skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people say "I want you to have good social skills" they think "I want you to collaborate with others and not cause drama". These two might seem similar but they aren't. It's okay to expect people to live up to expectations, but at the same time you might admit that these expectations are unfair and put certain people in disadvantage because of their innate traits.

Imagine you have an all-Arab company and you hire a Jew. Of course there's going to be a lot of drama, even it that particular employee has fantastic social skills, and would thrive in an environment full of people from their own culture.

My point is, in order to achieve the same result "collaborate with others and not cause drama" nerds need much higher social skills than non-nerds, simply because they're a minority.

It might reasonable to hold people to important standards, while these standards might be inherently unfair. It depends on whether you value effects or effort.
> 4-day week policy

You mean 4 days in the office, not a 4-day work week, right?
In context I think “attention” just means the poster hopes some people stop by her table to talk. I agree with that.

I think this kind of activity is better for society as a whole than, for example, playing video games or watching TV. It’s natural these days to think well of people who care about things other than media.
It's not as simple as that, you're basically asking browsers to target a completely different platform, just for the EU users, where iPhones are nowhere near as popular to begin with.

Google might at some point maintain two completely different Chromes targeting iOS, but I doubt anyone else will (including Firefox). Even with Chrome, I wouldn't bet on it. It's a very difficult technical problem with no clear, easily-marketable benefit to most people.

Apple knew what they were doing, they've "complied", but in a way where nobody would bother.
Cause you arent listening to me, you are accusing me of saying things I never said, you are accusing me of being racist, etc and keep weirdly bringing up donald trump and his associates even tho ive claimed no affiliation at all.

Your just being weird as fuck homie. Flying off the handle for no real reason. And im not laughing cause I am not a troll. Matter of fact, why am I still responding to you? Eat shit.
UK counterpart: Driver And Vehicle Licensing Agency. DVLA. Based in Swansea, Wales. Instead of having local offices you deal with them through the post office or online.
Not really, it just assumes that the bisection process is automated.

But also, I addressed exactly this objection in the second paragraph :)
I'm sorry. Let me give you a hug (or at least the thought of a hug). I know that's inadequate, but...
No that is not the definition of London.

London here is Greater London - all but a tiny bit of which is inside the M25 (see dg's blog for the exception). There is much inside the M25 that is not in Greater London.
> If you are like "please will <direct report> just quit or leave!?" then just start the process to fire them.

> No need to drag out everyones suffering. It's hard firing people but suffering together is always worse.

> Then combine how that person might piss off the rest of the team... It's a no brainer.

Firing people can piss the rest of the team too.
Likewise in Australia, I am eligible for a UK passport since my father was born there, even though he emigrated in 1949 and I wasn't born until 1975.
Was a lot of fun back in the 2000's when England was still part of the Eurozone since the passport allowed me to live/work anywhere in the EU.
I walked into a Walmart in urban California last week and the men's socks were stored in locked cabinets. I don't need statistics to tell me that the crime in that neighborhood is off the charts and it's not a place I want to live or work.

Are there safe parts of most cities? Sure! But life is usually more complicated than "that's just a {insert my political adversary} talking point", and this is definitely one of those cases.
None of which are serious errors. Certainly not the type that introduce rendering errors.
Even if your company doesn't outsource your job, your customers might 'outsource' their business, and you'll end up with no job either way.
Just re-watching the classic "Always Be Closing" scene from Glengarry Glenn Ross and thought, perhaps like RTO, what a great way to show your talent the door.

If I'm sitting there thinking I could more or less work anywhere else, I would be the first one to take a hike, go find employment elsewhere, say to myself, "I don't need to put up with this shit."
this was so me.
Sure. Another option is semicolon-delimited files which are also in use in Europe, and Pandas handles that fine too.

I was responding to your comment that you had never seen commas in data fields in CSV files, and wanted to point out that this is a quite common issue in Europe.

(It also often wreaks havoc with Excel files btw, as Excel will then only casts strings to decimal numbers when a file is opened in some locales...)
Yeah, I mean it's obvious - the fact that some CEOS have vested interests in commercial real estate doesn't mean that all do, it doesn't pass basic logic test. Most are doing what the rest are doing, whether it makes sense or not. What is clear, though, is that the moment you really try to enforce RTO, people start looking for new jobs, especially seniors.
This has existed for every web engine since time immemorial, calling out Safari is misleading. Firefox calls them "site interventions" and Chrome calls them "patches" rather than Safari/WebKit's "quirks".
Yeah I don't think that burnout is a modern problem at all. But I think that I can point to certain aspects in modern society that cause it that may not have been present before, such as the completely emphasis on utility over everything else, and a spiritual and philosophical desertification.

