skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather than sharing our own anecdotes about how we feel about RTO - maybe we can try something different and discuss the specific points raised in the article?

Particularly this point: in office collaboration is digital

I feel the other points have been hashed out to death on other similar HN discussions:

- in office socialization is shallow and distracts from more meaningful socialization with family and friends

- at home office is far more accommodating to fit an individuals needs
Here is the owner's manual for the HP-15c. This is all you need to learn to program it. It's what I used long, long ago.

https://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03030589.pdf

At the time it came out (pre-smart phone), programmability in your shirt pocket was whiz-bang stuff. Obviously not so any more.

If you're seriously into programming, you'll probably be disappointed.

I'd recommend Forth instead. Forth is a RPN calculator on steroids.
I'd still consider Plaid a red flag. ;)
I accept it the same way I accept when a dog feels threatened by me, even if I know I'm just trying to pet it.

I'm not going to risk a bite by forcing my hand; I'll make it feel safe first. That will only work if I have good intentions, obviously.
Depending upon where you wind up living to work remote you could well see an almost 50% cut in life expenses and taxes.
That’s how I read it as well up until the conclusion.
> People will go back to Twitter

What's Twitter?
You mean how could someone possibly send their life savings into some bullshit lotto-ticket-account app? Especially when their interest rate is 20bps more than any real bank.

I don't think it's any different from people learning life lessons from all the crypto 10% weekly return schemes.
My observation has been:

Those that are most pro back-to-office are the ones that are either very extroverted, and have human-to-human roles. Or the people that simply can't disconnect between work and home. I know some people that say they simply can't focus on work, unless they're at the workplace, or some other non-home office.

But by far, it's the extroverted managers that seem to hammer on about return to office.
on call is like hiring civil and structural engineers to build you a bridge over a canyon, and then when they show up to do a site inspection you just push them in. eventually maybe you'll be able to cross.
No it's over, critical mass has been reached. Bluesky won.
I love the Ig Nobles. But, I have to admit to a soft spot for SIGBOVIK, the Computer Science equivalent [0].

Warning: here lie rabbit holes. Just as well it's Sunday tomorrow.

[0] https://www.sigbovik.org/
The mind-bending new science of measuring time
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Skill issue. Newton did just fine in his home office.
Are there any social aggregator networks? TBH I don't care about politics or anything - I just need latest updates on topics i like summarised.
The journal does what it's supposed to, doesn't it? I.e: keep the file system from breaking on panics, or power loss. Sure it doesn't protect you against a corruption bug in LVM et al., but that doesn't make it useless.
I don't mind the commute if I live close enough that I can just walk 30-40 minutes to the office, because then it serves as a good exercise (okay, fine. Grass-touching) that I don't have to do separately in the day.

But I realize that this is NOT a luxury most people have. Most people's commute looks like being stuck in the subway, or driving in traffic, for up to several hours every single day, and I just can't think of anything that would justify that type of commute.
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Made this in Godot 3. Majority of the game is written in c++ as a custom module, ie: compiled directly into the engine. We have a fork of godot that has slight tweaks to it. I profile the game using advanced tools and have rewritten several parts of it several times to be optimal. There is basically 0 gdscript running at runtime. The c++ is far more performant than GDExtension/GDNative/C#. The trees are streamed in and out of the viewport as they become visible. All the tree types and snow render from the same spritesheet. The tree types are pooled instead of created & destroyed. The thing that streams the stuff in and out is optimized. The skiers are rendered using a technique called 'SpriteStacking' where 3d voxel art is rendered into a 2d sheet and 'fanned out' to make a pseudo 3d effect. I even cahc spritestacks are optimized, etc. I even go as far as caching the rotation operations to fan those skier sprites out. The .wasm has been stripped down to ~2.7mb. I want to strip it further and get it smaller. Download size is king. Planning on releasing this on a web platform like crazy games or poki and hoping to build ad revenue.

Next steps are to make it so when you past the boundary fence you enter 'back country mode' that just goes forever and a popup tells you how far youve gone, but if you fall, its game over and ski patrol takes you back. I also want to iterate on the chairlift and make the bots 'queue up'. Not sure about if the chairlift is 'fun' or not. I want the mountain to feel like a real ski resort, but nobody wants to wait.

