it already, then I'm happy to use it, but 99% of the time they will have implemented at most the 100 most common shortcuts that they use, which is unlikely to make me happy.

I should point out that there is exactly one case of someone implemented enough of vim to make me happy, and that's evil-mode. Even there I had to tweak some settings because the defaults were too different from vim (specifically the + and * registers behave completely wrong by default).
I would even say the flat XP logo looks more modern than Windows10 or 11.
We are just making our way through every permutation of frontend API at this point.
Maybe the homelife sucks ?
Facet5 | 2 Positions | Cambridge UK | Hybrid/Flexible | 3-5 days/week

Flexible work practices in a beautiful barn office west of Cambridge. Prefer some office attendance.

Facet5 provide psychometric reports for individuals and organisations around the globe (30+ languages). Looking to grow our in-house tech talent and reduce reliance on external vendors.

1. Full stack .NET Web Developer | £25–£55k, 3-5 days/week (negotiable)

ASP.net MVC, SQL and web technologies. You will work on web applications including, potentially, Umbraco, APIs and integration of legacy systems.

Requirements
C#.NET MVC, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and SQL, Git.
Highly regarded: Umbraco, Payment Processing, System Integration, APIs for external users, Software Architecture, Automated Testing, VB.Net, Linux.

Great opportunity for a mid-level developer or senior developer looking for better work life balance.

2. Technical IT Manager | 3-5 days/week. Part time or Contract.

General Tasks
Windows and Linux admin, Manage 3rd parties, SQL updates, General small office IT support, Security, Application support, Manage/test backups etc.

Requirements
Some admin experience Linux or Windows
PS/Bash. Scipting and text config.
Network and firewall concepts.
Exposure to SQL preferred.

Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and fix technical issues.

techjobs at facet5global.com
Better cameras and microphones definitely help, but trying to get your company to pay for them can be another matter entirely.
Ok, so no Whitespace. I wonder how the parser works that handles RETURNELSEIFK or ONSPRITEGOSUB1ELSEIFL.
To me this gives you the disadvantages of remote work without the key advantage: ability to hire from a bigger pool.
Back when I was working on a photo-memories app in the early 2000s, a PM said, you know, the photo of the outside of dreary hotel near the beach isn’t about the hotel but about the hilarious hotel bar tender you and your friend were entertained by the night before the photo was taken.
Again, I think this is wrong and you're suffering some hindsight bias. In retrospect it can look like the entry of the United States into WWII was always inevitable, but this is not how people saw things at the time. Up through 1941 the American public saw the war as a European affair that was not our problem: people were strongly against actual military involvement and even the Lend-Lease Act was quite controversial. It wasn't until Pearl Harbor that the entry of the US into the war was a sure thing.
That is pretty cool.

I installed to an SSD in an enclosure with the hopes that it could become an eternal install that I just bring from machine to machine (perhaps DD-ing over to a new drive as SSDs advance). So far is has gone fine for like 5 or so years, but I haven’t really found the need to upgrade since then, so it is really just living as a single desktop.

Actually, this may have inspired me to try plugging it in to another machine tonight just to make sure it hadn’t gotten too dependent on that hardware. What kind of Frankenstein would I be if my monster was constrained to a single body?
Usually it's either living with people who don't respect that you're at work even though you're at home or a company culture that doesn't know how to engage with remote workers.

Usually both.

A lot of people forget the importance of having a door to their home office, preferably one you can lock.
I am not expert, but my understanding of cyclonic inverters is that they are able to lower power output and thus achieving more even cooking. That also implies slower time. I am more interested in precision while retaining the speed. But it's something I looked into myself too.
They did get crystal clear on landline. Then we moved to cell phones where quality is still abysmal and the phone app barely works... It's aggravating to me
Plus ID's often have to be given over the phone for support. Long or complicated ID's will drive both sides bonkers. #BeenThereDoneThat.
its not uncommon to put a time bound on it - like 6mo or a year. never heard of it being indefinite
I use the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5 Chromebook (picked it up for $279 from Best Buy) and it is pretty amazing. OLED screen, ARM performance that's pretty good, a tablet that comes with a keyboard.

