skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The government" is tiered. A move towards local (e.g. county or city level) control of things like broadband has so far on average been very successful. Maybe even stuff like social networks should be locally run. I'd love to see some city or county level fediverse instances pop up to tie in with locally run broadband. Maybe some craigslist-like personals ad boards and other services would be good, too.

This is the concept of Subsidiarity [9537] - "the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level". In practice this would mean things like the last mile broadband should be handled by the town or neighborhood, the links to the main city in the area by the county, the links to the biggest cities by the state, and the international links by the federal government (roughly).

Same can be applied to many things, and it does add inefficiency to the world, but not much, and prevents giant centralization and the issues that come with it. It also becomes much easier to fix things as the issue is most likely at a lower level. If everyone in the town wants faster Internet, they can just do it without having to negotiate with a massive company or government.

[9537]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity
Yeah a lot of people have a very authoritarian bent without realizing it. For many people it is hard to find any example of protest or dissent from the less powerful about the more powerful, ever being acceptable unless it is the type of protest that is easily ignored.

"This should have been kept internal, where we could have fired you without publicity"
Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it?
My NYTimes subscription is ending next month and I am looking for another news subscription. What news publication is it worthwhile to subscribe to? I’ve read horror stories about dark patterns in cancellation so that should also factor in.

I’m not sure if anyone noticed but NYTimes’ quality has gone downhill for the past 2-3 years and why is there no dark mode on the app? WSJ looks good but there are issues with cancellation.

Edit:
I am from Southeast Asia and got lots of family and relatives in the USA, so the obvious interest in Western and EU culture and politics.
If you haven't seen it, we (Mercury) are also offering debt financing these days, starting with VC-backed companies: https://mercury.com/venture-debt
Google urged to fix abortion searches that steer women to 'fake clinics'
"Here are my screen coordinates, I'm going modal while you're running" seems like a perfectly adequate answer to that.
That's how their classic trackball is set up. I've had mine for at least a year and really like it.

https://ploopy.co/classic-trackball/
WHen the NY Auto Show rolled around this year I went straight to the Toyota booth to try out the BZX4 (What a stupid name now that I think about it)

This car is the supposed Tesla killer. Take it from me, it is not. The interior is claustrophobic reminiscent of early Nissan Leaf. If you are 6'2 or taller, you are going to have a bad time. Its clear that center console was not tested by any tall person. There is nothing appealing about this car in my opinion other than the Toyota badge. It is ugly inside and out. It is neither a bog standard car(which a lot of people want) nor a stunning looking EV(which a lot of people want). It is the standard mismash OEMs have created int he past. They always make EVs "weird" when they don't have to be. Sure this car is going to sell out whatever limited production they can make because demand for EVs far outstrips supply but Tesla killer it will not be.

For Ford I wonder about their cost structure. The teardown of their EVs indicate that they are still implementing old school thinking from the ICE world that adds unneeded cost to the sticker price. This is uncompetitive with Tesla long term. They need to really reform the organization and fast so their next gen EVs do better.
It's better to have each employee write a separate e-mail to HR or his/her manager. Letters like this are generally designed to be seen by a public audience.
Their stock is down 40% YTD that is not explosive growth.
But Elon's hyperbolic tweets and offensive behavior don't actively hinder getting to Mars? I mean, he's the guy running the company, you'd think what he says and does would have a lot more influence over the success or failure of the company's goals.
> Is it indicative that "free speech absolutist" Musk believes your right to speech ends where his feelings get hurt? Certainly!

I don't really get how musk's feelings on free speech apply here. SpaceX is not the government, and it's not a communications platform. I also think it's unfair to say "his feelings are hurt" - it seems perfectly logical to get rid of employees that so strongly disagree with the way the company is being run.

And I have to wonder, why even work there if that's how you feel? This just looks like another example of a group of people who have "problems" with their company but don't want to give up the pay that it provides them.
And those of us left are apparently filling our swimming pools with it
I'd really like to find "the low-level functional language" without "the fun stuff". Or at least it should have simple and boring subset that is usable without "the fun stuff".

Something like Caml Light - precursor to Ocaml - but with translation to C instead of bytecode, so it will be fast and will have comfortable integration with C libraries.
There is an efficiency loss, but the problem is actually the cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure.

Theres plenty of resources out there around this idea.
> Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” in the time an average office worker spends changing font sizes during their career.

I'd love to work in an office where the average worker was as talented as Shakespeare. I'd even come in 5 days a week.
Damn, SpaceX sounds like a company I would never want to work for. What a horrible atmosphere. Who wants to be bullied by people that do not understand the irony of calling the sending of that open letter as distracting.
The NLRB's ruling in that case was, and I'm quoting the NLBR general counsel (as quoted in the reporting by The Verge),

> while some parts of Damore’s memo were legally protected by workplace regulations, “the statements regarding biological differences between the sexes were so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected.”

