skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> S-team listened to employees, watched how our teams performed, talked to leaders at other companies, and got together on several occasions to discuss if and how we should adjust our approach.

> I’m also optimistic that this shift will provide a boost for the thousands of businesses located around our urban headquarter locations

> just popping by a teammate’s office later that day with another thought

I love this, return to the office to get your focused work interrupted, spend your hard-earned money around the headquarters, but most importantly because the "S-team" thinks you should.

Andy Jassy probably never worked as an SDE if he truly thinks any of the above is motivating.

> what would best enable us to make customers’ lives better and easier every day

As someone working for AWS, better uptime, lower costs, and higher feature throughput. How about justifying return to office with hard numbers showing that we've fallen short on those points instead of just handwaving that "it's better".
If your Java app takes half a minute to initialise it's the app's problem, not Java. Modern Java frameworks have moved from a dynamic deployment model to statically compiled and can start in milliseconds.
(for example, see the benchmarks on https://quarkus.io/blog/runtime-performance/)
In the time of Hammurabi there was a thing called the 'Circle of Fire', where drought and bad crops caused famine and riots, caused revolution and refugee migration to the surrounding areas, which were overloaded, had famine and riots and so on until the entire human world was in ruins.
0% of the pie would be left. If I'm that far into a pie I'm not leaving a small sliver.
Reflections on Sydney
The American right is insofar an outlier as it is deeply distrustful of the state. Many conservative movements across the world tend to be more statist than their leftist compatriots. In general, right-left is a pretty insufficient category for classifying politics, something like milieu theory
I loved when dependencies were manual jobs on local machines that some recently fired dev had been running for 3 years but IT had already wiped their machine.

Deserved to be fired for that one but man did it suck to deal with.
UKG announced the same thing a couple days ago. Mandated 3 days per week in office, even for people who had been working remotely for years. Prior agreements with employees are being disregarded. Pretty much all employees are upset with this. From this Amazon announcement it does appear to be a coordinated effort by big tech companies.
It'll be difficult but we will have to stop our rate of population growth at some point, obviously.

That it'll work out badly for me, that's true but overall it's necessary.
Why is every company doing RTO going with a 3 day minimum? Is there zone study I wasn't aware of? It strikes me like a decision made with a gut feeling or bandwagon-hopping rather than actual consideration.

>I’m also optimistic that this shift will provide a boost for the thousands of businesses located around our urban headquarter locations in the Puget Sound, Virginia, Nashville, and the dozens of cities around the world where our employees go to the office. Our communities matter to us, and where we can play a further role in helping them recover from the challenges of the last few years, we’re excited to do so.

I hate this argument. Yes, less money has been flowing into hub cities. But that money hasn't disappeared, it gets redirected into small towns where employees live. Instead of buying gas that's burned to get me to and from work, I can spend the saved cash and time to fix up things around the house. Instead of buying lunch at the closest fast food chain and eating at my desk watching YouTube, I can eat with my wife and son at my town's market.

My life is so much better because of WFH. My neighborhood is benefiting from WFH (now that pandemic restrictions have been lifted). The city's revenue is not an intrinsic right. And honestly, the city where I worked neglected its residents while appealing to commuters. I lived there for a while, and dealt with the massive potholes and limited bus lines. This should've been a wake up call to focus on lifting up the people who live there.

If the companies really care about helping their cities, they can donate the money they've saved on utilities. The cities could raise payroll taxes. The companies could demand I give the money I save on gas to the city. If that last one sounds unreasonable, please understand it's still a better solution than having me spend that money on gas and spend time commuting.
i don't think i've seen that one, though will look for it.
> I suspect once the dust settles we will learn that the vaccine net increased transmission

My opinion is that without a vaccine net transmission would have gone up without a vaccine, because people would have decided to take their chances and stop waiting for a vaccine.

As far as the lady who barged into my house, she knocked on the door without a mask on November 1, 2020, and pushed her way in to give my kids treats. I sometimes used to hang a mask on my front door's knob, but I don't remember if I had one easily accessible.
Fedora 39 Plots Path for Intel Threaded Building Blocks Upgrade
But the post in question was giving an amount in US dollars, and the US isn't such a country.
>Why hasn't FEMA responded with something like; Ohio needs to do x y and z before we can assist?

I assume that just like any other politicized bureaucratic process there's a bunch of ambiguity built in that lets them make subjective judgement however they want.
At my last company we had a Discord that our users would use to give use feedback, bug reports, and ideas. It was amazing. The feedback itself was really helpful in building the product, but you instantly acquire a user's loyalty the first time they report an issue and you fix it that day. Users are really grateful for that.
Company that put children to work in meatpacking plants pays maximum fine
One of the things that really sucks about interviewing at Amazon is that half of the interview is a kool-aid test.

