skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the take I'm most inclined to believe is that RTO policies are a soft layoff first and foremost.
No offense at the 'big' thing here, I'm 190cm. But amusingly, I have grey hair, which means I am, by the laws of the universe, no longer allowed to wear jeans.

I think looser pants are why ginormous phones fit, although I am sure upthread's comment about many pants being tailored differently now, is probably true too.

My own usage case is, as with anyone, unique. The real problem is, singular thought in design.

Look at chrome, and how google removed pinch zoom and reflow, to "force" websites to update for mobile.

Thanks google, clearly you could care less about older eyes. About older websites.
So? V8 is written in C++ and yet the JS performance is nowhere near as close to that.
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2016/demo/families/cps-20...

"Table AVG1. Average Number Of People Per Household, By Race And Hispanic Origin, Marital Status, Age, And Education Of Householder: 2016"

Looks like 2.50 for white- and black-led households and doesn't change enough to account for the difference any way you slice it. Of course, that doesn't say anything about composition, especially with younger families now that the demographic effects of America's long history of segregation and ongoing redlining are just barely starting to fade. Where did you get your stat from?
You can submit your site to Google and they will index it. If your content is good, you can rank highly - even if nobody links to you! Even if you don't pay Google a dime.

Instagram doesn't allow links out, so you can not promote or sell your content - only if you pay them through their spy/ad service.
Is this phenomenon also happening in the markets were Google is not dominant? Like Yandex, Baidu or Naver?
Yup. Great in kitchens. Sets timers and gives you measurement conversions too when your hands are sticky.
700 people in a company of 1.5 million. Do you think management is doing RTO because of that?
Well, to answer this question if someone comes looking: there's no official aarch64 widevine release, but chromeos just started shipping a 64bit arm version of widevine in the last month. But that version is incompatible with the 16k page size kernel that asahi ships with. There was a report in the asahi irc channel that a manually patched libwidevinecdm.so works.
They prioritize industrial and embedded applications like this for sales, so it's not as impossible to get a board for projects like these.
"doing so would be a complete waste of everyone’s time"

I simply don't believe this. Playing violin is virtuous even if you aren't a virtuoso and knowing about calculus is virtuous even if you're a Michelin starred chef. Its certainly true that the situation you describes may not be an _efficient_ distribution of resources if all you care about is productivity, but there are other ways to think.
And if you manage to refute all of their bullshit all that usually happens is that they get really angry and you get fired for not being a teamplayer.

The winning move is to make friends with leaders beforehand so that nobody dares refute your bullshit, or if you didn't do that then don't play the game.
> I imagine Google is in an awkward spot because, since ads is their bread and butter, they can't meaningfully penalize these websites without eating into their own bottom line. Many of the most intrusive ads are google ads.

The fun thing is that NOT fixing this will kill them long term as well - they're like meth heads seeing how the drug is destroying their body and the short-term optimizing managers, C-suites and, in the end, stock market cannot make a decision to make a bit less money to clean themselves up and wean off the drug that's killing them. Easier to fire people isn't it?
I like Rust but I’m constantly surprised by how hard simple math involving subtraction and or division is, and how there’s little to no advice in the docs about best practices. The math code ends up being littered with `as another-number-type` and the builtin operators are almost never what you need (instead I need to use saturating_ methods etc.). I want my code to handle overflows and precision errors, but I would like to spend less time figuring out how to do it.
My 200+ fps quake 2 config sure did. If you weren't running 200+ fps for online quake 2 you were in for a bad time.

Between a Celeron 333A running at 550MHz and a dual voodoo2 you could drive games at pretty ridiculous frame rates.
It's not about location, it's about proximity of collaboration.

WfH group wants to collaborate remotely, digitally.
In-office group wants to collaborate locally, in person.

That is the difference.

WfH group takes this opportunity away from in-office group; like in-office group takes the opportunity away from WfH.

Can't have both. That's why the discussion is hard.
I updated the link to point to the docs, which are more informative. As far as I understand, flambda is an intermediate representation of OCaml which allows for a number of optimisations and better inlining. You can check if you already have flambda enabled by runnning "ocamlopt -config | grep flambda".

If you're using opam then you can test flambda out by creating a new switch

opam switch create ocaml-flambda ocaml-variants.4.14.1+options ocaml-option-flambda

and then running "opam switch set ocaml-flambda". (You can replace 4.14.1 with your preferred version above.)
> I don't know if it's Google that is dying.

I tried to use Google to see what would be good brand to replace a decade old small electrical appliance that failed a couple of months ago. Absolutely none of the results were helpful until I tried the "append Reddit to the search terms" trick.

Immediately, I found a link someone had shared to a consumer reports style review of different brands at different price points.

