skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but: The best thing about this is that the work is actually done by a small number of people instead of an overengineered system with a custom-solution. The thriller is great, but also the efficiency powering all of Netflix CDNs is refreshing.
Testosterone and human growth hormone were the the main ones I had in mind, but I think there is much more a specialist could so that would be safe and effective
yeah, and they pushed it as a theory of everything (which I think they had justification to believe for the first few decades [~] to get funding. So I also blame the entire economic system that academia is unfortunately embedded in.

[~] It still isn't neccesarily ruled out, it's just incredibly unfeasible at the moment as a physical theory since it is currently very poorly understood and like centuries away from experimental tests (as is any GUT or QG theory i.e. this is not a criticism of string theory but basically any theory past the standard model). However it is extremely interesting currently as a subject in mathematics, and it has deep connections with current research in algebraic geometry and the geometric langlands program.
"Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit"

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/09/rto_quit_study/
I wouldn't characterize Meta as being aggressive towards RTO. I get contacted by Meta recruiters all the time for remote roles. Last time I spoke to one they said RTO was only for those folks living near an office
I can see uses for robots who comb jellyfish out of water and remove them from the beach.

I can also see uses for robots who cut down Heracleum mantegazzianum and ideally make biodiesel out of it.

I'm not going to develop or buy either one, though.
Neat! This is exactly what I'm planning to do one day.

How did you find the development experience? Anything that you would change or do differently?

Also, how does Kaboom/Kaplay hold up under load with lots of sprites? I've hit a few performance problems with my game when rending lots of sprites...
> Finding AI talent, which more and more companies are going to need, is already a search for the proverbial needle in a haystack. Adding strict RTO policies to that scenario won’t make the talent search easier.

Putting that question-begging aside, cynically, for a company on an AI kick it could be intentionally designed to make clearing out the old guard who aren't all in on AI easier and without severance.

In fact, it stands even without the everything-is-now-about-AI journalism gloss. The expensive, grumpy seniors with the pointed questions in meetings are largely the ones who feel most able to risk jumping ship in 2024 and treating them like naughty children or unreliable juniors really winds them up.

The wisdom of driving out senior staff, well, that depends on who you're asking and what are their metrics for success!
The font site is 9pt. It's just small. Not sure where someone got 12px from. The measurement is resolution independent, yes.
A very late response, but just to say thanks for this. The full dataset you found is actually available at https://www.nationwidehousepriceindex.co.uk/download/ftb-mtg....

It is worth looking at the mid-2000s numbers (post-MIRAS, but pre-crash) and comparing them to today's numbers. They're really not so different.

No argument on the relative leverage: 10% would be impossible and 15% would probably precipitate a revolution.
i am not sure if the goal is to loose senior staff.

They are usually most valuable to the company.
It's a really good article.

It's one of the bittersweetness of allowing anyone to register on western run websites, yes we get horrible disinformation but we also do see this, people trying to engage with is in good faith and or do their own form of activism.

I do however wish there was better websites that could cater to these people when it comes to communication, as I don't see any trust in Xitter.
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this is true only to an extent -- users will adapt to the structure by including (or not) any quotes from the comment(s) being replied to. If the default view is threaded and you've rendered it as flat, all that missing context affects the reading of it. If the default view is flat and you've rendered it as nested you end up with a lot of embedded quotations that repeat the context now plainly visible.
Parent stated you earn less per hour, not in total. Tax rate stays below 100%, but increases as you earn more
“If we don’t kill ourselves first” is doing all the heavy lifting here. I’m not convinced that more time helps us, given that civilization itself is very fragile and we are continually a moment away from nuclear holocaust ending everything we’ve worked to achieve. And that’s not even bringing up the damage we’re doing to the environment we derive all this prosperity from.
Even if they leave a non-RTO company and join a non-RTO company its an interesting effect. It seems that being forced to RTO in the same role can lead to unhappiness and into 'shields down' (https://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/), then people are more willing to look around to see if there's a better deal on offer somewhere else (even if the _other_ deal ends up also being in-office).
2560x1440 and ~12px on HN looks incredibly small.

I just switched the resolution to 1024x768, and now the same ~12px is "larger" and easier to read without needing to increase my browser zoom.

There's an obvious visual difference between the two.
Probably depends on the role if it needs creative interaction.
I've got to appreciate how much effort must have gone into an injection molded replica case, it looks fantastic.
Exactly. Imagine how will your quality of life be if all doctors, teachers, nurses, delivery workers, plumbers, service workers, also worked only 4 days/week. There would be an even worse labor shortage across the entire economy of biblical proportions.

