skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[random remarks from the internet]

I suspect it is like every other social endeavor, success is mostly a matter of interpersonal relationships.

Interesting projects arise from being around people who get what you are interested and even if they don't dig it, appreciate how into it you are. Interesting projects come from being part of a community of "like minded assholes."

The contrary end of the spectrum is an infrastructure filled with gate keepers who see themselves as gatekeepers.

The difference becomes stark in regard to deadlines.

A community values the creative thing as a creative thing: The cool thing takes as long as it takes to make, but doesn't take very long because the creator is into it.

Gatekeepers value meeting criteria. When ix publications a year is a key to some gatekeeper's gate, it just means getting past six other gatekeepers.

Good luck.
I've had a seller pull a tracking number and then never ship the item.
I’m excited for the Tesla Semi as well, which also has the central driving position and lots of cameras for better situational awareness.

It’s more aerodynamic than the European style buses, so more optimized for travel between cities than inside cities, though.

(Electric trucks in dense cities is already a slam dunk without any extreme battery tech or weight reduction, though. It’s longer duration travel that battery electric needs the efforts like Tesla to prove it’s feasible. Affordable, 500 mile range, less than 1 hour quick charge, no real reduction in payload, etc. That will prove electrification of even heavy long range trucks is doable, one of the last bastions of skepticism of electrification of land transport.)
Corporations are a form of memeplex, a living entity that sustains itself with a set of rules and incentives.

If you consider a beehive or an ant colony to be a single living entity, then a corporation probably is too, it's a single larger entity with its own homeostasis and agency, even if it incorporates individual organic actors into its being.

"profit-seeking" is the goal we have chosen to encode most of them with in their bylaws. Non-profits (in principle) have different pro-social goals (I'm ignoring the Komen Foundation-type "mimics"" here). And that's what they do.
Everything That Could Go Wrong in Markets as Free-Money Era Ends
500 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia
As a politically conservative Christian, I am completely opposed to woke attempts to bring about equity because I think each person should be treated as an individual and not as the member of a group. And that means equal opportunity for all, not equal outcomes for all.

On the other hand, the failure to extend kindness and respect to those who have newly joined the ranks of the successful is small-minded envy and is sin.
Right. It's too structurally complex but it's not the comma's fault.
I think OPs point is that that is not remote work -- it is officeless work. They are trying to make a distinction between the two.
>>> members of the house of representatives ... to get kicked out

That is in the federal constitution for Senators. Or it was until the lobbyists took over by pretending things would be better if Senators are beholden to lobbyists instead of being recalled by States.

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/inte...

Good read, for those interested in going back to what worked better.
"George Mason argued that state legislative selection gave states the power of self-defense against the federal government."
Sounds like their "creative solution" is quit.

Of course, this is predicated on the idea that the thirteen amendment will stand, and exceptions won't be carved out to force these people back to work. I acknowledge that recent events may have people questioning that supposition.
I disagree with the premise. Remote workplace and asynchronous workplace are two different things. Perhaps they’re on a scale.

Remote work is not having to spend two hours every day commuting. Remote companies hire more broadly because they’re not limited to a single very specific geographic zone (while they may just limit themselves to time zones instead, regardless of the city/state/country).

To say this is not "remote" is a strange moving of the goal posts. It sounds like this person might work at a dysfunctional company, or they might actually be looking for an asynchronous company/team.

Edit: the great irony/timing of this is I’m currently mid flight meeting all my colleagues for the first time…
It is often said that the USA Supreme Court is politicized because it is chosen by elected officials, whereas in Britain the recommendations for the high court is made by legalists, and therefore the British high court is less political.
Right, but development this is correct; if you're remote and require sync, you're not actually getting things done. Meetings are not the desired outcome; deployed, working code is. Communication is necessary, but not the output, and so to be effective you have to find ways to make that communication asynchronous wherever possible. It's fine to still have the -output- be synchronous (i.e., pairing), but don't confuse the default synchronous tasks (meetings) without output.

Anyway, all of that is a red herring; don't just tell me you're remote, tell me if you're prioritizing asynchronous work or not. The places trying to recreate the office, just now remote, are not places I want to work at.
I feel like MVC frameworks, like most application frameworks, are caught in a constant push-pull cycle.

Devs write without a framework, but complain that they have to spend a lot of time working on the structure of their application. There's a desire to use a third party framework that handles the broader structure, and the devs just have to slot in their application specific code into pre-defined places.

