skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're not evil, just out of touch

Kinda hard to see the difference. I, too, live in a completely different world than people with much less money than me, but I can still conceive that they can't have a cleaner twice a month, order food every other day, or use uber more often than public transportation. I wouldn't even consider making a decision that impacts people's lives without having at least an inkling of how they actually live.
https://archive.is/2025.02.26-115836/https://www.washingtonp...
The power in the market for labor.

If remote labor is the norm, then every tech company has to compete with every other, across all geographies. If local labor is required, the employers can manage or restrict their competitive environment. There are fewer options for the employee.

The bulk layoffs of the past couple of years have a similar effect - gaining power. It makes every employee a little more conscious that their employment is provisional and conditional.

But I think RTO goes beyond just market power gains. There are many workers who are conscientious, attentive, and dedicated. For each one of those there are plenty who are just punching their time card. I’m no expert but it seems to me that RTO gives the employer and mid-level managers better visibility into all of that dynamic.

But RTO fights against the reality that employers have constructed distributed teams, with people working from all over the globe on the same project. If that’s the case, what is the difference whether I work from my home office, or a hotel desk space in a big building alongside people I don’t know.?
This is not a helpful phrasing I think. Sources allow the reader to go as far down the rabbit hole as they are willing to or knowledgable enough to go.

For example, if I'm looking for some medical finding and I get to a source that's a clinical study from a reputable publication, I may be satisfied and stop there since this is not my area of expertise. However, a person with knowledge of the field may be able to parse the study and pick it apart better than I could. Hence, their search would not end there since they would be unsatisfied with just the source I was satisfied with.

On the other hand, having no verifiable sources should leave everyone unsatisfied.
s/disillusionment/alienation
AI already installed trump

trump was the last in the primaries, until the algorithms selecting content to display for maximum engagement (keeping you glued to facebook so see ads) noticed that videos of trump result in massively increased viewer engagement

billions of dollars in AI supplied and free publicity later, he's running the US

we're already there
I appreciate the pushback.

Fine, if it isn't the real reason, what is the real reason? Why can't any executives, at any organization, proffer a reason that makes sense?
Why would this not be a success? The previous system didn’t work, the govt created a specialized team that built a great functional product, and now it works... they fixed a problem? Many would consider that a success.

Maybe don’t look at this through the lens of a tech company or normal business (bc it’s not), but look at I from the perspective of how shite govt tech is. Not sure if you live in the states but you should try apply to unemployment in somewhere like Florida and then report back to me how having a functional login page isn’t a success.
Not OP, but RTO forces geographic centralization and reduces mobility of their employees. If you can work remotely then you have a much larger pool. And I think that opening the door to remote work made employees realize that there was some power and some negotiation to be had on working conditions (basically our generation’s version of the 40 hr work week in response to the Industrial Revolution)
Eh, I think the commuting negativity mostly stems from bad land use in America. Driving is wasteful, polluting, boring, dangerous, expensive, and just generally unpleasant. If we’d designed our society around walking/biking/transit people would be much happier.

During Covid there was some surveys done on whether or not people missed their commute. People who walked or biked were very likely to say they missed commuting. Those who took transit were split (mild dislike), and those who drove nearly universally did not miss it.

We built a pile of shit instead of functional urbanism in America and this is the result.
I'm sorry. I'm open to discussion if you can explain what is offending to you
They made sure that she stays disconnected.
You are taking a side though. Your position that absence of violence is more important than justice means that you expect Zelensky to just roll over and give Russia what it wants, which basically means a complete annexation of Ukraine.

You accused others with having a voice of moral superiority, but your "I did not pick a side" is just that.

There are only two possible outcomes to this war. Either Ukraine still exists as a sovereign nation, or it doesn't. The first will require continued fighting. There is no possibility for Ukraine to remain sovereign without violently kicking Russia out of its land.

Neutrality only supports aggressors.
Maybe we should all just live online
Does it really feel that way? I don't think I've ever lived in or heard of an era where people were valued for being contrarian and independent.

In some eras those things are tolerated, when they produce results, and in some eras they are not. Most places and times, tbe nail that sticks out is the one that gets the hammer.
Cleaner codebase, happier mind
But their investor will make some nice change!
Comrade!

I agree.
Exorbitant executive compensation coming from the same companies that are aggressively infringing upon the rights of their end users are two expressions of the same tyrannical desires of these big tech companies. They're trying to bring about neofeudalism where we're all peasants serving our big tech lords.

Also, it's not about supporting Linux, it's about not supporting tyrants (Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, et. al.). Whenever you offer compatibility for Windows, Mac OS, iOS, or Android, you are excusing, encouraging, and supporting tyranny and neofeudalism.
How about the senior engineer level error of forking Doug Lea's concurrent data structures only to make them operate in worst-case time complexity? Found this doozy recently.

