skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a heavy Emacs user for just short of 10 years. I don't use it now because I am more productive with JetBrains IDEs. Your advice seems too rigid and dogmatic to me.

Just posting to balance things out for any entry level SWEs reading.
Massive growth is your arbitrarily chosen definition of success. Companies that have grown massively required a less competitive environment and the time to do so (with many being founded before fully remote was as common) and/or took a ton of funding (with oldschool investors who obviously see in-office expansion as the needed/natural sign of growth). There are plenty of profitable and growing companies that are fully remote, whether that’s “successful” is just how you want to see it.
It's a bit like saying you're going to Mars to save the world. No, you're going to Mars because it would be cool.

Doing stuff because it would be cool is great, it's just kind of dumb to pretend you're doing it for a practical purpose. Just say you want to do the big thing because it would be fun, or inspiring, or you have a trillion dollars and can afford it.
A screenshot on X? It must be true! I’m sure those links back up the assertion. No one would just post something misleading on X, right? /s

Maybe the assertion in the tweet is true and maybe it isn’t, but to me, this is the real reason that X should be abandoned. No one on X can be trusted to engage in honest discourse. I don’t believe anything, whether it’s coming from the right or the left if it’s posted on X. You might as well have posted something from 4Chan.
Don't forget youtube. Of course, when they were doing that, it wasn't "pushing political agenda" it was just "doing what's right" and "respecting the rights of others".

Are there books recounting the history of editorial positions put forth by these platforms? I really had no idea where google stood on political issues in the 2000s. I remember thinking they were quite pro-free speech sometimes callously so through that decade. I do remember them putting forth issues on gay marriage when it was a live political issue, though.
What does a political bet have to do with one selling company stock because they think the company will not continue to perform well in the market?
As I understand it (very much not a lawyer), the company complies with US laws by not allowing people in the US to use it, so there’s no issue doing business.
> "This is obvious political retribution by the outgoing administration against Polymarket for providing a market that correctly called the 2024 presidential election," a Polymarket spokesperson tells Axios.

When I saw that statement, from a company spokesperson, it was striking.

Is it now respectable and advisable for a corporation to make official statements like this?
Exactly, most of us need to work and aren't motivated enough to spend our free time committing crimes. I also assume this is full time work. From my limited perspective the hardest part was the time investment and gaining enough trust to put the code into action.
Firstly, do you have any data that proves that it isn't true? You haven't made any data driven assertion here either.

Secondly, what is 'massive'? Like, adoption curve growth for many remote first companies is huge, like Zapier, but I digress, that is a very subjective thing.

Gitlab has been day one remote.

Zapier

Deel

Posthog

Others have transitioned to be fully remote, like GitHub[0] and GitHub has had a second wave of massive growth around the same time and its continued to this day.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/09/github-lays-off-10-and-goe...
He will earn ten million merits in no time!
Didn't they do this before and brokers found a way around it?
ArsTechnica always handled this well. They promote corrections in comments so they’re extra visible.
What's the market for Mac minis if not desktop nor laptop?
hey, you got your drum-n-bass in my trance!

no, you got your trance in my drum-n-bass.

that new wave of technology meant that anyone with access to warez could create music for $0 instead of the thousands on buying synths and samplers. no more renting a truck to haul that gear to a gig; now it's just a laptop and/or tablet. new choons level achieved
This is a win for price competition - the "broker fee" paid by the renter is a classic example of principal agent problems / information asymmetry.

First, the service is being provided to the landlord (listing, tours, etc.), not the client, for all listings these days (I don't know any young person who has ever used a renter's agent, except maybe if it's provided in a relocation package). The renter has no choice in which broker to use to find/transact w/ the property, so there's very little price pressure for these broker fees.

Second the information asymmetry - the terms of the fee are completely opaque in the listings, and are not disclosed basically until signing unless you press brokers earlier. So there's basically no competitive pressure pushing these fees down, since it's basically a "junk fee" from a user experience perspective tacked on at the very end (and not listed on listings), and the landlord - who IS in a position to negotiate on price - doesn't care.

I don't buy the argument that there will be some long-term price hike in rents as a result of this decision - people who rent for 1-5 years already are paying a MASSIVE "net effective" premium for having an additional month's rent tacked on up front - but also it strongly incentivizes tenant retention (e.g. by being more responsive, keeping prices lower, etc.), because the landlord does not want to have to eat a broker's fee next listing.
I just use oh my zsh and forget about it.
There’s absolutely no way that Amazon employees are more efficient at home.

