skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no 1 root cause.

There is a lack of empty containers in Asia and a glut in the US. There are all sorts of constraints in the US like how high a stack is allowed to be (presumably for safety or sightly reasons). There are too many containers in the US on chassis so there is a shortage of empty chassis available to take to ports. Distribution centers are reporting that truck drivers are dropping off trucks overnight and blocking their loading docks. There are reports that loaded cargo trains are unable to load so they are just blocking critical tracks.

The Twitter thread is from the CEO of FlexPort which is a startup trying to make ports and trust transport more efficient. He is pointing out critical paths in the port nodes of the supply chain graph, but the root causes are many and not necessarily all within his visibility.
When one power is weaker than the other, the weaker side is gonna suffer in war too
I was there 2006-2009. Each year a new level of management appeared above me, and things got ever more "political" and perf centric.

Just as people are different at age 10, 20 and 40, companies are different in different stages and sizes. Know what you want and look for it.

I realized I want to be at small companies, and have not worked at a company larger than 25 people since.
I guess people do in the "why would you ever leave such a great job?!" sense, but people can get bored of any job after enough time.
Sure, but what you’ll end up with is that the fewer people who still do it while is illegal are those in the most desperate and sympathetic sounding straits.

It’s like prostitution, if it’s illegal you find that most sex workers are the most vulnerable in society. When it’s not, sex workers can be anyone who doesn’t want to drive 6 hours for Uber on the weekend for extra cash.
A friend explained to me recently- if someone comes over to your house, and you want to listen to music, it’s hard to know everyone will enjoy it. If you pick something off spotify, they might not like that kind of music, or vice versa.

But if you have a record collection, they can browse and pick something they know you already enjoy, because you own it.
Destin from Smarter Every Day – For privacy app?
I'll finish the comment for you: The medium is the message.

Certain domains I just don't click the link anymore.

Fool me once, and all that.
Tom Scott talks about how he is fictional - https://youtu.be/L-x8DYTOv7w?t=987 I think the secret is out.

I don't get it?

Do people think Taylor Swift, Joe Biden, Ōsaka Naomi are real still?

Or are we just projecting other people are that stupid to think 'media personalities' are real to make ourselves look smart?
I'd recommend checking out zen meditation as a moderately effective approach to confronting the terror of death and oblivion .
SLS always makes me think of this:

I want to do Apollo again[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4J9uvhJQM0
Now that you mention it, I hardly ever see HN results on Google. Not that I would necessarily expect to — or maybe I’ve just learned to not expect them to.

But there is quality content here that doesn’t seem to show up in search the way Reddit and Stackoverflow content often show up in search.

Have dang/others looked into SEO? Or maybe it’s explicitly not a priority?
I’ve also heard that ships are rushing back to Asia to chase high profits after unloading at US ports before they allow empty containers on the ship.

I think we have mismatched incentives that allow something like Tragedy of the Commons.
Give SBCL another try for building compiled applications. If you compile SBCL from source, enable compression of standalone compiled apps.

I own a license for LispWorks Pro, which does a very good job building applications, but SBCL is also good for delivering apps.
I remember reading articles about how Facebook "tricked" a news outlets to leverage Facebook's news feed in an attempt to keep them relevant by giving them exposure to their user base, but it backfired on them. Here's a couple of article on it I found.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/03/facebooks-siren-call/

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/facebook-media-buzzfeed.p...
When I was younger, I saw companies as infallible constants. After being in the field for a while now I see that isn't so. Legitimate software can carry only so much bloat. We're witnessing the downfall of MS (Windows) and no one seems to realize. A new player will emerge to fill the void.
> ...selling you on the idea that they’re elite and therefore you must be elite too if you get the job

Also true of Ivy League Schools, movie studios, and certain neighborhoods. Prestige is weird, and if you value it, that's totally fine, but it's probably better the separate the myth from the real-world entity that's made up of people doing stuff.
I don't know when China was doing purple, but do note that we have proof of Phoenicians making purple from these snails as far back as around 1400BCE. It predates the Romans by a very long time.
I mean, nothing wrong with anything the guy says here. But this says more about the author than Google, really. No shame in having had enough of a job and wanting to move on after nearly a decade, but I don't think the fact that they wouldn't let him move far away from the office without a pay cut or the unlikelihood of a promotion indicates that the job radically changed on him, exactly.
I second this. Very happy customer of three years. These last two outages are the only two I've noticed since.
Yujiintl's LEDs.
They are not cheap (~1$/W for 97 CRI (typ) strip-suitable SMD LEDs on tape), but their color accuracy, especially with the 50-100% more-expensive triple-phosphor VTC series, is hard to match, especially for what are still "affordable" prices.
Why would quitting your job enable you to get UBI?
Agree and disagree. For one, English and other languages are evolving faster now than before, due to the speed of communication, so spoken language in 500 years (even barring something weird like brain implants) is probably going to be even more different than modern English compared to Shakespeare.

