skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on whether the capacity is fixed or not. If capacity is fixed and demand is unlimited (eg. because you just can't get more EUV light sources this year) then you should probably run as close to 100% utilisation as possible.

But if you can easily scale production capacity, you should not strive for 100% utilisation. You should expand capacity before you reach 100%, because if you are running at 100% you will not be able to take any more orders and lose the opportunity to grow your business.
It'll be interesting to see how soon the other big tech companies follow suit and do the same. Cynically, I wonder to what extent that forced RTO has been directly coordinated between these companies VS copycatting each other.
> I feel that many people have never really tried, or tried but did not appreciate that it would be really hard, and gave up.

With all due respect, this is nonsense. This is a very common trope, but I can guarantee you the vast vast vast majority of people who are obese have tried “eating less and moving more,” and that is not new advice to them. Nobody who has been obese for a long time walks into a doctor’s office going “okay I finally think I want that injection that will help me lose weight” as if they just suddenly noticed they’re obese.

There are lots of reasons they might not have been able to deal with it before, and “laziness” is not usually in the top 5. Genetics, means, access to knowledge, living in a food desert, depression, etc. are all far more likely causes.

Being obese sucks. People who are obese are far more aware of that than anyone choosing to judge them from afar.
https://eig.org/state-noncompete-map/

> Nearly one in five workers in the United States are bound by a noncompete agreement preventing them from finding a new job or starting a business in their field when they leave their employer. Noncompetes are currently governed at the state level, and as a growing body of research shows that noncompetes suppress wages, reduce job mobility, and stifle innovation, states are moving rapidly to restrict them. Currently, four states ban the use of noncompetes entirely and 33 states plus DC restrict their use.
I haven't picked it apart, but if it's like the other Continuity features it all takes place locally over bluetooth and ad-hoc wifi. There's a possibility that their servers are just sending the notifications to the user's Macs in the same push that sends them to the phone though.
They made 33M and were fined 9M? Roughly a net profit of 24 Million? Yes I'm sure they totally learned their lesson and would never make tens of millions in defiance of lax enforcement again.
Everyone's talking about the app but I'm impressed by the tennis ball idea.
Do what humans usually did - hunt some dinner, hang around, maybe go aggravate the neighboring tribe a bit, if you’re feeling feisty.
I’m not up for making a thorough post about it right now, but one thing to be aware of is that beta carotene converts to vitamin A at rates that range from abysmal (single digit percentages or less) to barely adequate depending on personal factors like genetics.

I’ve also come across indication that beta carotene byproducts can potentially inhibit vitamin A use (also likely connected with personal genetics), throwing another wrench into the works.

Basically I do not recommend naively conflating carotenoid intake with vitamin A intake, especially in regards to populations vulnerable to malnutrition. For me and most of you reading this however the difference is not much of consequence.
I see this all the time. Organizations which are solely dedicated to stop things from happening instead of allowing things to happen.

One example is a disaster readiness organization which mandates that teams cannot deploy code in only a single datacenter. What they should really be doing is making it so code automatically runs in multiple datacenters.

