skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt that there is any truth to the narrative of real eastate value as a driver of RTO policies. The effect if there was one would be way too indirect and furthermore a classical prisoner's dilemma, as your company would benefit the most if you have the only company not forcing RTO: having the value of the real estate, while having the greates talent from remote work.
So they can fight back against before forced into the office 3 days per week?

People have democracy in the personal lives, but not in the workspace. Unions give the workers democratic power so they can collectively make demands of the business owners. They can also demand a greater share of profits.
> It's harder to catch [remote workers]

Yeah... that feels like it should be true - obviously they're harder to monitor because you can't see them! - but I think if you really think about it it isn't.

I think the number of people actually working more than one job is very small. So you're really talking about people slacking off, and that's just as easy to do in the office. Unless your boss is literally next to you anyway.

I used to read Reddit all the time at work.
Presumably, anyone at a staff+ level position in big tech, is likely influential and their word carries weight. So, I'm not sure how this is a pro or con for joining Amazon.

If anything, someone at that level earns so much money, and has so much unvested stock waiting for them, that even if they grow tired of the work, or disagree with its direction, they are unable to leave for something more fulfilling.

Being forced into the office 5 days a week might be enough to force you to reconsider though?! Maybe?!
Can you post this app?
You also have to allow the end user to make changes to the LGPL software running on the device.
Well, Nvidia has powered a much more popular console... the Nintendo Switch, and Nvidia looks set to power the Switch 2 when it launches next year. So, AMD is clearly not the only choice.
I am answering your question, plain and simple. You may not like the answer; that is your prerogative, as always.
If any other laptop had a trackpad like apple, with multi touch and gesture support, I would switch.
Yes, you're missing the ability for the user to install and use the modified code, which is one of the main things that LGPLv3 introduced over LGPLv2.1.
> Think about the L7+ who built EC2, DDB, EBS, S3, SQS, and etc.

Does the average L7 person architect those services significantly, or just kinda maintain them? It's almost crazy to think about any old AWS employee (granted L7 is up there) conceiving those things, they've had such a massive impact on the ability to build things on the internet.
> This enforcement wouldn't even be possible in C or any other language I know of personally that'd be efficient to write an OS in.

The sky is the limit when it comes to verification of complex properties for C programs. You “just” need a few expert level theorem prover users and a couple of years :)

If you’re actually operating in the kind of domain where exhaustive verification is worth the time investment, C blows Rust out of the water (due to it’s simple semantics and mature ecosystem of verification tooling). There remain no formal semantics of the surface level rust language (and constructing one is a daunting task given its deep and baroque complexity). Verification at the MIR or LLVM levels may be more tractable, but I’m not aware of any large scale results here. C or assembly in combination with some verification tooling remains the gold standard for fast and correct software at the highest level.

Rust offers reasonable memory safety in a relatively accessible and fully automated package. It’s a better choice than C for the majority of cases, but it’s far from the last word when it comes to safety.

btw (and as noted in a sibling comment), sel4 is fully verified down to the assembly level.
That's a different topic. A large number of E8/E9 in Google have been pushed out recently too. The key challenge is continuous growth. High-level ICs tend to become gatekeepers as the growth of their orgs stagnate. What they don't realize, though, is that gatekeeping accumulates debris and resentment over time, and the value of gatekeepers diminishes over time. A high-level IC either has to make things happen every few years, or reset their project by joining a new org, which means risking losing their institutional know-how.
Intel hasn't made a console CPU/GPU since... the original Xbox?

AMD has done: Gamecube, Wii, Xbox 360 (gpu, not cpu), Xbox one, PS4, PS5 ...
Stuff like that can almost always be traced back to that senior being told to "be visible." Show up! Have opinion on things (loudly)! "Scale yourself!" Other mumbo jumbo. It often leads to these weird misguided drive-bys where everyone is left confused.
The "Intel Core Ultra 7 258V" is at least 2-3x slower than the GPU within the PlayStation 5. It is not even close, and that's last gen. Again, the APUs within modern consoles compete with desktop grade GPUs. In the case of the PS5 its roughly comparable to an RTX 2070 or Rx 6700 (better analog).
If they can complete the sprint in a few hours, I don't see why they can't do that. Executives typically hold multiple board positions and they are perfectly fine for that.
It's the opposite in my experience. These sort of things are actually resulting in lower developer rates. Even if you went with an out-of-the-box solution for customer support (as an example) you still needed engineers and designers on hand to customize and maintain the solution. But that's almost entirely gone away.
Our PM quit a month ago and now we have stand-ups without any managers. I think it made the developers more responsible and involved: every stand-up a new dev gets the role of a facilitator. Previously, it was a one-man show. The stand-ups have become slightly shorter, too.