They didn't rule he was creating a hostile work environment by "sending unsolicited emails"; they ruled that the memo contained statements that were "discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment." This just doesn't apply here -- Damore's strongest argument was that he was discussing working conditions, but the arguments in his actual memo about "women's heightened neuroticism and men's prevalence at the top of the IQ distribution" were the problem.

In this SpaceX case, they were very clearly discussing working conditions in a substantial part of the memo, and it's quite possible that is in fact protected speech. What muddies it up is adding the parts about also needing to tell Elon to stop being an ass on Twitter; that's probably not protected.
AMZN did not have $200B profit in 2021.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-in...
Does anyone have any experience building with Citus they can share?

I've been reading about it for years and it's always sounded very impressive to me - the magic sauce that you can sprinkle on regular PostgreSQL to have it scale horizontally - but I haven't yet had the opportunity to try it.
Hey, we looked into this. It looks like you registered in Rhode Island in 2016, but Rhode Island later revoked your business registration:

http://business.sos.ri.gov/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSearchRedi...

https://opencorporates.com/filings/1091852658

Does this sound correct to you / if so can you remedy it with Rhode Island? (edit: our onboarding team says you specifically want a Certificate of Good Standing from the state)

That said, this should have been communicated as a clear rejection reason—we'll work on that.
Your algorithm seems similar to the premise of Axios.com All their news is brief (albeit longer than your summaries), and follows a very tight format.
I bet this info isnt written down explicitly except in this comment.

The freedesktop.org community really needs it's own Raymond Chen pass down all the accumulated arcane knowledge.
This is entirely predictable, and they should have expected it. But it does not mean that Musk isn't an asshole for having them all fired.
> inherited a lot of his initial money

Elon Musk is literally the child of an apartheid emerald mine owner.
> Howard Hughes was mentally ill

Not his entire career, his later decline became famous due to the scope of wealth and influence that allowed him to indulge in some truly eccentric behavior, but he didn't build said wealth & influence peeing in jars.

> never built anything important (although had a shitload of failures, like the wooden airplane)

Never built anything? How about Las Vegas? Or the several companies he founded and ran successfully across wildly divergent fields? The man designed, built and flew an aircraft that broke world speed records at the time.

> inherited a lot of his initial money and revenue streams

Seriously? Do you not know Musk's family background?

Actually the more I think about it the more I think mint2's comparison was apt, Musk really is a Hughes-like figure, quite brilliant in ways, but with a powerful thirst for publicity and corresponding need to control his image. I could see his paranoid tendencies tending to dominate in the years to come, especially if his halo fully disintegrates
I wouldn’t assume that - this was well publicized. That publicity had only one purpose — to put pressure on management to act. But I doubt the authors anticipated this particular action.
Have you ever been on food stamps or WIC? The lines between luxury and necessity are already quite well defined by at least my humble midwestern state.
I get you're trying to do a parody thing, but your comment is already almost identical with some of the flagged/dead comments here.
>One side wants to build cool shit and the other side wants to shit post on Twitter.

Do we know in which department the sacked employees worked? For all we know, they could have been employed in marketing or HR, not exactly the area that "builds cool shit" but often those that are active on social media and bent on bringing SJW politics into the working place.
The numbers you are using are wrong, and that article is sloppily written. Revenue and profit (net income) are not the same thing.

Redo the math with the correct numbers:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-in...

And note that Walmart/Target/Home Depot/ and all the other retail public companies have profit margins of low single digits. It is safe to assume Amazon has the same low single digit profit margins from its retail operations.
What are the best editors for creating images like this?
Herve here might be your motivation to work on it, as per your initial question :)
What other organization wouldn't let go of someone under these circumstances? Are there any employees that openly, pulicaly and very vocally criticize their leadership

Imagine working with someone like this? If you've been in an organization with people are constantly getting into flame wars about political issues, its incredibly distracting to those that want to get work done.

Some people buy the whole "we're a family" HR spin, but its not true. You're there to do a job and you're paid to do so.
The far left has been entirely captured by the illiberal (really, anti-liberal) sociopolitical frameworks of Critical Theory, and this has now fully been integrated into most modern day institutions by the ruling class, such as universities, corporations, etc. This is backwards looking, it’s already happened. Before I can vote for the left again (which I used to) I need to see them explicitly reject many of the principles behind Critical Theory.
I think you're reading into my comment a bit too much. I never intended to over-generalize or stereotype anyone with ASD, and didn't use any negative words re: Elon or aspergers.
I think its more of a later millennial and Gen-Z thing.