Anyways, this game is still in development, let me know what you think.
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When I read the article when it came out, I was a bit annoyed that it singled out Oxford as it's the same at all the universities. It's also been that for a long time - I earned comparable amounts as a DPhil student and post-doc teaching at Oxford and another UK university. More recently I've worked as a tutor for The Open University and the pay for that has felt in a similar ballpark once you take into account all the marking and prep you need to do.

When I did it, I had my DPhil grant/post-doc salary and it felt like side money rather than being my 'job' and I was partly doing for the experience, for my CV (good to be able to put 'Lecturer at Oxford' on it!) and partly because I enjoyed it. I felt quite lucky to be offered tutoring jobs at Oxford as they were much sought-after by DPhil students.

I think it's also worth pointing out that not all Oxford colleges are 'rich' and many have buildings and grounds that are expensive to maintain. I don't think most of them are better placed to pay more than other UK universities.

There's an argument to be made that people teaching at universities should be paid more, but it does feel unfair to single out Oxford.
Put differently:

Less than zero: trust to place in random fintech company

Zero: trust to place in random bank

Very low value: trust to place in a carefully selected bank

Moderate value: trust to place in FDIC
Barry Mazur and the Infinite Cheese of Knowledge [video]
It’s BS through and through.

Covid led in the most early retirement ever seen. We’re are not expecting a spike in retirement by any measure that I have seen.
I don't see why people would go back to Twitter if they find the experience on Bluesky better, regardless of why they moved.
Yes there are. They are called "Workers" (WebWorkers), though. It's a semantic game with a different API but the same concept.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-workers-20210128/
Yeah, it seems there should be equally strict regulations on whatever entity is managing the FBO.
Any examples of that happening in the wild?
Government is a good one. Healthcare is another. Anything geography-locked.

I’m not saying no one should create a highly available web service. I am saying that this is one of those things that techies assume, and shouldn’t, because it’s a huge plus to hiring, business and engineering simplification, and morale if you can define away non-business-hour problems.
Comments like this are why I have zero interest in Twitter or Bluesky or any of them.
Xitter now, the X is pronounced "sh".
It's a bunch of people in a crowded, shared space. For respiratory/airborne illnesses, the default assumption should be that office work will in fact spread disease.
RSS still works.
Browser debugging tools are very basic. Their UI is generally awful.

Spend a few days debugging in PyCharm and you'll scream when you open developer tools.
not with that attitude. how much time does it take to manage a portfolio? people who work for charities do it, many of them part time. if professors were given responsibility to manage some portion of the endowment and paid as a percentage on the return they generated from it they could do a lot better.

I was raised in this institutional class that had contempt for "trade" and it's a cover for meekness, envy, and a smallness that justifies some pretty terrible worldviews. I love brilliant people, but someone with the mind to be an academic is only ever poor becuause of their own fatuous snootery. they do it to themselves and they moralize their envy by blaming "systemic" factors while affecting an unworldly out of touchness that makes them repellent to anyone with responsibility.

perhaps I have a bit of a chip from being outside of it, but having managed some personal success in spite of it, the problems of bureaucracy are the problems of children to me.
Agreed, but I wonder what the OP is missing in their webdev debugging journey that exists elsewhere
Headline directly contradicted by expert quote in the article:

> "Spilling solar shouldn't be seen as a cause for hand-wringing," Ms Hunt wrote on social media.
In this economy?

Most can’t afford this in Europe.
JC Penney's problems went considerably further than whether they did or did not run an "80% OFF" sale.
A close relative of mine works for a non-profit in Canada to give families with special-needs children access to resources from the government and other organizations.

She pushes for autism diagnoses constantly, well aware that they are often not applicable, because it's basically the only childhood mental disability that gets significant money and attention. If she didn't, she'd have to kick desperate families with severely disabled children out the door with nothing.

I'm skeptical of the medical opinions in blogs like this where parents have to do their own research because the system is ignoring their actual reality, and the use of autism as a bureaucratic catch-all has obvious negative consequences, but given the broken and twisted medical and social services systems in most Western countries, I don't see how anything can change. It's all a symptom of a much broader failure.
I would tend to agree RTO is primarily about middle managers and control

Though, I think the following could suffer from post-hoc rationalization fallacy:

> We noted that this kind of friendship definitely would not have happened if we were working remote.
I expect to see lots of people jumping in to defend OpenBSD right about now...
You could say it is other way around or that they swim in the same ocean.

