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by 0x000xca0xfe | 2025-09-25 15:59:33+00:00
We have a similar push for RTO here in Germany as well where the usual U.S. centric reasons don't apply (tax break law has not changed; we're still semi-ZIRP at 2%, no H1B visas, outsourcing is not a major trend either as many companies want German speaking employees).

I think the reason is simple: Lock-in for employees. Moving for your employer demonstrates dependence and highlights your inferior bargaining position. If you have to move again to switch jobs it will be quite painful so you'll likely accept a lower salary instead.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-25 15:59:38+00:00
I run my own email server and you couldn't pay me to use a commercial provider like Google instead. The privacy benefits are huge and there is no one to restrict my storage or change my "terms and conditions" overnight.

The days of people running their own servers are gone because of the shortsightedness and laziness of IT managers. They though the "cloud" would be easier and cheaper, and they are now trapped.
by mothballed | 2025-09-25 15:59:39+00:00
You called me a liar, how's it feal?

>Yeah, no way you can face that your terrible attitude has almost certainly hurt people like my wife

Lol, go work in an ER then and put your money where your mouth is. Show everyone how you're better. Pretty soon you'll know the truth too. No one is angry about someone with a fucking doctor referral showing up to the ER and then being found to have cancer using resources for that and it's "contrived" to try and fit that into the bucket I portrayed.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-09-25 15:59:51+00:00
Again, 100% agree, parents sitting next to child should be a requirement. I agree that a child should not be sat away from their parent, because that is a bad time for everyone involved.

I just disagree that a child's seat should be allowed to be picked at random by the airline, forcing people to move who DID pick their seat. If an adult is booking a flight with a child, they should be required to book the child+parent seat even if that costs extra.

I believe all seats SHOULD be picked by passengers at the time of purchase, full stop. That was the way it had been as long as I had been flying, until they realized they could make more money by charging "seat selection" fees, now you have people who are the last to board because they got the cheapest seats who complain they aren't sitting with their travel partner. Which shouldn't be the problem of the airline or the passengers that picked their seat.
by ndiddy | 2025-09-25 15:59:52+00:00
You're right that people don't get directly banned for winning too often, but they will get their maximum bets limited to something like $10 if they consistently place bets where they get a good deal on the odds (i.e. placing a bet at +100 when the odds closed at -200). This is one of the worst aspects of legalized sports betting IMO, and why I think it should be regulated. The companies running the sportsbooks are free to make errors on their odds without consequences because they're allowed to identify and ban anyone who takes advantage of the mispriced odds. This means they get to limit their customer bases solely to people who don't understand expected value, which turns the whole industry into a mechanism to take money from the stupid/uneducated. If you have an account at a sportsbook that's more than a few weeks old, and it's still in good standing, it's because the sportsbook knows you're a loser and that even if you win big a few times, you'll be profitable to them long-term.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-25 16:00:09+00:00
It’s been a decade and this is their second admin. This “new to the job” line wore out years ago, though if you’re going to be president I just don’t think that’s a suitable excuse to begin with. His entire pitch has always been “Me and my folks are the best for the job, everyone else is incompetent and corrupt.” The promise he made has turned out to be quite the disappointment. Hell how can anyone learn when his admin is such a revolving door and they vilify career civil servants?

Here’s an idea: maybe don’t bring on Fox News pundits, podcasters, and anti-vaxxers to run your admin. Maybe don’t let the ketamine-fueled, unpredictable billionaire run around indiscriminately cutting federal programs in a legally dubious (at best) fashion. It’s not like these people were thrusted on him.

As for your china example: I’d rather not go through periods of completely manufactured starvation and death. Maybe it’s naive of me to think there’s a better path forward here.

People who think the only way forward is to break everything strike me as the kind of people who don’t understand how bad things can get when everything is broken.
by oefrha | 2025-09-25 16:00:14+00:00
Military spy agency involved in ongoing war stores 11.5PB of data, Microsoft commissioned external review founds no evidence that military spy agency is using said data to target and harm people, only to backtrack after media breaking more project details? Come the fuck on. What’s the point of these performative external reviews? Just thugs hired to say whatever their customer wants them to say.
by roguecoder | 2025-09-25 16:00:23+00:00
A lot of developers are working in hellish companies, micromanaged and beaten down into cogs.

One very valuable skill for those of us who have experienced productive collaboration is learning how to introduce it to new places.

Sometimes that means telling the executives that their promotion process is making them less successful. Sometimes it means wandering around PRs leaving useful positive comments to seed the idea that PRs can be useful. Sometimes it means pointing out tests only when there is a bug, so people can experience how great it is to follow the practices that keep us from introducing bugs in the first place.

I wish that more CS programs would explicitly teach their students critique skills, the way art and music and english and math programs do. But until then, we're counting on engineers getting lucky and landing in a functional workplace like yours.
by palmotea | 2025-09-25 16:00:25+00:00
> Who is gonna decide how the R&D money gets spent? What's their skin in the game and their feedback mechanism? Why will they do a better job picking what to research than current pharmaceutical companies?

Pharma companies are pretty terrible (e.g. pricing a cure for a kind of hepatitis just under a liver transplant, not because it costs that much, but because they can make the most money that way even though access is severely restricted). Getting rid of that market-driven terribleness may be a enough gain to justify the reform.

Personally, I'm so sick of the business-all-the-things approach and its well-known failure modes that I think society needs to put some effort into making other models work. Either straight up nationalization (with perhaps internal competition between research centers), or stricter oversight (e.g. putting government officials, patients, etc. on pharma company boards with enough power that the shareholders have to take a back seat).
by philipkglass | 2025-09-25 16:00:44+00:00
What is a reason to end up multiple times a week in ER?

This happened with a friend's mother during her last year of life. She had dementia, cardiac problems, infections, breathing problems, a whole litany of symptoms of slow death. But she didn't have any one clearly terminal condition (like late stage cancer) that would justify a switch to hospice, so she lived in an assisted nursing facility and also had to go to the ER more than 70 times in that last year. It was horrifying for everyone and the costs were astronomical. The state is now trying to seize her daughter's house to partially offset the accumulated expenses.
by LightBug1 | 2025-09-25 16:00:51+00:00
Good luck to em ... as they say in their notes:

"We do not want to restrict DHH's freedom of speech, he can write and say what he likes. However, free speech is not "freedom from the consequences of that speech", and we as a community are completely free not to associate with people who hold views we find abhorrent."

I get it. Basically, "I don't want to associate with assholes". That's not unreasonable.
by Skeime | 2025-09-25 16:00:52+00:00
I did have one or two math professors who would use x_0 and x_1 instead of x_1 and x_2 when they had to name two objects.

But I have also seen places where 1-based indexing was used despite being "obviously wrong". I don't quite recall what it was, but there was sequence of objects A_1, A_2, ... and a natural way of combining A_k and A_l to get A_(k + l - 1). Had the indices been shifted by 1 to be 0-based, the result would have been A_(k + l), which would be much nicer to work with.
by ralusek | 2025-09-25 16:00:53+00:00
I work on a kiosk (MedifriendRx) which, to some degree "replaces" pharmacists and pharmacy staff.

The kiosk is placed inside of a clinic/hospital setting, and rather than driving to the pharmacy, you pick up your medications at the kiosk.

Pharmacists are currently still very involved in the process, but it's not necessarily for any technical reason. For example, new prescriptions are (by most states' boards of pharmacies) required to have a consultation between a pharmacist and a patient. So the kiosk has to facilitate a video call with a pharmacist using our portal. Mind you, this means the pharmacist could work from home, or could queue up tons of consultations back to back in a way that would allow one pharmacist to do the work of 5-10 working at a pharmacy, but they're still required in the mix.