I grew up in the UK which has the most extreme sense of "anything unproductive is useless". I completely failed my English oral test but because I was good at Maths and Science they just wrote "A" in my grade for GCSE English anyway. Who cares about humanities education (low wage, low GDP, likely unemployment) if you are good at Maths? Many people on this website will even swear there is no downside to foregoing an education in literature, philosophy, art, etc. We also don't have a liberal education at university: I studied physics and only physics for my entire university education.

I sympathise with the article you posted. It's interesting that it has been historically considered a moral failure and even punished:

> The Benedictine Rule directed that a monk displaying the outward signs of acedia should;–

> "be reproved a first and a second time. If he does not amend he must be subjected to the punishment of the rule so that the others may have fear."

Much of my shame over burnout came from knowing it was sinful. I don't think letting go of that shame has helped, though.
We have this in the US. Open a business and you'll get spammed with a lot of providers offering stuff that is either free, un needed, or overpriced.

"You need this sign in your break room else you'll be fined $10,000! Just subscribe for $299/year and we'll mail you labor posters each year." These can be found for like $10 and don't change yearly.

"This form needs to be filed else you'll be fined! Pay us $499 and we'll take care of it!" Free to file online.

Even forming a business in my state is like 2 forms and $125 and can be done all online. But if you were to google how to, you'd find all these people to "Help out" and it'd end up costing you $1000-2000 for their "Help".
have you considered that you may hold the opposite attribute?
Because companies are amoral entities... empathy and suffering are human qualities that don't exist in the corporate structure beyond the individuals themselves. Sometimes that manifests in corporate actions but usually it's totally lost amongst all the layers.

Also there is a financial downside and legal risk to firing vs. just getting employees to quit.

Western ideals have given the masses this belief that they matter at all in the grand scheme of things. The reality is nobody really matters but a select few people that turn the crank and the rest of us are just here to act as grease. Amassing as much wealth as possible is the key to escaping this grind.
Antarctica has the sea right there to harvest organic matter to make soil.

And of course limitless water and air, and not seething with radiation.
The truth is that some senior engineer at Netflix chose to use FreeBSD and they stick to that idea since then, FreeBSD is not better it's happen to be the solution they chose.

All the benefits they added to FreeBSD could be added the same way in Linux if it was missing.

YouTube / Google CDN is much bigger than Netflix and runs 100% on Linux, you can make pretty much everything work on modern solution / languages / framework.
Meh. There is the definition of robots used in academy. Something like "A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically." Or "A robot is an autonomous machine capable of sensing its environment, carrying out computations to make decisions, and performing actions in the real world."

And if you go by that definition you see that things like dishwasher, washing machines, elevators, full authority digital engine controls, surface to air missiles are all robots.

But nobody, not even roboticist, calls those things robots. You don't need a roboticist to load your dishes, or to get to the floor of your meeting, or shoot down an enemy airplane.

The reality is that the real definition of a robot is "a machine which does not work yet". Once it starts working we stop calling it a robot.

Making robots for non-roboticist should absolutely be the goal. Giving that up is giving up making reliable useful machines.

If you can't make a "grab_object" api useful that is because we all together suck at making robots percept and suck at making robots manipulate things. Once we get good at those (if ever) that API will become easy and commonplace. And anyone who doesn't use it to achieve their goals will feel like a weirdo reinventing the wheel.
The threaded model simply scales better. A Reddit thread (on the old interface, before they ruined it with the redesign) with 5,000 comments is a huge pain to navigate, but it's possible. A flat forum thread with 5,000 comments is utterly and completely hopeless; lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. And yes, I was cutting my teeth on flat forums for years before Reddit even existed (all thankfully deleted now, to the relief of my teenage self). The ability to isolate and instantly collapse irrelevant subthreads and understand the full context of a specific reply is what makes it easier to scale threaded discussions.

If you have a small, boutique forum with less than ten active chatters at any given time, then go flat, sure. You don't need to scale when N is small.
Statistically safe maybe, but speaking for Manhattan the streets have plenty of unsavory and seemingly-unsafe people around. I have a close friend who worked at an office a block away from a methadone clinic (in a busy part of midtown) and the clients would be hanging around the neighborhood propositioning people while the police did nothing. And this was before 2020.