It's easy to see how it benefits you when only you're working 4 days/week but the rest of society on which your first world lifestyle depends, keeps working 5 days/week, being at your disposal for the same amount of time, while your enjoying more time off than the rest.

Need a doctor? Sorry, you'll have to wait more time now because now all are working 4 days/week. Need to go grocery shopping? Sorry, everything is closed today. Need a plumber? Sorry, most are off today as well.

There's no free lunch here. Moving the entire society to 4 days/week would require massive shifts economically and socially.
> More recently, its use has been promoted for environmental reasons.

promoted ... in the USofA and in Brazil.

I'm in neither country and I questioned then and still question today whether it was ever actually effectively a green solution or just an industry with influential lobbyists.

The dependancy on large amounts of land was known from early on, it was written about in the 1970's.

There's a good argument that ethanol is a net positive for GHG production: https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/flexible-fuel-emissions

but the counter argument is in practice GHG emissions continue to increase when there's an excuse to avoid travelling less in smaller cars and not develop better city transport infrastructure.

All that aside; h2odragon has simply pivoted away from the paper bag V plastic claim onto another "those darn environmentals say one thing then another" talking point.

They're not uniform, they're not the same people decades apart, and often the statements people quote come from idustry think tanks and don't represent what the general zeitgeist of scientists of particular periods considered as their breadth of thought.
People withdraw money from circulation all the time. It's called 'saving'. That's what a 'deficit' is - people saving rather than spending. That's what money in a bank account is. It's what a government bond holding is.

That isn't reducing the money supply - burnt notes remain on the books of the note issuer and are included in the calculation. It reduces the overall velocity of money, not the amount of money.

That's because the velocity is variable. Not just in aggregate but in individual areas.

Dollars change hands at variable speed. That's why turnover is measured in dollars per month, not dollars.

Mixing up dollars per month and dollars is like mixing up miles per hour and miles.
> Bloomberg's app (Bloomberg Professional) is unusable without an account, which is 100% against iOS guidelines, but who cares?

I usually disagree with Apple's restrictions, but isn't this (rather clearly) under the Enterprise application exception (App Review Guidelines 3.1.3(c), and indirectly 4.8)? This is, clearly, an enterprise product (you can't even register with this version unless you're a company). Do you actually knows the rules or are you just spewing garbage out of your mouth?

Actually, won't third-party mail applications also be in violation of the purported restriction because, by the nature of being a mail application, needs to log in before any use? You should actually point out which rule/s are being broken because despite honest attempts to find the alleged rule being broken... I simply don't see that rule/s.
I always wondered why our culture has devolved so much.

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.
If you think:

- only 1% of people are happy

- they are happy because they are lucky

- every happy person is a propagandist

You need immediate recalibration of your worldview. You only live once, and you ought to be happy.

People managed to be happy throughout human history because it’s a skill.

EDIT:

I wanted to add that I meant the above in good faith and not as an attack. I used to be unhappy too. But I learnt:

- every moment doesn't need to be hedonic bliss

- life doesn't have to be easy

- one's work doesn't need to meet all of one's needs

... and you can still be happy. Human beings are extremely tough and adaptable, but that is a capability that has to be exercised.
It’s a very interesting article that’s based entirely on a flawed premise, that floating point is the only way to represent numbers in a computer. It’s true that there are numbers that can’t be represented by a computer using any system, but they are so huge that you probably couldn’t represent them any other way either (say a random number with a quadrillion digits, since a billion digits is totally possible and a trillion is pushing it on consumer hardware. Even then, it could probably be done with a million bucks of hardware).
I always need to zoom 125-130% on all sites on top of 125% desktop system zoom and HN needs no special treatment. E.g. wikipedia is basically the same.

Anyway, you can set [default] zoom once and enjoy.

Unless you’re in a browser in which no one uses that per-site zoom feature cause it’s not implemented cause no one uses it. In this case, you can embrace the simplicity or use StyleBot.
I honestly do not think that’s a fair comparison to someone with something like depression.

