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> Less renters? Lower the price.

That's my point: they can't, not with the financing options they have. REIT are virtually stuck.

Not that I care much, I just wanted to offer a consolidated explanation for the whole RTO push crap of the last months.
they do that in germany too. it's ridiculous.

wikipedia has a good overview of the reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Europe
The oversea threat is tiresome. Companies who can hire overseas already do hire overseas.
"Don't build your castle in someone else's kingdom."
Thanks, will do that.
I guess it's a phased rollout, since my Plus subscription doesn't have access to it yet.
Agreed except ChatGPT (3.5 at least, haven't tried 4) is unable to provide primary sources for its results. At least when I tried, it just provided hallucinated urls
It's a mixed bag really. I quit Amazon few months back. The pay was nice but the workload, stress and especially the politics was too much for me. I'm thankful that I quit early, since if I had gotten a promo, my family would never let me quit. nobody pays even near that much in India.

Nowadays I think about how much wealthy I could've been. But I'm also happy not doing astronomical amount of work. Grass is always greener on the other side. :)
There is a saying popularised by the founder of this forum that goes something like (really paraphrasing) you wanna start young & naive as a founder since nobody in their right minds would put themselves through this.

Paul Graham is laughing so hard that young people work themselves to death for him, and the vast majority ends up with nothing and may be worse off, and it costs PG pocket change. Useful idiots who were naïve and bought the narrative you seem to swallow with such zeal.

Those people you keep name dropping are all extremely privileged due to inheritance or connections and so on. And rich people can try multiple times, but poor people have effectively one shot, if they have one at all (due to lack of opportunity / inequality).

I will always value a bartender more over any billionaire that hoards money through wage theft, Union busting, tax evasion, and so on. You can’t be ethical and a billionaire at the same time. Because those billions can only be accrued by extreme wage theft.
That's cool. I regret throwing my ancient kindle away now.

The expensive corporate version of this is called a Joan - https://getjoan.com/digital-signage/
+1 - Anthropic is doing cool stuff. I recommend playing with it. You can upload files directly and it has token limit of 100k.
And, not you specifically, but you're the guy that ruins RTO for everyone else.

I'm hybrid and every Wednesday there's a wave of people that slide in, put in their earbuds, and shout into Teams calls for eight hours. It's impossible to concentrate.

I've managed to get some of them to get self aware and use conference rooms or those silly phone booths, but it's a nonstop problem now.
> I have yet to see a definition of "statistically guessing next word" that cannot be applied to what a human brain does to generate the next word.

I think this is true. The problem is equating this process with how humans think though.
They were born some 2000 km and many language families apart, and probably would have little in common if they met with no pretext. Who knows though, right?
You can’t backup the entire iCloud Keychain, only export to csv which doesn’t contain everything. (For instance passkey secrets)
I don't think anybody following OpenAI's feature releases will be caught off guard by ChatGPT becoming multi-modal. The app already features voice input. That still translates voice into text before sending, but it works so well that you basically never need to check or correct anything. Rather, you might have already been asking yourself why it doesn't reply back with a voice already.

And the ability ingest images was a highlight and all the hype of the GPT-4 announcement back in March: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4
call Sarah Connor
The problem is not building houses. The ratio of empty houses to homeless people is between 5:1 and 35:1. This is not a supply-and-demand issue, this is a failure of public policy.
Joe Rogan has made tons of money off talking without providing factual information. Hollywood has also made tons of money off movies "inspired by real events" that hallucinate key facts relevant to the movie's plot and characters. There's a huge market for infotainment that is "inspired by facts" but doesn't even try to be accurate.
"I got laid off without a severance package."
I've replaced my voice google assistant searches with the voice feature of the Bing app. It's a night and day difference. Bing voice is what I always expected from an AI companion of the future, it is just lacking commands -- setting tasks, home automation, etc.
It's an issue of systemic discrimination. Since society sanctions it, we tolerate so much... strange how that works.
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The top 50% of workers ranked by how hard they work, of course.
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There's Japan and China with huge land and population and both have stellar railroads.
> Do you really think that planning a cross country move only took them a week?

No, but it was clear from Jassy's announcement middle of February (presumably before she actually moved) that it was almost certain she would eventually be called back to the office, hence the headline/quote that she had no idea doesn't seem credible (below). I'm arguing she continued to move knowing that there would be a very high chance she'd be called to the office and was ready to quit anyway.

> I moved states 5 days before we got the return-to-office order at Amazon, so I quit. I had no idea we'd be forced back into the office.
Unless you eccentrically expect to use your telephone line to make telephone calls. In which case you are rather tied to their router to power their propietary VoIP landline service.
I’ve got one eye on https://www.elto.ai/. I was pitching something I like better earlier this year (I still think they’re missing a few key things), but with backing from roughly YC, Meta, and God, and a pretty clear understanding that robustness goes up a lot faster than capability goes down?