Facilitate instead of forbid.
Yeah, and shit.
I'm not sure I agree. I don't watch his content but from reading the document it's quite clear his goal is to make stuff that's "fucken funny" - he's not creating any content for the sake of it, he wants to entertain himself.
The parallel is "I had to work hard to lose weight / maintain my low weight, why should they get a magic pill?" Unfairness can be perceived even when it only exists in a vague cosmic sense and has no bearing in material reality.
For the same level of compensation? near their home? do these company offer remote/hybrid position to new joiners? do they even hire at the moment?
They had a chance to charge banks and other financial institutions even more money by letting them run their own local python installations but they missed it.
This is a very interesting observation. I wonder if there's a way to identify the contribution of that initial cellular environment to the phenotype. I guess you could do experiments where you tamper with the initial cellular environment or the DNA and see what happens.
Google and Steam charge 30% for their top rate as well right? So assuming you are referring to tech companies and not Apple in particular?
The Subprime AI Crisis
PresButan is mandatory for me on macOS so I can make the Delete/Backspace key delete files.
Anecdotally, when I was in Asia I saw people playing mobile games all over the place. Mobile is the biggest gaming platform by a large margin.
Not sure why you got downvoted for this. There's a lot of common sense in your comment. The hate against RTO is real.
You may be interested in: https://www.cloudflare.com/data-localization/
Yeah most places can’t comp 2 Std deviation candidates. Either in pay or experience. Beast could because he’s got the top company in the market that makes it cheap to hire talent.
This is a soft layoff not some BS productivity hack. They've also kneecapped comp.
I realize it's a very Apple ecosystem thing to shore up gaps in macOS with 3rd party apps, but BetterDisplay can do this for you: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay

(Run non-retina displays at 2X frame buffer for proper anti-aliasing)
It does - but by then I'm working and don't look at it, and forget until I stand up a few hours later.
I was curious to see what o1 thought:

Order of Magnitude Assessment

"Bad" for the Environment: Emitting nearly 3 metric tons of CO₂ annually from commuting alone is significant.
Potential for Reduction: Eliminating or reducing car commutes can substantially lower an individual's carbon footprint.

I didn't post all the calculations and rebuttals because I figured it would pollute the conversation but there's the nut of it.
Ming-Chi Kuo is the golden standard for reports on Apple's production apparatus. He has the best sources, the best leaks, the best insight into very specific discussions regarding parts acquisition for Apple.

When it comes to what Apple does with those parts, or market segmentation, or sale projection, he's got no special knowledge. In this specific case, pardon the technical language, but he's full of ...
> Written like someone who's never lost weight in their life.

What does weight loss have to do with it? He's talking about steroid use for building muscle.
Unless it can be completely turned off I will never upgrade and I guess I will be selling my year-old M3 Max in favor of some shitty PC (or I’ll eventually just run Asahi once it supports my hardware well).
I've heard of using "Geiger counter allocators" -- custom allocators that make a small click whenever an allocation happens to get a sense of when a program is doing lots of allocations, especially lots of small allocs, as it's running.
These strategies are so odd to me as companies have rigor on who they let IN, so why take an approach that has no tiger on who you force OUT?

Would be better to trim in the right division/department/team/performance ranking than just.. force random increase in departures.
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Sure, but we already know the long term effects of diabetes and high blood pressure, and they are awful. By waiting to see, you are explicitly choosing to take those long term effects in an attempt to avoid the unknown long term effects of the new drug.

Obviously, it might be that the long term effects are worse, but we shouldn’t act like waiting is a zero cost choice.
This reads like something Amazons PR team came up with. “Train yourself to work a solid 8 hours a day” what are you even talking about? Remote workers do this now and aren’t lazy. The assumptions you have are conpletely out of touch with reality and insulting.
Funny, in New England we call this a “New Jersey stop”.
They largely seem to indeed be reselling the services of a few wholesale providers, in my experience.

Some of them literally just resell local SIMs on a different storefront, but that seems to be the absolute minority.

Most of them sell eSIM profiles not "based" in the country you're actually buying data for, which I suspect allows them to effectively provide access to, and often arbitrage of, the rate carriers in the visited country would charge their users directly.

I've experienced all kinds of interesting combinations, such as receiving an ICCID from country A, IMSI and (usually) IP address from country B, while traveling to country C. (In this case, the reseller pays the provider in country B for access to their wholesale roaming rates between the visited network in C and themselves, I assume.)

