skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that one of the major points of tension is that many of the benefits of RTO are contingent on having virtually (no pun intended…) everyone in the same place to, e.g., foster serendipitous collaboration. If 30-80% of those that you work with aren’t in the same office on a given day, for various hybrid reasons, so many of the frictions of all-remote remain: meetings still need to be zoom, you probably won’t have enough team members for an impromptu working session, encounters in the hall or cafeteria are rare… This still comes with all the downsides of both the office (high costs, meeting room conflicts, commute) and all the downsides of the fully remote workforce that you mention, and some new ones, like people sorting into office people and remote people, which has implications for visibility and influence.

So, the options seem to be “require nearly full-time office work” or “accept that the office is merely a coworking and offsite location”, but the latter still brings all the costs. This leads us to the trend toward greater and greater RTO, with no desire for control required, though I agree with the author that this seems to be a component in practice.
I believe that long-arc moral ideas are debatable when applied to history. I personally don't believe it and unless we want to get into some deep discussion on history, politics and metaphysics we are unlikely to get anywhere. But I respect the position when applied in a correct context.

However, it is another thing to apply a supposed multi-generational trend, one that requires us to "step back" as you say, to the tactics of an individual playing the social media game. It's like the difference between the tide and an individual wave in the middle of the ocean.
You certainly have a lot of charisma and charm. I’m shocked that nobody would date you.
See also "Life at Low Reynolds Number" - viscosity becomes exdtremely important at the small scale. https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gold/pdfs/purcell.pdf
Ask HN: What are your hacks to learn faster?
Now it’s immoral to deflate the housing bubble?
$1000 is an order of magnitude less than the negotiable range for most white collar workers' salary. It's completely rounding error.
The GDPR text this is one of those exceptions where it is not broken.

But you can rest assured that GDPR enforcement is and will remain totally broken. If GDPR was actually enforced there wouldn't be tracking-targeted ads etc in EU at all, because very very few people actually want them. And why would they?
Is it fascinating? Seems pretty obvious to me, you've got things that are good and things that are bad and you want to find the dividing line between them, why pick something central to either group that doesn't illuminate the boundary between them?
If you limit your talent pool to people who live around your office, you won't be able to compete with people who hire the best talent anywhere in the world.
The 6501 was pin compatible with the 6800, but had its own instruction set. After the lawsuit, the pins changed and we got the 6502. This meant that if you enabled 6800 support on the Apple 1 you could drop in a 6501 and use it with software made for the 6502. If you were really ambitious you could use a 6800 but then you'd have to write a new monitor ROM. There's no evidence that this was done at the time, but about 10 years ago someone did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag6pWUhps7U
What are your requirements? We see some people switching from InfluxDB to QuestDB. Common reasons include SQL support (InfluxDB strategy is a bit confusing here), performance and issues with high-cardinality in InfluxDB.

Full Disclosure: I work for QuestDB and I am obviously biased.
You should have pointed out that her view is self-serving. if you are a hostage negotiator (retired even or whatever), it's natural to argue that we will still negotiate with terrorists. Just like programmers argue about whether we'll still have a job even as ai gets better and better ;-)
I actually agree with so much of what this article says, but I come to a slightly different conclusion.

I don't think it's about power, I think it's about effort and risk. In a remote culture that works employees need different things than they do at an in person culture. Most executives know what works in an in person culture because they've been doing it for years or decades (clarification: "what works" doesn't mean everyone loves their job, just that work is getting done and the business is making money). Switching to a remote culture requires them to learn new things, take risks, make mistakes, and possibly fail. Doing all those things takes time, effort, and money. On top of that, there really hasn't been anything that definitively says how much more productive (if any) employees are in a remote culture. I'm know there are a few small case studies, but there doesn't seem to be any industry wide consensus yet and it's easy to look at those and say "this doesn't translate to how we work".

Everyone has someone they answer to and it's hard to make the case that a company should step in to the unknown which may cost a company millions of dollars when they have a tried and true alternative (in office work). I'm absolutely certain remote work can work at scale, but I think there's a catch 22 at these large companies. For remote work to work, it requires buy in and commitment from leadership, but no one wants to champion that at large companies because they don't have proof that it can work.