However, there are examples of languages and documents that have been preserved, e.g. a Latin bible. Because of its status as a holy document and the vast power of the Catholic church, its tradition of teaching Latin, not just to read the bible, but conduct business and masses, the Latin in which the bible was written was very well preserved.
Well your friend is correct in theory, you never apply to a particular team, you always apply to Google. However you are free to choose what team you'd like to work for as long as that teams manager agrees to let you join, meaning if you already know the manager you can guarantee a spot at that team if you pass the regular Google interview. But if for some reason that team disappears etc, you have still passed the Google hiring bar and is therefore free to join another team.
That's not untrue but it also doesn't even begin to justify standardized testing for 4 years olds.

How much of that is demonstrated to come from advanced track education? To what degree has it been shown that there are differences in outcome from advanced track education at this specific age? None of these correlations are givens.

How are the previous generations not a bunch of bumbling idiots with their horrifying lack of 4 year old advanced track education? What does a advanced track even look like for a 4 year old? Advanced toilet training? Advanced snack time? Advanced color identification? Advanced not taking the other kid's toy? Advanced not throwing a tantrum?

What a load.
Don’t worry, Satoshi archived it in the genesis block!
One source for this claim is that the President has declared that operations at the port should become 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

If the original output was acceptable, he wouldn't have had to do that.
I can see a world where drawing people in from search could be a bad thing. But I know I’ve found many things at Reddit and Stackoverflow (for example) by searching, when I very rarely frequent those sites (only ever visit from search results).

So I could imagine others similarly would find content here valuable via search queries.
Analog phone lines were limited to 4 KHz frequency range in the US. Compare that to tapes close to 20 KHz.
Giftedness, talent, and genius can be evident even at age 4 year. Listen to Mozart's compositions K.1a through K.1d that he did at age 5 (which some scholars say were at age 4):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nannerl_Notenbuch#Wolfgang_Moz...

I don't know how New York City's test works and if it really measures anything; maybe it's completely bogus. But it's a shame that you can't even talk about gifted education without it becoming a political liability.
> Yes. And why is that so bad? I'd rather live in a society that truthfully acknowledges its history rather than one that clings to a false hero myth.

You’re creating a false dichotomy. We already truthfully acknowledge the history. We learned about Sally Hemings when we toured Monticello (which most Virginia public school students did at some point) back in the 1990s.

But Jefferson is still a hero. He was a key founder of the most successful democracy on earth. He was born into a time where slavery had always existed. (It’s acknowledged in both the Bible and the Quran, and neither demands it’s abolition.) But he played a key role in creating the framework that ultimately dismantled an institution that had existed since antiquity.

The reason erasing Jefferson is bad is because it robs us of understanding how we got here. I come from a poor country (Bangladesh). And what drives me nuts about this debate over Jefferson is that Americans are so myopic about the fragile nature of prosperity. Americans are like fish in a tank—they assume the world is just a hospitable place with filtered water and food that rains down periodically. Fish-like, they don’t wonder why things are so good for them. But Jefferson is, in part, why. Ideas are a dime a dozen, but Jefferson’s ideas have been proven empirically because they produced this country. And that makes him infinitely more worthy of honor than virtually anyone else you might consider building a statute for.
You might not be considering the big picture. If the extra register is used in a callee that wasn't inlined, that slot on the stack will be free to be reused by other callees that aren't inlined. So inlining into a function with multiple callees can increase the peak stack usage for the entire callgraph.
> I expect all of my coworkers to be protective of their work-life balance and I'm dismayed whenever I see them prioritize work in a detrimental way

What does "[prioritizing] work in a detrimental way" even mean?
2005-2017 for me. On the "20% project" stuff, which everyone seemed to have heard of:

I think it was 2008 or so when I was sitting at a table with about eight other people, and somehow or other the question came up "who has a 20% project?" Only one of us did.