[1] https://gist.github.com/ben-manes/6312727adfa2235cb7c5e25cae...
When I plead with my direct reports to please comply with the company policy of in the office 3 days a week, and I am deluged with a flood of complaints, I suppose sometimes I’m less empathetic than I might be. It’s not because I’m rich. I am not. I don’t own a home nor do I retain any personal assistants.

I’m less empathetic than I might be because I came into the office 5 days a week for 30 years. My wife also worked. We raised three kids. I went to night school. It’s all very doable, and honestly not that hard.

Now I understand that technology has changed circumstances, and what was not technologically feasible 30 years ago is easy today.

But with respect to empathy, most of the commenters here could bear to examine, if only just for a minute, the idea that the executives are acting in good faith, and just trying to run the company effectively and efficiently.
How do you handle differences between machines?
I use cheznoi to manage my dotfiles and share them between 6 different devices, 2 of them are work machines.
On my work machine I have maybe a 15% difference in config, primarily my hotkeys through keymapper, my SSH config files, and also the applications I have installed. Chezmoi let's me add logic to my source controlled config files that, based on the hostname/domain/network, etc let's me ouput different settings to the .config files, which I cannot do in the config files themselves.

For example:
On my home machine I have the following keymapper hotkey:
Windows + T: Activate Telegram
On my work machine that's mapped to:
Windows + T: Activate Teams
The landing page is mostly filled with sci-fi. I know it's what's popular on the site and what's reviewed recently but it's sending the wrong message that the site is exclusively for sci-fi. Most readers don't read sci-fi, and readers who read sci-fi tend to mostly read sci-fi, so the average reader would think the site is not for them.

In harsher words: women don't read sci-fi, and are your target audience. Make sure your landing page surfaces things other than sci-fi and fantasy, or you'll never grow past that niche.
Only an older version of GPT-4o has been deprecated and will be removed in May. The newest version will be supported through at least 20 November 2025.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/c...
you use a 7 point system
As you pointed out, the latter does a very different kind of highlighting.

The former is truly semantic, but needs an external compiler (via LSP).
The first example is a generator. If you wanted to keep that just use `()` instead of `[]`:

((name, value) for name, values in map_of_values.items() for value in values)
React PWA v3 is released
> they live literally in another world

Classic case of semantic drift, as "literally" now means "figuratively", but with emphasis. Try "virtually", "practically", or "all but".
> whenever I complained about it, people would remind me how lucky I was to have a job at Apple.

That's the envy speaking. You have something they wish you have, so they hate you for it and enjoy your misery.
We used to have such a thing: it was called HTML. Sites were supposed to have their content in the HTML, and if JS wasn't enabled, you'd still get the semantic hypertext. A vast majority of web pages are text and images, and don't actually require fancy CSS/JS. But the ship of progressive enhancement has long sailed,[0] and tons of static sites have JS, and all the hundreds of APIs that entails, baked into their functionality. Hell, there are many sites nowadays that will use JS to stream the HTML to your device for some reason.

[0]: JQuery/AJAX were probably the beginning of the end. But even without those, you had developers doing things like putting main images in CSS using the background property, overloading text with icon fonts, loading videos using "blob:" crap, or other abuse of semantics. Once it became possible to push more state to the browser instead of the server, the floodgates opened. I remember in the dial-up days, you could take a browser offline, and webpages would function perfectly, yet now, even hitting the back button can be a gamble. Now, hitting File > Save fails 95% of the time for me.
Tried installing Solaris in a VM recently, and the installer immediately and starkly brought back memories of the one from a Red Hat derivative I didn’t realize I even remembered. I’m not old enough to have been involved with commercial Unices at the time, but even looking back it appears that Red Hat knew very clearly who they were aiming at.
It's not about reciprocity or coherent rules. Its about power distance. "you work for me" sort of thing.
Okay cool. Well maybe I misinterpreted, but it sounded like the person I was responding to in my initial post was implying that it was on purpose. Or at very least, they would have to imply that it was on purpose for their argument to make sense. That was my point. Perhaps I haven't been clear.
> remote work can be pretty bad for the younger end of a company

Not to worry, AI is going to rapidly solve this issue, according to tech CEOs that it.
This is one of my "Kids these days..." moments. I've been caught several times mistaking the meaning of this new slang.
Part of how I coped with spending years at a big co underleveled and unaware of the ramifications was realizing that when I took vacation, I disappeared for months at a time. "K, I'm gonna be gone for ___. See you when I get back." As a low-level IC, your personal time is your own. I take time off when I want, fully disconnect, and nothing is completely on fire when I come back.

