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I am not qualified and experienced enough in tech and business to judge his alleged genius and credentials so to speak, but I have seen enough life to see that this person is on the extreme end of being an attention seeker in a such a way that it’s never enough for him. Most other leaders aren’t.

So, no. But if a companies wants employees to return to office most of them would do it like adults and being discretionary.

My company got rid of all physical space in US and UK and EU and is considering/discussing hybrid in India (monthly/bi-monthly in person 5-7 days work in office together; with a weekend included; travel and expense paid by the company). Most aren’t agreeing for that either. Out of 180 present only 4 raised hands for hybrid (I was one of them! sigh) — even our managers didn’t say yes for full-time on site.
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Right, but then you need to trust them to maintain a fork of vaultwarden or hope that vaultwarden accepts their patches.
> The puzzle is to find the flaw in the very compelling line of reasoning above. This includes determining exactly why and under what conditions that step is not correct, in order to be sure not to make this mistake in a more complicated situation where the misstep may not be so obvious. In short, the problem is to solve the paradox. Thus, in particular, the puzzle is not solved by the very simple task of finding another way to calculate the probabilities that does not lead to a contradiction.

There are two flaws. One is the omission of counterfactual reasoning. This produces the logical contradiction 2=1 at step 7, but you get there a bit earlier because the steps before it are where you do case based reasoning. The scenario where this happens is when you are in imperfect information contexts. You can reason about subgames in perfect information games without the subgames influencing each other. You can't reason about them in imperfect information games without the subgames influencing each other.

The lessons is this - you have to consider counterfactuals. To give a concrete example of someone doing this, think Jeff Bezos when he talks about how he decided to found Amazon. He says he considered the situation in which he founded it and failed and the situation where he founded it and succeeded and the situation where he didn't found it. He didn't get his expectation conditioned on one state, but over an information set that contained many counterfactual outcomes.

The second flaw is much deeper and is what leads to the paradox. The failure is that the entire framing fails to recognize that EV is a function of policy. You can see this by setting the policy to always switch, as they do, and noting that the actual EV for switch is now undefined. Therefore in claiming knowledge of EV without having policy as a higher order function of EV you get a contradiction. 3/2A=0 and/or 3/2A=undefined.

The lesson in this is that policy function influences EV. This should hopefully be obvious to most people in more complicated situations. For example, slamming your head into your table has a lower EV than enjoying a drink of water. You have to account for this whenever your policy choice isn't defined.
One weird problem with not having empathy as a leader is you think everyone works the same way you do. It's bizarre to me that you couldn't see that some people might be more productive working from home. I liked going into the office. I liked my teammates, I liked some of the social aspects. But between 90 minute lunches, coffee breaks, people constantly talking in the office. I was lucky to work 4 hours a day. How you could think that butts in seats is going to work better for everyone is bizarre to me. But maybe everyone just pretends to be working while he's around and he doesn't see the waste.
VP of HR, VP of Sales, VP of Marketing... I can name plenty of top execs for a car company that don't need to be onsite.
First of all, you said popular. Nearly all of those 32m websites were not popular by any useful definition of that word.

At any rate, you’re definitely going to have to provide more than a stern tone to make me believe this is true as it’s either very at odds with my experience at the time or your definition of “nearly all” is very unusual.

And finally, as another commenter suggested, if your idea is that this doesn’t also apply to netbsd (ie. nearly all servers weren’t netbsd) the i dunno what to tell you. Some kind of bsd maybe, but netbsd? I really don’t think so.
Depends on what is good for the company. Certainly, a downturn will give more power to management. On a longer timescale, I think things look good for labor overall given the demographics.

My company just reinstated the mask mandate, so I don't think we're headed back soon. Also, a lot of folks seem to have shadow relocated to avoid a salary adjustment, so if/when management does ask people back, they're in for a hell of a surprise.

I know I feel like a sucker for sticking around the bay area during the pandemic. It's looking like the housing market will correct soon. When that happens, we're leaving. Hopefully in 4-6 months, but sometimes these things take years to play out.
Historically, U.S. stock market returns have exceeded inflation substantially -- there is data at https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile... . Inflation can increase corporate profits in nominal terms, but usually it also leads to higher interest rates and lower price/earnings yields, as bonds become more competitive with stocks. I believe that after-inflation returns of stocks have tended to be highest when inflation is low but not negative.
It's not even hard, number of email provider do it for you. You just need to explain it to someone once every 3 years...
Haha true. I thought the commenter was exaggerating first. But maybe commenter is really serious and literally means it.

