skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe that becomes possible at some point? A long time ago we needed 7 days a week to farm or hunt enough food to survive. With technological advancements we may be at a point where we need near 0 work days to feed everyone and create a comfortable life.

Then doing work isn't needed to survive anymore but instead only because you want to achieve something. That could be many different things for many people.
Stated this way it makes it sound as if the government, unbidden by anything external, just decided to make this a requirement one day. Of course, this was not the case.

In reality workers, unions and even industry leaders themselves were already pushing for this decades before the government codified it in the Fair Labor Standards Act.
> Is hunting for an apartment doomed to be this messy forever? It seems like an area that is ripe for disruption or a better option, but what would it take to actually solve this?

I hesitate to say it, but there is already a solution to this, and it has been the one that New York has had for years: you hire an agent. A good agent will sort through all of that for you, and streamline the process to the point where you can go from search to signing in under a week (if not quicker). Of course, there's the problem of bad agents, but that's true of anything. As you note, online services are often bad, as well.

In other words, I don't see this as a problem without a solution; I see it as a problem without a software automated solution, which is true for a lot of problems in life, particularly ones that involve huge numbers of messy, opinionated people with different motivations and interests.
How about have some transparent competitive pricing on your website?
Exercise doesn't have to be a full-on "workout". Just going for a walk around the block can be enough to refresh you and break the sort of inertia of sitting still.
It doesn’t help, actually, because they were implicitly asking how a union will help specifically with that example. In corporations unions have the leverage of stopping work. What’s the leverage here? We’ll all stop pursuing our education…?

I guess the calculation is that the tuition hit would be leverage? Like what, is a union going to force a code of conduct for professors? How is it going to be enforced when it already exists and half of these comments are about it being ignored?

I don’t get the union solution here. The incentives are wrong. Particularly on the Ph.D. track, how would a union specifically help address illegal behavior to the extent that you just “HTH” it as the obvious answer?
Thanks for your kind words. Unfortunately thoughts like the GP’s is still hold by the gov and the majority of people in this country out of Shanghai. They turned blind eyes to the humanitarian emergencies as always.
Current corporation structure is not meant to increase individual productivity, but rather it increases on group productivity (at the cost of individual productivity) which is why middle managers are always be important.

People leave, go on vacations, get sick, priorities changes, all of which need to be dealt with. And in an environment where the amount of work available to do is always higher than the resources available, you need middle managers to deal with other teams, PMs, customers etc.
"Just works" is too easy when you write the software and manufacture the hardware it will run on. Linux distros face the challenge of hardware compatibility. You can't even compare a heavily modfied BSD kernel with a modern day distro and say it "just works".
It's a great thought, but I'd be fired pretty quickly if I tried that. You will also not find a new job with those demands.

You know what I do to offset the after hours stuff? I slack the fuck off all day. It's not like anyone knows what I do anyway. "Hey Alar, what you up to today? -Oh y'know, just getting these switches up to date, gotta keep the packets flowing! Also have some phone stuff to do and getting the servers ready for patching this weekend! -Wow great job!"

Wake up at 8, "check email" until 9. Head to the office to show some face and actually check emails and do communication til 10. From 10-12 follow up with requests and put out any actual fires. 12-130 lunch. 130-330 knock out a meeting or two and then head home to "get my notes together and plan the next day" aka crack open a 6 pack.

I know this isn't always possible, but as long as you deliver SOMETHING every day, no one questions the infra "wizard".
At some point it gets difficult to have this discussion without invoking theological framing. Christianity has been thinking about Heaven a long time.
I have a hammock set up in a grove of trees in my back yard.

After a tough day, I just like to go out there and lay in it for 30-45 mins, with no phone and no distractions. Just the wind rustling through the trees and the dog laying on the ground next to me.
A couple of years ago I switched my workout routine to the first thing in the morning. While I don't like to be tired from that during the day, it's the only thing that has worked for me.
The better or best example is Compass really
Aren't graduate students there in order to get credentials that help them land all those better jobs outside of academia? I think you're imputing hiring pressure that they're pursuing, not experiencing.
The stories people tell of politicians are not exactly always fact-based. Well-known people, especially those who don't speak for themselves (in social media) they get a reputation that sticks.
These numbers are actually surprising considering that natural breast feeding has health benefits for the baby. Although it says "only breastmilk" which can also mean formula is used as a supplement.
> The article would be much better if you dropped mentioning function colors at all then, since your definition really has little to do with the original concept.

I heavily disagree, but near the end of the post, I also show that Zig does fit the original definition:

> Third, async is, in fact, viral. The language reference says,

>> Zig infers that a function is async when it observes that the function contains a suspension point. Async functions can be called the same as normal functions. A function call of an async function is a suspend point.

