skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are people still going to try to blame office lease agreements for management wanting workers back in the office?

When are remote workers going to start blaming themselves? Clearly, companies big and small are recalling their workers back to their office. Clearly, they have data showing that their productivity metrics have declined. Tech management are usually very data-driven compared to other industries. So if they're recalling workers, then they must see something.

The simplest explanation is that remote/hybrid culture is less productive on some metric - whether it's total company output or less creativity or whatever it is. So while an individual remote worker might perceive himself or herself as being more productive, they often do not think at the level of the total company output.

And no, management isn't going to come out and explicitly say that their WFH workers are lazier and less productive. That's just bad PR. But you can infer what management is seeing from their actions.

They'd never come out and say "We are recalling our workers because we have data showing they're less productive while working from home.".

Saying something like that would cause a lot of bad PR. Piss off your workers even more. The media, pro-WFH people, HN will pan the company for saying something like that. There's no winning for the company to take this risk. It's best to say something generic like "culture".
MH370 changed course immediately after it left airspace where it was closely monitored, followed by several more minor corrections and then there's evidence the someone was controlling the final descent after one of the engines ran out of fuel.

All of that, combined with the fact the pilot had depression and tested the same flight path in a simulator, is pretty compelling evidence that someone was in control for the entire flight and yet didn't activate a distress beacon.

That makes it pretty hard to believe any kind of technical failure was involved.

A lot of the people who refuse to say it might be suicide are just following standard and deep rooted ethical journalism rules to avoid discussion suicide, based on an assumption it will encourage more pilots to do the same thing which could land the person who called it suicide liable for those future deaths.

Even if the TV journalist thinks it's suicide and is willing to say that, their employer's legal team will often order them not to.
I have not programmed Rust, yet. But this article gives me a feeling that this looks similar to database transactions. This might be wildly wrong but for me I see an analogy:

Once you get the &mut reference, you have your tree, which then looks to me like you have created a transaction. An in this transaction context you do your things.
It's true that some people discover HN through referers. In fact, one of the best contributors I know found Hacker News that way.

Perhaps we should go back to the status quo ante. To be honest I'm not sure what to do.
What makes reddit valuable are

1. The communities

2. The data that the communities havegenerated in the past

It seems like reddit is trying to monetize #2 to the point of alienating #1. It's bizarre how large the disconnect is between Reddit the corporation and Reddit the collection of communities
The last time Reddit attracted this kind of attention was probably when Victoria Taylor resigned as CEO (or rather made to resign as some alleged) in 2016. She was very popular for coming up with the whole AMA concept and the one who replaced her (Pao) was quite resembling of the current CEO! Many subs went dark then too and the backlash never stopped until that CEO stepped down or something like that IIRC.
I still remember the formal prerequisite for one of the more advanced math courses I took at uni: “The mathematical maturity that several years of study in mathematics typically gives” (roughly translated from Swedish). I thought it was kind if pretentious at the time (most other courses listed other courses as prerequisites), but now I think it makes sense.
UTF-32 is easy to understand for educational purposes but it's probably a mistake to use it as a real string representation, and almost nobody does. Code units and code points are the same thing in UTF-32 but they're different in UTF-16 and UTF-8; you can teach someone UTF-32 before they understand the distinction. Obviously, UTF-24 isn't used because it isn't a standard encoding, and if you really wanted to save memory, you'd use UTF-8 instead which is even more compact yet.

As for UTF-16, today the only reason people choose UTF-16 for new projects is because it's the native internal encoding of the ICU library. If you're not using ICU, it's pretty hard to defend anything but UTF-8.
The idea of MIDI is that you can grab any midi controller and any synthesizer manufactured in the last forty years, plug them together, and they just work. (As long as we can keep up the pretense that we're synthesizing something that behaves like a piano, and we aren't trying to use USB which introduces its own set of problems.)

The idea of OSC is that you can send any kind of message at all from any device to any other device and the semantics of those messages are left as an exercise to the reader. There's no guarantee of interoperability. It's just assumed that if you're using OSC you know what you're doing and it's up to you to make sure both devices are speaking the same dialect.

Sometimes people tunnel what is effectively MIDI over OSC, but I think that's the closest thing to a common standard, beyond the basic low-level data layout that OSC messages are expected to conform to.

I think some people use OSC for various things, but it tends to be for custom bespoke installations that were designed to do something specific.
I agree with your first part. Your proposed solution, I disagree with.

>I don't think a blanket return to work is what's needed, a more targeted appropriate one might be though, identify who's presence is required and pay them commensurately to be in the office. Working from home gets you less but you get the flexibility.