The content I wanted was out there, but Google is now optimized for ad revenue, not finding the content I asked for.
My strong anecdotal evidence based belief here is that remote work requires more management effort to coordinate and that's the actual cause of the friction.

There's a greater need to schedule, document (generally more writing things down), and coordinate when working in a team with remote culture. (Either that, or you have a team with really strong social capital and everyone knows what needs to be done with little coordination overhead)

Now management type have more work on their hands to keep everything coordinated and that's why you have this showdown.
I love our Alexa, but she's progressively getting worse. She's really only good at setting timers and reminders and even then it's hit and miss if I ask her about my next reminder. Asking her a question is no bueno... I have to pull out my phone and google it 9 times out of 10.
It speaks volumes that joining "pro-remote" feels risky but joining "pro-office" does not. Feels like an old-fashioned anxiety at this point.
I don’t know—this kind of deception is how the industry attracts more regulation. Delete needs to go back to meaning delete, and the user should be in actual control.
There’s an interesting circularity to real estate values in downtown Seattle since Amazon owns so many offices there. GREF wields an outsize power inside Amazon so methinks they’re advocating for hard RTO it to stop cratering the value of all their assets.
Purely anecdotal on my part, but I’ve noticed that while many people are able to effectively work from home and be as productive as they would be in the office, there are many employees who are terrible at working from home.
Someone "unqualified" may have a viewpoint that the "experts" have not considered or are unwilling to state publicly for various reasons. Of course what value you can derive from such an article depends on the value of "unqualified" here for which we only have gp's labels in this example. The only other mentioned difference is the format - a blog "rant" vs. something published in an established publication and I don't think that is enough to go on to discard the former.

> “experts” are hardly ever a homogenuous crowd

Except when they are. The community of so-called experts discarding what eventually turned out to be the truth because it goes against their thinking is hardly unheard of.
My dishwasher manual specifically tells me not to pre-rinse.
That, emoticons and meme insertions ala Teams. That is how you know thing is going downhill.
Thanks for the explanation about the horizontal bars! I mistakenly thought that the brighter spot on the ~1000 days later picture was the supernova and that it was mislabeled.
The pro-office people don't just want to be in office. They are unhappy unless everyone is in office.
I see, I thought there were tens of different models with different features/interfaces/settings/whatever.

At least then Bosch is coherent.
I really like this point, that fast thinking is shallow. I think there should be more respect for having to think deeply about things and process before coming to conclusions. I think that is more of a sign of intelligence than just responding to something right away.
I'll share two things that I think are immediately actionable.

First, I literally tell people I work with that this is what I am like if I think we're about to have one of those conversations. I literally say "I have an intuition that we have a problem (or whatever) here. I don't have it articulated well yet, but I don't want to ignore it. This conversation might start messily, but please ask me questions / call out what's unclear so I can unpack my intuition." People respect this.

Second, I find that forcing myself to write it out is helpful. I often find that by paragraph 3 or 4, I realize what I am actually excited or worried about, so then I can rewrite with that as the lede, or simply now talk about it that way. Example: I can start of writing something like "I realized that developer X spent 2 months on something I don't think is valuable to the business. What is wrong with X and his manager?" and as I write about that, I realize maybe that what we actually don't have is a well-articulated strategy for value delivery and we need to solve that." My observation of developer X was just the thing that chafed me when I noticed it, but the reason it set off the intuitive alarm is that other thing.
Basic terminology and practices related to graph databases and graph modeling
Here's one for Hugo: https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/hugo-tufte/

And here's one for Jekyll: https://github.com/clayh53/tufte-jekyll
I think the trouble is that ChatGPT's output made it sound as though it had invented the game, which is noteworthy on its own.

That it also coded it up itself is pretty amazing, but it's overshadowed by the false more amazing claim that it invented it.
To be fair, I'm sure those investors are NIMBYs for new housing.

But I agree with your point.
From the article:

"Over 700 people joined a pro-return-to-office group. Its description says employees need to "Think Big" about the return to office policy. (By comparison, the pro-working remotely channel has around 28,000 members.)"

So more people want to work remote.
It’s easy when it’s a Miller and everyone has schematics lol. Mine is an AHP. Someone has some testing points but they don’t want to share them, and AHP won’t even talk to you if you can’t find your receipt.
DKIM and DMARC are not anti-spam techniques per se. They are used to verify that the message is authentic, and that sender is authorized to send email on behalf of the domain.

If the sender is passing as an authorized sender (DMARC aligned), then the receiver has a pretty good indication the email is legit and that the sender was delegated to sent email on behalf of the domain. If the email is then classified as spam (based on its contents), then it is easier for the receiver to choose whether to adjust the reputation of the domain (in case of DMARC alignment), or the IP (if not aligned).