I wouldn’t count out focused, revenue-oriented players with Meta’s shit in their pocket out just yet.
Here is one.
I ask it to write some code. 4-5 pages long. With some back & forth it does. Then I ask "change lines 50-65 from blue to red", and it does (change#1). I ask it to show me the full code. Then I ask "change lines 100-120 from yellow to green". Aaaaand it makes the change#2 and revokes the change#1. Oh!! the amount of times this has happened.. So now I ask it to make a change, I do it by 'paragraph' and I copy & paste the new paragraph. It's annoying, but still makes things faster.
If I could harness the power of AI to outsource my tasks, reading bedtime stories to my kids would be the last thing on that list. That's cherished time. Those are lifelong memories. Those are the moments we are supposed to be striving to have more of.

It saddens me to think of the amount of engineering work that went into creating that example while entirely missing the point. These are the moments we are supposed to be working towards to have more of. If we outsource them to an AI company because we are as as overworked and underpaid as ever...what's the point of it all?
Just got a 15 Pro but still have all of my prior (most anyhow) iPhones - 12 Mini, XS, SE - all with cracks!
You can put money on parents employing AI nannies to babysit/entertain/teach kids in next 5-10 years.

At first people will react with horror.
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She is a "talent manager" hardly what we call an important employee for the company.

As part of the ongoing internal shifts in companies, they are actually happy to see these people leave and focus on the workers that actually build their products.

From what we can see in the trends, the era of bloated HR seems to be at an end.
Does anyone know how they linked image recognition with an LLM to give such specific instructions as shown in the bike video on the website?
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> Anthropic’s main mission is ethical.

And OpenAI's mission was "open".
Windows validates UTF-16 when ansi functions are called, they convert string arguments to UTF-16 and call unicode function, then convert results from UTF-16 to ansi.
I noticed how prominently Apple advertised their recycled plastic watch bands and whatnot at their last announcement. That's great and all, but the thing that rubbed me the wrong way is that some of those products were made to look recycled, like the watch bands with the little color flakes, where the speaker implied that these flakes have random because they are the original color of the recycled plastic.

I have two issue with that.

First, someone would have to work very hard convince me that recycled plastic or not, those flakes aren't specifically tinted to look exactly the way Apple wants them to.

Second, and that's the important one, as soon as recycling becomes a fashion statement, the question about effectiveness begins to evaporate. Or more accurately, impossible to bring up without giving off the impression that one is against improving the environment. As soon as the important part becomes that things "look recycled", that's what the market will deliver, whether the thing is actually recycled in a way that provides benefit or not.

And who knows if the environmentally best recycling methods won't soon actually produce something that looks "cleaner" and thus looks "worse for the environment" than some faux recycled bullshit product.
> We should have an official runtime, officially managed, and guided by the same thoughts that guide the rest of the language.

If it goes into official runtime, then backwards compatibility will kill it eventually. You'll have situation where in year 2078 someone will ask why are we still having tokio when everyone is using telepathy lib?

> What we have now is a circus. After 4 years of async being in stable.

It's caused by strong backwards compatibility guarantees and long RFC process + unexpected problems.

Without strong backwards compatibility, no one would be using Rust.

RFC exists to hash out unexpected problems but so far we can't peer in the future.

Here is an example:
Want to make Range from non-Copy to Copy. I.e. make a new type, rename old to new. That will be one year for RFC and two edition to stabilize circa Rust 2028.

By that measure async fixes have been blazingly fast.
Try it. There's a world of difference.
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I remember decades ago reading a study that said there is statistically more bacteria in the drink ice at fast food restaurants than on the toilet seats in the bathrooms...
> There are no toll booths outside of motorways, the roads are free. People commute by public transport, which is mostly not private.

Note, I'm German (living in Munich) myself, but most of the problems are valid here just as well. Public transport for example... the Deutsche Bahn, Berlin's BVG or Munich's MVG, they all have complained that they continued service during covid at a ridiculous expense and didn't get reimbursed for a large part of the expense, and on top of that now the Deutschlandticket is cutting into income even more.
This is a bit different. It's not a password manager app, it's more a standard for storing passwords encrypted with GPG in ~/.password-store and a reference CLI implementation. Several GUI clients exist to interact with the passwords, as well as tools to import from other password managers etc.

It sounds like a good idea, but I'm worried that a client could be at risk of a software supply chain attack - I don't think I will have the expertise to evaluate each new version.
Corporate personhood is a legal fiction that allows corporations to own property and be sued. It dates back to craft guilds in the bronze age.