I think you've got to look at remote work similar to the way the electric car has caught on. No big incumbent is going to lead the charge on this. Even the ones that are willing to try remote work long term will do it half-heartedly. It will only be once a smaller company adopts it fully and manages to grow into a large player will the tides really start to change. Once executives can point to another company of similar size and see tangible benefits that they're missing out on will they really lean in to the idea of remote work.
You might want to retake your constitutional law courses. The Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8) grants the government power to regulate business. It does not grant citizens the right to do business. The right to do business and participate in commerce and trade is a natural right. You do not allow businesses to exist. You are nobody.
Being charitable, it's plausible that they read the Tweet, did some recon on their end, determined that the websites were abusive, and banned them based on that. Just because the Tweet was the only public information preceding the ban doesn't mean it was the only information.
That's literally NOT the purpose of the tax system. We tax people to pay for government expenses. Encouraging/discouraging behavior through taxes is very popular in the US, but not nearly as much in most other countries.
I think California already requires employers to do that.

What I find surprising is that everybody thinks employers are going to jump all over these requirements and work their hardest to make sure they are 100% in compliance instead of mostly ignoring them and making only a token effort to be in compliance. "We offered to buy chairs for the workers, what more do you want?"
Good point! We already have an open pull request to have the "time to complete" calculated and displayed at the beginning of the survey.
https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks/pull/1461

Another idea would be to let the survey creator know the current length/time to complete the survey, and if it's getting too long, show them advice on how to make it shorter, and show them that they will lose participants otherwise.
Are you saying that developers have individual offices?
If giving your workers agency over where work is performed is against a company's values, again, the whole business might not be very good at all. Companies are allowed to say no (current state), but workers can also unionize [1] [2] and support reps who will codify remote work as a right [3]. They can also leave, potentially putting the business in peril depending on role.

We can't argue this from data, because the data is mixed, so we are left with arguing from a position of power asymmetry ("I am the boss so I make the rules") and working conditions at somewhere workers spend a third of their life. Workers are left to flex whatever is available to them. Change happens slowly, and then all of a sudden.

If businesses must die in the process, and commercial real estate investment losses are enormous, so be it. Work to live, don't live to work (and quality of life and working arrangement is a significant component of that). Meaningful work is nice, but no one is showing up if you didn't provide the check [4].

(this comment is directed at the ideas put forth, not you personally)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-31/uaw-strik... | https://archive.today/DFLmn ("Unions Are Winning Big for the First Time in Decades")

[2] https://code-cwa.org/

[3] https://globalnews.lockton.com/new-remote-working-legislatio...

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/12/job-unhappiness-is-at-a-stag...
To the #2 point, if the goal is to do a "fresh take on something," by all means, experiment. But if the diner expects exactly what's on the menu, say, traditional chicken pot pie, then I'd say yes; there's only one right way to do it.

Again, the whole issue can be avoided if the menu item reads: "Chef's take on traditional Chicken Pot Pie" Then you can add cumin or whatever.
> It makes them feel useful and a productive member of society. This same environment is really hard to replicate at home where there might be less space, kids, dogs etc.

See, I think this is a much better demonstration of the disconnect going on than "it's all about power". What I think is that too many people (both employees and employers) reject the idea that this is "different strokes for different folks".

It's just not true that everyone is more productive in the office you've invested in than they are in the spaces they've invested in themselves. It's true for many people, but not for all or nearly all people. A lot of people seem to have trouble believing that, but it really is the case.

The question is, once you do believe this, what can you do with that information? Is the best strategy still to go 100% in person, and just select for people who prefer and are more productive that way? Or does that leave out different kinds of people that you'd benefit from being able to hire? And if so, how do you make it work to also be able to hire those people? Is "hybrid" the best of both worlds, or is it actually the worst? Can you have some groups be fully in-person and others be fully remote, and select people into the right group for their own preferences?

I dunno, I think it's really hard. But I don't think the simplistic answer of "we have a nice office so everyone should come there and they'll be maximally productive" is the right one.
> Once that is done, you no longer has such "native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats" problem to start with.

This distinction seems pretty silly since only tar actually comes with linux out of the box. Everything else requires you to install another software package, as has been the case on Windows for decades.
> or what will be on the math test this afternoon though.

Neither can this prank?
Happy to have you!
Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone and edited on Mac
Wrong way round: these "small businesses or startups" charged their employees millions of dollars of additional expenses.

So your proposal is "just pay your employer hundreds of dollars out if your own pocket".
Never had the console so this was interesting, but the photos left something to be desired.