So to his second point, does the employer get a tax bill because a worker is in a region? The employee might get an income tax bill in the region, and that seems to be the accepted norm. Maybe the company does get a bill.
> It doesn't appear to easily capture the current downturn

Based on what? I think it’s manually updated but it seems very comprehensive after a few days of latency.
The stock prices are nominal and therefore assuming the same real stock return, the nominal prices will go up under higher inflation.
Is this because it automatically becomes possible to obtain location when accessing Bluetooth?
The /s is just in case the irony was lost on you.
Apologies for the wrong interpretation, but I'm still skeptical. The generic drug market is huge, this drug in particular is already approved and in wide use for fertility treatment meaning that it's already passed safety trials. Getting approval for a secondary usage would be less costly than starting from scratch and there would likely be a huge market for this. There is absolutely money to be made from anyone who wants to get in this market.
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Ah you know, it's a multimillion dollar corporation, so laws are just tough to enforce, because reasons. It's not like if a regular person was caught doing this, because then it'd be simple: that person would go to jail.

Also, there's no way that every other fast food app isn't doing the exact same thing. There's no way that mcdonald's is going to give me a free big mac just for having the app installed if they aren't collecting as much data as they can access on my device.
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That’s because their DNA is able to repair the body before the cell mutations develop into tumors. These DNA repair genes can be inherited or acquired, scientists say. And exactly what makes one person’s body better at repairing DNA is still a mystery.
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I would say it's the people visiting google that's the gold vein - advertising is the pick-axe. You don't make money with ads if no one visits. So in a sense making more and more products and reasons to visit is the gold vein.

Otherwise just saying advertising is a gold vein would mean people that put up a blank page with a single ad on it and no reason to visit would definitely not be a gold vein. So as others mentioned, its the Youtube and Gmails level products.
Too bad we spent so much time getting people to be really good at recycling. It turns out that municipalities making recycling free was just a subsidy for more plastic. (I mean, I'll still recycle. It's free garbage service!)

I think if we just made it clear that plastic is garbage and goes in a garbage bin and needs to go to a landfill and you have to pay for the garbage bin, we may be surprised by how much needless low quality plastic packaging would disappear.

But still - plastic is pretty dang useful stuff. I'm sitting in a faux leather chair typing on a 15 year old plastic keyboard wearing comfy polyester-blend clothing. I don't begrudge oil companies for somehow forcing me to buy this stuff. And I would rather oil get used for stuff like this than burned and turned into CO2.
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A good starting point for Entity Resolution/Deduplication is the Python Dedupe project [1, 2] and the PhD thesis on whose work it is based [3]

[1] https://github.com/dedupeio/dedupe

[2] https://dedupe.io/

[3] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ml/papers/marlin-dissertation-06.p...
I think you have a point, and generally the influence of these guys is overstated.

But maybe if you're very charitable, you could see that as steelmanning the contemporary positions, instead of merely assigning blame.
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Yeah deliverability is a good point. I'm usually only using this trick for services where I wouldn't be sending outbound email luckily. Normal emails come from mydomain.com.
It's becoming clear to me that building a new crawler and indexer is the next moon landing of our time.
Ask HN: Are 1000+ line Code review normal?
I recently started working at a new company and one of the other devs routinely submits changes for review that are 1 diff with 1k-5k lines changed.

At my last company the culture was to break up work into easily understood chunks, so the same code would have probably been 5-10 diffs of 100-1000 lines each. I thought it really helped make reviews much more effective and quicker. It took practice to learn how to effectively break up my changes like this but now I can't imagine doing it any other way.

I find it impossible to truly understand whats going on when looking at a set of changes that are bigger than around 1000 lines (not including unit tests.) Apparently people block out 2-3 hour chunks on their calendar to review this person's code.

Is it reasonable to ask this person to break up their work so its easier to review, or am I the outlier and should I just try to get better at reading and reviewing very large diffs?
_An_ office to go to if you _want_ to work there is different from a _requirement_ to work there. Imagine if the office were more like a members only coffee shop with a crummy kerieg pod coffee machine. Do you not remember what pre-pandemic was like?
You are right, it is a better deal in a way, but it's also a bit iffy. There's no reason one couldn't get the same benefits as a full-time employee while working lower hours. In the end it's all about total compensation and you can adjust pay for that to make sense.
The government is letting crowd funding happen and the public can still lose a lot of money even when there are disclosures.
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An even better one - holding an image at the focal point of a lens produces its Fourier transform at the focal point on the other side of the lens[0]. It is used for "analog" pattern matching[1]. There is an interesting video explaining this on the Huygen Optics Youtube channel[2].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_optics

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_correlator

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9FZ4igNxNA
This is definitely an issue, but I don't think it's a serious concern for larger companies with good HR departments. When covid first hit HR at my employer was interested in where employees were located, there was a list of allowed work locations. But they got it figured out and physical location is less of an issue for tax and insurance.
Ask HN: How do you find meaningful jobs?
Happy to hear examples of a job you’re currently at or recently found that you find meaningful and satisfying. By itself, not because of compensation.

Please name a company or at least specific market niche + geo or product, to understand what exactly the company (or your team is producing).
See also

https://github.com/FHPythonUtils/Cli2Gui/

It's 2022, shouldn't CLI to GUI conversion be an automatic and core feature of every OS by now?
For those of you who don't know who/what "Tim Horton's" is allow me to educate and enlighten.

