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> It especially benefits those of us on the spectrum, who need a quiet place where we can focus.

I'm not on the spectrum (at least I've never been diagnosed, but many software developers have autistic tendencies, so who knows), but I also need a quiet place where I can focus. Funnily enough, many people who prefer working from the office also want all others to see how hard they are working, so they sit in the biggest open plan office and do calls all day long. Which is kind of at odds with other people's need to focus...
Wealthy people are in the same social circles, of course they keep hearing these concerns about commercial real estate. They don't have to formally coordinate because they share the same class interests. You could even argue part of this coordination happens subconsciously.

Of course, not all wealthy people invested in commercial real estate. But they still have an interest in preserving the existing economic system. They certainly don't want a domino effect.
This is maybe the stupidest article I've yet to see discussed on HN.

This person thinks that multibillion dollar companies would be willing to sacrifice productivity to prop up the minor real estate assets they hold at the expense of their revenue and market cap?
They should change their behaviour as the pointer changes shape as you hover through various items on the screen
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

What you’re describing is a cognitive bias.

https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exerci...

You can believe COVID happened however you want — but it’s documented reality that the elites practiced exactly the authoritarian response they used mere months before the virus outbreak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Reset

Similarly, those same elites wrote a book about how they want to use the authoritarian measures they implemented during COVID as a gateway to imposing their vision on society. Again, documented reality.
this is pretty much a necessity sometimes. I was writing an audio synthesizer in c# and this is exactly what I had to do. Allocate whatever I need up front and ban the new keyword from then on.

Not that different to c++ had I chosen that instead.
Documenting and testing the hard reset/reboot procedure, as well as any expectations, for your colocated gear sounds like a good thing to add to this list.
Yeah, that's the PII leak.
The kids of the well-off getting to play a little bit more because the poors’ cars have been moved out of the city, and this is somehow celebrated. The upper-middle-classes are so out of touch with things that it’s scary.
reminds me of this Aussie cleaning company's website that forced you to create an account to take an order.

With a couple of clicks on the web app, you'd encounter a bug... and then you can see every single person's orders, email, and personal addresses. And it was my partner who discovered it (she was struggling to order service through the website bc it kept failing).

Oh and they also never charged us for service despite multiple emails asking them how we should pay (somehow we were able to order service through the site but never paid?)

Clearly they're not a serious company...
I prefer...both? I like having regular interactions with colleagues, I also like being able to have the time to be by myself at home and think. Perhaps there might be a 9 months on, 3 months off rotation, similarly to when you're in school. Spend the summer at home, working, thinking, reporting, maybe not as intensely as during the rest of the year, and then the colder months at the office collaborating, socializing. It would offer a nice break and a different kind of rhythm to life. Just a thought.
Is there a metric like PPP for real estate ? It might be a reality check for wealth vis-à-vis other nations.
I rode a bike in Lausanne, which was a primarily 3D city. T was a bit of a struggle to get up the hill in the morning though, you could coast back down at night. Before that I lived in Seattle which wasn’t as extreme, but if you lived on say Queen Anne hill instead of Ballard, I could see where that wouldn’t work out. Maybe that’s why Minneapolis has better cycling infrastructure than Seattle.
> Is this what the peak ordering experience looks like?

Call me old-fashioned, but to me the peak experience is a paper menu to choose from, and a waiter that patiently takes the order. Far prefer that to everyone at the table fiddling on their phones in some weird-ass website or even god forbid custom app.
In the early 2000s people were regularly banned from various phpBB forums because a moderator was a bit of a dick.
I almost got into big trouble at school for "hacking a teachers email". I guessed their email address (they were systematically generated) and sent an email. It's true you can get into trouble for this, but we need to all take it upon ourselves to make sure this doesn't happen. If this guy got into trouble I would hope every software engineer would be up in arms defending them.
It kind of makes sense, if you consider real-estate. When remote is possible, people will no longer flock to expensive city centers or highly populated areas(except rich young singles with big pay grades seeking entertainment), which means less rent revenue for expensive commercial residential properties in such areas. Additionally, it also means less human traffic causing a ripple effect on the nearby businesses(less people at coffee shops, restaurants, bars, grocers etc).

Also, as a self-preferred hybrid, I often go to office 3-4 days weekly and I see more goofing off and also get pulled into goofing off by peer pressure(c'mon, lets have a cup of coffee, you such work-a-holic, there is tomorrow blah blah), because people will definitely take a 30-60mt coffee break after each meeting, compounding to around ~1.5-2h (if we do not consider meetings as work) effective productivity.