The main utility of a 20% was that you could try out a new group before transferring to it, and they could try you out. Other than that, very few people actually had one, even then.
Lock files making you less secure is untrue. Using lock files does not mean your dependencies are not being updated, it means you have control over _when_ they are updated. Which means 1. you won't be stuck on a dependency update breaking your code while you are working on an unrelated feature, because you can work on adapting your code to the update independently, 2. you can check whether lock file update breaks the tests separately from testing your own changes, 3. with vcs you can retroactively investigate which dependency update caused a particular breakage or behavior change.
That “source” does not support the claim that customs is the bottleneck, it supports the claim that port operations in their totality are the bottleneck.
Thank you for Abseil, if nothing else. It’s been my go-to for years now.
That may all be the case, but from my point of view this is swinging back in strange ways. All those religious fundamentalism, the 'evangelicals' or however the crazies want to be addressed comes over here, to breed back into more or less laizistic societies. IMO they can go back to where they came from, the same applies to islamists and other orthodoxies.

Your world view of american exceptionalism. Let's have a look at that, exceptional robber barony, bullying, conning and cunning, sold by such sweet cheer leeding and really empowering the countless masses into mindless consumerism until the urgent need to numb it down, be it by psycho pills, weed, opiates, whatever. Food stamps, fuck yeah!

Personally I think that big bully needs to be gagged with petrodollars, and having beaten its teeth out so sensibly with a baseball bat, that it shits them out at the lower end. And then smashed its skull to pulp so that it follows the way of the teeth, fashioned into fantastically flavourful fish fodder.

Because any exception needs to be caught, and treated accordingly. Error correction, so to speak. Otherwise crash.

For reasons of transtemporal hygienics true hyperbolic excess is disallowed. Deal with it.

Cordially condoned by the clandestine committee for cognitive corruption.
But, if I want digital, and ability to skip tracks, I can just stream, no?
We all want to know it. How much did this domain cost?
Worth considering how you change the incentives.

What truck driver will show up at a US port now that you just made their delivery $1000 less profitable?

I’ve heard one of the big asymmetries is how many full containers go Asia->US but how few containers (empty or full) are shipped US->Asia. Probably better to fine the ship company $9999 for each empty space they leave with below some median box capacity, then use those fines as bounty to return empty containers from inland US.

The other problem is ownership of containers and chassis. I’m pretty sure there’s a complicated system of ownership and transfer, so it’s not like every container will carry an identical bounty price.
While the original site isn’t feeling well:
https://archive.md/YV9AQ
Glimmer DSL for LibUI – Simplest Native Cross-Platform GUI Library
Seems takeaway is if Google didn't cut this person's pay by 10 per cent then all their "shitty behavior" like Project Maven and so on would have been just fine.
collective systemic greed
> Portions modified may not be subject to any form of copyright protection if the original code and/or modifications are purely functional. Purely functional expressions that lack any creative element are not copyrightable to begin with.

This is a more abstract observation than is perhaps relevant to the situation at hand, which involves a group of people modifying software components that the current body of software copyright law would not consider "purely functional."
Wow I think you’re right upon reread. I read it as having to account for all that time over the previous period to show how they couldn’t have done a better job/
Keeping up with the competition, if you’re talking about quality of product/service, isn’t the same thing as growing yearly revenues, which usually entails scaling up operations and product lines to more places and more customers, which no business has to do just for the sake of survival. See for example long-surviving small- to medium-scale family businesses. There doesn’t seem to be another motivation for chasing YoY revenue growth other than greed.
Yes it was a mistake to go after wireless instead of GPGPU, which is an area that they could utilize their existing strength. But it would have taken foresight. Before 2012 Nvidia's gross margin was significantly lower than now. The graphics card business was not attractive. The demand from AI training wasn't apparent. By the time it became apparent Intel was aleady falling behind on process technology, which they must focus on now. Certainly from the architecture side if they can innovate on the integration of NN acceleration with their CPU and enable an open ecosystem of compilers they could regain some lost ground.
Wonder if the new blue pigment, YInMn blue will start to replace some of the older pigments sorta like the NAND industry shift from planar NAND V-NAND, or if it's remaining stupidly expensive still.

Discussion from 9 months ago on HN about the new blue (top comment was interesting on pigment pricing): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25807199
A new app is failing India's fight against child malnutrition
I've found the sweet spot to be around 50-200. I've always worked at smaller companies, and the 10-person company I worked at was the only terrible experience of the bunch. It sounds weird to say, but... I'm really glad to have an HR department again.

