skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of thing happens all the time at the apartment complex I live in (in the South Bay Area, California). We have an outdoor "mail room" with an automated package locker. I'm not sure if the package locker is usually full or simply hard for drivers to use, but often the delivery drivers will just leave a pile of like 30-50 packages next to it.

Honestly, I don't blame the drivers in the slightest. If I were treated the way they were treated and paid what they were paid, I wouldn't care about doing my job the right way either. Hell, they're so monitored by algorithms and surveillance devices that they probably don't have time to do it the right way even if they wanted to.

Things like this are going to keep happening and keep getting worse until the middle class/upper middle class realizes that our current lifestyle and access to "cheap" services is being held up by a systematically abused and underpaid labor force that isn't given the time, compensation, respect, or basic decency to support doing a good job.

This is Amazon/Bezos' fault, not the driver's.
Virtually all founders use an 83b election to pre-pay taxes when the stock is nearly worthless.
It's a shame Swift isn't as usable outside Apple platforms
OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful
> That’s actually a niche that’s already marketed

So just for the rich, in luxury jets? I'm not sure you'd want such an expensive aircraft that can only do one hour, 20 mins. It's a crippled asset with a large cost.

You need to chose, a plane for the people like a Cessna 172 or luxury jet style.

Cessna 172 has the down time problem. 50 mins in the air. Hour to charge? (The article says 2 hours) These operations are pushing people through. You'd need two or three times as many planes.

Luxury jet that's in part opulence, not sure who cares about making them electric.

Going in the middle of these two is just a trick to make the situation hazy.

But I also didn't get the heat issue or radio transmissions? Or why they couldn't Google a rubber band's specific energy.

I do want a business model spec'd out. People say "flight schools", which is a bit like the disaster relief or for the military scam. Asset costs and labour and storage and down times to real life situations.
I used to write shitposts like this. They can be fun to read, fun to write, and may be true. People respond to sarcasm, mockery and criticism more than nuance and deliberation. I think it's more constructive to show how things ought to be done instead the way Casey Muratori has with Handmade Hero.
So the FBA seller's going to bear the cost of courier mistake? This doesn't make sense.
Take a bus.

Or a train.
> until the middle class/upper middle class realizes that our current lifestyle and access to "cheap" services is being held up by a systematically abused and underpaid labor force that isn't given the time, compensation, respect, or basic decency to support doing a good job

Everyone knows this already - though the lowest rung is occupied by the undocumented, and no one wants to help them.
Yep he's likely trying to put a good face on it and rationalize away the failure. It's human nature especially when career/rep/money is on the line. I'm sure there were problems outside his control but it's highly unlikely this is an accurate and objective account of the project's history
Mexico lets Guatemala & other migrants through, then negotiates concessions from the US to stop it.
A few years ago a delivery driver dropped off an Amazon package for another town (but same street and house number as me). I contacted Amazon and they emailed me a return label and had UPS come pick it up.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354935534_Low-cost_...

open access here)
Specifically Hetzner required me to put a deposit, when I rented a server a few months ago. It was a reasonable amount, and you're right about the reasons.

Edit. Found their message:

"At the following link you can upload the copy of your ID, or you can use our pre-paid option, where you pay €20 in advance via PayPal: https://accounts.hetzner.com"
You’re the one who moved them the other direction by bringing up Hiroshima in relation to contemporary nuclear war where all weapons in play would be thermonuclear (and there would be more than two).
I was surprised by my late 1970's era receiver value a couple of years ago (Technics SA-400). I ended up selling it to a coworker for probably half of what it would have fetched on Ebay.
Also article and podcast episode on 99% invisible: Renderings vs. Reality: The Improbable Rise of Tree-Covered Skyscrapers

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/renderings-vs-reality...
i knew a kid in high school who had two rows of teeth, he seemed all right to me.
Just dump them at the nearest Whole Foods. Let them sort it out.
As somebody who found it far easier to give up nicotine than 4chan, I empathize.
Keys are also essential to retaining an element identity, which is structurally more important than performance, because 1) code may have a reference to an element and think that it relates to some data, 2) an element may have an explicit state (like focused, animating, etc).

Keys are a hugely leaking abstraction, but are inevitable when you bridge a declarative immediate mode rendering into a stateful one.
in the initial version of the article, there was information about an additional board with 8 sensors, but that information had to be deleted (editors)
Google reorg moves AR, VR, Starline and Area 120 into new ‘Labs’ team
These types of restrospectives are often very interesting examples of human capability to rationalize away culpability. Coldly I think it's good business skill as often people who are good at crafting these types of failure retrospectives seem to fail upwards
Why would wealthy people seek to increase the numbers of poor or middle income people in their neighborhoods?
As someone that’d dabbled in FBA I don’t think it’s how it works either. It’s 100% amazons fault and one of the main reasons to do FBA - having Amazon deal with logistics. That said it might be different these days.
+1 to the Debt book.