It's a great Chromebook for on the go stuff.
I've enjoyed both environments. Having an in-person, highly engaged, collaborative environment is fantastic. Having a remote first, well-considered remote team is great.

But having a mostly in-person, and some-people remote setup, where the remote folks are left out of the hallway conversations sucks. Having an "in-person" setup, where your team is distributed between building locations and remote sites, and you can't ever schedule conferences rooms and you are working in a cube-farms/open-office sucks.

The key is finding a way to be engaged with your colleagues remote or local, and figuring out how to scale that.
I can't speak for myself (I mostly enjoy remote), but I've had team members who had 3 kids of varying ages, on a single income, and simply didn't have the space/opportunity to focus.

They were VERY stressed out, and while they voiced a strong preference to work in an office (no longer an option for us), they ultimately choose to move out of our state (Cali) for much more affordable space to solve the problem.

From my experience remote vs. office is a very individual preference based on tons of factors many of us simply don't need to consider.
I really miss the term Information Superhighway, and I don't know why besides nostalgia. It felt like there was so much possibility and road ahead. If only we'd have known where that road ultimately ended.
Faktory.com | Full Stack & Data Scientist | Remote (US ONLY) or On-site | US (New York) | Full-time

Faktory building an autonomous multi agent, task automation and content transformation platform. We allow users to build agents that control workflows, applications, proprietary search functionality by combining public and private data, APIs, language models, and much much more all using natural language.

Full Stack - You will be working with a core team of python developer and ML experts to expand our platform of LLMs, APIs and Transformers. ML experience a plus.

Data Scientist - You will be working with a core team of python developers and the product team to help ensure we we are applying the right methods to our platform.

If you are interested email apply@faktory.com
Unfortunately many people are being strong armed into it. People coming out of lay offs are finding less wfh opportunities than existed just a year ago, as a percentage of the available jobs.
If Python works best for you and your project's needs, by all means use it.

All tools have advantages and disadvantages which make them better suited for some types of work and less well suited for others.
A couple of cases I'm aware of...

* Coding ligatures often display as a single glyph (maybe occupying a single-width character space, or maybe spread out over multiple spaces), but are composed of multiple glyphs. The ligature may "look" like a single character for purposes of selection and cursoring, but it can act like multiple characters when subject to backspacing.

* Similarly, I've seen keyboard interfaces for various languages (e.g., Hindi) where standard grapheme cluster rules bind together a group of code points, but the grapheme cluster was composed from multiple key presses (which typically add one code point each to the cluster). And in some such interfaces I've seen, the cluster can be decomposed by an equal number of backspace presses. I don't have a good sense of how much a monospaced Hindi font makes sense, but it's definitely a case where a "character" doesn't always act "character-like".
Putting aside the fairly explicit lines in the poem: it's the context. It is not the case that the western world currently has no immigration and the poem makes the case to allow at least some.

More immigrants than ever are pouring over the US / Mexico border. The mayor of NYC (a self-proclaimed "sanctuary city") is now warning of the city's destruction as a result of the overwhelming influx [1]. This mayor is politically aligned with the party of our President, who presumably has no political interest in embarrassments like this, yet it's still happening.

"Unchecked migration" is essentially what is already happening, at least in the US. A cutesy poem in the release notes of software (??) that paints the side opposing it as mouth-breathing bigots and the supportive side as empathetic truth-tellers is unnecessary at best.

