skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're the one who missed the point. Yes they are at their workstation, but they don't want to be available for constant interruption. To turn your story around. You don't get to interrupt my work whenever you feel like it just because we're at the office.

Maybe when we walk off the field and we're home, we can focus in peace on our work and be more productive?
A lot of big companies had full remote by exception. They built up a modest amount of these (generally senior, often specialist) over the years. Forcing these people to an office is not return to pre-Covid.
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remote-first means hiring the best-fit people for your company at the time and them working precisely when they're ready to be productive, zero commute, zero overhead.

good luck competing with that.

source: 25 years and 8+ companies working remotely, and obliterating competitors stuck in the old ways.
Script to find missing std includes in C++ headers
Yes. But I think part of the design requirements is minimizing coordination required among distributed nodes.

This solution attempts to solve the sort-ability issue of current uuids by moving the timestamp to the most significant bits.
I'm sorry to hear you had trouble.

While I make sure we check things on our end, here is the direct link for the greenhouse application page

https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/okrainc
You are correct. I shouldn't have responded the way I did. As someone who worked on the iPhone it was frustrating to hear someone say what that the team did or didn't test.
If you are in a top tier team, super competitive, with superb colleagues, share office is a pleasure and you should be super well compensated for the intensity of it (e.g. Rentech)

If your work is clerical, repetitive, stable, you may sacrifice some pay, work happily remotely and sacrifice serendipity and mentoring if you're starting your career

It's a tradeoff.
This kind of assertiveness leads to garbage like C++ still not supporting UTF8 properly in 2023. My name contains diacritics. I am so, so, so tired of trying to work around information systems - not just web frontends - designed by people who don't care or worse, don't want to care.

"Web" programmers can care all they want about Unicode, but if the backend people didn't deal properly with text encoding, then something will break no matter what.

> There are plenty of software realms where ASCII not only is enough, but it actually MUST be enough.

Name one.
At some point when it is all over I will write about it. I've not been to trial yet - so this 10 years was while unconvicted waiting for trial, which is even more insane. It's not even the worst of it, IMO. When I finally got out I started working for criminal justice charities on various issues, and I started getting harassed by the police. They would literally come and drag me out of my house every single day of the week and arrest me and cuff me behind my back on the street (this is the USA too, not some Third World dictatorship!) and then let me go a few minutes later. Eventually they arrested me and I served another five months simply because I Tweeted about the harassment. There was nothing illegal about it, but a judge in the USA can do whatever he wants, so there you go.

Here's what I wrote about the sunlight:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740417
I personally enjoy RTO, but I don't buy the reason of RTO, as cited by many companies, being that employees would slack off when working from home. I mean, isn't the art of managing output is to set the right OKRs or KPIs or whatever measuring process? With the right measurement in place, simply punish the slacker and reward the effective people, and the company can focus on fostering a culture that supports WFH. If the management can't ensure productivity of remote workers, it says a lot about the incompetence of the management instead of the ineffectiveness of WFH.
I see the opposite problem, while there are people that work remotely that don't work, when I go into the office, it has become apparent to me that most people in office don't work nearly as much as remote people. There's tons of socializing, and snacking, and getting coffee, and going out for lunch, and commuting, and then on top of that, everyone works in giant open spaces with all kinds of distractions. Furthermore, if your company is multi-region, then "working in office" just means you are doing zooms in office because so many people are distributed.