And how exactly do you do this? What if the person who's presence is required in the office depends on people who don't need to be in the office? What now? And how is it fair to everyone that some people can WFH but others can't?
I can be sympathetic to many folks who have publicly dismissed LLMs as vapid hype in past months -- tech has claimed many fundamental breakthroughs before, it was reasonable to expect this would be another illusory one too -- but come on, even science fiction authors can't tell the difference between GPT-4 and autocomplete? It just feels willfully unimaginative of them, and perhaps motivated by insecurity.

Use some of the creativity we've all seen you exhibit to ask GPT-4 questions that require complex reasoning inside a world model, rather than regurgitating its training set. It's not going to get it right all of the time, but the fact that it can get it right any of the time is astonishing, and it's going to get quickly better, perhaps even purely through compute spend increase rather than algorithmic breakthrough.
If a person is involved in a court case, they are under document retention and can’t delete anything. All Apple’s execs are likely always under document retention.

I was at Apple, and tons of people were under document retention. Individual contributors too.
I feel like the obvious 21 bit encoding is to pack 3 codepoints into 8 bytes.

But uh I guess this works.

If you want to do something more in depth and make real decisions about encoding, a good space to explore is 1-3 byte variable width encodings. You have lots of different tradeoffs to consider and you can make something surprisingly good.
When you worship false gods, science may come as a shock.
+1 for shiori, I have been using it since 2~ years, and it never once did something unintended.
Cannot be worst than Audi "etron" which means horseshit in French :)
The stupidest part of all of this is all Reddit's problems are self inflicted. Reddit the company produces almost nothing. Reddit the users make the site what it is. The users submit all the content, make all the comments, and moderate the site.

Reddit's executives however seem to think they are somehow critical to Reddit's existence and utility. If they all got replaced tomorrow with competent people no one would fucking notice. Everyone would notice if all of Reddit's users disappeared tomorrow.

Reddit is making the same stupid value estimation Digg made.
Not going to bother with this until the temporal cohesion issue is solved. The results are cool, but the variety in frames makes it look like a very specific and distracting art style instead of true animation.
Enshittification is caused by the lack of secure general purpose computing, and will continue until we get it back.

We had it back in the 1980s, when we booted from write protectable floppy disks, and could easily verify backups. What nobody realized at the time was that was a capability based security system. Very coarsely grained, but you couldn't accidentally fubar everything. It was easy to know what was being risked at any given time.

We used "shareware" disks, typed in things from magazines, and generally could run ANYTHING, in almost perfect safety. We always had our known good boot disks, and their backups, and our multiple copies of our data.

Until we can run any old random executable, we're going to avoid "untrusted" sites, and stick to the walled gardens our friends hang out at. Capabilities based systems like Genode might be able to get us there.

VMs and Containers were a make-do / very crude version of capabilities... you specified what disks a virtual machine could access, thus it was better than nothing.

WASM is the latest attempt down this road, and I only hope they don't "improve" it by destroying the capabilities model it provides.

What's really sad is that this was all solved back in the 1970s, and it's only the accident of history that we don't have capabilities based systems available that a normal person could use. In response to the need for a single computer to handle multiple levels of classification due to the needs of the Air Force in the Viet Nam conflict, research was done, and solutions were found.

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Think of the difference between handing someone $5, or your credit card.... which is safer? You can only lose $5 in the first case. That is capability based security.

PS: Sorry, I write defensively because of the way replies tend to work here on HN.
> What cost are founders willing to pay for this vision of their employee-employer relations?

Founders have the most to gain (or lose) from the success (or failure) of their startups. It seems obvious to me that that would be the one group of people who totally focuses on the success of the overall company. If they deem that the company would be more successful with WFH, they would continue WFH.
Absolutely. Perhaps it was grown in a lab, perhaps it was released, or perhaps it escaped. All happened before, all will happen again.

Given that I don't think we -can- control human behavior, there are good labs, there are bad labs, etc, I think the ability to -respond- I paramount. While the origin is interesting in an historical way, lessons from the response will be more useful going forwards.

We need to respond in a way that is independent of origin. That will ultimately lead to better outcomes, and incidentally reduce the risk of bio-terrorism.

[Aside - if it was lab grown I don't think it was released on purpose (it wouldn't have been released locally). Which means some sort of failure in the safety protocols, which likely means human error. General discussion on that topic I useless except for a tiny sliver of people doing that work. I'm not sure discussing it on social media really achieves anything. ]
What are they paying for? For the mod to look the other way for certain corporate spam posts?
The algorithms are making us stupid
"culture" is not hand wavy. It's literally the single most important aspect of any enterprise.
Thanks, there was at least one other :).
Try everything, don't get addicted to anything.