Some providers actually use Multi-IMSI SIMs under the hood, which is yet another level of virtualization, allowing them to dynamically select a "home" network closer to your visited location, improving latency and the distance your data has to travel. (Truphone, now BetterRoaming, does that, for example.)
Google allows side-loading, and Steam is completely optional. You can avoid it, even on Valve's own handheld.
it also said that about 17% of a persons carbon footprint is from commuting. not sure how accurate that is but I'm going to post it anyway.
I looked up an article to elaborate on the "threw a fit" part. It appears that Apple believes it would have to compromise security aspects of iPhone Mirroring in order to do it in a way that complies with EU law, so it's choosing to just not offer it at all.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/28/eu-hits-back-at-a...
Engineers on a work visa don’t have that much leeway to strong-arm Amazon on such a decision.
It's also crazy that any office worker needs to go to an office (and waste time in traffic and pollute, unpaid, for work).

This could all be fixed within 1 day if government would mandate companies to pay you for the duration you're away from home for work (including travel time).

It would fix pollution, traffic jams, housing shortages, fake employee shortages, mental/stress issues and potentially even declining birth rates.

But I guess "because boss says so" is a more important argument to not fix all of those things.
Don't you think experiencing years of a different world might change someone's opinion?
ACE 8. Despite a promising start in life, things deteriorated rapidly.

Mother was in and out of mental hospitals during much of teenage years, abusive, narcissistic. Father was alcoholic, absent, frequent bouts of adultery. Eventually they divorced when I was 12. Sent to live with grandparents who didn't want me, very abusive, cruel and neglectful. Changed my opinion on my family during those years.

Father eventually remarried, mother did not. Mother died of suicide at age 58. Step mother also died of suicide at age 48. No relationship with any other family members.

Diagnosed with ADHD, depression and anxiety. Also was born with severe hemophilia and had to deal with all that on top of everything, gay. Despite all that, was able to train myself as a software engineer and have a decent career.

That said, knowing what I know now, if given the choice from the beginning, I would choose not to live this life even if it meant a chance of having a worse life.
+1 from this long time make user. https://hledger.org/just.html has some PTA-related examples.
Given that finding a job takes time in the current market, January 2025 essentially mean that people who don't like the policy should start looking right now.
I've heard that they do metrics on the ads to pick particular pseudo-games to implement.

But they don't make money on clicks, they make it on whales, so they are also going to get rid of pseudo-games that can't get whales to spend more microtransaction money.
Of course! And network traffic is encrypted even on LAN.
I love Martin Fowler's one pager called Snowflake server - it aged very well and I still use it as a reference in the cloud era. And this text is also good advice IMO.

What I feel that is missing on what he calls the "Microservices Premium" is a clear statement that this premium is paid in "ops" hours. That changes the game because of the "ops" resource scarcity.

In fact, the microservices dilemma is an optimization problem related to the ops/dev ratio that is being wrongly treated as a conceptual problem.

This is the simplest analysis I could come up with:

https://logical.li/blog/ops-dev-ratio/
Yeah people will do the job for free basically. I don’t think you could have the same culture if your business was cleaning port-a-pottys.
> Every other FAANG is going to have their problems, with the only one that I haven't really been able to identify serious downsides being Netflix.

Justify your existence every quarter or catch a pinkslip. Wicked good payouts, though -- roommate in college ended up there and was straight up cash. He loved it until he didn't and vanished promptly.
CLIP and YOLO work completely differently and have different purposes. CLIP uses transformers and embeddings and can compare text with images for classification. YOLO using a CNN and is trained with bounding boxes on images and is used for image recognition.

Give an image to CLIP and you can compare the similarity between the image and a sentence like 'a vase with roses in it'. Whereas with YOLO you give it an image and get the coordinates of bounding boxes around a vase, and around roses.
I started linking component stylesheets directly in the component HTML, de facto eliminating unused CSS from the output. HTTP3 provides performance gains we can benefit from by serving multiple CSS files "just-in-time".

