skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slack pings are worse than in person interruptions. The async comms still interrupt the recipient but also force the sender to wait for a response.

Pre-covid you could tell when someone was busy based on body language and avoid interrupting them.
You know your employer can see if you've turned Slack off, right?
Oh dear this hits way to close... Get deep enough into the machine and you come to expect the (in this case minor) disasters.
You probably meant to respond to someone else, I have made no such claim.
I agree with this. A reason there is so much crappy software is because companies are hiring fresh CS grads expecting them to do real software engineering work. And they end up hacking it like they hacked it through school.

CS programs have gotten better at teaching real SWE skills, but the median CS grad still has ~zero real SWE experience.
In c#/python you are forced to await the whole chain, the compiler forces you. While in javascript it allows me without a warning. That's why it seems as if things work differently in javascript, if it allows me to (not) use await freely. (I don't remember if c# was just a warning or an error).
That has improved. Back in 1998 I was managing £8k a year (!) part time, which was really a full time job, while being told I was privileged to have such a position at a prestigious university. With little experience I didn't know any better.

Woke up one day, said fuck it, pissed off my doctoral advisor, a somewhat rotten old tenured professor by suggesting that it wasn't worth doing this any more. Looked around and picked up a job for £26k within a month. Never looked back.
Andy Jessy?
You will never find him around mediocres. shame on them
1) be nice

2) referring to a calculation or the reasoning of something as "the calculus" is a common everyday usage
I would never work in an office again or for a company where the leadership pretends like there's some value to working in-person. My time and space are way too valuable to give them to some company. They can get my work on my own terms.
I've had OBSD VMs trash themselves to the point they needed a reinstall, all from an improper shutdown.

Is it entitled to say that is not "good enough"?

What's worse, the OBSD team is not very supportive of VMs to being with, so that would catch the blame.

Security aside, the Dream of the 90s Is Alive with OpenBSD.
I think OP is not arguing if working in the office is good or bad. The point, as far as I can understand, is about the way the return to office is presented to the workers. With sugary lies and fake cheer. It's like they're addressing toddlers in preschool.
LTX-Video can generate high-quality videos in real-time
There were companies both hybrid and remote before covid (I worked for a few). Covid was a shock that shifted remote work (as well as a lot of other things).

I would not call remote work a privilege. Rather I would say remote work is a benefit. It falls into the same bucket as all the other benefits that employees can weigh in addition to salaries when they weigh job options.

I expect a reversion in terms of remote/hybrid, but not all the way back to where it was before hand. Looked for some stats, didn't find much. From the US BLS[0]:

> However, remote work participation was still higher than its 2019 level in all industries except agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting, which returned to its 2019 level.

The data only goes to 2022, but the publication is from 2024. If there are fresher stats, would love to see them, as I think things have changed in 2023 and 2024.

0: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-13/remote-work-productiv...
Meta culture is not exactly friendly. I can’t speak to meta ai. But much of the company has 8 layers deep of VP and directors.
office work does not have to suck. main thing is to have small offices, 3-4 people per room. no open spaces. flexible working hours(if there is no trust between the employer and the employee, don't take the job in the first place). very few mandatory meetings. commuting should be no longer than 30 minutes by any means. good lavatory/facilities(you'd be surprised how important this is). small kitchen(home meal prep, or making simple lunch from scratch if needed), good dining and shopping options close by. air conditioning. no direct sunlight or strong neon lights. good furniture so you don't feel like you have travelled back in time into the 90s. good chairs and large computer monitors. and that is about it. it is not that hard to offer good working conditions.
> Tell me, how else do you currently do business without agreeing?

By not engaging in business with services I don't trust? I'm not being held at gunpoint to sign the Sephora TOS, it's my conscious decision to ignore the terms and click anyways.

> This is why consumer protections need to be put in place.

Look - I agree. But asking for consumer protections in America is like asking for a glass of ice water in hell.
The CoC is new, so no Linus wasn't subject to it in the past.
There should be a law that says for absolutely every job whatsoever, you are on the clock as soon as you leave your home, and 100% of all commuting expenses must be reimbursed by the employer. If employers expect you to travel to a particular place to work, they should pay for all of it including your time. The only reason this doesn't make perfect sense is because the insanity of commuting on your own dime has been normalized.

