skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And as a quick follow up to my last point. It might make sense to think about how taxes can work in your favor. If you take a year off, and you split the year across two calendar years (i.e. June 2021 to June 2022), you will get a nice refund from the IRS come tax day both years. Whereas you would get no refund if you do Jan 2022-Dec2022.

Alternatively, if you have a bunch of capital gains in stocks you could cash some of that out tax free if you have no income for the year (i.e. the Jan 2022-Dec2022 scenario).

Some other considerations in terms of timing are bonuses and PTO payouts. For example, I had a ton of PTO saved up (this was before everyone was doing unlimited PTO, which makes this issue irrelevant). My last day was in late December and they gave me a check for all of the unused PTO. Had I waited until January, that money would have been mostly tax free.

Probably not something you want to stress too much about. But if it works out you can put an extra $5-10k in your pocket which will take some of the sting off of losing the paycheck.
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I fully expect San Francisco stores to disappear entirely and replaced with 1-hour delivery services. Hopefully we can replace most of this retail space with more housing (unlikely).
I find these attempts to bolt async onto languages like Ruby and Python a bit pointless as the ecosystem isn't built around async so gems don't work. If your community rallies around async as the default and library output is growing then just maybe but it will take many years to catch-up. Python could maybe pull this off as library output is accelerating but for Ruby, where library output is declining (see https://modulecounts.com), it seems futile.
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I'm a huge fan of what Coinbase and Basecamp have done. Coinbase is thriving and Basecamp appears to be no worse for wear. I hope we see a continuance of this trend; whereby we continue to encourage DE&I whilst keeping the worst and most toxic topics out of day to day business.
It doesn’t sound like the internal petition was calling for the firm to solve the conflict. That would be unrealistic, but it’s not at all the case here.
People are human.
But work is work.
The canonical point of a workplace is to come together to fulfill the aims of the entrepreneurs.

The personal aims of the workers are fulfilled best outside of work.

Just stop to think about it logically for a minute... is the workplace the best place to circulate a petition condemning something that has nothing to do with work?

The workplace necessarily is going to bring together people that do not agree on personal matters - but who best align on matters relating to... work.

Color me naive, but shouldn’t what happens in the office be about the office???

Shouldn’t we be advocating on non office things outside of the office??
> I don't think HN readers understand exactly how harsh tech reviewers come down on devices that aren't as thin as possible.

Are you sure that you are the one that "understand" ? It is as possible that reviewers get paid (with money or products) to push for thinness, mega pixels or other numbers so consumers would buy the newest and most expensive versions.
Both of those categories are where most of these girls are, they are the bulk of those categories.
I haven't seen the repairability index yet it sounds very arbitrary and prone to be gamed.

There is no need to micro manage how a device manufacturer designs their products as long as they offset the pollution they create by either paying the local governments to dig more landfills or recycle their own products or send it over to someone who can recycle.

There are still open problems on how to measure the pollution but it's a more flexible approach than a repairability score.
I remember going out to the Safeway near Castro sometime late at night, and while minding my own business I see two guards doing an NFL chase and tackle on a shoplifter which attempted to run out. That was a while ago, 2015 or so. I understood it's a very routine thing, happened every night sometimes multiple times.

SF to me feels like a cautionary tale of a city that had everything going for it but mismanages its fortunes all the way to the ground, very much like a national Resource Curse.
Should we abandon this side project no one is using or pivot?
>accidental complexity is a thing

Of course it is, in fact it is pretty much all-pervasive in our field, even in very successful software companies - which makes me question whether removing it is as valuable as people make it out to be.
Lidars like these are often used as a source of reference data, maybe that's what they're doing here.
Keyword being "perceived."

The argument of "don't like it, use android" is bad faith but lets go with it since many people suggest it.

Ok now I'm on android and google/samsung is spying on everything. The android crowd will say "dont like it, leave"

Ok so what do I use?
Do you listen at >1x speeds? I would also like these for biking but would like to know if quality would be enough for 2-3x
You can also use: https://www.justtherecipe.app/
>I don't understand how this isn't 100% illegal.

It might be illegal but you would need to fight in court for ears so existing laws are applied.
So, was it warmer before?
Yes exactly.

> At each stage, the programmers takes the shortest, most straightforward approach to solve the problem.

Unfortunately, this is the often the best case. There’s a point in the life of most good programmers where they can’t help but to massively over engineering everything they make, adding pointless interfaces and abstractions everywhere, to chase the dream of reusability. This mindset will utterly bury your capacity to iterate.