Maybe cutting the disks to show a cross section or photographing through a microscope would have helped. Perhaps both.
> I believe Apple was the first to ship something wider than 128-bit in a laptop

Yes, that is now more obvious to me after your clarification and a short history walk-through. Thanks!

Given that Apple never discloses much about their design, I was never actually 100% sure if the difference would only be related to the number of memory channels and thus capability of a memory controller or there was something else that was novel and that nobody else did. I am much more familiar with the server grade CPUs and was aware, as you very neatly summarized, of the differences and high memory bandwidths available in that spectrum. I was checking just this morning how many channels there are on Epycs and last generation of Xeons!

Since we have different 128-bit wide designs available, it is interesting that Apple M1 chose to have 128B cache line size instead what others have - 64B. I never thought about that but it makes me wonder if it is more challenging to design a memory subsystem with the cache line size larger than what your DIMM actually supports.
This is hilarious! I saw that "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" is included in the initial training phrases, pure genius! Do people still remember this meme? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather#%22Kenneth,_what_is...)
Looking at the page, I assume you mean that she's queer and vaccinated? (And not concealing those things)
Meanwhile at Google and Samsung : We need to shoot our event with our phone as well now.
Soooo .... back to the dark matter is black holes hypothesis?
Although this thread is about AVIF (the image format based on AV1) it claims that Edge is not supported due to licensing issues:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75459594/why-doesnt-edge...

I bet the same licensing issues are also holding back AV1 on edge.
Sure. I'm similar, too, been fully remote since 2007. Within reason. When a healthcare startup wanted to me to work on PHI on my BYOD? No. Not a chance.
That is their statement. People like working in an environment which is conducive to working. It keeps their house a space for relaxing and being with their family. I honestly have no idea why so many people in this thread are so antagonistic and suspicious.
> Given the terse reply, I'm guessing you disagree that it's even a concept.

My terse reply actually indicates an understanding that we completely lack a formal definition of "genuine creativity", and therefore any such claims are vague intuitions at best.

> I don't have feelings, thoughts, or experiences

This implicitly assumes we have a mechanistic understanding of feelings, thoughts or experiences. We don't, therefore we can make no such definitive claims about how machine learning and human cognitive processes. ChatGPT has specifically been trained to give this response despite agreeing with an argument that suggests it could indeed have mental states:

https://twitter.com/naasking/status/1598802001428566016

> As an AI, I don't possess creativity in the human sense. I don't have feelings, thoughts, or experiences, and I don't generate ideas or concepts spontaneously

Define "spontaneously". If you mean that humans act without apparent cause, that does not entail there is no cause. If there is a cause, then that cause can be modeled as an input into a pure function. ChatGPT and other ML systems are pure functions can also mix concepts and generate new and unique outputs from its learned state space given such inputs. Humans are still more complex than such systems, so the mystique can hide in the perceived complexity, but don't mistake this for a different kind of process. Which isn't to say that it is the same process, I'm saying there's no real basis for either claim.

I think there's a lot of sloppy thinking going on when comparing human brains and ML, particularly ascribing some sort of exceptionalism to humans. There's a long, incorrect history of that.
You never really stated why you chose to do this though - just the what.

So, why did you push for your employees to commute, spend more time away from their families, and incur more personal costs? The data does not support the proposition that in-office work is more productive, or causes less stress.
You just ban Monero then. If something is a problem, and you want to ensure financial visibility then ban all transaction types that hide visiblity, like banning mixers. This is separate from whether it's a good idea or not.
You prefer open-plan offices to wfh? Would you elaborate because I can't imagine that being the case for most people.
An employer who cuts headcount and salaries to compensate for this, rather than taking it out of the profit margin, is crippling their own ability to hire. Best to work somewhere that isn’t so short sighted.

If your company can’t pay for the resources needed to do business, they can’t afford to be in business.
Do you retain the license plate information after they exit the business?
The trick is as a player you are not really the main customer of steam. You are the product. The customers are game developers, and they are as predatory toward them as any big corp online store. Not worse, but not better either.
Can I see the survey and the results? Otherwise to put it politely, I certainly do not believe your claim. Your assurance means quite literally nothing, mate. Sorry. I’ve been assured by liars and egomaniacs more times than I can count. Your post does nothing to assuage that nor does it appear to be somehow different.
Clearly the pranker needs to switch to Colemak or Dvorak to be maximally effective!
> Don't presume to know what users want.