Lets take lunch break at office, first grouping with peers starts 15-20mt before everyone is ready and heading out to canteen or restaurant depending on the mood and then taking a long walk afterwards because everyone is sleepy after meal. Coming back, some will still feel sleepy and spend another 30mt on coffee sipping and gossips and then walk to a meeting.

Compared to my work at home, I get decent min. 4h concentrated work. Additionally, I can focus on other stuff(debugging, reviews, experiments) in background without coming off as rude, while a meeting takes place that does not directly need my input immediately. Same meeting at office means I am either super bored and sleepy and others are mostly scrolling their FB/TikTok under the table while some random people get into nerdy arguments with another someone who suggested a bad design or a manager gets at the neck of another team's manager because they can't align on the coordination or responsibility distribution correctly.

One benefit of in-person office days is, when I have a problem, I can walk up to my peer and get a clarification immeidately, while at home, they might set their status to do-not-disturb or would cite some other meetings where they are just sitting around listening to blah blah and tell me to come back later. Other than that, I do not see any immense benefits. The bonding/cultural stuff are anyways enforced by corporate team events and parties and what not and in EU, people do not often socialize personally with colleages outside work unless they were childhood friends or live in same house.
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All the dirt particles from the floor get airborne in an instant - great for allergies and infections!
I think it's about productivity. Maybe not for you or me but if you're on TikTok you've probably seen the 'quiet vacations' trend, where kids learn how to fake working in their remote jobs. This is why we can't have nice things.
"We need predictable income so you should buy a subscription to our product" seems to be the argument that businesses love.
I just don't see a compelling argument here.

So either

a) The company that is ordering workers back to office owns the property - then they get absolutely no financial gains from it, because they need to pay for the office space in any case.

or

b) They rent the office. In this case, they get financial gains from renting less space and keeping workers at home.
You still worked with raw pointers in modula 2 though right?
Sounds like a good thing
Yeah, that's why the comment you are responding to makes no sense. "Investors believe they can get the same amount of revenue with fewer expenses" - is that supposed to be some sort of "group think"???

Not to mention that the proposition of "for no apparent reason" is total BS to begin with. There was a ton of over-hiring during the pandemic for an expected long-term change in consumer demand that never materialized. Plus, lots of people just fundamentally don't understand how rising interest rates make many projects uneconomic. If your company is chugging along making, say, 4% return on capital, that may be fine in the ZIRP era, but when treasuries are paying north of 5% it means it makes more economic sense to close down the company and put your cash into government bonds. That's a bit of an oversimplification but not by much. Rising interest rates fundamentally mean there is a higher bar for getting ROI.
Analysing Tech Layoffs (Which function in tech was hit the hardest)
Next up: "How I became a millionaire by consulting restaurants on Menu items and targeted Text Message Ads" ...

Seriously, its a PII leak and it should be reported. And since you said Google is an investor someone (theoretically) should care.
Is it a vulnerability when it is obvious the company do not care about security?
Conspiracy theory - The reason why All In hosts and David Sacks is so negative on remote work is because he owns a ton of commercial real estate in SF :)
Python is popular, because it's simple, and it's great as a glue language. The simplicity made it the language of choice for beginner's computer science courses at universities and schools. The glue language qualities led to numpy/scipy/et al., and that led to Python's popularity when AI/ML/data science became popular.

How much of the PSF's 2023 outreach budget was spent on those? How many universities were given money or otherwise convinced to redesign their curriculum using Python? Did it go to numpy?
After the question I wonder what do you mean by technical PM?
Okay, 600kbps is acceptable. Beats a lot of networks. Things are improving since I last checked.

Though with how happily and loudly they've made 1.5Mbps video excluded from data caps, it would be better if the throttled speed was at least 1.5Mbps.
Aside from conspiracy theories, remote working was already a thing before Covid, Covid just accelerated the process and showed to everyone that it worked. IMHO what we are now seeing is a "counter-revolution", an attempt to get the genie back into the bottle, and those are mostly doomed to fail...
so, not even one year? How is that "long term"? I've had my phone for 3 years
> Guess it's hard balancing the investors vs the interests of your clients

I think we know how that ends.
Even Intel isn’t doing that bad. Their revenue is still 2x or so higher than AMDs and they are still ahead in the consumer market. Their next gen mobile chips are allegedly already more power efficient than Qualcomm’s meaning that their only remaining advantage might be lower price.
Yep. It’s just working backwards from some pre existing very negative worldview.
The vehicle the OP linked has a cargo rating of 375 lb, not 750, and a top (assisted) speed of 15 mph, not 25-30.