Did you study our leadership principles inside and out and prepare examples from your past work experience that illustrate said principles? No? That's too bad, you're not a culture fit.

I think the people that stick around Amazon for a long time are in denial that it's Office Space come true.
Was it really robust though? Twitter has been plagued by random outages or service degradations since the layoffs. Not all of those can be attributed to changes in code or deployments either.

If you're solely judging that based off complete downtime, I guess, but I think it's misleading to claim there's been no impact from those layoffs that affected service availability.
There are some companies that have never had layoffs and are fully remote. Any thinking person should consider Jack Henry & Associates. 1976 until today.
Is there any statically typed HTML templating language, for non-node languages? Genuine question.
Requires AMO registration
This is a good idea, we will add more a public roadmap to our project soon!
No, I think his death is the issue. As with other magnets for conspiracy theories (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) the issues surrounding his death are enough.

Having said the above though I care little about Epstein or the circumstances regarding his death. (Marvin Minsky, who I used to have an admiration for I have come to loathe from his association with Epstein.)
I assumed they were obvious.
I thought the term is “tribal knowledge” and yes it will cost companies ALOT if they fire incorrect ppl.

Often times you have 2-3 ppl out of 6-8 that carry the cart while 3-4 are juniors or diversity hires.

Firing those 3 will have devastating consequences, firing the other 4 wont make a dent.

Firing based on excel is the most stupid thing you can do as a manager.
I think so, yes. struct io_uring_buf_ring is a union that includes a bufs member:

struct io_uring_buf bufs[0];
It's not about being pedantic, if they got high school math wrong what else did they get wrong
Surely some of her team is in Seattle, no? That in of itself can be valuable
you should put a price comparison for stadia vs. google vs. mapbox
Can you give more details. What position? Examples of stingy benefits? I've considered joining Amazon as an experienced SWE to get experience working on apps with higher scaling needs. I'm thinking it could be worth putting up with some of the downsides I've heard about for awhile just to get this experience and move on.
This isn't container-related like the article, but I recently came upon a specialized Linux in the wild. I bought a compact flash card off Amazon for to use as a drive in a Tandy 1000. I went to partition it and to my surprise it had a few partitions. One was an ext2 one that resembled some sort of root directory. Looking through the files, it appeared it was for a distro called AST Linux that was originally designed to run off compact flash and aimed at managing networked telephones. It also had firmware images for a Cisco SPA232D VOIP Adapter.

https://www.astlinux-project.org/about.html
Portugal Says No More Golden Visas and No More Airbnbs
Selling the stock means capital gains tax. In addition to buying the business presumably for its own intrinsic reasons Berkshire may want to increase its position in Apple with a long term price target of say, idk, $500/share within 10 years (just making something up here) and getting the stock at $50/share versus $150 on the open market may have made sense to them.
> The best ideas . . . happen[] at the office.

I believe this is empirically false. Einstein, Newton, Curie, and most of the greatest scientific minds in human history worked alone. The same is true for literature, whether it's Chaucer in lockdown during an epidemic, or Shelley in a summer retreat, or Solzhenitsyn writing away in a remote cabin in Vermont. Teams are great at work, but I don't think they're great at the deep thought that results in new ideas, especially when surrounded by chit chat and buzzing overhead lighting.

> The best . . . collaboration happens at the office.

This is more plausible, but I'm still not convinced. In-person collaboration tends to be lazy and involves all kinds of weird social dynamics getting in the way of collaboration. Telework requires a bit more thought on the front-end, leading to overall higher quality of collaboration. Performative intelligence-signalling [what happens at most in-person meetings] doesn't contribute to collaboration. Putting real thought into solving a group task, and communicating that clearly in writing to your team, does.

"Doing great work generally requires fairly large chunks of time alone." -Paul Graham

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1603172209308082184
From the deployment stage of the pipeline to live traffic hitting the new code, probably a couple of minutes. Limited by image pulls, application startup time and K8s rollout strategy.
Most arguments missing the nasty side of companies. Speaking from an execution consultant pov: Most companies still rely on the easiest form of getting something done, which is management telling people what to do. Current state of management is generally if they can't appear to tell people what to do, their ability to execute anything is greatly impaired, then their jobs are threatened.

So where does most organizational leadership come from? Paying their dues as management in a prior life. So they're inculcated with the same mental model. Difference between a leader and a manager is, managers tell people what to do, while leadership like to tell their reports what they should have done.

Anyway all these components feed the whole back to work thing. Managers keep their jobs by telling people what to do, and the easiest way to do that is via the official office environment. It's also the most expensive and inefficient way to get anything done, leading to most corporations having very mediocre delivery systems. That's my take after consulting with numerous F500s.