If you like working in office, that's cool, I liked to do it when I was younger, but own the fact that it is a preference and not a superior position.
I like the cut of your jib, @fragmede. Though it's probably more like "Move at a moderate speed and break ice." (Which DOES sound like my company's product development process.)
Newsrooms are under no obligation to give equal footing to anyone, and no newsroom does. These organizations are a lot more useful when you abandon this assumption.
Interesting, how does `Americans stashed away an average 8.3%` compare to the often stated ~50% have no emergency fund/savings. Does that mean those saving money are on average saving %16 of their income? Makes sense from a general bell curve/inequity point of view but just looking for some thoughts.
Are you planning on hiring low quality applicants that need their hand held every step of the way? If not, I question why you've already planned #3 instead of letting team figure out what actually works for them. Offer a budget that can be used to help enhance the team dynamic, perhaps, but that's all you need to do. You have hired other people so you don't have to worry about such things; so that you can focus on the business.
Who is doing this precisely? I've heard a lot of people bemoan that they moved during the pandemic and now are being required to return to the office but I haven't heard of any instances where previously remote employees-- remote from BEFORE the pandemic-- are being required to move to central office locations.
The entire US military budget is federal, but most of the education budget comes from the states.

You're comparing apples to oranges.
Using the encryption argument:

Encryption is a solved problem. Easy to implement solutions are available everywhere. (yes, post-quantum cryptography is not yet solved, irrelevant for the current discussion).

That means that even if it were technically possible to create "legally-breakable-encryption", criminals would simply use real encryption and law abiding citizens would be stuck with broken "encryption" and be vulnerable to government surveillance... and to said criminals. I.e.: there are only downsides. And government experts know this just as well as anyone. Which makes their agenda very clear.

More in general, imho, the benefits have to outweigh the costs: even if breaking all encryption would have offered a small benefit in fighting bad guys, that still does not outweigh the costs of a total loss of privacy (think china) for everyone.
Now I can't wait for European Extremely Large Telescope with several times the resolution (also the space Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope)

btw PBS Nova has an awesome episode on JWST, how hard it was to get built and how it almost didn't get built because massively over budget ($10 Billion!)

https://www.pbs.org/video/ultimate-space-telescope-gunryt/

This is kind of a "part 2" follow-up after it was launched and "first light"

https://www.pbs.org/video/new-eye-on-the-universe-zvzqn1/
Because the rest of the world uses uuidv4 and the extra couple bits doesn’t really buy you anything
"Feb. 3, 2022"
That's not "being real," that's being insulting (regardless of whether you're right).
In this hypothetical, elite schools would be incentivized to provide something the public schools either do not or cannot provide.

Quality of education alone is hard enough to control for. What’s stopping the for-profit elite schools from just raising the bar until public schools simply can’t keep up?
You want to solve the problem of stupid rules and procedures that result in massive inefficiency by putting government bureaucrats in charge?
I’ll just repeat what I’ve said before: it’s not about people, it’s about real estate valuation and taxes. The folks making the RTO mandates (CEOs) are, as a whole, completely uninterested in employee preferences compared to the value of their homes and buildings. They are influenced by others in the same boat.
Yeah I guess the difference is that at my workplace there's a lot of tribal knowledge. Even when there is a design document it often hasn't been updated or requires nuance to interpret that's only really in one or two peoples' heads. Often the question/discussions is about engineering priorities, some discovery was made during coding that would alter the design, and half the time simply bringing up the topic with them for 5 minutes brings new information to bear that produces a superior result.

I try not to waste their time and develop my questions as much as possible on my own, but I'm not going to risk several hours of wasted work going down the wrong path when a 5 minute discussion with a SME would confirm something.

And it is an RTO discussion, because in the office they're available to some degree. WFH that availability drops off a cliff, and these are questions about the inner-workings of proprietary software, if the answers were on Google there would be legal action.
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In your scenario, presumably you are 20% less effective for same pay. So in a way yes but comp does not need to be adjusted.
If you're a business you'll easily get it.
No number of bits is large enough to _prevent_ collisions.
good for you if you can hold out. i am close to retirement, and don't care much for "office productivity", or "team spirit", or collectivist management bs. i can do all my work remote, and will not willingly return to a commuter life.
in my youth i enjoyed the energy of a team, hanging out with colleagues, and generally never resented the office environment. physical collocation will still be valuable for many younger people. it really depends on one's working style, experience, life stage, etc
You'd need to consider the state military and education budgets as well.
This is very close to what I’d do, but with the addition of enough office space for anyone who wants it, and less frequent “required” gatherings rather than once a month. It’s really counterintuitive, as suggested by all the other replies so far, but I really think it’s the best setup:

1. Individuals and teams can work in whatever way is most productive for them.

2. On a day to day basis, everyone who’s in the office is there because they want to be there, not because their boss requires them to be there. Speaking from experience, this leads to way better energy at the office.