Nothing about the company’s organizational structure or resources are set up to be optimized for this.

It’s like asking someone to play tennis, but you gave them a baseball bat.
Then this company must have existed in early 1900s as well as several hundreds of years ago.
Agree with this, but do want to let employees know that if this happens to them, that changes in working conditions can be considered constructive dismissal even if you quit.
I’m responding to the article, which says:

“You can see the frame of the room is made up of four static pieces which I’ve been glued together. This type of prefabbing makes it impossible to add little details or variations into the structure of an existing asset, you need to change the one, or make a new one.”
How do you recreate the rich interaction that you have when you meet somebody face to face, when you have to use (a) Amazon's crappy Zoom clone (forgot the name, they forced their applicants to use it, too. It's horrible and couldn't even cope with my German keyboard layout) or (b) some text-based messaging?

Even if you replace (a) with a proper video chat solution, it's a much, much narrower channel than real interaction between people where people perceive all these tiny non-verbal signals like changes in posture, gestures, mimics, breathing, and you can actually point a colleague to something with your finger, all in real-time.

So, no, from my perspective, online interactions are very sad and simple, compared to real-world interactions.

I work in a low-latency field, maybe I'm more sensitive to latency. But I find all those narrow communication channels a nuisance. I find it frustrating to have to rely on a variety of tools to achieve collaboration: Chat, video chat, digital whiteboard, code sharing. There is so much friction, at least in my workplace, to switch between those tools or to combine them. This can surely be improved, but there are things that naturally can't disappear, like latency.

Honestly, I'm dreaming of a place where people have to work from the office again. So I can have a Kanban board with paper cards on a board again, for everyone to see, touch, and write on.
I think that the classic of the genre is "The feeling of power" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power).
If you have way-underutilized office space that you can sell or not renew leases on, you can shed it like a former employer was doing when I left. Otherwise, there's basically no value in how many or few people are filling the space unless they're actually delivering some business value to the entity paying for the lease. (Unless, maybe, it relates to promises made to some local jurisdiction that gave you tax breaks.)
> The correct answer, and you'd see it if folks paid attention to the constant linkedin "AI researcher/ML Engineer job postings are up 10% week over week" banners

This does not really lend great credence to the rest of your argument. Yes, Linkedin is hyping the latest job trend. But study after study shows that the bulk of engineers are not doing ML/AI work, even after a year of Linkedin putting up those banners -- and if there were even 2 ML/AI jobs at the start of such a period, then 10% week-over-week growth would imply that the entire population of the earth was in the field.

Clearly that is not the case. So either those banners are total lies, or your interpretation of exponential growth (if something grows exponentially for a bit, it must keep growing exponentially forever) is practically disjointed from reality. And at that point, it's worth asking: what other assumptions about exponential growth might be wrong in this world-view?

Perhaps by "AI engineer" you (like many publications nowadays) just mean to indicate "someone who works with computers"? In that case I could understand your point.
Respectable is subjective. Advisable? If they're probably guilty then appealing to the biases of the incoming administration is probably a good idea. On the other hand, if they're innocent and their accusation of bias is accurate, then saying as much is probably a good idea too.
1. yes, this is the default co2 eq/ watts from the tool that is cited in the paper, but it's actually very hard to know the source of energy that aliments the cluster, so the numbers are only an order of magnitude rather than "real" numbers
2. 4. I found that https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/ai-environment-primer gives a good broad overview (not only of the co2 eq, which is limited imo) of AI environmental impact

> Also if it really matters, then why do it at all? If we’re saying hey this is destroying the environmental and care, then maybe don’t do that work?

Although it may not the best way to quantify it, it gives a good overview of it. I would argue that it matters a lot to quantify and popularize the idea of such sections in any experimental ML papers (and should in my opinion be the default, as it is now for the reproducibility statement and ethical statement).
People don't really know what an AI experiment represents. It may seem very abstract since everything happens in the "cloud", but it is pretty much physical: the clusters, the water consumption, the energy. And as someone who works in AI, I believe it's important to know what this represents, which these kinds of sections show clearly. It was the same in the DINOv2 paper or in the Llama paper.
If the bar for decorum is the President-elect, then yes this would be considered an acceptable statement.
In the UK, many schools do just this to defend allergic people against the threat that homemade lunches would otherwise pose.
I don't think that's true. But if it is, can you blame them? Community notes are not impartial and X has become incredibly biased towards the far right.
I'd just market it as a comfort feature rather than a safety one. I don't have epilepsy but I also don't particularly like strobing flashing screen effects, especially in older games. Having an option to turn them off increases my enjoyment, even if it doesn't really affect my safety.
Corporations have been making these kinds of statements for almost the past decade.
not sure how that invalidates Algernon's point. These things should be considered, and are in a lot of LCAs.
This reminds how my dad explained me when I was a kid that I actually never go to school (despite evidence for the opposite :))

He would count the days of, than all the weekend, then all the hours I am an home across the year (so double counting what he subtracted before) etc, ending with zero days left for school.

