skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While all of the answers are valid, another option that I don't see here is n8n. I used it for something very similar to your requirement and was able to run it for years without intervention.
Open to Exploitation: The Security Risks of Unauthenticated Pager Networks
I think we're looking for the unified theory of RTO. Soft power is definitely one of them. But every company and group of people have their own mix of reasons.

I bet Amazon's exercise is a hidden layoff process. Other companies probably want to get their money's worth from the office buildings. The management of others wants to see the army of smiling minions that report to them. Others want to see people in the office for control (make sure they're not enjoying too long breaks, or working from the beach, or working double jobs in parallel, etc.). And some believe that people will interact better, easier if they're in physical proximity. Or a mix of this even between managers from the same company.

And sometimes I think some cities push employers to get people back in office because they have no better idea how to keep those centers of activity vibrant, alive, and contributing financially. I remember reading some city authorities complaining that RTO means the death of the city center and the businesses tied to it.

I don't see why there would be one reason to rule them all.
Ah yes, everyone who has a different opinion than yourself must have dementia. Of course.
From Concept-Based to Context-Based Agility – Free Open Space, Feb 4-6, 2025
> They only care about one thing, forcing warm bodies back into office buildings to stop the commercial real estate apocalypse. If they can’t fill those zombie towers, they have to trim their budgets with stealth layoffs.

The problem with these evil capitalist conspiracy theories is evidence: there should be evidence of this motivation _somewhere_. If you're a captain of industry, your compensation is driven by equity, which is in turn driven by shareholders' forecast of future earnings. So CEOs should be shouting their evil plans from the rooftops --anything you do but don't tell shareholders about might as well not have happened! Yet it doesn't come up in earnings calls, shareholder reports or at industry analyst reports. Probably because commercial real estate has no bearing on most company's valuations, and the ones it does impact are usually lightly staffed anyways, or couldn't really work from home in the first place.

I don't think the "us" vs "elites" framing helps the analysis at all, as it's far too reductive and treats actors as monoliths. Instead it's probably better to use something like "us" versus "small businesses, politicians, tech CEOs, bankers, and real estate investors." (And maybe even split up "us": not every job can work from home!) Tech CEOs generally have no exposure to commercial real estate. But bankers do, and real estate investors definitely do. These firms tend to be local in scope, and more directly connected to local politicians.

In that network of actors, tech companies are the mark. Politicians come after them with taxes and rules while carving out small business exemptions without which they would otherwise be voted out. And unlike the 'Jeff Bezos is worried about the long term viability of REITs' theory, this one has evidence, from politicians telling us their plans[1][2]. They campaign on these in-all-but-name writ-of-attainder taxes. How any individual tech company reacts can vary.

So that's the causal path between commercial RE and tech as I see it and it doesn't look like a strong one. Maybe it's more prevalent in the east coast where the banking and legal sectors are more represented, but here on the west coast only one company is fully 5 days in office They are widely reputed to have the highest employee churn target among big tech, and WFH lowered churn across the board.

[1]: https://www.sanjoseinside.com/opinion/op-ed-cupertino-city-c...
[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/technology/san-francisco-...
Which is why bad road design is a mitigating factor. You can technically get away with speeding in the Netherlands if the road design is very inadequate. This happened a a few times when most cities were simply spamming "30kph" signs everywhere and did not put road furniture in place to limit the speed. They quickly learned that was not enough as drivers fought their tickets. It's not as black and white as a mentioned but you get the jist of it. You thus always need incentive for the municipality to fix the road design.
> where everyone arrives at different times and wants their order to come shortly after they do

Good god man!

At a social meal, we eat together; children included as this is how they learn to socialise. One would be a little concerned and puzzled if arriving for a meal, one finds others have already eaten.
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> waiter that patiently takes the order.

Ah yes... superiority complex?
> (6) is the most sensible option followed by (2). (2) should have happened years ago if it was in their plans. The regulations may have moved up the timeline, but it didn't change what was going to happen.

It did happen. They added USB 3 5Gbps speed to the lightning port on the 2015 iPad Pro, requiring the lightning to usb 3 camera connector kit.

In 2019, they bundled usb-c to lightning cabling and a usb-c charger with the iPhone 11 and 11 pro. The hardware was updated to support USB-PD, and the USB-C to Lightning cables increased the max wattage over the USB-A variants from 18W to 30W.