I once saw a Java method trail to initialise something which was 19 levels deep - each level just making one method call to the next abstraction. You couldn’t just trace it in the IDE - lots of those calls called an interface method or something, so you had to hunt down the implementer. But it got worse. There was also a method trail alongside it for cleaning up that context. It had the same 19 levels deep trail, but after all that work the final callee was an empty function.
I'm pretty critical of academia, but even without knowing what lambdaschool.com is I am pretty certain it can't, or should not compete with academia. Vocational training and academic training are very different things. (And both are useful in their own right.) Indeed, a lot of problems in academia come from universities trying to pretend they are vocational schools...
> Users have a choice: Don't use iOS.

The judge in question was clearly not at all impressed with this argument when Cook raised it, and neither am I.

This amounts to telling people to throw the baby out with the bathwater every time they have an issue with something.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27239550
As a slim person with small hands, I can tell you that it’s the weight, the texture, the width, and the ability to add straps etc that makes a difference, not so much the thickness.
This pretty much hits a bullseye.
Exactly, it seems to me that animals communicate within the context of the current situation (e.g. a dog would combining a specific bark, body orientation, neck fur standing up, to signify "there is something in this direction and I don't like it"). Decoding any one part of the expression wouldn't make us able to understand the whole meaning.

This is also what makes two-way communication so hard – we are so focused on our language that we often fail to develop or account for our other ways of expression, (and if we do rediscover our non-verbal expressiveness, it often come in a way of a hacky and very verbal ted-talk or book). So for two-way communication our animal counterparts first have to learn our repressed, underdeveloped body language, gesture, posture and facial expressions.
> The point of a workplace is to come together to fulfill the aims of the entrepreneurs. The personal aims of the workers are fulfilled best outside of work.

What? I can’t be the only one who works directly in order to fulfill my needs (like literally my most basic needs, think food and shelter).
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Perhaps, but you have to feed older ones more.
What then is the purpose of demanding others make a public stand on an issue over which they have no practical control?
And you can run those tests from the shell...
Then it would seem the statement is inconsequential — at least in my view. How is it constructive to point out a conflict which is already at the forefront of everyone's minds because of mass civilian deaths and the associate global media coverage?
Not when they're off the clock either, interestingly. An off duty officer still obeys the reasonable officer standard for use of force rather than the reasonable person standard.
Yeah, GP is kinda strawmanning.
My understanding is that Twitch is a separate org within Amazon. Amazon might oversee Twitch on an org level, but I'm pretty sure they're not involved with stuff like this.
That sounds awesome IMO. If Apple opened the iPhone up I would buy one.
It was calling for a "safe space for anti-Zionism", which is just another term for the abolishment of Israel. Fun times.
Looking forward to reduce plastic in the clinical and research settings. I think it's a great idea to elminate at least 99% of plastic in these environments. It will make patient treatment much more human, research much more transactional and pure, while eliminating pollution in most places.
Sometimes businesses/organizations are propped up for their missions by wealthy sponsors and not markets. There are no market pressures that make them go out of business unless the sponsors themselves feel financial loss and stop sponsorship.
It’s well worth reading up on the details of the Basecamp disaster. At every point in the process, it was about work. How people behaved at work, how clients were treated, how people reacted to feedback, how information was communicated. It may have been “politics” but it was in no way separable from Basecamp‘s core business.
There are plenty of purposes. Why are you and I talking about the issue right now despite presumably having little influence over the outcome?
It tells us that people are willing to sign a petition to ban a thing while clearly not having done their research on the thing, just because an authoritative-seeming stranger told them something plausible. It means that such petitions shouldn't be taken seriously; and, to the extent that they are serious, it implies something about people's recklessness with regard to policymaking.

(I wonder how such a survey would fare today, when most people have smartphones with browsers and an internet connection.)
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Right. My point is if we stop producing plastic we are still going to have a lot of plastic waste. Perhaps we could invest instead in actually making recycling work for the waste we already have
Why can’t we just let the market sort it out? Let the people who want to talk politics all day start, lead, and work at firms that encourage it. And those that don’t will do the same.

It’s my same issue with socialists who want democratic control of companies. If it’s so obviously better, why not start one yourself? Or use government money to do so (socialists, after all). I just wish everyone would voluntarily associate and live their best lives rather than forcing a “one size fits all” approach to every problem. We live in the greatest time ever for expressing yourself in any myriad of ways. Just live and let live.
No way, is this new research? I thought antibodies (or maybe HN taught me) were suuuper specific to a certain part of the protein.
That's easy to say now.

At the time, UMC had not "debriefed" the kernel maintainers they lied to in the "hypocrite commits".

And then Pakki didn't mention that these new patches were generated by a tool, and submitted a bunch of "nonsense" patches with no explanation.