They both got pattern matching around the time brought a similar process of deliberation and came up with similar but different answers that were well-matched to the rest of the language and that will continue to improve. Java is going to FFI like Python, maybe some day I will have huggingface models running in Jython. JVM also supports great dynamic languages like Clojure if you are following the classical complex system architecture (GNU Emacs, Grand Theft Auto) of scripting + system for the win. In Python you write C for your systems language or maybe Rust.
IDK, sitting in a call center can’t be good for you. So imagine complaining at the beneficial favor they did for you.
> In any case it's pretty obvious you have have deterministic chaotic output from which you cannot practically (or even in theory)

Solomonoff induction says otherwise. Of course it might take a stupendously large number of samples, but as the number of samples goes to infinity, the probability of reproducing the PRNG goes to 1.
My pay cut was only around 15%, but I also wasn't working for a large company, and was apparently underpaid by around 20%. This will come of a spoiled and privileged, but I honestly have no idea how we'd make our day to day life work if I didn't work from home, with incredibly flexible hours. Getting children ready for school and pick them up at a reasonable hour, without stress just isn't possible. You have to drop off your children in some kind of care before their even fully awake, and you need to pick them up almost before you get out of the office.

Obviously people make it work, but I have no idea what kind of hours other people work, because doing a pick up at 16:30 would mean that my child would be the last one in the day care. In any case I don't see the point in tolerating the stress of traffic, school/day care, or just regular difficulties getting your daily tasks to fit in with a 8-16 job at an office. I have a family member that works at a hospital, she can't get her car service for four weeks because there's no available time to drop of the car and pick it up afterwards, which also fits with the mechanic. I can normally get appointments for mechanics, doctors, dentists, contractors, everything, with a few days notice because I can be incredibly flexible with my time.
One of the detections was of a merger that momentarily had a higher power output than the entire rest of the visible universe combined.
I'm genuinely enjoying Bluesky, even more now than I was a year ago when it was a comparative ghost town, but in the back of my head I'm worried about the long-term financials of it. They're operating 100% off VC money right now, yeah? When that runs out, how much will it cost to keep the site afloat, and how far will they have to go to get it?

I know that the AT protocol at least offers a lifeboat against the "uh oh they overmonetized everything" problem, so that's nice, but I'm curious what their plans are, if anything.
> It's completely unsurprising that bluetooth and gamepad support isn't a priority.

The Bluetooth stack on linux is literal code trhown away from qalcomm (or was it broadcom?) with dbus on top. But since they dumped it as GPL it won't reach BSDs.
It spreads disease and increases sick days and terrible for green house gas reductions and increases inflation (increases demands for gas). The thing that gets me is the same people preaching the world is going to end because of these gases demand we continue these practices. The environmental groups are silence. Who is lying to whomp? Is it all some self delusion.
Although I think most people in a major urban metro (broadly--not necessarily living in a city) probably don't really want to move to the mountains someplace. I'm well out of the city--where my job mostly never was anyway--but I like being able to drive in in 90 minutes or so and the other advantages that a major metro offers.
> and a service that can’t tolerate any downtime is (theoretically) a service that is worth a lot to a lot of people- which is perfect for monetizing.

The connection makes sense but one must not think in this order. One must think “people will pay for this” and then consider “does this need to be highly available?”

If you have more than one road to choose from, and one of them doesn’t require high availability, then give that one some bonus points for that.
> But wouldn't it have been cheaper to move to a place closer to the office of your previous employer

it might not be the sort of place they want to live. it also negates a lot of the higher salary argument if a lot more of it is going into paying rent or mortgage.
Hopefully Twitter doesn’t get a heir and the whole concept dies.

There’s a weird distinction in Twitter, or something, between the tweets (which are, like, a single post in a discussion, but oddly emphasized) and the comments below them, which are, like, just as much part of the discussion but smaller for some reason.

A site that is: what people thought Reddit was supposed to be before it sold out (communities, mostly self-moderated), would be much better.
> the people who want to control every aspect of your life [...] hate Musk

But Musk is a politician that controls a large portion of people's lives. He markets cars that people trust with their lives, he owns a social media that fewer and fewer people continue to trust, and he lies to Americans in order to fund Chinese job creation and rake in government subsidies for literal vaporware products.

