skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find WFH policies go through cycles between all-remote to always-office.

Three factors I suspect contribute to this:

1. execs/management are completely disconnected from the product of the labour they “manage.”

2. Greener-pastures effect.

3. Management attrition

Together, you have a class of people who aren’t involved in production telling everyone how to do their work. In one generation that is stuck in-office all the time they want WFH. So they work towards it and eventually we get to the pro-remote end of the cycle. Managers/execs get promoted or move on and eventually… the grass starts looking greener on the RTO side of the cycle. A new generation of managers starts working towards that.

All of this happens in the context of capital and interest rates. Lower rates and cheap property tends to favour WFH sensitive managers. High rates and expensive property favours RTO.
(I'm one of the founders of Latacora and reviewed the post.) If any of you are at Heart of Clojure, I'll be there both wearing my Latacora hat and my Clojurists Together hat :)
Thanks, I'm usually the one who has to get on their soapbox to say this. I'm glad I'm not the only one anymore :-)
What do you envision a union doing for software engineers? like what's the 3 sentence pitch for joining?
See here for some insights:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40656125
Recovery from what? A moderate slowdown? The general unemployment rate is 4.2% and it's always lower for tech.
That's a lot more than "seems" if it's GPL. That is "you need to release your source code entirely under GPL if you even link to this"
> Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago

The pigs may have flown 466 million years ago. /s
>Sapir-Whorf? Can’t that just be put to bed by now?

Said by someone who only speaks one language? Nice Idiom: shame if something were to happen to it.

It is SO EASY to prove this (literally just talk to any multilingual and watch their entire personality shift when they change languages {some languages have larger gaps}, they themselves don't often notice the effect)!

>On the topic of languages at least.

At least, you say... hmmm... why does that raise ALL THE RED FLAGS...

> Some technologists seem to want to get rid of all ostensibly useless things. More than one language being one of them.

which is why programmers keep inventing new languages (rust), which is the defacto standard everyone uses now. /s

Your arguments are as singularly cultured as what you argue for.... Which - as it so happens to be - (the quality of your arguments) is exactly my argument against such a future state.

And on one more note: Dave Ackley has some nifty ideas about the opposite of efficiency being robustness instead of waste. having a monoculture promises efficiency, but with that comes a brittleness that will cut us.
What do you mean? The article is about how they got FDA approval... Isn't that the way to go? As in, it's a much higher bar than having a medical license and insurance no?
No offense, but sometimes an annoying aspects of monolingual people(those without substantial second language training, not just ** monolingualism totaritarianists) is that sometimes the only aspect of the concept of a language some of them understand is words.

About 30% each of English vocabulary is to have been borrowed from French. That means the phrase "it's all French to me" in free standing could logically imply that you do have good idea of what is being said. That's obviously never the case.

That's because dictionary vocabulary is just an asset file for a language. It's a major, but still a part of a language. Integrating bunch of words into a language only inflates that dataset.

Dinitrogen tetroxide(N2O4) is apparently called "tetraoksid diazota" in Russian. Do memorizing bunch of those compounds in Russian makes you fluent in that language? I'd very much doubt it.
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Did you start your career before covid? If not, didn't you already experience and endure 5 days a week in the office and not quit your career?
please prove this. i am now committed to wfh, yet to set and reach important milestones i have to buckle down and focus in the office.
It's even more subtle than that. Things just start decaying when talent leaves- you often can't trace it to a single engineer or piece of knowledge that's lost. You'll find reasons why things broke- but you won't see the myriad ways a more talented pool of developers would have prevented it from ever breaking in the first place.
If you work in Seattle it's one of only a few options. A lot of folks in the Bay Area (including former me) don't understand how much of a monoculture this place is. There are really only 2 major places to work as a software engineer and very few startups or small companies. Nearly every SWE I meet works at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, or Meta (the last 2 have
smaller offices here).
Yes, we'd like to improve on that: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/issues/4128
I think GP's point was that slint's commercial licensing is less of a minefield than Qt's, and the terms are straightforward and reasonable.

(I haven't verified this; this is just how I read the GP's comment.)
Apparently Amazon agrees with your friend, at least as far as warehouse workers go.

> Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people to hire in its US warehouses by 2024, according to leaked Amazon internal research from mid-2021...

> In the past, that churn wasn’t a problem for Amazon — it was even desirable at some points. Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos saw his warehouse workforce as necessary but replaceable, and feared that workers who remained at the company too long would turn complacent or, worse, disgruntled...

https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-wareh...
Do you think false accusations are a uniquely american attribute? Have you never heard of Europe's (and very much Germany's) long history of lynching alleged witches?
Easily more elsewhere with less BS
Frugality. Your cost per hour is reduced.

