skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly right. As an employee and a father of young kids, I love WFH.

As a manager, and someone who values creativity and productivity, I know that there's a HUGE tax being paid from people not being physically together, exactly as you described.

To the extent that everyone WFH, the tax is paid uniformly. But once people head back to the office, teams and companies that have more physical presence together will outperform and put the other people out of business.
Hah, nice piece of trivia, I didn't know. How are the item levels down at level 200, because droprates and stuff are based on dungeonlevel right?
Valhalla is great (I've contributed a few patches and run it for a while)!

Also check:

http://project-osrm.org/

https://www.graphhopper.com/open-source/
> We noticed a strong correlation between crazy utilization spikes and CI failure rates.

This is interesting, and is something I've also suspected on many CI systems that offer free public runners (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, etc.).

For seemingly no reason at all, tests were very flaky and unstable in CI, which couldn't be reproduced on local machines. I tried everything from resource-limited containers, to identically spec'd VMs, and never was able to reproduce certain failures. This made issues very hard to troubleshoot and fix.

Of course, you might say that this unstable environment surfaced race conditions in our tests or product, and that's true, but it's incredibly frustrating to have random failures that are impossible to reproduce locally, and having to wait for the long experiment-push-wait for CI development loop.

I suspect this is caused by over provisioning of the underlying hardware, where many VMs are competing for the same resources. This seems quite frequent on Azure (GH Actions).

In the article's case they patched it by making their environment more stable, which is a solution we can't do on public runners, but I'd caution them that they're only patching the issue, and not really fixing the root cause. The flakiness still exists in their code, and is just not visible when the system is not under stress, but will surface again when you least want it to, possibly in production.
Not sure about Tenacity's situation, but there are certainly ways in which development toolchains can be reworked to lend themselves towards predictable performance and reliable release management!
Isn't each missile $400k?
Yup, being in-person lowers the friction to asking questions and exchanging ideas. It's way easier to gauge people's understanding of things when working with them in the same space than having to explicitly coax it out of them over chat or video.
Eh - I guess it depends on how tied to FAANG you are...
Still getting plenty of inquiries from non-FAANG stuff.
I don't think you're quite right. There are budgets and projections here - https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-...

If we take 2016 and compare against 2023 for NHS budget, we see a figure of 124bn compared to a projected 152bn for this year.

If we use the bank of england inflation calculator (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...)

It says 124bn in 2016 would be the equivalent of 155bn in 2023.

So, we're currently funding the NHS less today than we did in 2016 in real terms. The Brexit bus suggested an additional 18bn per year could be made available for the NHS. If this was the case, this would work out as an additional 22bn with inflation.

Anyhow, lies, damn lies and statistics :)
As with all things, it depends on the person. My motivation is shot in an office, wfh is the most productive and least tired from work I've ever been. No more doom scrolling on Reddit when I need a break, everything is in chat so it's searchable and you can't miss anything. When we need to get together for something we just hang out in a call.

I imagine it's gonna be a generational thing where older folks won't acclimate to "hanging out" in a digital space. Having tools like Slack/Discord change the game completely.
I just don’t think my knees could handle squats. I was thinking to do a leg press with lower weight. Like 20 reps.
If that's their area of the law. Being a lawyer isn't about memorizing everything. It's about knowing how things work more broadly. Writing memos about the current law is for law students and junior associates unless it's your narrow focus area.
Useful interesting historical information, thanks. Seymour Cray was amazing, inventing and proving CPU architectural techniques (like out of order execution) that continue to be used today.

"Control Data Corporation 6600 was the fastest computer in the world from 1964 to 1969. It was, in many ways, a pioneer of modern computing using, for example, some of the techniques that would form the basis of RISC architectures... Wikipedia: Generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, it outperformed the industry's prior recordholder, the IBM 7030 Stretch, by a factor of three."

Wow, 3x. Mind boggling.
This is what I find so frustrating. Every company running the same percentage of layoffs and bringing everyone back from WfH at once simply can't be a coincidence. How else can workers get their companies to negotiate with them as individual companies rather than cartel members but to unionize?
this is great. been running through slu lately and we need some folks in the urban core
It’d be pretty easy for the tech ceos to form a signal chat with one another.

Even if that wasn’t happening, public announcements like this signal copycat behavior is fine.
> why are you not counting immigration within Europe when looking at European immigration?

That would make about as much sense as counting immigration between different US states. I know it's fashionable to pretend someone immigrating from a neighboring country is the same as from half-way across the world, but it's just not so.
No, not impressive. The club is a radio hobby club and the balloon is a radio beacon balloon, which transmits its location and height unencrypted on an open frequency, as do basically all balloons. Except for those from china, apparently.