What reason did GKH have to trust anyone associated with the "hypocrite commits" at that point?

(ps. don't think you deserve all the downvotes here...)
Are we, in fact, waking up to woke?
The only reason this is an issue in the first place is the outsized, insane amount of influence these firms have over our society and culture. It wouldn't be as interesting (or consequential) if these guys were in Ford or GM (in fact it's not rare for unions to have stated political positions).
I thinking banning plastic straws will end up pushing the movement towards reduced plastic usage backwards. At least until there is a competent alternative. Paper straws are not it.

Especially since straws aren’t even a real contributor or issue overall. But it’s not at all difficult for a populist or reactionary to hit a nerve with this kind of thing however well intentioned it is.
Yes, which is why it’s neither a good look nor good business for tech firms to be holding back the tide on social norms’ evolution.
Sure, but not all people who use computers are programmers, and programmers make up a small minority of computer users. Much of the value in computers come from augmenting other workloads. There are no shortage of people composing e-mails and documents, or consuming content, in non-English languages. Probably more than there are fluent English users.
In his most recent blog post DHH said that the small group of people leaving Hey was offset by a lot of new customers for Basecamp
By way of counterpoint: leased a C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid from Ford for 3 years; never needed any work doing to it. Was a disappointment when Ford announced they were walking away from the car market for trucks and coupes only.
I think it you should cut HN from an actual source of news too.
Not at all, I agree packaging and liners should never need to be plastic. Lets ban them now. Glass and ceramics can replace almost everything that metal can't.
Recycle the metal and reuse the glass/ceramic. I was just astounded how few things really needed to be plastic.
You often do have specialized knowledge. Possible past examples:

1. Buying puts before the coming stock market crash back in January 2020.

2. Buying calls in WDC and STX after reading on HN about Chia Coin and hard drive prices, in early May, if you weren’t already aware in April. It was not a sure thing because prices move for other reasons, but a very very positive EV, and a great diversification of a crypto position.
So if I don't like your face at the corner, I'd order a drone equipped with a taser as a backup? An AI-controlled drone that listens to my voice?

Now what if you also order one? Did you make sure to get the premium subscription which includes DAD Drone Area Denial to keep other drones out? Because I did...
The office exists within society. Some things exist everywhere you go in society. You don't give up ethics and morals because you cross the threshold of your place of business.

Ignoring social problems in the workplace because it is a workplace is how we avoid solving those problems as a society.

The office is exactly where we should be advocating for things, because it is where we spend the most time and can affect the most change.

Just in recent history, the Civil Rights movement was built by people disrupting workplaces through boycotts and sit-ins. As we move forward in society it goes to reason that future movements should follow that example.
We are willingly engaging in a discussion, which is different from compelling people in a position of power over others to make a statement.
Yeah I agree making an editor that supports any type of character is not the best way to explore this subject, but I doubt the result of this exploration can solve that editor problem.

I follow a similar mindset of JB and have being making / using my own tools, even my personal character encoding (I have Chinese as my first language and want to use Chinese in my works but Unicode is too messy and it's impossible to make a font that supports thousands of characters so been developing my subset of Chinese that fits in a byte), also my own game engine / renderers / programming language (similar to JB's stack) My experience is these softwares are too personal and not applicable the the real general public. JB also makes personal softwares and won't consider about generality. Personal softwares are inherently better, because the bloat and bad about current state almost all comes from derailed generalization effort. If we take the beautiful DOOM editor and make it general, it'll be real hard to not make it another Unity, and that's the real under-explored problem.
Sounds like our companies and clients are very different. As for the feature/maintenance trade-off, a reasonable CBA will show the answer. I don't think it's quite as absolute as you've described.
San Franisco's DA is the son of two convicted murderers, one of whom is still incarcerated since his childhood, and as a result of which he was raised by literal domestic terrorists. This seems to have caused him no little psychological trauma which is why he is extremely reluctant to prosecute even hardened criminals. Unfortunately for the law abiding citizens of SF, that is his job.
Are we assuming genders now? Has anyone asked her/zer about which gender she preferred?
> Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics—and failing

Really? Don't be surprised when you manipulate the political sphere outside your walls in ways never seen in the history of the world and that politic creeps inside and devours you from within.
I hardly think we're in a society where people make fun of girls for playing with dolls, and boys for playing with trucks, which seems to be what this article is implying.

Less social pressure to play with gender-sterotypical toys != social pressure to play with opposite gender toys.
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Hey get that libertarian common sense out of here! Downvote!
False premise. The idea that this will work better with a market solution is laughable.
> Android doesn’t allow first class alternative stores

Don't change the goal posts. Apple doesn't provide anything. Having to pass through a dialogue after download t confirm install isn't ideal, but possible is better than not.

