skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Returning money to investors is great, whether it’s buybacks or dividends. It’s the core purpose of a company. The primary alternative is growing the bigcorps ever bigger, more powerful, and dangerous. Ever-expanding bloated conglomerates.

The good argument against buybacks is that companies tend to do it when the stock is high, and that’s bad for the shareholders.
I've already shared my negative Amazon experience on HN a couple of times, so I wasn't going to comment on this article, but this line caught my eye:

"Amazon’s positions on diversity and inclusion..."

As someone with ASD who worked at Amazon for over two years, I can say that Amazon's stated positions on diversity and inclusion are absolute bullshit. My last manager violated my reasonable accommodations in every conceivable way for over a year and HR did NOTHING about it. In fact, they somehow warped the universe by doing less than nothing.

I now work at another FAANG company and the difference is night and day. My current manager is actually a manager with real management skills and the company treats me exceptionally well. If I were an engineer looking for a big-tech job, I'd skip that second A in FAANG and save myself a whole lot of misery and frustration.
It's been good knowing you, Nintendo. I can see what Microsoft gets out of this, but I don't think it's at all to your advantage long-term. Short term it may be nice (get access to Microsoft's catalog) but long term, it'll bring down your revenue because gamers will spend less (buying more xbox games and streaming them) and publishers will not port to Nintendo; they'll just publish on Xbox/Windows instead of porting.
That's not precisely true. What you do is find the right publication for what you want to write. There's a HUGE variety to choose from. The odds are that there's one somewhere who is on the same page as you.

But it is also true that it's a business, and if you want to be published (and don't want to self-publish), then you'll have to do business-related work in addition to creative work. Or, if you're lucky or successful, have a literary agent who will do it for you (for a price).
> A rational AMC shareholder, pre-APEs, probably should have wanted to authorize more shares, even if the shareholders did not bother to vote to make that happen.

There's the rub. Retail AMC investors were not rational because they believed in a conspiracy theory that there were shorts who could not deliver. They believed that if they held out long enough, they would all get filthy rich. If they voted, they would have voted against more shares, which is why they're suing. They were on the buy side that would enrich the existing shareholders at the buyers' expense.
It is an internal app, otherwise I would go for web-assembly with an API.
I'm curious what Chromium based browser HN users would recommend for web development.

I stopped using Brave since they added a bunch of crypto garbage. Chrome and Edge both have telemetry and Google/Microsoft account sign in nagging.

Currently using Firefox. Love Orion as well on my phone but the Webkit Devtools make it unusable for development.
> Tech workers have better pay and benefits than almost anyone else, and we should not be whiny about this. Most workers in other fields had to return to the office too.

So, if it’s bad for some, let’s make it bad for everyone? What kind of reasoning is that? FFS, we should be making progress, not the opposite!
I was wondering which way this would go when I saw the title. Seemed equally possible it was due to people turning in AI generated articles as it was that the publisher decided it didn't need submissions anymore as it would use an AI to generate the articles. My guess is that we'll see more of both.
A lot of comments are indicating you're alone on this, but I'm finding the contrary. Our team doubled in size in the last 6 months or so with an office mandate (to almost 20 now). With aggressive hiring goals, we discussed whether we might have to transition to a remote company to satisfy market expectations, but found that as long as we're completely transparent in the initial conversation, there are people who are all-in on RTO.

One of our recent senior hires specifically wanted an in-office role and a lot of our junior engineers are hungry to learn from the seniors.

What I suspect is there will be a divide in the coming years and as long as companies are open about who they are, people can make the choice of where they want to work.
The main post[0] you go on about in there is a badly formatted question: It's not self-contained, and relies entirely on external links. It doesn't surprise me it got close votes.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75361518/accessing-an-io...
+1 on the site being lower value than it could be for repeat founders with previous successes, but who still want to build things with other people with extensive experience and a track record.

You could argue that if you're in that situation you should be relying on existing networks to propel you into your next thing, but sometimes you want a new start or things just aren't aligning time-wise with your former allies.

The majority of folks on the site have never done a startup before and are entirely unproven in a startup context, or have a couple of short stints that they unfortunately didn't learn much from because the thing never gained any traction, so they did "1 year experience 3 times over". Doesn't mean they're not potentially great startup material, it's pretty hard to get something to take off. But, it's still a pretty risky bet for someone who wants to derisk partners a tad more.
Just type it in Google, and after that reread my comment. We agree.
I strongly disagree that companies mandating RTO are doing so to improve their bottom line - it seems like it's largely done out of a sense of tradition, to placate management's anxieties, or to justify sunk costs in office real estate. Remote work has worked fantastically for my company, and my observation in working as both a manager and an IC since moving to remote is that both I and other employees are in general both more productive and happier. My company has set the remote vs. hybrid vs. in-person decision to be on the department level, and in general it seems like the departments mandating fully in-person have elderly, out-of-touch management who rarely come into the office themselves.

