skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless the daily tasks rely on collaboration, cooperation, or diagnostics.

In general 2 site meetings are needed to talk with business ops, and pair up on key challenges.

Remote work becomes less productive with time. People re-discover the 7% rule in text communication (93% of meaning is nonverbal). Also, video chats are about as productive as conferences... fine for 1-to-n instruction... but terrible for n-to-n collaboration.

Admittedly, I'd likely bail too... if forced to go to an office 2 hours away for something non-fun... lol =)
Then perhaps we should be more honest about what the concern is and the requirements of our jobs. Employers are paying for you to be on call for 8 hours a day (minimum) not just for your output. You need to be responsive and attentive as part of your job, not complying immediately can result in demerits.
Yeah, it took me five minutes to set up a dev environment with Postgres and other containerized services. No performance issues. Full stack web development is a big chunk of the market...

Sure, maybe AAA gamedev isn't gonna work on a Chromebook.
golang isn't in the same league as the other languages mentioned. And Java and C# have come a long way since to be expressive as well as lesser syntax heavy (type inference, records, pattern matching, string templates, etc.)
ask yourself that question and answer it.

just what in the hell are you thinking?
Let's bring the rest of workers up to earning like this rather than promulgating envy.
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I'm just going to default to the: how do you think other countries do it?

I'm really tired of being told "we can't afford to give healthcare" "we can't afford to give higher education" "we can't afford early childcare" "we can't afford maturity leave" "we can't afford guaranteed sick/vacation"

Of course we can. The powers at be don't want that because it levels the playing field, costs them some money, and ultimately makes them less powerful.
I just wish we told/heared more stories about antivirus being useful. As it stands, anti-malware sounds like the worst malware on the planet.
flagged, past tense:

https://forum.torproject.org/t/torbrowser-12-5-6-no-longer-f...

"With the latest signature database (1.397.1910.0), tor.exe is no longer considered a trojan by Windows Defender."
this is what happens when Microsoft's detections team is under pressure to constantly deliver new detections: they will just ship whatever without careful evaluation of FP/TP and broader impact
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There is a lot of specialized microscopes out there. Confocal is pretty widespread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confocal_microscopy
100% agree. I've been a remote since 2009 (!!) and although it is entirely my "normal" I do remember that it was nice to have co-workers and the rhythms of standard work day. I am a much lonelier person than I was before.
That’s not really exclusive to remote work. I’ve had office jobs where I was extremely effective at not working. At the end of the day underperforming workers will find ways to underperform no matter where they work. Also, depending on the employees home life, there could be much more non-productive distractions in office.
personally I don't use shell buffer because it doesn't do command line recall like I expect.

In a normal terminal control-r <characters> recalls the last command with those keys, and control-p/n will go back/forward in the history.

with the shell buffer I move upwards in the buffer to recall a command.

(is there a way to configure this differently?)

EDIT: ok it seems like meta-r and meta-p/n do the same thing - kind of.

hmmm, but meta-r doesn't seem to recall from the shell history? It is either a different history or truncated.
I assume all sweeping advice I’m given also comes with a dose of Aristotle’s “golden mean”, or the Greek maxim “nothing in excess”.

Yes, you can construct situations where the ultimatum is reasonable. Yes, you shouldn’t blindly apply this advise all the time without any consideration of the circumstances.

But still, on balance it’s good advise. We all tend to lean too far towards respecting ultimatums from people in power (even when it’s harmful for us). We should collectively shift that balance, and move our default more towards being skeptical of someone giving an ultimatum.

But, yes, when someone gives you advice that comes with a “never” or “always”, it’s usually worth assuming there’s a silent “almost” in there, unless they’re explicit that they mean no exceptions could apply.
Such as?
If RTO is happening I want every company to take back every “great job staying productive through the pandemic” email they sent over the last several years. Either we met the standard for productivity or we didn’t, it can’t be both.
On that note, I also did not understand the post about H1B workers. Ostensibly a primary reason for the existence of the visa category in their first place is to fulfill the need for foreign talent that needs to be PRESENT in the US.
We use Delphi at work, and virus/malware scanners flagging every Delphi exe as a threat is something that has plagued Delphi for over 20 years.

Yes malware was written in Delphi for much the same reasons regular programs were[1], but had low enough exposure that none of the major scanner developers bothered including reference exe's to avoid flagging harmless run-time library code.

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more like they were lying with data, oops
Totally and this is what I imagined elite schools and colleges were providing. Kinda like signalling. But if you don't have the means to hobnob then might as well get educated affordably?
I asked about WFH prior to the pandemic and was told 'oh it won't work for you, ask again when you're in a senior position; you'll never develop without peer-friendships and a senior worker a couple of desks away'. Then we were forced to WFH.

Now, we're being told to do hybrid, but there's no peer friendships because it's hotdesking, and the senior personnel are no longer nearby (they're at home or on a different floor) ... so there's no "return", we're not going back to what we had, we don't have our own desks anymore.

Management acknowledge that office days (we're hybrid) will be low in productivity, but no changes to productivity requirements. It's all about collaboration, except you're next to random people you've never met and you can't talk because it's open plan and you'll disturb everyone.