This was driving me mad when I was walking to school :)
Apple Defends Mac Mini Power Button Relocation
You mean you don’t ask your SO to just do it “async”
I don't know how that can be true. People were making very beautiful art with SD less than a year after it hit the scene. Sure, I think you need more than 10 minutes, but the time required is closer to that than it is to 10 years.
Thanks. I think you actually need to be a Community Notes 'moderator' to view them until they're approved—I see them as "proposed Community Notes".
I also think they’re somewhat manipulating statistics to their benefit- they start by saying “1 in 100 people have epilepsy” but it’s an untrue statement that 1% of people have the type of epilepsy that would react to this specific example of flashing lights between 5-25 a second.
2FA is already mandatory on GitHub.
Interesting... star trackers have been around since the 50s and inertial navigation / SLAM is pretty plug and play these days. Looks like the unique thing they are going after is spoofing GPS so that a consumer drone can fly in a GPS denied environ. Neat, but a bit dubious as an investment.
Strongly suspect you don't want pressurised oxygen-containing-atmosphere in that situation.
multi level narketing
Could you also pick up the audio announcements? Could be weird for the app to request microphone permission though, but I think lots of lines have them and should be doable to transcribe them locally on the phone. I think your approach is better and simpler, but as I was reading the edge cases (like someone changing train and going back in the other direction), the audio could maybe help getting from 90% accuracy to 98%. Sounds a bit more involved to implement though.
This reminds me of Yeoman in a way. Never thought I’d reminisce about the days of backbone and gulp.
It's such an amazing short story. Every time I read it I'm blown away by how much it still seems perfectly applicable.
They would not want to train their next model on the output of the previous one...
I think it's even more basic: they think it will be just like it used to be before 2020.
GitHub Removes Malicious Pull Requests Targeting Open Source Repositories
> Same way you do for a public company. From trades and valuations.

no, it's not the same, because the information is not publicly available. They are the same in that in both cases you multiply two numbers together; they are not the same inasmuch as your ability to know those numbers is vastly different. To say they're the same is misleading.
At this point I'm convinced Apple deliberately manufactures small anachronistic design decisions that will cause minor controversy as a lightning rod for their actual criticism.

I am also convinced that 90% of these decisions will be reversed in future product redesigns. "Look at how smart we are; we invented a way to charge your mouse and use it at the same time!"
https://github.com/XuandongZhao/WatermarkAttacker
Nope. It’s almost sure to lower total cost of rental.
Have you seen success with this method?
Downvote, loosely, such as on social media sites/apps that have up/down votes, and with minimal stars on interfaces that use those. I don't know a good term or phrase for it.
Firstly, there are better more scientific ways than I what I proposed at thinking about it for maybe 30 seconds.

Secondly, you're saying this

>In my mind...

There's still no objective metric being cited?

>the downsides to permanent working from home are these intangible things like team cohesion, speed of onboarding, effective cross functional collaboration, etc.

But we can prove these things can work well remotely. If they didn't, remote only companies would have such a higher bar to clear and that would be proven already. Gitlab did great in their IPO, and they're 100% remote. Zapier has grown strong and steady, 100% remote, Deel has grown quickly since 2019, also 100% remote etc.

Clearly none of these businesses have issues collaborating.

>Some of these issues wouldn't manifest themselves in a measurable way until more than a year later.

So measure it as long as it takes. 1-2 years is a blip comparatively, and lots of companies already have internal data they could use to make this determination: look at employee performance and satisfaction rates before they worked from home and compare it to after they worked from home. Lots and lots of people worked at the same place before WFH became far more common, and after it became far more common. I imagine this is true at Amazon as anywhere else it would be.

What I find entirely humorous about this is its executives that want hybrid / RTO by a large margin, and comparatively few employees want hybrid / RTO and prefer working from home.

