skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
idk. Countries used to build most of their infrastructures them selfs. There are still countries in western Europe that run huge state owned businesses, such as banks, oil companies, etc. that employ a bunch of people. The governments of these countries were (and still are) far from omnipotent. I personally don’t see how building out automated production facilities is out of scope for the governments of the future while it hasn’t been in the past.

Perhaps the only thing that is different today is the mentality. We take capitalism so much for granted that we cannot conceive of a world where the collective funds are used to provide for the people (even though this world existed not to long ago). And today we see it as a natural law that means of production must belong in private hands, that is simply the order of things.
Yeah, I think this is more correct. Historically, land value has been driven upward by proximity to high-paying jobs. This is why gentrification occurs. For example, people move into the Mission District in SF because it's close SoMa where a lot of tech offices are.

That creates upward pressure on housing prices (with more demand). Landlords and developers also renovate or build new construction (e.g. Vara on 15th and Mission) that are considered "luxury", with rent prices higher than what previous residents of the neighborhood can afford. Developers generally have an incentive to build for the luxury price range, because the price of construction isn't substantially higher (and it makes the lifetime ROI of the building much higher).

This means that if more people work remotely (especially high-earners), there's a less concentrated effect on land value in specific neighborhoods. People who previously lived in neighborhoods are less likely to be priced out, which is ultimately a symptom of wealth inequality.
I did an internship at a fortune 100 shipping company and can confirm they were very much still using z/OS and REXX. It's similar to all the COBOL code - it's working and not worth the risk/cost of a migration
Similarly, if one hasn't been taught how to think relatively and absolutely simultaneously and at all times, the world can look very simple, like schizophrenics are prone to cognitive errors but normies are not. This is just one example from a very long list.
If these employees really do think it's a decision between Apple culture and family life, I wonder what decision they will take and if it will have repercussions within Apple.

Unhappy Apple employees have the power here to attempt to change the company culture or simply accept what they have been ordered to do.

Only time will tell.
This is true of almost ALL businesses, even the technology ones. If it literally isn't them dogfooding their own product, they really have no incentive to do anything if it's not currently halting the business.

You can have fun digging in the source code of emails from various companies, or looking at PDF invoices, etc (check for lines of text at the bottom!).
this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jw8fv-XsQ
I totally agree that's correct except for key qualifying statement.
This looks very cool. I am right now trying to get it installed on my M1 MacBook.
The reason no one will pick it up is because there are massive capital investments to get something like that up and running, and the existing manufacturers can just drop their price to compete with you as soon as you get up and running. Now you have to recoup your capital costs in a saturated market, and your competitors can probably make insulin cheaper than you due to pre-existing economies of scale.

I would imagine that even other companies already in the pharma space would be interested. They don't want to play the race to the bottom game with billions of dollars in upfront costs. If anything, it's probably more profitable to make a new form of insulin that you get to patent. Which is how we end up where we are.
Hi, this is my first Show HN :)

I built this web-based writing app for 2 reasons: 1) I was writing a lot of "drafts" on Medium and found its support for organizing private (unpublished) documents lacking. 2) I read the Why Contenteditable is Terrible[0] post and comments and I wanted to see if I could do it.

In its current state, filbert is a single-player editor based off of Medium. A couple improvements include: open/close/select menus with the keyboard and you can rotate and resize images.

Why the name filbert? I asked my 5 year old - "What should I call the writing app I'm working on?" He replied instantly, "Filbert". I said, why? He said "because it feels right." I couldn't disagree with him.

I've been working on this part time for 2 years and it would be great to get some feedback. If you're willing give filbert a spin [2] (login with Google currently supported) and let me know your thoughts & questions.

Now that the editor experience has stabilized my next steps are to embark on what I originally set out to do - additional features around: organization of documents, search, sharing, review/approval/handoff & publishing. Thoughts and ideas welcome here.

I'm also looking for recommendations for a Designer, Product & Marketing people. If that's you or anyone you know - please let me know!

I started a Technical Approach document link here[1]. It's pretty basic for now. If there's interest I can add more detail.

jason at filbert.xyz (or fill out the form at the bottom of filbert.xyz)

Thanks and happy hacking
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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11487667
[1] https://filbert.xyz/public/tech
[2] https://filbert.xyz/signin
> “Executives knew this was gonna shit the bed,” this person said. “That’s actually how they put it in meetings. The only question was how much poo we wanted there to be.”

They literally are!
Sounds like you need some hobbies. Most of the things you state I get from my hobbies.