If you're counting the number of days since you last had it, you haven't truly moved on.

Return everything slightly better than you found it.

If you want something done properly, do it yourself.

Everything has a place. And everything in it's place.

- Most of these are about avoiding mental overhead. So that you have more brain capacity left for the people around you and the task at hand.
Peter Singer aims for consistency, for not having it both ways. If killing a being of neural structure X is moral then have the same standard for human and non-human animals. He isn’t pretending that being in or out of its mother is morally relevant. If killing a nine month old “fetus” is moral killing a 3 minute old baby is. Singer will bite all those bullets.
BYTEDANCE submitted a patch few months ago to reduce the system reboot time for a few milliseconds. That means a lot for rebooting their hundreds of thousands of VMs.
A strike hurts the company's owners primarily - much less so the company's consumers. This primarily hurts the company's users and does virtually nothing to the owners. Even worse, it highlights the dictatorial power reddit mods wield to be able to unilaterally decide to shut down their boards.

Don't hurt the people you want on your side.
I was banned from a wrestling subreddit because I corrected someone who didn't understand how marginal tax brackets work. Not ad hominem and IMO I wasn't hateful about it, although I might've said something about how it's frustrating that some people spread FUD about how you're better off making $90,000 than $90,001 because that'll push you into the next tax bracket (there are a few edge cases where that'll hurt you financially, but there's pretty rare and the post I was replying to was solely about income tax IIRC)
Well to be fair, there doesn’t seem to be anywhere else for all these users to go, right? So the executives do provide something.
The most logical theory here is that this is some grand high order strategy to bring it down just like the way of Digg. Even kids don't act in as dumb a manner as this CEO is acting and even if he did act, other board members would have stopped him from such recklessness in ordinary course of events, as the whole firm is on stake.

Could it be a case that they're deliberately letting this happen in order to promote some other social network or fulfill some other high order agenda?
What would you do?

Accept that it's a big job and just get on with it. Sometimes we just have to do hard things. Putting it off or looking for a shortcut doesn't always work.

I'd also spend a couple of months seeing how much of the documentation production I can automate though. That's a small investment in a 700 day project.
I can relate to your intentions, but keep in mind that, when you leave your data there, you're effectively encouraging people to keep using a user-hostile platform that will likely wall those people's content in. In the long run, you aren't making humanity better - you're worsening it.

Instead a better approach is to migrate whatever you deem useful in your Reddit history to another platform. And then remove it from Reddit, either by deletion or replacing it with gibberish.

You might also be interested in this text, as food for thought:

https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

It has been shared a few times here in HN, so I believe that plenty users here know about it.
Is this a concerted effort to kill browsers in favor of proprietary apps?
With proprietary apps the owners have all the power over privacy, advertising search results...basically everything.
Where have we heard "we have to do better" only for the big players to become infinitely worse?
We badly need the federated universe to mature and close out these greedy behemoths controlling social media.
On the sub I mod, old and new reddit are basically neck and neck with ~10% of traffic. The bulk of traffic comes from apps, but I don't think there's a breakdown in the modtools of 1p vs 3p apps
With iPhone 14 from MacBook Air M1 screen about 35-40 cm away every picture except one read on first try and that one read after I pulled the phone back a bit.
What would be funny is if as a result of this everyone moved back to Digg (where the Reddit users initially came from).
I don't know what battle you're trying to fight but HN is not the place for it. The flamebait you repeatedly posted in this thread was beyond the pale. If you keep posting this sort of comment, we'll end up having to ban you. We've had to warn you about this kind of thing many times before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030092 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030081 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25573631 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24145979 (Aug 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17274402 (June 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16938001 (April 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16737173 (April 2018)

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Indeed, how can anyone live without a full compiler instead of an incremental one, buying additional licenses for JNI development (Clion), ten finger chords, an index system that never stops, having to manually call for specific code inspections, ...
> I’m not saying they couldn’t produce something like Vision Pro if they wanted to—it’s just not their priority.

Nothing that Facebook has ever done gives the slightest indication that they're capable of creating anything like the Vision Pro.

Just for starters, where do they get a processor close enough to the M2's performance per watt? Where do they get an operating system to drive it? Who creates a chip like the R1 that handles the video from multiple cameras and gets it displayed in 12 milliseconds?

So much of the technology had to be created from scratch, based on Apple stating they filed over 5,000 patents related to the Vision Pro.