If such a law were in place almost no company would ask any employee to commute anywhere unless it were absolutely necessary. Return to office is really easy for them to ask for when they aren't the ones who have to pay for it.
it's my new default on all machines (personal and professional), but then some projects are still on 3.12 because some dependencies take time to catch up and stability takes priority over speed – have not yet noticed any issues with it though
It's still open. So instead of filling it with a massively qualified candidate, they chose pain.
The rise in remote work since the pandemic and its impact on productivity
I feel this. The, let's hash this out asynchronous synchronously over 30 minutes rather than talk for 3
I wouldn't want one of my kids working in an unsafe environment. I don't think you would either. Just as I do not want the poor air quality of the 70s to come back. I don't want lead in my water. I blame government if they do not enforce restrictions, and I blame industry for not following them. We are not going to be competitive as long as China is willing to flush their environment down the toilet, and treat their workers like chattel slaves. And why would we want that for the American people?? Having said all that, I agree the paperwork is a nightmare. That needs changed ... instead of the attitude of 'you must have permission to do this', the approach should be 'go ahead and do what you want, but if something goes wrong and we find you did not verify environmental impacts or OSHA regs we will sue you for real $$$. That approach fits better with how we do things in this country. It's what we've been following for all things software, which is why we are quite able to develop and build great things quickly in this part of the market. It should be up to each company to be willing to take risks if they choose.
Why Do WFH Workers Move?
Final Cut Pro 11 with AI features
If you want to buy a house, it's going to be a lot more than double to live in the Bay Area vs say rural Arizona.
Why calendar resets don't work (and what to do instead)
The X crowd just swept the entire US federal government in the elections. I think it's going to stay pretty culturally significant.

Also this smugness is why I dislike most discourse on X/Twitter and Bluesky. They're variations of the same thing and I dislike them both b/c of it.

It's spilling over into HN unfortunately.
The brain uses 20% of the human body's energy.

As machines become intelligent, maybe AI will account for 20% of global energy consumption?
Regardless of everything else, most people should not be using bcachefs yet. Kent has even stated that unless you're okay not being able to access your data for chunks of time while bugs are being fixed, you shouldn't be using it. The conventional wisdom would be to wait 10 years after a new filesystem is introduced for it to stabilize before switching, so we're looking at summer next year at the earliest.
Check out Ballance:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/ballance
> This was met with “please don’t write your own UUID implementation; use a library.”

I agree with this one and I’d push back on it too.

In my experience, what will happen is you write your own UUIDv7 implementation because the language or stdlib doesn’t support it yet. Then the language eventually supports it, but this project is still using your homegrown implementation that is slightly different than the language’s implementation in an incompatible way. Lots of code is bound to your custom implementation and now it would be too much effort or cost to swap out your custom implementation for the standard one.

So now this project has a caveat: yes, it uses UUIDv7 but not the official UUIDv7 implementation, and you have to work around this land mine for the rest of the life of the project. All of these small “innocent” caveats like this add up and make working in projects like this a miserable experience.
Those companies will also feel the wrath of the free market. I'd never work for them and I'm quite a high end resource!
Anyone who wants a full game of this, try Ballance:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/ballance
Yet the deadlines don't move to accommodate this.
You asked for examples about office work spreading disease, in the context of you saying that you hadn't seen the claim before. I took that as an unwillingness to believe the idea until you saw evidence. If that wasn't your point, I obviously didn't understand what you were trying to say, so could you clarify?

[Edit: I see that it could be read to be asking for examples of the claim that office work spreads disease in a piece arguing against RTO. Given that at this time, none of the direct replies read it that way, I'm going to say that it was at a minimum ambiguously worded...]
Pokémon Go covertly captured spatial data for years to train an AI world model
Yes, Linus took some time off to “learn empathy” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/linus-torvalds-apolo...

And I would say on a whole his behavior after 2018 has been less rude although he is still quite frank when necessary. I think it’s a positive change.

I think Linus’s message from 2018 is good perspective here: when someone behaves in a way that harms the mission of the kernel it’s better to try to change that behavior at the expensive of that person’s contributions for a limited time, rather than having the bad behavior negatively impact all other contributors forever.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167
One of the hallucinated authors is literally named "Jane Doe". Our society is about to become powerfully stupid.
I'd never work for a "FAANG" style corporation, but otherwise made a similar choice when my first kid was born, back in early 2019.

I'll surely lose out on some currency in the long run but I'm not so sure whatever value it's going to have in the coming fifties outweighs the time with my family I've gained. On a global scale a lot of things are going to shit and I'd rather my kids think of me as someone who didn't bail on them under such circumstances.
Make sure to train it on /r/LinkedInLunatics
Sounds great if it wasn't for the powers that be still being infatuated with their open plan hellscape.
you might enjoy some of Lee Smolin's writing on the "Fecund Universes Theory"
The article also notes that A320/A321neo only make up 5% of the fleets of Russian airlines.
I am starting to wonder if the management wants to ensure people in general do not make that connection ( and just want to have, ideally, serfs barely making ends meet ).