It changed my fundamental thought process and I consider the book to be more of a framework.

For example; I now realize how natural it was for my mother to constantly exchange groceries and food with our neighbors and how formally keeping track of them was considered to be a bad thing. Or how we deliberate and take time while gifting someone we know (e.g on their marriage), we gift them in kind. Where as it’s totally OK to gift money in envelopes in Indian marriages if you don’t know the bride/groom that well but got invited to the marriage anyway through some distant relatives. Money here kind of takes away the personal touch, like you have to fulfill a gifting obligation but don’t care much about it because you don’t know the marrying couple.

I could go on for a while because I re-read different parts of the book once every month :-)

It’s difficult to put into words how good it is in terms of the wide range of space-time it covers and the depth of the discourse. It’s like climbing a mountain several times from different paths, some of which are deliberately dead end just to present an alternative view point and why it’s not good enough.

The bibliography could be made into a book of its own.
Off topic, but no, this is an option set by the computer administrator, not the site. For kiosks, and so on.
It's funny how mistakes like this always go in one direction (senior candidates being recruited for much more junior jobs). Often a recruiter E-mails me with: "I'm looking to fill a 6 month temp position, 2 years of experience required." (I'm happily employed at a BigTech company and have 20 years of experience.) Or, at best it's "We are impressed with your background doing ABC, and would like to know if you're willing to explore... doing exact same ABC, but at our company instead!" Sorry but no.

What I never seem to get is: "Hi, I see you have a great background with a lot of experience! How would you like to be Senior VP of Engineering at this medium sized company?" That would get my attention!

Recruiters seem to use the query WHERE candidate_level >= job_level, where they'd get more hits if they used WHERE candidate_level < job_level
Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago review – silly director’s cut is a losing battle
I still use flat text files for 90% of my daily note taking. Have done since the early 90s, and the same notes I took then are still working in the same folder I use today. I sync it to my various devices (every device and platform has a text editor), and it’s never failed me.

I have txt files for commands I want to remember for each OS I daily use (linuxcmds.txt, windowscmds.txt, maccmds.txt) and split them the same way you said but 5 dashes. Also keep txt files for install/setup notes for each os, links to every program I want to install in fresh installs, etc etc.

Text files work on every single OS/device, the format is stable, it’s easily searchable, easily shareable, and my entire 30 years of notes is measured in megabytes.
What's creepy about it?
Opa was pioneering. Very impressive. Ahead of it's time.

What stack do you prefer these days?

It seems some folks still have their eye on the "full stack / single language" holy grail.
>countries aren't rational, because Taliban
FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

and similar in spirit (but different) and perhaps better known, Benford's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
> and get the same performance characteristics as a GC language

Pretty sure modern state of the art GCs, like the ones found in Java or .NET runtimes, are way more efficient than reference counting.

Reference counters have that unfortunate RAM access pattern where the counter is frequently updated from multiple threads concurrently. On modern processors, this means concurrent access to a cache line by different CPU cores. These cache coherency protocols are pretty slow. On many CPUs, reading a cache line recently modified by another core costs 300-500 clock cycles, even more expensive than a cache miss and roundtrip to system RAM.
In the Win95 era, it was "C:\My Documents".
Puzzling Through Exact Sequences
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354935534_Low-cost_...

open access to the paper here
In the US, self-driving cars on highways can effectively replace a huge amount of short hop flights.

Way cheaper (especially for EVs)

Faster for flights under 300-400 miles (especially if you need to get a rental car on the other end).

More cargo/luggage

Leave when you want

Have a car (your car) when you get there

Once highway driving is sufficiently safe to sleep at night, look out. With convergent evolution of infrastructure, good AI, it will be pretty safe.

And if you have a small RV so you don't even need a hotel on the other end? With Starlink and a fold-out solar array so you can charge without even being hooked up?
Because your Chai tea latte with oat milk ain't gonna make itself.
Given that a decently large portion of the book discusses the anthropology of money and debt in a wide array of diverse cultures, the idea of lacking "resemblance to the real world" seems wrong to me. The real world includes all those different situations that are starkly different from the current dominant economic case.