Sure, there are exceptions; work dependent on equipment that isn't practical for remote applications, heavy experimentation with specific environment requirements, etc. But if your office life is centered around a laptop, then use the "laptop" as intended.

So what's far more strategic is moving from managing people to managing the flow of value. Manager mind blown. The latter doesn't have the same dependency on having people come into the office, but it's a much more sophisticated approach requiring at least some interest in business systems engineering, which is more complicated. But the approach is far more efficient, cost-effective, and requires far less energy usage. Manager refrain: "Can't I just go back to telling people what to do, in the office?"
Have you looked into isometric weight training? Heavier weight, lower reps, static holds for longer duration. Typically used in physio for rehabilitation but can also work as exercises on their own, especially when you get older and have joint issues.
So which manufacturers and charging networks are they? All the owners of EVs that I know all bemoan the lack of any standardization. The only actual standard seems likely to be pushed through seems to be that in Germany (and I think Norway) all chargers will soon be required to accept card payments. Not sure how this will work with the low power AC chargers that already exist and that use NFC/RFID tags or a phone app, perhaps AC chargers will not have to follow that standard.

And it will, presumably, require Tesla to retrofit some kind of user interface to the charging stall. That seems a bit stupid when every car that can connect has a screen that could easily do the job.

And lastly, did this open system exist when Tesla started building their charging network?
Maybe they hired some more people between the two layoffs.
I'm not sure what it's like at Amazon, but I expect they're in a similar situation as the place I currently work, which is that probably a third of the talent has simply moved away and doesn't even have the option of coming to an office anymore. Are they going to tell Jane the Star Dev that she needs to sell her house and move back into the city or else she's fired? If anything they're probably going to have to wait a few years and let natural attrition sort it out.
We shouldn't turn the trend around though. Most of our environmental problems including most likely this one, are caused by our overpopulation and increased welfare. We just need too many resources, this can't continue.

So if people organically decide (or due to this sperm count thing are forced) to have fewer kids, this is really a brilliant thing for the planet.
Often the grumpy people are that way because they're lives are filled with fixing important problems that no one else can be bothered to do.
It really is, but it’s also a little crazy that a company could lose 50% of its staff and keep working.
> this was the ONLY decent option I found

Can SketchUp do any of this?
Maybe we need a new rule, like the one about medical advancements... in mice.

> nearly monopolizes the world’s banana groves and banana trade... in USA and Western Europe
The founders never even intended that the majority be able to vote.

Really, their core quibble with the Crown, and the sticking point that prevented any peaceful solution (because compromise would have seriously threatened the political power of the nobility in Great Britain), was that they wanted rich people to have the franchise and to be able to hold high-level offices, not just aristocrats.
He's a true VR believer. I think it pained him to watch it go less well than it could.
https://archive.ph/ApIYS
Some quotes from the article that stand out.

Excerpt1:

> “It’s difficult for us to justify operating in a city where we don’t make money,” Maggie Hoffman, Bird’s vice president of city growth and strategy, told me, adding San Francisco’s fines are five to six times higher than in any other city in which Bird operates. “San Francisco has the most onerous regulations and is the most difficult to operate in of the hundreds of markets we operate in globally.”

Excerpt2:

> Hoffman cited cities in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Middle East that are far easier to work with and more encouraging of scooter companies and business in general.

>

> “San Francisco,” she added, “is very much the anomaly.”

Excerpt3:

> The city’s treatment of scooters compared to far more dangerous and obstructive cars is particularly stark.

>

> Take wrongly parking a scooter versus a car. Leaving a scooter on its side or not properly locked to a bike rack can cost the company that owns it $150, a fine that can double if it’s not moved in two hours. Even in the middle of the night.

>

> Parking a car across a sidewalk, blocking passersby far more than a scooter, risks just a one-time $108 fine. In fact, parking a car in a fire lane, a crosswalk or an intersection won’t cost as much as badly parking a scooter.

Excerpt4:

> “It was hard to tell whether the city was really serious about Vision Zero and about reducing car usage when there were so many obstacles to car alternatives like ours,” he said.
You use the word most. But reality is most adults have cars in all those countries. Cars are expensive, if they didn't need one they wouldn't have one.

These include countries with very good public transport. Japan, Switzerland etc.

You are very much in the minority.
I know it likely depends on the company, but in general, does severance usually have a stipulation that if the company needs something from you in the next few months, you have to cooperate? If not, I'd either try to extract a lot of money to consult or depending on my personal situation tell them I'm not interested in helping; perhaps not so politely.
Not getting laid off, being handed someone else’s job on top of yours, and being told “just be glad you’re still here!” is terrible.