There's maybe a year or two I eventually wouldn't have to work if I was more aggressive about going for promo, but I have no desire to be someone who's stressed about work, even when I'm not supposed to be working.
The city and those business need to change to meet the shift. They are just being greedy and seem to want us workers to both support ourselves and bail them out.
I'm not following your point. I've got a solid 30 hours of unpaid work a week, and it'd be closer to 40 if I had to commute, and when my kids were younger and I still had a commute it was around 50 hours, all on top of my actual job. I could and, if it weren't wildly financially irresponsible, absolutely would pay to make about 20 hours of that vanish at no harm whatsoever (benefit, actually) to my personal relationships & family, and then I'd have a lot more time and energy for other things. That's just... how clocks work, IDK. This is overwhelmingly the norm for people who can't afford to pay others to do lots of stuff for them.
“I know a guy who slacked off in the office”, is not evidence that it’s better or worse.
"Reality"? That was the thing they teach at uni wasn't it? Or maybe that was "game theory", and "reality" was the one that's on the telly? I'm confused!

Point being, not too cash money of you to posit the self-evidence of certain conclusions that feel morally authoritative and ethically certain, while simultaneously moving the goalposts on the parallel thesis. I kinda thought we were talking about people who stayed writers after their first book?

I don't think Marx or Rand were sadists, and even if we assume ill intent on their part, the question of what causes the thing you call "sadism" remains open (although I kinda answered it, but I can't know for sure how true is my answer without the output of others, right?). If, of course, you believe in cause and effect and all that in the first place... You'd be surprised (I know I was) at how many people think they do, but their tracing of causes stops at the first though-terminating cliche.

In fact, here's one (Godwin style):

Hot take about that Schicklgruber kid you brought up and his ilk: monstrous characters, antropomorphic salient points for Pax Americana's culture in the best traditions of ancestor worship and all that, proper antonyms to "Santa Claus" really... I don't know if H****r ever killed anyone with his own hands (other than his own sorry ass in the end) yet I still find it's rather the people who created the circumstances for his emergence or exploited its effects (my first cell phone was named after one of them); the people who voted for him (very fine moral ethical prosocial people); his nominal opponents, who enabled him to take emergency powers (some of which went out to found Communist parties sporting concentration camps well into the Cold War); and, most importantly, the people who obeyed the dicta of the system of which he was figurehead ("don't look at me just doing my job"): those were the real culprits of that shameful page of world history.

And while individual military dictators have so far been limited by the normal human lifespan, those other mfs that empower them are still all over the place, being not identifiable individuals per se, but one might say cases of self-reproducing character types and life scripts. It is those that the radical ideologues — who are, unsurprisingly, pariahs in pleasant company (of Westerners) — are useful in identifying and counteracting. But the Westerner, being a memetically vulnerable humanimal, apparently can't read a book without suspending disbelief...

Which is how you get edgelords who personally identify with the problem statement. You know the character type. May you never know the associated life script :)
I invest primarily in REITs, avoiding those tied up in any significant amount of office space.

Residential, industrial, medical and retail are easy picks over office buildings.

The impact is real. Excutives are qualified as accredited investors and have access to private investments that are often tied to office space and other real estate that most people cannot participate in.
What is this? An NNTP service of some sort?
People kept tossing around the term "banana republic" over on other websites. Wasn't sure what it really meant other than plantations, so I looked it up the other day to see what actually qualified. Kind of surreal how many boxes America seems to check lately.

Not quite "oligarchy that abets and supports, for kickbacks, the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture." Yet quite a few of the others.

- stratified social classes; impoverished working class [1]; ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites; economy of state capitalism operated for the exclusive profit of the ruling class; collusion between the state and favored monopolies; profit is private property, while debts are the responsibility of the public treasury.

Maybe it's cynicism like noted in other commments, yet the linked chart from the NYT would say "it wasn't always this way" and its not my imagination that the situation has changed over the last 40 years.

[1] NYT, "Our Broken Economy", https://archive.is/ZFnAT
I think to be clearer it would have been written "DeepSeek Drops Distributed version of DuckDB". Otherwise it looks like they used DuckDB (the distributed one?) and they have something new or better they're using now.
I would add: a user's country of residency can be mapped 1-to-1 to the user's preferred language, or at least to a language the user understands.

So, SO many websites get this completely wrong.
Yes but then you lose the alliteration.
Research grants are ripe fruit to university administrations. But the new guidelines limit the cut a sponsoring institution can take out of a federal grant to 15%.

For instance Texas medical schools/institutions would previously take as much as half the money in a US grant from the researcher and use it for whatever they wish. I believe Trump's measures are intended to cut back on such situations.