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

It's a 'fast food/coffee' chain that really was made popular by a recurring skit on a TV show called: Royal Canadian Air Farce (Sketch based usually heavy on the political satire)

The skit had 3 people sitting around a table drinking coffee and cracking jokes about current-events and mostly political fiascos. It was this lampooning of 'typical Canadian behaviour' of art imitating life that caused more people to show up and start hanging out at the corner coffee shop. In my small home town (40,000 people) there were maybe 3 shops (aka Timmies). During this boom to it's popularity that number increased by atleast 10. They made their doughnuts in-house every morning, and the coffee was tolerated as being acceptable.

As the franchise grew in popularity it became something of a joke and expectation that a person could find a Timmies on nearly every block, and you would never need to drive more then 10 minutes to get to the closest one.

Throughout it's financial hardships and ownership changes there has been a lot of complaints that "The coffee isn't as good as it used to be." And rumours that McDonalds (with it's McCafee push) bought Timmies old supplier of beans.

Now the food is no longer made in store, and my impression is that the coffee is worse. There have been other cost-cutting measures like making the popular contest "Roll up the Rim" (where a person could unroll the lip of the cup of coffee to reveal a prize from free confections, to money and a car); becoming an APP-only prize (more like a lottery style jackpot then a winning cup).

In total, I am not surprised. Their quality has gone downhill, and the treatment of staff is horrendous.
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The industrial data-gathering complex is expanding into ever more ethically dubious, ever more ridiculously unjustifiable niches.

For an instant, I thought the OP might be a link to a fake story in The Onion.

I mean, it wouldn't be out of place there: "Fast-food chains collecting vast amounts of location data."

And yet, no one is shocked.
Actually, I don't see it as being that much about scale, but more about moving complexity out of applications and about solving robustness challenges. Kubernetes offers a lot of things that are useful even at smaller scales. Which is why I'm not sure I think "but it's for scale" is a valid excuse.

Kubernetes ought at least to be the right tool for a wider range of compute task. And I think it could have been the right tool for a wider range of compute tasks.
are you sure it's a generalization error? you forget that people experiencing enslavement and torture also have some amount of agency, and historically, have periodically organized to inflict terror upon people who seem to be immune to or supported by the pains of the momentary status quo.

it seems silly to believe that outcome to be impossible and erroneous to consider, when there are people out there actively working towards that objective.
Are you saying that collaborating closely online is not collaborating?

Meanwhile family and pets provide social companionship. Why do you consider that inferior?
I'm a 70's-90's metal fan and once heard Ronnie James Dio 3 times in a row... all on different bands. Solo, Sabbath, and Rainbow =D Was fun but weird at the same time.
It's because it's easy to estimate someone's location from nearby Bluetooth beacons or wifi access points.
When Burger King "bought" Tim Hortons in 2014 (I believe this was a tax evasion effort by Burger King to leave US and "merge" with a Canadian food company), the whole experience went to pot. This was a Canadian institution. I won't even step foot in a Tims anymore, the food, the customer experience, the app, it's all junk.
Thanks, I will have a look!
Are there any projects that surgically augment the memory APIs to be more cooperative? Sure `malloc` implementations will make various tradeoffs, but what if the malloc/free APIs were expanded to expose more programmer-intent or cooperative defrag, etc?

- Perhaps `malloc` could ask for an intended lifecycle (think GC generation) that could swap arenas or other algo internals. This opens us up to meta-allocators.

- Perhaps program lifecycle hooks that give allocators more context into how already-allocated memory intends to be accessed. ("Done bootstrapping the server, so now new memory will be accessed by single threads and only live for one request", etc)

- Perhaps the programmer could periodically call `remalloc` to allow objects to be moved or promoted between arenas/generations.

- Perhaps mallocs/frees could be more intelligently batched (where explicit structs/arrays don't normally make sense) for surprise-free defrag or OS allocation.

- Intelligent pairing of malloc/free with explicit notions of intended re-use; some indication of "I will free this and ask for the same memory again in the same call" or auto-struct-ing mallocs which know that we tend stack malloc(foo);malloc(bar);free(bar);free(foo). Avoid any actual OS/memory involvement whatsoever.

- Perhaps `identmalloc` could handle common flyweight patterns of instantiate-unless-exists; e.g. intelligently turn shared state into offsets into a contiguous arenas. This may be more useful in C++ with existing conventions around copy-by-value constructs.

Some of these are indeed components of existing mallocs/allocators (e.g. libpas is type-aware), but my point is that allocators have to jump through hoops to derive heuristics, and these heuristics often amount to "the programmer often intends to use memory like X." Performance engineers then pattern-match for X rather than cooperating with the compiler to expose X intrinsically from the beginning. The above ideas impose slightly different programming paradigms, so there's still the white wale of a perfect drop-in heuristic, but it seems less subject to temporary or local maxima.

So: Are there compelling (albeit slightly less general-purpose) alternatives where the allocator and programmer communicate additional hints or other API contracts that allow the allocator to move away from heuristics and into proven patterns? Or is this basically akin to "use c++/smart pointers or just get a gc"?