skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their livelihoods don't depend on being right. If it turns out parking doesn't matter for their business, and they're wrong to believe it does, their livelihoods will be fine. They have an existential risk from only one of the options, so their opinion will be grossly biased.
Have you ever driven in London? Have you used public transport in London? Moving around is much more efficient using public transport. The underground + a couple of buses take you around everywhere faster than a car.
My post is not whataboutism. It's pointing out the absolute dearth of evidence linking higher scamming rates to societies that value individualism.

A more proper name for this would be a "counter example", and it's something you should absolutely expect as a response when you put forth statements online.
I'm not blaming the unions for doing that. I am blaming the government for giving the unions the power to do that.
Seeing that the latest edition of The Art of Analog Layout came out of 2005, is there any other book you'd recommend on analog layouts specifically?
The title of the original story:

"Fed-up managers declare WFH is over, as 77% say they’d fire you or cut your pay for not coming back to the office"

And the reasons the article describes are more along the lines of managers feeling that they cannot manage remotely, not worrying about their relevance.

The underlying reason might of course be worries about relevance, but that is not the content of the article.

I think it is worries about job-security. If everyone is remote every worker can be replaced by someone cheaper from some region with lower wages. As mangers are at the same location as their underlings, their relevance vanishes with local workers.
While this may be very simple to use, why would I use this in preference to SSH, given that SSH has figured out authentication, session security, etc?

Yes, setting this up with SSH is (mildly) more complex, but given the inherent security, one wonders why one would opt for simplicity.
> Not everything has to be commercial.

HN comments aren't free to host though. There is compute involved. How are they paying for that compute?

If it is out of boredom and good will, that's cool. But I very much am keeping that in mind when I comment here. I don't expect a hobby site to stay up long term because they'll just shut it down when it stops being fun.

If HN is paying for this from advertisements and job postings, well there is your answer. It is commercial.
I think it's actually faster to get to central London from me on the tube than by car, not even counting looking for parking. And hell, on the tube I can read, listen to a podcast, code, or even call family. Can't do most of that in a car.
That's not a helpful comment, nor is that what I'm saying. People can continue to go to meetings and write their reps. But until the number of people doing that gets big enough, it's not going to change (ie a centralized system needs a significant number of supporters to overcome status quo).
Those are great! But they are coding disciplines one must choose to follow, and continue following every step of the way. You aren't inherently following them because that's how the tool works. Sometimes the tool-enforced discipline has advantages.
Regarding her hourly rate, here is the public document, which clearly states she is charging $5k per hour: https://twitter.com/cheesemonkeysf/status/150892349118089626...

Now perhaps that is a misleadingly drafted document, or the full agreement provided a variety of free services as well, but on its face, it seems reasonable to assume she is charging $5k per hour since that is how she is phrasing it in contracts she is signing.
huh, thanks, I'll have to look over the website again

do they say anything about their training set?
That's all very well but until there's decent public transport most people will do what I do (and those who I know do exactly what I do now).

"What if street parking was more reflective of the actual costs and drastically limited the amount of time you could park?"

Where I live now I'd suggest it's the opposite, as the cost of parking is outrageously high. What I didn't mention was that I'll also bypass the shops unless the available parking is close—almost outside the shop I'm going to—because walking time from where I park to the shop adds significantly to the expense (every moment counts)!

Some years ago I was in New York and was staggered that the price of parking there was about one third of where I live. I was so impressed (and outraged) that I took a series of photos (around 34th & 8th) then did the same here at home for comparison to ensure people would actually believe me. To ensure my locals couldn't accuse me of fudging the photos I made sure the Empire State was visible in a number of the photos (the difference in price was so great they otherwise would have through disbelief). Shame I can't post them here.

I'm the first to agree that what I do is far from ideal—clearly, using a 100kW-plus engine to propel me to my destination is inefficient but the naysayers only ever put one side of the story. Hiking parking prices to fit the need/demand is only one lopsided part of a much-needed better solution.
> The more you add road capacity, the less 'demand is induced', because there's limited amount of people.

And how much money would it cost to build out enough road infrastructure to 'overwhelm all possible demand'? How much would it cost to move the same amount of people via some other form of transportation?

The province of Ontario finds it cheaper to run an entire railway (GO Transit) compared to being able to build out enough highway infrastructure (and it's not like they've stop building that):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxWjtpzCIfA

And that's just the road infrastructure: what about things like parking space at the destination(s) of where all these folks are going? How much area would have to be bulldozed for all of this?
Thanks for the additional context, it's helpful. Here's my guess as to what happened - you went through your interview loop, and the feedback was mixed, maybe one interview was a "no hire" or two were a "lean no hire". The recruiter decided that your packet was too weak to go to hiring committee as-is, so they went and lined up a hiring manager to support the packet. All of this took time, unfortunately, and then the packet got rejected at HC anyway.