The core of the book in my reading is not a description of the dominant financial system. I read it as a discussion of multiple factors that influence how debt can be used in a wide variety of ways in societies. And the parts that discussed our current financial arrangements might not be precise in all regards, but they were still more accurate by my understanding than the wrong-but-common concepts that are asserted by most naive citizens and used in most political rhetoric.
What have you been up to that would lead to such an unnerving response? ;-)
Mycorena Cracking the Code of the World's First Fungi-Based Fat Ingredient
Another note on this, I've had a few very thorny Amazon customer service issues in the past, and at a certain point I found the only solution was to email the CEO's office. I emailed `ajassy@amazon.com` and CC'd `Jeff@amazon.com` (Bezos) and `Dave@amazon.com` (Dave Clark, head of consumer). Got a response nearly instantly from an extremely helpful executive assistant who was empowered to do basically whatever and was a single point of contact moving forward. Even offered to hop on a call and explain what went wrong on their end and how they were fixing it moving forward (an offer I politely declined). I got my issue resolved and a fairly generous gift card for my trouble.
Why are those areas Republican dominated? I thought the poor are supposed to be Democrats.
Think of it more on a cultural level.

The US generally looks down on the intellectually skilled at the early-mid education level. The nerd stereotype and low status are derived from that. This, intuitively, has a negative impact on uptake.
This is very nice. All the time I studied linguistics people were saying that "nobody knows why Zipf's law is obeyed", but now there's at least an believable explanation.
Amazon's delivery is getting worse and worse. I just had my packages stolen by the driver. So after hours talking to customer service they refunded my money so I could rebuy them. Of course some of the items had gone up in price by then.

I rebought all the items and waited another week for them to be delivered, only to have them all stolen again by the driver.

Now I had to go through hours of talking to multiple agents again, them pleading with me to wait just a few more days in case it was a glitch, before I got a refund so I could again spend more money to reorder everything and wait yet another week for it to be delivered.
Most YIMBYs are actually NIMBYs who concern-troll every development project into oblivion. Even Robert Reich [0]. What the video (very good IMO) lacks is an examination that this is a liberal bastion. I think NIMBYism is bipartisan, and I doubt affluent right-wing Texans are exactly open to high-density development in their neighborhoods too.

[0] https://freebeacon.com/satire/robert-reich-nimby/
> Interestingly, when I travel, my relationship with browsing changes. The feeling of "magnetic attention" (present even right now) is entirely absent and I lose interest after 5 minutes, max.

Oh wow, interesting that you mention it because I experience the same. Can and do spend hours a day looking at random stuff on various forums / youtube / hn. But once I'm out traveling the need disappears and it just doesn't seem to grip as much anymore.

I believe the almost obsessive browsing is some kind of escape or avoidance mechanism. An escape from being somewhere doing something that you don't want to be doing. It is an easy of taking the mind of whatever is going on in reality. Not that it helps much.
Javascript and canvas. You can just right click and save the image.
...In mice! Wait...

Seriously, though, this is the kind of preliminary animal-model research that really gets me excited, and I can't wait to see what human trials may yield.
This is an excellent point, but I would add that it's not just liberals. There are some older leftists, ans even some younger leftists, that have embraced housing austerity as a way to spite developers. Which unfortunately enriches landlords and homeowners far more than it's hurts developers. And whose money is doing the enriching? A lot of it comes from those who are barely scraping by, and those who can't scrape by are displaced from the state.
Amazon abandoned a five figure order of mine similarly and refused a reship. Was quite easy to cancel prime and never look back after that.
I'll try this next time. I used to send certified letters to the CEOs when I had poor service. That usually worked too.
Yes, clearly it is not for purists.
Hey Lee, just listened to your chat with swyx the other day. It was great hearing how Vercel positions itself and your thoughts on devrel!

I know Vercel has a great developer relations team already— what would the appetite be for more Svelte DevRels in future? I've been working as a developer advocate and love Svelte enough to have even given talks on it. Would be an opportunity I could see myself in for years :)
Amazon delivered a laptop to my house that I never ordered, the address wasn’t even slightly similar and I have no idea why they dropped it on my front step. I reported it to them and they said the same.. just throw it out. Local law says I have to attempt to return to sender so I called again and double checked if they want me to do so, and that second support person said the same bit more openly said “throw it away, or do whatever you like with it, but you definitely don’t need to send it back”. I was pretty shocked that they don’t even care about items of that high a value. My kid loved her new laptop though.
>GNOME is not a company

I hear this a lot, but Gnome is a foundation with at least a few developers paid to work on it full time. They bring in almost one million in "revenue" per year, and have a lot of sponsorships and the like. In 2020 they paid out $645,243 USD in employee compensation.

That puts in firmly in small-company scale.

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My basic tenant is that when you make choices that make it difficult for developers to work with you, when you fail to cooperate and compromise, then you're going to suffer reputation damage. Reputational damage has all kinds of effects, one of which is that in situations like these people are going to look at what you say with a bit more skepticism. Another is that you're going to get people recommending against using your project.

Now you may mean something very specific when you say "bad faith". What I say when I mean it is that you should be aware that Gnome developers probably won't be open to collaborating on anything unless it directly benefits the Gnome project in a pretty major way.

>And I think what you've said is really dangerous

That's a very strong claim considering what I said was "When does it become reasonable to assume bad faith?".

