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Ask HN: Why are so many companies forcing employees back into the office?
Given the obvious benefits of remote work (employee morale, lower office expenses) what is the compelling advantage that makes companies want to enforce on-site work? It must be more than the stereotypes of managers needing to physically see their underlings working?

Is there evidence for whatever these reasons are?
> He can be wrong on the timing but right on the prediction.

The prediction, stripped of timing, is nothing. “Someday, there will be a market crash” is almost certainly true, but means nothing.
FYI: That CRX in Releases did not work for me - it did install correctly, it showed up in the toolbar but opened an empty popup (no extensions were listed)...

The upnacked zip worked just fine though!

Nice extension, thanks!

(Vivaldi 6.2.3096.3 on Linux)
Since it's right around ATH right now I'd say 100% of the time, give or take.
Knowing what quality of code to ship when is part of the craft. This skill applies to a lot of professions. No carpenter puts the same detail into framing that they do into stain grade trim. Nor will they go furniture grade fasternerless install in a cheap tract home.

This isn't a revolutionary idea, but for some reason, software devs suffer from an excess of black and white thinking. Things must always be done a particular way. It's such a bad tick, we have created a host of tools that try to enforce as much rigid uniformity as we can manager to automate.
China in 2021 emitted 12,500 Mtons of CO2.

The US in 2021 emitted 4,700 Mtons of CO2.

The EU in 2021 emitted 2,700 Mtons of CO2.

China emitted nearly as much CO2 than the US and EU combined.

The US' CO2 output peaked in 2000, with 6000 Mtons, has been steadily declining ever since.

https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2022
I call this "cargo cult management", where they pick up the trappings of an effective team, but do nothing to take on the mindset. If your meeting is an hour and a half long, and each person speaks for 10 minutes a piece, then it ain't a standup. And that's OK. Trying to force agile onto a team that only does ongoing manual processes is doomed to failure, and its OK to say that out loud. Not every task must be conceptualized as a story, and it's OK to admit that.
why dont any of the users has scores by their name?
One of the best things about CI is reducing the feedback loop. Seems like a weird tool for placing blame.
Huh? Relevance? This has nothing to do with the biophysics of action potentials.
Short equity = fixed upside, unlimited downside, does not “spend money”, just need collateral.

Puts = fixed upside, fixed downside, spend money/does not need additional collateral.

The option version of an equity short is something like buy ATM out and sell ATM call.
I'd say any extension that's making an http request that isn't just repeating URLs that are already in the page should show a toast notification with the request body prettified into legibility.

A well made extension will only pop up an occasional toast. One that needs the server to work will show the toast when the user expects it to be talking to the server. One sending keypresses or other suspicious data will be really obvious.
Having OAuth creds is a totally different thing than having access to your account. I support "Log in with Discord" on my site that uses the OAuth flow and the only thing I get out is a set of creds that can hit /user/@me and let me say "the user that just authed is this Discord user." Now discord.io could have asked for everything but the risk of some random integration is on average a lot less. To my knowledge absolutely nothing has the rpc scopes.

The good news is that even with every scope you can't take over the account and the service can just be removed cutting off their access for sure.
Vert.x?
I think it's 100% the stereotype. Managers typically aren't data driven, or even do things empirically, so Back To The Office Where They Can See You Work!
Enrollment is for programs, but course credits are tabulated by subject code (not program). It's possible that students at the university taking foreign languages as actual courses (and not just transferring high school credits) count towards the credit (and revenue) total.

You can see similar things in other programs (look at geography/geology) where'd you might expect a lot of non-major's to take a course in.

EDIT: Or most blatantly, look at math. Pulling in ~20 million dollars of revenue on ~120 program enrollments with an FTE:Enrolled ratio of 3. The credits are clearly from non-major'd students taking courses offered.
I worked for a company where the story points of all the separate teams were brought up to management, who would then convert that to time in order to bill customers.

Instead of time-sheeting, they were using agile story points, without understanding that the whole damn point is that one point in one team could be worth ten points in another team.
If you're talking about a public company, you're probably referring to an official filing, not an actual press release. I'm not aware of any company issuing press releases saying, "we just paid this dude 8 figures to fire those little people."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06440
Montana has a population of 1.1 million people. Does not even make the size of a small Chinese city.

Nothing Montana does has a measurable effect on global climate change.
Lesson learned from a Cross-site scripting (XSS) Challenge
Here is what I have learned:
* Stunning facts about DOMAINS (DNS Records)
* Web Browsers are not strict about invalid HTML
* Get XSS executed in an <a> HTML Tag without user interaction!
* Trigger a DOM-based XSS by weaponizing window.name
> My customers don't want "early and continuous delivery". I hate App Store apps that release new versions every week with cutesy uninformative release notes like "We've improved the software for you". That's bullshit. And users don't want "early" half-baked buggy crapware; they want their software to Just Work™.