> (Emphasis added.)

> In other words, if you call an async function, your function gets a suspend point, which means that your function becomes async.

> In fact, if you look at Bob Nystrom’s point 3, “You can only call a red function from within another red function,” this means that Zig fits point 3!

> What Zig does differently than Bob Nystrom’s “hypothetical” language is that if it sees you call a red function from a blue function, it shrugs its shoulders, makes the blue function red, and does not tell you. This gives the appearance of being able to call red functions from blue functions while still only allowing red functions to call red functions.
The primary alternative to achieving this is through formation of unions. But, I’d wager there is an overlap between people who are against enforcement via legislation and people who are anti-union.
It sounds like you got a raw deal by a powerful asshole, and are now painting with a broad brush. Not every professor has so much power as your former boss, so saying that the problem is that professors have too much unchecked power, and the fix would be to bring more oversight, is missing the mark. Because what happens when the person at the top of the new oversight pyramid is an asshole? You've got the same problem, and the solution wouldn't be to again make sure he has more oversight.

> He was simply too important to the institution in terms of his reputation and his ability to attract external funding.

This reinforces my idea that you should always go with an advisor who doesn't have this kind of clout. Not that you should have known this ahead of time or you did anything wrong, but I have heard sad stories from large labs enough to be thankful for avoiding them in the past, and it's the advice I will pass on in the future.

I think if you wanted to get at the actual problem and a solution to it, I would say the problem is sad narcissistic jerks aiming to become kings of their research kingdoms, and then they act as tyrants when they get a hold of large sums of grant money. That may be the experience some people have had.

A solution to this that you may like if you want more oversight may be to treat a research lab more like a corporation with a board of directors (I can hear the researchers recoiling) or some other governing body over the lab and the students itself. What do you think of that idea?
This touches on the controversy that sparked Coase's Theory of the Firm. He proposed the idea that firms exist to reduce transaction costs as an explanation for why capitalist firms look like mini-soviets internally, with highly centralized control and planning. Which seems like a contradiction to classical economists. If free markets are so effective, why can't you run a company like a free market? eg have workers bid for tasks from managers. Turns out that is wildly inefficient because of the transaction costs involved in coordinating competitively instead of cooperatively (at least in successful companies). I suspect pandemic WFH has revealed there are much more efficient ways to coordinate cooperatively than simple centralized planning, and those methods generally do not require as much managerial facilitation because they rely much more heavily on asynchronous communication.
I think Excel has something to do with it. In Excel, you're usually forced to do computations in small steps and look at the intermediate results. In traditional coding, you don't see anything but the final result (unless you ask to see it). It's much easier to assume everything is working as intended when it's not.

Excel has its problems too. Different tools for different jobs. Tech boosters need to understand this and not just cynically assume that spreadsheet lovers are old fogeys who are afraid of their jobs being automated away.
I have mixed feelings about India.

It has lot of potential but at the end of the day it’s corrupt to the core, cities are hyper polluted and the infrastructure is abysmal(Although better than two decades ago).

I also didn’t like it that the government supports Russia.
Stopping work. Same as other unions.
I have never seen a website with so many pop-ups. I counted 6 while visiting this website on Safari. It really makes me question my choices on why I'm even browsing the internet not through Firefox, but rather than Safari. I do it with Firefox every now and than, but still.

Either way, couldn't read the article in this state.
No, I'm saying the reality is that the punishment often IS harsher if you're from a disadvantaged group. I think the punishments should be harsher for wage theft than shoplifting because the former is abusing a position of power, which I believe to be more corrosive to the fabric of society.

Though I also believe punishments should be proportional to your means, see for example speeding tickets in Finland. You shouldn't be able to afford to ignore the rules.
Ran buttery smooth on my OnePlus 9 Pro.
Gandi?
"In addition, INA 214(h) provides that an H-1B nonimmigrant may have "dual intent," i.e., the fact that an H-1B nonimmigrant has sought permanent residence in the United States or will be seeking such status in the future does not preclude him or her from obtaining or maintaining H-1B nonimmigrant status. The applicant may legitimately come to the United States as a nonimmigrant under the H-1B classification and depart voluntarily at the end of his or her authorized period of stay, and, at the same time, lawfully seek to become a permanent resident of the United States without jeopardizing H-1B nonimmigrant status. Consequently, your evaluation of an applicant’s eligibility for an H-1B visa must not focus on the issue of immigrant intent." [1]

[1] https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM040210.html
Someone's jelly! You can keep working as much as you like, surely you'll be more successful right?
> and I feel like most citizens are occupied with surrendering and assigning that power to their preferred political party