The perception of safety is almost as important as safety itself. The visible, chronically homeless population is as visible and challenging for citizens to deal with as ever. Leaving these people to the streets is bad for everyone and definitely makes NYC feel much less safe than it might actually be.
Might be a manpower thing. By hiring a bunch of FreeBSD Core devs, Netflix might be able to get a really talented team for cheaper than they might get a less ideologically flavored team. (I say this as I set up i3 on FreeBSD on my Thinkpad X280, I'm a big fan!)
Even worse than that, I don't understand how execs are hoping random people will quit. I could maybe understand the reasoning (though it would still have been stupid) if I didn't have people I very much do not want to play Russian roulette with.
IFF they’re using MySQL (doubtful), it’s a common mistake due to there not being a native type, and needing to know to use BINARY(16) and casting the string back and forth in code.

But in either case – MySQL or Postgres – they’ve still made the classic mistake of using a UUID as a PK, which will tank performance one way or another. They’ll notice right around when it starts to matter.
There are more than enough free books on various sources to say that. Most show clear need of a good editor, but still more good books of any fiction genre you care to read than you have time for. Sometimes they are hard to find, but that is a different issue. Even pre internet (say 1960) publishers got more submissions that with some editing could be good than they had time to work with.
It does rotate, but it's slow enought to not matter in most cases. Afaik some ancient, star aligned constructions do not work anymore because of this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession
It's a very common psychological trap to fall into, so all recipe sites have turned into "fake touching personal story" content mills over the past decade or so, yes.
Culturally, the first person is not reserved only for human entities, for example the "don't pet me, I'm working" vests on service dogs, or the juvenile prank of writing "wash me" on a dirty car. Beyond these examples there's a very long history of mythological and fictional talking creatures, entities and objects all using the first person.
Very similar to drawabox.com in the "feel".
Well, not everybody, but it's quite powerful to be around people who actually care in person about how you are doing. It's a beautiful dynamic. It depends on the actual company and situation, but yes, there are people who find it quite depressing to get a MacBook sent to their home address and never experience a great office. I'm not saying it's the only way. I can understand WFH is extremely practical for most people with kids. At the same time, it deprives people starting their careers of fast learning experiences. There are plenty of examples of extremely successful remote-only companies that attract young talent, but there are also examples of the opposite.
This repo is written to be read alongside an existing book; the book was originally written with Linux in mind.
The first chapters of the repo describe what’s different on Mac, particularly how to use the XCode/Clang toolchain instead of the instructions in the book.
Which also means that if a hypothetical company is indeed pivoting to AI, an AI-skeptical senior might be considering moving on anyway about now and a blunt-force RTO is one of the straws.
This is delightful to read, thank you for sharing. Ham-fisted RTO was definitely my 'shields down' moment. The 'how' matters much like the 'what' or 'why'.

In terms of on-site/remote, I'm not firmly for or against either. I see benefits in both. Similarly - it's interesting to see this from the manager PoV.

I've been primarily WFH since ~2016 after doing the traditional thing for longer. I'm not new to either. Then the pandemic came/went... and how we kept working remained a hot topic.

I saw executives above me (with more pull) get put in a tough spot: sell their new homes and relocate, or find new work.

Then their peons/reporting managers tried to convince me that I'd be safe - appealing to pride saying I was too important to be lost to things like that.

Yeah, right. As strange as it sounds... my shields were forced down out of preservation. It took over a year of (communicated) discontent before the shields finally went down for good.

Nobody else did this - it was the business/leadership. I was productive despite most of the job not being about the work.

It just so happens there are places requiring less work (relevant to the job or not) while being more rewarding. Loyalty is a funny dynamic.

There's efficiency and leniency for everyone involved by choosing to not bike-shed over things like 'Where Are My Adults'. Doing the job you hired them for. I hope.
Nobody ever claims that suburban areas are crime-ridden. “Cities are safe,” which ones?
The VGG License 2.0 is pretty confusing. It offers two licenses: VGG License 1.0 for commercial use (with royalties) and Apache License 2.0 for personal use only. But if personal use doesn’t involve making money, why add the Apache License? The original VGG License 1.0 could cover both personal and non-commercial use without royalties. Disregarding whether the royalty fee makes sense, the dual licensing setup just seems unnecessary and complicates things.
Based on my knowledge (which I'm still a novice, so take that for what it's worth), GPL v3.0 is fairly protective license. Although it has limits when it comes to liability, it has clauses that protect you from misappropriation and anyone who uses your rendering engine must include the very same license, and also acknowledge you as the author as per its Copyright Notice requirement. This license also has a Source Code Availability requirement, which requires that the source code for your engine be made available openly.
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Good, right?

