skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sure, but how many?

Less per capita than pretty much any wealthy city or suburb has.

More per capita than Detroit.

We all see the kind of trouble people with no real pressing crap to do can cause with an HOA at their disposal. So I figure we should make sure the people with a badge and a gun are substantially more busy than that.

Nobody wants to work in an overworked department but I don't see a way to keep police from harassing people unnecessarily other than making sure the department is small enough there's enough "real crime" to go around.
It's clear from Lee's words and actions that that's exactly what he thought.

That, combined with a fragile ego and controlling personality, led very predictably to him reacting to people starting to talk about leaving by trying to tighten his grip on everything—and everything slipping through his fingers.
I'm an introvert who now loves WFH. I've also been able to move from a city to a rural area. I never want to go back.
A simple method for reanimating ice-cold rats and mice (1956)
If you have a normal google account, once you sign up for workspace, if you decide to no longer subscribe, you can't get your original free account functionality back. No more gmail, calendar, keep, etc. Learned the hard way
I'm not sure what you refer to? On Twitter I'm seeing the same information that on CNN, maybe with a more explicit phrasing.
Medical bills are considered to be the most frequent reason for personal bankruptcies in USA.
Chip shortgage, but only on the retail market. Everyone from Lidl and IKEA, through Daimler, to Philips are putting chips in every most trivial device and component.
Dictators gonna dictate.
how do i know i can trust to start using this without google killing like so many other things.. google today is so untrust worthy to me... especially after this photo storage thing.. just wow what a headache
Cookie popups where a EU requirement before GDPR.

They just started showing up more often after, because at this point they also had to notify you/have you opt in into sharing your data.
Do you even underpants gnomes bro?
No, it’s not different, but there is a difference in expectations.

If anything, Discord and Reddit are the ones that have it backwards. Their servers are theirs, and their free speech interest are theirs, but while you can own the premises and prioritize your own interests on your premises, that doesn’t grant you ownership over the communities you host.

Communities are made up of people, so claiming to own a community isn’t any different than claiming to own people. People can just pick up and move elsewhere, even if that means losing the benefits and privileges of the prior host.
I try to tend to stoicism and optimistic nihilism.

If something matters to me I try to imagine how I would feel if I lost it and do that until it doesn't matter anymore. It's not a perfect process.

I still enjoy experiences but I'm ready to lose them and try to see the positive side and find purpose in making the right choice given the information I have. I don't castigate myself for making a choice that was bad in retrospective as that choice already happened and I have no control over that. I can just try to improve in the next one.

Thinking about loved ones who are suffering or are dead is probably the hardest thing to process but you have to keep your sanity somehow and get over things, eventually. If you don't do it now, either time will do it for you or you'll go insane.

For death, it's pretty simple. You won't have to make any choice when you're dead. What's to fear about something you can't control? Just accept it already.
Yes, this is a really big shift in thinking. Some people despise selling, as selling often brings up images of being pushy, self-promoting and at some times even scammy.

I believe this often happens when you don't have enough confidence in your product. So talk to your customers. Give your product away to 20 people for free and ask customers how they feel about it. Because the day you start to genuinely believe that what you are selling is actually bettering the life of people is the day you start to love selling too.
To quote and paraphrase Rich Harris, creator of Svelte [1]:

=== quote and paraphrase ===

What is missing is signals from other browser implementors. Until this info is included prominently at the top of every web.dev article, it will be seen as biased and uninformative. when you say "you can do this today", you're knowingly encouraging people to build chrome sites instead of websites!

These are often just drafts created and authored by Googlers, and nothing in the web.dev articles even mentions that.

web.dev presents itself (through its domain name, inconspicuous Google branding, etc) as a neutral resource for web developers. It's not. By not making its Chrome-centric nature clear, you're actively making it harder for web developers to get good, unbiased info.

=== end quote and paraphrase ===

For example, the article claims that "web apps are capable of reading and writing files". No, they are not.

It's sort of charitable to say that there's "no signal" from either Safari or Firefox on File System APIs [2] and on File Handling APIs [3]. However, web.dev presents this as fait accompli and expect droves of "omg Safari stifles innovation on the web" on HN.

Whereas it's Google ramming incomplete drafts of Chrome-only internal APIs through standards bodies and enabling them by default in Chrome.

[1]

https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1399025469559914496 and then https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1399043615280746497

[2] https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6284708426022912

[3] https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5721776357113856
For you. For the happy marriages that didn't happen, probably not.

