skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's say for the sake of argument they decided to just let them be - no police move in, no military, just let them be in the building, what would have happened next?

That's exactly the catastrophic scenario: multiple military, law enforcement units wilfully insubordinating, for the whole country, and other people in uniform to see.

Imagine what were to happen if that lasted for a few more hours? More military units, and more people in uniform would've reneged on their duty.

What will happen then when somebody finally will comply with orders, and turn guns on those who didn't? They will shoot back.

If the history tell anything, this is how civil wars are often started in Americas: the 1828 Colombia civil war, second Venezuela civil war, Bolivian civil war, the 1000 day war, Chilean civil war.

It almost always the same — One group of riled up soldiers comes to the square, another sent to flush them our, but it reneges too. More, and more soldiers are sent, snowballing until somebody fires the first shot, starting a massacre. And then nations break along the lines of loyalty to the official government, and an alternative one.
They still advertise it on their own website https://on.google.com/hub/?main=retail , so they expect it to be still selling.
...are you saying that because alcohol has to be cleaned up by the body (increased stress on liver and company) that it can't reduce psychological stress? I'm pretty sure those are totally different things, even if they both go by "stress".
There’s has never been a better time NOT to build websites.. and just use something like Notion/Super or Squarespace.

The learning aspect aside, building a website from a framework is for big corps with insane budgets or those who don’t have enough chargeable work to fill their day.
How? They could have a largish satellite in the city itself as well… I don’t really see how having more offices distributed throughout the area would lead to longer commutes. They could even scale up/down areas based on popularity.
This is really similar to my own setup, only difference being my monitors are 3k and a portrait 1200p. Been using Display-switch for something like 2.5 years too, and never had an issue with it!
I'm taking a far left example because i don't want my argumentation to fall under partisan lines.

In the 70s, we lived in europe under the threat of the RAF [0], that was born out of a mix of misery, anger, violent radicality supported by the public and by some politics.

Once the terrorist attacks and the violent actions against people stated, there was an unanimous condemnation from all political parties, including the communist party (at least in France), and from activist groups, including some that would now be called "antifa" (autodefense and protection groups against "ratonnades" and other urban occupation groups).

With support from a part of the population, the RAF grew and convinced more and more people. Without a firm condemnation from the affiliated political party/activist groups, i'm not sure the group would've come down as easily.

That's why i think that as long as people in power support the extremists, they will perform extreme actions. In this case, this is the Republican party job to crash down on violence against people (idc about broken windows in the House tbh).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
Is there a story behind the cartoon lizards? Are they like the Zig mascot or something? Seems like they only started appearing since the last release, but they're not explained (unless I missed it).
I think what they meant is prior to the "digital farming revolution" if you called up a satellite/arial imagery company and requested anything other than visible spectrum, you'd not only get some strange looks - they'd also alert the government.
I could see them doing this if they hadn’t already migrated the OnHub devices to the new google home app that controls the new Nest WiFi devices. It’s not like the control plane is going away here - the hard work of migrating to their new cloud has already been done.
interesting to see this on hn.
I grew up there.
It's the smallest region in Italy with roughly 130k people living there.
It's always surprising to meet people abroad why come from Aosta. Even fellow Italians often tell me I'm the only one they have ever met who's from this tiny little region.
Daley's midnight move: Truly an example of "creative" destruction.

Today instead of X's the bulldozers could have engraved an acronym, and he could have argued it was for an immediate good cause. Aka acronym-washing.

BTW, I would suggest "levelers" as another label to consider, but then Wikipedia would need some disambiguation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levellers
Hike rates. But the stock market will take a big hit, so it won't be done. Rates will sit at 0% and inflation will continue unchecked, or they will try hiking rates a little, the stock market will freak, and they'll give up.

What needs to happen is a rate hike and eat the consequences. But our factota don't have the fortitude for that.
Looks crisp here on a 14"MBP (this demo: https://tinyvg.tech/polyfill/index.htm)
> How do we avert currency collapse without removing the safety net?

I don't think we do. We're in the coffin corner[1] where stability becomes impossible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_corner_(aerodynamics)

> All I can think of is rapidly reducing the military budget

Parts of the military budget are clearly safety net. Angry veterans are a classic source of violent protesters/insurrectionists/revolutionaries.

Arguably most of the military budget is social safety net. Cutting it would blow up a lot of lives.
I asked google maps to get directions from there to Whiteman AFB. Unfortunately, flight directions were not available.
Designing Better Links for Websites and Emails
> When you're upper management, now you have the problem of wondering if managers are doing their job correctly/efficiently, something even harder to manage and plan for.