A DKIM signature and DMARC alignment is no guarantee that the email passes spam filters. The whole point of DMARC is to give the receiver as much information as possible to make a confident decision on the legitimacy of the email, and the reputability of a domain.

DMARC and DKIM works both ways, if you are sending legit email (not spam), it will improve your deliverability, but if you are in fact spamming then DMARC will reduce your deliverability (as it should).
https://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Alexa
There seems to be a lot of hype online on how Amazon employees are doing something never seen before, when in reality Apple employees were fighting a lot harder, going to the press openly giving their names

Ian Goodfellow, chief of Machine Learning quit while writing a letter the sole reason of quitting is RTO

And yet Apple employees are all in office today.

Amazon cares even less about their tech employees, their vesting schedule and PIP culture is proof of that. People barely survive a couple of years before jumping ship or getting fired, do they think management cares about them not wanting to RTO?

Amazon have the highest turnover rate in FAANG, they really never seemed to try to fix it. Im sure theyll be happy to show more people the door in the name of following Andys orders
My experience is similar to the other comments here:

- A combination of sops[1] and AWS Parameter Store might be a good candidate for (4)

- (5) can be solved with AWS SSO / OIDC (also: platforms that offer OIDC, usually support that feature for free, and a variety of them can be configured via Terraform)

- For (6), there are solutions like Atlantis[2] for Terraform, but I am not familiar with alternatives for Pulumi and Ansible. Might be a good idea to spend some time and build a pipeline with whichever CI/CD platform you are using (bonus: GitHub Actions supports OIDC auth with AWS as an IAM role[3], no secrets nor credentials required!)

- For (7), you can create a separate AWS account and manage it with AWS Organizations (or not)

- For (8), 1pass[4] for any credentials that requires username/password combo (non-tech/breakglass account). Groups can be created to limit certain credentials to subsets of users

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/sops

[2] https://www.runatlantis.io/docs/repo-level-atlantis-yaml.htm...

[3] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/security-harde...

[4] https://support.1password.com/custom-groups/
Product/Market Fit, huh?

We have at least 8 Echos around the house, with clear reasons for a couple more, but Amazon simply isn't interested in the actual problems that the product solves, or the use cases customers care about.

They're completely backwards, here. If that means the whole thing collapses and we have to find another solution, great. Products and companies who work this way need more failures.
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Yes sorry jonsneyers. I was just trying to point out the obvious.
2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf]
15% of 3B!

ouch
Yes, it is a bit of a ranty comment. Yes, it shares their opinion alone. That is quite clear. And yes, there might be different opinions out there.

But in the midst of their opinion, they raise awareness to a point not much talked in the tutorials or other material I've seen about Phoenix: it might seem easy, but has it's drawbacks. Drawbacks which could be easily avoided by power users, but might not seem obvious to a newcomer. That's it. The rest is description of such drawbacks, from the poster's perspective.

I find this informative because it is information that I haven't seen anywhere else. Not in tutorials, not in presentations, not in any other place I've seen people talking about the subject.

Of course after thinking for a while it becomes obvious that a framework built on such a "different" platform with it's own unique patterns and quirks would of course fit such a description. Any tech could, depending where you're coming from. That's OK. And it is also OK that enthusiasts of any tech would not present themselves in such a harsh way. It's all good.
How is that different from forcing in-office people to work with you remotely, digitally? It's the same thing.
Spoken like someone in a bubble. "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."

Well, if "nobody" goes there, how are the bots able to farm karma? Who's giving them the views and upvotes?

I guarantee you anything that's the "default" is being visited by many, many casual visitors, people not "in the know", and people who don't recognize karma farming bots for what they are.
It's a bunch of optimisation passes, I believe mostly around inlining. Ocaml is historically quite passive on that.
To be fair, we needed to do two round of dishwasher yesterday and I wished we had a faster one (we were out of dishes and stuff).
Yes we could have washed by hand but it was one of those days where we didn't want to do anything...
Ok, well then this "3-days-per-week" solution will only be temporary on the way back to 5 days per week, because even this way, statistically you will only have 60% of your colleagues present and will still have to do video calls. OTOH, you just need to have somebody from another office, or a customer, or a contractor, or ..., so meetings where everyone is in the same room will still remain a vanishing minority.
>> he’s very good at manufacturing

> Tesla's quality control is infamously bad.

Also I believe SpaceX is effectively run by other (competent) people, and Musk stays out of the rocketry part.
> Keep in mind that you don't have to lint an already linted file if you cache its hash.

yeah, if only that was the case. Even if the file hasn't changed if it's dependencies have changed you need to lint again. And doing dependency analysis on most weirdly coupled codebases out there, is not trivial nor accurate tbh.

