skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly? I think this is a whole mix of things. There isn't a "real" reason, there's a smorgasbord of them.

Why do "FAANG"s RTO? Because they're massive people-movers, and cities that host them likely hold C-level meetings to pressure RTO so that people spend more money. More on transport, more on food, more on coffee, more consumption = more taxes = more movement = growing value to office spaces = win for the cities. Not to mention that managers at these corporations are pretty wealthy themselves, and likely hold investments that would depreciate were WFH to continue in any great scale.

Why do smaller companies RTO? Because what works for FAANGs surely works for them, too. Literally. I've seen multiple managers push for RTO because the big tech leaders are doing it. Add that a certain 'magical' belief that RTO means more productivity and an enriching 'office culture' where new profitable ideas brew - they're all only human, after all, and are as prone to magical thinking without any concrete evidence as we all are - and you've got perfectly good reasons. And mostly irrational from a business PoV.

Is this the case for literally everyone pushing for RTO? Of course not, I'm sure there are legitimate reasons there, but most of the justifications I've heard, as a huge advocate for WFH who always seeks to understand pro-RTO management, have little basis on evidence that it is something good for the business.
In addition to dropping X11 support Gtk 5 also will not have opengl support. This is likely to cause significant fragmentation of the linux desktop ecosystem.
The answer is that it sucks to own one of those businesses, but things change and disruption happens. The answer isn't "the city's entire white-collar workforce needs to migrate downtown and back every day to provide an artificial customer base for $17 burritos".
Yes, I would like more information on this. Who was involved in this “discussion”? Do we have documents or letters clarifying this?
with some "no s, sherlock" on the ">1PB will require additional infra."

go on...

like people talking about 1gbit iSCSI, and no one thought to say that 120MB/s, which is technically slower than ATA/133 which came out twenty years ago, might be the bottleneck. Obviously 10gbit will be "as fast as a local drive"!

Yes, exactly right! This means you need to buy additional hardware, like network cards[0], and possibly gbic and fiber optics.
There's no need for you to accept anything, the minimal bias and high factuality of FT stands on its own regardless of what a single random internet commentator says or accepts.

You have an opportunity here to share these equally-biased, equally-factual sources you've been talking about which provide alternative perspectives on the topic*. You can take that opportunity or leave it. Personally, I'd love to read them and learn their perspectives, but as far as I can tell from what you've linked, they don't exist. Don't you want to help others "triangulate", as you called it?

If you just don't like FT or don't like the topic*, that'd be a different topic (and not one that interests me).

* – how europeans feel about american tech lately
Not to mention positional cases in Hebrew, Arabic, and similar languages. E.g. Hebrew has 22 letters, only 5 of them have a final case.
I wasn't accusing my interlocutor of merely engaging in social signally. I gave an explanation of the position, which I can be more explicit about: it is an intra-knowledge-worker point. Its the point of a person who, quite rightly, goes around people who neglect to be social at all and impress the importance of it. This is a non-sequiteur when i'm addressing a hypersocial group.

The dialectic of this thread -- the OP beings with effectively a class analysis of why executives misunderstand office-worker employees. My reply is the origins lie in a different distribution of at-work activities in which executives require massive amounts of in-person communication to do their jobs, whilst knowledge-workers do not (and are often harmed by an excess).

> This has nothing to do with maids or private jets.

So you agree with me. It's important not to substitute a position I am opposing for one that I'm not.

As for my slight exaggerations around how I characterise the kinds of people, and work involved -- it is hyperboilic and hoperfully amusing characterisation -- but not one which I think is far off.

The "deep thought" of executive work is shallow, for those who prise complexity and such, no doubt this seems derogatory. But it's not. If you thinking can be readily terminated by the speech of another person, your own thinking process is not that deep. Sure, that of The Group's might be -- and much more so than any person's, but each individual is not engaged in deep thought.

If you can farm out depth to a group discussion, great -- that's one sort of work. It is not the work of a progammer, say, who is tracing execution flow in their own head -- this cannot be half-realised in one person's head and half-realised in another.
Still X11 Is useful as an emulation layer
The Widespread Adoption of LLM-Assisted Writing Across Society
It would be good to have a FOSS-implementation with TPM as the storage backend for computers and phones. Then people wouldn't need to use keys stored in the cloud.
Oh, I think it's great they did that. It's super helpful for visualizing ChatGPT's limitations. Ask it for an absolutely full, overflowing glass of wine or a wrist watch whose time is 6:30 and it's obvious what it actually does. It's educational.
We still see this attitude in HN comments sometimes. People thinking their piddly $500K in RSUs that vests over the next decade somehow qualifies them entry into the Global Elite class. And then they’ll argue against unions and other things that help workers because they see themselves as rubbing elbows with Jeff Bezos. Yea, yea, your handful of stock options make you just like him…
I'd think SameSite/Secure directives on cookies are genuinely important to avoid any malicious website from stealing all your credentials. Otherwise, I'd imagine it's the usual "Because those dastardly corporations will tell people to disable it, just because they can't get it to work!!!"
Back when we were smug asking people to just fn google stuff, we would be right in that they could find a correct answer out there.