I'm fairly certain the institutions will find a way around Trump's measures, given time. It's a cat-and-mouse game.
> It’s fine if you don’t think there’s anything worth watching on Netflix. Worth knowing that more than 300 million people around the world disagree

Meh. You could practically say the same about junk food. Just because it's convenient doesn't mean it's the best thing available.
Dropped could also mean they used to use it but stopped, that's also pretty common parlance in software...
They definitely are, although that doesn’t justify actions.

Not all, but most. Family members of mine at the VP/EVP level in “enterprise” type companies regularly work 12+ hours on weekdays and ~8 per day on weekends. It’s brutal and their families suffer for it, but it pays exceedingly well.

As another poster put it, it’s survivorship bias. Most people who work that long and consistently end up with a destroyed family life and eventually the collapse of their professional life as well. Those who “make” it by and large keep their family intact because they can afford to make it difficult to leave - or because they’re married to someone of similar lifestyle.
Treehouse built by a Simpson's producer is about to get torn down by LA
“Women don’t read sci-fi”?
Or we build things that people actually want to use in those prime locations.
MyST-MD transforms to LaTeX or HTML, which are transformable to (PostScript and then) PDF. With LaTeX it's possible to exactly typeset.

Sphinx and jupyter-book support MyST Markdown.

PDF Tables of Contents with links to headings or page numbers are possible with MyST and RestructuredText.
The thing for me is, fighting someone in a weaker position than you - even if you win - doesn't really make you look strong. Everyone knows you could beat that guy in a fight already. It just makes you look cruel.
Presumably the goal is to collect SIGINT on the rest of the oligarchs and then share that with Putina.
> The difference is private companies that accumulate too much waste and useless things can fail and be replaced

Maybe they can, but they just as often don't. How much 'waste and useless things' do you think is at Microsoft or Google, yet is financially insulated due to their outrageous success elsewhere.
Yes, most young people would say an artist “dropped” new music instead of saying that they released new music. Still a bad title though
You don't suck at communicating. The people who want to discriminate against you want to do it badly and don't care what you think about it. They don't believe in a colorblind society and equal treatment under the law, they believe in getting what they can get at your expense while crying victim. I'm not saying you shouldn't be nice to people, because some of them might legitimately feel disadvantaged by their minority status. But keep in mind that some of them know exactly what they're doing to abuse our sympathy.
I don’t think you’re invalidating much of what they’ve said and much of what happened.

People bought into far right populism, what’s new ?
I can live without many of those bad websites (or rather "webapps").

But what's annoying me right now is that it happens more and more that passkeys work with Chromium but not Firefox. And I want passkeys (well, I want to log in with my Yubikeys).
The fundamental irony is that CEOs + execs are easy to replace at most orgs. Their compensation comes from nepotism and capitalism, not from any inherent capability. Hopefully I’ll live to see the end of the rotten scourge that is Capitalism. One can dream.
Ok. So environment and social factors have no effect?

Suddenly all these ideas from behavioral economics about implicit bias and contextual framing don’t apply, and we are now all Austrians studying rational and disciplined labor units.
Mozilla isn't changing their terms of use because of anything relating to their bug tracker.

But to answer your irrelevant question, California law would probably not consider Mozilla putting user data on to Mozilla's public bug tracker to be a sale of user data because California's definition of "sale" requires Mozilla to be getting something of value in return, but Mozilla's public bug tracker is free for anyone to access.
> On every team I’ve worked on there is an expectation of at least weekly updates. Usually a daily or every other daily standup. The request is not unreasonable.

At the team level, that is of course quite reasonable.

Doing this from a top-down approach in an organization at any real scale is fucking insane.
That’s not how well-functioning organizations operate. Power is delegated, and if it’s publicly undercut, there is a loss of trust in leadership.

If a board wants something done, they can urge the CEO to implement it, but they do not hold unilateral power to dictate internal operations. They can vote to remove the CEO if they feel that they aren’t producing the desired result, but again, this is an indirect action.
So this kind of mirrors my feelings after using GPT-4.5 on general conversation and song writing.

GPT picked up on unspecified requirements almost instantly. It is subtle (and may be undesirable in some contexts). For example in my songs, I have to bracket the section headings, it picked up on that from my original input. All the other frontier models generally have to be reminded. Additionally, I separately asked for an edit to a music style description. When I asked GPT-4.5 to write a song all by itself, it included a music style description. No other model I have worked with has done this.

These are subtle differences, but in aggregate the model just generally needs less nudging to create what is required.
And that’s what the American taxpayer is going to pay for. “Savings”.
Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]
One thing I found peculiar is that for the GraySort benchmark it dispatches to Polars by default to do the actual sorting, not DuckDB: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond/blob/ed112db42af4d0....