[1] https://cbs4local.com/news/local/nyc-mayor-warns-of-citys-de...
Even in February
> In both cases the original owners are buying their own assets

No. In a share buyback, the company is buying assets from other people. In wash trading, the current owner is “selling” the assets to themselves. (Or they’re working with someone else to do a loop)

And the retirement of these assets is different than the plan to sell them to another buyer.
I'm a Senior Software Engineer and served on the bargaining committee, happy to answer questions.
These wheels often take a generation or more to fully rotate. And I have no idea whether any collective or group action can materially accelerate the timeline.
Was the remote working 'movement' then based on data? Or was it covid?
I don't understand why audio quality is so bad on every device.

Phone calls are hit or miss whether it'll be clear or not. This happens alot with places like call centers, the whole point of its existence is to be on the phone communicating with voice and the quality is to the point where it's hard to understand.
This is a classic HN post that will get a lot of positive attention here playing into the HN cognitive bias zeitgeist, but I think is mostly bullshit.

The market will settle it in the end, but at least for startups being colocated is a competitive advantage.
I don't think there's implicit consent, but the police can easily obtain a warrant to draw blood should you refuse.
critique: (almost) no one wants to work 30 days a month. ;)

more seriously: I assume you plan to pay for hotel rooms?

also: why 2 hours max? If you're paying for one night in a hotel, then surely you could pay for 2 nights, making 3 or more hours feasible.
We’re hiring for an extremely specialized position, remote-only.

I can confirm that big tech companies are operating like wile-e-coyote after he has run off the cliff, but hasn’t looked down yet.

Some are even de-resourcing non-HQ offices (full of impossible to replace specialists, especially if you limit the search to the HQ city).

So, some teams were forced to return to office, but will never receive additional headcount or backfills.

Rest assured I’m keeping track of which companies are doing this (I live in an HQ city), and won’t consider interviewing at them in the future.
No doubt. I have a Pi400 running an Amiga emulation and another running mame. They are great. But they are not magic, and they cannot capture the essence like the real deal.
That makes me think of this old gem https://imgur.com/gallery/BgKFcI9
There was an article here about using boring technology and how you have a limited number of "innovation tokens" you can use before you get overwhelmed.

The OLPC is a very clear example. The idea of a completely innovative product, with an innovative distribution, an innovative application, for an innovative education method brought way too many small failures. It's incredible that they even managed to put all of the technical innovations together at some point.
SEEKING WORK | Remote or Los Angeles

Technologies: Python; Flask; Django; C#; Postgres; TypeScript; NodeJS; Docker

GitHub: https://github.com/ss108

Email: samier_saeed@protonmail.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samier-saeed/

CV:https://drive.google.com/file/d/11mYFCvKGTZA2jZLwC46y5dTGjTf... [trying a new format--feedback appreciated]

Eng blog: https://ss108.substack.com/

I have 5 years of software engineering experience, mostly back-end. Lately, I have been working on a tool that uses LLMs to query NY State Court dockets, contributing to legal tech open source, and learning Haskell.
Some or many people are just as productive working from home, but also many are not and are more productive in an office environment.

There need to be better more reliable ways of measuring this and affording those who are able to be productive while remote the option. Those who aren’t as productive WFH don’t get the choice.
ther article's background color deserves to be named: https://colornames.org/color/fddb29
It is, though the culture clash is sometimes awkward when you're out with your coworkers one night, they get pass-out drunk, and then next day you say something about it at work and everyone looks at you like "we don't talk at work about what we do in the bar".
Walking over and talking to someone is still far superior to any online communication. So unless you have a job that requires minimal communication on a day-to-day basis, an office is superior for productivity.

Perhaps if everyone working from home were constantly available to screen-share/video chat it wouldn't be as bad, but my experience with WFH is people get distracted by kids/pets/etc and half the time I wait hours for a response required for me to continue my work. At one point during the pandemic I had 6 cascading tasks going in parallel based solely on needing something to do while I twiddled my thumbs waiting for the required SME to come online (we charge by the hour, so I can't just be idle and charge it). In the office I just walk over to their desk. This is from the perspective of an engineer by the way, I'm not management.
Hospital acquired COVID is a serious problem
What freaks me out is how the hands are depicted on the statue. It’s eerily similar to the Moai statues of Easter Island [1]. I’m not sure what to make of it.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~siegelr/easterisland/IMG_3485%20le...
I love bellam Avakaya. And the ginger garlic varieties are to die for.