LGBT people had been persecuted from so many angles for a long time, the tools used against them are incredibly varied. Just because mental health diagnoses were (and still are) used as a cudgel against them doesn’t mean the entire exercise of diagnosing should be called into question any more than somebody using a knife to stab somebody should call into question all of us keeping cutlery in our home.
Yes. But have those modules actually produced anything? I bought 6 watt panel from West Marine in 1992 and it was 80 dollars. According to my expert calculation with full sunshine everyday and kWh being 10 cents, it has not been profitable yet. It has produced 38 dollares in 22 years (0.006*0.10*360*8*22).
With a couple fairly simple genetic modifications humans could thrive in place with high background radiation, in a place where nobody can throw nukes at you for doing simple genetic modifications.
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Looks great! I really have to supress my "AI thumbnails means low quality AI slop" sensors though because I've heard of this site before and know it's high quality.
> Then I checked out the Social Democrats, and they didn't speak out about open source.

"Not speaking out" is not against. But being anti-nuclear is clearly a stand against.

Any party can't have binary decisions on everything, and that's fine, this means business as usual on an issue by issue basis. But where they _do_ have a binary stand, it matters.

I do agree with the parent comment though, in today's day and age needing huge coal free electrification targets in short timeframes to save the planet, being explicitly anti-nuclear power is a clear red flag, and doubly makes no sense for a digital technological party to have this stand.
In my experience, the problem is that junior, extremely motivated people, who are often the ones doing the impactful work, cannot thrive and learn from experienced people in WFH environments.
Competition is good (not everyone using Linux I mean), and I've ran FreeBSD on my desktop and server for a few years.

But whenever Netflix's use of FreeBSD comes up I never come away with a concrete understanding for: is the cost/performance Netflix gets with FreeBSD really not doable on Linux?

I'm trying to understand if it's inertia, or if not, why more cloud companies with similar traffic (all the CDN companies for example) aren't also using FreeBSD somewhere in their stack.

If it were just the case that they like FreeBSD that would be fine and I wouldn't ask more. But they mention in the slides FreeBSD is a performance-focused OS which seems to beg the question.
Whether companie they used it as a ploy to get people to voluntarily quit, or not, it hasn't really worked for them.

These are now stuck with the desperate second rate employees who are forced to RTO because they're not good enough to find a job elsewhere, and the ones who love RTO because they're all for office politics and wasting time at meetings and the water cooler.

Stupid shit like this is how companies commit suicide, and smarter companies end up eating their lunch.

From another comment here:

"My company recently spun out of a much larger corporation and has just implemented a 4-day week policy after nearly 5 years of flexible work (ie. come in when you need to be in to do your job). Since then, my team has halved and the senior leadership at the site have almost all left to competitors except for a couple of people closing on retirement anyway. We're struggling to get the bare minimum done and have to ZBB almost everything that isn't core work. (...) They've had to cut a couple of things off the product roadmaps that have been worked on for years simply because we now don't have the staff to drive them to completion. Just madness"
because companies keep claiming that retention is a top concern
Taken a step further, why does the US government help enforce such business models?
Qualcomm has some work to do to build trust. Step one make the docs as easy to get as say the Intel x86 references without a bunch of horseshit lawyer shite.

Step 2, actually document the part well enough for third party implementers.

Step 3 don’t threaten to sue everyone and anything that glances at it.
They could very easily modify the agreement to say something like "your content will never be used to train AI."

I'm sure they'll add that quickly to end the uproar.

(No they won't.)
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I recognize this a lot in my now ex-boyfriend. The loss of ability to focus, the emotional tornado, the depersonalization. I still don't know whether I was the main trigger for this, or if it was work.
it's a bit like Richard Fenyman's wobbling plate — you don't necessarily know where you'll end up (maybe with a Nobel prize).

— https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html
My salient point above was if you are willing to learn from your mistakes.

If you keep repeating the same behaviour, you're never going to get a different outcome.

In my first marriage, we argued and fought practically every day. I felt I had 'to win' otherwise 'I would lose'. That's a short cut to failure and divorce.

In my second marriage, my policy was to cut off any argument at the source. My second wife was of the same opinion. In 36 years together, and 32 years of marriage, we never had a full-blown argument. Terse words, yes. But an argument was never permitted by either of us. I lost her last week.
My guess is most companies now believe they have procedures which can keep a somewhat quality output with average, cheaper people.

The industry (tech, others) has never given up trying to transform employees into a cog in the machine and, while software engineering has so far apparently escaped being caged onto a cog-like structure, I believe it's a matter of time.
Our second line team lead is being threatened to RTO. No one is saying it, but I feel the excitement from other TLs about the upcoming promotion opportunity. Hope the TL didn't underestimate the difficulty in getting a job!
My company recently spun out of a much larger corporation and has just implemented a 4-day week policy after nearly 5 years of flexible work (ie. come in when you need to be in to do your job).

