skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“I’m growing my YouTube channel”

“My fitness routine for Instagram is “like” a full time job”

“My side-hustle brings in 8k a month”

Totally common, and not said done by people with in office jobs.

I let a guy go at the start of covid for leaving his office workstation on while he mined ETH. He got a full remote job, “worked” 12-20 hours a week and went really hard on buying GPUs for his home mining rigs.

The thing is, this wasn’t uncommon. I let another guy go for not making it to 40 hours ever. Insisting that he was just as productive at 30-32 hours a week. Which doesn’t even remotely make sense.

I love that some people have WFH, but I hate the liars that paint the argument in a completely faultless way.
Yeah, everyone can act tough over email/slack, but when you see them in person it is alot easier to sympathize with people.

I was all for WFH at the start of the pandemic, it was awesome. I have switched my feelings on it to realize that 3x per week is a good compromise. I get the commercial real estate conspiracy, which I am sure has some impact on it, but I also think a lot of people have a similar view that I do. I don't think my view is revolutionary that in office collaboration has tangible benefits.
What’s in a Domain Name?
wow long covid references and furry gifs. You must be fun at parties
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Under the pyramids for 5000 years time stood still. Every day like the day before. "So has it always been and so will it forever be." And I remember the sun, bearing down on us with the pressure of eternity.

Soar angelic, Scribe of God.
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Interesting, I’m surprised that you think the average person feels shame over the actions of bad people. I would have said sadness in sympathy to the victims and disgust for the bad person
You're throwing away the biggest advantage for the company allowing remote work -- hiring talent from anywhere. WFH has a lot of advantages for employees, but also for the employer. The main one being a diverse workforce.

What I've seen work, which I think still hits your goals of occasional face time, is to have a quarterly offsite for the whole company. Everyone works remotely, but once a quarter you find a nice location that is easy for everyone to get to, pay for their flights and hotels (and if you're really nice, their family too, or at least child care at home while they are gone), and then have a couple of days of quarterly planning, hacking sprints, and general social activities that don't involve alcohol or strenuous physical activity (but if people want to organize that for themselves they are welcome to do so).
Haha! Good point, I dont have any folklore rules for them :(
ToU pricing can be very effectively used by having an energy management system. This will automatically shift power usage to the most cost efficient times.
How much is college in other places? It's free here in San Francisco. You don't pay anything. You can get an education at CCSF without a dime paid if you live here.
>Chronic anxiety can lead to a person normally using their chest rather than their diaphragm to breathe.

Complete tangent here i suffer from this, and i didn't know until reading this article that it affected how i breathe even when feeling normal.

I'm nearly 35 and learning from hackernews i breathe wrong.
Spare me. If someone is willing to pay someone $500k per year as I’m sure someone like the author is able to get, if the CEO wants them in the office three days a week, so be it. It’s stupid, everyone knows it’s stupid, I agree with the author on that, but tech workers sound _incredibly_ entitled when they write pieces like this.

There are people making 1/5th what the author is making and somehow surviving in VHCOL areas.
Related: yesterday's sub-discussion triggered RE:

> Yamaha's old CD-Recorder, CRW-F1 really improved sound quality by abusing Red Book standard by lengthening the pits of audio CDs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37726359#37729766
Many companies did a bait and switch, though. They made grand promises of remote and/or hybrid work being a first class citizen moving forward, then did a hard 180 and asked everyone to start coming into the office every day. Understandably, some people are upset about this, especially those hired remotely.
I did end up looking at the video and I agree that it was informative and the product spoke for itself.
Yup. I find it astonishing to here on HN that people "don't understand why execs want RTO" while at the same time admitting that they do chores during work hours.
I don’t read that as “everyone enjoyed the flexibility”, I read it as “the people who enjoyed the flexibility aren’t going back”
I work with microscopy data and we have to convert all the proprietary-but-still-readable-by-some-random-package image data generated by microscopy companies to ome-tiff/ome-zarr for it to be in a manageable format. I think it's great!
The crows that live nearby are wary of me, probably because of two incidents (they saw me standing next to a crow's body, which I'd come across during a walk; and, on another walk, a branch had suddenly broken out from under another crow as I passed the tree it was in). I hear a particular call whenever I pass by them now, though I basically never see them anymore.
I've just tried opening csv in LibreOffice and it asked me for it too. However sane options were already selected so it was just one additional click.
I agree with this but the obvious outcome is that if you're 1 person in a 200 person office floor, your company will consolidate 200 floors into one and it'll get noisy again. The same cost function still exists for office space.

I'm very with you on the commutes tho. I live in Seattle and Mondays and Fridays are like driving on Thanksgiving (a major holiday in the US when no one drives and even the roads in L.A. are clear), and Tuesday is worse than the before times. Wed/Thurs are a bit better than the before times though so I just go in on those days (that's also when we tend to have happy hours).
> Each pixel must be labelled with metadata, such as illumination level, its 3D position, the scale, the sample type and how the sample was prepared.