In the US we don't require special licensing to drive box trucks up to 26,000 lb GVWR, much less a few thousand lb like you're talking about. Requiring licensing for all class 3 ebikes (speed limited to 28 mph, vast majority carrying little to no cargo) would be absurdly disproportionate.
I think cap rates are a decent proxy for that kind of thing, and they're not too bad recently in commercial office space, as far as I can tell. It seems that office buildings are selling at a discount to what they were a few years ago. But I suspect that many buildings have not yet changed hands, and thus have debt based on their old values.

I wonder how many underwater office buildings there are in the US right now, and who owns their commercial paper?

Edit: looks like about half of all office mortgages are underwater. Welp, there it is.
Isn't service taken into account in the price of the meals?
Ctrl-F "bootstrap" zero hits. That seems strange.
It will definitely work better with larger datasets, we have plans to improve quality.
Thanks! I think the Django one allows more stuff like e.g. layout customization. I haven't used it extensively so it was more of an assumption honestly! It's been around a long time and I just spent a couple months on my project instead.
Right, counter a conspiracy theory with another conspiracy theory...
One more step and it becomes the ultimate fantasy: it feeds you, takes care of you, looks after you...all that's left is sex and intimacy, then you get to be a child and an adult at once. How much are the rates for a live-in maid/prostitute? Certainly, anyone who could afford something like that wouldn't want a robot that is probably worse in every way.
Maybe because there is a large backlog of old games that will never be ported to Linux? Have you considered that game developers and not valve are responsible for providing a Linux port of their game and so far have managed to do a worse job than a DirectX implementation for Linux?

The collective time spent on developing proton is probably less than a dozen high profile Linux ports.

The latest commit to proton 9.0 is three weeks ago. The latest commit to an experimental branch is 3 days ago and it is just an update of a wine version and no other commits. A lot of proton commits just update a version here and there.

The focus is certainly not on proton. It is simply very cheap to work on it, because it is highly effective. The steam deck probably cost them more software and hardware developer hours than proton.
Sure, but what you’re describing is not what is being suggested. Responsible disclosure typically involves disclosing publicly after a reasonable period of time.
With his influence and followers, I think @levelsio has made sure that, even if he has competitors, he's gonna gain more attraction than others and do better
I read that last bit of your comment before I opened the link, and thought to myself, that's something Cnlohr would write.

And it is! Hah.
To be clear, my comment was sarcastic and I'm not defending the indeterminate detention option. Just pointing out the hypocrisy.
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> I would run away from working for a company like that

although a form of affirmation about my experience, and caked in privilege, my experience is that a company that does one odd thing during an interview process isn't indicative of anything. actual job and team I’m on can be fine
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Can you link some think tank pieces arguing against remote work? I tried looking but couldn't find any. I found a few things but clearly none of these are part of an anti remote work effort:

an AEI interview https://www.aei.org/workforce-development/the-future-of-remo... which seems pretty balanced overall (and doesn't take a prescriptive position)

an AEI piece https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/the-trade-offs-... which seems pretty balanced too

a Heritage piece (from early in Covid) https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/report/labor-policy-... that seems mostly bullish on remote work (but mostly focuses on other issues, like labor rights)

a McKinsey report (also from fairly early in Covid) https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/wh... which is mostly descriptive and also seems pretty balanced

a Cato piece https://www.cato.org/commentary/remote-work-here-stay-mostly... which argues in favor of remote work
Does it really surprise you that normal, law-abiding people don't like criminals? Them being allowed to re-enter society at all should be seen as a privilege.
"This is computer science. There aren't restrictions." - It's literally what many people forget when they let themselves constraint by frameworks and claim this and that isn't possible. Very refreshing to see how liberating it is if you go one level deeper.
> Isn't it the opposite?

It is. My comment was a (failed) attempt at sarcasm. If the new ruling is thought to be more just, it should be retroactively applied.
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Sounds great, but is really about the minimum that needs to be done. Active kids is much more than allowing them access to an "activity zone"; it's about allowing kids and families to build activity into their normal life, which in practice means active transport and walkable/cyclable cities.
Can you email the details?
Indeed, and the variance on this number is surprisingly large. From [1]:

> The mean half-life of caffeine in plasma of healthy individuals is about 5 hours. However, caffeine's elimination half-life may range between 1.5 and 9.5 hours, while the total plasma clearance rate for caffeine is estimated to be 0.078 L/h/kg (Brachtel and Richter, 1992; Busto et al., 1989). This wide range in the plasma mean half-life of caffeine is due to both innate individual variation, and a variety of physiological and environmental characteristics that influence caffeine metabolism (e.g., pregnancy, obesity, use of oral contraceptives, smoking, altitude).

