skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They even have a big new building in city center location.

Does that fact not answer your question. They have costs related to lease/upkeep on that "big new building" which they can't get out of and if no one is working in the new building, those costs just appear to be wasted.

But if they force people back, then there's an excuse for incurring those costs.
They need to argue that, because otherwise it would eat into their bottom line to the point of unprofitability. You can't run a service for billions of people with less than 100k employees that also has an editor review everything.
Option 2 is what just passed with the IRA.

Nearly 4.5b in rebates for things like heat pumps, electric stoves, upgraded electrical and insulation. [1] I imagine we'll be seeing a lot more mailers ad sales folks next year crawling middle and lower income neighborhoods selling packages that take full advantages of these credits.

No clue how supply chains are going to handle the increased material demands these electric appliances need, but it'll be interesting to watch.

1 - https://www.rewiringamerica.org/policy/inflation-reduction-a...
A promising new vaccine candidate to protect children from their #1 killer
Maybe time to rethink the way fines are determined.
I’d be very much in favour of the “swiss model” for traffic fines - based on your income.
You did X wrong, here’s the set price from our catalogue vs. you did X wrong and based on your earnings, here’s what you owe.
Even worse when they lose track of what page you were on when you log back in. (cough Sharepoint cough)
ok, i see what you are getting at. fear of failure in itself vs actual risk of loosing your savings.
> Which is why SF is so poor and underdeveloped.

No, it's one reason why some US cities are becoming increasingly unlivable for anyone outside the upper-middle class - those who sell your groceries, make your lunch or deliver your packages (to name only a handful of occupations).

> An easily identified excuse. Now do suburban Tennessee.

Is suburban Tennessee an urban core?
This simply isn't true.

I've traveled between the bay area and Los Angeles (a six hour drive) many times with a large variety or different drivers. The longest break was a 20-30 minute stop the Greyhound bus makes at a Burger King in the middle of nowhere. But the bus also, doesn't take the shortest route for some reason.

In a private car, the more passengers the greater the chance that someone will ask for a bio break. But if it's just me driving, or I'm the only passenger, the trip is typically a non-stop push. Often without stopping for even 5 minutes at an overpriced gas station in the middle.

Using a current gen EV introduces nearly an hour delay each way when you factor in range limitations and excessive charging times compared to gas.

I expect this will be a solved issue by 2030
Lego-friendly keyboard lets you customize your keycaps and more
If that were true, why we do we see global oil companies, global retailers, global restaurant chains, or global media conglomerates? Do you think Walmart doesn't have to deal with varying employment and product laws at the country, state, and local level for each of its stores?
Shouldn't they rather be banned from running political ads for repeatedly breaking the law?
What exactly is the security risk? The browser intermediates all access and you already trust the browser to handle many other sensitive operations on your behalf. There's no way for a site to activate this without your approval or covertly without a full zero-day (probably two since most OSes also have recording indicators now).

Contrast this with where we were in the bad old days: sites used things like plugins or Flash/Silverlight which had massive attack surfaces and, for years, inadequate privacy controls or sandboxing. Part of why this is in the browser now is that the browser developers realized that things were never going to get better if they left it to the disinterested developers at companies like Adobe, and now that's just a “can you believe we used to think this was normal?” historical trivia point.
I totally agree that Mozilla is mismanaged, but I'll still take a mismanaged and politicized Mozilla over a tentacle of The Google any day.

And that's precisely why I use Firefox. In response to the comment you were responding to, I don't know why anyone should care about how relevant Firefox is. For every browser someone invents, there will be someone claiming how bad it is from a security standpoint because reasons. Whatever. I can't keep changing browsers every time someone on HN says my browser is flawed or that the company behind it sucks.

Unless things have changed, there are things about Firefox that I want that Chromium doesn't have. Can I disable history entirely in Chrome? Last time I looked, nope. Can I have multi-account containers? Nope. Can I block autoplaying videos? Nope. Can my ad-blocking not be nerfed? Nope. Can I not have the settings flags get taken away so frequently? Nope. I'm sure there's other things as well.

If Brave went the road of completely relying on its own browser engine or a fork of Chromium, I'd be all in. The longer Brave is around, the more likely I might make the switch. Another reason I don't want to leave Firefox is I've seen plenty of new and hip web browsers come and go.
The same ones they are committing now? I don't think anyone in this thread is saying that they are upset with those people just because they do illegal drugs, thus making them criminals just by the virtue of doing those drugs. It's all the other non-drug criminal stuff that they do (presumably under influence, but not necessarily) that people are upset about.