Do you know what level you were interviewing at? At least for PMs, the more junior/early-career levels, the more latitude we are willing to give hiring managers (within reason- big red flags are big red flags regardless) - effectively, if someone is borderline and the hiring manager says "I'm willing to take them on and here's how I'm going to mentor them to address the gaps", I'm typically willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. For more senior levels where the expectations are higher anyway, fundamental skills gaps are more concerning.

All this is just to say - I'm sorry this was such a bad experience. The new hiring process rolling out, where you team match before you interview, is specifically to reduce the cycle times in hiring so we don't miss out on great candidates due to our bureaucracy. I'd encourage you to reapply when you are eligible again - ask your recruiter when you become eligible (a year? I don't remember), but obviously I understand if this experience has soured you on the process entirely. You can also always reach out to me privately - my work email is zito@ (the google).
I have seen manatees eating the dry grass on each side of the river... not sure if it was because there was no sea grass...
Fx: A simple CLI tool for making consistent CLI tools in large repositories
> $150 at Home Depot

Good luck with that. Even with an off-brand, you're looking at much closer to twice that if you want any kind of heated water.
Gotcha… don’t ride anywhere I can’t change clothes when it is raining. And I need a rain proof backpack. And I need to add even more time to my transit when it is cold.
Raining and cold on a bike are just issues of wardrobe. Typically, a cycling cap, windbreaker, and gloves are perfectly adequate for most dry days above freezing.

The most bike commuting city in the world is Copenhagen, Denmark. They manage the winters just fine. That said, getting from here-to-there is challenging for most novice bike commuters, and having experience friends in the transit alternatives community is the only way for this knowledge to be passed from one person to another.

In effect, the fact that the dressing for weather has been nullified by cars for three generations has effectively hamstrung us all because of the loss of cultural knowledge.
> If you use "foo/*" it excludes the directory and last-modified becomes now.

True, but instead of adding "/" to the source you obtain the same effect by deleting the last component of the destination (which is normally a non-action, you just do not auto-complete far enough).

If you meant that you might want to have "foo" and "bar" directories with the same content and timestamps, but with different names, you can rename the target directory before and after the rsync.

This is negligible overhead, because in many decades of using computers for all kinds of applications, I have not encountered a single case when I would have needed to have 2 directories with identical content and even with identical directory timestamps, but with different directory names.

Making a backup directory in the same directory with the original directory would not be a good example, that would be just stupid. Any backup directory should be placed as far as possible from the original directory, when not on a different filesystem, in which case they can have the same name.

The way how rsync handles names without trailing slashes is completely right.

The way how rsync handles trailing slashes to encode alternative behaviors might have been OK if this feature would not have been in conflict with the auto-complete feature of the shells.

For all the rsync behaviors that can be obtained by adding some "/", there are alternatives almost as simple as that.

A slight simplification in the encoding of the seldom used alternative behaviors is paid by a large complication in the typing of the frequently used behaviors, where you must always insert a backspace + space sequence after each directory name, to delete the dangerous trailing slash.
That's completely untrue, they just found out they were never relevant in the first place.
There's no intrinsic need to use a car for your weekly groceries, if the infrastructure is built accordingly. A lot of European families in big cities manage that without having a car.
I’m a musician, composer, and occasional songwriter. I agree with this. I’d testify in court that this is not plagiarism or infringement in my opinion. Unfortunately people are suggestible. Tell them the melodies are the same, then play them, and people hear them as more similar than they are. It reminds me of that illusion where you play muttered speech with a caption and people “hear” the words in the caption.
That seems like a pretty big oversight? All errands within a 20 minute walk except for the most basic and car-dependent errand there is
I am glad we did not install standards to freeze the way software was developed in e.g. the 1990s, and I expect that in 25 years I’ll be equally pleased that we did not set standards today.
If you browse hackaday.com (a hardware tinkerer site), a running gag is "could have been done with a 555 timer though".
Air Force Jet Was Scrambled to Intercept a UFO–Then Disappeared (2020)
On the home page, it says:

> Unlimited, ad-free, customized radio

how is that not a lie?
Sun did tons of research on Gnome usability.

Microsoft did tons of research on MS Office, for example to design the ribbon.

I also am not sure having that iOS button on the top right is bad. It’s inconsistent, yes, but when that screen opens, your finger is at the top right of the screen. Putting them in the top right corner moves them closest to your finger. I don’t know whether it is, but Fitt’s law predicts that’s the better choice.
I misread your first comment. I thought you meant that the project was dead haha.
Excel is great and versatile, yet lacks some critical features.