Devs then work with a third party famework for a while, but get frustrated when their application needs don't match up with what their framework is good at. They then have to write hacky workarounds to add the functionality they need. There's a desire to ditch the prescriptive framework, and design the code structure in a way that meets up with the application's specific needs. And then the cycle repeats itself.

Application frameworks, whether MVC or something else, are a useful tool. But there's no perfect framework, and it's easy to feel like the grass is greener on the other side.
It's annoying to find out the actual code that does the OCR is not in this repo after looking through the entire thing. It's just a bunch of scheduling and worker logic and for some reason the JS is written twice once for the browser and once for Node.

The actual code that does the OCR is wraped and included via this package [0] which just wraps the original Tesseract in C++ [1] using wasm. Shameful title.

[0] https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js-core

[1] https://github.com/jeromewu/tesseract
Oh, that's a nicely formatted alternative. I often like to change my messenger status to a URL like this. It's slowly making an impact.
Depends in which stage you are, but if you are still figuring out what to build, or how to build it, fast-built messy monoliths are the least of your problems.

Once things are validated, opportunities compound to rewrite "properly" (^Wtemporarily) things around or aside the monolith.
So this answer can only come from a place where you have no idea how business works.

There's a gaping difference between 'value creation' and 'value capture'.

Some products create incredible value for many parties, but don't have an easy way to capture value.

Some products create negative value for the system, but are oriented towards capturing a lot of money.

Wikipedia, Web Browsers a lot of Open Source libs. - examples of the kinds of things that can be invaluable, but whereupon it's difficult to capture value.
If you can use git, you can run a webserver. It's all just right there waiting for you.
To give a Dutch perspective: Lots of Dutch people would not be found dead in Almere (founded in '76), for a long time it was basically a satellite city of Amsterdam where people went to sleep. Then in the mid 90's it started to change: companies realized that the daily traffic jam to Amsterdam in the morning and to Almere in the evening was a major obstacle, so why not relocate the company to Almere? And this caused the first wave of businesses to settle there in what was for the time ridiculously cheap real estate. This then led to some commuting the other way because some of the employees lived in Amsterdam and then ended up working in Almere. But that has always been a small fraction of the traffic in the other direction. Even today Almere houses and commercial space are a very small fraction of what those go for just the other side of the bridges of A27 and A6, which is prime real estate (Laren, Blaricum, Hilversum, Amsterdam and some cheaper areas as well but not much cheaper).

Almere obviously doesn't have a whole lot of history compared to other Dutch towns, it is quite literally built on 'new land', areas that were turned from water into land in living memory (1950's and 1960's). Almere 'haven' is the oldest part, subsequently Almere has grown in jumps to become the fastest growing and now the 7th largest municipality of the Netherlands.

So this why Almere is the place in NL where there is room for such experimentation. In other Dutch cities it is usually super crowded already and the only places where you can still expand is at the edges, and municipalities tend to be very conservative to help the new areas blend in with the older ones.

I have some family living in Almere, they work on the other side of the bridge so over the years (they have lived there now for 35 years) that took up a lot of commute time, but where they live is child friendly and it is a much nicer house than they would have ever had anywhere else in NL on a much larger lot. But there isn't - even today - a whole lot of life in Almere compared to other Dutch cities and likely this will remain until it is so old that it no longer stands out as the 'newest city'. Second generation citizens of Almere already are much more at home there than those that moved out from Amsterdam (and especially from Bijlmermeer), and with every passing generation that will improve.

But it will be a long time before people will go to Almere to see the city center.

What would really help Almere is a second bridge into Amsterdam but there are many reasons why that likely will not happen in the next 20 years or so. (see: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJmeerverbinding (Dutch)).
True. Someone else pointed out that some call it async work instead.

I've never heard companies say they're async though, only remote. The two seem to be conflated most of the time.
Looks like YouTube Premium Lite is only available in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22605455/youtube-premium-l...
Does anyone remember Office 2013 with the UPPER CASE MENUS?

They were bad enough, but then Visual Studio 2013 HAD THEM TOO.

That was triply bad: ugly, took more screen width than Mixed Case, and perhaps worst of all, to a programmer they looked like errors.

Most of the languages we work with are case sensitive, so FILE and File look like two different things. It was a constant irritant.

The chief designer for VS2013 had a blog post about the new design, and naturally in the comments there were a lot of complaints about the uppercase menus.

The designer eventually replied: "Thanks for your feedback. We decided to keep the uppercase menus because we want more energy in this part of the interface."