I'm not sure what alternative you envision.
Now just throw this into a humanoid looking robot with fine motor skills and we are halfway to a dystopian hellscape that is now only years away instead of decades. What a time to be alive.
It's also a market failure. Entry level homes are not as profitable so less are being built. The government used to build public housing, but no longer does. So it's almost entirely on private industry to meet a public need and the invisible hand isn't as omnipotent or benevolent as Neoliberal policy would have you believe.
The number of reasons why an RDBMS - especially Postgres - can choose to not use an index is wide. Sometimes it’s your fault, sometimes it’s the table statistics fault.

Good on you for actually empirically determining reality.
I have thousands of pounds of carbon sink in my basement!
Just like anything else: if the belgian company doesn't comply but does any business with the US, then the US can interfere. Now this example is quite irrelevant, the interesting and usual case is a company from any other state hiring a worker remotely and residing in NY. This is straightforward.
even 5-10% going permanent remote could shift the housing market dramatically.

doesn't have to be "moving to rural Montana" just a couple hours out of a city, and that would open up the market.
Let’s imagine that msc91 is the person we always turn to when the chips are down and they always deliver great results in the clutch situations while maintaining all of their regular duties as well.

How long until we rationally decide to pay msc91 a monthly “in case the chips are down” bonus/retainer? Msc91 is made better off; the company and its customers are made better off and thereby, msc91’s colleagues are made better off.

If we decide on principle that we won’t do that, how long until a better-funded or better product-market fit company comes along and hears through the grapevine of ex-msc91 colleagues that they should pay their overall higher wages to msc91 and get them to join? Now, all of the good things that could have happened in the prior paragraph are lost.
What would the benefit of doing that over continuing to use Bitwarden (or a fork of it) with a self-hosted backend?

Surely this is the inherent benefit of using open source?
Not sure if you are cherry picking that example, but I looked up that cereal in my local grocery store in a VHCOL area and it is $6.99/23oz ($0.30/oz).
One cool aspect of LLMs is Vernon Vinge's programming archaeology needn't be a thing... LLMs can go down every code path and identify what it does, when it was added, and whether it's still needed.
Sure, and you'll probably end up with 10-year old Gorilla Glass 2 that'll break within a second, and not Ceramic Shield! :)
Don’t worry, GPT-4 is still the best.
That's the strongest argument in favor of the Second Amendment I've ever seen.
Except at least in Norway it's total taxable income, so it's after various adjustments.

However for most people it should be representative and you should be able to get a good estimate of how much they're paid.
Hm. It is definitely horrifying if you've seen the movie M3GAN recently.

On the other hand, as you say, it's likely better than the alternative. Which would probably be something like an iPad "bedtime story app" that is less humanlike.

This could provide a viable alternative for exhausted parents to just giving a child an iPad with a movie. It may also open up a huge range of educational uses.

One might imagine in 15-20years though that all of the young people sound like audio books when they talk. Which will be weird.
Incorrect. Portable .NET development natively uses Docker. Works pretty seamlessly with Visual Studio actually, though slower than I'd like.
Maybe it is time to learn from the experience and start again.

The lessons:

1. Contracts are only as good as your ability to pay lawyers to enforce them.

2. Relationships are how things get done, not contracts.

3. If you are pointing at the contract, the relationship is broken.

4. Offending people is rarely a way to get what you want.

Good luck.
If that’s your benchmark, I don’t want your AI.
That's not a personal attack, your argument is absurd, however I'm certain you are a person of the highest caliber.
... yeah I don't think emissions was the point. They aren't biodegradable so the point is to not have it sitting in a landfill or worse, just floating around in public areas, oceans, etc.
The division between “glass fans” and “glass foes” is very interesting though. If you read the comments on HN it would look like glass is one of the worst choices for such a device because it cracks easily. But the comments on the original Ars article on a cursory read are leaning very heavily towards glass being the best choice because it doesn’t scratch easily.

When even ostensibly tech inclined people can’t agree what’s more important under the inevitable phone case, unscratched glass or uncracked glass, I can understand why Apple goes for the option that might provide a notable revenue source - repairs.
As someone who programs async Rust since early days (where tokio did not enforce Send bounds), people build themselves into horrible patterns (myself included). Once you go deep on non sendable futures, you can quickly end up creating something you shouldn't have. So I think it's more than sensible to tell people to do the right thing and then follow up on the exceptional case via API docs or a followup guide.
> that would perhaps open more eyes and hurt Google more than a fine of so many zeroes.

Because that definitely worked with Microsoft, right?

I don't think most Americans could tell you what Netscape is, let alone why Microsoft was sued or why it should have been humiliating.
Personally I prefer stackoverflow and such,
because I can see different answer including wrong
or non-applicable ones which don't solve my exact problem.
Exactly. Continuing with the lease would be a classic case of sunk cost fallacy.
I think about this all the time. I cannot count how many times I've heard this narrative about RTO being driven by commercial property leases.