Sometimes getting laid off from a company that’s floundering (with personal finances in order enough to be able to handle it) can be a blessing.
Remote working makes it easier for Seniors to avoid Juniors, whereas in the office it would reflect poorly on the Senior if they just pretended the Junior didn't exist while in the physical presence of the rest of the team.

Note that this only applies to bad Seniors who don't believe in mentoring, and there are ways to mitigate this while maintaining remote working for all.
But his entire point is that's not what happened at the big company he worked at.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34838551, which was posted a bit later but has a more substantive article.
Bing chat is now being filtered when talking on a personal level
They fired the one guy who does nightly reboots nobody knows about but are critical for freeing resources nobody else bothered to figure out how to.
Something something ancient Chinese parable the only person not impressed by the General/Emperor/Mystic Sage is his wife.
Anyone want to recommend their favorite alternative web hosts?

I've tried A2 and NameHero and both were very solid along with fast/great support.

Anything else I should look into?
The peril is that you're missing out on opportunities and education that you don't even know about, because it happens when people can spontaneously interact in the same time and place. I say this as someone who strongly preferred to work from home as a junior, and now sees that I was misguided. Looking back over my career so far, the best stuff has happened when I was in the office.

A good portion of what happens in a high-performing office is spontaneous, and simply cannot be reproduced via asynchronous tools, even now. A lot of folks will tell you that this isn't true and that if we just somehow changed human nature and made everyone write every decision down (aka "a remote-first culture") there's no net loss, or mischaracterize in-office work as useless meetings or micromanagement or socializing (see sibling comment), but this is largely motivated reasoning. While there can be value in working that way, it's slower and less efficient -- a spontaneous 5-minute conversation will routinely save hours of writing and reading (which lots of folks won't do anyway).

There's always percentage of people who strongly prefer to just go into a silo and code (and those people are over-represented amongst junior engineers; and junior engineers are over-represented on HN), and there's definitely a lot of bad/pathological office environments, but the reality of software is that it's a team sport. Communication is the O(n^2) problem, and in-office communication is just more efficient, even if it leads to a reduction in velocity for any particular person.

One has to be nuanced -- everyone needs heads-down time, and that time can largely be done from anywhere -- but most teams benefit from spontaneous conversation, and most junior people benefit from this in ways that they don't realize.

This is true even for senior people: at this phase in my career I can go into a cave and be very individually productive, but that's not really my job now. Literally every time I'm in the office something happens where I'm able to catch or head off an inefficiency or mistake, or learn about some project that helps my own work. This is immensely valuable.
> If you wouldn't buy a stock at the current price, why wouldn't you sell the stock at the current price?

Taxes, portfolio position, longer-term price horizons, etc. Many business factors could potentially be at play. Why pay $150/share on the open market today for something you want to hold if you can get it for much cheaper?

The fact that they added to that position though demonstrates that the considerations are not just today's price.
This is pretty neat
https://home.by.me/en/
You've fallen for recency bias. Just because you saw the article in the New York Times today, does not mean I read the same article and based my argument on that. I'm not sure if you're challenging the New York Times article which I am not referencing, or the general belief that black women die more often in childbirth (which has been well established and reported for many, many years -- certainly not a new invention of the New York Times)?
There has been a major uptick in porn consumption over the past 29 years. Perhaps pulling on them all the time makes them stretch, ever so slowly.
Yes. We should, and we're literally working on it right now!
Is "church support" still a thing? It's not here in Europe. Perhaps in rural USA?

However it's ok, a lot of people are going to lose their jobs due to automation anyway, leaving more people free for healthcare. It will not be easy but we'll cope. And we have to in order not to burn up this planet.
It's built in to passforios

https://github.com/mssun/passforios
We've merged that thread hither. Thanks!
You and I know that. The average Mac buyer however is not going to System Preferences > Display and then setting the UI scaling manually.

They buy devices on the basis of how it looks at the Apple Store, and the display models show them at the default scaling.
We've merged them hither. Thanks!
I don't know that's true, and he may not have even blathered his name out there.

I know that I got some really responsive work from startups we purchased from, and it was very nice, and we were just one of their customers.

Sadly, once they pivot away from whatever it was then it all goes away.
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If I see a link for a corporate site whose domain is not {company-name-or-abbreviation}.com I assume it's phishing spam.
Three is more information here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-explains-why-tu...
You have to jump through several hoops, but it is worth it. https://gxvwb.dev/how-to-install-firefox-add-ons-on-android/
If a business does customised pricing, it is so they can maximise revenue. If you’re selling to a bank, you can charge more than what you would to a bootstrapped startup…