Employees are justified in complaining about mandatory RTO - it presents a significant impediment to work-life balance and demands extra time, money, and energy from employees while giving almost nothing of value in return and providing questionable value to the company.
I'd love to see a web standard for small donations via the browser. Whenever I see an article that helped me with a problem or was entertaining to read, I'd like to donate a small amount for it.

At the moment I only have the following options:

- clicking on ads on that page, to hopefully intirectly generate income for the author (but more likely will cause some profiling AI to wreak havoc on my reputation)

- having a paid account upfront, which is usually connected with the entire site and not this specific article

- create accounts for numerous payment and donation systems (patreon, paypal, buymeacoffee, ...)

- manually reach out to the author and ask them for their bank connection.

For me the perfect solution would be a browser-plugin, where I click on "Donate for this Article", enter an amount and maybe an optional comment and click "ok".
Your balloons flew west..?
If people want congressional term limits, they'll vote in representatives that promise to enact them. People don't want those term limits. They want to pick who they elect to congress for their districts, and they don't care what you think, and the Constitution was written to favor them, not you.

I'd prefer term limits too, but I don't think I can high-horse it.

Given the prevailing sentiment on HN, we should all be glad there's never been a national referendum on NSA surveillance. From local politics experience: people are generally pretty sanguine about surveillance!
The cost to refute BS has always been an order of magnitude greater than the cost to create it. ChatGPT just made the cost to create "quality" bs an order of magnitude lower.
Word. The more I explore the the world of occult practices throughout history the more I am convinced that it is always an excercise in self destruction.

Our intentions, understanding, morality, sense of self, sense of direction, is so frail. A man who believes he can manufacture these things for himself (which is, in my opinion, wfundamentally what occultists are doing) is doomed to spiritual sufferring.
Problem is loyal != performant. The most valuable engineers want it all, so they will probably leave because they can.
As a parent who also enjoy lunch with co-workers and in person time, I'm a big fan of hybrid going to work a couple times a week. I'm also the only parent that goes in regularly.

I'm in a small "remote-first" company where there's only a handful of other engineers in the area, most of us used to work in in-person offices. Even just a handful of us is enough critical mass to have a good conversation and even collaborating on a few problems together that would otherwise require more effort to schedule and work through.
> All this behavior has reeked of immense entitlement

> Employees should feel like the relationship between them and their employer is mutually beneficial, if that's no longer the case, pursue external opportunities.

I'm not following between the two. If the relation is supposed to be mutually beneficial, shouldn't the employee feel entitled to complain and express their grievances?

If your point is they should leave instead of complaining, look at it from the other side: should companies just fire with severance employee that don't feel happy returning to office ?

If that whining and moaning doesn't represent enough of an issue for the companies to act on it, why would you push individual employees you take radical action instead ?
Similar situation here, thanks for sharing your journey this last time around, I'll have to reuse some of those ideas myself.
That's borderline abusive.
I remember an article a while ago where Amazon execs were expressing concern about blowing through all of the available warehouse talent around their large warehouses because they hired and fired so quickly.
IME, I indeed sometimes reach step5 (other times SO answers are okish) but if I do reach step5, I add a step6 for good measure that consists of adding my own answer. It's how I gained a lot of reputation in SO, not by marking questions as duplicate.
> We are incredibly lucky we are in a field that has a high demand for strong engineers, so you should be able to find what you are looking for.

And we should play our cards well while we have some leverage.
Efforts to end-to-end encrypt e-mail have been disastrous, coming down to a combination of human factors and difficulty of coordination - but mostly, people want to be able to read their mail. Sometimes they want to read it from public terminals. Sometimes they lose their phone and still need it to be accessible. Often, e-mails are required to be unencrypted by the mail server for compliance purposes - Nearly all financial data has to be archived, and that's often the crown jewels you're trying to encrypt, anyway.

I don't know of a good oral history of PGP, but I suspect if you find one, it'll have the answers that you're looking for.
That’s not so bad.

The big problem is the people who don’t care and are just generating and submitting 1000 stories in the hopes one makes $10 because it’s basically free to them.

They only care it gets accepted. Outside of that they don’t care one bit what the story is about or how good it is.
Some additional info at https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-teams-up-with-nv...
I take you have never handled acrylic esters - the stuff smells distressing, it's likely a sensitizer, and from its reactivity it just can't be good for you.
Whether or not something is 'work' has no bearing on whether or not it's bullshit. I am in perfect agreement that one hour of useful work requires many hours of equally useful thought-work.
Some people might actually like working for its own sake, just as some truly prefer going into the office despite the tradeoffs.

