skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An across the board, “2 days mandatory” is a brute force HR policy to appease management; a genuine intention to continue to support remote working indefinitely would be phrased differently, like:

Converting the office into a collaboration space for people who need a reliable internet connection and/or a less disruptive environment (ie. than a noisy family) to get work done in.

0 days mandatory in the office; days in the office by collaborative decision amongst teams.

It’s quite obvious if you’re in camp A or camp B.

If you don’t like it, just leave. Plenty of remote jobs open; the good thing about a remote first company is that they collaborate in person as required; not because it’s required by HR.
1. Views are fine. They somewhat help with abstracting things away here and there, yes. But these are just macros, right?

2. What SQL functions are you talking about? There are builtins, e.g. avg, sum, and then there are User Defined Functions, which have nothing to do with SQL, mostly just a random external language or one of the non-portable PL/SQL flavours.

Practically speaking, one cannot really write portable SQL outside of a very limited intersection of various dialects. And within this limit users just cannot build a reasonably portable code library.

There is a reason why analysts working with SQL just copy massive query templates again and again and again...
For grayscale data there's very little ambiguity, since chroma and colorspace conversions aren't involved. Basically just rounding in DCT, for which you can make reasonable assumptions.

Moreover the JPEG XT spec (not to be confused with JPEG XL or the ton of other X-somethings JPEG made) has specified precisely how to decode the classic JPEG format, and has blessed libjpeg-turbo as the reference implementation.
The intent of the first amendment is to give individuals the freedom to express their thoughts freely, without any legal repercussions. It's a universal human right, and its implementation into law is irrelevant to any philosophical discussion on morals.

That right has brought freedom and prosperity everywhere it's been implemented with minimal restrictions.

Twitter has become a public platform/forum/news outlet at this point. It's hard for anyone to argue with that, since people go there to get their news and to hear what prominent figures have to say.

Regardless of all that, shouldn't we be insisting that American companies retain core American values? The market can't select for those values since Twitter has no direct competitors, which makes the case for it being a platform even stronger.
Defeating death would ironically cause us to die out. Death is essential to avoid stratification. Our minds are not compatible with living forever. In a way we are illusions, we don't exist without each other, so there is no reason keeping a person alive forever. The human race, our communities are what's important. They are the key to the future, not any person. The person is just a cell. The cell is not important, the structures we form are.

Luckily death is really hard to defeat. Dying is always on the menu.
> This is basically the "she wore a short dress" defense...

I'm not sure why you characterize the assertion as a "defense". It's a reason.

People do things for reasons. Everyone makes choices based on how they perceive the world and predict the future from there. To flatly ignore circumstance is not constructive.
I'm sure a few people were caught doing something like this but is this really a problem? Are 15% of employees doing this or 0.0001%?
Shopify probably is hiring.
Ctrl F "why" and it's only the title. In the article I don't see the why.

The why is simple. Trump signed the cares act for 2.2 trillion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act

then Trump signed for another 2.3 trillion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Appropriations_Ac...

then biden signed 1.9 trillion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Rescue_Plan_Act_of_20...

None of this was funded because people sat at home unemployed not working and therefore not paying taxes. So you have 6 trillion in new spending and X amount less in revenue. It's a bad news bears situation.

It's worse, the fed trying to pay for this 6 trillion went even further and sent their central bank balance into space. VERY far from any balance, just to keep various markets from melting down. They essentially printed a ton of money. They can't raise rates, it basically destroys everything they have done. Yet they better start raising rates. So these 'assets' according to the fed are in fact liabilities.

The consequences arent even all realized yet. USA will very likely lose their reserve currency status and start feeling their debt for the first time.

So in hindsight... was it the right thing to do? These are going to be some global impacting consequences. Was covid really that bad? Were there better options?
this is pretty dense (in a good way).

I have read a little bit of Schiller, so I was somewhat aware of the "play drive" idea (Spieltrieb) but I really don't recall what it means anymore. All that to say that there are concepts that are not completely easy to understand here.
Yep, the definition of "household" can mean a lot of things. I wonder how Netflix would define it?
They have to recoup 14 billion dollars they spend on producing content somehow :)
I cancelled my Netflix premium subscription some years ago due to the UI.

I just want to read what the movie/show is about without it starting to play some distraction, or worse, revealing trailer/intro.

When I'm done I want to easily find relevant movies and shows on my own, not get some random suggestion on auto-play shoved in my face which I have 3 seconds to get rid of.