I've had great results since. No more unused CSS. No more minifying nor bundling. What you write is what you get. It's liberating! Hehe.
basic interop like fetching data from s3 bucket, formatting it and showing as a table in excel would be a good use case, but not sure serverside python is needed for that.

more interesting idea could be using Excel as a jupyter-like front-end for the Python kernel. Imagine excel as a jupyter
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
I have not interviewed at either company, but Meta is known to be harder to get into and pay quite a bit more than Amazon. I imagine they treat their employees quite a bit better as well, though i'm sure expectations are still high, like they are at all FAANGs.
Obvious counter argument is the Vision Pro
I worked at a small company that used Qt using the LGPL version of Qt with paying a cent to Qt. I thought we should probably pay for it, but the terms of the commercial device license made that unbearable.

While Autodesk is a big company, I could see trying to use a commercial licence as impractical for them. If they tried, what would it mean for their no cost editions, what would it mean for their plugin developers, what would it mean for their customers who do custom development on to of it? I think the paid licenses would be a disaster in all cases.
Does this include AWS employees? This could be a boon for GCP, Azure, and the other infra/cloud companies. Lots of great talent there. Amazon.com, eh, they'll find warm bodies to maintain the spring boot services and Jsps.
It's always a delight to read Fry.

This particular piece is maybe too pessimistic. The one thing I can definitely agree with - we can't predict the future. So we'll see.
Totally agree. I wish my hearing aids had a proprietary USB-C dongle or something.

On Linux, my experience has been both better and worse. More random disconnects and the need to re-pair is more frequent. The nice thing is I can automate the workarounds on Linux but can only curse on MacOS :D
There are so many totally invisible third-party apps that do exactly that.
In Europe they're one of the biggest tech employers. Relatively low hiring bar, one of the better paying, and generally stable job unless you're really bad.
So most tech startups?
If you look at what happened to Yahoo, Intel, AT&T with their generous WFH policies, no leader worth their salt would ever give this leeway to employees.

There is not a single company that has had long-term WFH success (that had to actually compete in the open marketplace).

Every employee has good intentions, but entropy is a bitch. The culture of action, innovation slowly erodes every single day and five years down the line it is beyond repair. (see Yahoo, Intel).

I know this is unpopular opinion among progressive HNers, but reality bites. And with coming glut of computer science professionals you don't the bargaining power that you enjoyed the past decade.
Amazon have so much churn it’s a temporary problem
Speaking as a manager: any managers that think that are wrong.
In the past I have managed to lose weight with a soul crushing diet and regular exercise. In the last five years, that hasn’t worked and I’m clinically obese again.

In my case, working out and eating soul crushing diets, and having that NOT work has had the opposite effect on my mental empowerment, as you can imagine.

So I finally broke down to my doctor of 6 years and she said let’s try Ozempic. Doesn’t look like insurance is going to pay for it though…
I don't think the specific detail I called fair is very relevant to outsiders.
>Training yourself to work a solid 8 hours at the office without distraction should allow you to leap over others who've gotten lazy sitting at home.

What in the corporate HR flyer is this?

"We think you need a hallmonitor to actually work, also you'll appreciate that we give you one"

I returned to office years ago. I need the ability to move hardware between employees with less than a day turnaround. But you will never convince me for a second that loosing my private office was an improvement.
Why is this the line for you? macOS is already doing plenty of things it sounds like you wouldn't like.
It's always the worst type of developers who care more about their experience than what is best for users.

Having Google, an advertising company, in sole control of how the web works is bad for everyone.
Portland is a lot smaller of a place than people would think. Outsized cultural impact. Seattle too, though Seattle has kept pace as MS and Amazon skyrocket.
Cutthroat competition but he cracked the formula. I think that’s success
I would guess that the vast majority of customers don’t even know when a new iPhone is released and therefore don’t buy in the first few weeks after it’s released. Of the customers that are aware of the release, I would assume that most are aware because they’re anticipating new features
Run it by your supervisor. When I worked as a developer at Amazon, pre-pandemic, I worked from home whenever I wanted, which was mostly one or two days a week. If your manager won't let you flex, consider switching teams.
GP isn't arguing for subjective preference but objective value. People are of course allowed to find their work impactful. Doesn't mean it actually is.
In MrBeast's case, his revenue is directly correlated with customer engagement via YouTube's algorithm. I'm sure that were it legal, gladiatorial combat would be very popular and profitable on YouTube. I suppose one could make an argument that it would therefore "beneficial".