None of the reasons given for return fit the reality (in my office), but they probably make sense for senior managers (who seem unable to see past the end of their own noses).
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It's worth pointing out that debt trap diplomacy was pioneered by the US backed IMF. While China has been exploitative, it goes without saying, that the US has been even moreso.
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Yeah, that's what I didn't mention it. I myself wanted one, but there is no way to buy it unless you are fine paying exorbitant prices when it comes for auction on ebay... Which goes against the goal of a low cost computer for learning.
The person that wrote the blogpost was hired as remote worker and was required to move to an office after the pandemic.
Does it cost you anything to call the police or the fire department? No- it's free to use. You know what it means; stop trying to muddy the waters with disingenuous arguments.
This ridiculous talking point isn't the "gotcha" you think it is, and quite frankly, it's getting exhausting to see it all the time.

Yes, we know, it's not "free" and is paid for by taxes. Likely even increased taxes. Everyone knows this.

And we don't have a problem with it.
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This is seemingly self-contradictory. Perhaps you could explain your reasoning further?
It seems more as a status issue to me:

Kariko had a PhD from Hungary, was a post-doc at Temple U. - not an elite pedigree. At Penn, an elite school:

"It was a low-level position, research assistant professor, and never meant to lead to a permanent tenured position."

and after that boss left,

"Dr. Kariko was left without a lab or financial support. She could stay at Penn only if she found another lab to take her on. “They expected I would quit,” she said.

Universities only support low-level Ph.D.s for a limited amount of time, Dr. Langer said: “If they don’t get a grant, they will let them go.” Dr. Kariko “was not a great grant writer,” ...

Kariko was slotted into the non-tenure / adjunct role, and it didn't matter what they did. It happens in private industry too. The problem is elitism overlooking talent and production. It's a brazen, obvious flaw.

The US long had the culture - imperfect, of course - of an active rejection of elitism, class, etc. 'All men are created equal', 'every man a king', meritocracy, hard work, you can accomplish anything if you work hard enough, the land of opportuity, the American Dream, etc. That equality, the respect for others, is the foundation of voting - you respect everyone's right to have input and its value.

The dominant fashion, a sort of neo-reactionaryism, is to reject that, deride it, rather than aggressively moving it forward. Many people look for ways to justify prejudice, to exclude, to embrace personal ego and greed and to mock public good. I think that's because if you embrace universal rights, opportunity, equality, etc., you can't avoid 'liberal' ideals too, and those are the target of reactionaryism.
Maybe what the WfH crowd should really be doing is organizing politically to gain cash benefits for Americans who don't choose to work at all.
People want to have status markers to point to. Attending an elite school or sending your kids to one are great status markers, plus the value of elite networking and all the elite opportunities. The argument is often framed in terms of race-conscious admissions to elite schools, but in reality it's over who gets to gatekeep the ranks of the elite. These are fundamentally contentious and limited.

This author wants to talk about broad access to education instead. They note correctly that there are really not that many people who are affected by these policy squabbles and far more who benefit from getting access to higher education of any non-elite quality.
I don't understand the last sentence, can you expound on what you mean?
> 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.

The standard advice is stay in the house at least five years. These people accepted permanent remote roles at companies that have been remote-friendly for only two years. The track record's not there; you can't reasonably assume that policy would continue indefinitely. It might, but it's clearly a risk.
Teams big companies are already distributed across time zones, effectively forcing their employees working remotely. It's quite common for an org to have office in NYC, in Bay Area, in a tech hub in Europe, and in an Indian city. Meetings are conducted over video conference, and communication is mostly asynchronous in writing. I don't see how that is different from WFH. Of course, local office for employees to bond and having face-to-face discussion is really nice, but there are different ways to handle that.
One of the beauties of USENET was it’s store and forward model. As such I had no real issues using USENET and email back in the day with a 2400 baud Hayes SmartModem.

Also helped it was all lightweight text messages and, naturally, I didn’t download the entire feed, just the few topics I was interested in.
To whatever extent your concern is backed up by data, that's an argument for making public colleges free rather than an argument against it, IMO.

"Today, children of upper middle class families have a path to getting good paying jobs that the poor are largely shut out from. We don't wish for that change by making public universities free, thereby preventing competition for these desirable jobs by the children of the poor."
AI song covers are incredible, from Goku singing "Don't Stop Me Now" to the cast of Spongebob singing "Ocean Man".
In short, "antivirus doing what antivirus has always done". Always set your AV to quarantine rather than blindly deleting data with potential infections, and review what it does, when it does it, so you can say "no, you will put this back" and you report the false positive (if your AV solution doesn't auto-submit that because it can, and it should)
Productivity increased exponentially for many years in line with technological advances. We were supposed to have flying cars and personal robots by now. The least they can do is allow us to reap our meager earnings from our own hovels.
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I have a friend who was quick to respond to Slack messages as he napped close to his phone most of the time while WFH, but in between the responses he did very little work.

100% true story.