I suggest that lots of this WFH/WFO stuff is super personal, and what benefits one may disadvantage another, so it'll be interesting to see how all of this pans out over the next few years.
They are a moving target, but my org has them pretty closely pinned to 2hrs of "work time" per point, at least ideologically. When you see that go from 12-18ish in person per person to 30+ (~38 average consistently for me), it's pretty straightforward that the org is actually getting closer to its billable 80 hours per sprint, even with 3ish daily Zoom meetings. And to boot, the quality of design, PMing, ticket writing, feature scoping, and everything else around it has increased, which probably helps the productivity.
Why would it be white hot right now though? I don’t think software would be particularly affected by COVID negatively or positively.
I recall researching those about 30 years back. And reading that they are explicitly outlawed in the US.
> Maybe I don't hang out with the trust fund crowd enough

I'm not sure that's a fair characterization of people taking a gap year, especially people in tech. The industry pays well relatively early and there is a surplus of jobs. If you keep your expenses low relative to your salary, don't let your lifestyle inflate beyond your means, and are fortunate enough not to be burdened with debt, health problems, or other large expenses, a gap year seems completely doable.

I think failure to save money is by far the most likely reason sabbaticals are uncommon, though I've been told by hiring managers they're more common in tech than you'd think. There's also probably some stigma against being unemployed, especially in professional circles, as well as fear of the dreaded "resume gap." As far as I can tell, that concern is fairly overblown for those in tech as well.
I do not think that you should be much concerned about this, because other studies show that more DHA than EPA is preferable when using other criteria.

So the conclusion is that nobody knows for sure if you should eat more DHA than EPA, to have a better brain, or less DHA than EPA, to have a better heart.

What is certain is that you need some minimum quantity of both DHA and EPA.

Especially for children, who do not have yet to worry about cardio-vascular problems, a supplement with more DHA than EPA seems actually a good choice.
Might be a difference in terminology tbh.

In the UK "upper class" is used almost exclusively for aristocrats. No matter how rich you are, unless there is a viable way for you to hold a title (e.g. Earl), you will not be considered upper class.

Middle class is basically anyone who does knowledge work and has aspirations of home ownership.

Your description of "Kids which need to earn their money usually go straight into apprenticeship or university and earn money promptly" would be very likely to be working class kids in the UK i.e. unlikely to be middle class.
I do feel like college hires going into remote gigs right now are missing out on an important ritual - the rite of passage of walking into that big office building - a place full of people who are united in a common purpose and whose ranks you've been trusted to join. That sense of 'I'm a professional now, like these people'. It must be hard to have an idea of the scale of the enterprise you're engaged in when you never see more than five or six faces on a Zoom call at a time.

But there's nothing natural or ancient about going in to the office as a rite of passage - it's not necessary. It's just something this generation won't get to have, just like my generation didn't have to go through the ritual of getting our first proper business suit, and how direct deposit has taken away the moment of being physically handed a paycheck. But they'll have their own things, I'm sure. Maybe the defining moment will be when that Fedex driver arrives and you sign for your first work laptop? Maybe logging onto the corporate slack and seeing all the channels for the first time imparts some sense of shared purpose?

And maybe that means you also don't get artificially seduced by the trappings of the environment. Because the work is done in a serious building with serious glass conference rooms and serious desks, we learn to take the business seriously - maybe more seriously than it deserves. And maybe people who work in offices typing on computers every day do think a bit too much of themselves, because after all they work in an important building full of important people. Perhaps it's a good thing to miss out on that ego-stroking. Harder to take yourself too seriously when you're working on an Ikea desk at the foot of your bed surrounded by your own dirty laundry.
For as long a I am a “wanna-be founder”, I used to be afraid of working on ideas that compete with (parts of) Google business. That feeling is no more.

I use GSuite at work at a FAANG company, and Google slides with 50+ pages is so slow (multi-second pauses when changing slides) to be practically unusable. Finding documents in Google drive is hard to impossible, and good luck keeping track of comments or tasks assigned to you in multiple unrelated documents.

I’m sure at some level consolidating their offerings is a right product move, but I don’t think Basecamp or Calendly should be particularly concerned.
That is the beauty of Open Protocols it is easy to switch to a new service provider and why Companies like Google removed all Open protocols from their services once they had a large market share
From my point of view, the problem with the police is that the standards are not high enough. It's too easy to become an officer, it doesn't require much education, and so on. It needs to become a prestige position, something that is respectable and attracts applicants that genuinely want to do good.

Right now, this doesn't happen, so you mostly get the corrupt tribalism stuff. But demonizing the police profession will guarantee that thousands of reasonable, well-meaning people will never become police officers.

> Maybe you should give it some more thought.

I have given it plenty of thought. I, along with pretty much anyone that actually has lived in crime-ridden areas, thinks that the idea of abolishing the police and demonizing officers is completely absurd.

