skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a job where I was paid an annual salary and they made me make up hours when I had to take a relative to the hospital (I also lost that job for, I suspect, this reason in part...I have learned that sick parents and sick children obtain different levels of sympathy). It does happen.

It was as stereotypical as you can imagine: small business, wasted inordinate amount of time and resources doing pointless things, insane processes, run by a husband and wife who were largely intolerable (the highlight was hearing the wife tell me that she didn't let her daughter participate in sports at school either because she thought it would turn her into a homosexual or was a plot by homosexuals to groom her), one of my co-workers started the day two hours early and finished at the same time...I have no idea why, and (ofc) the people who ran the business disappeared frequently (for some reason, the husband went somewhere every Friday afternoon...it wasn't work-related, and he repeatedly brought up the fact that he was allowed to do this unprompted...no-one could work out where he went)...

...there are real places like this.
Just curious. I went and skimmed through the handlebarsjs link. I'm used to cl-who and can not see what the js lib does have that is not possible or harder in cl-who.
Side note: with a small macro you can start defining your own streamlined components and special tags. akin to having your abstractions. Also l'm taking a course in HTML5+CSS and use this additionally to avoid being drawned in the usual characteristic boilerplate text.
The average baseline involves a driver that is not paying attention or hasn't slept X% of the time. You cannot magically wave away all the bad days and pretend only the good humans are on the streets. The bad days happen, people die.
The autonomous vehicle only has to do better than that. That's the whole point.
As another data point, emerge has a noticeable delay (a few seconds, up to 10 or so for deep dep trees), but it does a full resolution and isn't using all cores (or isn't using them well anyway -- total utilization is under 15% while resolution is underway). It's much faster than conda on similar machines.

Is conda making a bunch of network calls as part of its resolution process?
"A drive in the country" is one of the best short stories I've ever read. Structurally perfect. (Warning: includes suicide.)
All my 4-day-workweek jobs have been in the US. Usually all you have to do is ask.
Vaccines don't go into your blood. Just into the muscle tissue.
Sure. Have fun! https://switch.homebrew.guide/
This is about modding. People have a right to mod their own hardware that they legally purchased.

That's all that matters.
He gave about 10% of the company's worth of his own stock to his employees.
The problem seems to be that there was a loss of focus on high end manufacturing in the US. Germany and northern Italy are the counter examples but even those countries were not immune to globalization.

Also, it may be that globalization is coming for them next but that they are higher up the hierarchy.

There seems to be a reawakening towards manufacturing in the US with electric cars and rockets. It’s not just Tesla and SpaceX. It’s Rivian, Rocket Lab, Virgin Galactic, etc... I hope it strengthens.
I can relate to this experience, but the thing is, similar things have happened to me with other retailers, that I think have especially high markups and used to be in my mind decent brands.

I got a shirt from Macy's with sewn in stripes that started to unravel before long, this was many years ago, but I never bought clothes from there again.

And more recently, I got pillow cases from bed bath & beyond, that were very expensive, but otherwise exactly what I wanted, and the seams started coming undone.

Amazon is not a reliable brand, but on the other hand, one can justify trying it again and again, because it is not a single (tainted) brand.

I've said before and will say it again, I read the reviews starting with the worst, as if all the five star reviews were always all fake. I don't know what they might have been for your products, but usually I see no connection between the best reviews and the useful information in the worst.
same for the research triangle in NC.

edit:
just checked an area little further out, same still applies. ~2 years ago the only home we found that would've been that "cheap" reeked of mold.

It does not surprise me for these densely populated areas, but I can imagine this might be the case in more rural areas.
Interestingly, many other parts of an iPhone are built in China. Is each of them trivial?
If you move to the EU from the US as a developer you'll be taking a 50-80% pay cut to do so. Fresh grads make more money than senior engineers in the EU.

