skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also their investment portfolios.

I don't suspect any grand conspiracy, but I do think a lot of asset managers have had chats with high net worth individuals and gone over just what the collapse of the commercial real estate market would look like for them personally, especially with the stock market being so shaky as of recent.

I suspect these causal conversations are behind a large number CEOs return to office strategies (in addition to justifying their office investment as you mention) as well as Malcolm Gladwell's sudden revelation that working in an office is super important for everyone who is not him.
So don't work at Apple?

Their company, their rules.
Can you show me this? I'd guess it would have to be in the server code, so where is it? I don't see any real information about this on their site. Their website suggests that this information is stored locally

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007459591-Si...
I think it was Matt Taibbi who pointed out something I should have realized on my own. Words like 'whataboutism' are exactly what Orwell described in 1984 as doublespeak. Not a close match, not a good analogy, but the actual phenomenon explored in the novel.
Speaking of Pixar, isn't there a whole story of one of their movies getting saved because of somebody working from home and having a backup of the data?
Yeah, that's not exactly how it works. The drand nodes are publishing random beacons that are signed, that's the only thing the networks does. Publishing public verifiable randomness. But pairing-based cryptography allows us to do identity-based encryption and that's like magic, but basically we can rely on a message as a public key, and on a signature as a secret key, and that's how tlock works.
I didn’t say work from home is more productive, I meant the record profits while the ENTIRE company was WFH suggests that at the very least, drop in productivity cannot be an excuse to bring EVERYONE in.
There is a huge chunk of the economy that is agitating for RTO.

All the big consultancies are pushing it, travel sector (eg airlines, hotels, conference circuit folks) are pushing it, corp real estate and related service sector (think Aramark and other bigCo service companies) are pushing it, etc.

All these folks are on site in your BigCo HQ week in, week out, talking to your senior execs who are predominantly white men 50+ years old, trying to convince them this is like an existential crisis only they can solve and which will supercharge their firm for the next 25 years.

I've seen this shit up close and it's real. Big money and big egos pushing this agenda.

It will happen, just a matter of how long it takes.
I gave signal my landline. They don't need SMS.
I have worked in an IoT company, and sometime time-to-market makes uncomfortable dependancies necessary. Hopefully people making those compromises have escape plans, but I doubt all of them do. I expect to read several "Our incredible journey" product end-of-life posts as Google kill off startups without a way to recover from this shutdown...
I've seen it happen outside of Apple, heck I've seen it outside the tech world. Company deems the damage to be out of warranty however after looking at the purchasing history/power of the customer and deeming them as "someone they don't really want to piss off" they will then offer a no cost repair/replacement as a "goodwill gesture".

Think of it like this:- You have 2 clients you sold widgets too that have come in for repair. Both widgets are beat the hell up like they were using them to hammer in nails and are both clearly out of warranty repairs.

One customer as other than this widget has 0 purchase history with 5 followers on twitter and the other has been buying goods since you were a start up and has a million followers.

Who would you be more inclined to make sure they are happy and who would you say "yeah I'll fix it, but its gonna cost you" to?

(For examples of something like this, see examples of people going virial on social media because something broke / got banned, timed it right, and suddenly it was magically fixed, within 24 hours, but your avg joe is stuck speaking to a chat bot for months on end).
Except for the math part when the slides were frozen, I guess :P
That would be a lot more difficult, if not impossible. My understanding of this thing is that it's sort of like a distributed key generator with part of the protocol being that the key is revealed after a particular point in time. If such a thing existed for the reverse, I suspect it would enable general purpose DRM by combining Timelock Encryption with the threshold timestamp mechanism so that some document would only be decryptable for a particular time period.
Ironically, Discord rewrote all of their messaging centric services from Go to Rust due to pretty niche GC issues.
Of course, first read the title as: Your GPT2 Car Is Not Road Legal.

> The GP2 (now Formula 2) series
Voicing dissatisfying as part of a mass popular outrage is a good way to get rules changed. Leaving a company also achieves that, but is a little more drastic.
Gnome vs KDE isn't really a thing, deb vs rpm isn't a thing, X vs Wayland is only a temporary thing, Pulse vs PipeWire isn't a thing, PipeWire implements pulse apis.

systemd vs $INITSYSTEM is also temporary, though on a longer timescale. We need the old generation to die before systemd is accepted by everyone.

I don't mean to shit on your argument, but most things are either just preferences or progress that isn't done yet.

I'm about as bleeding-edge as can be (always latest stable kernel with xanmod patches) from NixOS, using Wayland and PipeWire.

The move to PipeWire made literally everything better for me (just works TM). While Wayland isn't perfect yet.

Gnome or KDE is a preference, it doesn't matter much and they're cooperating on many Wayland extensions.

systemd hate is either because you love the drama or you like bash scripts.