If this becomes a problem, I would rather assume this as a strong sign that there are simply too many management levels in the organization, which makes managing the multitude of management levels difficult.
When I see people talking about storing code in an AST representation or something similar, I see people who are focusing on the "happy path" and not really thinking about why code-as-text has been so sticky for half a century.

(1) Code spends a huge amount of time in a non-parsable state. I need to be able to save code even when it's not currently parsable into a valid AST of the language I am writing. Sometimes I even need to check in this code to my source control. You cannot have the primary storage of your code be valid, parsed syntax trees for this reason, so you need to invent a brand new format that is different from both text and the AST being modeled. This format needs to be optimized for programmer workflow, clarity, and communication; not optimized for the machine.

(2) You need to re-invent how source control works for your representation if you're not using text. This actually has a lot of potential -- syntax-aware merging done well would be a godsend. But this is a huge undertaking to do well, and problem 1 rears its head strongly here as well.
>Some people are quite good at focusing at home. It varies person by person. We have some people, who are great at fully remote work.

I am really good at focusing at home NOW but it took lots of training to be good at.

People are taught to read and write or ride a bicycle but are expected to be productive working from home from day 1.
> 2. …

Oh that explains why all my rendering experiments looked different from SVG. I think the reference renderer already does gamma correct blending.

This is something we should add to the specification for sure.

> 1. …

Even re-encoding the SVG crap would only remove XML from the equation, but that's not my main concern with SVG.

Zig has the Zen "only one way to do things". Meanwhile SVG has tens of ways to solve the same problem.

One example: You can set the opacity via css, fill-opacity and opacity. What you cannot do: Set the opacity via color. But you can make 50% black by just specifying fill-opacity, as black is the default color. to render lines, you need to set fill to "none". ugh.
So these "T accounts" are exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Reading that page they just seem to be a visual method to represent negative numbers, explained very verbosely? This seems like it might have been a really valuable invention for someone in 1494 or even 1894. But in 2021 when we're comfortable with defining rich semantic models, it just seems quaint and limiting. Like for instance as shown it leaves out the date, whether the transaction has tax relevance, a link to its corresponding second entry, etc.

I know this is apostasy, but even "double entry" itself feels this way to me, compared with say more freeform "tags". Like if you pay an expense for repairs, which may be tax deductible, then it seems the only way to represent that expense in strict double book is to have 2 accounts for (Repairs_Tax, Repairs_Notax). And it gets even worse when federal and state tax differ, or multiple states are involved. Whereas what I really want is for that single transaction to possibly show up in multiple expense categories, which are then later summed for specific reports.

Maybe my questions parallel the Lisp curse where arithmetic has gotten so easy I'm brushing off what I perceive to be overdiligent focus on shared mechanics? I just don't see what the traditional framework gets me, compared to how much people focus on it.
They are ziguanas :)
Again, an opinion which you are free to have but you cannot speak for others. Lot of people spend time at work and feel productive. When they go home, they are home. No laptop nothing in many cases. I would rather spend an extra hour at work than going home and again working.
What would be the practical purpose of "fixing" something like the pyramids? Vs. just preserving them as-is.
FWIW, I'm the parent he was replying to and I was fine with and appreciative of his correction. It seemed the appropriate amount of antagonism, given my error.
Removed babel config. Maybe because I wasn't using babel much (just to transpile for more compatibility).
Your points weighs heavily on a lot of implicit parts of the value equation you left out.

1. That 20% number. What if it's 40%? 50%?

2. How easy/quick is it to replace the people you will lose who don't prefer this work style?

3. What percentage of your current workforce likes the environment as described? Maybe hiring off the street is 20%, but you've already selected for 80% through other selection factors.

Basically, at what point does the value gained from the in person work / setup overtake the loss of potential workforce? You're making an argument for why some people won't want to work there, but so long as the environment is not discriminating on things like race/gender/ability, a partial in person setup may actually be the right call for some teams/companies, without any "luring" needed.

I say all this as someone who primarily prefers to work at home now, but goes into the office once a week or so without any requirement to do so. I agree with OP's initial points a lot, though I think I would lean less towards requirements and more towards guides.
In San Francisco, tech workers flooded the city specifically because they refused to live in the various bedroom communities close to their mega-campuses. Hence the widespread emergence of shuttles and satellite offices in city centers.
According to some guy on Quora, it's a way to pluralize initialisms.
I can assure you no employer that before ACA had employees working 34-36hrs a week magically started giving them health insurance and made them 40 hour workers.

no the ONLY thing that happened is those workers had 15% of their hours cut, i.e they took a 15% pay cut.
The specific URL of the incident is the following, but I cannot edit the submission.

https://status.docker.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e3f0...
Oh no! I really enjoy Assassin's Creed, and I wish the quality of the game will not deteriorate. Assassin's Creed is especially good for a layback gamer like me, who does not like time pressure and would like to take their own pace to finish the game. The fabulous view and handy tutorials and guides along the way helps too.
> My 2008 Tacoma is no less efficient than the 2022 model (20-25 mpg)

The EPA target is called CAFE, or Corporate Average Fuel Economy [1]. It's actually a set of targets, a global one (the one mentioned in the article) and one for each category of cars or light trucks. A light truck is something like your Toyota Tacoma or a Ford F-150. A truck used for moving furniture is not a light truck.