If they really shot down that balloon, and not a Chinese one, they used a 500,000 rocket started by a 200mm plane to kill a $100 balloon. Spending so much on so little on the other hand is impressive.
You're not doing actual production work on htfs today no matter how special the circumstances.

Someone is, apparently. Some shop called Xinuos apparently bought part of the corpse (the not lawsuit obsessed, not fraud committing part, presumably) and is still selling SCO OpenServer and Unixware. That's some serious dead-ender computing. But hey...people still run OS/2 in production.

Divvy...haven't thought about that in not long enough.
Why is it though? In non-obfuscated language, the whole idea is "the job of someone hired to do something is to do the thing". If I own a room full of groceries, the job of the people I hire to run it /should be/ to run it in whatever legal way I want it to be run. If I want to maximize profits and the workers give the food away to the poor, or if I want to give the food away to the poor and the workers charge them money, I'm going to fire the workers (or in extreme cases, sue them for damages).

Shareholders are simply the owners of the corporation. The difficulty arises when we try to figure out what the shareholders want given the diffuse ownership (especially if you trace funds and pension plans to their ultimate owners/beneficiaries), but "maximize returns" is a reasonable assumption in absence of other expressed preferences.

Moreover, I'm pretty sure if you tried to get the preferences from an average shareholder you would find out they support all the good things and are against all the bad things, as long as it's free. It would end up like the recent poll they had in Western Oregon: "Do you think we should keep Eastern Oregon as part of Oregon?" "Yes!" "Eastern Oregon is net tax subsidized, how much in taxes are you personally prepared to pay to keep Eastern Oregon?" "$0!")
Or is it just that the same things are affecting many companies in the same industry?
If your company is the kind of place that's dead-set on using its office space, 3 in, 2 remote is a pretty good compromise.

I thought we might have seen some companies downsize their space and require office time but make it more fluid. Has that happened, and are people writing about it?

I figure very few companies will stay all-remote in the long term if they weren't already operating that way.
Office culture matters a ton and greases the gears. What we had pre-pandemic was good enough, and required employees to show their employers they were capable of remote work. Now, the bar is lower... you tell me what that does to the quality of work over a long period.
O Alienista
Someone might say the same thing about you if they were looking over your shoulder and you were reading HN comments.
I've never used it, but your description made me think of Webmin that I used a long time ago, and apparently the same creators have developed Virtualmin and Cloudmin that give you a web interface for managing Docker images and containers.

https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/cloudmin/virtualiza...
Agreed. It also helps newer employees better integrate with existing teams that have a past history of face to face.

Our project team of 20 has only 1 person who's always home now - but it seems to be basically a social anxiety / hypochondria issue. With the rest of the team onsite, those that stay home get forgotten a lot - out of site, out of mind.
Leaflet is also an interesting solution in this space:

https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet
The reason it's not equivalent to me is that the concept of "a series of deltas" does not make clear that what is edited (with or without a delta model) is metadata. No DAW ever edits an audio file (except for a few specific operations where the user explicitly requests that). All the edits are carried out on metadata (some would call them an EDL - edit decision list; some would use other names). But the delta model is orthogonal to this.
It can be if you use the right base OS. NixOS for all its issues checks most of the boxes for building a single purpose OS and the process of actually building one couldn't be easier. The whole process is effectively:

1. Write a config file

2. Run the command that builds the system

3. Test the system

4. (optional) Run the command that bakes the fresh system generated from the config into an image.

5. Deploy using either an image or NixOS's config based deployment tooling.
I didn't hit a paywall when I first opened the article, but when I clicked a link from this article to the one about SBF and the Super Bowl, I got a paywall on that one. And then when I hit the back button to go back to the balloon article, it now had a paywall too. So I posted the archive link in case anyone else runs into this.
AT&T and the NSA are not the same thing.

AT&T is almost certainly not storing every text message long-term. The NSA likely is. It wouldn't be surprising if that's via a direct PRISM-style integration, but it still means subpoenaing AT&T for old texts is likely to not be productive. (As it was not productive in this particular case.)

Subpoena the NSA and they'll say "no, for national security reasons".
thanks for running this through chatgpt for me
Yes because the company the acquired may have purchased the stock at a price that fit with Berkshire’s previous purchase prices based on their own internal financial assessments.
It's unclear whether this is for all employees, so I'd take it with a grain of salt. For example, my position is virtual--meaning I can work anywhere within my state and don't have a physical office
I grew up near a statue to the boll weevil. So, exactly. It can happen. Does even. Rubber trees, if I'm not mistaken, are another good example.