Today, everyone's dad work at Nintendo. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
OpenAI conceals probabilities so how is anyone distilling from it?
A post I was replying to got deleted, but I'd still like to gripe about the positives and negatives of the current 'web browser + security things' model.

Better in the sense of not being locked into an outdated and possibly protocol insecure crypto-system model.

Worse in the sense: Random code from the Internet shouldn't have any chance to touch user credentials. At most it should be able to introspect the status of authentication, list of privileges, and what the end user has told their browser to do with that and the webpage.

If it weren't for E.G. IE6 and major companies allergic to things not invented there we'd have stronger security foundations but easier end user interfaces to manage them. IRL metaphors such as a key ring and use of a key (or figurative representations like a cash / credit card in a digital wallet) could be part of the user interface and provide context for _when_ to offer such tokens.
The value is it has ublock origin.
I think an equal number of upvotes and a downvotes/flags does this, too.
I wonder how the Mdast and pandoc ASTs compare?

I did a customized-MD pipeline which normalized to pandoc (extra features got encoded to pass through pandoc), obtained the pandoc JSON ast, and emitted html/latex/etc using Julia pattern matching. The code was small, and the yak shave and husbandry was worth escaping the struggle with sea of crufty candidate tools, each with assorted one-chosen-point in a high-dimensional design space, and missing features, misfeatures, gotchas, and mazes ("maybe if I combine this unmaintained plugin with that one and add a postprocess massage step over there and then maybe..." - blech).
I would argue it doesn't matter which map app you use if you have google services installed or if you are iPhone user
Good list, but I imagine most programmers don't believe most of these falsehoods and are aware of a lot of these issues.

It's just not always easy to deal with them correctly - and quicker/easier/cheaper to just do the thing that will be right for the large majority of your users.
Don't forget Valve.

Without Steam's built in Proton compatibility layer no gamer would realistically use Linux.

Outside of work I'm probably 70% Linux and 30% Windows. Music production is much better on Windows, but software development is miles easier on Linux. Messing around with Ubuntu during my teenage years was a key part of my later career!
Right on all counts except one. It DOES necessarily make them evil.
> cities that host them likely hold C-level meetings to pressure RTO so that people spend more money

They don't pressure them, they give them tax breaks. But besides this you're on point.
They literally just mean things like filling out forms. Implicitly or explicitly you have to give Firefox permission to store and reproduce the text you type in this very textarea so that it can submit the form for you.

But I agree with you that this should not require specific legal language. However, I point out that most other browsers have already added that same language, or something similar, to their own ToS. As have programs such as Microsoft Office. If you cannot use Firefox then you cannot use any of them either.
Definitely, the grifters and hypesters are always spoiling things, but even with a sober look it felt like AGI _could_ be around the corner. All these novel and somewhat unexpected emerging capabilities as we pushed more data through training, you'd think maybe that's enough? It wasn't and test time compute alone isn't either, but that's also hindsight to a degree.

Either way, AGI or not, LLMs are pretty magical.
It seems like we are largely rewarding conformity and punishing individuality more and more.

I think it is because the modern internet is an amazing tool for assembling conformist mobs of thought. The individual really becomes a type of outcast in this structure.

The way to get more likes and views is in out-conforming the next person.

The radical individual is most likely to just be ignored.

It is almost like we have evolved a structure of a conformity lottery. If you can reach a certain threshold of public conformity display, then you might get your lottery number called for cash and prizes.

The radical individual is basically doing some 80s cable access show that not only no one watches but most don't even know exists so most don't even bother.

I consider myself a radical individual but if I was 15 right now? I know without question I would be as conformist as possible.
Well, I wish I could find the ones I have seen in the wild.

Perhaps HRTBs and Fn traits, or double turbofish generics. I really cannot remember sadly.
Love it how people come up with "trends" based on just one or two things happening in a very short time.
> the void will be replaced by other incumbents, especially since Privacy protections and Ad-blockers are values that attract a certain following
And other bright future arguments

If this were true, we wouldn't be in such a dire state now, but already have a bunch of solid alternatives
I sympathize, my entire 13-year-old account was killed one morning, globally shadowbanned, tens of thousands of comments vanished with no sign or explanation. Anything moderators approved was quickly blocked again, with no reason or audit trail.

I used the appeal portal, got an apology saying my appeal was granted, and it stayed dead. Now the appeal page cheerfully declares my account is fixed (it isn't) and blocks me from accessing any kind of support.