The worst part is that the people with the loudest voices won't face any of the repercussions. Instead, it'll be the poor, because they aren't rich and social media savvy. Actual working class people are too busy working to be tweeting all day long about politics.
Here in the UK _most_ of the people I met at university didn't know gap years were an option. Post university it's been the same. The few who do take it absolutely love it. I personally didn't know either until I met a few people at university who got to the UK through the Erasmus programme.

It's sad really. As a young person this is the time to be able to do it. Often as you get older life gets in the way. I've been wanting to do it ever since I found out about it but every time something else has gotten in the way. If you're young and reading this, and everything has aligned for you, take a gap year or two.
It’s over 40k, so either you don’t have access to real time data or you are trying to paint a picture that you prefer to believe. You can’t expect zero volatility in a new money while its being adopted. It’s the only fixed supply money in a world that’s printing paper like crazy, where do you think that trends trends to?
Speaking Up to Power
Generally, good for you, and mostly agreed, but that /r/antiwork is awfully toxic.
Medically necessary is still a rule in the UK NHS. It doesn't cover cosmetic surgery unless there's a very good reason (like something affecting a person's quality of life)

I think excess is what you call a deductible, as in if I have an accident in my car, I pay for the first £250 and that's the excess.

The value of the coverage is the maximum amount they'll pay out. I don't know if I have that on my car, but my house contents insurance is insured up to a certain value
All of this really puts Lee's evangelizing of Private Internet Access into a new light, doesn't it?
>If we claim that the culture of law enforcement is corrupt, we should be encouraged by the turnover.

It could also be that the better ones are resigning...unfortunately.

Unfortunately complicated. Public employees are still what make an enormous amount of this country work and they are consistently abused and used as tools in ways that hurt their ability to do so.
Is it common for "good" doctors cover-up or just remain silent for "bad" doctors? Is there an incentive for this behavior where "bad" doctors may endanger the lives of those that cross the doctor wall of silence?
When adblocking software becomes indistinguishable from stealth technology.
This is probably a bad security practice. When you click mybank.com, you don't want it silently redirecting to mybank.phishing.com.

Links are explicit. You could always right up a trivial browser extension to do this on a case by case basis if you really desire.
Show HN: I made Kanban board and browser extension for job application tracking
As a flourishing community of the interwebs maybe, just maybe.

IRC as a tool is certainly not dead.

Former IRCOP.
> it likely won't be coming to Firefox at all, as they consider it harmful

Yikes. The original article should have definitely mentioned this, if it were not just a Google mouthpiece.
> With police the problem is that they might not even get fired, and any judgements against them tend to at best get paid by taxpayers: there is no incentive to not be horrible.

That's the problem. I don't think demonizing the other 99.9% of officers is the solution.
Google doesn't give a shit about open web standard standards, rather they want to push their standards onto the open web.

The entire website should be treated with extreme suspicion. It's all the more insidious given the URL.
So, scientists created another racist and sexist AI. Of course, it's not more racist and sexist than society at large but that's another problem.
WaveMakers Leadership Program for Career Changers and Young Professionals
konversation is pretty nice on kde.
OP here.
I've spent so much time being shy about my product... Then I started getting angry at the fact that people bought from my competitors, even though they had an inferior product.
Made me realize that I had learn to convince them too, and do proper marketing. People need convincing and it's not a bad thing to try and "close" them.
What matters is that your product actually betters their lives.
It makes you wonder if they really do have the best people working on stuff. Is this really the same team that made gmail/maps?
I did not expect such a low quality comment from hacker news.
IMHO continually calling google (and their employees that are on HN) out on their BS is a net positive even if their BS is starting to get repetitive.
> That, combined with a fragile ego and controlling personality...

Oh, people barely know the half of it... and for those wondering just how bad it can get, peruse one of the court cases currently against him personally.

https://corrupt.tech/1708590130-ocr-compressed.pdf
those are similar to the rail bikes in Oregon: https://ocrailriders.com

unfortunately, this particular one is closed, but there are others in the state.
I don't like that they refer to web apps and browser when they actually mean Chromium apps on the web and Chromium based browsers. Reminds me of a certain embrace, extend strategy.
I've been on the testing version of Bullseye with my desktop PC for months. Works great. Looking forward to it becoming the stable version.
Web.dev alparently launched in 2018. Here's a story from when it went live: https://sdtimes.com/webdev/google-launches-new-website-for-w...
Try a more obscure bird species, like the one in the original article.

https://freesound.org/search/?q=Eastern+Wood+Pewee

1 result

https://www.xeno-canto.org/explore?query=Eastern%20Wood%20Pe...