I'm sure it varies widely. I just feel like a tiny company leaves too much room for unhealthy and unprofessional dynamics, even though I'm sure it can be perfectly fine in other cases. Just depends on the people.
That can happen when corporate leadership is dominated by a technical founder. Once MBAs and sales/marketing alums run the show it always turns into a grindhouse. They don't fundamentally understand the work that goes into the product and so they rule by metrics to make their dev factory "more efficient".
There are teams at Google and other big tech companies that are working on groundbreaking things. Working at these companies gives you a chance to do very "impactful" things. Is that sense of purpose sometimes abused to exploit workers? Sure. But there are some really smart folks doing amazing things that they'd never have a chance to do working anywhere else.

Do you have to be elite to work there? In some roles you absolutely do. In other roles you just need to do the work. You're often working alongside people who care a great deal(and some unknowingly toxic people whose self-worth seems to come solely from their career achievements), and that can raise the bar for what you and/or the company expect from yourself.

The "toxic" thing in my experience often just comes from rapid, unmanaged growth. The company is literally morphing into something new with every passing day. People are being sucked up the management chain without merit. Systems aren't yet in place to deal with the changes. New employees are flooding in faster than they can assimilate the old culture.

I'm not saying I love the valley or anything, but I'm glad I got to spend a couple years of my life here and contribute 0.0001% to some of the greatest discoveries in the last few decades. I hope more engineers get a chance to have that feeling.
Idea: A shelf full of just album covers with an RFID sticker inside. Someone picks the one they like and just lays it on top of a nearby table which has a sensor and begins to play the music from Spotify.
Other people circumventing policy doesn't mean that it is fine for her to do it. It is really hard to judge as you do without more data on the circumstances of the other people circumventing the policy and not getting punished, right now we have to take their word that what she did wasn't worse than what most others did. We can't know that. Similarly one engineer force pushing code to fix an issue might be fine, but another engineer doing the same thing might not be fine and the second gets investigated, is that unfair? We can't tell, there isn't enough information here.
I didn't realize that my employer can hold the skills I gain by working hostage.

"free work" is a really weird way to word what I would consider as learning.
I feel the opposite. The harder to get here, the more exclusive it feels.
I kind of assumed that's what actual dragonflies do (I mean, they have to get lift somehow), but for a very large wing that rotation must cause quite a bit of drag in itself. In the movie, the ornithopter wings are maybe 50 to 100 feet long and usually moving too fast to see. I would tend to assume that the aerodynamics would be different for something that huge than an insect, but I don't have any good intuition for what would be most efficient. Maybe a combination of wing rotation and self-opening flaps would be best? Or a wing that splits itself into multiple parallel wings on the upstroke and combines into one on the downstroke?

It's interesting that dragonfly wings are so long and thin, which I suppose minimizes the amount of drag as they rotate between the downstroke angle and the upstroke angle.
I'm on Spotify and discovered by accident. I did record a few tracks as freelancer for a band, and they put my name there on Spotify so, hey, I have a page ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Business group warns of layoffs and disruptions from vaccine mandate
The Jones Act prevents (or fines; I’m not clear) non-American made,owned,manned ships from going from US port to US port. Suspending the Jones Act would be relevant to foreign made,owned,manned ships except I’m not clear that there is need or desire for these cargo ships to go from clogged US port to clogged US port. The big profits are in racing back to China to get fully loaded.
Another article on the site expands on this:

> I still feel uncertain about everything though. Google approved my remote work application last week, but I haven't gotten a new offer letter yet, and I've been told to expect a pay cut of at least 10% because the market rate for software engineers is supposedly lower in southern California. This feels like a shitty thing to do. My work is not less valuable. It's a reminder that this is nothing more than a business relationship, and the company is not interested in loyalty to workers or support in a difficult time. I'm not sure what, if anything, I'm going to do yet, but it has me thinking harder about my career and future.

Not sure why _this_ is what it took to get to that revelation, but better late than never. But on the point about value vs. cost of living... I mean how do you work as a developer in the United States and not notice you get paid a lot more to do this work than people in other places?
I mean I agree with your first two sentences but

> recompile it from source to pull in the latest openssl patches...

Why would they do this rather than rely on their upstream distributor to push an updated OpenSSL shared lib, and just apt-get/dnf install it?

... things have gone extremely backwards in this misguided modern rush to statically link everything so we can install it into a container.
Because in many countries (like the Canada example mentioned above), "UBI" was conditional on being unemployed.
or simple corporate charter. if the company is organized around maximizing shareholder value, that's what they'll do.

that's why we have public benefit corporations.