There’s nothing wrong with a company deciding it wants workers in office. It might be a decision with negative outcomes and it might not be.

Some senior employees may enjoy working in the office. Some may not.

I don’t see why remote work is treated as some sort of default-correct position here on HN. Just like in-office work, remote work is neither inherently right nor inherently wrong.

If your employer makes a decision you dislike it’s up to you to decide whether it’s something you can stomach and continue to work there over.
Yes, WFH seems like a great differentiator to attract talent you couldn't get otherwise. Surprised more "underdog" companies aren't leaning into it. Then again a lot of CEOs are trend chasers. See also: stuffing AI into everything.
Great take, fully agree. My wife falls into a similar camp as the person you're close to, although she did end up eventually getting diagnosed with autism. It was only because the topic had become so casual on platforms like TikTok and Instagram that she even considered the possibility - she was only exposed to autistic people who would register between Level 2 and 3, which completely blinded her to the possibility that she could also be autistic.

I fully sympathize with people who worry about this delegitimizing their condition, but I am at the same time endlessly grateful that it allowed my wife some peace and closure in better understanding herself.
That is not how layoffs worked in companies I have worked at. The goal is to reduce 'head count' and in the real world cost.

They rank you by pay and tenure. Then decided if they can do without you. It almost rarely has anything to do with how good you are. But more 'my project would not finish in x time if y was gone'. Then they decide to keep the whole project or not and if they get rid of the project that means maybe 15 other people can go too.

After a particular level in many large companies you become a cost number instead of a person.

What you are working on may seem important. At least it is to you. But in the grand scheme of things most of what we work on is ethereal. I have been in this industry coming up on 30 years now. Very little of what I have ever worked on is even in production anymore. Thousands and thousands of lines of code, just gone, of no use anymore. I just hope whatever I did work on can help me with the next few thousand.
Say you're researching some material to have some behaviour. It doesn't have it.

You're not gonna be published on high impact journals with data that doesn't move the field, even though as you point out the information is as valuable.
Hard to say without knowing the contract between Microsoft and OpenAI. Perhaps Microsoft has full access rights to all of OpenAI's models for life? That would effectively make OpenAI a subsidiary of Microsoft.
Paradoxically, the cynic in me thinks the result is quite fair. You behave like a jerk, and people don't want to work for a jerk, so they leave. They have a better job, and you have faithful minions - everybody is happy.
It all hinges about the mentioned tract “Dangers of Computer Arithmetic”.

FWiW many of the mathematicians I knew that worked on the early iterations of the CAYLEY|Magma symbolic algebra system were equally ill suited to multiplying large numbers and bookkeeping - if not by numerical manipulation talent then certainly by temperament.

None the less they managed to cobble together a computer math system that could generate a headline:

Quantum encryption algorithm cracked in minutes by computer running Magma

but of course that was not arithmetic.
yes, that was an accident because it came to my mind later, think it was also edited in. Anyway, you're right about that
> visible drug use, etc. are not things people want to see or endure (of course I doubt that the people living through that want it either, in large parts).

This isn't a safety risk in the same way that violent crime is.
The ones you want to leave also may have a clue that they'd have a hard time finding a comparable job somewhere else. So they may be the ones who don't leave. That could give you the worst possible outcome - the good ones leave, and you're left with the ones you don't want, and they're all at the office with you.

All in all, "RTO to get X to quit" seems like an amazingly bad plan.
Even more bizarre considering that there have been numerous studies showing that remote working is more productive and less costly
Scratchapixel and Rougier's Python OpenGL (https://github.com/rougier/python-opengl) are two books that i want to see completed one day...
Let me quote the quote from Robert Townsend "Up the organization", quoted in turn by DeMarco and Lister in their "Peopleware" (needless to say they quote it to say its pure crap):

"If you've inherited (or built) an office that needs a real
house cleaning, the only sure cure is move the whole
thing out of town, leaving the dead wood behind. One of
my friends has done it four times with different companies. The results are always the same: 1) The good
ones are confident of their futures and go with you. 2)
The people with dubious futures (and their wives)
don't have to face the fact that they've been fired. "The
company left town," they say. They get job offers
quickly, usually from your competitors who think
they're conducting a raid. 3) The new people at Destiny City are better than the ones you left behind and
they're infused with enthusiasm because they've been
exposed only to your best people."
— Up the Organization

I think "RTO to make people leave" has the same idiotic thinking at its base.