Another thing we need to do for regulatory purposes is when we're indexing the medication in the kiosk, the kiosk has to capture images of the bottles as they're stocked. After the kiosk applies a patient label, we then have to take another round of images. Once this happens, this will populate in the pharmacist portal, and a pharmacist is required to take a look at both sets of images and approve or reject the container. Again, they're able to do this all very quickly and remotely, but they're still required by law to do this.

TL;DR I make an automated dispensing kiosk that could "replace" pharmacists, but for the time being, they're legally required to be involved at multiple steps in the process. To what degree this is a transitory period while technology establishes a reputation for itself as reliable, and to what degree this is simply a persistent fixture of "cover your ass" that will continue indefinitely, I cannot say.
by SirHumphrey | 2025-09-25 16:01:04+00:00
Sure, I wouldn’t want the Linux foundation or other pieces of critical FOSS infrastructure to be routed via Cloudflair. But if I am setting up a web shop for somebody they usually care much more about someone at least pretending to be doing something about a ddos they got hit with that the decentralised internet.

To quote Raytheon “Morals are cool but 90k/year sounds a lot cooler”.
by roncesvalles | 2025-09-25 16:01:07+00:00
I only came to this thread to say that this is completely untrue:

>Human radiologists spend a minority of their time on diagnostics and the majority on other activities, like talking to patients and fellow clinicians.

The vast majority of radiologists do nothing other than: come in (or increasingly, stay at home), sit down at a computer, consume a series of medical images while dictating their findings, and then go home.

If there existed some oracle AI that can always accurately diagnose findings from medical images, this job literally doesn't need to exist. It's the equivalent of a person staring at CCTV footage to keep count of how many people are in a room.
by sardines | 2025-09-25 16:01:29+00:00
My team uses a github PR template with the following sections. Answers to each can be short yet it has been extraordinarily helpful to pass over important info to the reviewer that's not captured in code. It also borders on "checklist" that the code author has actually done the bare minimum to think things through.

# Goal (why is this change needed at all)

# What I changed and why I did it this way

# What I'm not doing here and how I'll follow up

# How I know it works (optional section, I include this only for teams with lots of very junior engs: "added a test" is often sufficient)
by dfe | 2025-09-25 16:01:57+00:00
It is upsetting to me that people have so much trouble sifting fact from opinion or narrative.

The fact is that DOGE made cuts to NHTSA. It is also a fact that DOGE made cuts to a bunch of agencies, not just ones related to something Elon was doing.

There isn’t even any evidence that DOGE was more aggressive about cutting things related to Elon vs other government waste.

Instead, all we have is an opinion by a reporter at an organization with a known bias for promoting the increase of government. The opinion is that the reason is to cut people specifically going after Elon.

And to be clear I gave no opinion on what Elon did or didn’t do. My problem is I’m tired of living in a world where everyone assumes that anyone not in 100% agreement with their policies must of course be doing something nefarious.

What if instead of repeating everyone know Elon is crazy and everyone knows Elon is corrupt and everyone knows this and that… what if we actually tried to analyze it rationally and sift through the news stories looking at the things that are definitely factually true vs. the authors opinions we happen to like because we want to imagine some people are awful and others are saints.
by williamtrask | 2025-09-25 16:01:59+00:00
"This is not the reason, the reason is that this data is private. LLMs do not just learn from data, they can often reproduce it verbatim, you cannot give medical records or bank records of real people, that will put them at a very real risk."

(OP) You make great points. I think we're actually more in agreement than might be obvious. Part of the reason you need to "give" data to an LLM is because of the way LLMs are constructed... which creates the privacy risk.

The principle of attribution-based control suggested in this article would break that principle, enabling each data owner to control which AI predictions they make more intelligent (as opposed to only controlling which IA models they help train).