I don't particularly like either, so I like systemd.

A good thing people often forget with Wayland, PipeWire and systemd is that they are making our ecosystem a bit less fragmented, which I see as a great win, especially since I'm a NixOS user, my system relies heavily on systemd being declarative. My distro of choice wouldn't work as well (at all) without all "standards" (both real and implementation) that systemd and freedesktop puts forward.

Back on topic, the Linux desktop is honestly quite great if you constrain yourself a bit (Run a stable distro with boring tech, no Nvidia) or live on the bleeding edge where things also work well but might require more maintenance.

Lets be honest though, if I wasn't running NixOS I would probably run Ubuntu with whatever display and audio server they decided for me. And the package manager would be apt, brew, nix or flatpak depending on application. (Now it's Nix and Flatpak only).
That doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it. Publishing and running code are very different things. Additionally, the major code hosts are not bound by free speech laws.
Setting aside privacy or software freedom idealism, why would someone use it over Windows or macOS?
My understanding is that inflation is based on the monthly payment number, not on the sticker price of the house (though I’m not all that confident in that assertion). It’s meant to reflect actual consumer spending baskets.
Don't be a sucker. Lots of second rate management wants to see butts in seats. That is all.
As an indie developer, these increasingly frequent security disclosures (although yes good) are getting very frustrating.

I want to say this is due to the threat landscape expanding by the day but some part of me suspects that when a service provider becomes 'comfortable' (mailchimp, Heroku, Twilio, etc.) they becomes complacent/cut costs in the security department.

The other day I got a clear phishing SMS from REVOLUT! Crazy!
Taxes would slow inflation, particularly on excess profits.
"Earth is the only planet we know of with continents..." -- links to a paper comparing Earth with only the inner rocky planets of our own solar system and citing other planet's lack of water, and therefore granite.

I think that intro sentence is implying a lot more than the paper it cites is stating.

Paper cited: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/GL01...
I ran RHEL (IIRC it was RHEL 6) on my desktop at Amazon from 2013 to 2015, as did all SDEs.
Visual candies - Virtual Railfan cams, DJ Effects Loops (many variants),

Ear candies - SignalsMusicStudio, Posy,

Brain candies - 2Blue1Brown, Huberman Lab, How To ADHD

Computers/Tech - Daves Garage, Mr Carlson's Lab

Milporn/Geopol - Capsian Report, Dark Docs, The Operations Room, Mark Felton

GenAvation - CitationMax, Missionary Bush Pilot, Premier 1 Driver, AvWeb

WillYouBeMyDad - AvE, ThisOldTony
I hadn't thought of that... Flatpaks let you use specific mesa versions, though.
This is unfortunately full of very popular opinions. This is exactly what happens on reddit.
Almost, the randomness is generated using a BLS signature that also makes it verifiable. And that signature is the decryption key.
If you have abusive micromanaging management then your life will be miserable. Period. Blaming one of the five million tools or approaches they could use to achieve that goal is rather short sighted.
It sounds like you have a point to make regarding the time value of money? But I'm sorry, I'm not following the connection. Would you mind rephrasing?
> Wine isn't set up to support multiple installed versions of itself.

huh? the official wine packages for ubuntu, debian, and i believe fedora provide separate wine-devel and wine-staging packages, which can be installed in parallel with each other and with distro packages. in fact, debian (and ubuntu) as well as arch provide separate wine and wine-staging packages as part of the distro itself, no separate repo required.

wine has no special support for relocated installations, but no more or less so than any large Unix program; you can install as many copies as you want, but they must be compiled with different --prefixes, and you cannot use different versions of wine simultaneously with the same WINEPREFIX.
Of course, this is only trivially true when "the worst thing that can happen is they'll say no" is true.

Typically it's not.
As with most things it is about taking reasonable steps given the situation, following industry best practices, etc. That doesn’t always work! But there is a difference between an outage for dumb and easily preventable reasons like “wasn’t even looking” vs. more subtle chains of causation.
As a Cupertino resident, this news upsets me. Now our traffic will be three times worse on Tuesday and Thursday and probably double the other days depending on how teams split. Although I suspect almost all teams will choose Wednesday as their third day for that sweet four day weekend every week.

Hopefully they walk it back again when September rolls around.
This is correct. Workers rights come from the flexibility and trust that a remote-optional arrangement provides.

I live in a small apartment with two working adults. I’d rather work from our kitchen table than from an open office.

I believe that some people with small children like working from home because they can spend less on childcare and spend more time with their children.

