skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is with how the garbage system works. You need to put your tampons, condoms, diapers, etc. into something at home for the garbage truck to pick them up. If you don't solve the issue, people will just continue to the next solution. Maybe cotton bags that are absolutely terrible for the environment.
I understand your frustration and disappointment with Altman's statement. However, it's important to remember that everyone's experience with working from home can vary greatly. While it may have been beneficial for you, it may not have been the same for others. It's also possible that Altman's statement was based on research or data that supports his claim. It's always good to keep an open mind and consider different perspectives.
The headline is misleading.

The article mentions:

> "I think definitely one of the tech industry's worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody could go full remote forever, and startups didn't need to be together in person and, you know, there was going to be no loss of creativity,” he told attendees. "I would say that the experiment on that is over, and the technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups."

He's talking multiple points here.

1) Everybody (!) go full (!!) remote forever (!!!). These are three extreme points; everybody (as opposed to nobody or the grey area 'some people'), full (as opposed to never or the grey area 'sometimes'), forever (as opposed to never or the grey area 'for some time').

2) Then he goes on about startups specifically.

3) That there would be no loss of creativity.

#1 is a very extreme standpoint (its a cute staw man :) which is easy to counter. Because, no, remote working didn't work for everybody. We can stop the discussion there already. So its meant to get the picture in your head of 'yeah, it didn't work for X or Y'.

Then, #3 seems to still refer to #2 and is specifically about startups. Loss of creativity is a general statement. If there's a loss of creativity for one person, two personae, or one team, and the rest is working happy and productive remotely then the statement holds up. Here's the kicker: where's the gains? Isn't it a huge sum of plus and minus?

Nowhere do these statements back up themselves with actual data and either way, it appears to be an argument against working fully remotely, for everyone, forever, in startups. Yawn.

Rather, I believe its a lack of trust towards employees. In the end, their productivity gets loosely qualified anyway, so its probably the QQ from some middle management or disgruntled over-performer who's trying to be relevant. You can say politics should stay out of work, well... this is politics on the work-floor.

Getting the control back, post COVID-19, I already knew was coming when COVID-19 started and remote work was implemented. I knew that when COVID-19 pandemic would end, some would want to go back to 'ye olde', regardless if it were better or not, regardless if it worked better or worse for the individual(s) below their rank. Because, bad managers are control freaks.

On top of that, you can start your work day on the same moment you'd start your commute, and end the workday on the moment you'd end your commute. And then you just slack a little bit more in between. You'll easily turn more efficient because slacking is a great way to enter the diffused mode of thinking of the brain (in reality, its actually working). Something like a walk in the park at lunch to get your head clear, getting inspired and ready for the next couple of hours? Working. So from my PoV, its actually free labor, but so can a commute be.
It becomes a real issue when the SCORPION STARE firmware gets uploaded onto them.
Already posted 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35835787
Screen studio has gone through a period of incredibly rapid development with many new features and improvements, Adam has launched updates every day at times. So I can understand the motivation for at least a daily check.

However those rapid updates also increase the risk of a bug in a release, and so maybe a more regular update check is needed during that time?

Adam is also following the "build in public" marketing strategy, warts and all. It's worked very well, he has had massive growth in sales. The combination of building in public, a product that is "visual" and one that effectively advertises itself, is very clever.

If your background is web apps with CI, thinking you need a 5min update check interval is an easy trap to fall into.
> that no parliament can bind a future parliament (which has been a bedrock principle for a good while now)

It's that the excuse the UK uses when it breaks international agreements? And I wonder how it works for the ones it hasn't broken (e.g. Good Friday) or stuff like debts.

And things existing "for a good while" is a shitty reason for them to continue existing. The same could be applied to the monarch, or the legal system.
Interestingly, in my native language (Hungarian) the word "kopó", which means a kind of hunting dog, used to be slang for a detective. I thought there maybe was some connection to "cop", but apparently it's just a coincidence.
We have a self-hosted Premium instance and have 30min of downtime _every day_ while the database is frozen and backed up. We've been told that it's a known issue being discussed with GitLab but that could just be CYA. But in any case, it's the "at scale, while changing" that tends to cause problems.

Perhaps this is a continuing argument for self-hosting, especially if you don't have to expose the instance publicly. But then, if that's an option, you can also self-host GitHub (though I have heard less anecdotes about the stability of that).
Doing one thing that fascist government's sometimes do does not make you a fascist government. The UK might be tending toward fascism, but not allowing disruptive protests of the coronation is not really an indicator one way or the other. The king is certainly not a dictator, having little power at all.
They literally introduced new laws to curb protests a few weeks ago. That law is what they used to arrest peaceful protestors.
>The idea of fully remote work becoming the norm has come and gone

The idea has always been there, it was never new, and it didn’t go anywhere and I don’t think it’s going anywhere either.