Doesn't mean that specialization can't have obvious benefits.
Microsoft looking for ways to rein in Bing AI chatbot after troubling responses
Black holes as the source of dark energy
Agreed. I also see PG 16 is scheduled for release later in the fall. Also, you don't want to put the first 16.0 version on a production system, rather wait until 16.1, 16.2 etc.
esteban of course gave you an excellent response already, but just another bit of like, context here: while it may not be on rustc, the developers want to go beyond the norm here. rustc understands if you write async/await syntax like JavaScript, and then directly proposes that you switch to the Rust syntax:

pub async fn foo() -> i32 {
unimplemented();
}

pub async fn bar() {
let f = await foo();
}

gives

error: incorrect use of `await`
--> src/lib.rs:6:13
|
6 | let f = await foo();
| ^^^^^^^^^ help: `await` is a postfix operation: `foo().await`

It isn't on rustc to understand this either, but it helps a bunch of people, so the team does it anyway.
When you include the £37bn for test and trace, and £££ for vaccine rollout, yes, but that's somewhat disingenuous (and one could argue done by the Government to hoodwink).

The other oft-trotted lie is that the NHS is "awash with middle managers!" when the manager to frontline staff ratio is far lower than in comparable private sector companies.

Plainly speaking, the NHS is short on doctors and nurses, short on beds, and downstream services like care homes are not numerous enough, leading to bed blocking. It's also not had funding to keep up with an ageing population. Far less money is spent on the NHS than on private healthcare + medicare and medicaid in the US, and less per person than comparable EU countries.
I don't think it can be regulated, except to the extent we ensure state governments and oligopolies retain total control.

AI harm goes far beyond nuclear weapons in so much as it's capacity for harm contains everything for which we place under its control. Based on the potential direction advocates are pushing towards, that includes all of society.

It is just that its capacity for harm will be from harm it already learns from humans, or that humans purposely inject into the system for nefarious reasons, or the simple failure of humans to comprehend potential failures of complex systems.

FYI, I've written in far more detail on these topics here - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
Related submission:

From 2 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34837551 97 points, 105 comments

"Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first" (aboutamazon.com)
Or manually repair the borked inode table with adb/fsdb.
If you consider the case where you call a function that throws an exception without you expecting it -- then the control flow will skip your code, and this is indeed not very structured, like a goto, and in fact less local than a goto.
Jassy seems to agree: https://youtube.com/watch?t=2190&v=izbg7CpoSqg
> having a single benefactor for a non-profit is almost a death sentence.

In a way, this reminds me of when Google shut down Reader.

This is also why you should only use standards, platforms and programming languages supported by a multitude of companies and organizations, and avoid those dominated by a single company.
Yes this is the problem exactly. I get totally irrelevant local results mixed in. Lots of Chinese language stuff too. It's like they're instituting the same search-nerfing that Google did years ago now. Honestly for many hobby / interest type searches I find wiby gives the best results now.
According to these documents, Les Wexner only comes up twice, in the context of two surface-level questions that aren't pursued. Interesting. What a legendary cover-up of the human-trafficking industry this case has been.
That's possible, but you could make the argument about any perk. Having free lunches, or paying high salaries puts companies at a disadvantage relative to competitors, all else equal. But if you free people to focus on what matters, and attract more competitive talent, it might balance out. Especially in light of attracting more competitive talent, it remains to be seen how it will balance out.
A VM to run containers is a fairly large part of Docker Desktop...? https://www.docker.com/blog/the-magic-behind-the-scenes-of-d...
Not really. If they had all the leverage pay would be zero and hours would be infinite.
Isn't this due to wasm having to access browser things mostly through browser JS interfaces?

eg Browsers provide JS functions that are intended for JS, which are not directly exposed to Wasm. So when your Wasm wants to access DOM things, access DOM functions, (etc) it needs to go through a JS shim layer instead of being able to call them directly.

If the browser dev's (or some W3C type of body?) introduced those same functions, but had them be directly accessible from wasm, then the JS shims wouldn't be needed.

The JS dev's for each of the browsers though would probably try and stop it ("security risk!" excuses, etc) though, as that would potentially cut into "their territory" and allow other languages to compete. :(
I don't have children and my partner goes in to the office 4 days a week.

I realized I was sitting alone in my apartment for 8 hours a day and that was quite a sad thought I haven't been able to shake.

I started going in to the office with a few of my team members 2 days a week, but the vast majority don't want to. That's fine - I don't want to be the person that makes people do things they don't want to.

But I joined this company during the pandemic when all offices were closed and I have learned so much and made some really important professional connections simply by turning up to the office and meeting people there.

It feels like you can have more 'casual' yet still work-related chats in person that I've never been comfortable having on video calls for some reason.

WFH we are in silos. Maybe that's okay for people who were a part of the organization before WFH.
Companies that want to hire/grow junior talent do so remotely at their peril. Companies that rely on senior talent force in office at their peril.