In the other aforementioned cases, in absence of an algorithm, revenue-generating activity wasn't as well correlated with meeting customer expectations. The point is that companies will always optimize for their own revenue, regardless of how well or poorly their activity meets customer expectations.
“But the whole point of D&D was to have a small-scale alternative to the "armies or mercenary companies fighting each other" gameplay that it originally sprang from, so I can give a pass on that, even if the writers never actually figured out any coherent setting explanations for it.”

‘A wizard did it’ is almost always the in-universe reason. Whether it is Halaster Blackcloak or a Red Thayan or Acererak, it is usually a magic user doing it to mess with people.
Which, as I type that out, kinda just seems to be a barely disguised expy of the role of the GM…
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> Wait to get fired? Resign?

Job market is bad right now. Probably why AWS felt they could do this currently.
I was surprised that this Jepsen report has never been discussed here before, but it really captures just how problematic the history of 'safe' database isolation levels has been. Some excerpts:

> For the last nine years, PostgreSQL’s “serializable” mode has justifiably claimed to offer serializability.

> [but] PostgreSQL’s “serializable” isolation level isn’t serializable: it allows G2-item during normal operation

> [...] These cycles are precisely what PostgreSQL’s SSI implementation is meant to prevent!

> This code has gone essentially untouched since the introduction of serializable snapshot isolation in 2011.

Making things appear to be serializable is really hard.
Seattle metro is also a lot smaller than Bay Area metro -- and the Bay is probably the densest of all tech areas.

That said, Seattle does also have a good collection of "minor" companies, such as PACCAR, Expedia, Zillow, Tableau, F5. And I think Apple also has an office in Seattle (although probably really small).

Unless you want to work for one of the "brands", there are some good choices in Seattle.
AI has propelled chip architecture towards a tighter bond with software
Well, the other outcome: it's moot because the employers don't have enough teeth to enforce the mandates.

They're not firing workers who simply ignore the mandates and continue to work remotely anyway. Cutting workers with institutional knowledge and experience is a bigger loss than whatever lesser productivity there might be from not being in-person. Workers actually have the upper hand here and they're using it.

It's like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy - the companies are saying "I declare RTO" but nothing happens.
How is flutter when I already have an extensive c/c++ code base?
The solution is replicating the DB and scrubbing the PII. Then the dev can go wild.

This is a solution oriented approach instead of a lazy ass covering approach which I think the GP was referring to. The job should be finding risks and then figuring out how to work around those risks. Very rarely are there no solutions, most of the time it is due to general laziness or in aptitude where someone can find risks but they do not find solutions.
Had to make an account just to say thanks! You literally solved one of my biggest gripes with macOS. This site honestly feels like the internet of the late aughts' last bastion. I think I'll stick around.
I will two additional points. Executives assume that the upcoming recession ( assuming it is a recession ) will make most people hesitate. It is a rational, if an annoying calculation. Separate issue that is semi-related to the timing, is the benefit of not having to lay people off -- some will quit.

Naturally, some would question the wisdom of making people, who can quit, quit, but I get the feeling that the management,as a group, is pissed off about the whole WFH.
> My dissatisfaction flying home from last week’s event is, ultimately, selfish. I miss having my mind blown. I miss being utterly surprised.

Welcome to middle age, John. I'm here too, so I can't tell you what comes next, but I hope it's more fun.
> already forced all teams to co-locate, calling it RTT (return to team).

Not true. I work at amazon.