Do you not live in a place with climate control? At home I make the temperature decisions not the facility folk.
1970s mainframe RPGs we can no longer play
The vast majority, including most of the autocratic ones - most notably, the Chinese ruling party does believe in climate change, and did sign the Paris agreement.
people worrying about AI. The AI is still shit. lol
> the coding is already something we carry, they're conformational jumps

Aha, this is helpful. And I believe mRNAs are not known to trigger these conformational jumps.

Another fact-check article supporting your statement:
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check-no-evidence-that-...
> I would personally not work for a company that doesn't give you the option of WFH

and then

> Millions of people would give their left toe to work at a company like Apple. Me included.

and finally

> Who cares about WFH when...

So apparently you don't care about WFH. Why did you start your comment with a lie?
There are no variances for ADUs. The town is breaking state law. Talk to CaRLA about your options.
> but it would be more novel than any environment on earth

I think you underestimate the experiences available on Earth, but I otherwise agree that it would be awesome as heck.
I deal with about 50:50 government and commercial employees. Big tech, start-ups, GOFOs to junior enlisted. Most government employees are paid significantly less than their commercial counterparts. They're stirring the sauce because they can't afford to have DoorDash deliver Vaso Azzurro to their door.

Start-up employees, in my experience, are more like government workers, but they are still living pretty well comparatively, and, in my sample, are significantly less likely to have kids, so the dollars go quite a bit further.
> Earlier investors can benefit from the growth in price of their bitcoin holdings due to increased buying and price rises from new investors, who themselves hold exactly the bitcoin they bought with the risks fully known to anyone willing to do a minor bit of research.

So what you are saying is that earlier investors investments only grow with influx of new investors. How is that different than a Ponzi scheme?

> At any time, all owners of bitcoin actually have their own bitcoin and theoretically could sell their coins because they actually have them.

Here you are describing a Ponzi scheme. Literally. You are just repeating what I wrote in the previous post: "Earlier investors are payed[paid] with funds from more recent investors.".

> A ponzi scheme on the other hand literally transfers funds from new members to previous members in order to maintain an illusion of high returns, until the house of cards collapses as new members stop paying in at a rate that can sustain the illusion of returns through dishonest fund transfers.

That is how bitcoin works. Are you trolling me? If I buy a bitcoin and later sell it that is literally a transfer of funds from a new member to me, a previous member.

> These are all very basic and easy to grasp distinctions.

You listed no distinctions.
Initially there was no validation for credit cards. There were programs called credit card generators that could generate a card from any bank in the world, with any name on card, etc.

If you wanted you could generate a card for McLovin from some bank in Hawaii and it would work.

I never used them but a close friend back in middle school did and got his computer taken away permanently.
Tax Deductable?

The thing about taxes, is that we all get to decide how they are spent, not just by the whim (or optics) of a single individual. In theory, at least.
In short, a lattice that takes advantage of capillary action.
These bots have moved through a few company splits / mergers / acquisitions, but for a while these were made by iRobot (along with the mentioned Packbot). When I was working there, these used to be a fun one to bring to schools we were giving talks at, because they could take a serious beating. Great way to get kids attention at the start of a talk by just lobbing one of these across the room / out into the hallway and let the kids try driving it.

Glad to see they are getting some use in helping people out!
Start with the simplest thing that might work.

Paper and pencil and walking around your neighborhood?

Eat the elephant one bight at a time.
If you grew up before the internet, surely you remember all the DIY manuals that lived in everyone's home. Everyone had that same big hardbound book of how to do basic home repairs. Many people had sewing books, electrical books, Chilton manuals for their cars. Cookbooks, too. We have valued how-to information for decades, and that interest and need far pre-dates the internet.

So while I get what you are saying that much of the pop culture videos do not hold long-term value (which is also questionable considering how many of us older folk still have collections of vinyl)... there absolutely is valuable content out there that deserves preservation.
Yes! exactly. Just quit and go to any of the thousands of companies that are hiring engineers to work full time.

I did that, and don't regret it even 1 bit.
They have plenty of bargaining power, by and large. They're rich, and they have resumes with an Apple job on them.

I would never say anything against unionizing, and more power to them if they wish to unionize, but I think they have plenty of power compared to the vast majority of workers.
>Only privileged person wouldn't value that.

Hard disagree from me, it very much depends on what you value in life. While I have a lot of respect for people with that kind of technical ability and would no doubt be a better programmer for working with people like that, I find large corporate environments absolutely soul-crushing to the point I'd dread getting up in the morning and life is far too short to spend that much of it dreading something. I can't think of anything that would drive me to alcoholism and depression with more efficiency than working for a company like Apple, I'm simply not wired for the modern equivalent of the Calvinist work ethic such a job demands. I wouldn't dream of telling anybody else how to live their life but for me personally I'd infinitely rather live on the coast in rural Wales building straightforward backend stuff for the odd company than live in California and work for Apple! Some might accuse me of being unambitious, but it's more that my ambitions lie in areas other than what I'm paid for.