2 years ago we had 1 hour long dailies because the team was too large. We split into 3 subteams, each has their own stand-up. Now it's down to 15 minutes max.
Before this update you could hold control and click the application, then select "open" from the menu. It would give you a warning and let you confirm you'd like to run it anyway.
Sorry I should have been more specific.

The article does mention that OpenAI has huge revenue.

> While The Information reported that OpenAI's revenue is $3.5 to $4.5 billion a year in July, The New York Times reported last week that OpenAI's annual revenues have "now topped $2 billion," which would mean that the end-of-year numbers will likely trend toward the lower end of the estimate.

But then the author claims that the business value is questionable.

> And even if they did, it isn't clear whether generative AI actually provides much business value at all. The Information reported last week that customers of Microsoft's 365 suite [snip]

I would have appreciated a deeper discussion of why OpenAI's revenue isn't a data point toward generative AI having some business value. Presumably if nobody was using generative AI in a way that gives them value, OpenAI wouldn't be using all those GPU hours. That's what I was missing from the article personally.
It's the toil. The soul-crushing expectations. The "I'm surrounded by people and yet I've never felt so alone" kinda experience, where your co-worker may be nice, but there's not enough level appropriate work to go around.

Then you learn how long it takes for that "420k" comp to manifest (typically about 2-3 years from hire if all goes well, longer if the market is down). At least your annual increase in time off is looking good by then!

Well, assuming you make it that far. Whoops, did you forget to document how awesome you are and insure your manager sees it too? Or just make a 'blameless' mistake during an oncall rotation that made everything in the UK available at a steep discount? Sorry, ______, guess it's PIP time. We hope you succeed! Just don't look too hard at the success rate.

And then, your average successful tenure of 3-5 years is up, and you get to look back at the intense stress, distrust of your boss/coworkers, impact to your relationships, and the toil on your family. Suddenly, the offers pouring in are looking better and better, even if the comp isn't as great.

FWIW, the first 3-6 months tend to be great though!
All those regulations make running a business a chore so something has to give.
If it's obvious that my boss' interests are far out of line with my own and he's fine with that, "us-versus-them" is simply the truth. The fact that he can rattle off a complex-sounding but empty justification doesn't change that.
Is any VC guy here that is interested in medical devices? I would have something for you.
It's a very different way to play than most people get to experience now, and one that I think is a lot more fun!

Ben Milton of Questing Beast has a great video on the concept - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slBsxmHs070
No, you keep finding diversions to avoid answer the question.

Let's face it: The question is unanswerable as there is no parallel and there never was.

Your never ending quest to try and find that which does not exist is commendable, and hilarious, but to think that it is answering some kind of question is nonsensical.
Because you have a hammer and so everything sounds like a nail.

When you discuss a problem at a high enough level of abstraction, then yes everything looks like a database, and at a high enough level of traffic all databases need to be partitioned/replicated.

The much more interesting question would be "why doesn't the thing I'm familiar with solve this problem"?
I am curious, what would you do with this data if you had infinite resources?
I spent 8 years at Google (Cloud) and have lots of friends in the revolving door of AWS -> Google Cloud -> MSFT/Azure. I've been long convinced that MSFT has the best management and offers the most predictable corporate culture & behaviors. At least on the Azure side, comp is on par with both of the others, so if I had options for all three I'd definitely choose Microsoft.

Meta pays better but it's too long a drive from where I live to put up with the reduction in WLB.
None of those orgs is going to run leaner if AI is a bust. They'll invest as much, if not more, into trying to find other ways to grow - exactly the same reason they all invested in AI in the first place.
I don't think OP actually disagrees, the chest pounding rhetoric is likely because they're covering up something deep inside that's saying "I know this is the right move for Amazon but I'm terrified of what that means for me".
>I don't see why they can't do that.

Because they report to the person who says they can't.
Buys a vanilla bean but get surprised when it's plain and simple. Not sure what he expected. Apple is a cash cow harvesting brand loyalty. 2 years of r&d and they got what? A usbc port and a button? Folks are joking if they think this is the peak of tech.
Hi breck, I think that's focused on primarily the recent batches W24 & S24. Glad you found it interesting.
95% of my phone usage doesn’t require multi touch gestures and now I can do that from my laptop when I’m already working in it
I still don't understand the connection between physical presence in a building and someone's work output. If someone's work output is unacceptably down, then that person should be warned or let go, regardless of where that work is physically done. If the manager doesn't notice the low work output while remote, he's probably also not going to notice it when it's in the office. How will RTO "rein in" someone's work output? Is there manager going to use the physical presence to actually stand behind them watching them type into a computer?
This might be an unpopular take here, but from my perspective, the downsides of introducing unions in tech for software engineers far outweigh the benefits. I understand why unions can work for certain industries, but I just don’t see how they’d be a net positive for tech.