Fair. I should have said "me as a dev" and "me as a user".
Not sure what workflow you are on but I have a few IDEs, simulators, electron apps, etc. on my 16gb m1 pro. I haven't ever had memory issues.
I am glad to hear it's not just me!

I worked at SUSE for 4Y and used it every day. The company is in deep denial about its problems, or that there are any problems, and when I pointed at ZFS as a more mature tool, this was actually mocked.
If you think that's a reply to me, you havent understood my point. I am well aware of such situations.

The question is whether a particular person, in a particular park, on a particular day, with a particular dog is causing that situation. It is an absurd level of paranoia to suppose they are.

Dogs kill people. People kill people. Everything is harmful to someone at somepoint.

The question is whether we should go around replaying 6olds dying by dogs in our heads when we're wandering around in a park.

I think we shouldnt. And it is a moral and psychological sickness to do so.

That you're still only able to evaluate my position in terms of the saftey of dogs tells me you have not understood it and are making no efforts to.

It seems like you're arguing in bad faith, perhaps because you usually deal with people you can brow-beat into losing arguments by appealing to extreme cases.

You can point to all the murdered children you want; that isn't going to work with me. I'm not an idiot.
> Yup. And often those same people will say to others "you need to live within your means".

And it's ONLY when the given expense is labor. That is the only time this small business apologia goes on a rampage decrying whatever it is. Materials? Rent? Consumables? Safety stuff? Nothing. Crickets.

Laborers are asking for something to offset their costs to work for you? The shit hits the fan and we get a round of think-pieces about entitled workers.

Fuck off. Just fuck all the way off.
Maybe a better example would be if you donned that ritual gear and started a tourism company that taught traditional ceremonies to rich tourists. And having no idea what the actual ceremonies are you just copied it off a Hollywood movie.

Yes, I can see how that could be perceived as demeaning.

See also: Häagen-Dazs. Foreign people speak funny and can't write. Very funny.
While that's true, the court also said, that DNT is legally binding. That's also in the article from heise that you linked, in the second to last paragraph.

But you're right. It sounds like the court interpreted it that way, but anyways, the ruling is only about the claim, not about whether they respect DNT or not.
Your comment reminded me about one of Asimov's classics I'd long forgotten about: Nightfall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_an...
You have never seen a webm? That's (a limited profile of) Matroska.
White working class people don’t, others definitely do. You can’t just generalize like that.

Working class people aren’t even inherently apolitical, they just don’t vote and aren’t taught that voting changes things like middle and upper class folks are
> Until people actually change jobs over RTO policies in large numbers

There have been plenty of people measuring this. Some on even business-frienly publications. Those make the frontpage here every once in a while.

People change jobs in mass over RTO, and it has had a large impact on the companies that did it.

(And yet, there has been too little time for real problems to appear because of RTO. Give it another year. People don't even switch jobs that fast. Up to now we only have some non-critical problems.)
I think the reason is the complexity of it, of dealing with controllers that work for some things but not for others. It creates customer confusion and opportunities for sales deception, people will keep buying controllers they expect to "just work" and then get pissed off as soon as they go into multiplayer because they didn't read the fine print. It's not a distinction that your average Joe consumer should need to worry about.
I wonder if there is an endgame to all this Wasm stuff. Wake me up when it has access to the DOM and I don't have to write a lick of Javascript.
That's your mistake, it's not their responsibility to make you rich
I'm curious. I run Ubuntu in a VM Fusion VM on my (Intel) Mac. Would that not work on a M-series Mac?
I just saw Penn and Teller 2 weeks ago; it was a great show. They really try to involve guests and specifically children in the act. They also seem like pretty good people. Only downside is the Casino/Hotel they are in is run down at this point relative to the rest of Vegas, and the walk from the strip is questionable...Vegas isn't a very good walkable city, even on the strip, IMO.
> This will happen in every industry and occupation, one by one.

And still will even if they (for any value of "they") do pay.

Unless… do you want them to pay the entire future economic value that, say, all programmers including myself might have added if we weren't about to be made redundant by the next coding LLM?

Because the historical analogy there is getting Raspberry Pi to pay out the entire global GDP for each Pi Zero, on the grounds of that model being able to do arithmetic as fast as the entire world, even if the entire world had been paid to work in the obsolete job role of "computer", after having been trained to operate reliably at the speed of the current world record holder.

> Is this what you think is desirable?

Post-scarcity economics, AKA "fully automated luxury communism" (not the book of the same name): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity