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> 100% singlethreaded

You can (and should) use Web Workers[1], those run off the UI thread, but also don't have access to the DOM.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...
In my jurisdiction this practice (forced insurance) would almost certainly be illegal if any unauthorized payroll deduction were included.
That is only true in a vacuum though. The cat is feeling the air resistance locally on the parts that face forward while G is applied uniformly.
> or are all the debunkers on vacay this administration

On vacation unfortunately. Even HNrs appear married to their political parties.
I think most people would consider “falling” to be going “down” a gravity well. Stable orbits around a gravity well, or at sufficient distance to not be influenced by it, are not what most would consider to be “falling.”
So what? Can't you just pay at the time of the visit and then file a claim? Your insurance should become retroactively available.
I think a lot of people had this thought in passing. But

- a lot of space that was empty was still under long term commercial leases

- there was less demand to live in some of the cities that had a glut of office space, and especially those neighborhoods

- would a lot of office buildings even make good residential buildings? I don't think this could be a fast or cheap conversion in most cases
I think NATOs new popularity is what will ultimately save Macron in the French elections. Le Penn wants to disband NATO and snuggle up with Putin and I doubt if the majority of the French will fall for that.
> Facebook is now Meta, Google is now Alphabet

Eh, the new parent company names aren't really what people know them as still. I don't think most people are even aware that Google has a parent company.

I have a friend that works at Google, and that's what we say. I don't think him or anyone would ever say he works at Alphabet.
So what's the solution to shield my money from this insane level of inflation? Is there something I can do?
You still have diesel trains ?!
Are the companies aware of what your doing?

I never really thought about it before but I guess a salaried position goes both ways. if your not being paid hourly then if your meeting the requirements of the job can you not work on other things "during work hours"
> Are you the product of an immigrant family? Because it sounds quite like something many immigrant parents would say.

Not only that, I'm one of those immigrant kids who thinks my parents were wise and correct, instead of rebelling.
All they care about is radicalizing their voter base.
The "but what if everyone did it?" argument doesn't make sense and shows a lack of understanding of basic supply and demand.

The more people want to buy credits, and the fewer people willing to sell them, the more the price goes up. If someone is willing to pay me $100 to walk a mile to work, I'm going to walk a mile to work. Jeff Bezos probably won't, but that's ok.

The point is, the price will stabilize at an equilibrium. If this sort of thing didn't work, our whole market economy would collapse almost immediately.
Obviously it's both, and then some ...
I wish companies would stop with this "small number of customers" messaging. It always seems disingenuous and, besides, that matters for your internal estimation of business impact but means absolutely nothing to the customers affected.
THANK YOU!

I was recently forced to switch to a Mac for work. After 6+ months I am still relatively unimpressed.

I feel like such a big baby, and I know it's because I am familiar with something else, but I cannot express enough how much I hate Mac's window management. I constantly have to split up my work between multiple Chrome windows and I am now resigned to losing track of everything all the time.

(Hardware wise - I might actually disagree. The device feels nice, but I've found it to be fairly fragile and delicate. Whereas you can drop a Thinkpad down a flight of stairs into a pool of ice cream, a 6-inch fall onto a hard surface might total the screen on the MacBook. But special shoutout to the speakers which still impress me.)
I was under the impression (from being on the public market and later self-employed, company subsidized insurance which is altogether cheaper and better) that companies have pooling power which allows them to cut deals with insurers. Is that not the case?
I feel that when the total cost of rail is taken into account, there are only a few very high density areas or high traffic routes where they make sense. I was recently reading about how large stretches of China's bullet train system cost tens of billions of dollars, and ongoing expenditure of billions more, and have hardly enough traffic to justify their maintenance, let alone their construction costs. There are some routes that are well utilized, but it seems that when you empower the government to make such infrastructure, there is massive malinvestment ... and its hard to know what the alternative could have been without such centralized planning.
InfinyOn provides a modern architecture that untangles data complexity that includes event stream processing and real-time transformation in a single cluster.
Won't the bullwhip effect create some deflationary pressure? I'm already starting to see weird ads for sales from companies that NEVER have sales.
> No one would sell insurance that would fix your already destroyed roof.

But they will sell you homeowners insurance in areas prone to wildfires or hurricanes. The difference is that you are expected to know the amortized cost of disasters for your property and either insure against it or simply accept the risk. Either way, you as a homeowner are supposed to make an informed decision. If disaster is too likely to occur in a certain area, you can either move or not purchase a property in the first place.