So to your point... this is a very rigorous privacy protection. Another way to TLDR the article is "if we get really good at privacy... there's a LOT more data out there... so let's start really caring about privacy"

Anyway... I agree with everything in your comment. Just thought I'd drop by and try to lend clarity to how the article agrees with you (sounds like there's room for improvement on how to describe attribution-based control though).
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-25 16:02:12+00:00
Yes roblox could be interpreted in that way.

Minecraft in a similar vein too.

I was actually thinking of creating a roblox alternative or atleast proposing the idea of modifying luanti which is open source to have roblox esque graphics.

So it would be the open source browser which allows you to play various games in some sense.

If you want sandbox applications, there is libriscv created by legendary fwsgonzo which can run on any device or wasm I suppose

https://www.luanti.org/

https://github.com/libriscv/libriscv
by scott_w | 2025-09-25 16:02:30+00:00
> A good manager gets in a fight with their superior(s) if their superior happens to be wrong. A bad manager will avoid conflict with their superior, nod too unrealistic demands and then badmouth the superior with their team. A catastrophic manager will actively push unrealistic plans towards their superior.

You've put forward a false dichotomy between punching my manager in the face and nodding along silently to everything I'm told. Frankly, both will get me fired pretty quickly.

Business don't work on managers fighting to the death on every decision we think is right. They work on managers pushing back where we think something isn't correct. If my manager disagrees, it's his job to override me and say "I hear your concerns. Do it anyway." That can happen for many reasons, some good and some bad. At that point, however, my role as a manager is to disagree, accept the decision and do my best. Or look for another job.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-25 16:02:40+00:00
Train the xray tech up a bit more.

That's fine. But then the xray tech becomes the radiologist, and that becomes the point in the workflow that the insurer digs out the malpractice premiums.

In essence, your xray techs would become remarkably expensive. Someone is talking to the clinicians about the results. That person, whatever you call them, is going to be paying the premiums.
by drpeebody | 2025-09-25 16:02:58+00:00
..liked your trillion-ed eyed conscience. Edit, rot180 the doom escalation, though pathologically "ripping paint off houses" chaotic, she is also holotropic, nice, harmonic, good. That her trillion eyes exist and has done so for a very long time proves she is sustainable as well as good. Boarded up retail fronts, non-Bansky graffiti-ed urban corridor ruins, the un-homed fentZombie hellscape is that `just so' salting that gives a coupla-tre offshore coldskies at the Maribou Lounge a prickly neon colored counterpoint, the final top-tier evidence across the table, her 3/4 profile devastating shoulders shaking laughter, is why we ALL try.
by DarkNova6 | 2025-09-25 16:03:27+00:00
I'm not even being provocative, it's just the facts. If you want a hot take it would be that:

The only reason the current management is still in place is because the CEO's husband is in politics and institutional investors want to keep their allies in place. In turn, Accenture keeps their friends happy by syphoning money from the bottom to the top, at the cost of their own consultancy and delivery capabilities. Meanwhile, the C-suit cashes out big-time.

The CEO is fundamentally incapable of changing even a light bulb, let alone address strategic problems. As a lawyer and Harvard MBA, she provided "growth" by buying shitty IT-companies where key-experts left the company immediately. She doesn't have the knowledge or intellectual capability or create "value" or "operational efficiency". Instead, they chase trends and make one terrible decision after another. This burns money faster than a conveyor belt can transport into a furnace (like selling off most offices during covid at low prices and having to buy new ones when prices are up).
by TiredGuy | 2025-09-25 16:03:45+00:00
I agree this can be a bit of a pain if you're used to that. There are ways to partially reduce it: 1. use the timeline panel for an individual file to see all the historical changes to a file, and you can highlight multiple ones to see cumulative changes, and you can filter to only git commits or only local changes etc. 2. use the commit history panel in the source control area to do the same across commits, but it doesn't allow you to highlight across commits for cumulative changes

It does require a bit of a paradigm shift sometimes to not rely as much on seeing all cumulative changes for the ticket highlighted as you code, and instead compartmentalize your immediate view to the current commit's task, but often the above 2 alternatives help suffice. Of course, you did mention that you'll commit stuff you're not likely to touch again, which helps a lot too
by 1dom | 2025-09-25 16:03:51+00:00
I agreed with you initially.