And not running a good linter and letting a bug through is the most shit feeling you will have in your life. Trust me on that.
> If you want to keep stuff for millennia you need clay tablets and stone, not USB sticks and magnetic tapes.

Actually, there's a better way: Religion! Religion will have people devoting their lives to copying things generation after generation.

We just need a new religion that devotes their time and (collective) resources into the preservation of all things digital. Something like archive.org but with groups of people gathering every Sunday to copy (and catalog) each other's data.

Sure, the majority of the archives will probably consist of porn but that is also one of the most likely artifacts to be found at any given archeological site (aka little statues/carvings of a, "fertility goddess"). So... more of the same sort of discoveries by archeologists of the future who get access to the Church of the Digital God's archives.
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That's just risk of death. Risk of other neurological sequelae are high even in those who are young and fully vaccinated.

I know many people under 50 who were vaccinated who lost smell or taste for most of a year, or had other cognitive dysfunction for weeks afterward.
Even without death, COVID is a serious illness. I haven't been that sick with the flu in like 15-20 years. (This was 2 months ago)
That's a barebone kit without HDD or RAM... (so stack an extra 100 bucks on there, and if you're paying 100 for a pi, it already includes an SD card for storage). So no, it's WAY more expensive.

Not to mention you're going to be looking at quite a bit of fiddling to get any sort of linux distro playing nicely on it, so from a tooling side, costs will be much higher.

It's also literally 5 times bigger than a pi in a standard enclosure, so enclosure costs and space costs.

Plus, it idles at the same power (~10 watts) that the pi pulls during max load. It maxes out at ~70 watts draw. 10 watts over 5 years = $35. 70 watts over 5 years = $250.

Plus - I refuse to touch celeron with a 20ft pole. They're consistently one of the worst performing processors I've ever had the displeasure of using. You call the pi's hardware old, but the celeron in the model you linked is 5+ years old now, and it's the shittiest of the shitty models that intel sells.

You can hate on the pi all you want - I tend to agree, they're a bit overpriced for what you get at the best of times, and when they're both expensive and hard to get... alternatives are a great option. But that hideous thing is not the alternative you should be suggesting.
Work from office is better for people who LIKE work from office if everyone does it. The people who don't want to go specifically don't want to, to avoid those folks that want access to interrupt everyone around them. Honestly, I feel like work from office would suck less if the people who wanted it so badly weren't there. The commute would still suck but at least you wouldn't have the extroverts constantly wrecking the productivity of everyone in the blast area around them.
Allows what exactly? Communication? Or user created groups? seems like you have a problem with the human condition not slack.
What value do you get? You're here reading and commenting on things from anonymous people on a web site that hasn't existed for a hundred years.

> still made by a qualified expert?

It is pretty common that an expert who disagrees with the consensus will not be qualified, because the principal requirement for getting qualified is that you agree with the consensus.
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I love my Brompton; it was an awesome way to have a multi-modal commute back when I worked in the office.
Employees should fight for something that is of value to them, not their employers. Maybe there's a fear of losing their job when they aren't seen in the office? Or maybe the fear is if that they are the only ones in the office, they are more noticeable, so there's safety in numbers. If more of the herd is there, then it will be less obvious the ones who stand out. I for one am glad I work for myself.
> I never understood what the "voice assistant" hype was about, the advertised benefits looked ... non beneficial

I'm an Apple user, and by extension, Homekit and Siri.

In a household full of kids and an all-around crazy schedule, having HomePods scattered amidst my house has proven useful; beyond just being great speakers for music.

I use them for everything from adding/completing items on my Reminders list. Controlling the home (lights, timers, etc.). Asking questions (this one is very hit/miss with Siri, but she's getting a lot better). And reading/sending messages.

Is it absolutely necessary? No. But when you're lugging around little ones throughout the house, fixing lunches, dinner, etc. -- they can make life a little easier. Sometimes.
At least the original markdown explicitly allowed embedding of arbitrary html in documents https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html
If you capture their focus, are you not also capturing their attention?
Maybe something like the original Yahoo would be good to have again? E.g. if I know Reddit exists, how do I easily find out that hackernews or stackoverflow also exits and are good sites?
Shame this is flagged because it's an honest take on how screwed up the housing market is.

The problem is entirely caused by real estate investors both foreign and domestic looking to park their hot money in something that can't be printed.

Low-key hope the fed manages to collapse housing prices to goose these all cash buyers into the red.
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The government can of course "attract native/local workers" and curb this immigration via means such as raising the minimum wage. When the state doesn't want to, it means that the state and business are working together on this against such native workers. It's of course never as simple as "Immigration is this". You might as well say that "low minimum wage" is the sole root cause.
We don't know the context though. Some people are responsible and have kids when they're doing fine financially, but then unexpected hardships happen. They don't deserve to be blamed in hindsight.
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