No one is a criminal in my eyes for just doing whatever drugs they do. You are, however, a criminal if you run around chasing people on the streets with an axe, screaming at them, and then steal a car[0] (I am aware that this is Seattle, not SF, but the point still stands).

And I honestly don't think that officially legalizing fentanyl or meth or whatever else they were on would have helped, especially since drug consumption crimes are de-facto non-enforced in Seattle (which imo is not a bad thing at all, I am totally fine with consumption not being a crime).

0. https://komonews.com/news/local/axe-wielding-man-apparently-...
Smart streetlights are casting a long shadow
Possible...and way less convenient and way more expensive than just putting some ozone into the air.
That thread-local MXCSR register is particularly entertaining in a thread pool environment, such as OpenMP. OSes carefully preserve that piece of thread state across context switches.

I tend to avoid touching that value, even when it means extra instructions like roundpd for specific rounding mode, or shuffles to avoid division by 0 in the unused lanes.
This seems very much like the episode of Veep'Boxes of lies' where they try to hide their nefarious deeds alongside the real day to day inter-workings of the vice presidents office but inundating the public with data.
Excellent! This was just a shitty move from Apple that appears to be money gouging to consumers - they should have instead offered a discount to those who didn't want a charger.
That isn’t easily shown in official studies as it only makes them look bad. Do this for me; in the middle of the day, go park your car with some boxes in the back near embarcadero, go to lunch, come back to broken windows and call the police. No one will come to take your report, then let me know what you think.
The Deacon and the Dog
Cities already make visitors pay. First there is usually a higher sales tax. Furthermore, many cities have additional taxes on lodging and entertainment. These taxes are quite substantial.

Furthermore look at decaying cities in the 70s. The cities weren't subsidizing surrounding areas by providing services. Instead, many businesses and services straight moved out of cities to surrounding areas. So did many people.

It was only in the 90s when cities became hip again and services sprang back up in cities.

According to your notion, surrounding areas were subsidizing cities in the 70s.
There is a possible future where HTML and JavaScript are relegated to historical shims for WASM and <canvas>. I don't know if this is a good future or not, but you want a future with cross-platform apps freed from "web technologies" that's probably the one that's most achievable from the state of things today.
> ...a folding bluetooth mouse out of my laptop's ExpressCard slot...

Say what!?! How have i never heard of this until today!?! @causi Would you mind sharing a link to whatever cool mouse you had? Thanks!
SE Michigan has outages all year round, it's just an infrastructure problem. Before I moved, I was used to (fortunately short) DTE outages at least once a month, every computer needed a UPS or you would lose work. In Nashville I haven't had an outage without a tornado coming through (knock on wood). I remember being woken up by the UPS beeping at night all the time and I just spent four years with it right next to my bed with no issues (albeit only because I wasn't sleeping during the tornado sirens anyways).
With electrical heating, if you consider transmission losses you can see that the effective home heating is less than 100% of the generated power. The power lines and equipment warm the outside too.

Another benefit of the high COP heat pumps: in reducing the total power consumption at the home, it also brings a proportional reduction in those losses outside the home...
I don't know about that. The firm I work at constantly loses talent to it.
You can do anything you put your mind to but somethings require large amounts of resources. Resources which are either controled or expensive. Knowing what to do might get you 50% there but you would still need to run experiments to gain new information
Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
Tutorial showing how to build a platform for creators to sell their digital downloads. We use Ruby on Rails, Stimulus, Tailwind UI, and many Stripe APIs and tools.
Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
Just to be a devil's advocate: pot8o is only 1 character shorter than potato. The latter is a real word that people know how to spell and will remember better.

Also, using a number in the middle of a word is commonly for abbreviating that many characters, like a11y, a16z, i18n. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym

Playing with 8:

pot8.to - pot-eight-to

t8r.com - "tater" - informal for potato; also slang for "home run" in baseball

All that said, I heard some advice that sometimes it's easier to name your startup by starting with an available short-ish domain.
And have nothing come of that? Been there, done that. They do not give a shit.
I just noticed his username because I’ve seen it so often in these threads about Facebook. And it seems dishonest for him to level accusations while carefully wording his comment to sound like an insider.

