skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing in this article besides the authors feelings are used for why its BS.

Being in the office does have benefits (e.g. if you're a more junior employee or have trouble focusing at home)

Of course it has cons as well,it's up to an individual person whether or not the pros outweigh the cons
Yes, there's a ton of build up but very little tying up at the end of the story.
Lawful but Awful: The Small Cap IPO Cycle
50% stats are based on self-reporting, 8.3% is likely based on financial flows data.
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"Stop drinking or I'll take the kids to my mothers house and file for divorce"

"I don't want to lose myself babe!"
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> Controversial content breeds engagement

It also breeds censorship. I'm allowed to watch a 15-minute long video about Steve-O's experience with PCP, but can't post a picture of my cannabis nug that I just bought (Got an account warning for 15 days because of this). I also got suspended for 15 days for posting a meme I found on Facebook itself.

This is why I'm considering switching to Tumblr for stuff like this. Although Tumblr censored a bunch of NSFW recently, and that's a slippery slope. I'm certain they can ban other types of content just for being slightly controversial.
Most people don’t buy 500 cars or 390 tv. It’s just about reputation and isn’t branding a reputation.

Cars made in foo are good, tv made is bar have bad QA
> What's the point of stating that "it's made in Japan"? I just don't get it.

What I don't get is why this is your main and only takeaway. It's such an odd and surprising reaction.

When I hear, for example, that Linux is being used at a gov site in Brazil or Germany or France - I get quit excited. I like that the FOSS is making inroads in other areas.

With the dominance of Chrome worldwide, I am equally excited that a group of developers from another country are helping push competition in this space, driving home the message of privacy. Mozilla needs it... we all need it for the health of the internet.

These guys have been at this for a while (based on their github page) and have made installers available for the main three OSes. I'm excited to give this a try.
I would really like to see more fortran.
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It’s who is in control, who bears the cost/gets hit with the bad behavior, and who is what level of desperate.

Sounds like Australia is pretty mellow. The US often is not.

In the US, I usually get at least 4-5 spam calls a day (post filtering). I used to get dozens before I setup filtering. Sometimes even two at once!

At one point during the bad days (a year or two ago), after I made the mistake of putting my actual phone number in a .us domain registration (no privacy filters), I got 20+ a day. Usually from India. Sometimes even at 2am!

If the infrastructure provider gets paid for the spam directly or indirectly (USPS, phone system, perhaps Apple too via App Store commissions?) then they’ll only stop the really ridiculous and egregious abusers.

If the end user has some control (either via opting out or via filtering), it can cut it down much more. But without tooling it’s still an uphill battle.

They don’t need the experience to be good, just better than the alternatives. Completely cutting it off is not an acceptable alternative for most.

Your comment about ‘easy to get’ email addresses made me chuckle, because having an actual valid email address is actually a response to early spamming!

It used to be, you could use any email address (or send from any IP), even if it wasn’t valid or deliverable and it would go through. Those days faded quickly.

Then came DNS black lists. Then SpamAssassin, which worked pretty good actually (that was cutting edge), and it started to work in Bayesian filtering + weighting of various lists.

Then Gmail et al. and their proprietary filtering software. Then DKIM, etc.

I’m curious what the options will look like for notifications.

The iOS platform controls are problematic as it makes it hard to explore the space of options organically via third party apps (a SpamAssassin for App notifications would be awesome!).

All the focus hacks and weird rules are just too complicated for almost anyone to understand, hence the ‘DND all the time’. It would be like manual blacklist curation for email. Maybe they’ll allow a pluggable integration point there, like password managers for passwords?

At some point a critical mass of users will start DND’ng all the time, or it will even start becoming ‘cool’ to just not have a phone at all or something, and the platform folks will have to start taking a stand.
You are on solid grounding to say that this isn't exactly new. Not uncommon to have wash sales of real estate or general art pieces. Probably more common to have books and such "bought" to increase the sales ranking driven up.

That said, stock buyback is very different. They are buying back their stock from people that bought it previously. The whole point is to reduce circulation of stock, and for that you have to reduce volume out there, which means not introducing new stock that you buy at a higher price. (Which, could be done, but is unlikely to make much sense.)

A lot of this is from misunderstandings on how stock makes money for companies. Many assume that "Meta price up means they have more money," but as they have not released new stock in a while, prices of existing shares going up doesn't really do much for them as a company.
I'm not surprised, part of the lessons of this great experiment imo is a lot of jobs aren't actually important and are just part of empire building efforts and HEADCOUNT. Real actual work gets done by a few people, and a lot of these organizations have absolutely no idea who those people are, in office or not.

Agreed on your last paragraph, no one wants to say that, and just making everyone RTO seems to be the less offensive way to accomplish the goal: control of an employee's time. The alternative that they will go with next is probably employee spyware, in fact I imagine it's already in use at many companies.
No, the penalties for first DUI are far more harsh than test refusal in CA.