The list of companies that could have pulled this off if they wanted to and had the resources to invest is pretty short--there's no way Facebook is on it.
It makes sense if it's a case of corruption. Like if some manager approves the acquisition in return for kickbacks.
Thanks for saying this. Another popular canard is tax breaks for RTO. However, I don't see many SV cities offering tax breaks to companies for having their employees in office. In fact, big employers in these cities provide meals and other perks on campus such that employees don't really boost any city tax revenue. So I wonder which cities offer these breaks?
I signed up for Reddit last year, finally. I’m a happy user of old.reddit.com. And if it goes, I go. I survived a decade without an account, and it would be easy enough to go back that way. My opinion is not that important to share.
In terms of Fortean experiences, these are sometimes called timeslips, and there's plenty of them documented, however that encounter in Versailles is the one that usually gets rolled out. There's been a few cases of forward-slips, definitely looking forward to getting my hands on a hover-car is things like this are to be believed.

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/time-or-dimens...
Let me be clear. You currently cannot constrain for number of characters in a unicode string.

From a business perspective it's unhelpful to think of constraining in that way.

By all means constrain on bytes, and if that's close enough for you, use that as a proxy. Or provision lots of space, and count characters in the UI.
> The obvious cost would be to provide actual offices

Haven't really seen anyone paying that cost for more than a decade now, particularly in SV.
Maybe real life capitalism. Fantasy capitalism, on the other hand...
What Thiel is describing is a feedback loop: more people of x in a region means more people of x in a region simply because they will feel more comfortable among like people. These sorts of mechanisms certainly exist (Forrester on city planning), but with dynamic systems it’s always more complex than it would seem. Landlords definitely benefit from whatever feedback is making cities grow and are definitely interested in it continuing (thus probably investing in it), but its unlikely they are the ones behind the structure.
Technical problems aside, there were probably many American citizens onboard. Landing in Russia. perhaps even getting a stamp in the passport, may not be very favourable for some of them.
Just a slight bump, I've now added more support for unauthenticated users, so that people can check it out without having to sign in. This hopefully should reduce the barrier for people try this app out!
I got a copy of El Paquete a while back and wrote about what it covered here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-cuban-cdn/
What matters is what is on the market, and how it is made available.

Everything else matters as much as FSF point of view on something being free or not.
Diffusion models cannot generate a qr code by itself. The article even shows you need to generate the base image yourself. What you are proposing would mean bruteforcing the QR codes until we see a better shape.
If the mods get replaced, that's just another thing for everyone to complain about. Reddit relies on the community to do "community things" but if they stop doing those things then what do they have?
>Dubsmash allowed users to videotape themselves while lip syncing over audio clips and including sections of songs, movies, and famous quotes. Users could upload their own audio and add colour but not filters and text animation to their videos

Is this really the kind of competition that made reddit quake in its boots? Like, I never heard of Dubsmash until now but this was still around the later years of Vine.

Reddit is an aggregator so from what I understand here, social media that encourages original creations/re-creations are a commodity, not competition. As seen by how most of the current front page at any given time has aggregated TikTok videos.
All HN needs to do is:

- shorter domain name

- allow users make and moderate "subreddits"

- add picture support
Export it, put it on your website. If you ever want to "own" any content on the internet, a website is still the closest thing.
You'd have to abandon the two private use planes to use 18 bits, which would be a notable limitation.
QR codes have several different bit-pattern masks, which an encoder should choose between to avoid blocks or runs.. so even without altering the URL there are different outputs.

[A-Z0-9] encodes a lot more efficiently than [a-zA-Z0-9] so there are other considerations when altering a url.
That reminds me of the butterfly keyboard. Many were in the habit of buying macs with working keyboards and they took the working keyboard from us in order to get a thinner keyboard.
I've been having this problem on desktop browsers running in incognito mode for a while.

It'll randomly pretend I'm not logged in.

Refreshing works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.
So just to be clear on a few things:

* This "less than one hour" I'm talking about includes really being familiar with the UI, concept and new terminology.

* I'm not really concerned if Lemmy becomes truly mainstream. I just find it funny that the crowd in HN of all places is so helpless that reading a FAQ and learning a few new names for basically old concepts is so bad that it needs to be constantly complained about. How on earth would these people have survived the pre-2010 internet?

* I did not need to read a guide, just a short FAQ and some fiddling around to understand the concept.
Really? Because Adam Curtis spent something like 3 films and 10 hours to argue otherwise and not without a lot of examples.

When there is no authority, predators become the authority.
The “it” in AI models is the dataset
I'm going to say it: I loved clippy.

I loved it so much that in 2005 for my CompSci final project I created a search assistant, using the agent builder tool, C# and the Google API.

I think it should come back as a personal AI agent.