I am not one of those people. lol

Not that I don't have a constant drive to do something, of course. I just wouldn't engage in surrogate work in order to feel like I'm worth something.
there will never be a system with "universal well-being" and this kind of thinking is religiously delusional. the world is made up of many zero-sum systems and resources. someone always has to win, and comparative advantage will always lead to defection.
This is where I want to make an omniscient bot that follows you around and gives you a severe electric shock every time you use potentially copyrighting material snippets (I'll be nice and give you a 3 second window to declare fair use).

I will be happy the day copyright is dead and buried under a mountain sized gravestone. As much as you think it protects the small guy, it enabled the rich to buy up portfolios and enslave them to constant payments and holding back the progression of society.
Nope, the comment you're replying to is correct. Look up the Berne Convention.

If your book was actually from the 90s, then it was out of date, as the US adopted the new copyright rules in 1989.
"just to sit in a stuffy room and zoom" this is exactly it; for a few months prior to quitting Google at the end of 2021 I made an effort to go into the office because my morale (and productivity) at home had sunk to desperate levels. I wanted RTO to be the solution for that, but when I got into the office it was just... nobody else there, or at least not reliably so, and needed to VC with everyone anyways.

And then that got piled in with commute and parking woes, which got worse ever year... why even bother? I quit, instead. Have a fully remote gig now, and while I miss in-person work - - and the Google $$ I was getting -- I don't miss spending 2 hours of my life driving.

I'm sure things have improved some with more people returning to office, but the dynamic is forever changed as a result of COVID. There's a whole generation of hires who started during remote work.

I don't like WFH, but I dislike commuting to torture-zone deadsville even more.
Saving the VM state is not hard at all, the feature already exists (v8 snapshot) and is used in Chrome and Node.js to initialize the JS standard library.

The problem is native handles. The DOM is easy to restore, but how do you restore a WebSocket connection? An IndexedDB transaction? A `Blob`, a stream, or a WebAssembly module that JavaScript assumes to be initiated?

There are solutions to each one of these, but there are still a lot of remaining pieces that are stateful and not easy to restore or gracefully close. It's possible, but it requires a lot of work.
From his Wikipedia page:

> He lived in Belgrade with Serbian author and film-maker Jasmina Tešanović for several years, and married her in 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling
really? There are only multinational corporations and early stage startups?

There are multitudes of single office corps and even more where the predominant collaboration is with people located in the same office.
> Why is it not feasible to store and later rebuild the page DOM and view state?

For the purposes of saving memory, which is what tab discarding is intended for, where should it be stored?

* In RAM? It is already there and that is the problem. Maybe you could compress it when inactive, but that won't be effective for pages with much image or other media data.

* To disk? At that point you might as well leave it in RAM but inactive and let the OS page it out as needed. Maybe marking it as inactive internally (so your own garbage collection sweeps don't make the OS think the data is active) and to the OS (assuming there is a concept of this-is-low-priority-so-page-it-out-before-other-stuff at that level).

For storage, save-entire-page-to-disk which has existed in most browsers since early versions does most of the job well enough, with opening the stored result in the same browser being the rehydration method, that it might not be worth creating and maintaining something more complex for the remaining part of the job to cover all the cases that this doesn't. Though the balance may have changed, as even simple pages are often effectively SPAs these days there may be more edge cases that “save all” doesn't work with then cases where it is fine.

> I'd like to understand why this functionality isn't provided with every tier-1 browser.

Lack of demand. While it would be very useful for a minority of users, there aren't enough of them for the feature to affect market share, so the big browsers aren't going to bother. It is the sort of thing niche browsers/add-ons might have more interest in.
It’s not about being mathematically perfect about performance. In any given team, area, organization one can easily point out who are the good ones.
I was thinking lifetime costs. Every future case of cancer is going to be looked at and traced back, whether it's known to be directly attributable to the event or not. This is just a huge (un)natural experiment.
>I posted some comment on a covid related sub about a year ago and got instantly banned from 50+ subreddits

Trust me, you aren't missing out on anything by not being able to post on r/WhitePeopleTwitter, r/Chonkers, or r/FunkoPops
1.5, but probably over a million of those are FC workers who are not on slack cuz they're running around the warehouse.

There are just over 400,000 office employees WW

So it's closer to 3.5%, and the announcement was only posted Friday morning before a long weekend so that's likely to grow.
Yes! YC calls them "scenesters", but the reality is that often you don't know if you're cut out for the gig until you actually do it, so lots of people have to experience it first-hand to realize they don't actually want the job.
That "Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion" is discriminating against AIs. This must stop!