Covid was a big moment for me in a lot of ways, because I was very pro-corporate for a long time. Having seen some of the bs up close and personal, it made me realize how broken our current system really is ( I still remember 'we are in this together' lip service and 'driving is your zen time' ). Having a kid ( and seeing it grow up ) can be such a radicalizing moment.
> but the FDIC has helpfully pointed out that no FDIC insured account has defaulted which is the necessary condition for FDIC insurance to pay out

This is what scares me. I use Betterment for everything, which strikes me as a much more legitimate company, but it follows the same model where accounts are "FDIC insured" by being distributed among various bank partners. I always thought that meant it was safe if the company had troubles, but it seems not.
As really active ex-user of Twitter I suddenly had no reason to open it anymore as my feed in there is now less active than on Bluesky - most of the people I liked to follow either made the move or are double posting. There's just no reason to open Twitter anymore and I'm not really sure how it would change.
Seems like Kent was a jerk, was given a chance to apologize, didn't, then got kicked out.

Seems like a functioning community to me.

Being a good programmer doesn't absolve you of the need to be a good person to others.
That’s exactly why it doesn’t work. Leaving our rights to the market to decide does not work. It never has.

Why? Because for the vast majority of people, employers have almost all of the negotiating power. What this means is the market is slowly shaped by what employers want, not employees. Because we need a job more than they need our labor.

It’s naive to think the market is a level playing field and if employees want something they just vote with their labor and the market will adapt. That’s just not true. Most people don’t have the ability to change jobs on a whim to play the market with their livelihoods.
I think you answered your own question. It looks an awful lot like a platform designed to lure non-technical people in with the promise of a magical, frictionless website building experience, ironically achieved by adding layers of abstraction and complexity into a regular web app.
We should all work to end exploitation and that starts with ourselves.
This is pretty close to the average value engineers place on a remote job.

In our data set, the on-paper gap is about 18% (~37k on ~200k) if you just compare remote to non-remote, but given that the remote candidates often live in lower-COL areas, some of that probably comes from COL and not purely value placed on remote work.

The real driver is that ~half of engineers only want remote work, and the vast majority of the remainder aren't in whatever city you're hiring in.
Thank you. Truly.
It also doesn't mention if Ballmer is able to change the number during the game. If he is only "thinking" about a number without writing it down beforehand, nothing stops him from doing it, as long as it is consistent with all the statements he made.

This trick actually makes the problem easier, you always need 7 tries, and the payoff, and not just the expected value is $940. Of course, if these are not whole numbers, the payoff is $0.

Now you can continue the interview whether you would cheat if you are guaranteed not to get caught, as it is the assumption you made for Ballmer here ;)
I think TFA is implying that good SWEs are good architects too, the skills go hand in hand.

I frankly don't believe in the "software architect" as a separate role. I've worked with "architects" who are clearly just BS artists because they know the jargon but have no skill to back it up and make difficult technical decisions regarding tradeoffs.
Is there a reason Mastodon isn't listed here as an open alternative? Not a single word of it in this article.

Surely it should have significantly benefited from the X exodus?

What can Mastodon do other than be user friendly like BlueSky to be on the radar as a true alternative to these corporate or VC backed social networks?
There are clear flaws. I haven’t figured it out.

Being able to form and disband teams dynamically is an advantage.

That does seem to favor a big enough pool of people in the same place.

Or relying on remote for projects spanning pods.
All these factors will contribute.
Explosion of tech resources to help caregivers teach kids, most notably, but not limited to chatGPT
Decline in federal funding for schools
Growth in homeschool communities and entrepreneurship by teachers leaving the system (as they develop classes and curriculum in their communities)
Clear benefits of 1-1 mastery learning
Clear benefits to mixed age groups with more time to interact
Clear benefits of more time for self-directed learning
Clear benefits of choosing different curricula and learning plans to suit different children's learnign needs
Pushback on teaching climate change and inclusive curriculum (Black history, LGBTQ+, Indigenous history, etc) leading to mass exist on the left
Rise in government funding for modular learning (ESAs and microgrants)
Rise in remote work (families can travel and be at home with kids; when kids start young they can be independent while parents work)
They're afraid that people will see that they're not needed in the organization. It's easy to fake that when everyone is forced into the same location and the people who like to talk do just that.
Not really in VHCOL areas.
You can get by on less, if you are planning your life around your job, for sure.

But for example if your office is Midtown Manhattan, the equivalent lifestyle to own a home for your family in walkable Manhattan vs long subway commute Brooklyn vs longer commuter rail suburbs vs extreme commute exurbs is staggering.

You can buy an entire exurban home for the incremental cost to upgrade from Manhattan 2bed/1.5bath to 3bed/2.5 bath.

My parents & in-laws each have 3bed/2.5 bath homes outside of Manhattan commute range, but within tolerably unpleasant driving commute to Stamford/Greenwich. That is - they are in commuter range of where commuters live / satellite office are located.