- It's easy to load data from database or API without VBA, yet impossible to write updates back without VBA. With VBA it's still messy string concatenation of SQL queries.

- VBA is security nightmare

- Version control is bad. Distributing spreadsheets in emails and collecting changes back is nightmare. Sharing a file on network drive lacks fine-grained permission control.

- It's hard to maintain proper normalized relational data model. It's impossible to abstract the normalized model from the user (i.e. show labels in selectboxes but store ID's)

- It's locale dependent. Date formatting, column separator (comma/semicolon separated), even function names. Unusable in international data exchange.

- It mixes formatting, logic and data. Impossible to make reusable blocks. New lambda functions help somewhat.

And so much more.
You know you can just rent a car, right? If you don't use it 5 days out of 7, it's much, much cheaper to rent one.
And, India needs cheap oil and gas to make fertilizers to feed its population.

You are free and rich enough to do this, be my guest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD_6L_ktkM8
I agree with your comment, but it has nothing to do with Americans.

Your comments sounds very much like an American with limited experience outside of the US. The scary part is that especially post pandemic, this is a very global phenomenon.

Source: American expat
That article is about Shannon, a town of 1500 people on a state highway. There is a detour in place causing it to be entirely skipped by most drivers.

It bears no resemblance car usage in cities at all.
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No, the document states, that she gets 5000$/hr: “for two Four hour sessions at the rate of 5.000.00 per hour for q a total of 40.000$“
I'm in my late 20s, live in London, and that describes most people I know. It's not worth owning a car here, so people just don't end up taking their test. Even if I wanted to take it, I wouldn't get a car so would get rusty real quick.
If you don't go climbing daily, access to good car sharing will do just fine. It is probably cheaper, as you'll only need to shell out for a 4x4 when you actually need it.
I don't agree with that statement. Here is a list of top sport-climbing and bouldering destinations that will not require a 4-wheel drive (source: me and my car).

- Frankenjura
- Elbsandstein
- Margalef
- Siurana
- Chulilla
- Albarracin
- Finale
- Osp
- Kalymnos
- Leonidio
- Ceuse
- St Leger
- Gorges du Tarn
- Les Calanques
- Buoux
- Fontainebleau

As for multi-pitch climbing: almost everything in the Alps is accessible with a normal car and the customary approach (or a cable car).
Indeed, GP's comment made me chuckle, it hasn't been long enough since the start of the pandemic to take "a week if you are a hoarder" comments seriously.
> right to a quiet, safe, pleasant city center

Wait...these are rights now?

Who do I sue for not having any of these?
Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let's do it! -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKGREZs6-w
I have an IQ of 130 or a bit more (last I checked, it was many years). I have never gotten my daughter's IQ tested. If she has an IQ of 102, but is emotionally balanced, she's got a bright future.

One of the features of an emotionally gifted/balanced/well-adjusted person, is their ability to use all of their mental powers to bear on a problem, without letting their wishes or fears overwhelm their intellect. Plenty of high-IQ people with emotional issues who do not do as well in living a happy and productive life. For example, figuring out what careers are both plausible and reasonably rewarding (financially and otherwise) is not actually an intellectually difficult one, but plenty of people screw it up because they let envy, shame, fear, greed, or other emotions get the better of them.

Your role would be to let her use her talents to make reasonable, well-adjusted choices in life. If she never gets a high IQ, that's not a big problem, as long as she isn't trying to pretend she does, in order to avoid disappointing a loving but emotionally "morose" parent. If she chooses a life that does not require a high IQ, she can still be happy and productive. If she ever needs to make any decisions that require differential equations, she'll have plenty of friends she can ask for help on that.
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Yep, it is one of the many upsides of living in suburban America.
Well, money can't buy logistical competence. At this level, it isn't available anywhere.
Post-car industry Detroit is such an interesting place. 20 minute neighborhoods exist naturally in some places around Denver where there are occasional 1 block sections of grandfathered in retail zoning.

But it is wild how easy it is to see Detroit's lack of grocery stores:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/grocery+store/@42.4272993...
Most of my experience woth "europe" is Finland as I have lived there a couple years and married a Finn, so I don't dare say "european vs american suburbs" but I do dare say that what constitutes as a "suburb" in Finland is much different than what you can find in the US. Here, we have suburbs that just seemingly go forever, with nothing but houses. Usually when there is a suburb in the US, it is zoned such that it is only homes, and nothing else. It is the worst (imo)
I wish it had some kind of rsync repositories

To make backups, you clone a directory into the rsync repository, and when you later want to update the backup, you pull the newest changes from the directory into the repository.