I pulled up an old account from 5+ years ago that I used for a throwaway resume review, seeking help, and it too, died exactly the same way.

I still haven't gone back. The injustice rankles, and it's stressful to live in fear of it happening a third time.
Have they ever claimed otherwise?

It's not like they have a choice, gaslighting the general population is their only hope of staying on top/alive.
I was looking into this space the other day, and the number of options has been growing. By my record there is:

- https://www.goodreads.com

- https://thestorygraph.com

- https://fable.co

- https://hardcover.app

- https://joinbookwyrm.com

I was actually trying to determine the best free source of metadata for books. I was hoping for something like MusicBrainz.

The best I could find seemed to be https://openlibrary.org. There is https://isbndb.com, but it is paid.
While I am only a Rust novice it seems to me like the "2.2 Item 11: Implement the Drop trait for RAII patterns" could use some kind of mention of Drop-leaks. I learned about it at https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nomicon/leaking.html
They switched because it took more effort from users to rate on a 5 vs just saying good or bad. Because Netflix is a streaming service, casual users don't want to put in that much effort when they're chilling. Tracking is fundamentally different, where you go in with the expectation of organizing your library.
> Have you considered outright donating to Apple instead?

No. I buy their products. As I said, I’m no longer of the opinion that a free / donation-based browser works as a model.

> threatening chargebacks, which can and often do cost the recipient money beyond just the loss of an original payment/donation, against a nonprofit over an (all things considered) minor change in direction is pretty despicable

Not a threat. I wrote a cheque, unfortunately, but others didn’t and Amex has begun processing them. If Mozilla litigates I said I’d indemnify them up to a sizeable amount.
Firefox is actually faster in practice than Chrome. It also uses less memory, often far less, to accomplish the same tasks.
> I mentioned momentum for a reason, servo doesn't have any. Ladybird however is extremely actively developed.

Looking at https://github.com/servo/servo it's very actively developed and gaining new contributors. The number of contributors for both projects is very similar. They are both active.
<'_> is one of the most basic symbols in Rust. Reading that is almost like reading the letter 'a after just some very modest amount of time with the language.

> How come is it in demand?

Because there's a lot more to the language than just those not-really-unfamiliar symbols
> It's also immediately clear to me when I look at the architecture of transformers that reasoning is not in the cards.

I'm not saying that's incorrect, but thb that's exactly the tautology I was talking about!
if you're only doing the signature generation rather than the full protocol (which TOTP leaves entirely up to the user), then the code to generate a passkey signature wouldn't be any longer
Threats of litigation? Are you serious?

If you disagree with either Mozilla's mission statement or their execution, just don't donate any money, and if you must, campaign and try to convince other people to not do so either.

But lawsuits... I'd be seriously pissed to see donations go towards lawyers instead of browser development or other open web advocacy. (And yes, I'm aware Mozilla has been pretty controversially/poorly managed for a long time now, but I really don't think the right way to turn that ship around is external litigation.)
We’re sucking water out of aquifers and dumping it in the ocean, the aquifers are not replenishing.

The water still exists yes, but ground water is essentially “used up.”
Very interesting to rate movies and see what it predicts. Sometimes it's fairly spot on and other times it's way off. Very mathematical. Thanks for sharing.
For a teenager that is not locked and isolated?
By refusing to play along in great numbers, always.
Because I have written a book and thus know how much work it is to write even a mediocre one.

Also as a way to increase my motivation to read it.

Plus I have money. This book costs about as much as a good bottle of wine or a bad bottle of whiskey.
Computational complexity theorists hate this one simple trick! NP hard is a lie! You just have to assert that a given problem has been optimally computed. We all know that physics obeys the whims of politics. 


It's especially ironic because if markets actually worked the way the "free market" dogma supposes they do, central planning would also work.
I sort of believed this but also 4.5 coming out last year would absolutely have been a big deal compared to what was out there at the time? I just dont understand why they would not launch it then.
No, because they expected some people to read the ToS. You don’t put something you are hiding into your ToS. It’s just that they didn’t expect people to freak out since other browsers already have similar language in their ToS.
I think this assumes there are no conflicts of interest?
Not OP, but, anything that actually physically affects the real world for the better? For instance, large infrastructure engineering and construction projects are not going to run themselves any time soon. The world doesn't revolve around ad and fin tech.
Yes, doctors are safe. Because they do things. With their hands. That no one else does.
Vibe code for passion projects, but call a pro for anything mission-critical
The claim in the title is not substantiated in the slightest. it's a hook to get you to read Lasswell's confused jumble of weak quips and outright misleading statements.

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I knew that this was the moment when I could later claim that this was the moment when I knew Trump was going to win

Wow, pretty impressive, Mark. A single video posted to social media told you that?