My uncle (60+ yo) is a true connoisseur though. He loves it so much and abhors the mass manufactured stuff that he actually gets small batches made in India and even sells it in the US where he lives.

I helped build a Shopify storefront for him at Avakaya.com
Not OP, but it's lonely and it never ends. I live in a college town with a short commute and a neat downtown - a place I wanted to be.

But it's Michigan and salaries here are really low. Hard to work for a local company.
Yeah, going with Kickstarter with a goal that low is pretty sus. Either they have no idea how much this is going to cost, or, more likely, they already have the product and this is basically a preorder but you have less recourse if they don't deliver.
> The people on the assembly line would look at you like the most spoilt people in the world.

I'm guessing the most spoiled people in the world wouldn't be working at all. This sort of contempt is a very specific and odd attitude to have.
But then these office lovers have no one fun to talk to!
> Working from home is (1) better for the environment

Note that this is not necessarily true. US cities were for a while "NIMBYism vs mandatory commutes". To the extent that one is solved but not the other, we get more car-centric spraw. People commuting less can be offset with them doing more pleasure driving.

(Obvious this depends on the metro area, more remote work in Phoenix Arizona is definitely net good, in NYC not so much.)

Once we solve the NIMBY problem, I'll be a lot more comfortable with the society-wide implications of remote work, but for now it is reducing the impetus to solve a problem that needs to be solved anyways.
Mention of Data East always reminds me of one of my favourite 8-bit games, Bruce Lee. Challenging and with excellent music (which I still remember). Both 'facts' relative to the time it was made of course.
Got gifted a pair of pixel buds gen 2. I liked them. Accidentally sent them through a wash cycle killing the left one. Eventually straight up lost the left one. Thought nothing of it until I changed phones and realized a hardware limitation meant you needed both to pair to a new device. Dumb but I needed a new one anyways so…

I contacted support after not seeing spares were being sold. They gave me an 25$ store credit… Ended up selling the case and working earbud and getting a different brand.

Recently changed phones and them pulling the headphone jack from the A series after the 5 was a non-starter for me. I still use wired headphones and plug my aux into my car and other places :/ kinda mind boggling
The answer is not "basically no", and the qualifier of the initial argument was specifically 320kbps mp3.

No one here is arguing that modern, high-bitrate codecs aren't much better at producing imperceptible artifacts. But 128kbps is absolutely not enough in blind listening tests, 128kpbs typically produces a ton of perceptible artifacts. You're just making that up.
Actually they will take you to a hospital, to ensure the blood is drawn by a medical professional.
I wonder if there’s a conflict between companies being willing and able to produce natural rubber tires yet marketing them would also implicate themselves in knowingly destroying the environment. It’s a tough line to straddle.
That doesn't make sense to me, what are they doing with their kids if they worked in an office, and why aren't they just doing that?
California for one: https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/dui/laws/chemical-test-refusal/
If management can tell which way gets more work done, then they don't have to rely on workers being honest about it.

If they can't tell the difference, seems to me they should let people have nicer lives.
I don't get the impression there's currently a bandwidth problem here that needs optimizing. It's also not completely clear how inhospitable to life they truly are. Being the most abundant type of star in the galaxy by far, it makes sense to study them very closely to at least rule out the potential for life.
I imagine the author would disagree with that because it does not have the “right” behavior by default.