Prior to Agile delivery, updates came once every 3 or 4 years and software languished in-between releases. If software shipped with a bug, that bug stayed around for a long time, unless it was lucky enough to get fixed in a service pack.

For large dev houses those service packs were complicated and hard to ship, because their entire organizational structure was based around big bang releases.

Competitor comes out with a killer feature? Well users of your software weren't going to get it for literally years, during which time a fair number of them might very well defect to the competitor's software.

And a lot of software you use gets updated all the time, you just don't notice. Performance bugs get fixed, memory leaks patched, and UI quirks, that you may not have run into, are removed.
I don’t think anyone is saying that those idiosyncratic details have no local impact whatsoever just that over the long run they mostly get filtered out as noise.
Here's a take from Roman Elizarov (Kotlin bias) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zluKcazgkV4

I imagine a lot of the missing structured concurrency will get built up over time on the Java side, but it is an interesting talk regardless.
My sister (a new mom) is loving the community Mom's groups bring to her life. She admitted to me that if it wasn't for the FANGA money, she prefers to be a stay-at-home mom.
Separate chain for a different Django example, it only natively supports joins on explicit foreign keys, but because it has that extra information in the model the syntax for using it is extremely compressed. Let's say you have a "Dog" table with a foreign key to "Owner", and "Owner" has a foreign key to "City". Getting all the dogs that live in New York would be:

Dog.objects.filter(owner__city__name = 'New York')

The double-underscore follows the foreign keys until the last one, which is a field on the last model.
I assumed the article meant that this was people whose vision had changed (so no longer had correct prescription) or cataracts.

> LASIK surgery has been widely popular for just over 20 years now. I'd be interested to see how permanently corrected vision factored into this study, and how the results might change over time as we have more elderly who underwent LASIK at younger ages.

Lasik can correct an astigmatism or other curvature problem but cannot do anything about presbyopia (which by definition affects older people) as that is a loss of ability to change the shape of the eyeball. That's why older people need reading glasses even if they otherwise still have 20/20 vision.
yes and mysql has an enormous install base.
Shopify Hydrogen 2 (Remix) framework support on Vercel
Jesus. This is a kind of terrifying post. Feels like a pretty grim prediction of the world a couple of years from now as AI usage increases.
Also it seems that the "mute" button is somewhat broken or something - I have ~10 extensions and when I click "mute" on some extension, it will toggle mute on the second to the last.

Repeated clicking results in loop of 1) muting second to the last extension 2) muting the extension I'm actually clicking 3) unmuting second to the last and 4) unmuting the one I'm clicking :-D

It is quite hard to describe, I may create a video and upload it somewhere later.
Timing is the whole thing though really
What would most managers do without office drama and ass on seats to lord over and call into drab multi-hour meetings?

Actually do some productive work?
Arranged marriages.
Crypto scams on Twitter led to $872k in losses a year, new study finds
> there’s no such thing as “The Agile”

There is a religion called "The Agile", I would say. Agile coaches are their priests.
Anecdotally it feels that there are growing subsets of people in this country who view the traditional nuclear family as something that must be dismantled as part of the "old system". I imagine it'd be quite difficult to push that notion nowadays.
Why not? It's worked throughout history. Men and women working together to make the world a better place.
The department, if I've found it correctly on the sheet, has very few students enrolled in it but logs tens of thousands of credit hours a year: this is presumably mostly students taking a foreign language course as part of general education requirements. I imagine that's where the bulk of the tuition income allocated to the department is coming from.

Presumably the idea is something like, if we axe the department, we dump 16 tenure-track and 32 total FTEs and something like 60 students lose their program: good trade. You just write off the linguistics and TESOL programs completely along with the handful of foreign language majors, and you figure that you can give out uhhhh... Duolingo credits to the students in other programs that cared about their foreign language/lit classes and keep them around.

Of course you're abandoning the pretense of really being a university and offering well-rounded education and broad opportunities and all that... but at least you can keep all the administrators.
From Walter Isaacson’s "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life":

On June 21, after he had finished a draft and incorporated some changes from Adams, Jefferson had a copy delivered to Franklin, with a cover note far more polite than editors generally receive today. "Will Doctor Franklin be so good as to peruse it," he wrote, "and suggest such alterations as his more enlarged view of the subject will dictate?"

Franklin made only a few small changes, but one of them was resounding. Using heavy backslashes, he crossed out the last three words of Jefferson’s phrase, "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" and changed it to read: "We hold these truths to be self-evident."