It frankly seems like Musk is the one controlling things and people are right to call him out for changing things for the worse. It also sounds like Elon has an asshole personality, which people clearly don't respond well to. If you think "woke astroturfing" is bad, you should see how American taxpayers respond to people claiming they don't respect Elon enough. We respect him alright, but he doesn't respect us.
Depends on the university. 25 years ago now but a number of the PhD students I worked with had mummy and daddy paying for everything. One enterprising guy had a side business selling cocaine. Most were slumming it in house shares and taking on casual work. Only the blessed had teaching appointments. I was blessed until I realised it was a curse.
A while I'm a fan of OpenBSD where it makes sense, there's also more than one Linux distribution that does not have systemd and the related madness.
A nursery rhyme. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”
I'm still not sure if function coloring is also a problem in javascript. The problem became very clear in other languages like python or c#. But in javascript i've been writing code only awaiting a function when I need to and haven't ran into issues. I might write some simple experiment to check myself.
Agree the article could have been better written but I don't think the fundamentals behind why people are leaving the corporate internet behind are going to change soon. Nobody that left because of trolling and abuse is going back for instance.
because containers are not the solution you want. That is just Docker Enterprise marketing at this point.

Future of desktop security is on namespaces and bind, etc. Use aparmour, firejail, systemd unit file hardening. You will suffer less.

Containers and flatpacks are much more convenient, but only because you are not getting what you think you are getting. so.
Original article in Russian: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7312839
I'm perfectly aware of that. It's insufficient. It's akin of creating a new account and posting "find me there now" on your old one - the only added benefit aside of UX is that you can move most of your old followers automatically. When the old instance goes down, your whole old content goes down too. Even if you import your old content (which is rarely possible unless you're self-hosting), it becomes a fully separate new content that now spams other instances with duplicates and is disjointed from any replies and other interactions that happened on your old content. You could boost all your old posts, but then you're still relying on them being hosted in the old place and UX goes funky (no more "Media" tab, for example, and the usual woes that come with federation get amplified). You could end up with something semi-reasonable by writing your own implementation to host your content, but then you're forced to self-host forever.

All of those problems would disappear if you could separate your identity from the place that hosts your content. That's the one thing Bluesky got right - but since it didn't get many other things right, our biggest hope is still on Mastodon et al. fixing it in the future.
Except it doesn’t because so many companies are slowly bringing people back to office and finding a fully remote job is becoming more of a privilege. One anecdote does not validate your views.
I’ve worked in several python shops, and now work with Rust. Python’s performance can be a real cost problem at scale. Where this bit us in the past was with the sheer number of containers and nodes we had to spin up in k8s to support comparatively moderate traffic in a relatively simple web application.

It’s been a while, so take the numbers with a grain of salt, but where we might have needed 10 pods across several nodes to process a measly 100 req/s, we can easily handle that with a single pod running a web application written in rust, with plenty of room to spare. I suspect some of it is due to the GIL: you need to scale instances rather than threads to get more performance in Python.

Anyway, at some point the cost of all those extra nodes adds up, or your database can’t handle the absurd number of concurrent connections all your pods are establishing, or whatever.
Rather than the snarky response, I’ll answer: closer is likely to be impossibly more expensive for the requirements OP needs (e.g. living area, number of bedrooms or similar).
"would"
The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century by Benn Steil.
It's really not much. We use it to the full with code splitting and preloading, but it's not much. Not bundling is still not possible.
> I like being in the office

I love being in an office with the handful of people I work with. I hate being in an office with hundreds of people I don't work with.
There's no attacks, Ukraine is too weak for that, it's always cigarettes accidents.
You know you can turn Slack off right?

I’m a huge proponent of async messaging (email) over sync… but if you are in the office, turn that nonsense off if you need to get work done.
In OP's case it sounds like they do get compensated with the day off, which is PTO. It's not a trade everyone would make but an extra day off into a long weekend is one I would have taken earlier in my career.
I assume it has to do with Andrew Jassy, CEO of Amazon
You're right. You dont have a dog in this fight.
Greenland tsunami shook Earth for nine days
I’m sure the person that took that job is grateful.
Presumably a reference to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy