skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learned appetite for that operating model. Have to have enough financial resources and grit accumulated first.
This was always a risk at every company due to re-orgs, buyouts, or the whim of executives.

Are employees right to be angry? Yeah. Do companies have the right to demand it? Yeah.

Severance, etc. is always nice. In some cases it may even be required by contract or law, but that is rare.

It seems like the knives are coming out now, and we’ll see who is left standing.
> I think that many people struggle at home (group A) while others don't (group B).

As someone who has worked remote long before COVID, there's another layer to this issue: Many of the people who think they are in Group B (work well from home) are actually in Group A (struggle at home) but they are resistant to recognizing it.

Prior to the pandemic, remote companies all understood that not everyone who wants to work form home can actually be productive at home. For some reason the pandemic WFH push made everyone forget that, and we started assuming that anyone who wants to work from home is good at working from home. Predictably, a lot of companies saw a huge increase in issues, panicked, and force every to RTO.

It's a challenging issue because the problems aren't immediately obvious. We had some very productive programmers who just couldn't WFH because they were hostile in text chat but very cordial in person. Others would spend entire works grinding away at problems in isolation that could have been solved with 1 hour of communication because they think WFH == freedom to isolate from others.

Many of these things can be trained out with good management and mentoring, but only when it's introduced gradually. The pandemic WFH push opened the floodgates to everyone, with predictable results.

I hope we go back to wide acceptance of WFH, however with the understanding that it's not for everyone. Some people can't handle it even though they like it.
Wife used to work at google. you think that if a company had the structure to help people work remote, it was google with its colaboration suite. Turns out that google alread paid for the fancy offices, so it might as well make you use it...

I dont work from office anymore. At most, in a hybrid way. But if I can avoid steping in a office, I will.
Correct, that function doesn't have to parse immediately, but it does have to be aware your monad exists.

This isn't a problem if you're the one writing the function, but if you're using a 3rd party library that doesn't know about your monad, then fmap can be very useful.
Alternative source: https://www.hackread.com/microsoft-defender-tor-browser-win3...

> Microsoft Defender is detecting the latest version of Tor Browser as malware because it is using a new heuristic detection method that is designed to identify Trojans that use Tor to hide their activity. However, the heuristic method is too broad and also flags the Tor Browser itself as malware.

TLDR: Microsoft Defender is identifying any app trying to connect over Tor. The idea is malware sometimes uses Tor network to phone home, so detecting that would be a signal of potential malware.

Obviously a false positive for the Tor Browser itself.
Wages are based on how easy you are to replace.

If a job has a high wage because they require a specific college degree, then making the degree easier to get since you don't have to pay for it, then there will be more people with that degree, so the supply of workers is higher, making them easier to replace, so the wages of those workers goes down.
I don't understand why co's don't simply give "in office" bonuses and let employees decide their ratio? Why do so many co's make it all or nothing?
Surely that's 25% more?
lots of talk about these kinds of sites just a few weeks ago:

HTTP Status Dogs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507802
This is fairly close to my revelation as well. I don't run "heavier duty programming" as OP says local anyhow. VSCode runs wonderfully, battery lasts forever and I run anything beyond trivial in some cloud instance. They are so light, the battery lasts so long and they are so cheap mine just bounces around in my backpack and is always with me.
> The whole simplicity argument for electric cars was just a marketing spiel.

That's what it feels like, at least with the current models. With IC cars there can still be a choice replacing the larger system, or spend more in labor to open it and replace just the broken inner component.

When EVs were starting up I thought, given the touted simplicity, we'd have cheaper models, for say $8-10k or so, with a higher reliability. It turns out they are more or just as expensive to buy and maintain. The cheapest Chevy Bolt is $26k, while a Honda Civic is $23k.
i cba to make an intelligent response to this drivel, so instead: what the fuck is this?
Virtual Power Plants, both in general (see first sentence on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_power_plant), and specifically in the definition given in the comment you replied to, include "demand flexibility" so your comment is confusing.
> remote work isn't working for us

It is working out.

I looked at a few financial statements for a few companies pushing RTO (Amazon and a couple of Wall Street firms). Granted, it wasn't comprehensive or scientific, but: They all made more money in 2022 than in 2019 (the last year before COVID).

So I really do not see what the problem is.
Totally agree. Why should someone in Orlando, Florida be paid the same as someone living in NYC or SF? The PPP pay would be way different.
I don't either.

Part of what makes a school "elite" is admissions selectivity, research output, and academic reputation. Making undergraduate tuition free for public colleges will still make private target schools still elite and put additional admissions constraints on top public colleges (UMich, UVA, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UT Austin, and the likes), and ironically make them more "elite".