On the one end of the scale, it'd be nigh-undetectable within a few hours, and on the other end, significantly present for 24 hours+. I suspect estimating this number is also fairly difficult. I mean, I have some idea of the _outcome_ of what happens if I drink coffee at say 6PM, but I have little way of reversing this into a half-life number.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223808/
> I'm going to be a little negative, so please bare with me.

took off my shoes, does that count?
We do have a native toolkit for the web. You put a <button> down, the browser will render a button.

But then some people don't like the button: it's not animated enough for them, the corners aren't rounded enough, the button is too skeumorphic, or not skeumorphic enough, there is too much / not enough white space, etc etc. Everyone has a different idea of what the new button should look like, and we're immediately back to fragmentation.

There are financial incentives to seeming trendy and new, and that requires constant change. The standard <button> may be sturdy and steady and not require three hundred npm packages, but it will never, by definition, look trendy or new.
If you want WHOIS with a better defined format we have a protocol for that! It's called RDAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Proto...
> if the state of the firmware somehow gets in a mucked-up state and they need to be flashed. The only possible way to recover broken AirPods is via tethered recovery.

There is no process to reflash AirPods, at least one known outside of Apple's official repair channel.

But there's also no way you can diagnose you _need_ such a software recovery mechanism.

USB-C might help if there was a feature to trigger a firmware update, but there is not.

> [iPhone is] almost capable enough (again, in theory) to be used for standalone debugging of its own hardware faults (like you'd do with a PC using a live USB image.) For 99% of faults, an iPhone should be capable of non-tethered recovery — if Apple would just write the firmware so as to enable that.

Sort of. Any diagnostic and recovery tools available at boot time are going to be designed to be non-privileged, so there are a number of things (such as validating the integrity of the encrypted user data partition) that just aren't going to be possible. That locks you down to basically rudimentary hardware validation, but a consumer and even authorized apple repair are unlikely to be able to fix hardware issues that interfere with the main OS boot but allow a recovery process to boot.
Disagree.

Most likely the company will blame them for trying to help. Also, if the company is so incompetent that they allow this why bother. He's not getting paid to be their test engineer.
It feels a lot worse to deliver a lame joke at the start of an all hands meeting to a bunch of muted zoom windows with their cameras off. How much of the return to office is leaders wanting that polite chuckle from that captured audience back?

I'm barely being facetious. "That polite chuckle" is really a stand in for all the soft power they wield in person that evaporates with WFH. They have lost a degree of control and power, it is basic human nature to look for a way to claw that back.
"Why were you at X when you told me you were at Y? And why did you order for 2 people? Why have you been going there for the last Z months?"

"By following the pattern of when you were there and what you ordered, I found the other person's details too"
> Hungary's is one of Putin's puppet regimes, so it's really about Russian-style repression of the opposition

Your first comment was vague and that is why I thought it was worth responding to it. I am glad we agree that Hungary is not the only one who is pushing for this law but you singled out Hungary in your comment so what was the intent there then?

To be honest, I am just a bit fed up with people talking about Hungary as the bad guy in this particular instance due to it's ties with Putin all the while forgetting that even the "nice" and "progressive" countries such as Sweden and France and many others which are usually clamoring for privacy and sovereignty from big tech are also pushing for it.

To me in this specific case Hungary is not the problem. The problem is the law itself and the fact that this law keeps coming back again and again in the so called bastion of democracy that is Europe (supposedly).
I would suggest either a platform like hosted Windmill.dev or other,

or val.town which has an AI assitant so you can use it even if you don't code
Pension indexes wouldn't be in a volotile industry as real estate.
The vast majority of Linux desktops run ChromeOS. So you think Linux and privacy don't go together?
make your own.
> shouldn't it be everyone's interest to actually keep showing up to prop up those real estate values?

not if you're getting a large benefit from WFH. And the loss from commercial real estate devaluation won't hit everyone equally.
It's a substack blog, there's no trickery going on. It just means she used https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/ until now
Well, that and getting crushed by cars.