Science still hasn't figured out how to let us move into healthier bodies or choose our bodies prior to birth, so, alas, we are forced to seek fairness through other means.
Agree. Creating corporate sovereignty for insurance companies just re-enforces government interference in a free economy. As a result of the interference, health providers have continuously raised their prices far beyond what anybody would pay in a free market. If nobody had insurance, what do you suppose would happen to health care costs? Answer: They would adjust to what the market will bear.
Well, they have been bullshitting for loooong time if that is the case. I recall watching a video of Gorbachev talking to the US Congress and warning about NATO/US expansion. This was in 1997.

There is no credible threat of a NATO invasion but there is the First-Strike issue now that hypersonic missiles are being developed. Putin has been moaning about this for a while now. A security-conscious/pragmatic state models "what is possible" vs "what is probable". If it seems likely that future Finland could host hypersonic missiles pointed at St.Petersburg, well it becomes incumbent on Moscow to attempt to prevent that. It seems unwise to dismiss their concerns if said dismissal would lead to Ukraine 2.0.

Lots of people seem to think that the Russian unwillingness to flatten Kiev means they could not do it.

How many people have to die for Finns to feel like they stood up to a bully?
Sure, but so are airports and so are roads. And all forms of infrastructure are sometimes prestige projects, and all are sometimes subject to political choices that while legitimate, in retrospect turn out to have been questionable.

It's possible that despite all that rail has higher costs - but it's also quite possible that the dominating factor is the unreasonably subsidized airline fuel. The tax-exempt status is absurd, especially given other fuel and power duties - not to mention that a reasonable accounting should be taxing fuel high enough to cover the costs of the climate-change externalities, which would result in an even higher price (as it happens, due to cloud formation, air travel causes even more warming than ground based fossil fuel consumption, though I'm unaware of whether that's a significant difference).

If indeed an honest accounting were to reveal that flight is still cheaper: great! But I seriously doubt it; and in any case it's certainly time to stop subsidizing air travel like this. Let the sector succeed or fail on its own merits, not by virtue of tax shenanigans.
The top comment mentions Deno, which doesn't have NPM or even use a package manager. So I'm not sure how the "installer" is the relevant problem
There's also the smell, by all accounts the ISS already smells a little bad from decades of BO and grime, I would not want to add the smell of cat shit to that.
I am a part-time lecturer with a side project who used to work in the IT industry. Living the dream for me is having a good relationship with my family, a little more money than I need and good health.
Switching platforms
So much fun it is to have multiple servers with 1.5 TB of ram slowly fill up with negative cache dentries to the point that the server kernel finally decides that memory pressure is a thing and purges the negative entries all at once - which results in the server being locked up and unresponsive for about ~3 minutes. Oh yeah, and no tunables to control the negative dentry specific behavior.
I constantly use window snapping on my desktop Mac with two widescreen monitors. But, I use keystrokes to do so, using Rectangle, not the mouse.
These things still do happen - my SO was diagnosed with cancer in 2020. Her boss and the owner of the company arranged a $10k bonus, 6 additional weeks of PTO, and a 6 month paid leave of absence once she was done with treatment.

I do agree it isn't good to rely on the beneficence of overlords in general though, since they aren't obligated to continue to be beneficent.
I am very surprised that there aren't more people/companies announcing "offsite backup capabilities" for JIRA or Confluence, etc.. I did just search for scripts that can do this, I'd probably pay a few bucks for something like that at this point.
Well, whatever we call it we as a society need to choose whether we want to keep people with expensive preexisting conditions alive. I don't think it's really necessary to debate the point since almost every western country has decided that their ethics fall in the camp of "Yes, we support those people and give them the best life possible" whenever they're actually pressed on the matter. For a while the US skated by on budgetary excuses but all the while I think society still idealistically held on to that standard - I think this point is fairly debatable though.

I think it's more a question of whether we'd be willing to install and maintain a roof on a building that had been designed without a roof in mind or whether we'd tear down the building to make room for a new one. You'd probably rationally lean in the second direction for a house - but when we're talking about a human life the math changes for a lot of people.

Either way, a return to an insurance-less situation would leave people with preexisting situations out in the cold, unless your definition of insuranceless involves government subsidies for all preexisting conditions and at that point you're basically talking about medicare for all.
Pretty much the only time I install something and it's not through Homebrew (unless it's a dependency of a project, which I manage separately, because I like having an easy life and I'd do the same on Linux, for the same reasons) is when it's some sub-100-stars GitHub project. And half the time, those are on there, too.
Which blob/journal/paper to follow to stay uptodate on ML/AI news?
Pretty much. If you look at other EU countries, social media was essential in dividing the populations and promoting populist, nationalistic and xenophobic parties.
You had me at "cats in zero-g"
> Do you understand that low-enough-latency audio doesn't take a super computer anymore

It never did. Low latency audio has almost nothing to do with CPU power. Here's a summary of some of the issues faced on modern general purpose computers:

https://manual.ardour.org/setting-up-your-system/the-right-c...