And then the article says

>and the technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups."

Followed by at the end

>He also worries some might be freeing up time by using A.I. tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4—time that his company isn’t utilizing.

So, I think the technology IS too good for remote work that companies couldn’t tell if they’re properly enslaving their employees or not, that they fear those employees are still maintaining the required productivity output without being miserable for once.
The corollary issue is remembering some issue you fixed two years ago after encountering the issue previously.

I don’t write down every troubleshooting issue that comes down the pike or how to fix it on a particular platform- I’ve dealt with 6+ firewall platforms, 5+ load balancers, near infinite routing platforms- and the multitude of ways they interact makes it more important to develop heuristics rather than remember precise solutions.
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> that does not happen remotely, not unless people go out of their way to build similar bonds explicitly

Why should companies get to benefit from a process, when they do nothing to foster it? Just because they could exploit it before?
If anything, it looks to me like the researchers are saying the opposite: We understand how this works, so it cannot be magic or special. The fact that you think it is means you are just wrong.

Sadly it is possible I have arrived at this conclusion due to previous experience with the academic world, which is ironically full of magical thinkers that will take any sort of AI advancement and scoff because it may mean they're no longer as special as they feel they must be. It is a very hostile environment.
Via Toptal, easily, as a full stack web developer or react native developer.
joke : They do not have to care about error every 67 billionth callculation that much, AI is hallucinating enough.
>being on at a job for some time is sufficient to form a shared local culture and camaraderie. But that does not happen remotely

You can certainly get these task shared bonds remotely, think of any guild/clan based video game.
The President of that term died in office. Trọng gave it up the next term. There was questions at the time whether he would, but in the end, he did.

Why wasn't a new President nominated/ elected at the time? I'm pretty sure it was something as simple as dumb succession planning, unless you believe there is something more sinister with the death. Electing a new President in Vietnam is hard, there is a requirement of serving at least two terms in the Politburo before you can take one of the top three seats. Naturally, since it is a kind of up-or-out deal (you are old and very close to retirement age or exceeding it), the people who qualify are the one who are in the seats. And if one of them dies, you literally just runs out of candidates. Not to mention you need a party-wide electors meeting in addition to Congress meeting.

General Secretary is always the Secretary of the Central Military Commission, as the Vietnam People's Army swears absolute loyalty to the Communist party. That has nothing to do with the relative power between high ranking party official (it has obvious effect on the party's control of the military, but that is a different topic).
> Do you not think that by not being anti-monarchy you're tacitly OK with a class based society, and that's a part of where the conformism comes from - class identity?

No. Newborn babies aren't anti-monarchy either. Are they part of the problem? This rhetoric of "silence is violence" is deeply polarizing.
Subresource Integrity fixes that: "hmm, must be a bug at Google's end"
I'm not conflicted at all...I fully stand in support of people I disagree with having the right to voice their minds in public without having to worry about government security forces and patty wagons.
The crypto world is full of single lines of code that are worths million of dollars. No pun intended.

BTW, in our team we compiled a spreadsheet showing Git commits before and after security audit reports [1].

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bqtQI05z-O6uclvYYXxH...
There are probably very old rules about disrupting the coronation, yes. I expect it has been illegal for hundreds of years.
Bhagavad Gita is in fact very philosophical and abstract, and mostly discusses spiritual matters. It’s very different from the Bible and Quran.

Now, it would be very interesting to see what an Abrahamic AI would say as both the Bible and Quran are way more enthusiastic (to say the least) in terms of violence.
Glofo 12nm is an FD-SOI process, which is inherently less sensitive to radiation than normal bulk CMOS. Since the substrate is an isolator SOI devices are also generally immune to latchup.
I don’t use Little Snitch but the update frequency definitely struck me as insane. I cannot think of any consumer apps that need to check for updates once a day.
That's Alphabet/Google/YouTube ContendID law, not copyright law.
What is a Europe?
I was amused by the cleverness of your summary. :) But while what you wrote seems to literally be true, I don't think it's an accurate portrayal of what the article (if not its title) describes. I might have overlooked something, but

1. CA would be taking the money from everyone. (I.e., it isn't intending to punish and doesn't single out who is taxed. For example, a poor person who receives the reparations benefits more than a rich person who does, since the latter would have paid for more of the reparations through their own taxes.)