Also the problem isn't just the affordability of schools - it's affordability of schools for certain classes and enrollment limits for desirable universities.

Rich students will be able to pay for elite universities out of pocket. Poor students will be able to afford through financial aid/scholarships at elite universities. I don't have the numbers with me top of my head but most elite universities often have financial policies that cap loans at reasonable amount and give grants to cover the rest. It's the middle class that gets squeezed because they don't make enough money/get enough assistance.
I try to clear up your false statements with sources and facts.

Meanwhile, you keep on stacking "opinions" without any facts even close to it.
I'm looking through the responses, and this makes the most sense.

The difference between saying that '12 hours is too much', depends on how it is said and what is open to negotiation to keep both sides happy. The thing is that 12 hours may be too much, but 4 hours, for example, might keep both sides happy. Also saying '12 hours is too much' is also an opening gambit that states what the issue is, and opens the door to how two people might come to an agreement.

Ultimatums tend to come in the form of offering a binary choice, one of which is full acceptance of a proposal made by one person. Ultimatums don't come with a 'or we can negotiate something that works for us' addendum, they are usually all or nothing.

While the first type of communication / boundary may well lead to a divorce if it can't be resolved, it isn't necessarily presented as an ultimatum.
It’s almost as if it’s based on what can be easily gleaned from a speedometer on the dashboard.
The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger
Please no more articles about RTO.
SEEKING WORK | Remote

Location: Mexico City
Github: https://github.com/ysangkok

Polyglot hacker with production experience in Haskell. I consider myself polyglot and I can easily adapt to your company culture. I have 10 years of experience developing software, including open source products like the Electrum wallet and the Servant web framework.
There's definitely a gray-line there, not just about how unilateral it is (which is what you are saying), but also about norms and expectations.

"Fill out this HR form or leave" is expected for the first day of work.

Similarly "Not playing WoW for 12 hours a day" is probably expected in a committed adult relationship (unless of course this was a norm during courtship).

RTO might well be a norm for people not hired remote. But forcing those hired as remote workers to relocate seems outside of the norms. It's the difference between "Do your job, or your fired" and "Switch to this different job, or your fired."

[edit]

I think there is a third leg to making something an ultimatum, and it's about the degree to which the move is (or is perceived to be) about imposing ones will on another.

"I don't want to be married to someone who plays WoW for 12 hours a day," is a different tone from "Quit WoW, or I'm leaving you," and it's natural for someone to respond differently to those two statements.
The thing is that there is no arrangement that works for everyone. Sure, those who just want a physical office space instead of their home will probably be ok collaborating remotely, but the others want to collaborate in person, and that requires everyone to be at the same place. Flexible conditions which make everyone happy is going to the office to spend large amount of time on video calls in cramped call booth - nothing too happy about that, whichever side of the debate you're on.
Yea but there’s incentive to obscure it given the managed solution. I view it as high risk
As a remote worker before the pandemic, I think the worst thing we could do is return to the status quo. I remember trying to find a new remote job before I moved across the country to Portland (pre-pandemic). I interviewed for a job in downtown Chicago, which would have required a 35-minute train ride to and from the city each day. I wasn't moving for a few months and I offered to work in the office before switching to remote. I even said "if you don't think I'm contributing enough value by the time I leave, and you aren't comfortable with me working remotely, let me know and I can stay with the company long enough to help you find my replacement". They still turned me down.

The status quo was "people that work from home aren't actually doing work", or "people that work from home aren't as productive", etc. I remember going to the dentist and telling the dental assistant that I work from home, and her response was "don't people think you're slacking off?" and my response was "no, because I'm an adult". There was an almost insurmountable stigma around remote work. As terrible as the pandemic was, it exposed an irrefutable truth about remote work: people can still do their jobs perfectly fine at home.

I spent most of my career working in offices, until I went fully remote about 2 years before the pandemic. There are aspects of the office that I miss. I'm not vehemently against going back into an office, but it would come with some pretty big caveats: the office has to be relatively close, there are no fixed days or amount of days I'd be required to come in, and I'd have the flexibility to come and go as I pleased. I doubt many companies would agree to that arrangement, mainly because of the real estate costs, which is why I stick to remote work.

I don't want to go back to a world where I have to convince a company that a remote worker can still provide as much value as one in the office. I don't want to be forced to stay late at an office to finish something that I could knock out twice as fast at home. I can only hope that we don't spend the next few years going backwards to arrive at a status quo that was misguided and not grounded in reality.