The concept of "self-evident" truths came less from Jefferson’s favored philosopher, Locke, than from the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of Franklin’s close friend David Hume. Hume had distinguished between "synthetic" truths that describe matters of fact (such as "London is bigger than Philadelphia" ) and "analytic" truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition. ("The angles of a triangle equal 180 degrees" or "All bachelors are unmarried." ) When he chose the word "sacred," Jefferson had suggested intentionally or unintentionally that the principle in question the equality of men and their endowment by their creator with inalienable rights was an assertion of religion. By changing it to "self-evident," Franklin made it an assertion of rationality.”
They employ about half the jobs in America, so yeah.
Do you have a source? That is really interesting if so! I'll plug my car in more often then.

I remember seeing Elon Musk say that our Model 3 was rated for 1500 recharge cycles. Our warranty is for 70% capacity after 8 years or 120k miles. That hints to me that cycling is the main cause of degradation.

https://www.tesla.com/support/vehicle-warranty
There's a lot of different things that happen to the body at altitude.

For example: The kidneys take over shunting some wastes out that your lungs can't breathe out due to the thinning atmosphere. This means you urinate more which drags electrolytes with it and likely other things.

I couldn't begin to guess what might be going on with you based on what little you have said.
Weird claim. Most of open source software that I use is small scale and not backed by any institution.
you must think that layoffs only occur because of over hiring. i've seen departments that are profitable like the TFA, but because of issues in a different department that is closer to management's interest, other departments are decimated to cover the shortcomings.

however, to me, management not recognizing that head count is unrealistic is still a management problem.
I have been watching for that as well, but as of yet there is no sign of it in the Fed's National Financial Conditions Index [1]. Financial conditions are continuing to slowly loosen. But things can change quickly.

[1] https://www.chicagofed.org/research/data/nfci/current-data
I know that corporate-sponsored media would have you believe your work acquaintances are your family and your one true source of friends, but it's just not the case, and if you drink that kool-aid, ultimately it's you and your children who lose.
Can you admit that you just moved your own goalposts here? Your claim was literally that monads were invented rather than discovered.
The only viable adblocker is uBlock Origin.

There are several clones that are trying to piggyback on that name though. You have to go for the original one - the one from Raymond Hill (or gorhill)!
Wow,this world...

Is it really true that people will do anything?
"world class garbage" ?
No, I think it's us folks farting in office chairs with headphones on that don't have a personal life.
Agree. Give governments money, get less back now with strings attached.
The problem is you think the left isn't full of regressive powers.

You, in the left, have failed because you're guilty of what you claim others are doing and do so while calling anyone you disagree with "nazi's" and "racists". making those "slurs" worth less than the promises you're failing to kill us all with.
My wife is a mom full time by choice - and because we can afford ot. She goes to play dates, she gives yoga lessons, is part of a bookclub, etc.

Tired of the old "no life for the caregiver" trope. If I had a choice, between slaving away to enrich y rich CEO or take care of my kids my choice would be easy.
It’s shocking how much this gets thrown around, yet there are countless people who are alive only because someone from the government showed up to help. A democratic government is no more or less corrupt then the people they serve.
A lot of the small businesses near me are already collapsing, though it seems a lot of that is delayed downfall from Covid.
You cannot be fired for going on strike, and an employer is required to reinstate you post-strike unless they have a "bonafide replacement" (e.g. they can't have hired a contractor, and afaict if the position reopens [presumably with limits?] they're required to offer it to you).

Simply stopping work doesn't count, it sounds like you have to go through a formal process of notice, including collective demands, and an agreement to return to work following agreement or a good faith negotiated contract. Of course the benefit of unions is that they have experience in ensuring a strike is legal, and providing legal assistance - in some cases unions can provide financial support for strikers (otherwise you trivially get to a "I just hold out until they lose their homes/children starve" state where strikes are irrelevant)

From various legal firms it _sounds_ like you don't need a union to strike, but your strike still needs to be legal (there are illegal strikes).

Of course it goes without saying, but I am not a lawyer, and am just going from the NLRB site and various law firms websites (on both worker and employer sides).
Sure, but what about during his term in office? IIRC, the claims that his term was volatile started in 2016 without grounds.
>Overly sneering.

Of course it is... if the author said to you in real life, at a party, "I've been working on a book called X and it roughly follows this thesis", a regular person wouldn't immediately take your tone, it's an entirely online persona, and if it's not, then it's not well socially adjusted.

Ridicule has it's place, but you're acting like the author is pretending that the Great Man Theory doesn't exist and is trying to hoodwink the reader.

>with chapters named "How Elon Musk made engineering cool again"

I mean the chapter was about the dual falcon landings and the tesla in space, both cool things that captured mainstream media attention. Not controversial to say so. Hyperbole if it depicted it as a lone wolf Elon Musk effort, but it's a Chapter title, not something to get exited over.

>deserve ridicule.