I love programming don't get me wrong, but I value my sanity and not hating myself even more than I value being a good programmer. If you look at something like Maslow's hierarchy of needs a job at a prestigious company might come near the top for some people, but it could well be the complete opposite for others. For some it's a vital plank of their identity, for others its simply paying the bills. Once you're making enough to fulfil your basic need to put bread on the table and a roof over your head then I don't think it's privileged to be choosy about what you want in a job.
Typically settling before market listings is seen as favorable by investors. Investors don't have insight into the gravity or magnitude of pending regulatory issues or their costs. Settlements can involve completely governance changes into a company or share structure, so by getting them out of the way, specifically with money, gives confidence to investors.

Doesn't mean "stock goes up", it just means more investors will provide liquidity than before. Pending litigation and regulatory issues can completely derail a liquidity event.
I actually don't like FAANGs since I'm a fairly big privacy advocate. That said, Apple has a point here and you do as well, but these points are easily resolvable.

Just don't work at Apple.

If you value work from home, then Apple is probably not the place for you. It's well known in this industry that Apple will go to extraordinary lengths to ensure their corporate privacy and secrets. What makes anyone believe that a company like that would allow a person access to those secrets from home? I don't work for Apple, never have, but given what I've heard about them, work from home would be the last benefit I would expect from them.
It's amazing how little some trusted institutions care about this. For example, the BBC has been bragging about how many people rely on their coverage of the pandemic, but have an obnoxious habit of repeatedly overwriting old articles with new ones on similar topics and not keeping the old versions available. The history of a once-in-a-century pandemic with huge local and global impacts is literally being overwritten day by day.

Sometimes this helps them whitewash their screw-ups which have lead to widespread false beliefs. For example, after the UK government targetted and hit 100,000 Covid-19 tests in a day, the BBC ran an article falsely claiming Germany had achieved this a month earlier and linked it prominently on their news front page for about a month. A large proportion of the population probably saw this and now falsely believe it, it got brought up all the time as part of the narrative that the government's big "world-leading" achievements were just playing catch up badly, but it was memory-holed from the article in a rewrite and they used that as an excuse for not publishing any correction - so unless historians dig deep in third-party archives, they'd never understand where that belief came from. (Apparently a previous version of the article also wrongly claimed France was carrying out more Covid-19 tests due to mistaking their weekly numbers for daily one, according to a correction which disappeared from the article after a few days and only exists in the Internet Archive now. I haven't been able to find the original version of that claim.)
I'm not so young any more, but I miss getting out of the house more during the day. The separation between work and home spaces is pretty important. After almost 16 months of this, working from home has simply become old.
Why is this not a home? This kind of mentality is what is wrong with the US housing market. People have to have houses bigger than they actually need, maximizing square footage, with tons of features don't provide additional living space (fireplaces, walk in closets, mud rooms, giant master baths). ~400sf can be perfectly fine for a small family.
Early Deadline for YC Winter 2022
I think even for those who do not subscribe to any election fraud conspiracies, this will seriously shake confidence in the election. If a mistake like this went by unnoticed until the results were posted, what other monkeying about with the database goes on?
Florida actually does very well at turning out results after elections. This is mainly because of the 2000 election debacle that made the state a laughing stock (or more of one, depending on your view). Seriously, look how quickly they got results out for the 2020 election when compared to other states.
Why does having a preexisting condition scare you from living in the US? Doesn't the ACA mean that you can't be denied coverage or charged more for it?
How’s that even a news? Company makes a decision that some employees disagree with? And then company proceeds with that decision?

Even if companies were democracies, which they aren’t, you don’t need 100% to make a decision for a reason - to be able to make any decisions.
The sad thing is, Ranked Choice Voting isn't even the scientific consensus. The theorists have settled around cardinal and almost-cardinal methods (which IRV=RCV isn't), and the advocates who follow theorists have settled on Approval. But money backs RCV, so voting legislation pushes RCV.

RCV in the US: "2 states, 1 county, 26 cities outside of Utah and 23 Utah cities" https://www.fairvote.org/rcv#where_is_ranked_choice_voting_u...