Test refusal with 0 DUIs: 48 extra hours in jail; six extra months of required DUI school; 1-year driver’s license suspension

1st misdemeanor DUI: up to 6 months in jail, $390-1000 fine, 6 months IID, 3-9 months of DUI school.
I think you are both right. An ultimatum can be a demand for someone to stop destructive behavior, but it's more often a demand to fall in line, with the idea that you are replaceable if you don't.

I think the latter is what OP referenced, if someone is telling you "it's my way or the highway" and they are OK with the highway option, you should listen. They are telling you exactly how much you are valued (or not), as well communicating that they feel they are in no uncertain terms above you.
Amazon[0], for one. But they're not the only ones -- it does happen occasionally, mostly when a company makes a blanket policy "no more remote work, everyone back to the office!" (which makes less sense for those employees who were never at any point in an office to begin with). The author of the linked article for this HN post wrote:

> I had been hired in 2019 for the cryptography team at a large tech company. I was hired as a 100% remote employee, with the understanding that I would work from my home in Florida. Then a pandemic started to happen (which continues to be a mass-disabling event despite what many politicians proclaim).

In the Re: Amazon article linked at the bottom of my post, the employee says:

> Now I'm being told I need to move to Seattle or switch teams, or I'm out of a job. I moved to this area 13 years ago. I own a house here. My partner has a career here. I've built a home here.

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-leaving-over...
This is what's happened over and over and over, for decades, every time an AV company switched to a new heuristic engine. It has nothing to do with Microsoft being under pressure, this is literally what to expect from AV solutions on the regular. More folks knew this back when AV wasn't tightly integrated into Windows and we all ran at least two different AV applications all the time, but the "a new version is going to flag things it shouldn't" behaviour has been a given for coming up to 50 years now =)

(Which is why you set your AV to quarantine, not delete items, so you can overrule it immediately, make it put the data it flagged back where it belongs, and send a false positive report so the next update, which can be as soon as the next day, won't repeat the mistake)
Something I never see mentioned is that business leadership is rarely just in it for the money. For some people, power over others isn't a responsibility. For some people, the power they feel from managing people is THE goal of work.

So yeah, of course corporate politicians want RTO. Exercising power in a WFH company, even when they still hold power over someones life, is an abstract, intellectual thing. But the people who need power, need it at an emotional, visceral level. They need those IRL interactions to satisfy their ID. It's gross, but it needs to be said because some people are sweet and naive to the nature of those who pursue power.

And even grosser, men specifically often pursue careers of power with an additional motivation: They get something out of their professional relationships with women that they can't get from their non-professional relationships with women. They can get this without breaking the law, upsetting HR, or even do something worthy of being canceled. I'm glad we live in an era where most of these sharks are afraid to prey, but throwing young people in a shark infested waters is still... well, quite a bit more than just bullshit. IMO, pandering to these mediocre monsters is morally indefensible. Especially accounting for the environmental impacts (doubling of personal co2 emissions.)
Isolated subinterpreters (PEP 684): Just how isolated are those? Is it simply a more complicated version of multiprocessing, with all the same drawbacks (communication via pipes/socket/some-other-stream)?
What kind of non-fiction?
Yeah. The other day, I asked a clarifying question that led to a long email chain among non-technical employees. Of course, the various VPs refer to each other by name, but when the resulting email chain got forwarded to me, I see that I was referred to merely as "the dev." It really hammered home for me that these people will never see me as their equal. I am just a nameless, fungible "resource" despite my decade+ of experience.
I'm a big fan of Chromebooks, but I do find myself wondering at the direction they are heading. I hope they stand by traditional Googley values of open and interactive, rather than a more Apple approach of locking things down.

I'm really, amazingly happy that they added Linux support. Are the kernel contributions and other things that make the Chromebook battery life so good being upstreamed? Are they super specific to Chromebook hardware or is that something that benefits all Linux users?

With all the AI stuff being added "directly to ChromeOS", is the OS getting more locked down and less owner-hackable? If one enables dev mode, do you lose access to features?
Unmetered 10+ gigabit connections were on the order of $1/mbit/mo wholesale over a decade ago when I priced out a custom CDN so for the cost of 100 TB of data transfer out of AWS you could get a 24/7 sustained 10gbit/s (>3 PB per month at 100% utilization).

Bandwidth has always been crazy cheap.
This practice is not slimy by the airline because everyone is getting exactly what they paid for. The passengers to Melbourne are getting a flight to Melbourne. The passengers to Adelaide are getting a flight to Adelaide.

The government is getting the industry protection from international competition that it wanted by banning the airlines from selling flights from Melbourne to Adelaide to fill the seats.

The airline wants to minimize empty seats and the government wants to allow domestic airlines to extract excess profit by protecting domestic airlines from competition but DGAF about empty seats. Therefore it is the governments fault that there are empty seats.
>They've proven they can make it work and that they know what works

If that were the case there wouldn't be a push to return to the office. There is a difference between making it through an event like COVID vs making forward business progress. Certainly there's a place for remote work but the higher you go in management the more you see the holes remote work creates. Realistically, employees should push hard for return to office and then no work out of the office. The reality is that as the job market tightens the expectation is going to be in office AND work from home. Vacation days will morph into work from home days. An expectation to answer emails after hours is already turning into an expectation to be online and available for zoom calls much later than normal working hours.
The Azure SDK generally have a lot of silliness in the Python implementation. Functions that take string as inputs, except of course they don't, they take two or three very specific string values and use them to control functionality. What those values are... Well, you should take a look at the ENUM in the C# implementation to figure that part out.
Oh, they put it in writing. Then they wrote something else.
> It's also not unreasonable for people to expect more from their job than a simple transaction.