But outside pro usage, the port doesn't need USB 3 speeds - in fact, unless they purchased an external hard disk I don't believe most people own a cable capable of USB 3 data speeds. The biggest benefit is Amazon gets to sell a charging cable that costs a few cents less to produce.
The soft power aspect of jokes, who laughs at what, and when is fascinating. There is even some research on it:

From https://www.thehrobserver.com/indepth/laughing-at-the-bosss-...

>You mentioned that humour and power is intertwined – what is the social impact of this?

>If a boss is trying to be funny, they are automatically trying to get a response, so the use of humour is never neutral or irrelevant. People have a split second to decide whether or not to fake a laugh, or even how much to laugh – trying to figure out if the boss thinks a particular joke is a little funny or a lot funny. At the same time, they are trying to decide what the consequences of not laughing might be.

original paper https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amj.2022.0195
Yeah, I had Note9 at the time. It was glorious.
Life isn't about peak efficiency

The experience is as, if not more, important than the result for most things. Leave that for assembly lines (and even that is debatable)

If you want peak efficiency order caffeine powder from Amazon and snort it, it's going to be much cheaper and much more efficient than going to a coffee shop
Guaranteed to have been done in Asia already, an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIs8t3ro9Fw
Who at the company gets to keep all the money?
You guys have QA?
> their target market.

Those who enjoy tasteless gruel and want to spend their days farting?
> Is the employment market actually giving you that?

Yes. Not all applications benefit from FAANG experience. There is a lot of work to be done that pays in the 130-200 range that isn't necessarily cutting edge. I should add, benefits are excellent (major medical) and it's a private office.

> Anecdotally, I knew a handful of FAANG engineers with 10+ years experience who had gone full remote before the pandemic, and dozens more during/since. Those are the creme-de-la-creme of the employment market, and they are all hanging out at startups who are willing to play ball on full remote, to get access to talent they otherwise couldn't remotely afford...

I can believe it. Sometimes, you just need technical excellence to bring a product to market, otherwise you fail. But other times, you can simply apply well understood paradigms to well understood markets and have excellent financial returns.

It's the difference between an excellent business and an excellent product. When you have a choice, choose the excellent business.
Can qt use break lines in cells ? It'd be easier to parse info.
This is a great point, one i'd not considered.

People realise the AI capability is limited by the quality of the data used for training, so work out ways to collect better quality data and keep pushing on the LLM architecture as a path to AGI.
Largest banks to throw weight behind nuclear energy
How did they block Vulkan support?
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Think of it as unwinding a program all the way until it's just a list of instructions. You can know exactly how long that program will take, and it will always take that same time.
As someone who uses both, no, the differences are almost entirely cosmetic.

The holy war is dumb and over. The jokes are stupid. Whenever anyone tries to bring it up, just tell them to knock it off.
I'm not doubting you, I want to believe this, but do you have any sources?
Sure. Wouldn’t drive an enormous car. I live in the county, would struggle on the narrow lanes with one of those Chelsea tractors. Big cars are only needed in the city.
granted

thou, most businesses need some sort of real estate and getting it from someone you already know is often preferred
Well, S3 is hard to beat for our use case. We make a heavy use of their various tires, we store a somewhat large amount of data but only a minor part ever goes out.

The compute and network heavy stuff we do is still out of AWS.
> Don’t think he could fully grasp the question, didn’t see a problem with that at all.

Ask him if he ever considered actually asking the self-motivated conscientious employees their opinion and preferences - and watch his mind boggle.
Related https://www.popsci.com/technology/double-neural-bypass-surge...
Probably council housing or housing association tenants. My guess is that the person who said "rent stabilised" is American, as it is an American term - I know new yorkers in rent stabilised housing.
Oh, please stop. There's little need for language like, "despise" here and you're just stirring the pot.
i always figured that wsl2 used something similar to show the "guest" drive in explorer (especially since it would also show up like a network drive).

however it looks like they directly mount the virtual drive (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-dis...). this partially explains why it was so performant compared to sshfs.
That's kind of normal so I only pick up companies that offer remote only positions with no strings attached.
Or if life were about peak efficiency, people wouldn't go to restaurants
Patient undergoes double neural bypass surgery (2023)
Not a developer at Apple, but I've been using Magic Keyboard's (without numpad) for about ten years now exactly because it has the same layout as every Macbook I own(ed). If they were to ever make a numpad version with the fn key at the same place I probably wouldn't switch either because I would just be trying to hit the numpad when I'm on the laptop's keyboard.
Do you have ESET (Firewall) software? It seems they put all Google domains on their anti-phising blacklist
- Hungary's Putin-puppet regime is in favor of banning encryption to repress the opposition = bad

- Other EU political actors are in favor of banning encryption to repress the opposition = good
> The extra stress of waving and communicating to the waiter is gone.