Learn and be curious. If you’re working on the weekend, you get to do this 24x7.
FFS we're 3/4 of the way migrating our stack to AWS. They better not screw it up!
Headcount based promos is the most backwards system out there.

But Amazon is too dysfunctional to change.
> It was a business mistake by the Nokia in 2009 to offer the non-commercial version of Qt as LGPL.

I don't think so. At the time I'm sure their goal was to have Qt as the development platform for all their phone hardware in time, while the profit would have come from phone sales. Using LGPL would have encouraged adoption by all developers.

What they didn't know in 2009 was that their hardware business will collapse. Or be collapsed.
might wanna add some context as to how that's relevant to the current time frame and situation
I always suggest reading 'inmates are running the asylum' by Alan Cooper when this topic comes up.

if product management is hosting a party, it is usually a party of people that speak about 10 different languages, and everyone needs to get along in the next 15 minutes or else.

generally, some developers can be exposed to some clients sometimes. but not all developers to all clients all the time.
FYI: we're planning a followup post for people who are less interested in the Datomic mechanics and more interested in the usefulness to investigations and other security functions. Informally, I think of it this way: your SIEM has the deltas, but often you want the contextual states in between the deltas (and a lot of investigation is about trying to reason about that state). We built this tool originally to support that, and it turned out that approach was also super useful for things like compliance, CSPM...

We already wrote a high level blog post here: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2023/11/01/our-approach-to-bui... -- but the one I'm hoping to write is more of a case study.
Heh, a lot of wx/c++ software has been ported to QT for obvious reasons.
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> believes Strawberry is mainly just CoT. I'm not saying they didn't fine tune a model too

You don't see the scaling with respect to token length with non-FT'd CoT like this, in my opinion.
It is for your own good. /s

OTOH, i would say that, the HW backdor unveiled by Kaspersky, was specifically designed by/for NSA.
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Fair. When I bought the item I wrote about, I had no idea it wasn't direct from Walmart. IMO, as bad as Amazon does, they make who you are buying from very clear.
Arwen, Eowyn, and Galadriel say what?
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I'm not sure what you mean here. I had the original books, the supplements, then "Basic D&D" and "Advanced D&D". The rules were the same, just repackaged. The original rules didn't "recommend" using Chainmail, they assumed you had a copy and knew the rules, which was a source of confusion for newbies.

I remember being disappointed with AD&D as it was just the same old shit rules, with Dave Arneson's name cynically removed from the copyright. The next year I discovered Runequest, and later in College, Champions, and never looked back.

I think by the 80s D&D was well known, and not just because of the TV show. This was before 2nd edition, which came out in 1989.

I vaguely remember looking over 2nd edition, they tweaked a few things, but the core mechanics were the same.

3rd edition did shake things up a bit, and were the first version I considered worth playing.
macOS Sequoia is available today
The job market is tough out there for SDEs. Granted, I'm not top-tier talent by any means, but this past year I interviewed for like 10x as many jobs as I did in my previous 15 years of working with no luck. I even get ghosted by recruiters that reached out to me first.

So, I have my doubts about easily for most people, even at these places.
> Tenured professors at major universities do ok, but the road to getting tenure-track jobs and then tenure is littered with the bodies of grad students.

I'm reminded of that quote from Interstellar: "I never really fully considered the possibility that I wasn't the one."
75 would shock the market & probably hurt Warren's party. 50 has been stated as something that may scare the market into thinking the Fed is worried more than letting on. They could maybe do 50 if they give a lot of context & forward guidance & take the next meeting off of rate cuts instead of the expected 25, 25, 25. Many are also very concerned we could make inflation sky rocket by cutting to fast, especially if the next president were to increase tariffs on a lot of goods.

I sometimes wonder if Warren is playing 3D chess. I assume she is far smarter than me on these topics but her proposals often make no sense to me. She also never gives good logic to the public behind them, even on long form one on one interviews with someone sympathetic to her cause interviewing her.

Fed also really did not want to cut rates this close to the election. They want to be neutral but they've done a great job of forward guidance & reacting to the data.
Apart from Sam, who is a peasant, Gandalf, who is a demigod, and Frodo, who is landed gentry with close familial ties to the local aristocracy, everyone in the company is an aristrocat: Legolas is the son of a king, Pippin and Boromir are heirs apparent to the local representative of the absent king, Aragorn is pretender to the throne of said king, Merry is heir apparent to the second most important local ruler after Pippin's father, and Gimli is a member of Durins house.
One of the last bastions of good games journalism, and the only good mobile gaming site. Another casualty of the garbage listicles and AI generated garbage that fills up search results. I would do anything to have the old, fun, internet back. This monstrosity we have now just isn't doing it for me.
> But the developer doesn't even have to make these claims, they can just put it up and say "this may detect if you're on your back".
I can believe that 3 days a week in the office is more productive than 0, and maybe 4 slightly more than 3, but I wonder if 5 is any more productive than 4, or if Amazon is mostly trying to reduce headcount.

Are there studies on productivity vs. # of days in office for white collar workers?
IEEE 754 defines the result of divisions and multiplications involving NaN and Inf, which are used extensively in graphics programming.

For example, 'select 1.0/(1.0/0.0)' becomes 0.0 again. This allows for inf/nans to be canceled out instead of having to do error checking and exception handling every time one crops up.
Tech job market is wildly different from general job market.
There's got to be opportunity to work on things at a certain scale that you can't find elsewhere. Graviton, AWS data centers, etc.
It's not worth working there as a L5/L6 level engineer. The money is absolutely not worth it. Unless, your team is working on an absolutely new product.
The only engineers,IMO, that like it there are those adept at finding new bootstrapped teams and designing and writing the product from scratch and releasing the MVP. They then hand over the crappy MVP to other engineers to support and move on to other new products. On-call is absolutely brutal because of exactly that.
Which part of the "my work revolves around such new models" did you misunderstand? Claiming that:

> Ofcourse embeddings prefixed will be generally closer.

and then later:

> When I need to use embeddings for temperature or scientific literature purposes, I might put "Temperature:" in front of them, and "Burning"/"Freezing" will be further apart.

is awesome. Have a good day!
Folded or cut, this lithium-sulfur battery keeps going
Any chance that you'd be interested in open-sourcing that app?

A very long time ago, I got the impression that sleeping on your back is healthy, and successfully "trained" myself into the practice… now I'm trying desperately to untrain the habit 9_9
It's a matter of breaking down the components themselves, the quality, the processing, the amplifier, etc -- and miniaturizing it.

This isn't like an audiophile with golden speaker wire or whatever -- it's literally the components and software are inferior in every measurable way.

Also, real hearing aids generally have about 2x as many microphones and speakers (so they can better isolate the frequencies and replicate them), down to the amplifier -- where the cheaper one has worse frequency control.

Apple does a little better than the similarly priced costco-type $300 hearing aids, but the hardware is still vastly inferior.

Just look up the spec sheet and validate if you don't believe what I am saying. It's not hidden - they literally just changed definitions so they could be grouped together and get covered by Medicaid. These "hearing aids" existed as of the shelf 'hearing amplifiers' prior to the definition change - the only purpose is this change is to dilute the meaning of the term, score a political win, and ensure the government medicaid programs can cover the $300 device instead of considering the actual medical device as a viable option.

It's a huge bamboozle.
Google Earth (sadly propietary), and I wish KDE/QT Marble had bindings to display
Street View data as 3D projections.

Also, Virtualbox...
> The only alternative that I saw that makes sense is dart

I do not think Dart was much of an improvement

When the tooling improves WASM is
What's wrong with asking a homeless person to do an embarrassing dance for a $20 bill? That used to be popular content on YouTube. Don't like that, don't watch it.

If your most potent defense of Mr. Beast is that he's made a lot of money, then he stands due the same scrutiny Rockefeller and Carnegie got. I've watched his videos, it's not an incorrect conclusion to say that his popularity hinges on the "savior complex" present in most of his videos. His content revolves around exploiting charity as a social phenomenon. He's a wannabe altruist that pockets more money than he donates. His business relies on the emotional manipulation of a destitute audience.
Sorry, but the second largest "language" on that graph is HTML/CSS. I mean that's not even a programming language.
>every single team is distributed.
Unfortunately this isn't true. Amazon already forced all teams to co-locate, calling it RTT (return to team). So majority of teams are in the same location/building.
You didn’t pick up on the tone then. I was being derisive towards the mono-lingual-future dreamers.
> If you want to use Qt, you have to support the free software movement either directly (by making your code foss)

That's the problem. No matter how many times Digia threatens you, the LGPL does not require you to make your code open source.

You're either confusing the L and non L GPL licenses, or you remember the situation from before Nokia bought Qt. Trolltech Qt was indeed GPL (without the L) plus commercial and what you said would have applied. However, it does not apply now.
The friends I have that work there that love it are absolute workaholics.

Amazon takes every minute they're willing to give, they're successful and consistently promoted/paid more.

This is also why I'll never work at Amazon. Haha.
Apple has a very small office here too.
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I mean this is all completely relative to the other options available.

If all/most employers start mandating a return to office then we'll find out where people really stand on the issue. Will they suck it up and work from the office to keep their generous paychecks? Will they stand on principle and try to find another employer who will let them work remote and who they like working for in other respects? Will they strike out on their own and become freelancers who work on their own terms? Have they already saved FU money and will just retire?
I agree they may decline over time, but I don’t know how to disambiguate that from the general rot of big tech companies that have been around for a long time.

When Elon fired everyone, people said Twitter would collapse, but they’ve been technologically ok. They may be struggling on the business end but that’s more likely to be caused by the owner telling advertisers to fuck themselves and by him tweeting racist conspiracy theory stuff rather than any problems with their infra.
well, without people working downtown, it will be abandoned to drug addicts in a spiral of insufficient public safety resources and declining revenue. so i don’t blame him.
i worked there for a couple years. wasn’t terrible, money was fair, and people i meet always seem impressed when i mention i used to work at amazon music which is kind of nice.

i’ve got recruiters saying i can go back without a real interview because i left less than a year ago and i might go back. it’s really not any different than any other programming job i’ve had.
Tech market is interest rate sensitive, broadly speaking.
> And they complained about the total switch over to micro-transactions. Those complaints were ignored.

There is a good reason for this. “Premium” mobile games never reliably made that much money, even during the early iOS boom. If you were a publisher it took having quite a few hits to compensate, and Android was more trouble than it was worth for a long time.

A successful MTX game made several orders of magnitude more. (Instead of getting low millions you would be getting hundreds of millions). The process was perfectly satirized in South Park by the “Canadian Department of Mobile Gaming” which like all the best South Park jokes wasn’t nearly as fictional as might be assumed.

Such games are “cheap trash” in the same sense as a vegas casino. Similarly the actual operating of them at scale becomes very sophisticated. Team Fortress 2 is an example of Valve indulging in exactly this on Steam, so it is far from isolated to mobile.
So any time Amazon make any noise about doing something "for the environment" you can basically just point out they are full of shit.

It probably takes a dozen electric cars to offset the carbon saving of just not going into the office.
> Are there studies on productivity vs. # of days in office for white collar workers?

Yes, you can cite it as "the CEO's fart."
I'll set it up on GitHub in 1-2 days and publish it on Hacker News.
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> They claim it is so they know your air pressure numbers but it is all just regulatory capture

I disagree. In lab titration is not about regulatory capture. It's the best place to get a good ballpark start. The rest should be up to the patient, but informing the patient of that is where things go wrong, alas.

> CPAP machines can auto adjust your pressure and people like to tweak numbers manually to their comfort level anyways.

They cannot. See my rant about APAP in the comments here, or my previous APAP rants in my history. Current generation APAP is awful and it needs to die. PAP machines are awful at detecting events. This could probably be partially mitigate with better software. But there is a reason why a sleep study is very much the gold standard. 12+ channels of valuable information. Versus 1 channel on the PAP device.
Glad to see that you can make ensemble forecasts of tropical cyclones! This absolutely essential for useful weather forecasts of uncertain events, and I am a little dissapointed by the frequent comparisons (not just you) of ML models to ECMWF's deterministic HRES model. HRES is more of a single realization of plausible weather, rather than an best estimate of "average" weather, so this is a bit of apples vs oranges.

One nit on your framing: NeuralGCM (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07744-y), built by my team at Google, is currently at the top of the WeatherBench leaderboard and actually builds in lots of physics :).

We would love to metrics from your model in WeatherBench for comparison. When/if you have that, please do reach out.
Correct.

GET, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT are idempotent.

POST is not. (Thus existence of Idempotency-Key, etc)
I expect eventually people will demand a premium for the BS?
Imagine a world were GNUstep was pushed instead of GTK. Today GIMP would be rebased into Cocoa and made multiplatform with ease. It would be the GNUstep Image Manipulation Program.

Even legacy systems could be running a GNUStep desktop thanks to having multiple settings: a modern one a la OSX/Etoile; and another one with classical NeXT widgets without fancy effects.
Or Oracle!
Maybe. :-)
Isn't the technical name ECMAScript?

What would be really cool is if the community could just rally around the original name, LiveScript… it never had anything to do with Java, let that go…
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GPL 2 with the Classpath/Linking Exception?
Still, not many do this.
"A union of Software Engineers lets us collectively bargain for better working conditions, such as flexible working locations, reducing PTO request denials, and work-life balance conditions."
What's crazy is all the downvoting. Why are people so invested in this idea that BMI is the primary/sole cause of OSA? It's literally killing people and the science is pretty conclusive. It should be one of those screens you take at certain milestone ages like colonoscopies.
Look at how well you're being treated now without a union. Look at how well union workers are treated versus their no union worker equivalents. Imagine how much better you'd be treated if there was a union versus your current no union status.
The Bangladeshi farmer is still poor, or not? And he can't raise his prices because the people at the top don't want to lose even the smallest bit of their profits. He has access to ChatGPT but not as someone who benefits from it economically.
He died in 1969 so this must be an old interview.
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HTTP2 has already been mostly replaced by HTTP3, iirc. We now mostly have a split between HTTP1.1 And 3, if I'm remembering an article I read correctly.