This. Finding the balance is challenging.

- It is often unhealthy to expect too much from work.

- most software/hardware tech employers ask employees to be more than contractors and to care more than just a paycheck

- at the same time we see corporate decisions that are largely shortsighted, and sometimes even self-defeating.

I don’t have a history of belonging to a union, nor promoting worker-owned cooperatives, but I am a student (so to speak) of public policy and history. To use political economy terminology, we often see misaligned incentives: people with a little technical experience, calling the shots on everything from where we work (office, remote, etc) to how we work (remember cubicles? They were better than open office for anyone like me.)

Software and hardware engineers have been a key differentiating factor for tremendous technological advancement and meteoric corporate growth. Why don’t we have more influence on how we work at the least?

One key aspect seems damning: could it be because for most of us, as we get successful, we don’t pay it forward? And where are the ‘politically active’ retired engineers? Many of us cash out and become investors ourselves. I suppose we get working on other interesting technical problems and treat the lack of workplace control as immutable? To some extent, I’ve seen the problem and it is us.

Or maybe the business world is structured so that being “just a worker” relegates you to a second class status. Maybe there’s no point in hoping even a group of 1,000 of the relatively wealthy of us (to throw out a number: let’s say we define that as having net worth over $2M in the USA) could’ve made a difference? But I know this isn’t true; I largely notice a gaping hole where collective organizing could be.

Of course, there’s plenty blame to go ‘round. Anyone who seeks venture-capital has to make a Faustian bargain, trading a blood infusion for improbable expectations of growth.

The tech industry has grown so rapidly, adding people at a breakneck pace, that maybe we don’t think of this as being important. New SW/HW hires at least get paid well, we tell ourselves, even if they don’t really get to shape or work places as much as we should.

Our negotiating power is not as strong as it once was, and it isn’t getting any better, in my view. Will we act? Soon? Ever?
Give it time. The (RTO) companies are on the wrong side of history. Ideally these mandates are something the (employment) market will never forget. It will be interesting to see in the near future how many of the RTO execs at these companies will be whining about their struggles finding talent and/or having to pay a premium to attain and return the level of talent they need.

Of course few, if any of these execs will admit they got it wrong. That the root of the problem was their heavy-handed mandates and how they compromised the brand in the (employment) market.
That just isn't really something I wanted to do. I was in a privileged enough position where I could choose to leave so I did when it became convenient. Not everyone can do that and the new policies may put them in a bind.
Very few students pay full tuition for the elite (first tier) private schools. They have large enough endowments to offer generous financial aid. Plus the students who can gain admission based on merit often qualify for additional scholarships from other organizations.

The students who accumulate crippling debt usually attended second and third tier private colleges. Those are generally a terrible value.
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"Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the United States were $870 billion in 2019–20 (in constant 2021–22 dollars)"

That does not include college funding.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
> no reason

Sounds like motivated reasoning.

There are valid reasons for RTO like better communication or even better control over employees. It's a question of trade-offs.
Thank you for speaking up. I have to say for me it's the same.
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” - Vladimir Lenin

Sometimes it takes a black swan event to reveal how broken something is and how things could be better another way.

It used to be the norm in the US for children to be allowed to work in coal mines and factories too (apparently in 1900, 18 percent of all American workers were children under the age of 16[1]), but after some photos were taken of them exposing just how bad the situation had gotten, it helped shift public support to pass legislation barring child labor. Nowadays I doubt hardly anyone would be in support of that now.[2]

[1]: https://www.history.com/news/child-labor-lewis-hine-photos

[2]: https://energyhistory.yale.edu/child-labor-pennsylvania-coal...
> The games industry’s “profit at any cost” mentality cannot be sustained.

I'm confused. How does this writer believe businesses exist?

A quick google suggests the game had an all-in 60m loss. And every year they continue to operate it, they have to pay a static amount of money to Disney. For licensed content, I'm not sure why you wouldn't just kill it? For in-house content, sure, you're only paying for maintenance which you can scale up/down. But for licensed content you have to pay the owner their due regardless of the game's success.
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And they don't say who it is, so this falls short of the "precisely" qualifier.
Oh, I am very in favor of "everyone should have their own desk, preferably with walls and a door," and I wonder how many of the people who like WFH are because they didn't have that in the office. I really don't get the whole open office idea; I thought it was a cost-saving thing, but where I work they converted a large conference room into small offices and the per-office cost wasn't that bad.

If you're really penny-pinching, I think if you asked programmers if they wanted to skip an upgrade cycle on their workstation in exchange for an office, you might get a few takers...
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