I know how WASM and Web workers work. Since nothing you can do in WASM or a web worker has anything to do with either (a) realtime scheduling priority (b) actual audio hardware i/o, they don't have much to do with solving the hard parts of this. Browsers in general do not solve it: they rely on relatively large amounts of buffering between them and the platform audio API. Actual music creation/pro-audio software requires (sometimes, not always) much lower latencies than you can get routing audio out of a browser.
Working class was middle class.
Nonsense. Sales = Users buying.

When the vast majority of people use a 1060, then a new card with roughly that performance, at an attractive price point, will sell. The reason is simply that, apparently, a 1060 is enough.

You're being misled by all the voices who only ever talk about the fastest and most modern stuff. Reality is that the vast majority of people aren't anywhere near the high-end. That's the market.
Each dependency gets to choose when they break your service (they can have a zero day exploit that's only fixed in a compatibility breaking release, for example).

You need two people if you want one to be able to go on vacation while you maintain a 24 hour SLA for security patches. You need a third because this sort of thing generates employee burn out once it is feature complete.

You could try having it be 10% of one employee, but that employee would need to be a full stack expert from low level Linux stuff to JavaScript GUI junk. Good luck finding two people like that, then telling them they own ten feature complete services like this.

The people that fit such a bill and have the personaility type to be happy in such a job are expensive and rare!
A youtuber explained that Italy overlayed high speed rail routes now and that it's pretty brilliant. Things are moving.
The argument that lower taxes isn't a subsidy is just stupid. It makes absolutely no meaningful difference if someone pays the same taxes as everyone else but then the government pay them some money, or if someone pays correspondingly lower taxes. In the end the recipient ends up with exactly the same amount of more money, and the government ends up with exactly the same amount of less money.
It doesn't make sense to emphasize passenger travel over goods transport for rail. Rail's strength is efficient transport of heavy loads at slow speeds.

People are light and often want to go at high speeds.

Europe should reorient its rail network for rail transport, and passengers can travel by bus or plane.

But - Europe's rail network is completely reliant on subsidies, and its easier to get them when you're transporting politicians instead of lumber, steel, milk.
I'm not particular familiar with Chinese health insurance - if you lack those cash savings are you left out in the cold? Does the government step in?
> the government will pay for folks who can't pay for them

This depends on your state. Some states, like Wisconsin, won't offer medicaid for income reasons alone. I'm unaware of health insurance policies being cheaper in Wisconsin, though perhaps it's the case.
They are using an terminal app to ssh into another non-toy machine that is running doom Emacs. Not quite the same.
Wow, errr... words fail. Ok, it didn't explode. But my safety violations meter just broke the glass and the needle is embedded in the wall.

I predict a Darwin award at some point of these people don't get with the program - several programs, in fact.
He just sounds so ANGRY, boderline vindictive. Especially the comment on Warren Buffet.
i love trains, it's cozy

too bad they are trying to make them insanely fast and silent af

life is meant to feel your surroundings
Michael Pollan book "How to change your mind" is excellent. He give very good explanations about it.
It's not about the meteor, it's about the capacity to detect and track it.
> I just think a lot of static gets injected into these discussions about wage/employers/comp on HN because a large majority of the commenters here are either currently business owners, or founders, or trying to be either of those

I've been reading HN for years and I would assume 90% of the comment section or more is people who only want to be employees.

I hate to say it, but HN isn't a great place for genuine startup, management, or operation advice. At all. Even product discussions are very customer-centric rather than company-centric, and companies will get roasted here for making good business decisions that don't directly benefit the users.

For example, years ago the common refrain on HN was "charge more" and encouraged businesses to raise prices, fire problematic customers that weren't contributing value, and otherwise focus on the company's bottom line. Now whenever a company pulls a "charge more" and raises prices, reduces the free plan, or discontinues services for non-paying customers it's nothing but rage and pitchforks in the comment section.