Each pixel? Why? All of those except the 3D position apply to all the pixels in a given image, and the (2D) position of a pixel can be inferred from its location in the image.

Wait - are there optical microscopes that can create 3D images? I know you can see a 3D image if you peer into a binocular microscope, but AFAIK cameras for those things are always 2D cameras.
I think you vastly overestimate the likelihood of collisions. If all of the 2 billion computers in the world produced a new uuidv4 every millisecond, we still wouldn't expect a collision for the next 5 quintillion years.

Or if the same number of bits are used in a more structured manner, like uuidv1 which combines a 48 bit MAC address, 60 bit 100-nanosecond timestamp, and a 14 bit uniquifier with an effective resolution of 6.5 femtoseconds, you could have 300 quadrillion computers make 160 billion uuidv1s per second with guaranteed zero collisions until the year 3400 (plus an extra 500 or so years because the timestamp is referenced to 1542 for some silly reason), after which point any collisions that do happen will be completely irrelevant because they're guaranteed to be colliding with db entries created over 2000 years prior.
I built an app that listed all 20,000+ of my blade computers on a single long page. They were arranged in a grid that mapped to the way they were racked in the data center, which made it super easy for a technician to get an overview of the status of the entire system. 12 blades per chassis and 1-8 chassis per rack.

The page took about 2-3 seconds to load (mostly downloading the json data to render the page), but once it loaded, it rendered and more importantly, updated very quickly as new data would roll in. If I had to re-render the entire dom every time there was an update, the page would have been unusable.

It feels like you can't see past your personal use case. You're trying to convince HN that your framework is better than the top 4 projects out there and HN is pushing back and saying... umm... no.
It is a good thing that Tesla got and is getting subsidies same for solar panel and most other renewable tech. Without it China would be the leader in electric vehicles. Looking at how cost of batteries as well as solar panels is decreasing every year. China dominated manufacturing with cheap labor in the last 20-25 years. And as more automated manufacturing comes online it would have dominated that as well as they would have cheaper electricity and transport.

Forget pollution etc with the current trajectory electric cars and solar electricity will keep getting cheaper so if US and other countries do not subsidies and promote manufacturing now they will become uncompetitive in the near future.
Top corporate leadership nowadays is paid ridiculous money while 90% of the time being out of touch clowns. It's just a clique riding on easy money and general societal incompetence period, circle of connections self-justifying their salaries. Notably: lots of exceptions, usually ones that built the company themselves or worked there for decades.
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RTO doesn’t really work if five people are back in the office.
> But not being in-person for collaboration/morale is miles apart.

I do agree that collaboration is much more productive when remote.

Nearly all of my exciting office "collaborations" end up feeling great then they're happening, but in retrospect, almost always fizzle out after a small window of time. I like onsites for the energy and socialization, but even then I always find most of the work happens back in the hotel room at night, and real planning happens after everyone is back at home. I can't imagine working that way all the time.

Whereas all of my remote collaborations are well documented while they're happening. Typically we have some kind of shared note taking, and writing code collaboratively, etc. Doesn't feel as social sometimes, but tends to be a much larger impact.

Likewise Open Source software has been largely written by remote people since long before the advent of even video conferencing. Git was originally written with the design intention that kernel hackers could work on a plane (per airplane wifi) without requiring a centralized server to communicate with.

> Video conf still sucks. It's literally the same as 10 years ago.

I still marvel at this. I've been working remote for nearly 15 years now and I honestly don't feel that video conferencing has improved noticeably.
Over the past few decades, college tuition and fees have metastasized, hitting an average of nearly $11,000 a year for in-state students who attend public four-year institutions, and now undergraduate enrollment is plummeting. There is a solution: Congress and more states should adopt tuition-free public higher education. This will alleviate the student debt crisis and enable low-income students, particularly those of color, to go to college.

The article fails to make a case that the stated problem, "tuition and fees have metastasized," will be addressed by "tuition-free public higher education."
These kind of arguments have sort of eaten their tail in recent years as work culture has shifted.

We (as has happened with a lot of things) basically have two camps of people and a culture that makes us believe we are only allowed to make "one-or-the-other" choices (I blame the rise of consulting, KPIs, and 'benchmarks'.)

So two camps are arguing about their preferences but with the stakes that "my preference has to be the moral and logical choice," which will always just lead to nowhere.
I prefer in-person work; I have great respect for those who were able to maintain their productivity when suddenly forced to WFH.

It makes a great deal of sense for managers to check in with each employee for which remote is now the new normal. Perhaps either formalize the remote work as part of the job description or come up with a plan to return on a case-by-case basis.