Since then, my team has halved and the senior leadership at the site have almost all left to competitors except for a couple of people closing on retirement anyway. We're struggling to get the bare minimum done and have to ZBB almost everything that isn't core work. It's miserable.

It's just the most baffling time to force such a radical shift, and the executive team were pretty much entirely against it; except for the new CEO who was a transfer from the bigger corp. During the midst of a spin-off where everything needs migrating from systems the wider organisation used - HR and legal, our internal Wikis, product tracking systems, Salesforce, customer comms, forums, documentation, the whole bloody lot - this new CEO decides to make their mark by hamstringing the company in the middle of one of the most important projects of the companies history potentially. They've had to cut a couple of things off the product roadmaps that have been worked on for years simply because we now don't have the staff to drive them to completion. Just madness.
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They just differentiate:

Moving - eat or fight

Not moving - go around it
Bean counter types claim these people cost too much!!
Maybe if you stay in the heavily policed portions where rich people live. Try going downtown within 3 miles of the ubiquitous homeless encampments though...
> But it is first and foremost a touching personal story

Does any recipe, cookbook, or general article about food on the internet NOT fall into this category??
Building their business offerings on AI would mean two things:

(a) their business is comoditized, so they're just making their companies obsolete

(b) they will go down (or pivot to the next thing) as the AI hype hits its peak and tapers off
Conservatives rarely talk about such things, they're a type of center leftist. I think you meant to say right wingers or, as it's being spelled now across the Internet for reasons I don't understand, rightwingers.
do those junior extremely motivated people who are doing the impactful work want to work in the office?
This place is definitely comfier than the holier-than-you crowd that loves to cry about this place.
> Such a great example of how the fear reflex is functional from a survival perspective.

All of our emotions (when we're healthy) are tools. They're all programmable to some extent as well. If somethings not actually dangerous, repeated exposure to it will desensitize you to it, for example.
Yes, I know him.
It's easy to paint a conspiracy picture. Most boards are not in commercial real estate and certainly not enough to force CEOs to act against the interest of their company. They're doing this because they believe in it. Lots of people just believe wrong things despite evidence.
How about a nice metal non-LEGO orrery that doesn't cost a gajillion dollars.
I did not claim that they can't do it.
Do other browser vendors add special cases in their codebase for specific sites? It seems like a really bad idea.

Since around 2020, I've been working on an app that makes heavy use of audio playback and recording. I feel like I am frequently making Safari specific updates because something related media playback or recording stopped working on Safari.

I don't recall this kind of regression ever happening with Chromium-based browsers or Firefox. It feels weird in 2024 to be adding work-arounds and hacks specific web browsers and anecdotally, it seems to be getting worse.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134383. On BrowserStack, still no Safari dev tools on iOS 17.4+
I don’t think that is always the case.

I worked at a company making project management software and, although in the grand scheme of things the product wasn’t meaningful, I enjoyed working on it until the company tripled in size and I was fixing bugs for enterprise support team number 3.

I like making things. People find satisfaction in toy making as well (especially at nerf, from what I hear), even though toys are not inherently meaningful.

What killed it for me was realizing that my individual contributions didn’t affect anything with the product.
The picture at the start of the article just says it all. I was just looking at it for minutes and didn't dare to scroll down.
To be fair, philosophers and religious figure throughout history have struggled with "acedia"[1]; which seems very much like something we'd call burnout today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia
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> So You Want To Build A Browser Engine

> [bunch of things that are only relevant to an application platform]

Yeah you really don't need any of this for a web browser to be usable for its intended purpose.
Consider a person that never brushed their teeth, flossed, or used mouth wash for an entire year. On the night before their dentist appointment they finally decided it would be good to brush and floss. How would you describe that? Would it be fair to call it the bare minimum? After all, it is more than nothing.
This to an extent true - crime statistics are showing a downward trend in general.

However, it cannot be denied that some US cities' downtowns are... not great. I was in San Francisco a year ago, and in Los Angeles a few months ago, and I wouldn't want to live in either of those. Mass visible homelessness, 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). And I'm saying this as someone living in the Paris area who has visited large parts of the metro area, and knows the "bad" parts around here - it isn't even close how horrifyingly bad LA and SF are.
Great, so don’t write policy around it. We don’t have to.
If you have to RTO, better to RTO where you get paid better. I WFH and pay isn't what I can make if in office, I take the flexibility. If I have to RTO, I'll seek higher pay, even if it means relocating to a different location.
https://xkcd.com/364/
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