> I'm fairly sure that I could explain how to break up any long PR in a sensible way. Parent thinks couldnt be done, so do you - what is an example?

To me, when I meet experts in any field, the quality that stands out isn't that they do everything to expert level, it's that they get everything done as they said they would. Sometimes that means big PRs, because that's the environment created, and the expert finds the way to get the job done.

I'm not doubting you _could_ break up any PR into a shorter one. But that's kind of the point of an expert: they recognise what makes sense to do in reality, rather than just doing something because it's best practice and expecting everyone else to do the same.

They ultimately get the thing done how they said they would.
by seszett | 2025-09-25 16:05:19+00:00
I don't think the goal is that every non technical person can host their own mail infra.

But most people who can run a server should be able to setup OpenSMTPd with the DKIM filter and Dovecot. It's much easier than configuring postfix like we had to do in the past.

To answer a sibling comment, the last time I received an answer is a few minutes ago. The correspondent's email infra is hosted by Google.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-09-25 16:05:34+00:00
It's not for free, though low enough to where no biotech company would make a profit on new therapies at the current R&D spend if the US paid the same rates that everyone else is paying today. This goes for firms on any continent, and a large part of why FDA approval is such a big deal for the international medical enterprise.

We could trade reduced innovation for lower prices, but that's a difficult ethical debate to settle given the prevalence of medical suffering from lack of effective therapies.

The solution I personally petition for is looking for ways to make drug development more affordable across the board.
by tossandthrow | 2025-09-25 16:05:42+00:00
> Sure, pedantically doing or forcing anything is bad, but in my experience, copy-paste coding with long methods and a lack of good testing is a far more common problem.

This is a false dichotomy and an unproductive thing to focus at.

Experienced engineers know when to make an abstraction and to not. It is based in the knowledge about project.

Abstarct well and don't do compression. Easy said, and good engineers know how to do it.
by kklisura | 2025-09-25 16:06:12+00:00
When Tesla demoed (via video) self-driving in 2016 with a claim "The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself" and then when they unveiled Semi in 2017 - I tweeted out and honestly thought that trucking industry is changed forever and it doesn't make sense to be starting in trucking industry. It's almost end of 2025 and either nothing out of it or just a small part of it panned out.

I think we all have become hyper-optimistic on technology. We want this tech to work and we want it to change the world in some fundamental way, but either things are moving very slowly or not at all.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-09-25 16:06:15+00:00
I don't know what slots you play but the ones I've been at you can play the game at any speed you want. A single tap of the button places the bet and plays the animations, etc. A double tap does that and skips the animations, immediately showing your winnings. If that isn't enough there is usually an option to increase your bet by a multiplier or to make multiple plays on one "spin". The play speed is effectively up to that player.

I used to work with a guy who had a long stint at IGT. He said the most popular game he ever "made" was to take his previously most popular game and just have one set of controls play 4 of the same game all at the same time on one screen.
by RoyTyrell | 2025-09-25 16:06:15+00:00
The $100k fee will definitely put H1-Bs out of reach for many small-medium sized orgs, given that the attorney fees for the whole process is another $20k (rough average). However I bet a lot of larger companies (FAANG, Lord Genius Elon, etc) will reduce, but it's worth it for them over the long run - especially with the current administration is so business friendly to the big tech companies (i.e. regulations requiring equal pay will be enforced with a far softer touch if at all).
by citizenpaul | 2025-09-25 16:06:24+00:00
I hear your pain. However I think if you really look at it email is a good thing. Its brokenness is a highly desired feature. It is the last generally accepted tech bastion that keeps us from becoming some sort of always on the job star trek borg style creatures that cannot have plausible deniability that the computer failed.

Oh i didn't get that email.

Oh spam filter.

Oh so backlogged on email.