skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am lazy and time poor, not a liar. No need to troll if you [1], for whatever reason, take issue with the concept of remote work. You’re free to the opinion. I believe in the model based on a preponderance of the data (enterprise financial success and metrics, worker quality of life, environmental impact, etc). Probably a bit of “talking my book” [2] too if you will.

I’ll make time to have the Google Sheet cleaned up and shared here as a post.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858529

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18146703

(Strong believer in putting my money where my mouth is)
Or dnscrypt-proxy, especially if you care about not disclosing your IP address to resolvers.
If CEOs want to push people out and do silently layoffs, it doesn't matter WFH is good or not, they are going to find all kinds of reasons to make you want to quit.

We might find out what CEOs really think about WFH if the job market looks like 2021-2022 again and forces companies to compete on perks to attract workers. Although I doubt it will happen anytime soon (or ever)
That’s cute!
Show HN: TechHelper- Free & offline developer tools app for developers & testers
Hey guys,
I created a free and offline toolkit app for developers and testers. It offers productivity tools like customisable cheatsheets, JSON/YAML/SQL/XML formatters, convertors, validators and comparators, escape and unescape json, regular expression tester etc.
Check it out: https://techhelper.app/

The main highlights include:

Data stored locally:
The app is fully offline and the data is stored locally (in local storage). This means you can input any data without fear of someone else accessing it.

MultiTool Integration:
Often times, we may need to convert data in such a way that the output of one tool needs to be used as the input in another tool. Eg: Unescape json and format the JSON or validate it etc..
The app provides an easy mechanism to quickly and efficiently move data from one tool to another improving your productivity.

Customisation:
The app supports various forms of customisation, like adding tools to favourites for easy access, or adding custom commands to cheatsheet section so that it can be retrieved easily via quick search, etc. More customizations are in the pipeline.

History Support:
The app maintains a history of your recently used input data for easier reuse. This again is stored locally and never leaves your system

PWA Support:
It is a PWA (Progressive Web App) which could be installed on your system and accessed as a native application (without opening browser)

Current list of tools:
1. Customisable and searchable cheat sheets for common technologies
2. Formatters for JSON, YAML, XML
3. Compare JSON files or normal text files
4. Regular Expression tester
5. Escape and Unescape JSON or normal texts
6. Convertors for JSON to YAMl, YAML to JSON, YAML to Properties, Properties to YAML
7. Base64 Encoder and Decoder
8. Color format convertor
9. Validators for YAML and JSON
10. Lorem Ipsum text generator
11. Character Count Analysis

I would greatly appreciate your suggestions and feedbacks on this app.
Ah thanks for the correction. I also used DistroKid.
> You have a person number and authorities store everything centrally. A big brother nightmare for Germans.

Should be a big brother nightmare for all humans.

Your number is 666.
> Feelings and anecdotes aside, the data shows the model to be effective imho.

Both sides are driven by feelings and anecdotes. The few data points that exist are inconclusive.
It's hard to get widespread agreement on a definition, because many political groups have a vested interest in expanding or reducing the definition.
The fact that Peano Arithmetic isn't categorical, and that if you want to nail it down you need either bigger theories (within which you can of course nail down a single model) or move to theories which don't have proof theories like second order arithmetic, suggests all might not be as easy as it looks here.

Being an ex-proof theorist, I'm a bit dubious of not having one.
It's all about saving time. Musk got a private jet to save time travelling around. Employees WFH to save time too. That's the hack they found to avoid commuting to work. In such they improve the quality of their lives.

Musk, Jasys and Benioff should treat their employees like they do their customers. Adapt to their needs. Asking people to come back to the office is just like selling something a customer no longer wants.

As for Musk saying "it ain't fair for service employees" I reply those are different jobs. Poor excuse.
I wonder if anything you said was actually a good thing. It seems more like a list of horrible things in disguise:

* Easy access to information: perhaps that makes us ignore the most important information right in front of our faces?

* Easy communication: perhaps that has made destroying communities easier (just move away, I can still call you!)

* Online stores:... too much consumerism!
Feel free to start this yourself if you have first hand pain.
It does for me when using a remote instance, like a devcontainer or over ssh. Maybe that is just because the server side keeps running and when you reconnect the UI reloads from there. Locally nothing would remain to be reloaded when you restart VSCode.
Agree with throwaway, the faces look great. Thanks for this library, the amount of face detail options is really cool.
50 lbs/ft2 is pretty much the upper limit in the continental US. Most of the Midwest is around 20lb. Maine and Alaska go significantly higher. Pretty much the entire South is 10lb or less.

I've lived various places in the US. With the exception of one older house, the roof trusses were a joke: so-called 2x4's (really much thinner than that), widely spaced, held together with a few nails and little or no cross-bracing. They might theoretically hold up to the weights listed, but I sure wouldn't stand under them during a test.

Where I am now, in Europe, the roof trusses are roughly 6"x10" laminated timber. That will hold a snow load.
> In Long Island Sound, even without going through any doors I got someone asking why I'm interested and essentially telling me there's no way in hell I could e.g. see the engine. He seemed to be 5 seconds away from calling the police.

Might have had better luck pre-9/11.

> I'm a bit sad that it's not more widespread for a lot of critical infrastructure e.g. ferries, power plants, factories, etc

The rationale is clear (you may debate the necessity or effectiveness): the concern is that terrorists would scout critical infrastructure before an attack.
Hooray, with these changes, the tested setup finally manages to have a smaller input median latency (Console ~12 msec) than an Apple //e from 1983 (30 msec). It only took 41 years:
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261148-modern-computer...
https://danluu.com/input-lag/

But wait! Not so fast (smile). This benchmark uses the compositor "raw Mutter 46.0", not GNOME Shell. Raw mutter is "a very bare-bones environment that is only really meant for testing."

In addition, this measurement is not end-to-end because it does not include keyboard latency. In this test, the "board sends a key press over USB (for example, Space)". Latencies just within a keyboard can go up to 60msec by themselves:
https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

What are the true end-to-end numbers for the default configuration, which is the only situation and configuration that really matters? I wish the article had measured that. I suspect the numbers will be significantly worse.

I do congratulate the work of the GNOME team and the benchmarker here. Great job! But there are important unanswered questions.

Of course, the Apple //e used hardware acceleration and didn't deal with Unicode, so there are many differences. Also note that the Apple //e design was based on the older Apple ][, designed in the 1970s.

Still, it would be nice to return to the human resposiveness of machines 41+ years old.
> especially for middle management

I divide them into two groups (it's not about being middle, low, or top, or junior/senior): reasonable and flexible ones and unreasonable and inflexible ones. The former can provide convincing reasons why in a given scenario WFH may or may not be preferable and you can discuss it with them on equal terms - after all, if an employee leaves, it is an extra cost for the company. The latter are unable to do so, for various reasons - fear, insecurity, bias, need for control, distrust and other traits they are sometimes not fully aware of.
> treat their employees like they do their customers

So, with disdainful indifference?
I built a tool that generates and renews letsencrypt certs, automatically verifies via dns, and uploads to your destination (for example, a load balancer.)

https://github.com/poundifdef/certmaster

I want to turn it into a service but haven’t gotten any feedback that people want it!
The discussion is often about efficiency and productivity and from the point of view of someone who really likes working from home, I think that’s the wrong way to frame it.

I think of WFH as a perk akin to paid vacation or health insurance benefits. Are workers more efficient when they get 4 weeks of paid vacation? Maybe or maybe not. It doesn’t really matter though because vacation isn’t framed as a way of increasing productivity. It’s a perk. I think flexibility around WFH is should also be talked about as a perk that companies offer to attract and keep talent.
It's nice to build chip fabs in the USA, but is it _really_ necessary to "gift" some of the most capable and productive companies on the planet billions of dollars (not even counting the tax freebies)?

The whole CHIPS act thing seems backwards and short-sighted.

As the US education system is backsliding into literally worse-than-third-world outcomes, can we expect that companies like TSMC will even be able to find enough US workers to staff these facilities at a scale which will be large enough to move the economic needle?
For Android:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.brucelet.spacetrader/
Yeah, I blame those employers too.
Last year I was job hunting and got declined a position as I only have 10 years of experience with JavaEE, but no job experience with Spring Boot (only a few hobby projects). That’s how narrow minded these guys are.
You can play it freely (as in Freedom) under Android:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.brucelet.spacetrader/
If one's measure of the frequency of something is "how often the media reports on it" (media meaning traditional and social media), in all likelihood their awareness of the frequency that it occurs at, both presently and historically, is comically inaccurate.

The US alone has an emergency landing just about every day (if distributed evenly, though obviously as with random events it clusters). Weird hydraulic issues, landing gear problems, sensors not working correctly, flap issues, etc. Without a context it's an ordinary, regular event of zero notability beyond to some technical bulletins.
> There is (edit: at least) roughly $120B in enterprise value in fully remote and remote first orgs.

There aren't any North American private companies that have an enterprise value of over $120B right now so the company is public, why not just name it?
People jailed because of the Brazilian version of the Capitolio invasion are NOT being framed by terrorism. They are being framed for armed criminal association, trying to abolish the rule of law, property damage qualified by the use of violence and menace and for destroying historical items. The only person framed with terrorism is the Bolsonaro supporter who months earlier tried to plant a bomb in an airport, which is the literal definition of terrorism.

You CAN protest. You CANNOT try a coup, cannot try to abolish the rule of law, nor try to depose the elected president. Your whataboutism about left-wing protests against Temer do not even make sense.

> what does it matter what brazilian law says? It's not even a civilized, democratic country anyway.

OK, now I know Im just talking with a crazy Bolsonaro supporter. No right is absolute. You have freedom, but if you commit crimes, you are jailed. You do not know nothing about law and is repeating absurdities. Anyway, your reply is useful to show the partisanship of people echoing these news.
What I keep repeating on this issue: for a lot of people it’s not about not going to an office. It’s about breaking real estate and escaping high cost of living cities that refuse to build housing.

At this point it’s clear that the Bay Area in particular and much of the West Coast in general refuses to build enough housing to meet demand because it’s controlled by owner and real estate speculator cartels. The only economically rational move is to leave.

CEOs who insist on locating there with no remote work option should skip the middleman and pay property speculators directly.
It uses SDL so it would be easy to port.
> clean streets

There's junkies fighting for crack in their underwear in minus degree weather right in the center of Frankfurt, shit and needles everywhere all around hauptbahnhof, come on.
Usually pi-hole is installed together with Unbound [1] for the function of Blocky.

[1] https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound
A quick memo about how to add or remove a Stimulus controller - I recommend to rely on generator this time.
The Biden administration sees it as 2 birds with 1 stone.

Intel and TSMC are investing in swing states. It matters to Biden when it comes to the election.

The second is that the US genuinely wants chip fabs in US in case war breaks out.

It's most definitely inefficient use of dollars for mega corporations.
Personally it's also because the office has become such a horrible place to work since the pandemic.

We've gone from fixed desks and floors divided by department to stupid flex desks where you have to drag your stuff from a locker and are sitting mixed with people you have nothing to do with whatsoever. Often noisy sales people besides ones that need to concentrate.

I used to enjoy going to the office 3 times a week. Now I officially should go 2 days but I hate it so much I rarely actually do. It's really a fancy place for management to see butts in the seats and the needs of the employees are a total afterthought.
Figure presented is an aggregate if that was not clear, not a single enterprise. Open to suggestions how I could’ve improved that sentence in that regard.
Well. It doesn't seem that legal, and certainly not a good solution is your primary goal is to help artists : https://musicfans.stackexchange.com/questions/1045/do-those-...

Very shady at best.
>can we expect that companies like TSMC will even be able to find enough US workers to staff these facilities at a scale which will be large enough to move the economic needle?

Immigration.
I love ACH.

Some 30 years after I read it, I still use "heya" as my default greeting.
https://musicfans.stackexchange.com/questions/1045/do-those-...
What annoyed me the most is actually clicking on ads from Google Search. Sometime I searched a product and I couldn't clicked on the first result because they are advertisements.
Indeed, that highlights a very interesting paradox. Computers are immensely useful in certain sorts of tasks, but in others they are rather obstructive even though the integration of them in our lives makes them necessary when they ought not to be.
Okay, but which floppy drive I need to connect to it?

Can I connect a PC floppy drive, and read Amiga disks with it?
Exploring the convergence of spatial computing technologies and how the challenges left to bring Magic Quidditch into existence
I found that there was one logged already several years before.
I disagree - the new thing is that it's the fourth year of this global revolution re. worker's rights and we partially won. I'm actually tracking the ratio of permanent/hybrid to remote jobs in my niche and I'm very happy there is no negative trend, i.e. the ratio of remote jobs is stable and they are the top-paid positions (which makes sense for other reasons). So I guess every year we can celebrate this enormous achievement that is positively affecting the lives of hundreds of millions around the globe.
You can get these FLACs via Bandcamp. In some cases, you can download for free (enter $0.00 if there is a "name your price" tag)
Workplace injuries.

The government doesn't want to admit liability for millions (maybe even billions?) in Workplace Claims, so blames some 'unknown adversary'.
I may use this! Thanks for sharing
EU employers don't have competitive salaries, pay up or shut up.
"I am not sure what you mean, the history of art is a history of rich/powerful people giving poor/lower ranking people money for doing said art. Artists have never been truly free in that sense — thst was my point."

To me the history of art is quite a bit broader than european elites wanting to protect their investments and tax evasion schemes, basically 'haussing' the value of what their predecessors commissioned from painters.

Among other things, there's what might be called 'folk art'. Songs and music that narrate more or less mythical history, a practice predating european urban elites with their mecenate style of commissioned paintings. 'Street art'. Drawing a dick on a random brick wall is a very old tradition.

Personally I'm not sure I believe in commercial art. That would be an expression and possibly an exploitation of economic relations, and not an expression or invention of humanity. In part my suspicion against the idea that relative wealth and convenience would be good for art stems from this, it implies a disconnect from most of contemporary and historic human life.
Article states "threshold of 1,000 plays in the preceding 12 months".

Sounds like you're well over that, at around 3-4K plays per year.
Agreed. Although it does not have to be that way. We could have a physical, post-pandemic office that addresses your concerns (e.g. quiet zones, pods for calls, etc)
Seconded!

See my comment about Qobuz on another post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39428327
I found one of these at work and was told I could have it. I spent an entire evening cleaning all the key cases and reassembling it. But, after all that when I hooked it up the spacebar and one or two of keys didn't work. Arg. I should have tested it first!
STAC Specification: A Standard for Geospatial Data Cataloging
I was like w0t, like, have you seen what kind of garbage Musk sells his customers
No, we don't need to update the definition to retroactively legitimize the mass murder of civilians in warfare. The people killed by the atomic bombs were innocent under any sane definition of the term, and the cruelty behind that was intentional. The US wanted to impart to the Japanese that the violent suffering and death of every man, woman and child would be the cost of anything less than their immediate and unconditional surrender.
Once again, my position is - if you want people to want to work from an office, you have to make the office an appealing place to work. Open office environments with temporary desks and tons of noise pollution is just not going to cut it.
You're conflating things. GC is different (albeit necessary) from naturalization. I clearly said my citizenship took 6 months. My GC took 6 or 8 years and I got it through my wife.

For those 6 to 8 years I had a student visa then an H1B. Despite having a PhD in the top US program in my field from a top five school.

My wife got her GC through the lottery before she finished university (ie w/ a HS diploma) with 0 years living in the US
Yes, at one time people owned certain other people called slaves, and many wars were fought, then they had indentures = more wars, now they are called restrictive covenants = selective slavery - these are being outlawed place by place in a haphazard manner. Workplace evolution is the latest buzz.

A form of gig labor is evolving. Instead of work from home, we might get a task pool format = bid for task = race down a hole. This is widespread and is allowing many so-called third world countries to get hard currency by exploiting the fact that a USA worker wants $30/hour for a data task and a smart lady in Nigeria can do this for $3/hour with both people happy at their local hour's wage because they can buy the same breakfast/lunch/dinner/rent for the same number of hours used. We see many of these tech migrants doing this between Thailand and Silicon Valley, and many other places. I think there is a 'great levelling' under way with the migrants in the vanguard. When it is fully levelled, with a robot work force and work from (any home)to (any workplace) has been achieved we will be inching towards a world government - by AI of course, politicians will be happily shed along the way, as they die their inevitable death by uselessness...
> As for Musk saying "it ain't fair for service employees" I reply those are different jobs. Poor excuse.

Exactly. I had a service job and I didn't mind going into work at all because that's what the job is. And besides, interacting with customers is much preferable to being in a building surrounded by people typing on keyboards when no one actualy needs to be there.

Should we now say that executive jobs are unfair to employees because employees don't get to run the company?
Joke is on them to think I care about any of this when I work on my company-issued ThinkPad T14 with a 45% NTSC screen that maxes out at 300 nits.

Realistically, at this time, this is for developers who works on a MacBook and creates web pages for users that use MacBook or iPad Air/Pro. Most Windows laptops under $600 don't even have sRGB, and even some over $1k don't (like my ThinkPad). sRGB is often as good as it gets with regard to color gamut on (all) Windows laptops, P3 color coverage is very rare. Even more so for Chromebooks. When it comes to monitors, most target sRGB.

Of course what they are doing is important, but it will be a long time before most people can benefit from it.
How else do you propose to get a company to build a factory at your preferred location rather than theirs? Paying companies is the usual way to get them to do things.

The economic effects are important but secondary to the national security effects of having TSMC chip manufacturing on US soil.
Does WFH save employees or companies time?
I used gnome-terminal for years and at the times when I had to switch to a virtual console, I often had a feeling that the latter was more responsive.

But that could be the placebo effect due to higher cursor blinking and key repeat rates. My monitor is 60 Hz.
I loved that one. For some reason the bit that stuck with me the most was the inside joke they had about all penguins knowing Robert Clark, because they seemed to be calling his surname all the time.
I built a website that takes online recipe pages and just returns the main recipe in plain text. https://www.plainoldrecipe.com
What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80k Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs
Yeah, if I had been looking for a job, Basecamp due to that mess would've been on my top 5. Seems like they got rid of some toxicity.
Avatar is a melange. (Pun intentional.)

There is TWFWIF, and there's also Poul Anderson's "Call Me Joe" which has the core idea of teleoperator somehow transferring his consciousness into the remote android, and there's some of Pocahontas for the resource-extraction themes – which is also why some called Avatar "Dances with Smurfs" for its references to "Dances with Wolves".

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The pun here being that "mélange" is both the French for a "mix" or "blend" and also the life- and consciousness-extending drug in Frank Herbert's Dune, which itself is a melange of a SF novel and also a roman à clef of the Great Powers-backed takeover of Arabia by the House of Ibn Saud, in which melange represents oil. Oil is the magical substance plentiful in desert Arabia which enabled long-distance movement for the Great Powers of the West, as melange enabled inter-stellar travel for the Empire in Dune.