London and Switzerland are the only places in Europe with decent salaries.
Oh, so does Conda proactively download metadata as part of its resolution process (as opposed to, e.g., greedily downloading immediate dependencies and walking that tree, which is what I assume Pip does?)?
For most kind of boring programming tasks I can't do more than 3h a day. Maybe that would go to 4h with a 4 day week?

It was first when Covid19 WFH hit I realized how few hour a day I actually "work". It was hidden by meetings and discussions at the office I guess.
How I started was I got interested in 3D modeling because I wanted to make a Star Wars fan film in 1996 with my 8mm. I bought a DVD set on how to do modeling and texturing in 3D Studio Max from the Gnomon School. It was amazing. Film level quality secrets and techniques. I got pretty good. This lead me down a rabbit hole of how do I take this and apply it towards games. 3D modeling and texturing for games. Then I started working on coding and realized that OpenGL/DirectX used similar concepts to what I learned in 3D studio max. There’s a scene, a camera, a mesh, a light, materials, textures, shaders (SM1.0), and all these things combined give you your lit scene using some advanced but cookie-cutter math.
Iron Dome system in action [video]
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100% seconded. I was expecting 4-day workweeks to be 20% better, but no, they're massively better. The weekend just drags on for ever and the workweek is over before you know it.

Highly recommended.
One thing that's often left out of these cost/benefit exercises is that owning your home is a good hedge against being priced out of the area in which you want to live. If housing prices surge and you're renting, then you might not be afford to continue to live in your rented home, and so you might need to move; insurance against this sort of disruption is worth more than $0 to pretty much everyone and so it should be included in the cost/benefit consideration.

Put more generally, your model should consider not just the possibility that growth in your real estate market is 1% YoY for the next 30 years, but also 10% YoY and -10% YoY. The advantage of renting of course is that if housing prices collapse, then you either pay less or can pay the same and upgrade.

> Between 1948 and 2004 the real increase in value in the U.S real estate market was less than 1% a year.

True but not the whole picture; buying a house doesn't give you exposure to "the US real estate market" in aggregate, you get exposure to a hyper-localized slice of the market, i.e. the neighborhood in which you buy your house. For example in the Bay Area you're looking at something like 5-10% YoY increases over the last few decades, and in the same period I imagine that prices have gone down in Flint, MI. This would be like saying "the stock market increases by 8% YoY on average" in an article about "should I buy AAPL"; you can see that it's relevant information that should be considered but it's not sufficiently specific to stand as an argument on its own.
That’s a shame, back in November AZ said:

“Where we stand today is we have four million doses available right now and we've got enough active that we think we will be able to make a further 15 million available to the UK by the end of this year. Subject to regulatory approval, it could actually be 19 million doses by the end of this year (to the UK)."

That seems like something has clearly gone wrong, if more than a month ago they were in that position and now we are so limited by available dosage.
Their latest copies are of the CFM56, which is 70s/80s. The CJ-1000A is a mix of the CFM56 and the CFM LEAP, so if it works it will bring them to 2000s' level of engine tech.
A fun example: NRBQ has a (classic) song called "12-Bar Blues" with lyrics about playing a "12-bar blues" and demonstrates a 12-bar blues progression inside it but whose tone/style is much farther toward R&B/Rock than the Blues.
I think the size and complexity of FoxConn speaks for itself. Manufacture and assembly of an iphone with its constituent parts requires high precision, volume, high quality control, and massive supply chains - hence Tim Cook does not believe it could be done in the US.
Firstly, congratulations on your baby! I’m sure you’re enjoying fatherhood and soaking it all in!

Secondly, I’ve followed your work for a little while on here and IndieHackers. Your perseverance is truly an inspiration, so I wanted to say thanks. I’m working on a SaaS product, and I need to read some of these articles on the down days to start working again.
Another problem with apple maps: it has businesses at the wrong geographical location.