HN comments can still be useful, but it's definitely not a friendly place for actual founders and business owners making tough decisions.
Ah, I see now. Reading is fun-damental, as they say. :-)
Having used the very first Mac, it made sense on that tiny screen. One application per time was almost more than it could accommodate. The monitor got bigger after a few years and the menu on top and the full screen interface started not to make sense compared to the Windows PC next desk.
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It especially reminds me of the Grebulons from the final^H^H^H^H^Hfifth book in the series, whose ships computer was damaged in transit, corrupting the mission directive and the memories of the crew. All they could figure out was that they should monitor the earth from a safe distance, so they set up a base on the tenth planet Rupert and watched earth TV all day.
It'll be more expensive to constantly fly back and forth to Dubai to load up than to simply pay the tax. Dubai is not that close to Paris. It takes about 7-8 hours. I don't know if you've been checking the news lately but Russia is out of the question for airplanes. They won't even return leased airplanes back anymore.
here you go, probably the same thing for iPhones
Health insurance is a budgeted overhead variable cost assigned to employee expenses. It's true that should HI disappear, not all of the HI cost will be transferred to employee salaries, but it's definitely a non-zero amount.
> while a society controlled by elites could force-feed the public their "medicine" and still be in power to enjoy the benefits when it was over.

From my vantage, society is controlled by elites and those elites are the ones who don’t want to take their medicine.
Is or was -q ever used for help? Or is this a weird thing one of my coworkers started?
Ok, now that's a idea i can stand behind...for example some polarbear-paws-ashtrays from Sudan? From Nord-korea, a stolen Japanese singer?
Most flights are local.

They aren’t going to russia for the Paris London flight.
For me, it was the hoisting sequence that took the prize.
Wow. That amazes me that anyone would answer that question without knowing anything about the problem space and implemented solutions.

Wait, I got it, I would rewrite everything as AWS Lambdas. That's the right answer! Screw your (almost certainly SQL) DB, let's move it all to DynamoDB too.
Good! People are used to cutting and running these days. One after another platform (usenet, slashdot, tumblr, even hacker news to some extent) gets overrun with griefers or spammers or bad faith actors. We've all migrated platforms many times. The "FREE SPEACH" crowd now has a billionaire to boost whatever they deem as "SPEACH", great! That's the free market baby! But until there's a law saying you have to participate in such-and-such a "town square", if some platform gets too neo-nazi or spam filled, hit da bricks! Find something new!
biggest change for me are folding phones! They look like the next big thing (but so expensive atm)
This belongs in the opinion section. I don’t understand how this is being passed off as “news.”
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One thing that's cool about intercity train travel is that, while high speed rail is an ~=obvious economic miracle, trains can be slow and still be commercially competitive.

I would much rather take an overnight sleeper train than either an early morning flight or a night flight with hotel room. The sleeper train will arrive right to the city center and save a lot of hassle and I always sleep like a rock on sleeper trains.

My impression is that Europeans are 'waking up' to this fundamental difference in value proposition vs aeroplanes and overnight trains are becoming more popular.
Yeah, I think the AE-1 was probably more popular in the UK at the time (late 70s), but I liked having all the control (and I couldn't afford an AE-1). But what I really liked about Canons was how chunky they were compared to Olympus and Pentax - it made for stable shooting.

A bit later I got a Nikon F3 for work purposes (paid for by work), with lots of goodies (ring flash, macro lenses, etc.), but never really liked as much as the Canon.
So we're all just somehow happy assuming that we don't equally spend most of our time doing nothing without data?

I definitely spend a lot of time doing nothing, even though I might be pretending not.

And then we have giant industry all about passive entertainment where we can turn our brain off, like all the crappy TV and movies and tiktoks, and YouTube, and watching other people play games or do sport where we just sit doing nothing half paying attention.

If there "doing nothing" involved meditating, thinking, or what not, but as far as I'm concerned there "doing nothing" sounds like they're just watching the leafs blow in the wind, the bird sings, and that's just another version of watching TikTok that's slightly less entertaining.
"Do you have any idea how much damage this bulldozer would suffer if I let it roll right over you?"
It's different in Poland. Here, everyone always complains about the rail and it was shit like you wouldn't believe only like 15 years ago. I've been using trains only sporadically but the improvements are absolutely immense, I couldn't believe my eyes. Not perfect of course but holy shit did it improve, especially regional rails

Of course we had to improve from much lower standards than Germany, I guess, so I have no idea if our expectations of good are the same but nevertheless
I don't think anyone is expecting people to start taking a train from London to Istanbul, unless they are doing it for the trip in itself. The sweet spot for trains is travel > 100 miles and < 500 miles, so say Paris-Nice like is highlighted in the article.