No, most of us are independent and lie to our friends for employment and sex
Honestly, they're right more than they are wrong under the correct circumstances that is. Too bad being locked in a room for your entire life leads to a lot of other issues instead of experiencing the world and grabbing a better understanding of how everything ties in together. But who would change that after all if we believe what the modern psychologist says altruism doesn't exist.
The dialectic take being we should not have personal kitchens in the first place. We should consider what communal cooking and eating spaces will look like.
That seems really far fetched. The original versions sound nothing alike to me. They don't have the same vibe at all either and don't give the same emotion.
Reagan is viewed as good while the Iran Contra affair was entirely illegal and immoral. There certainly is no fairness in these common reputations.
Housing website https://funda.nl is pretty dominant in the Netherlands. Why would you need to search many agent's websites when nearly all inventory shows up on funda.nl ?

I find it much preferable to North American sites like https://realtor.ca that think that number of baths is more important than floorspace (which to my utter amazement is often not even available).
And you’ll create a power vacuum that business will gleefully dive into and give you less freedom, more coercion, and less ability to negotiate your life as you see fit.

If you don’t remember why unions and OSHA exist then you are doomed to repeat it. Captains industry have no problems oiling their machines with human blood.
Moien! Great article.

Something tells me you're joining a big online book store ;-).

Tell me when you're in town for a beer, would love to hear how this unfolds.
>These pictures are from a real estate listing, but I trust you know what otherwise fills the counters of a kitchen today.

Contrasting modern real estate photos with a 250 year old painting is a hard ask. The painting and photos are so vastly different in both time and detail that I don't think the author was able to make their point.
>I'm only able to consume easy to digest content in this state.

I have fallen into this cycle many times, my advice for if you are feeling tired is to give up that sort of content for a few weeks. In the time when you would [watch tv, game, browse reddit] just sit on the patio and watch the clouds go by (maybe with a single beer or glass of wine if you are so inclined) and let your mind wonder. It can be excruciating at first as you overcome your addition to mindless content, but after you get over that you can finally let your thoughts be free and actually relax. As you get into the rythm then you can start to shift to more productive activities like going for a walk or cooking or blogging or whatever, but the first step is to break the addiction to mindless content.
There is a piece missing. Apple controls its product end-to-end, including HW. If a linux distro would specify a default HW for which the distro is optimized, then they could be at the same level that IOS.
What kind of agent? Just a. real estate agent?
> Bush also had bad luck with 9/11

Certainly 9/11 was a national tragedy, but Bush's ratings skyrocketed after 9/11, so I would disagree that it was bad luck for Bush.
Author here.

I have no proof of it yet (I want to create the proof), but I believe the structured concurrency equivalent of the Structured Programming Theorem could be something like this:

> For all possible programs in CSP style or in async style, there exists a program that uses structured concurrency that will accomplish the same result.
"Am I really that out of touch? No, it's the users that are wrong!"

It's really frustrating how it seems, despite having a thousand times more powerful hardware, modern software consistently struggles to do things that code written in the 1990s had no problem doing. I haven't really seen any convincing answers why adding 25 years of hardware and software advancements translates to being able to do less, to be less flexible.
Yes I do mean exactly that. It's entirely possible for both these things to be true:

- Everyone believes that if they and everyone else had a 32 hour work week, they'd be happier

- Everyone stays at 40 hours per week when given the choice of independently moving to a 32 hour work week due to social / economic pressures

In this case a government law helps everyone coordinate to get out of a local maximum.
The talk on assembly theory was really interesting. Thanks for sharing. I'd be surprised if the idea of causal constraints or quantifying complexity in chemistry was novel. Is it the context of life search that makes novel? Does you know what else it might be called?

(Aside: I think the first link was miscopied?)
I remember Visi On, but never used it. The first GUI I used was Gem on an Atari ST (not too bad), and then Windows 2.0 (awful).

Then I moved jobs to a Unix training company (C, the shell and all that stuff, and later C++ expert), and one day Windows 3.0 (and later 3.1) came out and my boss came up to me:

Him: "You are now our Windows C programming trainer"

Me: "But [in Manuel voice] I know nothing"

Him: "Well, everybody else refuses point-blank to do it -learn, read some books"

Me: "Grumble"

But I did read some books, and learnt and taught a lot, enjoyed myself and today generally prefer Windows to Unix.
> This is a parochial dismissal [..]

No. It isn't. Compare the landmass size & it explains what I mean. Compare the number of unique wildlife species & recognized biodiversity exclusive zones - and it shows the stark difference. Reserved & National parks cover far greater chunk of both US & CAN as compared to India, with the possible exclusion of some African countries (by %landmass coverage)

>Come back when the US has Himalaya, Wildlife like tigers, lions, rhinos, snow leopards, Elephants, Gaurs, Nilgai, Dholes etc.