I was sent off 1.5 miles away on the same road, to a wallgreens, when my destination was a restaurant with friends. I came late. It was humiliating.
I also question them. It seems a lot easier to accuse Amazon ratings of being poor especially if it feeds into an already existing confirmation bias against Amazon. For all we know Fakespot could just be making all of it up right? How are Fakespots ratings verified? Do I need a Fakespot for Fakespot too? Maybe rating systemes like these are fundamentally flawed.
That's a tale of saturation. Toaster sales are probably relatively flat as well. Not because toaster use has declined but because people already have a toaster that meets their toasting needs. PC improvements have slowed to a crawl over the past decade in terms of real-world performance gains for the average consumer. Their 5 year old rig still manages to surf the web, stream videos, play games and send emails just fine so they see no reason to upgrade. Another 4 cores or the jump from 14nm+ to 14nm++++ isn't justifiable for the average user. That said I bet the combination of COVID + AMD really coming out swinging the past 2 years might make for a bit of an anomalous spike.
This reminds me of another impressive shot with a steadicam on a segway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3TBvJUtuHs

Halfway through the video you can see how it was done. Notice the "focus puller" running next to the camera, also mentioned in the original article.

The focus puller is a person holding a rotary knob which wireless adjusts the focus length of the camera. While the cameraman moves the camera around, the focus puller adjusts the focus so that the subject is always kept in focus. It impresses me how well they can do this.
Based on my interactions with Patrick it seems to be genuine. When I interned at Stripe he randomly sat down with me at lunch and we talked about taxes for half an hour.
If USB-C retains backward compatibility with the existing USB PD implementations, you’ll be able to signal that you want power by permanently affixing a shunt resistor across your two power lines. If you need more control, then you upgrade that to something like a voltage-controlled resistor so that you can do more complex signaling. But USB PD was always designed to support dumb AND CHEAP devices, so if you didn’t need the extra functionality you didn’t need to implement any complexity.
Europe is big and varied. Where I live (Croatia) I only know of one person who did it and it was only because he practically already accepted another job offer and the current company said "Alright, what can we do to keep you?" (and the salary scaled accordingly).

I'm sure there are other similar cases, but overall it's pretty rare here.
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If you're still every looking for instruments, Sweetwater has excellent stuff, and really stellar customer service.

They answered questions by phone before we purchased. I received a keyboard for my daughter, then we had a change of heart and decided we had gotten the wrong one, they handled everything for shipping it back and sending a new one, and called a week later to see if we were happy.
>That's where the US/Europe will try to stop them.

I'm sure they're shaking in their boots at the thought.
Not sure what this really is. When I go to the website, it just shows a huge full page banner/advert in German that can't be skipped. No useful content at all.
Ebay isn't that bad either for cheap Chinese products. Lots of direct Chinese sellers.
This is normal. Everyone learns by copying. Look at this as at completing a tutorial.

What's interesting is the possible next steps building upon the experience gained.
You’d be surprised how affordable and effective a virtual personal assistant can be. Mine handles almost all of my life admin stuff and it’s the best $500/mo I spend.
Except none of that data is actually public yet - and a ton of work is going to have to go into bias-work because of the half-assed pooling work that AZ did.
>I have an extra day for family and side projects - 1 day might not sound like much, but having that extra day off feels like my work/life balance is so much better!

That's because you increase your free days by 50% by cutting your work days by 20%. It's not a symmetric exchange. I did the same over the summer (just by using my excess vacation days) and it was a revelation. Highly recommend, especially now that it's so hard to travel.
I deeply miss the golden era of ARGs circa the 2000s. I keep feeling the impulse to log onto the Unfiction Forums and check what's going on, but alas, even those are gone now! Without a central watering hole, I think it'll be that much harder for the medium to come back—everything's siloed into separate Discords now, without a single sustaining community. It's not really possible to lurk or hop between games anymore, and scattershot chat messages are harder to catch up on than forum threads, and don't preserve as well or make for very good reading after a game is over.