More energy. I am not making this up.

They eventually came to their senses, and the next releases of Office and Visual Studio went back to conventional Mixed Case menus, just like every Windows app has used since the beginning.

(Note: my use of uppercase at the top of this message is not for emphasis or shouting, it's for illustrative purposes.)
We can go further down this road, moving all political power to the committees:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-have-politics-in-the-us...
Productivity yak-shaving is a socially acceptable alternative to work, like meetings.
Tangential fact, another way eBay robs sellers is charging sellers fees on the sales tax eBay opts to collect from buyers, at the same rate as the sold item’s category driven final value fee.

Basically they end up collecting sales tax from buyer, as mandated by marketplace laws, but charge the seller typically 13% of the collected sales tax as a fee
> Annoying but hardly rare in the business world

Not really the "business world" is it though? Ebay markets itself as something any consumer can use to clear out their old stuff and make a bit of extra money. I appreciate that some people build businesses off it but that doesn't seem like what this guy was doing and he really shouldn't have to take them to court to get his money back.
> According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, there were 1,056 train derailments (both cargo and passenger) in the US in 2021

The key word here might be "US". The letter writer is specifically talking about Iowa; are state-by-state statistics available?

If you've never spent time in the Midwest, you probably have never seen a train that's a mile or longer. Endless cars of agricultural products, often high fructose corn syrup. I saw this often growing up in Iowa, never in California. In the Bay Area, freight sometimes moves along the same tracks as Caltrain at night, but the trains are tiny in comparison to those of Iowa.

For a while, I think trains in Iowa were limited by how long a train was allowed to block a roadway (IIRC 10 minutes). I think trains were sized so at least in theory they could comply with the law when at speed. The law might have changed since, and/or maybe there aren't as many at-grade crossings anymore. (A painful intersection in my home town recently got grade separation.)
Cloudflare’s post on the same community group: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-the-wintercg/

@jgrahamc would you consider merging/rebasing Workers on Deno or another runtime once these APIs converge?
If you're in a monorepo then you're replicating the constraints a monolithic architecture applies, so yes, I could see that happening.

Edit: Inadvertently, this is why I also like to call these things "patterns" rather than architecture. Architecture being the idea, and pattern how you implement it.
> a teacher may not have time/resources to give extra content in kindergarten

A few weeks ago, I spoke with the principal at one of the most popular[0] public elementary schools in San Francisco. She told me:

- she's only had a student skip a grade once ever

- no matter how far ahead a child is, a kindergarten teacher will not teach any first grade content

[0] as measured by ratio of applicants to spots
Right, and the Democratic Party gave Hilary Clinton a safe seat in New York. How'd that work out in 2016?
One thing I've noticed is POs are almost always from the Product Management side. It makes sense, they both have Product in their name. I think this is part of the problem and that at the scrum team level the PO should be an engineer.

The issue is that the granularity of a system that should have product management is often larger than the granularity of a single scrum team. You can have several teams working together on a cohesive product. Yet often each team will have it's own product manager acting as PO. This leads to a lot of unnecessary horse trading and suboptimal results.
I like it a lot. I've been using Twitter as a private account with a dozen of friends that I follow/follow me for the last few years. This would allow me to have that, but to also be able to make public tweets from time to time, instead of having to have two separate accounts.
I have worked at software companies where meetings were indeed the desired outcome, even if no one said that part out loud.
Tell people outside of tech circles.
Waterfall also consists of those phases. One core idea of agile is instead of a big design up front to iterate those phases as fast as possible because often the requirements are not clear from the beginning and you have to see if your ideas bring value to the stakeholders. The problem is that not all tasks can be done in a short time and sometimes need more planning. Planning is often neglected in agile environments. In some environments you also know the requirements beforehand (because they stem from the law for instance), agile development does not work there.
I am happy with that so long as you : a) do not try and make other people kill goats, and b) do not insist on stopping the other team that likes to shave its hair after every show & tell because that works for them.
Get a time machine. Those profits are already baked into the stock price.
Chris Bangle, who was the chief designer at BMW for the E65 generation of 7 series and E46 generation of 3 series, said that he was designing to the other designers. Which is why he ignored the feedback that the E65 was ugly. The term "Bangle Butt" was applied to the E65. His successor took the radical position that this thing called "beauty" was important. I don't have sources at hand but it was discussed in print and web publications of the consumer side of the auto industry.
Do most people really want this world where you rarely interact directly with another human? Every time I try it for a few days, I start feeling depressed.
So you are discrediting without giving the actual reason?
I watch a lot of YouTube on my smart TV even an old Roku but after the changes to the frequency of ads it was unbearable. It was to the point where I would mute the TV and put my hand up to block the ad from my eyes. I would also press back a few times to exit out of the ad and most times if done twice no ad plays.