Might as well stay at home if that's a struggle
IMO the biggest issue used to be that it wouldn't tell you the shipping cost until after you ordered. A few years ago they fixed that, but it still only gives you a total cost and doesn't tell you how your ordered is split into different shipments.
What's the product if I may ask? Or at least the general category of products you operate in - if you don't mind mentioning it.
That would be interesting to add! But I guess it's not for tracking a domain anymore? There's a feature request on SerpApi public roadmap: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/811.
> where were these working class Londoners parking when they drove into central London

They were paying £20 an hour on parking meters in Mayfair while all the Hedge Fund managers took the bus into work.
> you are ordering food and drinks, speed is not essentials, if you're in a hurry you don't sit down in a diner/restaurant

Honestly if I received poor/slow service and management came back with this I'd be pretty upset. Especially given a large number of places have an explicit service charge or there is a cultural expectation that this should be paid extra for.

You're either trying to solve the problem of service or you're not, it's binary.
All this just means that replacement parts are expensive, repairs are expensive and Apple continues to control the ecosystem. I can't believe people are praising Apple for it.
That's fine? It's a market. Work for whoever is offering mutually agreeable terms for as long as that remains the case.
diesel-async adds an AsyncConnection that can be used with diesel. You can also do raw queries quite easily if you need to.
> pictures of every dish are desired by plenty of customers.

I'd expect my waiter to look rather puzzled if I asked for a picture of my food, and also perhaps be politely remined that I am not in a fast food outlet.
Intellectual property is a fiction, created to prop up an industry. It was invented and established and promulgated and maintained by modern human beings.

Gravity existed long before humans, and will exist after them.
Yes, I own both.

The three-wheeled ones take some getting used to. You can't take turns at a high speed or you'll tip over. They are nice when you are standing still, because they stay up-right. They are easier to turn-around on foot: the front wheels are closer to the centre of mass, so you can easily lift the back wheel and swing it around.

The two-wheeled ones are faster, and handle more like a normal bike. When fully loaded (100+ kg) they take some effort getting them on the stand. They are clunkier to turn around.

I prefer the two-wheeled ones.
> he wants to be able to express programs, and even an operating system, as a directed acyclic graph of logical binary operations, so that you can have consistent and deterministic runtime behavior.

So how is this different from digital logic synthesis for CPLD/FPGA or chip design we have been doing over the last decades?
Other than "I read the prices when I go eating?"
Holy shit, yes I do....I was just browsing the Twitter for Gmail news and I saw this: https://x.com/sunage_org/status/1838125088660398443

Idk how the hell ESET did that, they are serious AV company. I first thought Gmail's SSL certs were hijacked because Chrome gives me SSL certs error.

Edit: Here is the FIX: Go to your ESET "Setup" settings and click "Internet protection" and disable "Email client protection" and "Email client antispam".

Idk if other Google's domains were blacklisted by ESET but this is not good.
The reason they do the serial coding is to reduce the incentive for stealing iPhones. Due to locking, you can't really sell a stolen iPhone. Instead, thieves break it apart and sell the parts. Serial coding disincentives this. I know many people that had their iPhone stolen and it is an awful experience.

I'm a simple man, I'd never have the ability to solder and fix my own phone. Instead of repairing it myself, I'd always go to an official repair shop. I'm not benefitting from non-coded parts. On the other hand, reducing the likelihood of people stealing my phone is a huge upside for me. So for me, and people like me, these measures that Apple takes are a net benefit. I understand that for tinkerers it is a different equation - but you have to agree that for the majority of iPhone owners the equation might also tip in favour of not having to worry about stolen phones instead of being able to fix their own hardware (which most normal people also would never do).
Did some brief testing and (at least for me) it works on a paywalled WSJ page and MediaWiki but not on 2channel. Reddit no, but Reddit rehosters yes.
Quite popular in the Linux kernel code, as far as I've seen over the years. See [1] for some discussion over on SO.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/109710
This is hardly a 0-day vuln exploit. This works as designed (and presumably design has been signed off etc)
> It’s 100% that they cost as much as a decent used car.