> and is also not the market leader.

Android is at 45% and apple is at 55%.[1] Is your contention that a least of that amount is sufficient such that it actually changes this in some way? If so, how do you square that with Android's worldwide market share being reported as 72% in 2020?[2]

1: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/north-amer...

2: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide/...
if youre talking trolley problem, wyes
However IMO this is a case of "A is much more complex and dangerous than B, so there is no reason to have B driven by more secretive and restrictive standards than those applied to A"
This right here. I like controlling my own DRM Free media. I imagined a system the other day where you can buy a pressing of a movie and on checkout you get the video file or enter the host you want it sent to so you can stream it. Or both. This would open up all kinds of different hosting services- an entire industry.
And the solution that many stores have been doing is to put basic cheap items behind a lock and key.

The last time I went to a Walgreens I needed to buy:

1. Mouth wash

2. Tooth paste

3. Shaving cream

I had to drag some poor employee over for all three items to either unlock a lock, or go into the back to find the item because they only had a display box.

Another time I went and I couldn't find anyone with a key. The person behind the counter said they didn't have one and they didn't know where the person with the key went. After waiting around for a few minutes I left to go to the Safeway nearby to try there instead. Only to find the item I needed was also locked down. I gave up. No one wanted my money.

I just drive out of the city to do my shopping now. It's a much better experience.
It's like deriving and then acting upon several layers worth of meta-information from very mundane things. People would take the bit that was said (or not said), build some story around that, possibly derive a second story from the first and then go out and attack you based on that. Nothing is taken on face value.
I think the absestos and TEL lawsuits of the future will be settled in Bitcoin.
He’s lucky the officer didn’t plant drugs to justify the stop...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/us/florida-deputy-arrested-pl...

https://www.complex.com/life/2020/03/louisiana-police-invest...

https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/4692-cops-plantin...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/20/538279258...
Reducing and reusing are much more important than recycling.
In my experience people choose iPhones because they are a status symbol, and because Apple has become synonymous with good design and good taste. Due to marketing efforts, Android devices are still seen as the "cheap option" or for people who don't care about their image. Many people are also already locked into the Apple ecosystem through desktop/laptop Macs, iCloud, etc., so getting a non-Apple phone would introduce a lot of friction into their experience.

Part of it is also that iOS used to be quite far ahead of Android when it came to usability and polish. Android has since mostly caught up, but there is an advantage to being a first mover, and the people who didn't like Android back when it was much worse have since gotten locked into Apple's ecosystem, even if they never used Apple products before that.

I don't think most people seriously think about App Store curation as any of top reasons why they have an iPhone.
Thank you!

The amount of times I’ve left recipe sites because they’re filled with ads is too damn high.

I don’t even care if author adds a story but after every paragraph an ad is ridiculous.

Recently, I’ve been purchasing cook books just to not deal with the mess.
Lake Street Dive released a song last year that touched on the impact of climate change on coffee, among other things. One of my favorite songs of the year, though it doesn't make me feel great.

> To the next generation, / Merry Christmas / You're working harder than ever now / And the coffee sucks / You know, Colombia and Kenya got too damn hot / And now you're making do with what you got

https://smarturl.it/makingdo
> Imagine people arguing in 1998 that Microsoft deserves 30% of all software sales with zero alternatives allowed lmao

https://www.xbox.com
Lbs GONE in 13 days with this strange “carb-pairing” trick New York Cit
is your spouse sleeping with over ear headphones on?
I don't know why the parent was downvoted. His point is valid - 2rps per instance is pretty damning.
> One of those companies, according to the emails, is well-known private security contractor Securitas.

Finally, a Pinkerton in every pocket...
Cans for food is iffy, without the liners doesn't it disintegrate the metal? Jars work well and can be reused. Bring back deposits!
I am not a Googler. I can only use Google to search for context: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22441236/jewish-google-em...
PHP 7.x and Laravel really gave the language its big boy pants. Really fun to develop in and looks nothing like the PHP 3.x and 5.x grime.
That video is racist, take it down immediately.
What do you suppose they did to cause this?

I'm genuinely asking because I'm drawing a blank.
https://archive.is/e25ud
I think the parent comment is saying work is all ultimately all about making money. That’s in sync with what you’re saying. I think.
Simping for Apple to try and get a better rate behind closed doors
There is a process being developed where plastic can be recycled back into an oil be burning it and condensing the vapors/smoke into a liquid (capturing it). This is also very good news given the issues we have with recycling. This process would make it much easier since you would not have to sort.