Ads always cut off the first 5 seconds of the videos, and ads were popping up seconds after the initial two ads, and then ads cut in mid sentence. No thought of the content presented like a TV ad would do just stuff in as many as possible.

Eventually I gave in an paid the $10/moth. YouTube is broken and unwatchable without doing it that way at least on a smart TV or a Roku.
I'm not trying to change your mind so hopefully this comes off as supportive and interesting.

Issues can rarely be broken into a clean dichotomy of correct and incorrect. Math formulas have correct and incorrect answers, but socioeconomic issues lay on a foundation of unpredictable and unforeseeable chaos. No matter the control mechanism created, it cannot account for every variable. And I believe on that we agree. The divergence seems to be in what to do once that basis has been accepted.

The regulated market approach seems to be to legislate and regulate to prevent the known worst-case scenarios. The free-market approach seems to be to accept that chaos is unpredictable and to build a support structure that empowers success. This whole paragraph is necessarily reductive, but hopefully it's respectfully so.

But again, I don't claim to understand free market. Quite the opposite! I don't know how you could say there's a "correct" action to take when my understanding of the free market is to just let things play out. Clearly, I'm missing something.

I also don't know how one could rightfully compare the socioeconomic situation of Sweden and Denmark to the USA without blatantly ignoring significant historical events that led to the current situation. Sweden is a variable pointing to an object in memory that has a wildly different behavior pattern than the object behind the USA pointer. Just because they implement many of the same interfaces does not mean that they implement all of the same interfaces. They also use vastly different amounts of system resources, and are used very differently by other objects.
More Control and Package Management Using Package Users
Could you please explain how these tasks would improve quality of life for someone in another field? A doctor, mechanic, hairdresser, etc. I fail to see how these are as important as cooking or literacy (as it's been compared to elsewhere in the thread).
On an old TV I have it can take at least 5 seconds before it starts counting down. I've just assumed it was a badly maintained app. Have 3 smart Tvs and YouTube seems to behave different on all of them. May have to look into it.
Cable tv was originally ad-free because you paid for the content instead. Now you pay and get more ads than network tv instead!

Premium channels were ad-free longer, because you the content producers didn't have to share the fees based on (estimates) of how much the channel was watched.

Lots of ad-free services really mean "no ads except bumpers since you must like ads just not in the middle of the show".

Why would anyone be stupid enough to trust google to keep the "ad free" experience ad free?
Programming is easy. Writing correct programs is hard.
This is my wish list for preview:

1. Support for h265 video previews (not sure about technical or any other licensing hurdles)

2. Basic playback controls (via keyboard) when viewing video previews - just play, pause, skip would do. I review a ton of videos and I'd often like to pause to take a screenshot or skip to quickly see what's happening in the video.

3. Option to zoom on text files like json, csv etc. Not a big deal but would be a great addition especially on hi-res external displays.

Edit: Looks like I mixed quicklook with preview. My bad.
I have. It was about a company that kept spamming me with SMSes. I had to file an archaic form for a government agency. It took a while, I received a few emails about progress and asking for additional details.

The spam stopped.
I wouldn't say office-less and async are at odds. It's more like that we now have 2 axes:

- Has or doesn't have physical office;

- Has or doesn't have culture of getting things done with less back-and-forth.

If you look at it like this then you have 4 different combinations -- that translate to 4 different types of companies.
And then they (in the UK, at least) issue debit cards that you just swipe to pay. No authentication whatsoever.

Otters banging rocks, my friend, otters banging rocks.
And get rid of the bright external, useless leds! My room looks like a planetarium at night, since every device has to have a status light...
"How would you deal with externalities such as cars polluting the air with lead?" is a perfectly valid question in response to the claim that "meddling" by governments into the free market is inherently bad. It's neither a non sequitur nor gaslighting.
Ask HN: I'm building a house. Recommended house energy performance calculators?
My house burned down in the wildfires in Colorado so I'm building a new house with better energy performance.

I'd like a piece of software that I can input house parameters into (latitude, orientation, glazing, R values, ACH value, etc) and then have it simulate heating and cooling throughout the day.

Does anyone have recommendations?
4 alone is obviously a 1B+ business in the next 5 years