2. The people who would receive the money are descendants of slaves; while not former slaves themselves, this $ could be thought of as a representation of the inheritance they should have received. (But how they determine these people seems flimsy -- the article mentions people who "claim" enslaved ancestors and it's unclear how such claims may or may not be validated.)

Regarding CA not having been a slave state, the article mentions the harm caused by prejudicial policies in CA, but then it's unclear why affected people who don't have enslaved ancestry wouldn't also be compensated.

Anyway, after (and despite) writing out the above, I think your summary is actually fairly apt (and humorous). But I kind of wish it were less provocative.

(FWIW, I think the course of action discussed in the article is problematic and I have conflicted opinions about the concept of reparations. I think it is a complex topic.)

I think if more people tried to make less potentially inflammatory statements, it would be easier to have productive discussions about contentious topics. This could serve to reduce tribalism, which I feel would be a good thing.

(The article's title is a much stronger example of the inflammatory language that I think should be minimized.)

[Edit: grammatical and formatting fixes; criticism of the article's title added.]
> There’s no reason a desktop application should check for updates every 5 minutes. Once a month ought to do it without a compelling reason for more.

At startup is perfectly fine. Then once every 24 hours later if the app hasn't exited is also perfectly fine.

More often than that is too often. Every 5 minutes? That's ridiculous.
Why the hell does the app check every 5min for updates?

Even once a day seems excessive.

Thy cynic in me sees a pattern of disregard for other people's resources like with electron. Being a good software citizen is also realising that the product is not the main task running on a computer and it's not acceptable to make decisions about other peoples priorities. It feels like every tray daemon and widget assumes they are the main reason the computer is running and load a web view, 3 windows services and scheduled tasks.

Admittedly the App in question is interactive, but the same principle holds.

Categorical imperative hah:

Construct in a way that you accept all tray icons to be constructed like.
Maybe this will encourage developers to make smaller applications too.
Well, it is kind of funny when a millionaire tech bro tell me that remote work doesn't work to build some silly food delivery applications, when those silly applications run on top of an open source stack that was always heavily built on remote and async settings.
Apple Will Win the AR/VR Wars
You can place it deep inside a water tank... Or for a short mission.
Generally, "n bit" describes the color depth of an image by the number of bits used to store the color information of a pixel.

Some common formats:

1 bit .... b/w (foreground or background color set per pixel)
4 bit .... 16 colors (indexed color palette or 16 shades of grey in 1 channel)
8 bit .... 256 colors (indexed color palette or 1-channel greyscale image)
12 bit ... 16 x 16 x 16 colors, 3 color channels at 4 bits for 4,096 colors total
24 bit ... 256 x 256 x 256 colors, 3 color channels at 8 bits for 16,777,216 colors total
32 bit ... as above, but including an extra alpha channel (mask) for 256 levels of transparency

There are also high-resolution color modes (e.g. in Photoshop) using either 16 bits or even 32 bits per color channel. (So 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit may also describe the depth for each individual color channel in imaging software.)

"8-bit" is also used for graphics on 8-bit computers, most often a palette of 8 or 16 indexed colors in some sort of sub-palette (e.g., 2 bit = 4 out of 8 or 16 colors), in rare cases even 128 colors (like on the Atari 2600). Here, "8-bit" relates to the platform and not to image depth or a specific implementation.
It's not clear. It's possible that even if you don't use the fitness at all, you'd still have to plug in once a month. Or maybe your situation would work, i.e. it could regenerate an hour worth over the span of a week.
I agree with your overall point, but I think you're framing it too strongly. It absolutely is possible to form a shared culture remotely. Many open source projects have demonstrated this as well as various forum and chat communities. However, it requires a different kind of socializing, one that not everyone is adept at or interested in.
Large-scale slavery existed prior to the European colonizers. Look at the history of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China, India. Ancient Rome and Greece had fully slave-based economies, more or less so depending on when and where you look. Over time the process got more efficient in economic terms, "industrialized" as you call it, but slavery existed almost everywhere, in many forms, as far back as we have records, and of course still goes on.

For example, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans...
I have been messing around with computers for a couple of decades at this point. I always learn something new every few days. Also many times at this point I get to relearn something I long ago forgot because I have not used it in 15 years... I also will deep dive on a subject sometimes. Just so I know it correctly. I can then help others when they are struggling with it.
Fascism is the name of an actual political ideology, it doesn’t just mean “things I don’t like”
> if you don't like it, you have any day available to protest.

There are people thinking that we should not spend our public money on the monarchy. This viewpoint is absolutely topical on the very day when a large chunk of money is being spent on celebrating something they don't want to celebrate.