There are two reasons for the disconnect. The fuel economy used in the CAFE calculations is not the same as the one you see on the car sticker in the dealer lot. It's about 20% higher. I know, this is a bit reprehensible, but it's not 2x or 5x.

The second is the continuous increase in the size of the cars and trucks. For example, your 2008 Tacoma [2] is significantly smaller than the 2022 Tacoma [3]: it has a wheelbase of 109.4 inches vs. 127.4. So a similar fuel economy is actually quite a big improvement pound-for-pound.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy...

[2] https://www.motortrend.com/cars/toyota/tacoma/2008/

[3]https://www.motortrend.com/cars/toyota/tacoma/2022/
(I work at Vercel) Happy to take at your application if you want. You can DM me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/leeerob
> I don't see how Google can control the behavior of retailers of 3rd-party hardware.

That hardware bears trademarks that Google controls, so it's not purely a third-party product. Google may not be able to prevent retailers from selling off their remaining stock, but they should at least be able to prevent the manufacturers from sending any more to retailers, and inform retailers that the products are discontinued.
From the article:

“No universal standards for storing “emotional data” exist. John Torous of Harvard Medical School, who has reviewed 650 mental-health apps, describes their privacy policies as abysmal. Some share information with advertisers. “When I first joined BetterHelp, I started to see targeted ads with words that I had used on the app to describe my personal experiences,” reports one user”

>I could drum up a dark fantastical setting of HR departments buying this data and screening candidates with it. Hopefully this patient data gets HIPAA treatment and is more protected.
Some people are fully remote and only meet with a team once in a while and that's ok. You can say "I will WFH on Monday, because I am waiting for sofa delivery". It is not a big company and we don't have anything formalized. We have about 80-90% people in the office on Mondays, 50-70% on Wednesdays, 20-40% on other days and it works out OK.
Thank you for your point of view. It was lovely of you to share it.

I'm going to paraphrase:

>> Some are allowed to work from home, others aren't

I'm guessing the people who insist they continue working from home, if they bring in enough money to the company, they are allowed to and the ones who you feel needs to be managed, by a manager, old-school way, until they become such a valuable, income bringing member of your team, aren't.

I at least hope this will become old-school. I know that for me, I'm not going back to the open, life-crushing and money-saving open-office, ever. Yes, yes, I'm a privileged piece of this and that and I should be thankful that I have a job and all that. But on the other hand, since I'm once of those sought after persons, since I'm both a dev AND I've experience, I don't quite buy into that.

But this is just my personal feelings on the matter. Maybe I'm being selfish and I'm taking advantage of the situation, but so are you, I feel.

I hope to live long enough to see lots of change in the work place and I hope and believe you will enjoy them as much as I will.
I was using the offline version obviously, in a VM with no network access. I do recall some wizards for setting up accounts, but they weren't applicable to my business. It also didn't feel like such wizards would have changed the UI into operating at a higher level.
Tangentially related to this, one of my hobbies is to explore old long abandoned ghost towns and mining camps in the Southwest US. It is really impressive how well many of these structures have held up in harsh climates. One of my favorite parts is seeing how repairs were improvised in the wilderness using whatever supplies happened to be available.

The standard approach to trash back then was to throw it in a pile nearby. Picking through those dumps can be really fascinating and a surprising amount of items are still in good shape. A simple heuristic for how old a glass bottle is is how thick it is. A modern beer bottle looks paper thin compared to one a century old.

Looking at old structures and tools really makes vivid how disposable many modern items are.
This is the website of the Apple accuser Ashley Gjøvik:

https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html
> I'm generally on the seller's side in situations like these.

That seems like the wrong bias to me. Some random dropshipper selling garden hoses bought off alibaba on amazon has no real incentive to be an honest player and plenty of incentives to be dishonest, while on the other hand some random person who bought a garden hose has no real incentive to lie.

Either way, if you think there is potential for one party to abuse the system (in your case you're suspicious of the buyer, while I'm suspicious of the seller) the actual problem here is with amazon being an un-accountable middle-man. I doubt the seller would have had much better luck contacting amazon and appealing the judgement, if amazon had sided with the buyer in this case.
Curious why this is downvoted, it seems like a valid question here of how to handle a situation that may arise. I like a lot of these rules but could see myself hitting these. What if I "can't make" 25% of Mondays. What about half? What's the general force behind the policy? That's a big part of the design here.
Uhm, generally curious is anything you mentioned sans the language barrier and the tribalism which might come with it in some places really be that different from the US?