Individuals have a huge spectrum of changing wants and needs. Our working arrangements can and should be flexible.
Why should this be more popular?
Timelock using trusted third parties was first proposed in 1993 by Tim May, the founder of the crypto-anarchist movement, yeah.
A cool application of this could be to release currently closed source code encrypted until some number of years in the future (10 or 20 would be my guess) at which point anyone holding the original encrypted source could view the plaintext. I'd rather vendors just open source in the first place, but this could be a nice way to have a sort of smart contract guaranteeing future access to source code.
I've might've heard of that. Speaking of Apple and WFH, a single remote employee laid the foundation for the OS X transition to Intel from his very own home office:

https://www.quora.com/Apple-company/How-does-Apple-keep-secr...
I'm curious if they've addressed any of the points in the open letter[0] that was published the last time this was proposed.

[0] https://appletogether.org/hotnews/thoughts-on-office-bound-w...
I guess it might be attributable to how much managers consider themselves to be, or actually are (subject to org limits), a part of the team, vs just managing it
I feel a lot of laws dictate what private companies provide us. For example a butcher's meat cannot be covered in rat poison. A hyperbolic example but for giant chat services like this where the wield an incredible amount of power because of scale they are still subject to restrictions by the government for the benefit of the people. The government totally has that overriding right because your companies operating in there county. Don't like it the same way the user has no choice but to not use your interface the company has the right now to operate in the country. Personally I think the api format is a little ambiguous but it's incredibly naive to think that companies cannot be subjected to laws on how they do business just because they built a computer service. With adoption comes regulation to protect both users and companies
I have personally used containers for this reason to set my gaming environment. If something breaks, all I need to do is to run older image and everything works.
It just seems like you are wide open to legal broadsides working with a policy like this. Basically you are turning your repair program into a class based program. Poor people are disadvantaged relative to your whales but that isn't clear to anyone using the service. IANAL but it seems like it could be easy money for a law firm on discrimination grounds if they had this sort of stuff on record from an apple employee.
If they were de-classified, the markings on the document would have been changed. The "Top Secret- SCI" markings would have been crossed out, and a "declassified by: ____" notation would have been made so that it could be traced.
Confidential and Secret are not tracked every time they are placed in or removed from storage, but Top Secret should be.

There will be a custodian of these documents, and they will have a record of someone removing these from a storage container, but not returning them.

The custodian, at a minimum, would be aware of the changing classification of these documents. The authority that originally classified the material would also be aware, because the fact this information is no longer controlled is very important to the work they do.
System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32429848 (54 comments - 4 days ago)
Regardless of what you feel should be true, the reality is that Discord considers using software like this "self-botting" and will ban your account for it. The disclaimer to this effect is buried at the very bottom of the README, seemingly on purpose.
If I'm being honest, there are certain places where I worked where I definitely wasn't working at peak efficiency. I could say I was operating in an environment that prevented that (bureaucracy) or you could say I'm lazy. Neither opinion would be 100% inaccurate.

So part of this rings hollow because it isn't always the case that knowledge workers are working as hard as they can.

So, it is true that a manager could (and they often did) try to get me to work faster. But, it rarely worked because I was unable to get past the cultural problems in the environment or because I'm just lazy.

Both of those problems seem like something a manager could have worked on. Those are really hard problems and take a lot of courage. Instead of dealing with just me, that manager would have needed to take on toxic things inside the team, or even cross team issues. Probably too much for one manager. But that might have solved those problems and that is probably what would have solved my laziness.

It never happened, so they just fired me. Oh well.

I do wonder if a manager that came in with a question/assertion like "you aren't working at full efficiency, and we both know it, AND I'm assuming you want to and aren't lazy, so let's have an honest talk about fixing that..." Would I have really shared what was there and worked towards solving it with them? Not sure.
Bioengineered Corneas Gave 14 Blind People Their Sight Back
This is not Timelock encryption. Timelock encryption relies on the use of time lock puzzles, which frequently revolve around variations of repeatedly squaring a value in a particular way which makes it impossible to shortcut without knowing the original setup parameters. Variations include a RSA-style approach (which I've created an open source repo here: https://www.github.com/CassOnMars/Timelock), or by omitting knowledge of the order of the group (possible with imaginary quadratic cryptography), creating a verifiable delay function, such as the Wesolowski VDF (repo: https://www.github.com/CassOnMars/Wesolowski-VDF).
Cupertino should build more housing: https://www.cupertinoforall.org/our-plan and build subways, too.
I get your point but I’d hardly say asking people to come to the office for their job 3 days a week is
“tyranny of upper management”. If this is your tyranny then I’d say you have had a pretty lax career.

Good for you I suppose and let’s hope times don’t get tough.
I have been using an email address with .cat TLD on the side for a year and I've only had a handful of times where I couldn't sign up for a new account because email was not marked as valid. Ps: Email provider is a known hosting/domain provider.
I see, I didn't realize. It's probably for the best they left that m1 body behind then. Hopefully they solved the keyboard imprint issue as well with the redesign.
Curiosity question for the large scale pros. How is rainwater runoff handled in these large solar farms? Trenches and drains to retention ponds? Or do they somehow try and redirect the water under the panels to utilize the surface area under them?