Edit: Grammar
Do you have any idea of the scale of ranking infrastructure at big tech and how it’s been all ML for about a decade across the industry?
Recently I had to setup a Windows computer and a Macbook.

Both sucked. It was miserable. Lots of dialog after dialog after dialog. Disabling crap just to get like functional local file storage. Turning off news and stocks and notifications galore.

Linux is fine in this regard as a poweruser but has it's own rough edges. I think for the moment it is actually ahead despite occasionally having to pop into terminal for the odd task.

I just can't believe how horrible using a computer is for a non-poweruser. It is abusive. No wonder so many people hate computers when this is the experience they have.
The CD came a decade before MPEG-1, though.
And good luck to them in doing so. That’s not the other CEO’s problem.
I have been a remote worker since before the pandemic as well and I am lucky enough to have been able to remain in that position. I have worked at an in person company, a hybrid company, and a fully remote company. I think what we are witnessing here is more of a labor negotiation and businesses navigating new trade offs they have to make.

It is difficult to measure employee productivity and in particular how productive employees will be after years of remote work. From my subjective experience, remote work is worse from a productivity standpoint and it is hard for me to imagine how it could not be. The communication bandwidth in person is just so much higher. Logistics around scheduling and communication are just way easier. I notice participation in and meaningful discussion in meetings is significantly higher in person. Psychologically, it is easier for me to be motivated and pay attention in person. I have heard others report this but it may just be a matter of personal preference.

That said, I like living where I live, I have connections here, and being asked to move for a job and start over is a massive ask. The older I get the more massive it will become. I would quit my job before relocating if that meant a pay cut. So my employer and I have conflicting interests. They would get more productivity from me if I relocated, but I don't want to.

I am not saying that I am valuable in particular, but there is a significant group of people like me that are part of a remote talent pool. This pool grew quite a bit during the pandemic giving us more leverage. By being willing to hire from this pool companies open themselves up to new talent, often at a better price than they could get in areas where talent is in higher demand. This is not just top talent but also affordable, solid talent. Some employees want to be able to work remotely and if you as a company are willing to deal with the challenges of remote work this can essentially be another form of compensation so you can hire talent you may not be able to otherwise afford.

Right now people are still experimenting and feeling around this new landscape. Companies are testing the water to see what they can get away with. There will probably be some growing pains before we reach a new equilibrium.
In the US, many trade schools are either private for-profit programs, or part of what we call "community college". Free community college has been pushed for a long time (some states already had it).
I was in the second high school class to get Louisiana's TOPS program, which at the time gave four years' full-ride tuition plus fees to any public state university with a nominal ACT score and generous GPA requirements (18 ACT and 2.5 GPA IIRC).

Wouldn't be here today without it. My parents couldn't afford anything but the closest and shittiest university, with no compsci program (they only had a business computing program, which taught only COBOL, in 1999). Instead I went to UL Lafayette, which had an actual program, got a room/board merit scholarship, worked through the summers, and graduated debt-free with two degrees.

It still didn't accomplish the state's objective of keeping college grads in state — the in-state company I lined up my senior year moved after the governor line-item vetoed a tax incentive, and I wound up in the northeast. But if not for that my career would've probably started working on legacy systems in Arkansas instead of startups in New England.
The maintainer came out swinging and backed the guy that opened the issue.
Doesn’t sound like one person is the bad apple
We had a Cisco conference setup for two joined conference rooms back in 2014? It was like $500K per site. It was terrible, picture quality was 1080i with bad sound, but something an exec would love cosplaying as a member of the NSC. The thing couldn't easily handle conferees using webcams etc. Got torn out when the support contract ended and converted into a traditional conference room.
If it’s not in writing, it ‘never happened’ - and even then, make sure you have a copy they can’t get at and know your odds of a successful prosecution under the law (and your ability and willingness to see it through).

Because sometimes that will be required.
You make a valid point about the added complexity of combining parser combinators with functors and other concepts.

Honestly, if I were writing a compiler, I would go with your approach as well.
Last time I checked the state of TrueCrypt it was 2014. There used to be an audit saying "build chain is outdated, but software is fine" and an hostile fork named VeraCrypt came to be, incorporating a lot of new features. Some people where suspicious how many bugs this code might have and whether to use VeraCrypt at all.

How much trust do you put on VeraCrypt?
It's a tough requirement. Financial services need to offer a high level of privacy but they also need to KYC (Know your Customer) to control money laundering, tax evasion, etc. That is, a truly anonymous and fully private service is a non-starter.

The conventional model where a private bank is responsible to you to maintain your privacy as much as possible and is responsible to the state to reveal information when it is required by law (not the caprice of administrators) fits those requirements well. If the state is running the whole thing there is going to be less trust.