Hey if that's how you wanna direct your precious time, go for it. Seems author is a political scientist type figure. I usually take their musings with a heavy pinch of salt, but I don't really go as out of my way as you do to get hot and bothered and treat it like it's a crime against the zeitgeist that it's taking up a few KB of bandwidth.
"criminal charges were dismissed against Henry, Schooley, and Miles because inadmissible evidence had been presented to the grand jury.[54][55][56] The judge's ruling reprimanded state attorneys for presenting the Xtreme Waterparks episode to jurors as fact, instead of as a "fictional and dramatized version of events created for entertainment purposes,"[57] and expert witnesses for claiming that the designers of the slide were negligent in not following ASTM standards, though the law at the time did not require that those standards be followed.[58][59]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verr%C3%BCckt
Do you think your reasoning also holds up in the rest of western society where university is mostly tax-funded and needs to optimize for efficient use of funds?
Came to this headline thinking "Please be about something other than running DOSBox on a Mac".

But indeed, this is fairly novel. It's about running 32 bit i386 binaries in long mode (yeah, on a mac/Rosetta) via setting the compatibility/word-size bits in the code segment using an LDT.

FWIW, from the article:

> (PS: I love how the "base" address is chopped up into pieces and sprinkled into random seeming places. I believe it's because the format of this data was itself evolved over time across processor versions.)

Sort of. The descriptor table was added in the 286 which only had 16 bit registers. The segment base/limit fields there were natural and clean. The 386 needed to squeeze in the top bits somewhere without otherwise wasting memory or breaking compatibility.
> and they can be quite useful

That's a bit of an understatement, seeing as it's... I mean is it even possible to write a non-trivial application without accidentally implementing a monad?

Most people write monads all the time, and then their head explodes when someone calls it by its name.
Well, Mr White, if you look at all of the "weirdness" in physics with theories coming out because "the math says it's possible", then you'd see that it would be much more simple if we were not allowed to have negative numbers because we're only using u64 integers. we'd have more digits for precision as well.
My mental model for this phenomenon is that great men aren't single human beings, but more like a corporation or a brand.

Many supposed "great visionaries" simply formed a team that collectively had the vision that we attribute to the leader.

Steve Jobs had Jony Ive

George Lucas had Ralph McQuarrie

Christopher Nolan had Hans Zimmer

Etc..

I'm sure there's many more who's names aren't public enough to have become general knowledge, but the point is that great generals don't win wars by themselves. They have trusted officers, which in turn have trusted men. The figurehead is just that. They may be important in the sense that they attract the best officers and the bravest soldiers, but in the end, they could not "do it on their own" in any sense.
They’re in a family that is fittingly known as the long tailed-tits now. They aren’t very closely related to parids, they’re closer to Eurasian warblers.

The family has a single member that lives in North America, the Bushtit. Members of one of the Aeghitalos genera from Asia, Leptopoecile, are incredibly beautiful.

This is a White-browed Tit-warbler:
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/109312751
in retrospect, do they both seem to have been test scenarios for features subsequently picked up by Java?
I'm repeating myself from another thread but ah well! It has that nice parallel to Erlang too where the calls look distinct: `f()` for function call, `F()` for anonymous function call! All that to say that I agree and I also like the dot syntax :)
Lol you guessed it. I actually like vertx over spring in general. the rxjava is the real problem.
> (Please note that while the word “Scrum” has been kept intact in the quoted comments, the reader should make no distinction between Scrum and Agile. The corporate world makes no distrinction, and we should not give others the defense of blameshifting to a framework)

The first few I see are specifically about aspects of the scrum framework, even if the word used is "agile". The correct response to those issues at least, would be too highlight that there are other versions of agile that aren't scrum and advocate for trying those instead - which is the exact opposite approach.

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Also the point of agile is flexibility rather than efficiency or throughout. Favoring flexibility means delivery erring on the side of overcommunication and is inherently prone to micromanagement.

Addressing that issues is also not served by telling people that can ignore everything if they're one of the few that knows that agile isn't limited to just scrum.
I've wondered how blackholes have a similar 2d shape as with hurricanes and whirlpools where the center is empty. What if the inside of a blackhole is devoid of all things including spacetime, although that doesn't make good scifi.
I didn't mean I would literally filter the email into a shorter email. I just wouldn't send an email.
Maybe the problems in Chicago's education are outside of the scope of the teachers?
Sync by Steven Strogatz
The algorithms of all major search, social and media platforms favor open source projects which are developed by or backed by major platforms. A project cannot propagate without exposure to users and the major platforms decide which projects will have exposure to users.
I mean it really depends on your personal experience to how your perspective or "where we are now" feels. It's not like everyone is even remotely concerned with or benefitting from this "advancement."

A lot of the so called progress has done nothing but destroyed and distort an enjoyable and peaceful existence.
> IPv6 doesn't have the concept of "broadcast".

Indeed. It has magic fairies delivering multicast packets to the right interfaces.

> No, ND uses multicast.

How do you think multicast is implemented in Ethernet?