Gen-X was more--call out "the man" and then taking being fired as a badge of pride

Gen-Z wants to call people out without repercussions.
The article makes no mention of this and since Vikings didn’t have a monopoly on beards or scales, I don’t think your statement earned the matter-of-fact-edness with which you delivered it.
No idea where you are getting your numbers, but Amazon did not post $200B in profit in 2021. The list of top five annual profit (adjusted to current USD) by any company ever is:

1. Saudi Aramco (2018) - $120B
2. Saudi Aramco (2021) - $115B
3. Vodafone (2014) - $113B
4. Fannie Mae (2013) - $98B
5. Apple (2021) - $95B

Perhaps you are thinking about revenue?
Exactly—it's entirely infeasible to live in the modern world and keep up with every step of the supply chain for every product and service you use, even if the information were readily available, which it very much is not. It's not even close to being possible.

That's what laws setting floors on how shitty product-safety/work-conditions/worker-pay/et c. can get, are for. Doesn't work so hot in a world where we grant MFN (or whatever it's called now) trade status to authoritarian states with weak worker, consumer, and environmental protections, though.
From https://beautyschoolprograms.com/cosmetology-licensing-requi... you can see that some states have licenses available with lower requirements. Two examples from the link:

* Idaho has "Barber – Barber-stylist 1800 hours; Barber (no chemicals) 900 hours"

* Wyoming has "Barber – 1250 hours with chemical services, 1000 without chemical services"

Maybe 900 or 1000 hours still seems like a lot to you, I don't know. Given the politics of these states it's unlikely their governments are being strong-armed by labor cartels or over-regulating on general principle.
> You can keep telling yourself this to convince yourself that crypto will be as big as the Internet someday, but it is absolutely not the case.

I own zero cryptocurrencies and would rather see the entire ecosystem crash down just to bring the people behind it back to reality. I'm just writing about my experience from the perspective of someone who experienced the "beginning of the internet as mainstream media" for the ones who didn't.
What if I'm not only running Figma, but also a video editor webapp, + MS Teams/Slack, etc etc

I believe the everything as a SaaS trend continues (especially for corporate work environments, which shouldn't be tied to hardware!), and their idea is very sound.
Welcome to the UK in 2022!

You'll even get a crown logo emblazened on the nanosecond ;)
The scenario you present is so oddly specific and contrived I don't really know how to respond to it.

The fact that you mention investment potential as a downside of eating the tax is really amusing to me: is it so hard to imagine a sustainable business that actually makes money? Pumping up the numbers to attract investors is not something that matters to a well established profitable business. Half the economy is small businesses, and the owners tend to be a lot more pragmatic than boardrooms.

> While I think you can cross your fingers and hope a bunch of people famous for being cutthroatly pragmatic will out of the goodness of their heart eat a tax for you...

You've completely missed the point. What I'm pointing out is that, sometimes, cutting prices is the cutthroaty pragmatic choice, because undercutting a competitor may net you more total money at a lower profit.

That moderates the effect of taxes, and prevents them from being fully priced in. Even if nobody actually does it, the risk that somebody might affects the market.

Demand for what you do/sell is what fundamentally limits how much money you make, not profit margin. Increasing demand enough can offset decreasing margin.

Arbitrary example: Walmart can absorb a local tax increase which other small local retailers can't because Walmart's tax burden is spread across many tax localities. They get more business and make more money. It isn't goodwill, it is rational.

Just look at tariffs we've seen in the past few years: did all prices instantly jump by the amount of the tariff? Nope.
That will just subject each employee to individual and separate retaliation. Collective action is the backbone of worker power. HR isn't there to help employees, that division exists to protect the company's interests.
Almost certainly a coincidence. Does Google actually call businesses? I have never received such a call. I do, however, receive many calls from scammers claiming to be from Google.
They really hate revolutions over there huh.
More than one of these purports to have become the moon; I'm skeptical.
The Verge article I found says:

> It’s not known which SpaceX employees wrote the letter; the employees who posted the letter in the internal chat system have not responded to requests for comment.

It says it was in contact with people who saw the letter, but nowhere implies it's the authors.

> The letter generated more than a hundred comments in the Teams channel, with many employees agreeing to the spirit of the missive, according to screenshots of the chat shared by two sources who spoke with The Verge and asked to remain anonymous.
I wonder if floating PV would be an interesting alternative to the shade balls used in some reservoirs[1]? You could get the benefit of lowered evaporation and some extra pv real-estate. Maybe the math is favorable, maybe not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_balls
Insubordination? What order did they violate when voicing criticism of the CEO?