Apples and oranges. You can get cargo bikes second hand too.
Getting Past the Fallacy of Sunk Costs
My 2c as a local: I live in zone 2 and at least anecdotally I am in disagreement with your point here. So I looked it up in your link from TfL - "There are 2.56m cars licensed in London. This equates to an average of 0.3 cars per adult. In total, 46 per cent of households do not have a car, 40 per cent have one car and 12 per cent have two or more cars, with very few households owning more than two cars."

This is the same as your stated numbers, but framed in a substantially different way. In addition I suspect this is dominated by the outer boroughs; maybe one or two of my 20+ coworkers who live in zones 1-3 have a car, it's more once you get z4+.
Microsoft's reluctance to break things comes from commercial entities being a big source of licenses both for desktops and backend servers. If some poorly maintained mission-critical app doesn't run on Windows 11 because it hasn't had a recompile in a decade, that means a Global 2000 company isn't able to update their workforce.

Apple considers it a partnership with developers, even if that partnership in reality is rather one-sided. If you stop maintaining your software you aren't holding up your end of the partnership. For instance, ignoring six years worth of deprecation warnings about 32 bit software going away, or seven years (and running) warnings about OpenGL support, or still shipping only Intel binaries four years after M1 launched.

But this is not how games are supported, except for subscription games like MMOs or crazy edge case labors-of-love like Starcraft. Fixes are going to be driven by a chance at new revenue, like updating to support HiDPI displays properly as part of a major DLC update. Afterthought ports (especially third party ones) like a Windows title to the Mac are even more limited in terms of ongoing support - and are often like-for-like limits to 32 bit intel only because the original developers never tried to write portable code.
thanks for the link to janet! i hadn't heard of it before. a lot of lua energy even if it's a lot bigger
If it were this easy, they would've printed images on menus long ago. Which a few restaurants actually do, but usually only a few dishes. That said, I refuse to go to any restaurant that has a QR code menu,
Comes down to the present infrastructure and "arrogance of space" that forces everyone who does not want to ride 25mph+ or get crushed by a tank to ride in the remaining 10% of space.
That does not contradict brikym's comment.

Of course, a lot of people are lucky and able to navigate our everyday jungle, thrive and blablabla, but they - almost by definition - don't end up in prison, and those who do already - again, almost by definition - have problems.

Underfunded mental health systems inside and outside, piling on more traumatizing experiences here or there ... sure, for some people getting a few years gives them that wake up call, but in general the problem seems to be that the whole police/prison concept is just a shitty bandaid on wounds festering from all kinds of problems (economical, political all of them usually point to psychosocial/cultural issues).
To expand your analogy can you see the difference between:
"A storage unit I know of never uses locks"
and
"The storage unit at 1234 Central Boulevard, San Andreas never uses locks, just wiggle the door a bit and it'll open."

I think most people would acknowledge there's a big difference.
That's pretty much the one situation where they're competitive, so sounds very reasonable. Some of their competitors (Cloudflare, Backblaze) might compete, but the biggest cost issue with S3 by far is the egress so if not much goes out it might still be best for you to stay there.

Sounds like (unlike most people who use AWS) you've done your homework. It's great to see. I've used AWS a lot, and will again, because it's often convenient, but so often I see people doing it uncritically without modeling their costs even as it skyrockets with scale.
>You can’t really do that without investing heavily in cycling infrastructure

With the insane amount of investment put towards appeasing cars [sic] I think it's just a matter of prioritizing.
Obviously this is a multi-causal issue. RTO policies spring up for a variety of reasons, often a mix. All those negative narratives sure have some founding in reality, but maybe you can think of benevolent reasons why companies call for RTO?

Here is an example. Ms. Follett [1] made a good case a century ago that value is not created by people but between people. So you need interaction to add value -- something companies are imminently interested in, even if some employees are not. Some interactions, actually anything with more than 3-4 participants, break down over Teams and require face-to-face contact to be effective. Cutting everything down to 4 participants is to put the tool above the people and, to add insult to injury, will create a new pyramid of management levels, which we chucked for good reasons in the last century. So just get together in the office, which you have anyway to set up your football table. Does this mandate a 5-day RTO policy? No, but it shows that there is at least one good reason to get into the office once or twice a week.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Parker_Follett
In Japan, many chains are using tablets for their menu, and you can order through that. That's much better than having to pull whatever from a QR code.
Invisible farts are a guiding principle of the market.
Agreed. I've been to restaurants that only had a QR code but were also a Faraday cage so I couldn't access it. Was absolutely ridiculous.