skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not suggesting thy are charitable. I'm only suggesting that they are not omniscient.

> There’s so many restaurant openings and closings for so many decades that I think it’s a pretty good indicator of their price dynamics.

This may well be true.

But I mean, if this were the case, a common failure mode for restaurants would be full tables right up until bust, right? Low prices due to unprofitable margins would mean lots of demand. Losing money on every head, but lots of heads.

But, IME, in my area, restaurants that fail in the first year or two do not fail in that modality. They usually have some of the lowest prices, but empty seats none-the-less. Because the food isn't good, or the menu is weird, or they don't do marketing right, or the location is wrong, or a million other things. But in my area at least I basically never see restaurants will full tables fail.
It's pretty simple to build audacity. If you're never upgrading then that's fine.
If a business is operating profitably by paying people wages below the cost of living, it is being subsidized by the government and therefore is not independently profitable in any meaningful sense.
The plain of jars area specifically was a dump site for bombers that could not drop their bombs over Hanoi due to weather. I believe that's partly why so many did not explode, they were not armed/activated prior to the drop. There are other parts of Laos where the USA essentially abandoned their Hmong alles in Laos leaving them to be slaughtered. There are generations of fighters living in the jungle to this day.
I could do a better job than them in all due respect. I care about my job more than anyone on earth. I know they do good work but if we could both measure to the same specs and know we did it right, how could I do it worse than them. we have the same measuring tools. Not that I think they do bad work. But if you ever built an engine you know its all about attention to detail. there is nothing they have to verify the integrity of the build that I don't to a similar level of precision.

Edit: I dont have the machines they do, but when my bare block comes back from the machine shop, my tools are just as good as theirs to verify the dimensions are correct. That isn't possible to verify with a built short or long block. They could possibly have 100 employees that care as much about my job as me who knows. This is a job about verification of specs and assembling correctly not of insane tech. They don't have anything I dont when assembling an engine. Machine work yes
I am not an economist. But I think it's that people mis-estimated future demand months ago. (I've seen statements that this is the case with chips for automobiles.)

People thought that the economy would shut down for Covid. So they planned to produce less. They ordered less in the way of parts and supplies to produce finished goods.

Then demand didn't drop, and everybody got caught short.

Why is food different? Because nobody planned on a drop in demand for food. The economy may shut down, but people still eat.
This is amazing educational content.
Is There a Case for Legalizing Heroin?
I don't see why they couldn't migrate to the newer version in what seems a reasonable timeframe.

Stated reason for v2 retirement: "Onion service v2 uses RSA1024 and 80 bit SHA1 (truncated) addresses. It also
still uses the TAP [2] handshake .."

Seems like a typical security upgrade of something that should have been done a long time ago.
No, because I'm not the social police. But I don't want to hear about it while I'm working, and so I don't participate in those conversations. I'm trying to concentrate on work problems at work. End of.
One of those web pages which deserves an award. Some place in some kind of Internet Hall of Fame, an historical archive which shows the only best highlights of what websites were actually capable of presenting. Milestones of web development.

This page summarizes pretty good what web technology is capable of, when in the hands of a real professional.

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Ok, I just realized this is from Bartosz Ciechanowski, and this reminded me of the Cameras and Lenses [1] article which I've seen recently. It was the same kind of quality.

This man is a real genius.

[1] https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/
Holograms on Chocolate (2020)
I really disagree personally. I already have a really snappy interface... my phone. I use it to control YouTube, Plex, etc. Then I just send it to my TV via Chromecast. If I had to navigate using some other remote that I would inevitable lose, it would me more annoying to me.
Yes, I am very aware of what types of data apps collect in order to fingerprint a device. That is exactly why I firmly believe this problem should be solved at the OS level, not at the App Store level. Because I trust a technological solutions much more than I trust App Store reviewers at Apple.

This is why I prefer an E2EE chat service to a service that is not but says "we promise we won't read your messages".
I have. To his credit, he feels the same pains I do. It's more of an organizational issue that has not improved for the past 6 months.
Line of Credits typically go off of prime which is why you didn't get the lowest rate. Most institutions do something like prime + x%. If it was a 15 year fixed or 3 year ARM, then you most likely would've gotten an awesome rate.
You’re confusing innate and non innate qualities. Islam isn’t an innate quality. People can and do leave Islam. Whether transgenderism is an innate quality is up for debate. People certainly can and do stop identifying as a different gender from their sex assigned at birth.

In the case of your other example of black and Jewish people: it’s already inappropriate to be racist at work.
This seems pretty meta, but very relevant: https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/15.5-ride-out-the-storm
Good for October CMS for trying to make money.

Good for Winter CMS for continuing development of the OSS version.

This is an example of the system working.
> Because literally, this is the bar a lot of homophobes exist at to consider a conversation about a gay relationship 'political' or even religious, and they will act on it.

So the homophobe is being political, and therefore breaks policy.

Perhaps they would feel better if they let their misapprehensions and hate towards their colleagues go.
Where do you work, hobby lobby? We are on a website sponsored by a San Francisco based start up accelerator. Regardless of where “no politics” as a rule goes no one in this world is getting fired for saying “My husband”. It’s a disingenuous reductio.

Insisting on personal pronouns over another employee’s pushback is a much more realistic (and still compelling) line of argument.
Couldn't you do without the car? I've heard that the US has bad public transport, but is it really that bad?
I think most of them did since the same issue would be marked on the tracker for multiple days in a row.

In reality, FB is just being highly transparent with issues and I should applaud them, but that's a lot of yellow and red.
Thanks this is very good feedback. Both on the quality of the landing page and on articulating the value / comparing with other solution that focus on building an audience.

I see also your point on web vs other kind of open source, I for example run a hardware open source project and that's a completely different story.

Curious if anyone with a more web-related OS project has feedback/wants to chime in.
heres the list of folks who have publicly announced their departure: https://workflowy.com/s/basecamp-resignation/qrBBdTQydmTKLu0... probably has more context to each in their threads
That's actually exactly what I've done in these situations. You can't lose if you don't play.
Indeed, because proof of waste will centralize around the place where the wasted resources are the cheapest.
ArtStation Is Now Part of Epic Games
It happens gradually. A vulnerability here, a service turned down there, an app no longer available on the app store. It adds up to a device that does not do what it was advertised to do when it was new.

Everything else I buy for my home (except for things with obvious wear items that physically wear out), I expect to function forever exactly as the day I purchased it, or be repairable. I have hand tools that were made 100 years ago, inherited from my grandpa, which work exactly as they are supposed to. Yet, we're expected to accept that software "wears out" after a few years.
>there are some English names that sound extremely hilarious in my language.

I'd love to hear some, that sounds great.

Hah, cool.

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-names-that-sound-f...
Would you have an example of a juicy stuff you are looking for? Seems to me most needs (flight search, seat maps, flight status, airport/airline infos) are covered by the self service API
"He told me today that attempting to link the list of customer names to potential genocide represented a case of “catastrophizing” — one that made it impossible for any good-faith discussions to follow. "

And there you have the unavoidable issue.

Some people believing that 'name mocking' is the 'core hate' upon which genocide is built, some people think that's a bridge to far.

I agree with the CEO that the intellectualized vitriol towards the list is just far too much.

It's hard for some people to grasp this, but if you allow rank and file to create councils that allow them to control the company, especially from inflated moral positions, then some of them will do that.

A lot of people I believe express their anger and frustration through aggressive moralization and this is another outlet for that.

There's a 100% chance that these movements attract bad faith actors and will cause problems, they have to be dealt with very carefully.
I must be a real idiot then (which is very possibly the case, but I'm pretty sure not for disliking this design).

On top of the batteries starting dying much faster later on (the "last so long" thing is only true on the first 1-2 years), the warning is shown and dismissed far too easily, and far too late - and then they just die.
Why not just... manage people well?

No need to make it no politics/no religion at work. Endless talking about keto or veganism or BeachBody or CrossFit or vaccines or children or being anti-child or emacs or vim or whatever can be just as divisive and counterproductive if it's not managed. Lots of people are assholes or misinformed about a lot of stuff. Big deal. Manage. That's the active part of the word "manager".

Don't use the company social media to advance your politics or sell your MLM products or shill for cryptocurrencies -- company social media must be managed. Financial policies must be managed, and if people don't like them or aren't able to accept it, talk to them directly. Clear up misunderstandings if they exist and lay out the parameters of the job.

This is not about Trump or politics or activists. This is about bad management.

I manage and work with people of a wide variety of political persuasions. Out of work I have plenty of opinions about politics and causes. In work, I demand mutual respect and professionalism. I won't let A misgender B, I won't let C make fun of D's evangelical church, we're going to keep all the politics talk to a minimum but we're not going to ban it. If someone doesn't want to engage, that must be respected as well.

But it's just foolishness to think that my "employees can come to work... without having to deal with heavy political or societal debates unconnected to that work". Not when heavy political debates unconnected to that work affect where and when they can pee or whether they fear for their lives at the speed trap that's stationed about a mile up the road from the office. We don't need to debate it, we can't solve the world's problems, and we don't need litmus tests, but the basic mutual respect and professionalism demanded of every employee applies to me too and I need to recognize that different employees walked in the door from different worlds, and their skin color/presence or lack of uteruses/accents come along. I need to proactively make this a good place to work for my valued employees because they deserve human respect and they're f(*^ing expensive to replace. That's the bottom line.
> I suspect that part of this is antiquated attitudes and/or a refusal to accept Kerchhoff's principle by NXP

That is attributing far too much agency to the players involved.

The real issue is much simpler: "We don't want to be bothered supporting anyone who isn't throwing around enough money that we're willing to actually do the design for them."
The middle ground is that most people are, in fact, professional. It is literally impossible to actually like everyone you meet, but if you can at least maintain a professional relationship, that's fine- that's all that is required.

This is what actual tolerance looks like in action!
(YC W16) -- I remember from seeing the job ads in the HN feed. Congrats!
I feel like I'm more tormented by people demanding I take "a side" which is invariably their side. God help me if I choose to disagree. Besides, we live in a Democratic Republic and it's my representatives making the decisions, not me. That's literally by design. My only real feedback is casting a single vote when it's the right time.
There's definitely value in putting documentation where it will be seen. For developers, writing in a code comment or commit message is a good bet. If there's an issue, they'll be in the code, and they'll be in the commit log, and they'll see what you've written.

At times I've been asked to document things in a company wiki. Typically nobody reads it and it never gets updated when others make changes to the code.
Average spend on a computer hasn't gone down recently. In the era when it actually did go down it was because volume and reliability went up, and cost of manufacturing went down as process improved.

Phones have been system on a chip since the dawn of the era of the smartphone and few computers are. The difference between repairable and not is the difference between glue and screws and sockets vs solder. You have basically misunderstood everything.
I for one would pay a lot just to not install updates all the time, if nothing else.
That might work, but then the OS needs up-to-date profiles for each application (to know what to map events to), and changing the shortcut in the application's own settings would break everything (in addition to showing the wrong thing in the first place).
This may be the answer. Some useful traditions are not being passed down, especially at startup-type places which don’t allow older employees.
When it comes to basic rights (sometimes even the right to exist), yes that is what I'm saying. Homophobia, Transphobia and so on are not better than racism & religious discrimination.

This is sometimes hard to see for people who are themselves not part of the "contentious" group (and not always due to malevolence, sometimes it's just hard to sympathize with people who aren't like yourself).
https://youtu.be/Ame0j8jbMY4
And thus the reason why there's such as thing as a runaway diesel engine.
I don't think a political discussion now and then at work is an issue per se. As long as you remember you're talking with colleagues, and you have to keep a respectful tone and be friendly and collaborative with them all the same one minute after the conversation is over. And insulting your colleagues (for example suggesting that they're racist, or homophobic, or otherwise a problem at work or in the society) is of course unacceptable.
I think it’ll be good for them in the long run too (if they don’t go under in the short term)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_homosex...

Thankfully, most places have moved on from that, but many still don't allow people to, say, marry the person they love.
> "I use inches here because in machine work thousandths of inches is the language du jour."

Yeah not in Australia unless your machinist is >50 years old. Metric is more accurate/easier/less prone to mistakes. Metric is what we use.
A lot of these policies seem like they'd violate NLRA/NLRB rules, as well.
Top, do not hesitate to share your feedback, if anything can be improved I can try to forward it internally
The average computer is around 700 including ones that are relatively repairable and ones that are not. Pretending that repairable laptops cost 20 times as much is disingenuous.
I think the easiest way is this:

1) Start as a contractor.

2) Look to join teams that are set to grow.

3) Get paid hourly to a company entity instead of to yourself.

4) Make sure your rate has a 40-50% margin above a salary

5) Pay attention to staffing needs at your client.

6) When you see a possible need, be proactive about getting someone in that you have vetted or trust under your company umbrella.

7) Rinse and repeat.

At about 4-8 people you will be making less money as you wont have time to work, you will be managing people but they might not be making you as much as you made when you were billing as an individual.

You will just have to tough it out. you will likely make mistakes in hiring, lose customers and reset down to 1-3 where you are doing the work again.

Eventually you will have two simultaneous customers. Sometimes you will drop back to one, but eventually you will get 3 etc.

Most of your growth will come from existing customers, for us it is still 80% from existing customers, 20% from new customers. We are at about 60 people

The very first thing I outsourced was accounting (in the first week). The very next was an admin who could also manage a recruiting process. I happened to get a big first deal from a former employer and jumped to 10 people in the first year. But dropped back down during the 2001 recession and had to start over.

I hate networking and have never (rarely) found clients except the first. Therefore I dont think an ability to network is important. Im an introvert and try to minimize my contact with other people. I tend to hide in my office...