Approval in the US: Fargo and St. Louis

RCV campaigners hijacked public perception of the science. As an analogy, people don't believe in global warming because they have evaluated the evidence; they believe it because the scientists tell them to. RCV campaigners skipped the scientists and manufactured a false consensus around RCV. So RCV is what the common person associates with voting method reform.
This is the most hamfisted nonsense I've read in a while. Just say "I like to micromanage people" and be done with it. The fact that you're worried about what/how other people are using or dealing with their time says way more about you than about working environments. Some people don't do well without working in an office, other people do quite well working outside of a traditional office setting.
Copilot is to make you feel like you're the one in control, when in reality you, the user, are training it for free.
Am 'flagging' this article. Even if true, it is not clearly based on anything substantive IMHO.
Counter point from experience working with a large team (~2k ppl) that's distributed and working from home well before the pandemic: decorum, protocol and consistency also exist at home, they just required a different discipline and different skills from managers.

If anything, we all noticed that more work gets done at home, and people are more responsive than when office.
seems like bragging about is still the number one way to get caught.
As someone who's trying to renew his passport: Services have partially moved online (still have to attend in person...) but they still are bureaucratic nonsense, indeed.

Bureaucracy is Kafkaesque because of the complicated and seemingly random rules, because of the abundance of taxes, etc. There really needs to be a drastic reset of everything.

A good example: The attestation people had to print and fill in if they wanted to leave home during the lockdown. Why? This is bonkers even if it eventually became digital.

Another good example: Starting a business. I don't know if it can be simpler and faster than the way it works in the UK. In France, on the other hand...
> the flickering fluorescent lights, the noise of coworkers, the smell of burnt coffee or popcorn, the boss that drops by to see how you're doing and causes you to lose a hour of concentration so I might as browse the web until quitting time.

Was this at a "tech" company of any kind, or a non-tech company with a small number of software engineers? This sounds more like an archetype based on Office Space rather than a real office that I have been in any time in the last 6 years.
Awesome.

I just found another competitive advantage in my startups.
Robinhood to pay $70M for 'systemic supervisory failures'
Delegating some of the non-technical stuff helps, like marketing material, technical writing, bookkeeping etc. It doesn't cost much but saves a lot of time for development.
House prices are insane, there's a lot of people, and traffic is generally bad too. You also spend a lot of time inside, working... Otherwise it is great!
Hmm. Tax insensitive dollars are not spent. These are hypothetical dollars not received from a factory that might have been built.

A thought experiment: let's suppose that the corporate tax in your state is exactly 0%. A corporation still employs a lot of people in your state, and these people pay taxes. Having them unemployed or working at jobs that paid less would be a loss for the state tax income.

Am I missing something?
> Don't expect a better result after a rewrite

but what's the point then? why spend effort for it, if it isn't expected to be better?
Look for wood cabin kits, something like this:

https://bzbcabinsandoutdoors.net/log-cabin-kits/escape/

Not well insulated but cute and cheap and makes a cozy little spot you can escape to. Obviously not for living, but what do you want for 120sqft?

Those Bunkies are all well under 120sqft and wouldn't need permits here in Solano county. Actually they could be a bit bigger; I'm looking for literal 12' x 10'.
I wonder how it would work if we consider you flagged your code as GPL before it hits Github.

We could end up in the same situation as the Hollywood movie even if you are also the one setting the original license on the work. Basically you have a right to change the license, but it doesn’t mean you do.
Paradoxically, you might have an easier time than your average 40 year old software engineer with 10+ years experience (hi!) because you've done the coding bootcamp recently, and can probably handle the data structures/algorithms-based coding tests more easily.

There's a lot of recruiters hungry for software engineers, especially if they can pay lower than the average right now (several companies haven't gotten the message it's a hot market it seems, judging by the low ranges I'm getting from some recruiters "The best the company can do is 120k, no bonus, no equity, no 401k match, for a senior role in the US...is that alright?"), so now's probably a good time to get the next boost in your software engineering job if you can do well on those coding tests.

Myself, I'm finding it really hard to have the time and energy to jump through the hoops for the companies requiring them, especially when other companies are moving a lot faster and relying more on a couple of phone interviews.

I'm already tired just juggling phone interviews and a full-time job, having to do multiple 1+ hour coding exercises/system architecture designs with few details/self-directed video interviews after work on top of that doesn't feel worth it most of the time, especially when the company doesn't sound terribly interesting or is offering an attractive salary.

But if you are willing to do some of that, you can get something that people like me would likely pass up, that might be really good for your career.
An interesting impact of this discussion is, for me: within my team at work, we're likely to forbid any use of Github co-pilot for our codebase, unless we can get a formal guarantee from Github that the generated code is actually valid for us to use.

By the way, code generated by Github co-pilot is likely incompatible with Microsoft's Contribution License Agreement [1]: "You represent that each of Your Submission is entirely Your original work".

This means that, for most open-source projects, code generated by Github co-pilot is, right now, NOT acceptable in the project.

[1] https://opensource.microsoft.com/pdf/microsoft-contribution-...