228 results

Furthermore, your search for blackbird on Freesound gives 639 results based on a text match, while xeno-canto gives 7449 results from 32 species, with metadata tagging it by species, location, date, time of day.
This is Google's internal company wide issue tracker exposed to the public [0]. It was built requiring sign on because that is the default way a mature company builds tools so it can properly handle authz and authn.

My guess is nobody in that management chain cares enough to go through the effort of getting a mostly internal and collaborators system working without any auth.

0 - https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker
Wisdom, at Length: Cars, Cartoons, and Creativity
It's not. Lee really is this self destructive and crazy.
Listen, I am completely on board with giving employees the right to choose the remote situation - but don't be surprised when you're competing against people from all over the globe, who will probably take a lower salary than you, who probably aren't entitled as you, and will bite at the opportunity.

Furthermore, what are employers meant to do with their workplaces when employees are half-in, half-out with the office thing. Many folks (myself included) want to have 1-2 days at the office a week, but have the flexibility to decide that. That's not going to help my employer decide how much space is needed or whether to renew their lease.
IRC isn't dying. Freenode is. And the communities are on libera.chat.
Legally Ignoring the License
Google's yearly raises are generally the same as Amazon I've learned, for what it's worth. The difference is the bonus and refreshers, and the fact that there are more evaluation periods with more achievement buckets.
Bitcoin has out performed any other asset over the past 10 years. https://www.microstrategy.com/en/hyperintelligence/asset-vs-...
This would be an ok mindset if the cost for treatment was zero or close to zero.

Currently, the cost of medication is very high (>$50k) and the vast majority is paid for by insurance, specifically Medicare.

So it’s a small chance for cure (maybe 1%) vs the cost that’s the equation.

I think this would incentivize lots of other drugs that are very expensive but known to not cure, or could potentially cure and the “science facade” would actually crowd out other potential cures.

Look at the supplement industry where there really isn’t any regulation, it’s mostly homeopathy taking advantage of people who want a fix. It’s like lotto in that it’s a waste of money but gives hope.

I frequently hear “just try it, what’s the harm” but the harm is the cost of trying lots of things. And a system where trying it incentivizes marketing and not cures isn’t very helpful.
This is about far more than WFH vs Return To Office.
Many of us, after a year of lockdowns, losing family members, suffering mental and physical health issues, spending more time with our families, etc. are re-evaluating our priorities in life and deciding that our jobs are no longer the most important things in life and probably never should have been.
Got a job. Had 6 months of expenses left in the bank and didn’t want to risk dipping into stocks.

I wasn’t wealthy in the HN sense though. This was 2010-2013 and my rent for a tiny studio apartment was $550 a month. Other major expenses were just internet (50 a month), groceries (few hundred a month), gym (35 a month) and electricity (20 a month). No cell phone. No car.

For the 5 years leading up to that I was working full time during the day and doing freelance SEO writing side. Was able to save quite a bit. But I was really fortunate to be in the right time/place. Rent in my city had basically doubled (and then some) since then, for example.
I'm tired of the bloated software take. Hardware is meant to be used. Without these abstractions most software would be practically impossible to create. Without software solving more problems what's the point of the hardware?
Brew auto update is terrible
I believe I have now spent 12 hours rebuilding my environment thanks to Brew auto update.

1. postgresql with timescaledb completely broken due to bad brew interaction with postgresql and timescaledb unable to load extensions

2. redis (first time in 10 years) updated and could not write to the rdb dump file so went into read only mode.

3. gpg2 renamed to gpg so git commit signing is broken.

I get why everyone uses containers... but maybe if we didn't have auto update in our package managers that ship so many br0ken changes... I even have:

export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1
The bigger lesson is anytime there is something of value with more than a single person involved, all assumptions need to be written down and codified. I'll add that if friends are involved, even more so.
Reminds me of GoT

“He would see this country burn if he could be King of the ashes." - Varys
Shaun also released the really neat Parinfer package as well:

https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
I've tried phone support and so far, unfortunately, it seems like the call center agents that run the phone support aren't allowed to actually escalate this issue or even provide information, let alone investigate what's going on themselves
irssi in a tmux session on a shell account somewhere online. Also works as a bouncer and log collector.
For PhD exams you get an external examiner, and for serious legal trouble you hire an outside law firm. They aren't even trying, are they?
Police actions are dictated by the process, procedures, and training that departments put into place. This is why so many police get away with murder: they are only removed if they violate department policy, and department policies have lots of situations where the "appropriate* response is to fire a weapon at the person.
Never underestimate the power of an incumbent.

Teams is not the best messaging/videoconferencing program by a country mile, yet it shows the most growth YoY [citation needed].

I worked for a few companies who dipped a toe into the Microsoft waters and their products drowned everything else out; this was not because the offering was technically superior or cheaper.