I do think Musk was within his legal rights to fire these people, but that does not mean it was the right thing to do or that he should be immune from criticism. Especially after he's made such a big fuss about free speech being so important.
> It's telling that you rattled off a list of companies that have local monopolies or duopolies where they operate.

... No I listed telecom companies. This whole thread is about telecoms after all. Your arguments apply to generic businesses. But let's focus on the actual industry at hand.

I don't think the populace will ever gain enough education to be able to democratically steward the internet properly, leading to a value captured internet strictly worse than our current private one, so I disagree with the article (and its selective retelling of history claiming the internet was invented by the government). But there's the reality that the internet is mostly run by oligopolistic telecos that your arguments ignore to make a generic "business good government bad" argument. Can you come up with something more specific to this market?
Anyway, I'm gonna bow out of this discussion now as it's not that important. HN is what it is.
Robert A. Heinlein wrote a book called Friday that had something like this. They would use huge solar arrays to charge proprietary solid state batteries called Shipstones which were used everywhere. There wasn't even a power grid anymore because people would just buy a Shipstone and put it into their house and replace it every so often like coal in a coal bin.
Not really an "emulator". It bolted on an entire Apple II-compatible system. Much like some of the earlier compatibility products (both the Amiga and Mac had expansions that added a whole-ass PC on the side, the Amiga product was an official Commodore one while the Mac addon was third-party).
Looking through the Tutorial, the language has a very-english-like syntax to it

For example. variables and functions can have spaces. Words are favored over operators

set some variable to 123

You can even use possesive's

set c to x's size
set c to guess' size

I fin this a little offputting between biases against COBOL and friends, dealing with the parsing ambiguities when writing, and dealing with reading it. I feel like a very good syntax highlighter would be essential to write in this language.
The biggest problem with GNOME is that the organization needs to get their shit together. Their priorities and design choices are awkward at best so I must say they don't care for their users at all.
They are shown inline but they don't play automatically. But they do let the reviewer pause and rewind to see something they've missed, rather than sit there and wait to hopefully catch what they missed.
next step is to use https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan to build the binary
Or... rule of foot, for the compulsive unit-cancelers out there
> There's no large company in the world where attacking top management won't lead to major consequences.

What's interesting to me is that capitalists and usually conservatives and libertarians who worship capitalism are all too vocal when it comes to socialist and communist economic policies supposedly leading to fascism, although they don't, but yet, they are fully behind corporations literally acting as fascist dictatorships. And by interesting, I mean it boggles my mind and frustrates me. It shows these peoples' true colors: greed at all costs.
Serious question, why wouldn't that include a CEO who is increasingly making public political commentary?

I agree that activist workers are a problem for productivity, but the same could be said for activist CEOs.
20 years after heat death of the multiverse.
Does it generate intermediary frames to help the blend, like those crazy Simpsons still frames?

https://imgur.com/43J7UYS, for instance?
I can't understand why there isn't inertia behind restarting ia.bak or similar efforts. That seems critical to me, way more so than an official mirror which would be vulnerable to the same takedown and other pressure.
Interesting! Presumably last 12 measures if you're playing a 12-bar blues, etc.

Big downside is you're stuck playing to a metronome, which would be enough for me to skip it, but it depends on the kind of music you're playing.

I could imagine that if the music is rhythmically slow and vague and improvised, big latencies are OK, and actually might yield some pretty interesting creative results.

Another model I've thought about is to structure players in a rooted DAG, and players can hear only people upstream of them.

E.g., you could build an orchestra by having a conductor and section leaders in a room together (or at within very low latency of each other). Other players could hear the leaders and play along, and then an audience could hear everyone. You could also do something more complicated like build things out in linear or power-of-2 layers, where each layer can hear everything upstream of it, and therefore many players would get a partial sense of the orchestral effect.

This could work nicely for improvised music, too, with causality preserved.
>Ford was a genius for realizing his workers need to make enough to buy his product

In what world does it make sense to pay your workers $20k (or whatever), so they can spend $20k on products that your company makes? Factoring in margins you need each dollar paid to your workers to generate $6.66 dollars worth of sales for you for it to break even.
We should probably read the letter then.
It's both. The money supply grew enormously to fund the Corona shutdowns. You can see it clearly on a graph of M2.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS

Such a fast increase in such a short amount of time is extremely unusual, perhaps unprecedented. There's nothing even remotely close to that instant increase since the dataset begins at the start of the 1980s.

And then the COVID jump didn't only make a huge increase by itself, but the slope of the graph permanently increased.

It's basic economics that if you do that to the money supply you will get a massive jump in inflation.