Since then they've lost a lot of content and produced a lot of terrible stuff, so slim chance I'll sign up again anytime soon.
How does one generate alpha?
Managers who mandate hybrid work are employing a 'boil the frog slowly' approach. At first, two days will be mandatory, then three, then all five. Power over others is a drug, and they won't willingly cede those sweet, sweet dopamine spikes.
The biggest issue is there is too much competition and too many streaming services. When Netflix was the only game in town it was a no brainer. However I'm currently paying HBO, Hulu, Disney, Apple and Amazon along with Netflix. each platform has something worth watching, but not all are worth paying for. I should cancel Apple+ and I most of whats on Amazon is terrible but it comes with Prime already. I still think Netflix is worth keeping compared to some of the other services but they keep raising the price.
T-Mobile confirms Lapsus$ hackers breached internal systems
>You get the benefit of high quality (true 4k, not stream compressed "4k")

Where do you think pirates get their source content from? Sure if it's a movie with a blu-ray release there's a 4k high bitrate source, but if it's a netflix original the "stream compressed 4k" is the only version available.
> I do not see why people should fee they are owed all the content in the world for $x.

Why do actors and movie studios, producers, and glorified CDNs/streaming services think they are entitled to tens of millions of dollars for producing a TV show? They create mindless entertainment for society and yet they are so highly compensated. Yeah, I don't feel like I owe them anything.
Affogato is a small drink / dessert. Combines both an espresso and ice cream. So you can experiment with different coffees and different ice creams to get your chosen flavour. This is the easiest way to make an Affogato at home.
Netflix lost a lot of good long tail content when networks pulled their old content to form the foundations of their own streaming platforms. For example, The Office.
"The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable"

Elon Musk, April 2022. Accurate.
> The key difference from perf is that instead of sampling call stacks throughout time, magic-trace uses Intel Processor Trace to snapshot a ring buffer of all control flow leading up to a chosen point in time[2].

> 2. perf can do this too, but that's not how most people use it. In fact, if you peek under the hood you'll see that magic-trace uses perf to drive Intel PT.

I think this (the first sentence quoted) is a bit misleading. The main feature is not really a "key difference from perf" if the main feature is implemented using perf. From a brief read, it looks like the real key difference is a friendlier and more interactive UI (both when capturing and viewing the trace).

Regardless, I think it looks neat, and will try to take it for a spin sometime soon.
Sure there's good content, but I'm not going to commit to yet another monthly fee. If there was a way to buy a season of a particular show for a one-time fee then I might do that. Amazon offers that option for some shows.
Of all the paths to human annihilation, immortality is certainly the most interesting one.
On the non-mobile website there's the same icon at the top of your feed. I don't know about any of the desktop clients
I have first{initial} so I get emails for everyone whose initial is the same as mine
What? I read that as losing 200,000 subscribers not counting kicking off Russians so the actual number would be losing 900,000 subscribers.
technically it's "copyright infringement", not "stealing"
I’d recommend checking your local library for their DVDs. Mine has a pretty good collection.
HBO Max started out with decades of inexpensive, quality content via Warner. Netflix had to either buy or build content.

Netflix did poach proven talent, but even then, it was people like Shonda Rimes and the guys who botched Game of Thrones.
I just wrote a little key catcher written in C using the select(2) syscall with stdin, and set it to 1ms delay per keystroke.

I guess you could be right; right now I couldn't say exactly for sure whether 1ms is noticeable.

However, when setting it to 10ms it is very noticeable if you type fast.
I've been playing around with the Dall-E 2 website all day. It's simply amazing: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
The whole bay area is also Silicon Valley to anyone not from the area
More like I snuck onto a ride without buying a ticket. Or snuck into a theater without buying a ticket. Wouldn't you call that stealing?

Edit:
Call it digital trespass then. I don't really care what you call it. There are obviously fixed costs to creating content. Just because there aren't incremental costs incurred from piracy, doesn't mean there isn't harm. Lost revenue is harm.
Pixel perfect seems to be a bold claim. Icon sets are still a Wild West. Even the big one like FontIcons (which fortunately is SVG now) I’ve noticed horrible off by one pixel errors and other frustrating problems.

I “fixed” an example of this recently by adding a 0.25rem margin to an icon to make it line up with all of the other Font Icon icons that I used.

I try use Hero Icons now because it’s at least more consistent plus they come in component form with Headless UI.
Something very similar: a "decompiler" that decompiles minified javascript and guesses variables and functions: http://www.jsnice.org/
They still do rent discs. I am a subscriber thereof.

dvd.com
One thing that's missing is a single-ticket subscription that encompasses many streaming services. SV types are smart and can probably squeeze a profit while still keeping attractive pricing.

Fragmentation is becoming annoying and unsustainable. I see some streamers as better content producers than tech companies, so they will probably shift towards that over time. Also all these services are upkeeping parallel streaming tech. All this will be consolidated sooner or later.
Pro tip! Ten days of production rollback can save you ten minutes of testing.
That's not a silly type, it is just a silly type annotation. It's easy to unpack the tuple inside that list.