Do you think this would even be a conversation if it was the inverse?
>This is obvious political retribution by the outgoing administration against Polymarket for providing a market that correctly called the 2024 presidential election

I don't even understand what the conspiracy theory is here. Why would that be something the Biden administration would seek retribution for? And even it were, how would they possibly achieve it before the new administration takes office?
>should be considered, and are

Not as much as they should be, was his point. Saying something is not proper is the No True Scotsman fallacy.
HyperLogLog (or even Count-Min Sketch) will not support some of the requirements of even the Best-Effort counter (clearing counts for specific keys, decrementing counts by any arbitrary number, having a TTL on counts etc.). For Accurate counters, we are trying to solve for multi-region read/write availability at low single-digit millisecond latency at cheap costs, using the infrastructure we already operate and deploy. There are also other requirements such as tracking the provenance of increments, which play a part.
It’s sad that something based on the Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki is being politicized as gambling. It’s crucial that we have prediction markets so that we can better understand the risks of things happening in our world.
Fools need chatGPT most, but wise men only are the better for it. - Ben Franklin
If any corporation has done this, it's Amazon. I suspect they just don't give a damn about the needs of employees beyond how it impacts revenue.
I can only speak from a UK perspective, but many financial instruments can be used in a gambling sense by retail "investors". In 2019, our regulator banned binary options, saying this:

"Binary options are gambling products dressed up as financial instruments. By confirming our ban today we are ensuring that investors don’t lose money from an inherently flawed product."

https://www.fca.org.uk/news/statements/fca-confirms-permanen....

Sound familiar?

They also highly regulate CFDs and other financial instruments that are marketed to retail.
Before I do that, can you confirm for me what you believe "heritability" to mean?
Quentin was also behind the Trojan Room Coffee Pot:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html
How are you so sure this data is favorable to remote work?
"Filing" is distinct from "Filling". In this context "filing" means lodging the papers with the court, and that typically has an immediate automatic legal effect (the Automatic Stay).
> Online interactions aren’t any less complex, they’re just different.

Exactly why I spend days on chatrooms instead of going out and making friends.
As a professor it's frustrating. We want to give homework feedback for the students that actually put the work in, but we know that half the submissions are plagiarized from chatgpt, which is a waste of both their and my time.
I haven't used social media in years, so it's a trip to me that people still voluntarily wade into a cesspool of inane quips on a daily basis
Took me a while to figure out that the actual pricing was $200 USD for a mainboard (you have to untick value-added services).

Definitely not the best pricing, but also not completely bad considering you get a 64GB microSD and case alongside?

Looking forwards to the next-gen mainboard they hint at in the "value-added package" as the JH7110 really is quite a weak chip (even by RISC-V standards)...
Can't find any source links on the site. Would love to see this made open source!
self-plug: i built a streaming platform devoted to 90s jungle deep cuts called .mixtape — good curated selection on there https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mixtape/id1391354414
Eh, it's reasonable for an employer to ask some follow-up questions.

If a guy asks for a special chair because they've got an injury? I probably ought to check whether they're OK standing for long periods, whether they're OK with carrying heavy things, whether they're able to self-evacuate in a fire, etc.
Over multiple generations it is.
I’m willing to let the government make their case, but let’s not pretend that a 6am raid from the feds is better than getting arrested.
I’ve already nicknames this the “Department of Government Efficiency Department” in my head.
I'm not sure about the veracity of your claims of bias pre-Musk (I have heard of the NY Post story issue, as far as I'm aware they suppressed it on advice from law enforcement that it was foreign propaganda, which was later withdrawn and the block removed).

However in answer to this question:

> Did X suppress support of the other side?

If you have 2 options and you promote one artificially then that is the same as suppressing the other option, in either case you're making sure more people see one option than the other.
> All the electricity, the silicon, the water for cooling, the new data center is being built that won’t be needed.

> Just tons and tons of waste everywhere.

I worry about this not just for AI, but in general. That's capitalism right there, profit now - who cares later. And I am becoming radicalized against it.
> It's wild how much most people rely on being in an echo chamber. It takes a psychological toll being confronted with opinions that challenge your worldview on a regular basis, especially if you cannot easily dismiss them.

I can easily dismiss antisemitic conspiracy theories, queerphobia, bigotry, and racism. There's an infinite stream of garbage positions, why would would I engage with them?
lol this is a troll by someone who hates someone else and is setting them up.

Zero nation-states are involved in this.
It takes a certain kind of person to rise to the top of a company like this. almost every single person here above L8 has been here for at least a decade or more.
I too am back in Objective-C and being away from it for a long while and I'm also enjoying it. For the most part, I really like Objective-C. I think it's a very pragmatic language. My current project is macOS, but the vast majority of my prior work with Xcode and ObjC was with iOS development.