confounded

At least according to the Meta employees in the article, people are terrified of voting with their feet, because of the current job market.

As a result, many are communing hours a day, to sit on zoom calls. Wasting their valuable time on earth for the sake of a manager's dictat.

Things are good. But they can always be better :)

Management pretty often do not have the best ideas, and often the people doing the work know how best to do it.

Out of interest, do you use Emacs as an alternative to Jupyter for interactive work (examining plots etc.)?

If so, which modes and packages do you use?

They are ruled by an avowedly Marxist (state-capitalist) government, who have lifted hundreds of millions from abject poverty, in the largest economic miracle of our lifetimes.

I'm not saying it was pristine. But you make an extremely poor case against Marx, or the negative effects of US imperialism on the global poor.

The whole idea relies on a hierarchy of power so unnerving it's the basis of folklore across human cultures.

Unlike costmetic surgery, your gain depends on someone else's loss.

There are likely to be supply/demand issues in a society with where citizens have free access to each others blood for recreational purposes.

Had never heard of these plates. At least the current models may well make the problem worse:

> "In addition to the flexibility of the display, the digital plates also sport a tracking device that will alert the police to the location of a stolen vehicle and allow for general vehicle tracking. While a lot of people can get behind the idea of never going to the DMV again, not a lot of people are thrilled about the whole “license plate as tracking device” angle"

From: https://www.reviewgeek.com/4225/california-unveils-new-e-ink...

You should write to to the author, to scold them directly!

Ah, famously easy to measure knowledge worker productivity!

Out of interest, what kind of work do you do, on Linux, on a laptop, in a swimming pool?

Where will you go?

That might be a different type of S&M team

After spending more time and money than on fancy keyboards than I'd like to admit, two of these side by side (an informal 'split' keyboard) is by far the easiest on my wrists and shoulder blades.

Because managers are evaluated on their ability to grow teams and increase their scope. Organizations intrinsically "want" to hire.

What's unusual about the last 20 years is that there's been so much available capital to fund tech companies doing just that.

The question is, after this superb yak shaving, did you actually buy a house?

What is HA?

I got blocked as fraudulent and banned before I could even transfer my savings in to Betterment. (No problems with Wealthfront, and now a happyish customer).

If this is on the M5 data set as a benchmark, Prophet wouldn't be a great model choice at all. It's fantastic for dense, long, univariate time series with strong seasonality. M5 is very very sparse and intermittent. The M5 competition was won with lgbm, which isn't a time-series model at all. (Edit: looks like this defaults to something like lgbm, so, unsurprising results.)

Is this stealth promotion for Go?

Excellent work!

If there was a way to pay for semi-permanent links (a month?) I would probably cough up!

But what if your company ultimately acts as a selfish individual, too? Perhaps it even has a fiduciary duty to do so?

There's a good argument that most venture backed software companies are exactly "a selfish and cynical bargain".

It's been a good few years since I've met a senior technical staffer at a 'successful' Bay company who genuinely thinks they're "making the world a better place".

EDIT: Not that I disagree with your broader point that selfishness is an undesirable characteristic for an individual, society or ideology. But it seems inappropriate to attribute the problem to ICs or their managers.

It's pretty easy to compile the documents; it's all just R functions (rmarkdown is a wrapper around knitr and pandoc). I've been writing Rmarkdown docs for many years in Emacs without hiccups (or without hiccups from rmarkdown::render, anyway).

TFA:

> But the Mountain View, California-based company has adapted to similar requests in other countries without cutting off search. Google stopped showing news results from European publishers on search results for French users last year after local regulators urged it to pay for content, and then on Thursday the firm said it reached a deal to pay media publishers in the country.

Why are the government doing it?

This one is actually linked from TFA and is very short and readable as a pdf.

As someone who was plonked before a blinking BBC Micro cursor to entertain themselves as a kid, I consider this cheating!

Anyone on macOS having trouble with “Find in page” not finding text recently?

I’m strongly opposed to just about everything the UK government has done or proposed involving the internet, but the ‘Free Speech Union’ is an awful source to have on HN.

The FSU is entirely a product of the “culture wars” of the outrage manufacturing twitterati, and offers to protect members from “feminist professors”.

The UK’s Open Rights Group is the closest thing to a UK EFF (founded by Doctorow), and is generally a better source for policy like this.

Here’s their wiki page on the Online Harms Bill[1], and opinion on its policy impact[2].

[1]: https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Online_Harms_white_pap...

[2]: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/org-policy-resp...

> Because no one cares? The BBC is there to provide a service to the public, if the public doesn't care about...

Unfortunately in Britain, the BBC largely decides what people care about, or are even aware of.

> After going back to mac (for work reasons), It's been a painful experience adjusting to the lack of tiling.

Same situation, I use ‘yabai’ on macos, which is similar enough to i3 for me.