Digital currencies have other paranoia-provoking properties that somebody might be useful. For instance for economic stimulus it might be desirable to issue money that expires (the point is they want you to spend it not save it) or money that can only be spent on certain things.

Things like that drive some people to think they want physical cash, gold bars, etc.
It worked surprisingly well (as did some of the other BBS message networks of the time). Sure it took a bit for messages to traverse the network, however most of that was to try to reduce on cost per minute long distance.
>It's just temperature, density, and confinement time.

I know what a triple product is (even a Lawson criterion), but what you're saying is like saying curing cancer is just "figuring out how to turn off uncontrolled cell division." There's a lot of practical engineering that is behind that sneakily simple phrase. If D-D fusion is so easy, why don't the other start-ups pursue that since D is abundant and T is one of the rarest materials ever? In fact, since D-D makes T 50% of the time anyway, why don't they do both?

As for the blankets, as I've said, plenty of people talk about them, but have never even come close to building one.

>Honestly it doesn't sound all that hard.

Yeah, I agree it doesn't sound very hard. By chance do you work at a VC firm?
Right, but it's precisely that shift that the term is supposed to induce. From a fungible energy perspective, there really isn't that much difference between increasing the supply by an additional MW and decreasing the demand by an additional MW. Moreover, that additional MW that's now in the grid is the greenest possible energy, provided without producing a single atom of CO2.

When people thinking about generation they think about something different than reducing demand, but it's critical to start seeing that those can be the same thing, in certain circumstances.
There are some other interesting use cases for smarter energy consuming devices, what they call Cold Load Pickup, where a section of the grid loses power during a blackout, and power comes back. that initial spike kills equipmenton the transmission side, if you are able to delay start some equipment, you spread the load and reduce strain on the grid.
Of course they are.

Almost every groundbreaking idea that surfaced went through a period of obscurity and dismissal.
> Some people who were hired in as permanent remote, now are being demanded to sell their homes and move to cities they’ve never been to before.

No one is forcing you to sell your home. You could rent your home and move temporarily until you find a suitable remote replacement.

Or, you could just quit outright.
PL research and reverse engineering or just fixing compatibility. Say you want a program from 3.6 era but the 107 year old interpreter doesn't quite suit you and the newest one broke something, and you bisect interpreter versions to find 3.11 to 3.12 broke it.
I'm torn. While I think there are benefits to working from home -- no time wasted on a commute, more quiet, less stress -- it's a little bit unfair to those who must work on-site by necessity. There's also a social aspect of hanging out with co-workers that you'll never get over video chat.
If they paid more for it than its worth, than they lost money the instant they bought it. If they sold it to a company that thought it could increase the value of bandcamp by owning it, then they might have gotten more for it than it was worth when they owned it, hence increasing their own value (or at least making a valuation which was previously potential concrete).
What I have noticed after a few years of hybrid work is that I have less strong bonds with my colleagues. I feel more lonely, more isolated. Every day I work from home is convenient and comfortable. I can sleep in, save time in commutes etc. But I miss the camaraderie I used to have. I am only an anecdote in my own life, but I miss some things with office work that is not about working in an office and more about working together.
Probably not. What is your threat model?
Full disk encryption only solves part of an overall threat model. The biggest difference between VeraCrypt and FileVault is that one is open source and auditable. FileVault does have some publicly available technical whitepapers, however Apple has not released the source code.
So aside from black box testing FileVault itself, you’ll just have to trust that the engineers at Apple did a good job.
Otherwise the differences are largely the same: how long is your passphrase, where do you store that, etc.
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/08/06/analysis-of-f...
https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/374.pdf
I think my old MBP is a 2015. In any case, it works fine tor mostly browser-stuff which is all I really use it for on my dining room rable day to day. So more like 8 years old. My 2010's battery swelled and it wasn't worth fixing at that point after I personally did a couple other upgrades to it.
If ext4 does, I’m not aware of it. The only widely (up for debate) used file systems I know of that offer snapshotting are btrfs and zfs
Ultimately only people's immediate managers have insight into this either from managing them or from their co-workers. People eventually will let you know who isn't pulling their weight (obviously people will forgive others if they know they have a temporary issue in their life --but not if its unwarranted).
That's the usual cause of protocol errors. The other one is unable to get a common cipher but that seems unlikely on a modern machine. Maybe try the connection with openssl and see if you can get some details.
There are some sandbox detection's on VT as well FWIW. [1] Some companies pay to ingest data from VT. MS probably had to override the findings in Defender.

[1] - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/88c33af6f1963eb94683be1f...