3. Yes, you’re restricting hiring to a single geographical area. But for a small startup in a tech hub that’s not an issue, there’s plenty of talent around, you just have to convince them they should work for you.

4. People will want to work for you, because they’ll appreciate not only the flexibility, but the fact that you’re treating them like adults who can manage their own working practices. I’ve told several recruiters this year something to the effect of “I’d only be looking to move for a role with more scope and autonomy, and if I can’t be trusted with a decision as simple as where to work from, this role probably doesn’t offer the level of autonomy I’d be looking for.”

At a larger scale you might have to branch out to multiple hubs, but I think having departments or at least functional teams colocated but with flexible work arrangements is a huge advantage over the alternatives.
I would agree historically, but I think innovation and change is happening much faster now.

10 years ago, nobody seriously thought about taking on Google in terms of search engine.
Now we are going though a phase where we are questioning if LLMs can take over that market share.

Same with Facebook in social networks, but TikTok took over pretty fast.
Why didn't you just move states and ask "forgiveness" later? Companies cannot tell you where and when to live and if they try it see who blinks first. I would certainly have ignored them and let them fire me or RIF me.
The overwhelming majority of education funding is at the state or lower level, not federal.
> "Remote work is here to stay and will never go away" early on and often. It wasn't until about a year in that they started changing their tune and gaslighting us with "we never said remote work was here to stay, where did you get such a silly idea?"

Pretty much exactly this happened at my company. They started touting these new offices they got for a steal, but in the all-hands said "our company has never required anyone to come in to the office and we never will". Three months later, they start encouraging everyone to come in once a week. Three months later, they changed it to 'we expect you to be in 4 days a week', and in the all-hands one of the founders went "We never said we wouldn't have you come back into the office. I love seeing people in person, that would be silly of me to say!"

Technically it's not a requirement, just an "expectation", so I still haven't gone in more than necessary. But I'm not expecting a great performance review next year because of it, and I'm not sure how much longer I'll stick around either (it does look like most other places are being even worse about it right now, though). I was so angry to hear that.

Not the only time they gaslit either. They also had a round of layoffs about six months ago while trying not to call them layoffs ("we let a bunch of people go today, it's not a layoff though, they just weren't performant enough to work here"), that really rubbed me the wrong way too.
Can you share your work samples or Github profile?
Because audio-only or, worse text-only, is throwing away >90% of the bandwidth of human-to-human communication. Studies show that relatively little of in-person communication is the words themselves. I don't think emojis solve this.
Agreed, people keep trying to push Teams, Zoom, WebEx and others, and everyone complains about how rubbish video meetings are. Google Meet work, and it works well every single time.

Not that I enjoyed using Google Chat much, but it did have one awesome feature: Click and the you where having a video meeting/call with the people you where just chatting to. The absolute simplicity of either planning or just setting up a spontaneous meeting using Googles solution is fantastic. I really don't get why more aren't using it.
what irritates me is the label "Return to Office (RTO)" like we are all lost packages that need to be delivered to right address.

It's not framed as a debate but an expectation, and an overdue one at that.

zu must return to ze office and zu must sit in ze pod for 8 hours or zu vill be fired!
There is room for you in the no-RTO future. The big company I work for still has offices, those offices still have cubes. If you want to go in every day, it's open and you can. There are places to video conference, we still have a cafeteria, and if you want to feel like it's 2019, go for it.

The point is, requiring everyone to feel that way is bullshit. This bell can't be unrung, and the successful places are the ones who can cater to both, which is good because it's not mutually exclusive. The term "return to office," just like the term "remote" are biased towards desire. Workplace independence is what those of us who don't want to go back in are looking for, and there's room enough for everyone. You can go in, I can stay home, we can work together.