For startups especially, hiring unionized software engineers would be disastrous:

- You’ll go from having tight-knit and motivated teams building something awesome together to debating contracts.

- Top performers won’t be rewarded based on merit anymore because everything becomes about the collective.

- One of the many dope things about startups is the ability (i.e., necessity) to wear multiple hats, building something from 0 to 1. As the job roles become strictly defined, you lose that magic.

- The incentives for engineers who want to go above and beyond will disappear, because compensation, and everything else, becomes standardized. Instead of an environment where you can negotiate and prove your value, it becomes about fitting into a collective agreement. Hard work and unique contributions should mean something, but they won’t in such an environment.

Essentially, many of the things that make startups—and the innovation that comes with them—great will be pushed aside for a one-size-fits-all model that, to me, feels more like a utopian ideal than a reasonable solution for tech. Many of these concerns also apply to larger companies too.

I’m open and willing to being proven wrong about all of this though!
Ask HN: Can solo entrepreneurs benefit from an AI with a cofounder personality?
Maybe it would be like having a startup with several cofounders even though only one of them is human?
Here's an example of someone who's paid off their debt, is unhappy at the prospect of others getting relief, but not complaining about being the one to have to pick up the tax bill in order to deliver that relief:

> Student loan forgiveness rewards bad decision making

I took out a $160,000 student load a decade ago

I saved every penny I made to pay it back in full. I ended up paying over $300,000 on the loan

Now I'm getting punished because I was too responsible and paid back my loan too quickly?

I lived in a $500 a month rat and cockroach infested sun room in Boston for years to pay back this debt

If I would have instead ignored my debt and bought cars and useless luxury items I'd get a free $300,000 check?

I'm as a-political as it gets. I hate all politicians. But this is insanity and rewards the WORST behavior

https://x.com/AlexFinnX/status/1793732427325620625

You seem to disbelieve such a narrative exists.
"Ask your doctor about <insert drug here>" is "pushing" the drug. "Pushing" is advertising, "selling" happens later.
This might work, but it also guarantees you will be first on the chopping block when layoffs come around. I have seen this happen first-hand multiple times: any employee with a special arrangement that doesn't meet what the executive team desires will be let go at the first chance, even if they are a huge asset to the company.

Not to say you shouldn't try that approach. Just that you'll have less job stability.
Who knew that OpenAI really meant "Open for business AI"?
Sounds like Dublin. Amazon were crazy aggressive for hiring right until 2022, and are now less aggressive but still hiring pretty actively.

Though how much of that is hiring for expansion and hiring because they churn through people is a different question.
From the same place is system security settings you could always approve it, bummer about ctrl click though.
I don't think revenge is the motivation, but it's hard to know what the actual motivation is. I think it's some mix of:

- Execs truly believe that culture and productivity are better in office (i.e., what they actually say in their announcements)

- An opportunity to force attrition without layoffs

- Maintain real estate value / Justify real estate investments

- Belief that remote workers are more likely to jump to another company

- Opportunity to claw back a perk that can be returned in future negotiations if needed

- Big tech companies are mature and no longer need to compete so heavily on brand/perks

- Execs personally prefer employees in office for some other reason (e.g., wanting to feel powerful)

- Execs have strong data that productivity is higher in an office (seems unlikely, surely they'd have published it by now)
There's no way, once you consider the cost of building the building and all it's contents.

For ever worker that wants to work remote even part time they have to have a home office. Homes already must have toilets, kitchens, AC or Heat as appropriate, etc. In addition a worker more or less always returns home, meaning their transportation to the office is the marginal excess. So commuting alone is a source of excess carbon.

You cant tell me that a building AC/Heat is going to be so much more efficient over a home AC/heat that it erases the fact we double the footprint of office + kitchen/eating space + bathroom + lobby + call rooms (which are usually extra ontop of a desk) on and on.

For all the offices I've worked in as a guide its incomprehensible that a home office wouldn't have a lower carbon footprint.
You can order them online, not sure if a prescription is required:

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I’m having difficulties with the keyboard shortcuts for the new window snapping stuff. My desk keyboard doesn’t have a Globe key (like most non-Apple keyboards), but the shortcuts don’t work with Caps Lock remapped to Globe. It doesn’t work with the MacBook’s built-in keyboard either, so I think it’s a bug rather than an issue with my keyboard.
> Their iGPU performance is actually getting good now.

I've only been waiting for Intel to ship a compelling iGPU since, I dunno, their "Extreme Graphics" in 2001? What on earth have their iGPU teams been doing over there for the last 20+ years?

I guess the OEMs were blinkered enough not to demand it, and Intel management was blinkered enough not to see the upside on their own.
We use https://github.com/Yelp/pgctl heavily, which uses s6!
> The right-click/control-click option for easily opening unsigned apps is no longer available. Users who want to open unsigned software will now need to go the long way around to do it: first, try to launch the app and dismiss the dialog box telling you that it can't be opened. Then, open Settings, go to the Privacy & Security screen, scroll all the way to the bottom to get to the Security section, and click the Open Anyway button that appears for the last unsigned app you tried to run.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/macos-15-sequoia-mak...
Well, 1Password must be feeling pretty sour about how Apple Passwords app is a complete 1:1 clone.

They don’t do licenses, credit cards or ssh keys yet so we probably won’t switch… yet
Apple has been doing low latency screen mirroring for, I don’t know, a decade. If you find the latency unacceptable, consider looking into your network performance.
the distance factor is a primary consideration when it comes to electricity; most electricity is consumed within hundreds of kilometers from where it's produced, because only in china is there uhvdc transmission, and even inside china there isn't nearly enough uhvdc and hvdc transmission capacity to meet demand

consequently, there are lots of places where there's abundant green electricity that can't be economically transported to any neighbors, which is why green electricity is cheaper than coal, nuclear, and gas energy. if it could be economically transported, it would be; instead, it is sold locally at much lower prices. only rarely is this seen by residential end-users, but in much of the world the 15-minute prices paid on the wholesale market by electric utilities are public information, so you can easily verify this

as a result of that, just using renewable sources for electricity does actually make mining renewable

as for the grauniad article, there are a lot of people doing unprofitable business things in lots of businesses, but they tend to be self-limiting, because those people run out of money before long
I've been happy with Divvy for many years. It's not autotiling but the one-time config setup is intuitive after which my kbd shortcuts put things exactly where I want em, so I hardly ever think about it.
The logistics of having that level of granularity are probably a little unrealistic, but employers already follow a similar principle when adjusting pay scales based on cost-of-living for a given metropolitan area.
I don't disagree it is unsustainable, I'm really trying to be more precise about whether anyone is getting value out of the tools. I'm just really skeptical that nobody is getting value.
Interesting, I've never seen a big Github project with only a `README.md` before. It looks like they moved the open source part to a new branch[1], before halting the open development completely (I don't mind, just observing).

1. https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/tree/opensource
I started watching the movie "Divergent" and it's reused to be the security fence (https://divergent.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fence)
"food is the best it's ever been!"

Judging by food consumption.
That's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Switch is lower price, lower performance by design and used, even originally, a mature NVIDIA SoC, not really a custom.
Duh. D&D has only ever had a “medieval aesthetic” going all the way back to “Advanced” 1st edition.
iPhone mirroring, video conferencing and window tiling actually use system frameworks, so it's okay to present them as OS features.

New versions of Safari are already available for older macOS versions through System Update for a few years, I've already downloaded Safari 18 on my Sonoma. And for Passwords, Messages, Notes and Maps there's no legit reasons why newer versions can't be distributed through App Store, other than using their new features as a promo for their new macOS...
It going to be great fun as Apple and Google add more and more medical features and then when they ban your account you lose them all. Maybe this will be more of the door to break their control on mobile computing.
Most likely the decision was taken internally, but sometimes to make it official requires some procedural paperwork. Apple probably got the green light that the approval was approved on the way.
at least it's still possible (and maybe more accessible) if not a bit more inconvenient. the ctrl-click thing was kinda a hidden feature.
Can you actually provide any citation for OD&D containing feudalism or monarchy? Certainly, later versions add it, but I found myself nodding along going "huh, he's right, the original version didn't have anything that really resembles a large-scale government at all."

Every version of D&D contains the idea that a random peasant can go make a name for themselves as a monster-slayer and become a baron. Land is literally free for the taking if you can just clear out the beasts. That seems much more American Dream / Colonialism, and not at all European / Medieval history.
My hot take is that 90% of software engineering is just transforming data from one shape to another and there's only so many way to do that.

It doesn't matter if you're syncing between a database and server, between a presentation layer and an object model, or across two devices over a network.

Fundamentally you're dealing with an impedance mismatch that only has so many types of solutions.
> if you're expected to work 40 hours per week, and your employer mandates you come into work an hour each way then you should either be expected to work 32 productive hours -- or you should be compensated for 48 hours.

That’s this person’s fault for choosing to live an hour from the office. I’ve always realized how stupid commuting is and the longest commute of my adult life (I’m currently 41) has been a 30-minute bicycle ride.

Now the people who live an hour from the office want less work or more pay than me? I say just fire them instead.

Or just let everybody negotiate the deal they want for themselves and let them price in their cost of commute or whatever into their ask. If somebody who lives an hour away wants to work 20% fewer hours or make 20% more money, let them shoot their shot and ask for it.
> the old green button behavior

It annoys the hell out of me that there’s never been an option to invert this. I actually like the old size-to-fit behaviour and I never ever want the iOS-style full screen, I don’t want to have to hold Option to get what was once the default behaviour.