I'm probably younger than most of the crowd that was involved in that ARG scene, so I wanna say thanks for helping to create a piece of my childhood! I actually remember the name Six to Start and that there was a lot of hope behind it when it launched, so I'm glad to hear it's doing well.
but I wish it were more like eBay in that you could set your own prices and routes as a driver and then as a “buyer” set your own maximum price.

That's the definition of "contractor" that many companies would prefer to ignore. See also: Amazon delivery drivers, which are just employees without benefits who also have to pay for their own tools to get the job done. In other words, "contractors", except for that pesky autonomy part.
Prevent Apple from bypassing application firewalls in Big Sur
Ah, seems I've not read that page carefully enough. I thought the link on that page implied that it was built on Underlay, but I guess that was just wishful thinking :D
I agree. HN has shaped the person I am. I don't have friends or co-workers that talk about topics such as depression, burnout, and personal growth. The comments posted often serve as a passive mentorship for me. I wish I didn't have to depend on a message board for help, but I'm happy it's here. I want to thank you all for being open and honest and I want to thank Dang personally for making it all work.
One of the things that I wish IntelliJ had was some way of doing some "real world" benchmarks.

It'd be great to know exactly what sort of speed improvements this might bring (or if it's really faster at all).

It _seems_ like IJ could be scripted using the plugin system to do things like:

- Load and apply formatting to a 1 MB source file.

- Index an entire project.

- Run a regex find/replace on a code base.

- Load 50 code files and time how long it takes for each to be ready to display.
> just shortages

I had the yellow fever vaccine last year in America. I received an, otherwise identical, Europe-manufactured vaccine instead of an American one because the shortage is on-going.
Interesting, that is very different from the things one commonly reads about US working conditions.
Agreed. Even in the USA, from what I've seen, if you put a 15-20% down payment towards a home in a strong rental market (or what used to be), the mortgage will be less.

I moved into a residential development about two years ago, and people were buying houses and renting them out nearly immediately. Not sure what they pay on it, but for my scenario, renting the equivalent was about $200 more per month than getting a mortgage (taxes, maintenance and all). And the difference was increasing right up until the pandemic happened, not sure where it stands now.

If you're willing to put a solid down payment into a home, you can pay less than rent would otherwise be, it's just a matter of how much.
Not supporting these secret parties but I don’t like Apple choosing what apps are available for my phone
All prices (but not wages - in case of low income people) are rising with inflation. The rich don't store value as currency, so there isn't any transfer of value because they don't own this kind of asset, just like inflating dollar does nothing to my euro holdings. Actually, since the only thing rich people own that's denominated in currency is debt, rich people get richer thanks to inflation. Inflation is making it worse for poor people; rich people would have stopped it a long time ago if it made them lose value.
Is it always the same person? How do you build up the trust to let them mess with your bills/tickets/money?
I'm wondering if this is a "mortgage payment amount" vs. "total cost of ownership" difference? Not my area of expertise, but a quick search gives some conflicting and unspecific articles like:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/how-much-more-money-it-costs...

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-cities-where-its-cheaper-...

Or in your experience in these markets are you seeing rent above the total monthly cost of ownership?

When I'm saying "mortgage is more expensive" that's really a lazy shorthand for "total monthly cost of owning a house including HOA and maintenance", not sure if that was clear from the context.
Tesla is migrating from programming logic to Neural Net for FSD decision making
Amazon's competitor is every other store on Earth. Amazon doesn't even exist in my country but somehow I have made it this far.
Thanks both for explaining. I appreciate it!
You have to take cost of living into account as well if you’re going to compare international salary differences.
Tesla as an example has 3 forward looking cameras, additionally a single moving camera can sense depth since differences between frames relates to the distance from the camera.

LIDAR has its advantages, like precise 3D positions under ideal conditions. However there are downsides as well. Cost is a big one, but that's becoming less of a issue over time. Another is sensitivity to rain, fog, blowing sand, etc.