N. America has Rockies & Appalachia - wild boars, bisons & reindeers & similarly exotic flora and fauna. I personally like rattlesnakes, gophers & opposums. Somewhat exclusive to US SW. What's your point, except sounding mildly absurd.

> As someone who has lived in both India and the US, I can say that they both havr beautiful nature

As someone who lived between India, US, EU & Japan for practically all my life continually after high school, I must better qualify to give a reasoned opinion based on your logic, no? Counting number of years in a country is meaningless to discuss, if your only jaunt is a weekend hike somewhere. I work for a biodiversity conservation agency additional to my CS job. Its a serious job done gratis in cooperation with Greenpeace. How about you?

I can tell unequivocally that conservation efforts are very slim in India. If you seek an answer, choose any hill station & observe the deforestation around it. India claims recently green cover increased. Thats factually incorrect because they count shrubbery as green patches. What matters is contiguous forest which is fast disappearing in Southern Himalayas, Nilgiris and even remote places like Sunderbans & NE hills. The proliferation of waste & solid pollutants in green cover is a much more complex topic which would entail its own thread. Summarily NPS in US is still doing a better conservation as compared to Indian counterparts, although not on a vastly larger budget (i.e order of magnitude larger, as anyone would normally expect)

I base my answer on stats not personal opinion. Just a last nitpick - you have misquoted me.
I wrote "US is almost a continent. It has all these and more. Sorry." Your cherry pick "US is almost a continent. Sorry" made it sound more dismissive.
There was quite a bit of weirdness surrounding the BSDs back then due to AT&T code that was replaced, it kind of became moribund after some dispute over patches that I didn't follow too closely, then those patches became forks (FreeBSD and NetBSD). By the time the smoke cleared, XFree86 was ported to Linux and the general perception was the Linux community had their stuff together, while the BSD guys were fighting over nothing.

I don't think it helped that the BSD distributions were very opinionated about their userlands, where in Linux you had lots of choice.

In hindsight, it seems to me the BSD guys simply blew their shot by infighting at a time when early adopters were clamouring for a Unix like, and didn't care about the BSD purity war.

That was where the snowball started. Linux had no real advantage other than the cooperative nature of the community.
>The pandemic allowed remote work to flourish.

Because in most of Europe (Austria for me) it didn't flourish and not every job can be done remotely as not everything IT related is web development and in many companies management did not give ownership and resources to maintain remote work IT infrastructure to anyone, so everything is chaotic and crumbling to bits now that things are opening up and most people are back in the offices.

Few companies here are keeping 100% remote once the vaccine mandate came through and things started opening up this spring, and now the new standard is various hybrid work variants where you get 1-3 days per week remote and the rest in the office, or one week remote, one in the office, without any logic or arguments behind these choices, just "because management said so" and "this is how we do it here".

>Why are people still crowding the cities?

Because that's where the amenities and the networking opportunities still are. Universities, clubs, bars, music halls, swimming pools, great restaurants, bouldering halls and gyms, music and jazz bars and basically anything to do with art.

Oh, and most importantly, dating. It's way more difficult to meet someone when you live alone in the sticks VS being surrounded by people your own age sharing similar interests.
> the founding generation thought

The thoughts of the founding generation do not determine constitutionality, though with regard to the ratifying conventions they can inform our grasp of contemporary understanding of the document's meaning. In fact, the first few presidential administrations illustrate how fraught was their relation to the constitutional structure.

> Federal law enforcement is clearly justified under the necessary and proper clause.

It doesn't have to be justified in that way, because it's provided for in the document. One of the constitutional powers of Congress is "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions." You recommend that I imagine "the Department of Justice having to call upon the state militia to arrest a state's governor"; I have no difficulty doing so. Are there inconveniences attendant on that method of law enforcement? Of course, but my response is twofold: first, it's the "necessary and proper" clause, not the "convenient and desirable" clause. Not everything the federal government might find convenient and desirable lies within their power, because, second, the Constitution was written to make the exercise of federal power inconvenient in cases where it is in conflict with the will of the states.

> There is no sovereignty without the ability to deploy violence to enforce it.

You say this as though sovereignty were a uniquely federal phenomenon. Not only do the states hold a measure of sovereignty, but the ultimate sovereignty in the United States resides in the people, of whose power the state militias were intended to be an instrument. Both these loci of sovereignty are endangered by precisely the distortion of the constitutional order that you approve.
That's the problem -- rent controls usualy apply to only a bizarre arbitrary fraction of units, distorting the market instead of controlling it.