For example, I do believe that the switch to libadwaita is going to make things more difficult for people building apps on GTK4, because I think that they're going to move more and more important functionality into it and leave GTK4 to more or less waste away. I suspect that we're going to see a lot of stuff that could have easily been part of GTK4 become part of libadwaita instead, and that's going to make things measurable more difficult for everyone making GTK based desktop environments.

That's a prediction about the future, and if I'm right then I'd say that Gnome is acting is bad-faith, considering their current statements on the issue say libadwaita is going to change very little for those people dependent on GTK4.
It's one thing to "seek tk increase" and it's entirety another to "expend excessive amounts of effort to deny."

Doing neither of these things would result in a more equitable and satisfactory outcome for all.
I agree, but it can be made easier by exposing named functions that help like useUnmount

https://github.com/streamich/react-use/blob/master/src/useUn...
And I was making the point they aren't even a player on the services market, regardless what their servers run on.
Very informative and clear article. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve lived in apartments before but prefer SFH - don’t know what is wrong with that

I dislike living in SF so I didn’t get a job there

I can’t afford SFH in Palo Alto so I don’t live there - don’t know what is wrong with that either

is it a human right to live in Palo Alto ?

People have choices and if something is too expensive or inconvenient they can pick a better option
Man earns PhD, fulfills dream of being physicist – at 89
The poor in dense, urban areas typically are Democrats. Out in the countryside, people have less exposure to information and less contact with a diverse community, making it easier for Republicans to instill false consciousness by whipping up fear of the other.
I don't know, Apple are being investigated for anticompetitive behaviour in the App Store[1], while iOS market share is below 30% across Europe ( I can't find the numbers for the EU only), and no in no EU country is iOS at more than 35% [2]. (In both cases, market share in smartphones, not general computing devices). You don't need to be a (quasi) monopolist to be anticompetitive, and I'm glad regulators know this.

1 - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/es/ip_20_...

2 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/639928/market-share-mobi...
For sure, you'd need de-Bayering for a start. And stuff like white balance will be in a custom tag.
If use use AES-CTR you can decrypt any arbitrary 16-byte block of data from the file as long as you know its offset from the beginning. You don't need to know any other data of the file. As long as you don't need to insert or shift parts of the file without re-encrypting, this works fine. And you have to be OK with the file being padded at the end to a multiple of 16 bytes long.

Every time you want to read some data off flash, you read it then immediately decrypt it. Any time you want to write data to flash, you decrypt it first. Checking chapter markers or frame counts will be the same as before as long as you decrypt those bytes immediately after reading them from flash.
Same reason people with leafblowers aren’t fined for all the litter they blow off of private property into the public sidewalks and roadways. Because there isn’t enough political will to argue that what they’re doing is wrong, in the face of how desirable the convenience is to the electorate.
Thanks, that was interesting. They actually largely agreed in that exchange, not really "vs". That was possible because of not being people who just do or say the caricature of some particular political dogma. If there's any chance to progress our discourse as a society, we have to overcome the pattern where if I say "Graeber and Thiel were in agreement", people stop imagining that it means they both are effectively the caricature of whatever Thiel-critics make him out to be.

I would love to have this sort of dialogue be the norm. I would love to have this sort of reasoned intellectual rapport with others, including those who I might have significant disagreements with.

P.S. Oops, I looked at the YouTube comments. We're F'ed. People don't know how to engage with ideas and respectful discourse anymore.
Out of curiosity, how do you know the driver stole it? Something like it was marked as delivered but they never showed up?
It feels like it's hard to find a "well built" Class D product.

A lot of what's on the market seems to have ambitious or vague specs. It makes me suspicious when I see those Lepai-style amplifiers that are the size of a CD-ROM drive and claim "30 watts per channel... at 10% distortion." Would it even be able to meet those numbers under the test conditions, used for rating amplifiers in the '70s? I suspect they get much tighter numbers at less ambitious wattages, and honestly, most real world listening isn't going to break 1 watt, but it feels like they're not really starting from a place of credibility.

From there, even a competent design seems to usually be sold as half a unit-- typically paired with a laptop-style PSU. I'm sure there's a huge range of quality and suitability of pairing, and it's another ugly cable management game to play. It's not going to fit neatly anywhere designed for traditional-sized components.

There are probably some decent all-inclusive units once you move past the $50 AliExpress market, but then you're looking at more complex products and more elaborate competition: the fact it's Class D architecture is one bullet point among things like the number of inputs and outputs, video handling capability, and user experience.
I didn't see share here it so I'm recommending it.
https://able.ac

The point there is to change the workflow in such a way that you won't need tabs
It can’t have been of that high a value. Amazon sends the really expensive stuff via UPS, with a signature and ID required.