Therein lies the paradox IMO
The Great Automatic Grammatizator – Road Dahl
Since it seems that "bring employees back to the office" is the next "layoff 5-10% to appease shareholders," what are all these companies going to do that hired people all over the country and had employees leave the area when they switched to fully remote/fully flexible? Are they actually going to ask people to move?

Otherwise if you're granting exceptions for a significant portion of your employees I don't see how the required WFO (work from office) actually gets the benefits you are hoping for.
Related submissions

From an hour ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34837551 (100 comments)

From 30 minutes ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34838828 (54 comments)
I'm currently car shopping and these prices are in line with what I'm seeing. In my particular area, again I cited averages for the nation, it would seem you could drop each price down by $5K. As I have responded to many other comments here that's really not going to make a huge difference in your monthly outlay - especially when you consider I didn't include the costs for things like parking, vehicle registration, and vehicle emissions testing.
I would love to see some empirical evidence surrounding these magically enlightening "water cooler" conversations that managers claim creates value out of thin air, because I am convinced it is just lip service from managers and capital holders to justify their existence
Totally agree! It feels like I got part of my life back <3
The other side is:

- watercooler conversation is not searchable and is ephemeral, so team members that have valuable input may not even know the conversation occurred. Had the conversation taken place on slack or some other chat system, others with valuable input would see it and chime in. And somebody looking for context can search for the conversation years from now.

- the office is full of distractions, from unrelated teams in the same space doing some kind of team building to co-workers phone calls, to random irrelevant conversations between coworkers that I have to tune out. So pretty soon I put on noise-canceling headphones and tune out ALL conversations, which negates most of the purported benefits of in-office conversations.

- Commutes suck
I mentioned FPrime in a previous comment... Looks like that's released under the Apache license: https://github.com/nasa/fprime/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
Don't worry, there is ample evidence all around us that there are plenty - hundreds of thousands at least - of engineers who have zero moral compass.
Definitely won't be going back to a physical office, but I understand some people prefer it and/or struggled with working remotely. A little sad that some companies are moving to a limited-hybrid approach instead of making either option available for whatever works best for each employee.
Kurt Vonnegut is a conditional sub space of the embedding vectors.
RIP Vince
Personally my theory is I think it’s less about leverage and more about real estate. Working fully remote at one of the most heavily invested tech companies, I have witnessed most of my coworkers that haven’t gone fully remote still work from home most of the time. Offices are either overcrowded or empty depending on the day. I think the powers that be want to fully utilize space by forcing folks to either go fully remote or commit to coming in sometimes. This gray area thing is probably a waste.
About time. The amount of value you get from having random conversation with your coworkers is too much to pass up on. Breakdown of communication through text also sucks.
Yeah I mean I guess we can set up an iron-fisted Dept. of Transportation and staff it to do battle with the railroads, shippers, airlines, trucking companies, etc., or the DoT could just own and operate these things directly. Even the most pro-capital ideologue has to admit there doesn't seem to be much point in Norfolk Southern owning and operating the tracks through East Palestine, since there is no competition except via other, inherently pricier, forms of transport (highway or maybe lake freighter). Yes, competition can lower costs, and therefore you may want to provision some goods via regulated markets, but it doesn't make sense for everything. Why not do like we do on highways, with public tracks but private rolling stock? We can require inspections before they switch out of their private yards onto the peoples' tracks and make sure their chemical deathtrains have reasonably working brakes, etc. This isn't radical thinking -- it's literally how it already works for trucks and highways.
Go write a FastAPI based Rest service which talks to PostgreSQL via SQLAlchemy.

Then set up some compete workers that read in jobs from a RabbitMQ queue. Have the Rest service add jobs to the queue and get back the results.

Also you can just read the official Python tutorial for learning stuff like with contextmanager.
For those who are interested, Cloudflare published the WASM port here https://github.com/cloudflare/doom-wasm

It was mentioned on HN a couple of years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27194031
I've worked remotely for...9 years, I think? I do like facetime in the office, but I've found that as long as people are willing to give a little bit extra to the work chat and also make a real effort to put faces to names when you are in person, you can build meaningful connections wherever you are.

Success in remote work is all about proactive communication and good use of tools.
It made them look extremely bureaucratic and slow.

We've been hearing about declassified reports about UFOs for years, indicating ignorance about airspace incursions.

It took a gigantic Chinese balloon slowly traveling uncontested across the country for the government to be sufficiently embarrassed and take action.
ChatGPT quickly and mightily reshaped my brain. In the past, I would have thought to type keywords into the search box, which is what's expected in this case. Instead, my immediate reaction was to ask natural language questions, which this is app is of course not geared for.