You make an interesting point. I think in the office, what you wrote is the unwritten rule and people understand it automatically. At home it needs to be explicitly written down and it appears the employer is particularly abusive if they say you are expected to sit down at your VC and leave video on. Just demanding RTO is much easier and better PR for the HR.
We've done the opposite for decades. We've lowered the bar every year and the quality of k-12 education has dropped significantly. Perhaps now that Lucy Calkins is fully exposed as a fraud, reading can get better? https://www.timesunion.com/education/article/phonics-f-sound...
> Where was Russias great cyber warfare teams? They wouldn't have held back against consumer devices.

The difference is that we’re fighting a proxy war with Russia over Ukraine. With Taiwan, it will be a direct war due to the security guarantees we have given Taiwan.
It goes much deeper than that though. It isn't just "they wanted it and couldn't have it, then they got it and now they want to keep it:" A lot of people, myself included, did not understand even if we wanted work from home, how life changing it would be. How it's better for us as people, better for us as workers, better for our pocketbooks, better for our planet, better for our lives, just... better. It's ALL better.

Literally the only people losing in this arrangement are the same parasites who win at literally every other juncture in our society and just, I'm sick to DEATH of it. I will DIE on this hill. I hope the commercial real estate market fucking craters. I hope every company doing this RTO shit dies on the vine. I hope it sucks for every single person in the parasite class who loses more than 2 dollars on everything. I hope it crashes the price of real estate in big cities and makes them affordable again. I hope it makes my home worth less because homes shouldn't be a fucking investment vehicle in the first place.

To borrow the bugs bunny meme, I wish every landlord a very happy get a real job.
Making public colleges free isn't... free. The perception is often that public universities are already getting most of their money from the state or federal government, so why not just close the gap. But the typical funding level is between 40-50%. The remaining 50-60% is currently covered by tuition and philanthropic giving. So closing the gap to make universities free to the public would involve (in most cases) more than doubling the current level of state/federal funding.

That doesn't mean it should not be done - but the magnitude of the investment should be made clear.
Atari BASIC tokenized source a bit more thoroughly... eliminated spaces, parsed constants into their floating point representation, etc. It did enforce formatting to a degree.

I was always surprised that it did all that, but wasn't any faster than Commodore BASIC.
I think the main argument is that security by obscurity can easily be circumvented, be it via sidechannel, secret leak, source code leak or a surprisingly small search space (for example the whole range of IPv4 being scanned by now). It's easy to assume something is secure and spend a lot of time on obscurity, which completely falls apart thanks to a small sidechannel attack. It's (usually) just a weak defense overall. Yes, it can also be a maintenance overhead and therefore risk via proxy, but it can actually be easier in other situations.

For a personal anecdote, I used to work in a small webshop and our software was horrible, to the point where minimal effort would have been able to compromise our servers, which were running software roughly as old as I was at the time (I want to note that I worked on improving the situation while I was there). Still, the only time we had a problem was when we took over a Joomla-hosted site, as we were small enough to not get any individual attention and your off-the-shelf WordPress or Joomla-scripts did not work on our home-brewed software.

In the end, I fully agree that security by obscurity is a weak concept and the usual wisdom of not relying on it is completely correct. Still, it's important to acknowledge that obscurity can and does help security and bring actual reasons on why you should not rely on it. Just saying "it's obviously bad" leads to an easily refuted argument and will not convince some developers, leading to worse software overall.
In general, max unemployment in many/most states is pretty trivial compared to engineer salaries in general so, while maybe getting $500/mo for a while isn't trivial, it isn't a world of difference for people making $150K+/year.
Yeah, something like that. I think there’s a very bimodal distribution here. A lot of people save absolutely nothing. Some of those have no choice in the matter but many do but lack the discipline, motivation, and/or desire to do so.

Anyone who finds it important and has the means to do so is—in general—likely saving more than a token amount. 10% is a good start and enough to be noticeably worth the effort. And then of course you have the FI/RE crowd who (while rarer) push their savings to anywhere from 30–50%, or even higher.
Alright, but the post is about and pre-pandemic remote role getting swept up in rto - in what world does that make sense?
I always saw C++ and Java addressing other issues, like low level memory management, and higher level abstractions like objects. Not so much type policy.
Anyways I see a strong tendency in lots of programmers dismissing anything that is not type static-strict-safe, and others advocating for a more relaxed system.
> So unless you have a job that requires minimal communication on a day-to-day basis, an office is superior for productivity.

Depends on the type of work you do. In my last job almost all communication was remote via video call (except a meeting with the CEO every two weeks). Commuting just to sit in front of a computer to talk to others made no sense -> I lost way too many hours of my life to driving needlessly around.

I'm all for meeting in person, if there is a clear benefit. Otherwise it's like with all the other bullshit, stop doing it!
Their Python module caches the downloads, which is checked before downloading them again...but you're probably not wrong on the crazy bandwidth bill. Looks like they have crazy VC money though, considering the current climate.
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Yep.

Though there is a difference between indispensable because of key knowledge acquisition & hoarding, and valuable because of the contribution.

If you are the former - yep you are creating a risk, if you are the latter then not in my view.

Remote working potentially increases the chances of knowledge hoarding - as there are less opportunities to mentor more junior colleagues.