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“I lather up and then you turn on this crazy shower and the thing — ‘drip, drip,’ and you say, ‘I’m going to be here for 45 minutes. What the — ?’” he said, giving new meaning to the term stream of consciousness but also inadvertently getting at what that British study had found.

This would be the study that found that people are _satisfied_ with low flow when water pressure is high.

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This guy seems like a complete hack, but he's also just what Bezos ordered.
> As I said, I’m no longer of the opinion that a free / donation-based browser works as a model. [...] If Mozilla litigates I said I’d indemnify them up to a sizeable amount.

Obviously your decision, but even given that, do you think it'll do the state of the open web much good to litigate against Mozilla?
It's a known problem. Eg check out optimal strategies to the prisoner's dilemma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

> The winning deterministic strategy was tit for tat, developed and entered into the tournament by Anatol Rapoport. It was the simplest of any program entered, containing only four lines of BASIC,[10] and won the contest. The strategy is simply to cooperate on the first iteration of the game; after that, the player does what his or her opponent did on the previous move.[11] Depending on the situation, a slightly better strategy can be "tit for tat with forgiveness": when the opponent defects, on the next move, the player sometimes cooperates anyway, with a small probability (around 1–5%, depending on the lineup of opponents). This allows for occasional recovery from getting trapped in a cycle of defections.

Extremely straightforward, and in real-world settings (business, politics, relationships), moderate forgiveness usually wins in the long run.
> Implicitly or explicitly you have to give Firefox permission to store and reproduce the text you type in this very textarea so that it can submit the form for you.

You don't have to give Mozilla permission to store and reproduce what you type into a textarea on a non-Mozilla web site.
If anything, I know people contemplated the opposite (i.e., finding a less hype-driven job)

I think it's anyway not a strong reason to leave or stay, at this point. It's still "yet another technology", and I'd be surprised if it turned out to influence any decision in this regard.

Curious if anybody has non-anectodal data
this is a valid - if cheeky - question. There is probably a fair amount of software lost to the sands of time that would be fun to discover on an old NNTP server.
Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo.

Hell, even AOC or Kamala Harriss altrought not cool, they are not openly toxic. There is no female equivalent of Trump o, you have to be a man to consistently fail upwards and be enabled that consistently.
What's up with the yellow area south of Alabama?
I'm definitely the target audience for this: I hate Goodreads and I still use it on a weekly basis.

A couple questions:

- where do you get your book data from? To my knowledge Amazon has a de facto monopoly on this and there's nothing more frustrating than missing latest or niche books, its covers, etc. or having wrong data/duplicates.

- do you plan on offering a migration path? I've got years worth of data on Goodreads.
It’s the same myth that universal healthcare would cost people more than private insurance. Insurance is there to make money. Gov programs don’t need to be profitable - just sustainable.
No, I think the US should negotiate a ceasefire, signal more weapons aid to increase leverage on the peace deal terms, and then find a way to get Europe or the US to signal they will guarantee Ukraine's security. I don't think a transactional deal like the mineral deal is a bad idea, because it gives the US a stake and increases the credibility of their security deal, but Trump does not seem to care about actual lasting peace here.
This is my preferred home made way of doing "Enum" in TS theses days https://gist.github.com/forty/ac392b0413c711eb2d8c628b3e7698... - it includes syntax to migrate from TS enum.

The member documentation point is a good one, I'll look what can be done with my solution.
This is the typical academic research institution press release. The primary purpose is attracting industry interest in licensing intellectual property not disclosing information the general public would be interested to know. These are written by university / research institution intellectual property licensing groups and tend to be rather frustrating from the perspective of anyone who actually wants to know enough to assess likely real-world impact or probable time frames for widely available productization. The telltale phrase was in the last paragraph:

> "The researchers also aim to collaborate with industry and academic partners for the advancement of self-sustained smart systems based on on-chip SR rectifiers."

It's basically institutional research click-bait. A tease to attract interest from companies. Such licensing is a huge business for universities, potentially billions of dollars over time and across thousands of licenses. Those responsible for generating that revenue are essentially marketers, salespeople and IP/contract lawyers. The marketers interview the scientists and then write these releases. Their goal is to make the headline claims as expansive and exciting as possible so that it will get picked up by the press and amplified on social media because it's free advertising. However, they're careful to disclose as little as possible about the trade-offs, constraints or limitations as that might reduce media interest or discourage a potential licensor from contacting them. So they strive for "maximum claim, minimum detailed information" while still maintaining a vaguely plausible similarity to the informative release you and I (and probably the researchers) want.

The best chance you have of getting relevant info is to look up the lead researcher's name to see if they've published a paper. To me, the best-case is when a fellow HN reader who is in the field responds to the post with a summary of recent related research and their personal assessment on the actual state of real-world applicability, trade-offs and cost-effectiveness.
No, Mexican farmers are cutting down forests to plant avacado. No one is holding a gun to their head to force them to do it.