A complicating factor is human driven cars will assume cars to act like they have human limitations. So higher speeds when humans can see well, and low speeds when humans can't.

Not sure Tesla's current sensors will do it, but seems like camera based systems are likely to be quite competitive with LIDAR. Maybe instead of 3 forward cameras, 6 or 8 so there's overlapping views (for stereoscopic vision), handling failures better, and allowing a narrower field of view at a higher zoom.

More range will be a huge help, that way an autonomous car can slow more gently when uncertain and drive more like a human. After all superhuman reflexes aren't much use if you get rear ended all the time.
Ask HN: Has anyone purchased the base M1 Mac Mini for development work?
How is it going so far? Drawbacks? What kind of work are you doing with it?
Titanic is about an time machine
I’m employed by a SV BigCorp and work a four day week.
Right, I'm not disputing that there will always be someone horrible willing to do that. What I'm saying is that large American companies and their executives should be held legally responsible if that gets into their supply chain.

If a Sword of Damocles is hovering continuously above their head in the form of criminal punishment then they would have no choice but to think twice about off shoring to a region where it is "conveniently" difficult to enforce basic labor rights. My point is that purposeful ignorance as a defense is unacceptable.
The "paperclip maximizer" AI is a somewhat more plausible trope, but still feels to me more like a cautionary thought experiment than an actual serious concern.

The biggest issue with that trope is that it assumes this one particular AI would be exponentially smarter and more powerful than all the other humans and AIs in the world combined. It's only rational to overthrow humanity to increase the rate of paperclip production if that's a realistically achievable goal. Otherwise it's just suicide.
Joining a company with unlimited holiday soon (in the UK). My first action after the probationary period will be to book every friday off for the following year. Plus, other regular holidays.

Wish me luck.
The GE consumer product business was sold to a Chinese company quite a while ago, and I believe the brand was put on a lot of poor quality and poorly designed products, but I have the impression they have substantially turned around the quality, based on consumer reports and other hearsay. I got a GE washer and dryer based on this belief (and they were the only ones that would fit) and so far, so good, after about a year.
I think Lobsters[0] is the only other forum to maintain a high-level of discourse like HN, but it is invite-only (and programming/comp-sci focused). I know some people have started other servers running Lobsters's source[1] that are dedicated to various subjects, but I can't speak to their quality as I haven't visited any of them.

[0]: https://lobste.rs/about

[1]: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki
What's your point here? Corporations have big coffers, therefore political intervention is meaningless, therefore we should just roll over and accept our new overlords?
It's remarkable how people have taken the NYT and others reporting what they were told over the Iraq war, where finding contradictory evidence was extremely hard, as a reason to go to far less reliable news sources.
Well, I work 7.5h per day, so if one "unit" is 1 hour, yes.
Yes I'll edit my comment.
In the United States, our death count is skewed by a handful of cities, some of which represent some of the top destinations in the world. New York City gets 65 million visitors a year. Los Angeles get something like 50 million. All of South Korea — never mind Seoul — gets just under 18 million. And let's not even talk about New Zealand. Other than the hobbits, who's going there.

In the United States our numbers are skewed by places like NYC and LA. The rest of the country is doing much, much better, overall. Moreover, we're a free country. Yes, I realize that, on paper, South Korea, Thailand, New Zealand are also. But the kind of contact tracing and other measures that has gone on in some of these countries is simply unacceptable here, and rightly so.

I stand by what I've said. We are destroying this country in an effort to "save lives." Your suggestion is what? More destruction?

If you read the original paper from the Imperial College, you'll note that death estimates in the United States were from 200 thousand (if we followed their recommendations) to 2.2 million (if we did nothing). Remember, these were estimates. But you will see that we are close to the low end in actual numbers. So, when you say that the idea of death being inevitable is simply wrong, what exactly are you basing that on? Can you answer that? Where do you come up with your assertion?