As soon as I could I started with a salesperson who could start to prospect.
I mean... yeah. That's been the prevailing culture in all the jobs I've had - when you're talking with your coworkers, your options are work or completely banal small talk ("sure is sunny today!"), unless you're in a small group you know well enough to be sure another topic won't make them uncomfortable.
Why do you sweep?

https://ericalexander.org/post/devops-and-ransomware/
Hard to say. Those tolerances would be expensive in general purpose machine work, but in engines those tolerances have been in place since at least the 1930s, and so economies of scale bring those costs down (ie, using specialized machines that are really good at boring precision holes and measuring them. The costs of those machines get amortized over every engine).
You use the word migrate but that's not really what is going on. A new onion domain is required. All the links, all the search indices, the reputation and rankings, the things that make up the web on tor will be destroyed.

On v3 everything will have to start fresh.

And yeah, there are reason for using v3. Many of them. But having v2 alongside v3 has been the working status quo since 2019. It is not like it is suddenly harder now. And just because a v2 site exists doesn't endanger v3 ones.
Do you think people in charge of hiring, particularly outside of the SV bubble, are going to be eager to pick someone up who left their last job because they couldn't agree to stop bitching about politics on the company dime? I don't see how demonstrating the inability to follow basic company rules in the interest of productivity improves their career prospects. Even inside the SV bubble, things aren't that warped, are they?
Damn, dropping a new engine in a CTS V? What year? NA? How much power are you shooting for? The CTS V is definitely one of my favorite cars, I'd love to own one one day, but the ones with the manual trans hold their value pretty well :)
It will require an M1 to work, apparently.
I'm not here to argue on the fine points of China policy or human rights. I just don't think it's fair to conflate the decisions one company makes towards what it thinks are good for engineering or business with every possible outcome of those decisions or how others can exploit them. Similarly, I don't accept arguments against socialism because of the trainwrecks from the past that have claimed to be socialist.

And yes, when presented with a wall of text consisting of mostly emotional arguments talking past my points, I started skimming.

Finally, you really shouldn't stoop to ad-hominem like you did at the end of your post. You have no idea who I am or my life experience, and even if you did, it's still not a valid argument regardless of my circumstances. Try to be less sanctimonious.
Restaurants sell a bundled experience. The use of their silverware is part of what I buy.

You could argue that the restaurant shouldn’t be a gatekeeper. Other parties could let me enjoy a cheaper meal, competing to offer the most discounted silverware. My $10 burger could be $9 if I could rent a paper plate from a third party and eat on the floor. After all, the restaurant shouldn’t abuse it’s monopoly, right?
Every major release of Windows costs over $100, and iOS has a major release annually. Trying to compare iOS and Windows without any adjustments whatsoever is almost comical.
The supporters of the bill think that it counts as an excise tax.
Imagine scenario where you have $100k and you can open a small restaurant, create jobs, maybe not best jobs but still some people will be putting food on the table with your help, some students will pay for their collage.

But you count the costs and it turns out you will break even in 50 years or if anything goes bad never, like, one bad hire will drown you.

You look at Google, Apple, Facebook stocks ... there is always a risk but no one got fired for buying IBM right? If you put your money in that stocks you don't have to worry about bad employees, sanitary inspections, paying rent, bad customers.

That is what those Adults and Experts are trying to tell you, local business is not some "magic" that makes money or loses it. Behind every local business with shitty jobs there are people, don't make every business equal to faceless Facebook, Google or Apple. Your local pizza shop has an owner who is as much an employee as his staff.
Researchers Demo Potential for Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Vulnerability Disclosure
Seen the generous buyouts offered, it's probable that several of them left just because they liked the offer.
Doubt it. They are bleeding talent, generating terrible PR, and definitely did not plan for a massive buyout this year. This plan backfired heavily. Am amazing case study in incompetent leadership.
I think what folks mean by R&P is ugly R&P.
Two. My day job and https://try.sqljoy.com.

I might switch to a different project now though, I feel that itch again and I'm not sure if there is a market for sqljoy.
Unless their statement is "My wife/husband worked on a problem very similar to the one we're trying to solve here, let's give her/his solution a shot!" it's not a conversation I want to have at work, while trying to solve work problems.
Some things aren't worth weighing in on.

For example, you go to work and some of your more braindead colleagues are earnestly insisting that keeping a list of amusing customer names is the first step on the road to genocide.

Do you: (a) get involved in this nonsense, knowing from past experience how furious they'll get if you disagree, or (b) ignore this stupidity and get on with your job?

Personally, I'd pick the latter.
I am interested in what you're trying to get at here, but I must admit, I am at a complete loss as to what you're trying to make a point about, other than a very general those in society without high visible status still aren't given proper attention, or at least in that ballpark.

Do you mean the US? What exactly do you mean about Montreal?