It's absolutely bonkers to force people who were specifically hired as remote-workers prior to the pandemic to relocate.
More like it de-materialized. Unless there was a physical line problem, regular old phone calls over copper lines ("POTS") worked well. They were circuit switched, not packet switched. You essentially had a dedicated path provisioned, end to end. Today, POTS is all but gone. Almost nobody has a real landline. Most phone calls are transported over IP. I converted my landline to VOIP almost a decade ago. It's fine.
The second you decide you're not prone to being irrational is the same second you give up any hope of policing your own rationality.

It's actually pretty common for extremely intelligent, methodical scientists in one field to have somewhat bananas thoughts/opinions in unrelated fields.
I think its kinda great its on the front page, I only work in backend so this looks quite appealing like ALL tech demos do. Love to see it pulled apart in comments with explanations I understand haha
Of course! A large portion of it went into the market, with great returns. Maxed out 401k, IRA, paid off my school loans, etc. Pandemic time was sweet financially, honestly.
> the random nature of standard non-time-ordered UUIDs (such as v4) can create database performance problems when used as primary keys. This problem is often referred to as poor database index locality.

Couldn't that be solved with incremented serial numbers, rather than leaking time data?
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Free tuition at public college might have been the norm; but not free room and board and books etc. Unless you could pay for all of that, there were also no guaranteed loans which meant that college was still unavailable except to the relatively wealthy.
Yes. Because they're an edge case and most of us probably have good enough common sense not to punish everyone because a few people are assholes.

If you are an employer and someone manages to stay employed under your leadership while having multiple jobs, that's on you.
I don't think it's realistic to say things should just return to the status quo. The world was changed by the pandemic and even if that didn't happen, time continues to advance which always brings change as well.

Yes, some companies will go back to hybrid or complete in person, but it is also clear that remote work can be done in a much wider context than it was before the pandemic.
Well, yes. Advice given to address one circumstance often does not apply in another, wholly different circumstance.
Even if college were free, I think limits on funding availability will actually make it harder for someone to get in because now they have to be selective. It might lead to less people going to college.
To be clear, I was not linking it for the specific dietary recommendations but rather the approach enabling one to - progressively - avail one’s self of more expensive upfront but cheaper-per-unit options.
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It’s a case by case thing. I don’t disagree that in the vast majority of cases it won’t matter at all. But once it becomes the norm/default it’s inevitable that it’ll lead to inadvertent leaks.
False equivalency. The equivalent would be someone commenting saying they shouldn't publish release notes because of Reasons, and I would defend their right to publish release notes.
It's only weird if you assume any choice or dichotomy is also an ultimatum.

An ultimatum is a my way or the highway choice. "Submit or suffer".

Negotiating how much time you invest into the relationship isn't an ultimatum. "Quit WoW entirely or I'm getting a divorce" is.
> It's really unfortunate that the Pale Moon team are also totally unlikable, which is probably among the reasons why usage has dropped off since it was in vogue in the early-mid 2010s.

I'm not sure that's the reason. Regardless of feelings users may have toward developers, they'll still use the best tool for the job. I used Pale Moon on an older computer because none of the modern browsers performed well, including FF. I was well aware of some of the drama.

(Likewise, I raged against Microsoft for years before I made the switch to Linux. So many other examples)

When Mozilla went Quantum, it's performance was so good, it was able to replace Pale Moon. I wrote a thing about this here in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367536

I'm thinking that over the last 4 years (since 2019), many users have upgraded their hardware and the need for Pale Moon - as a lighter browser alternative - has simply diminished.
Microscope vendors have gone to incredible efforts to obfuscate their file formats. Some inventing custom compression codecs. I worked for a company that spent enormous amounts of time reverse engineering these protocols.
California's PG&E is the biggest utility in the US. In their territory electricity on the default residential plan ranges from $0.41 to $0.54 per KWh.
All's fair in love and capitalism.

As long as employers have no problem with subjecting people to bullshit dehumanizing hiring processes, tone-deaf ultimatums, showering executives with disgusting bonuses while buying back stock and laying off workers, etc etc etc, then I don't see a problem with any of the above.

I refuse to continue to normalize this idea that employers are allowed to be dicks and you the worker just have to suck it up.
Hi, author here. In case you really want to know: no, it’s custom-made and works exactly as intended. There are two main reasons:

1. Fun. Modern internet is boring, most blog posts are just black text on white background. Hard to remember where you read what. And you can’t really have fun without breaking some expectations.

2. Sense of community. Internet is a lonely place, and I don’t necessarily like that. I like the feeling of “right now, someone else reading the same thing as I do”. It’s human presence transferred over the network.

I understand not everybody might like it. Some people just like when things are “normal” and everything is the same. Others might not like feeling of human presence. For those, I’m not hiding my content, reader mode is one click away, I make sure it works very well.

As for “unexpectedly ended up on HN”, it’s not at all unexpected. Practically every one of my general topic articles ends up here. It’s so predictable I rely on HN to be my comment section.