If you think that is rude, bad for you. Sometimes people will be rude to you and you have to take it.
Rumor has it Microsoft is pushing them to move their infrastructure to Azure, which explains much of the frequent downtimes lately.
That's not been my experience. I've worked both in offices and full time from home for a long time.

You most definitely do share local culture and camaraderie with others working from home. I constantly spend my time on chats, calls, meetings and in pair programming sessions.

We definitely have private jokes, productivity tips and everything else that would go on in an office setting.

This whole argument just stinks of people in private offices wanting the plebs in a shared space so they can maintain status.

There's quantified evidence that shared office spaces suck for productivity. If Altman, Igor and the rest want to force people back into offices they should gather some hard counter-evidence. Right now it just sounds like excuses for micromanagement.
What is interesting about Mach to me. Is that now 40 years later it's returning too it's roots of hosting multiple OS's on a single hardware architecture. Apple being able to design to M series chips to match Mach's paper over Mach's deficiencies and leverage it's strength I find very exciting.

Originally it was meant to be the foundation computing layer for a campus full of devices.
What is GB news?

Are you sure all of that is not just a consequence of economies of scale and using a common language?

It does not take a grand conspiracy to influence businesses to seek more profit by selling their near zero marginal
cost media to other English speaking countries.

But I also would not characterize it as “trying to export their bullshit”.

It is UK residents deciding to spend their time and money on content made by/for Americans, so would it equivalently be described as “UK trying to import the US’s bullshit”?
Asking a CEO for their opinion on remote work is like asking a feudal lord their opinion on democracy.
Where'd you get this from?
Does it consider how much it cost users on mobile hotspots?
The whole west is just a big imperialistic blob my friend.
The concept of a sync license is insane.
It is very typical for municipalities to have political parties that only operate locally.

The Christelijke Arbeiders Partij was founded in 1956 for the Bunschoten municipal elections. At the time the only people that could be elected were tradespeople, fishermen and farmers. Workers were put in unelectable positions by the elite. The CAP was founded out of dissatisfaction with this.
I have a few Roku devices around. All my IoT devices are relegated to a segmented VLAN. Beyond that DNS is locked down. I block all of the DoH/DoT providers that are commonly used and then run specific DNS block lists for manufacturers. I also leverage NextDNS [0] as it easily allows me to build profiles per use case. I know they also have Roku specific DNS blocking (for telemetry, ads, etc). I had used PiHole in the past but like that I can use NextDNS everywhere all the time much more easily than I can with PiHole. It also provides overrides so I can still resolve internal addresses where I might want to. This helps when using things like Tailscale and not having to rely on another subdomain to think about.

[0] https://www.nextdns.io
Nice, regular expressions.
Wait until you find out about what's happened to /bin/true in different unix variants over the years.
https://archive.ph/ja6YY
This won't work - the code you've written here will forbid non string keys (i.e. symbols) but it won't allow arbitrary strings. If you changed it to a union rather than an intersection then that won't work either because the union of `"a" | "b" | string` is `string`. TS team made the correct call here, as annoying as it is.
When was this ever not the case? As much as HR loves to spread this lie, an office is not a "family".
216 RISC-V cores and 16 GB of HBMe look like a pretty nice SoC with not much needed on the outside required to work at the heart of a workstation.

Imagine if ESA created a new "BBC Micro" reference platform...
“I need to breath on your shoulders, sir, all day for hours to discover your hidden talent!!”

Sounds like a poor management style to me
Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth
There is also not a really deep right to protest in British law. The right to protest comes from their signing the European convention on human rights (they have some law called Human Rights Act). It is not enshrined fundamentally as in the United States afaik.
Fact: it's undemocratic and downright naive to choose your leader based on who came out of the previous leader in what order.

Fact: it's undemocratic to arrest people without charges, especially when it is just for expressing displeasure at the current government.
All of forms of fascism, ecofascism is one I could agree with.

We're way past the point of having to be tolerant of people polluting Earth, air and sea.

If the individual is shamed for throwing cigarette butts on the floor, executives of oil companies, knowingly releasing tons of methane in the atmosphere need to be launched into the Sun itself. Not get a slap on the wrist and go scot-free.
The way I could imagine it happens is that they use GTM to trigger Facebook tags, for example to remarket people who have donated to ECPAT, since people who donate are likely to do so again after say a month or during Christmas so that's a perfect audience to have available for an ad campaign. But they have GTM fire FB on every single page out of convenience, since setting up rules in GTM on where to trigger it is work. The tip-off page is hosted on the same environment, so FB triggers by default.
Neither does 'Fall' (season), but in modern usage it all but guarantees the speaker is North American (or ESL and learnt it from them).
Half the people reading this would be fired if they followed your suggestion