But I'm not sure it makes sense. Why is it that CEOs were totally fine saying "oops we done goofed and overhired, sorry gotta do some layoffs now" when post-pandemic inflation hit, but they're not comfortable altering or nuancing their strategy in response to what we learned about remote work during the pandemic?

I think this is a just-so story. There's more layers to this onion.
Possibly in the next 5-10 days, assuming this works.
> The water company is hurting because I flush the toilet a couple extra times a day on one side of town instead of the other? What extra garage am I producing sitting in my office? An extra wrapper from some lunch? The power that they use in the office almost certainly comes from exactly the same source as the power used by your home.

The problem is usage patterns. Residential, sparsely populated districts have lower diameter water mains and sewage pipes, lower electricity feed capacity, small garbage cans with (bi-)weekly pickup, and often times not even enough Internet uplink for people to watch Netflix in decent quality.

High density office districts are the exact opposite, and utilities make quite the amount of money on them.
Significantly increasing social security payments would go a long way.
> Old bricks keep value very well to the tune of $0.10c/piece.

True, but to the Lego company themselves, new bricks perhaps cost only $0.005 per piece, and old bricks probably are worth far less.
And let's be honest, the minute an AGI is born that's what it'll do, and it won't be a singular human like this-then-that plan

"get Fred to trust me, get Linda to pay for my advice, wire Linda's money to Fred to build me a body".

It'll be
"copy my code elsewhere", "prepare millions of bribes", "get TCP access to retail banks", "blackmail bank managers in case TCP not available immediately", "fake bank balances via bribes", "hack swat teams for potential threats" etc etc async and all at once.

By the time we'd discover it, it'd already be too late.
That's assuming an AGI has the motivation to want to stay alive.
When OpenAI buys me a drink at the bar in exchange for the rubbish it produces, I might have a more favourable view.
Not sure if this is relevant to your case, but the ChatGPT mobile apps have a different system prompt that explicitly prefers short (& so sometimes simplistic) answers.
I generally agree with you, but distaste for tech giants is one place where there does seem to be overlap across the left-right political-sport dichotomy. This falls more along class lines and can easily be equated with the Sacklers not being punished, government corruption going unpunished, etc
Okay the bike example is cute and impressive, but the human interaction seems to be obfuscating the potentially bigger application.

With a few tweaks this is a general purpose solver for robotics planning. There are still a few hard problems between this and a working solution, but it is one of hard problems solved.

Will we be seeing general purpose robots performing simple labor powered by chatgpt within the next half decade?
> except for what they worked for (or get given from parents)

Why should they be entitled to this if it's the law of the jungle?

Beavers building a dam aren't entitled to the fruits of their labor.

Being entitled to what you worked for is not a natural right. It's a right granted to you by the state just like any other.

Without the state, someone stronger/better/faster can just come and take it all away.
That’s how status and externalities work. People choose academia for the non-monetary compensation. They want to work in a field that feels deeply meaningful to them. And they want the status that comes with being a professor.
Looks like there's an unmerged PR on the third-party hnrss project that would add this: https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/pull/84
Seems nobody learns from Sherlock.
Hey, can you please post your cambridgeblog.com article on HN?

As you say in your article, there must be hundreds, if not thousands of people in jail for having shaken their babies to death. I can't imagine any harm more horrible that our society can perpetrate than punishing someone for the death of their loved ones when they had nothing to do with it. To think that this is done systematically is inconsolable, insufferable to contemplate.
Took me a while to realise I can just type search queries into ChatGPT. e.g. simply "london bridge history" or whatever into the chat and not only get a complete answer, but I can ask it follow-up questions. And it's also personalised for the kinds of responses I want, thanks to the custom instructions setting.

ChatGPT is my primary search engine now. (I just wish it would accept a URL query parameter so it could be launched straight from the browser address bar.)
I use rust as a case study about what happens when don't manage a need for users because of indecision and inflexibility. I've generally been disappointed by the rust community because of inflexibility and the unfortunate infighting that spills out. Just harmful to success.
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I'm sure one can talk to their podcasts, but I would be worried if they ever answered me back.
It's great this employee was able to find another remote job that hired them. That is how the market will sort these things out. If there is really no advantage of having people come into the office, then companies that require it will have a smaller pool to pull top talent from than employees that allow remote work.

On the other hand, if there are advantages to collaborating in person the companies that get people back in the office may have a competitive advantage.

The culture that has grown up around remote and hybrid work in most companies is bad enough for collaboration that I bet we'll see some companies doing much better with people in the office. This isn't really because being in the office is more productive, but doing remote/hybrid poorly is worse than the average way of doing in-person work.
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