The last bit matters, though, because you going in have to be accepting of those of us who don't want to. Yeah, you're gonna sit on Zoom calls still from the comfort of your cube, but at least at my company, we were doing that on Skype before anyway, we just all forgot. Any office with more than one building, or any company with a tolerant work from home policy, had at least one person not come in at a time, so voice calls were a requirement. It was never not that way, and it won't go back to the time before that when absence meant missing things.

Make If you want to go back and make us all go with you, now we have a problem. But please, go in to the office! Enjoy it, it's a nice place to be. Just not the only place.
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You are assuming those activities are not work or benefit the company in some way.

Most seemingly useless bullshit team bonding activities will benefit the company long term. [This is especially true for slow-moving large companies, e.g. FANG, where very few lines of actual code is written by each employee and most of the "work" is in fact is to ensure business continuity, replicating institutional knowledge and context in employees' heads, and of the nature you describe.]

I agree there are different preferences, but it's not about employee's preference for the most part, but employer's — and the case I am making is it is not at all surprising or stupid that the employers are demanding RTO by default.
There's some murmurings that Aeropress is planning to release a "Premium" model made of glass + stainless. Don't think there's any official web announcement to link to; think the new models were demo'ed at an expo or something.

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Thank you lucideer! Great, kind points. Made me feel better.
I wonder how widespread climate anxiety is. I thought it was pretty fringe (though I think I'm quite afflicted with it myself), but I have seen surveys that show it is actually rather pervasive amongst younger people.
Open immigration is obviously incompatible with a society that has open social benefits, but the United States currently has neither.
> Imagine being asked to work for a week on a project and once completed, being told to delete it without consideration because management irrationally decided to go a different direction before considering your project, you'd be understandably upset even though you were paid to do it.

The compensation is correlated with confusion.
> US spending per student is among the highest in the world by a large margin

It is high, but not exceptionally high[0]. It is then worth remembering that the US overcounts spending on primary and secondary education relative to peer countries because we lack most of the social welfare programs that exist in peer countries and effectively funnel welfare services through the education budget.

As an example, if you have a severely emotionally disturbed child the school district might spend ~$100,000 a year to house the student elsewhere[1]. In Norway, this problem would be budgeted under social services, rather than education.

Numbers are further inflated by increased cost of living relative to most peer countries[2]. This is effectively a dead-weight cost for which we receive no additional benefit. Since Labor is the biggest cost for schools it greatly impacts cost of education.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/238733/expenditure-on-ed...

[1] https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4110#:~:text=Special%....

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-expe...
The usual advice is to save at least 10%. First, that goes into your emergency fund. Once that is adequate, start investing for longer term goals/retirement.

This requires you to have the discipline to not spend your emergency fund on Christmas shopping. It's for emergencies.
It's just what happens whenever you rise in the ranks of any domain.

People in the 99th percentile aren't super happy and satisfied that they've outcompeted 99% of the participating population who look at them with awe and envy. They're comparing themselves to the 99.9th percentile who leave them in awe and envy.

I think it's important for any high performer to occasionally step out of their narrow perception of the world and really grok how far ahead they are compared to everyone else. This is definitely something a lot of my high income tech friends could learn to appreciate when they get caught up feeling like a loser for only making $250k total comp.
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Just look at France and L'ENA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_nationale_d%27admin...

A lot of presidents have come from this public school. It shows that just making it public does not really fix the problem of lack of social ascension. With the fierce competition children that get access to private tutors and financial support have the edge.
As a foreigner living in Sweden during covid was just bizarre. I certainly appreciated that school were kept open and that the country never went into complete lock down. However the making fun of masks at the highest level, because there hadn't been any definite studies that showed they work (and after the turnaround later they wondered why so few people put them on), or the policies for medical personal who were not allowed protective gear (because it scares patients) even for ones working directly in the covid wards.

And yes there is definitely a weird "Swedish exceptionalism", which interestingly Swedes from all sort of political persuasion exhibit.