What is not easy is type-hinting it. What if I want it to be both an list and an iterator? Well, I would have to use Union.

I'll leave it to you to write that Union "type".
You make some good points. C was often used in the situation where "Hey, we just built this enormous supercomputer for LLNL, let's make this C program run as fast as possible on this one machine. Compiler team, please do everything possible to get the maximum performane out of this machine." I feel like a lot has followed from this repeating dozens of times over the past few decades. Performance has been the #1 priority, above all else, and it shows.
But that didn't cost the government, right? I assume that's what the main problem was.
If I worked in a company that was as described, I'd be sick of it, too. But that description is a caricature of the worst of companies. So if it is accurate, you can find a better place to be and you should. Not all companies are like that.

Even so, all companies have their own flaws. You have to be able to communicate those flaws to leadership and feel comfortable with that process. Sometimes when you do so, change will occur, sometimes it will not. Sometimes you are told why not, sometimes it just seems to get dropped. This isn't ideal but it is the corporate world.

The key is to figure out what flaws you can live with. To find some joy in the good side of the work. Or at the very least, just to accept that this is the price you pay to get the paycheck. If you do not feel that the paycheck makes it worth the trouble, you are in the wrong job.
I have no idea. I think it would be a fascinating experiment to take people who have never taken an IQ test, ask them how they think they'll do, then compare that against their actual performance.
> I understand the sentiment, and I'm also careful about how much news I consume, but there's a fine line between this and being privileged to be able to afford to skip news because those suffering aren't your family.

I don't think there's any obligation to keep up with events on the other side of the world (or the other side of your country) if you're not also able and willing to do something about it. I dunno about applying the "privilege" label to that—in fact, the fewer resources you have, the less point there is in it.
Hey haha I literally added this yesterday :) https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/nextjs-notion-starter...

https://transitivebullsh.it/feed.xml

Great call!
The purpose is to be a signal to the distributor: "fix your payment model or we're not paying". I pirated for a long time. When Netflix became a thing, I stopped pirating (since it was easier). Now I pirate again. If a new company came along with a good model, or the industry as a whole decided this streaming debacle is stupid, I would definitely stop pirating and give my money to someone. Until then, why would I pay money for a worse service than what I can get for free?
Right. The parent poster’s comment might be due to how they interpreted your use of “managers” in your original post. “Management” as you used here, to me at least, more directly implies “upper management.”

My immediate managers are all for remote work too: upper management are the ones pushing for a return to the office.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic... If not, you're just being facetious. Just because a thing is digital and therefore copiable, doesn't mean there's no reason to ever pay for it.
Once you understand "Mother nature" means "owners of commercial real estate", it makes perfect sense. And no, they don't care about the carbon output of commuting.
Can you please provide examples of said propaganda in NFLX programming? Genuinely curious.
Gecko isn't google its Mozilla, all you have to do is change the search engine. But the rest is all correct
"He noted that Canonical’s revenue last year was $175 million and that the company’s biggest challenge right now is that demand is bigger that the company’s ability to service it, in large part because there isn’t enough talent on the market for the company to hire."

Maybe the problem isn't a lack of enough talent on the market but a lack of talent on the market that is willing to complete your insane red flag raising hiring process.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735678
> But it seems like people now see the long tail as useless junk

Hum... It's not that. It's just that it's impossible to access the long tail of Netflix content.
In my perfect world, my commute would be a 20 minute walk through a park, or along a beach. I actually had that once when I lived on a boat and walked to my favorite coffee shop along the beach. It's better than WFH.
Yep. Charing Cross exit, J18 is on the right side.
Most popular languages have massive ecosystems. Don't see Python's being a differentiator except for a few specialized areas. In fact, the project I'm on runs on spark wrapped by python libraries, so really its the scala libraries that provide all the heavy lifting.
The problem is that Apple TV+ doesn't have that many shows that I might want to watch. Once you binge through a couple, it's all slim pickings.
> The paper reports on the results of a 'logic' test administered to undergrads and uses this to define competence.

Right, but my point is that 'logic' is simply being used as an example of 'a task'. It's immaterial whether it's actually a good test of logic. As long as you agree that whatever it is is a good example of 'a task', then it's equally probative for the purpose of their argument.
I was in Paris for 1-1/2 sleep deprived days, so I think I can clarify. See, in much of Europe, the toilets have a little flush button and a big flush button. My understanding is that the big flush button is for le double mouvement.
They are never superior to law. If there is a law that says "Thou shalt not eat oranges." then no contract can stipulate eating oranges by either party, and there is no legal redress to it other than changing the law, contract law never supersedes "the law of the land"
Riveting
And if you like Arcane, I'd recommend She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (also on Netflix).
Yes but a physical file does not buffer once fully downloaded, and I can upscale via mpv filters or madVR if needed.
Some of us don't like dealing with liars / propogandists / BSers, and think that you should mean what you say.
huh? it's used by hundreds of millions of people. I see ads all the time on my feed.
You can also avoid this by hiring the right people - so to me this is indicative of an even deeper issue within the company which is bad hiring, bad/poor expectations, no consequences for failure, etc. Remote/Hybrid/On-Prem discussions are just the symptom.
Same, rarely watch myself, but they got pissed when I cancelled it.
I don't follow. So some 3rd party library will define a type like Routes = Union[RouteSet, List[Union[str, Route]]] and this is bad? The complexity is already there, you just don't want to see it?
yeah -- updated.
Will it break the page if this support is missing?
I unsubbed for two major reasons:

1. Netflix is boring

2. Their recommendation algorithms didn't solve 1.

The root cause of it all is their odd focus on expensive originals over third party content. Their catalogue is just not deep enough if you remove all the subpar content. Before using Netflix I engaged in massive piracy for over ten years, and I'm considering it again - this time in smaller amounts, because I don't have that much free time anymore.
Yes, but the problem is learning through the graph data. I.e., it is not a well-structured problem like an image which will always have a certain size in pixels. Coming from a compiler background I am genuinely excited about the research on learning how to label nodes and edges in graphs, but I know little about the challenges in the ML side to bring this kind of technology into reality.
reminds me of the infamous Conway sort (https://transitivebullsh.it/gaming-cs-interviews#083392b655d...)
So I someone that would prefer to be at the office. I like socializing and getting lunch with coworkers. I like casually asking question, running ideas by others, all things that, FOR ME, don't work remote.

Unfortunately, at least so far, people in my area aren't coming in so I've shown up at the office and in my space few others are showing up. Also, getting rooms for meetings is no fun

I don't know what I'm going to do but I will likely quit and find an in office team if things don't get better. Humans (most) are social animals https://www.google.com/search?q=humans+are+social+animals
Then I will set a reminder on my phone to cancel before next renewal. Or if too troublesome, I will just pay for the specific episode or show or movie.

Or if the price is too high, I will find something better to do with my time. Same as every other entertainment option in life.
Maybe it’s just because I’m a teleworking middle manager, but I’ve never understood this argument that telework threatens middle management. Middle management doesn’t magically become unnecessary when employees are working from home instead of the office — if anything it’s _more_ important when everyone isn’t in the same physical location picking up their direction by osmosis.
You can use PMUs in the cloud. Amazon's c6i.metal instance type is an Intel Ice Lake Xeon with full PMU access, for example.
Sounds like you want to be in a startup where you'll work 60+ hours! I'd honestly like a start-up break and am jealous of your 'boring' job.
Yes, it's not stealing.
Many companies back then had no idea how to assign work and evaluate performance for telecommuting employees. Many companies still have no idea, so there's a huge opportunity for employees to take advantage of the unclear rules.

Even in software, it's notoriously hard to estimate how long a project is going to take. You just assigned some bug to someone and told them to fix it by Tuesday. Is the employee slacking off if the bug isn't fixed by Tuesday, or is the issue actually more difficult than it seemed to be? Is it a bit of both?

People will always find creative ways to get paid while doing nothing. The hastily set up WFH system just happens to contain more loopholes that the higher-ups aren't prepared for.
Agreed. I have never used such a non-deterministic UI. Every time I load the app I have to hunt around to find the show I last watched and continue it. It feels like it’s in a different place every single time.

And actually trying to browse the catalog is painful.

I like some of their content but I really hate the Netflix apps. (Not to mention weird subtitle issues and play position sync issues).

The one thing I will say though is I cannot remember the last time I saw a single bit of buffering. Everything starts playing immediately, every time. The actual reliability of the streaming itself is superb.
Algorithms? Netflix hasn't done actual recommendation algorithms since the DVD days. These days it just relentlessly pushes its own third-rate content to viewers, presumably because it's cheaper than licensed content.
Creating a developer community is a $1B bet for tech companies
Only for archeological, and maybe sometimes psychological investigations of code.
To be clearer: I still doubt it's "most". https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/europe/ukraine-moskva-warship... doesn't look like a ship that lost most of its crew. Some, certainly. Most, probably not.
My religious beliefs include reproductive health care services as part of insurance, insulting jerks like this, and 4 day work weeks for 3 days of worship. If I stop showing up on Fridays and I get fired, does this mean I can sue? What a farce.
Speaking only of what I see (I'm a PhD student in the field of programming languages), quite a few people seek internships and full-time employment with JS specifically because of the tech stack and the kind of problems they (JS) tend to like throwing themselves at. They do some seriously cool stuff, and they've published a lot of great research!
Its nice but no call to action button anywhere on any of their sites. How do I sign up for the launch? How do I buy it? Can you buy it? Etc..