They seem to be overstaffed, if it took four people and an AI to write the memo.
That's only the rendering engine, Chrome and Edge would still have all their tracking, marketing, default search built into their browsers on iOS.
Seems like having revulsion for all earthly things can backfire in unpredictable ways. I have a suspicion that the early Buddhist may have been onto something, but something vital was lost a long time ago.
Marketing is a contributor to ruining things, but so is "shitty little edgelords who just want to start trouble, break things, troll people, 'shitpost', or some combination of the above."

And that's before you even get to the semi-related issue of "Nazis and other scum will use any slightly-popular medium without iron-clad moderation to spread their filth."
It depends. There are some people who bring a lot of value by just being there to answer the occasional questions. When I'm oncall and I know that some colleagues are on vacation, I'm definitely more tense. In an ideal world, knowledge would be spread within the team, but with turnover it's hard to reach and maintain that state.
I read somewhere that the 9-5 workweek was first implemented before the emancipation of women. whether it’s true or not I do not know, but it’s an interesting artifact to consider
Great tech and interesting design but the really nice thing would be if it was something we could buy today.
Isn’t Brave doing this?
Are any of them any good? Would someone please post a few good ones?
Depends on what youre buying, and how raging of an alcoholic you are.

I probably spend around 100 a month and I would be clinically considered an alcoholic.
How many times has a game of basketball been thwarted by a ball that was too flat to bounce? An air pump with a properly sized needle isn’t something most people carry around with them all the time

I'm racking my brain trying to think of one. Organized games always have the pump and extra balls laying around. Every pick up game I've played involved a few people who happened to bring a ball, and a pump wasn't far away (car trunk, or house in the neighborhood), even if no one had one on them.

I'm all for new tech for its own sake, but if you're going to try to convince me this is going to be useful, give me some real reasons why this is better than a regular ball. Is it cheaper? Will it last longer either outdoors or indoors? Is it better for the environment?
In the US, putting the work in a tangible medium causes it to be fully protected. No "Copyright" required. [1]

And, in addition to circle-c, any of these are valid substitutes in the US for the symbol, according to [2] 2204.4(A):

• The letter c with a parenthesis over the top.

• The letter c with a parenthesis under the bottom.

• (c

• c)

• (c)

• The letter c with an unenclosed circle around it.

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#mywork

[2] https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/
Isn’t most of FANG/MAMMAA like like that?
According to the article, it was a 2.5 hour hearing and we have just a few quotes chosen by the reporter/editor. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they are a good representation.

I read the lawsuit (it's on the Supreme Court website). A lot of those questions relate to arguments being made by the plaintiff about how to let them win without destroying Section 230 entirely.

So, this is my prediction: they will "win" because the Supreme Court is going to "clarify" the definition of terms in Section 230. It will not have much of any impact on sites like HN or Reddit, but Google/MS will have some real issues unless... They go all-in on LLMs. But they had better get them right, because those things have zero protection. Oh, and FB/Twitter are toast.

Get ready, things will be interesting...
Moving away from consumption based growth and imposing ideologies (inc. religious) could stop the need to conquer and expand.

If it is possible at all is anyone's guess.

It would take the one in power to lead the change (US), but having seen what they have been up to it is quite hard.

The alternative is the rise of a new power that is willing to lead a change.
Tang is fake, but it still tastes good.
This is so not a Raphael it is painful. Raphael was particularly known for his convincingly realistic babies (and for breaking with the tradition of making the child Christ look like a tiny, dignified adult). These babies look nothing like Raphael's babies in any of his many Madonnas, and are expressly tiny dignified adults.
It's many aspects.

More employees in one location, more political power, bigger tax breaks can finance billion dollar campuses.

People buy these companies because of hype and asset vs profits. Real estate is a part of their assets and it increases their balance sheets

Look at Google making 7 billion dollar investment in 2021. They need to make that payoff.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.architecturaldigest.com/sto...
It's the one thing I miss most from working for Dutch companies: being able to take a 20% pay cut and work 20% less.

Theoretically, that should be a great deal for my employer: the extra rest, and just the way productive work is usually spread out across the week, means that my productivity definitely was not down 20% compared to now, so I was cheaper per hour.

Yet even that culturally seems to be a hard sell in a majority-North American org, let alone keeping pay the same. Shame.
It's all different now that Satya is in charge. /s
Old discussion forums collect spam.

Back when I was interested in "aggressive content syndication" I would analyze what competitors did to get top rankings and I'd often find that there was a newspaper in a small town in Pennsylvania that had nobody minding the store and somebody had filled up all the comments with drivel about where to buy World of Warcraft gold.