Impacts to watersheds are the biggest environmental issues of any small or large scale building projects in my neck of the woods. I’m only allowed 12 percent of my land for impervious surfaces.
The biggest plus is that — like Chrome, if they decide they made a mistake, they can pivot a change that many of their users would disagree with, and force it on the whole ecosystem immediately. Chrome has done this a lot, and almost all of it has been security-related stuff that's been jammed down our throats. And sure enough - the medicine has been quite distasteful, but it was good for the patient.

A lot of this stuff is UI-related; it's things that aren't a reskin, but they're a major shakeup of how the entire UI works, and would break all other clients using a framework.

The problem with "truly" federated protocols is that every design fuckup is preserved in amber for eternity.
> Money is an asset whose primary property is to be highly liquid. Liquidity is the ability to trade one asset for another.

And what gives an asset ultimate liquidity? Liquidity is desire to be owned by someone else. Something needs to make it desirable, what could that be?

Otherwise we'd be using feathers as money.
I get what you mean, but it comes with the assumption that the information found is reviewed critically by the searcher, rather than just naively accepting whatever result agrees or disagrees with the opinion comment...
As they pointed out in their open letter [0] the last time this was proposed, they don't need in person collaboration every day, or even every week. It's probably only useful about once a month if that.

[0] https://appletogether.org/hotnews/thoughts-on-office-bound-w...
Or does it?

There are plenty of examples where science got it wrong. Were it took years, even decades to get enough people to listen.*

That's not the way science is supposed to work. Politics? Yes. But not science.

I trust you can do the math from here.

* And when the tides turn, these not even an acknowledgement, let alone an apology. Scientists shouldn't not be turning in their graves for lacking an apology. That level of arrogance is also not healthy and proper Science.
Wouldn’t a single second slice be of limited value compared to 30+ second samples?
In 2022, it would be stupid to make a game that doesn't have some sort of battle pass and dopamine-drip progression system. Way fewer people would play your game and gamers would complain without them. People genuinely enjoy these systems, just like they genuinely enjoy reality TV over a documentary or TikTok over long-form Youtube videos. It's an obvious trend that won't be fixed if we misunderstand the issue and assume that people don't want these things and they're being pushed by advertising.
California would only ever vote D, he’s not useful as a VP. I do agree though, i think Desantis would beat him unless the National mood has really changed after Roe. We’ll see in November
My labor, my rules. How about we compromise?
I don't think so, but ok, look at college acceptance rates then. Pick some semi-top one like UCLA https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/trends/university-of-c...
They had another product called Mandrill that did transactional email, they discontinued it, but also allowed old customers (which also paid big $$$) to keep using Mandrill, perhaps that is what DO used?

We left Mandrill because they had a DB failure which took them a long time to recover, and we felt that all their focus were on newsletters, and that transactional email didn't get any attention.
Woah get out of here with your nuanced approach, this is the Hackernews comment section.
I work with a bunch of people who are super busy and they would say productive.

But little of their work drives the company forward.

6 people that are paddling a boat in different directions goes nowhere.
Why would you commute that long? I’ve never had and would never tolerate a commute longer than 20 minutes. I go into the office every day of the week because the time spent in the car is negligible when you consider it’s just podcast time.
> Apple, in this case, is making people come back to justify their super expensive and ridiculous new campus.

Needs sources. Otherwise it's just speculation.
Then you are accepting that what drags your productivity down is commuting, not actually working from an office. Remote working may be a solution to your problem but comes with associated costs you may be not counting (misunderstandings, wrong team member mental models, alignment calls, longer on boarding times, suboptimal knowledge sharing, less serendipity/synergies in general). Another solution to your commuting problem is find a job that is closer to your place
If you are doing something against your will, it is tyranny. If you do things based on reasonable conversation, it is partnership. That said, to be fair, most entities are organized as 'on command' workplaces and management does not really understand and/or like empowered workers. Now, we can quibble over money and such, but most employees already voted, quite vocally, some with their feet.
Thanks for the insights!

Is the bad sector read rate abnormally high? Are GCE's SSDs particularly error prone? Or is the failure rate typical, but a bad sector read is just incredibly expensive?

I assume you investigated using various RAID levels to make an LRU cache acceptably reliable?

It's also surprising to me that GCE doesn't provide a suitable out of the box storage solution. I thought a major benefit of the cloud is supposed to be not having to worry about things like device failures. I wonder what technical constraints are going on behind the scenes at GCE.
> had a pretty lax career.

Being common place does not negate the fact that it is indeed tyranny.
> it would be nice to see you go bankrupt

I would prefer that they fix their problems instead. They have 800 employees. I don't want those people to lose their jobs.