For example indexing and length of the string are done by codeunit. [1]

On the other hand Rakus Str type does behave similarly to Swifts: indexing, length and iteration by grapheme; view methods for specific encodings. [2]

[1]: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/strings/
[2]: https://docs.raku.org/type/Str#routine_chars
Teachers don’t work for free, nor do janitors or administrators. Building maintenance and leases aren’t free.
SEEKING WORK / EXPERIENCE

Location: United Kingdom

Remote: Yes

Email: cr_pierce@outlook.com

Technologies: Javascript, React, Typescript, Electron, Next.js, GraphQL, Jest, MySQL / Postgres, Some Python

Hello
I am looking for 10-20 hours a week of unpaid work on a remote basis.
I am currently a self-taught developer who would love a chance to see how I can contribute to a team.

I'm quite confident that my technical skills would be sufficient to tackle some tasks, but I would get a lot of value from code review/feedback.

I've spent a lot of time studying the modern Javascript/Typescript stack and I'm comfortable working with git and similar technologies.
Happy to work on a variety of projects from open source to more commercial software.

Happy to chat with any one, or try my hand at whatever tasks you have. I could well surprise you with what I can do! And if it doesn't work out, then we can move on.
Nothing is “free”. Sometimes the costs are hidden from most people.

It’s like immigration. If you say, “anyone who comes here can’t be kicked out and you instantly get access to healthcare, food stamps, and free housing” then your maximum payout is the entire planet and you are bankrupt once people realize this.

For public college to be free, I want to limit access, like happens in Europe. Sure college can be free… to the top N people in the state, with N being decided by the payers (i.e. democratic electorate).

Otherwise it’s just wasted money as we delay adulthood for a huge number of people who have no business getting degrees.
Yes, though they typically do it at a hospital
but you also realize there are major differences in terms of public disclosure
I am torn between supporting all languages (which easily leaks into supporting emojis) versus just using the 90~ Latin characters as the lingua franca.

Look, I would love to be able to read/write Sanskrit, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese etc and share those content and have everyone render and see the same thing. The problem is that I feel like most of these are:

1. a kind of an open problem
2. very subjective
3. very, very subjective as what you is mostly dictated by the implementation (fonts)

For example, why does a gun emoji looks like water gun? Why is the skull-and-crossbones symbol looks so benign. In fact, it is often used as a meme (see deadass :skull:) Why is the basmala a single "character"?

In my opinion, people should just learn how to use kaomoji. Granted, kaomojis rely on a lot more than the Latin characters but it is at least artful, skillfull and a natural extension of the "actual" languages.

> inb4 languages evolves

Yes, but it mostly happens naturally. I feel like what happens today mostly happens at the whim of a few passionate people in the standard.
Absolutely not, I can't believe you would take my healthy skepticism as a dismissal of technology. As I said, critical thinking is gone.

I suggest nothing other than what I said - discussions around new technologies, particularly those in response to perceived crises, rarely receive the scrutiny they deserve and rarely show both sides of the coin. This makes me immediately suspicious for the same reasons history has already shown time and time again.
Does this change theories around how gaseous clouds eventually formed stars and solar systems?
Speculative Fiction Writes the Future
How the Heart Starts Beating (Harvard)
Gotta let the kids pop their cherry on something.
We've been prioritizing military spending over education for decades. I'd love to see even a bit of that swing the other way. I don't think taking a small amount from the military, by requiring them to optimize a few budgets, would be impactful on our nations security.
Sounds Nice.
If my office was within 15 minutes of home I would be there frequently. Dropping in and out for chit chat and activities.

But it isn't.

The only housing within 35 minutes of my downtown office is small, expensive, high-rise apartments and condos. And there literally are not enough of those to serve the abundance of offices in that area, so it is literally impossible to provide even that meager standard to everyone.
Unfortunately you still lost 35% of your purchasing power unless you put it in the market
Nice to read this confirmation! I like working in the office, but I also received the ultimatum of working in the office and decided to look elsewhere.
It gives me Cyberpunk vibes.
If the parent comment wasn't clear enough, the consequence for openly criticizing the government in Russia is death. Demanding that others be a martyr while you stay safe from harm is a bit too much, don't you think?