And it would be impossible to destroy the backup by forgetting a slash or syncing another directory on the wrong backup because it would remember which directory belongs to which backup repository.
Ok more like, never using unsaved work. I was horrified thinking some old school OSes ate files from FS left and right.
"This is the official website of Ukraine. The information is verified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine"

"All proceeds received go directly to supporting the front-line defence of Ukraine."

I am not going to dispute any of the war crimes committed or currently being committed by Russia however I would be very careful to take every word here as a fact when Ukraine for obvious reasons is also running an information warfare.

War crimes will be investigated by the ICC and the facts will then be determined.

This website is a fund raiser for the Ukraine military. If you reside in a country like Switzerland you are not permitted to donate to such causes. Give your money to the IRC or another humanitarian charity.
The easiest way to solve the problem, as I understand it, is to ignore the urge to cover the whole area in bus lines, because it's expensive and many of them won't have enough ridership to justify the cost. Instead, look where your density is highest, change zoning to let it get even higher, and build, like, 1 or 2 bus lines with very frequent service (less than about 12 minutes gap). That's the magic threshold where you don't need to look at a schedule -- if you miss one bus, a 10-12 minute wait won't make much difference. And that makes it an inflection point for ridership too -- you can get a lot more people with frequent service, meaning you get enough riders to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Best is if you can get a lane dedicated entirely to buses, and ticket cars that drive in it. You want buses to be a pleasant alternative to driving -- since you already have a walk at the beginning and end of your journey which takes time, it's nice if your bus can get priority over car traffic.

And from there, build up the areas with good bus service more and more, add more buses as needed due to population growth, lengthen lines, add new lines gradually as people see the success of the first ones. Incremental implementation is the trick.
I think you're vastly overestimating the cultural impact of reddit on the general public. This is a huge talking point in New Zealand right now and I promise you it has nothing to do with /r/fuckcars which even I, a Reddit user, had never heard of.
Unionization, especially academic workers' unionization, and double-especially junior, untenured researcher unionization is ultra-important.

The recent couple of centuries, especially the last one, have brought an increased application of commercial-corporation-type relations into academia, with graduate researchers and teachers being the object of degradation of both material welfare and intra-academic status. I wrote about this when I was involved in unionizing grads in my own university - not in the US, but still:

https://app.box.com/s/osnf6xfqgqgvmnat6ldq

(or in Hebrew: https://app.box.com/shared/l3iypqd2yi )

I wish the MIT grads all the best in their struggle. However, when looking at their "Path to unionization" page: https://mitgsu.org/roadmap , I am worried they are too timid of an endeavor. They write:

> The real goal of the campaign is to secure a union contract

A contract is never the goal. Just like signing an employment contract as an individual is not the goal - the employment conditions, and the relations and standing in the workplace - are the goal. A contract is at best a means to reach the goal, and at worst - a fetish. I've seen many a unionization drive fixate on negotiations and a contract, not on building "shop-floor" power, on the individual and collective level. When grads walk around knowing that mistreatment by administration or supervisors will result in harsh collective action by their peers - from public shaming of those involved to work disruption if necessary, contract or no contract - that's when things have changed. But if what you get is a link to a piece of paper saying that in theory you can seek some arbitration somehow, but in practice your daily life remains the same, then you haven't gained much.
I'd hazard a guess that the 20 to 50 year old tech described in that book hasn't changed much; anything that is novel is probably still under patent and will someday make it into a newer edition.
And "Thumb" mode. A solid set of HHGTTG references in this.
> People seem to generally want to be able to go far, with little effort, directly where they want, independently

This is exactly why I want to live in a bikeable, walkable city! I really don’t consider babysitting a massive 2+ ton hunk of metal and plastic to be low effort or independent. On the contrary, it’s the most draining and stressful thing I do on a regular basis.

You mention “go far”, but I don’t think that’s actually the priority for people. What they really want is to get to their daily destinations – the store, the park, the office, the mall. The distance is a consequence of the car, not the other way around.

People will still want to go places that are beyond biking distance or need to do something that isn’t practical on foot/bike, and that’s fine. For most people, if they lived in a bikeable and walkable area, these would be a minority of trips. But for those minority of trips where a car makes sense, a car should be used. (Note: this doesn’t mean they need to own a car.) Cars don’t need to be eliminated from cities, just reduced and deprioritized enough to make biking and walking safe and appealing.
Both of those things have already happened
If you pay for Apple iCloud+ they just enabled support for custom domain names for email.
Not sure where you're getting $400/hour since you didn't provide any evidence but the contact is quite clear that the rate is $5000/hour:

> Provide four (4) two-hour sessions at the rate of $5,000.00 per hour for a total of $40,000

https://twitter.com/minilek/status/1509678967472549889