You got local taxes, why would the success of a company in SV mean anything to an engineer in NY? People move around EU all the time, London, Stockholm and Berlin are full of engineers from all over the place. Just like in the US, people move where there are jobs to be had and they care about success of companies.

Are there places which are keen on keeping to themselves? Sure maybe, but they are not the majority? Really hard for me to see your point with such sweeping generalizations.
[edit: I didn't read the post as sarcasm, duurrrr]

You realize that it is highly likely this is a coerced statement right? She’s been missing for weeks and now she recants her claims
Okay thanks! One thing I like best about programming languages are the particularities of the cultures that spring up around them.
Carbon neutral is not the same as filling the landfill with plastic and electronic waste. Just because they use solar power for energy has little to do with other environmental impacts.
You respond to an article detailing the superior durability of Roman concrete with "they just chose to preserve these buildings" and "they just got lucky", cite no sources, and this is the top comment on this thread?

Seems HN quality has gone downhill since what I last remember.
"Something is shitty, let's laugh about it" does NOT inevitably require "continue regardless"

The idea that you have to connect laughing with not fixing things is evidence of being in a triggered, reactive, threatened state.

Did I ever suggest that the problem shouldn't be fixed?

People who can laugh about something are people who aren't in a state of threat. And yes, those who don't care are less likely to be threatened. But we can also find ourselves in situations where we are willing to laugh and not be so defensive and self-righteous while we still care about things.

In our outrage-driven society, that's the real minority: people who CARE and are also willing to laugh and not be in a victim mentality. And to be clear, this isn't some fundamental feature like we simply are one way or the other. These are states we can shift between, and most people are shifting all the time.
It's DoA for this reason. :)
How come smaller companies like Zyxel and Asus have solved this problem decades ago? Maybe because they support their hardware for years after they stopped producing, so the stock clears?
My fingers are crossed for a future Github image registry
Seriously. Cut this shit out. Design a cryptographic RNG or decide precisely how you intend to justify a non-cryptographic RNG that has cryptographic security properties (but like, not all of them.)
Wow, this makes so much sense. Beanstalk really could become the de facto algorithmic stablecoin.
TP-Link EOL'd this thing many years ago.
Nobody is mirroring their desktop...
The root of the issue is that things were working fine before this change for the particular use case of computers hooked up to A/V equipment. Perhaps a $100 dongle can fix it, but the point is that the $100 device wasn't needed before - people were happy with the way it was (again, for this use case - I see the value in the dot for other use cases obviously).

Furthermore, while I'm not an expert on these $100 dongles, my understanding is that they do not present as just another monitor (since that would defeat the purpose). Thus, you cannot just show anything on their outputs that you could otherwise show on a monitor, right? My understanding is the application has to be written specifically to output to the Decklink (but I may very well be wrong on this) - if that's the case then the $100 dongle does not fix every situation here since a lot of things that get presented may not support it.
They only use aircraft around larger urban areas. Satellite imagery is used for rural areas. You can see the resolution difference by seeing how far you can zoom in.

If you zoom in on a road near the pinned location for this post, and then go to, say, downtown kansas city, and zoom in you'll see a pretty significant difference.
> looking at my download:upload ratio

I don't think there is a way that is compatible with HN's guidelines to tell you what I think of that but let me try the most constructive angle: you are actively hurting these women and it would probably be a good idea to stop doing that.
One of my best friends from college days ended up at Ubsioft Montreal and he spent around 8 years up there. He left last month due to changes in management. About 3 months ago they hired some new manager and this person had no clue about programming, or software development in general, yet she was in charge of the whole team. After a whole lot of infighting, my friend decided to leave after they refused him a change of a team. He ended up leaving for another AAA game publisher. At least 4 other members of his previous team also ended up leaving after him.

I'm often reminded of the old adage: people don't leave companies, they leave managers.
If I'm reading correctly, that page is for the newer "Google WiFi" products, which are different.
I was not even trying to be a little antagonistic, really. It was mostly (a too colloquial display of) surprise given the huge amount of autonomy of every “region” in the country.
> "XML is bad" is still one of the worst engineering arguments.

It’s reached meme status. I think most people conflate complex XML-based _formats_ (e.g., WSDL, XSD) with XML _the format_. The rules of XML parsing can fit on a notecard. And a basic parser that supports all the core functionality plus namespaces is really not that complicated to implement. Now, implementing schema validation, Xlink, etc. in your parser is definitely not simple. But to make a simple XML parser those are optional bits.
Its coastal physics work, you can infer near shore conditions by watching wave propagation.