The combined values of those 2 homes might buy a single family sized apartment in Stamford, an ok 1 bedroom apartment in yuppie Brooklyn, or a kind of dumpy studio in Manhattan.

A lot of these answers seem to boil down to "I would simply have more money".
Value updates rules around Season Passes
Where did the money go?

- Was it all deposited in a real bank

- Was it siphoned by the app to pay their expenses

- We're there Office Space like shenanigans going on

Seems like either something illegal was happening, or the money is somewhere and unaccountable.
Can we keep The Matrix out of training data? We don't want AI to see what the machines did there for an additional power source.
Descartes and Our AI Worldview
I used it for years. These days, though I use winget because PA does not have a 64bit specific version.
Philosophy is the "love/friendship for/of wisdom". Wisdom is the art of making right decisions given a set of constrains (limited knowledge, things you don't control, etc).
I guess the price of electricity will have to go up then
So essentially this news is about 2.5% of the fleet.
The article also talks about early airplanes of these models being unreliable.
You don’t get code without people, and the industry is finally realizing that it’s a net negative to have an asshole who produces great code but scares away more productivity than they bring.
My job is still remote but pay is now based on zip code for both new hires and for self-driven relocation. If I move and the zip code is not near one of the few office locations in major cities, my pay and/or the pay band for my job title is adjusted.

I was hired during COVID with the expectation of a fully remote first policy, for good. Now it's this micromanagement where I need C-level approval to change my address. And there are one-off exceptions all over the place both for hiring and for relocation.

It tells me that leadership and the board don't give a shit about me. I am a cog in their machine. Expendable.

I am quietly looking for a new job and not stretching myself as much at my current job. Not coasting, but also not answering those slack pings as quickly, or referring people to the help desk process instead of solving their problem then and there. Putting me and my needs first more often.

Truly remote first companies should be at an advantage both for hiring and for cost efficiency.
I think they'd prefer not to be confused with the benchmarks game ;-)

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Beyond a certain point, you have as much money as you wish to spend. Some people don't seem to have a top limit, but for many, those lucky enough to earn more will just put it away.

The difference in your lifestyle isn't now, but in a few decades. It's hard to know when you have enough for the rest of your life. There are formulas, though I don't really know how meaningful they are.

Meantime you're clearly leading a better life now, and may well not mind having a few additional years of it (compared to a bit less time with a lot more aggravation).

So, congratulations. It sounds like you made a well-founded choice.
I don't know how anyone can look at situations like this and claim letting investors run society is going to yield any rational result for our species.
> 3-4 hours/day commuting

I’d switch jobs then as well, or rather, I would never take such a job in the first place. Luckily my commute is only 20 minutes by bike. I don’t earn anywhere near FAANG level either, though.
>> There is no current reason to believe that it is harmful since tens of millions of exposures have not indicated any reactions to it over the past hundred years.

When you look at the state of health in the world nowadays I'd have to disagree: at least one of these "no harmful" substances that we ingest is killing us.
And here I was thinking I found a fancy term for my "lazy parser"... Well "Lazy Parser" it will remain named.
When Alcoa built their aluminum plant in Tennessee in the early part of the 20th century they had to build a series of hydroelectric dams to power the plant. They were using far more power than nearby Knoxville.

The headline is clickbait. Nothing to see here.
Around the time the CoC was being established, Linus went to therapy. If I recall correctly, some people had spoke to him about his behaviors and he decided to do something about it. I think it was done in private so it's unclear how much of it was pressure vs his own decision. His tone has become much less aggressive since.
Linus did take a break to work on his anger issues and he has been very noticeably improved these last 6 years. While I don't think it was due to a tribunal, but I think enough other developers told him in private to work on it.

https://www.theregister.com/2018/09/17/linus_torvalds_linux_...
Has that fork of Godot Engine that was established to "focus on the code instead of politics" achieved anything besides merging upstream Godot patches and replacing the branding with their own yet? They don't seem to be doing much coding compared to the "political" project they forked.
What a strange article. To summarize, a guy is rejecting the current opinion about the autism spectrum, seemingly because they struggle to understand behaviour of their daughter once she entered puberty. Then they read about a specialized personality disorder that seems to fit better in their view, and now they spend their time diagnosing everyone and their dog within their surroundings, including themselves, with schizoid personality disorder.

I have people close to me with actual diagnosed schizoid personality disorder, this disorder is nothing like this person describes it, to the point of being offensive. No wonder why the actual professionals they are talking to so outright dismiss them.
Ok, but you could also just say "nullable string". Giving null a type doesn't seem to yield a benefit outside of python. Especially when, again, it doesn't appear to have any utility in SQL outside of applying to types.
What do you mean, that TCL strings weren’t 8-bit-clean?