I posted the link for context. FWIW I agree with him on most points, and I’ve just sent traffic to his 10 year old post disparaging Facebook, so if I’m a paid shill I’m pretty bad at it.
Yes Vienna does an amazing job but nobody in other cities seems to notice :(
I understand the depth of field is cool, but the demos (https://voxelchain.app/previewer/Demo.html) are excessively blurry to the point of unusability, and rapidly changes so often it gives me a headache (https://imgur.com/a/bSEFuX7).

Otherwise nice work!
My thoughts exactly. Meta appears to be willing to throw any amount of cash at a problem -- how many executives are willing to be put in jail for the same goal? May be time to strengthen the underlying legislation to include criminal charges for repeat-repeat offenders at scale.
It says Open Source right in the HN headline. That the license contradicts that seems like important information to discuss.
I do not think it is about that. Chan-Zuckerberg initiative donated about half
a billion to finance elections infrastructure in 2020. It may be about power but certainly not about money
-funsafe-math is neither fun nor safe.
I guess the question is if they felt like they could continue with their current staffing. Obviously this is a really big funding round, so they clearly decided to aim for more than the status quo, but I've seen plenty of projects where it was many dev's side project, or it was a small number of full-time dev's work, but they were getting burned out and overworked trying to provide the service.

It just always feels too easy to assume that it was sustainable to run/maintain some minimally priced service. Perhaps they realized they needed more developers to have a healthy relationship with their job, and instead of raising the price to $30/year or more to match the new costs, they decided to shoot for the moon.

I'm certainly not trying to say that it's obvious that they're making the right call by taking this investment, or that this won't all fall apart. It's just also important to not assume that the status quo for them was something they could keep going on for the next 3 years.
> and doled out by the government

Not necessary. A land value tax provides a market-based solution to this problem.
Fines for GDPR violations work that way too. A severe violation can be penalized with "a fine of up to €20 million, or 4% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher." https://gdpr.eu/fines/
Billions of people are not buying Facebook ads.
Compaq hasn't existed in any meaningful sense in 10-15 years. HP formally retired the brand in the early 2010's, although it had all but faded away several years prior to that.
What were the jokes? I couldn't find it in the tweet?
The clipart and other graphics may reduce the webpage's formality, but the text itself by Russell is a classic work.
An implementation isn't a standard, yet reference implementations exist, and yet the WHATWG standards are written in pseudocode.
That’s a great book!
I see so much growth & positivity, so much can-do-ism. Everyone's doing great things, but in particular the web has brought about a much higher access to systems that seem much safer for users, much more sandboxed, with better tools/extensions/navigability/accessibility/hackability, that have much more open source activity going on than native (which has been to huge benefit in so many ways: to productivity, to learning, to exploring, to having fun, to creating social cultures & groups).

> I think that we're in a downwards spiral at this point

I'm mainly writing a reply just to say: I have huge hope we're on an great upward ascent & have made things increasingly better.

> IMO, the reason is, to a large degree, ineptness of software engineers.

I sometimes encounter less than optimal code or solutions, but the amount of times that it matters is unbelievably little. Focusing on really good engineers making really excellent decisions is, not, to me, a critical issue in most places. I think there's a lot of value in just finding the budget to support open source engineers, in trying to support good community efforts, like Web Incubation specs, like Bytecode Alliance. Time & care, about doing good things for community, over time, is the incomparable advantage, is the prime requirement of turning acceptable/passable/maybe-a-little-defect-y code into something that really works well & serves & is/has-become enduring.

> Instead, the industry as a whole hands out more "productive" tools, i.e., the abstraction layers you mentioned,

I see so little harm to using the good, well embraced, ultra productive, mid-industrial toolset we've grown into. And I see so little benefit to trying to go any other way. We should respect resource consumption, and some apps (webapp and native both) do bad jobs, but the layers mentioned seem like a vanish point of concern, far far far down where I think computing needs to be dwelling & caring & trying to do better. There's so few examples that there are real gains to be made from abandoning the layers we have; efforts like react-native show we can do basically the same high-production technioques at a native layer, but the rewards for doing it native have almost never materialized; just using the web stack continues to be good.

I think there are far more productive things to be debating & discussing, as we decide where to orient ourselves & the next steps of computing to. Worrying about these stacks has infected too much of the online discourse time spent, has become a mind-virus.
Bloomberg spent enough money to give every US citizen $1000000 on his last presidential run!

(Not really… there were just some newscasters that were really bad at math)

But he did spend like $1B as just one candidate in the primaries.
Nationalism. I think we'll see less enthusiasm of "free trade" around the world, and more countries "fend for themselves" as the balance of power shifts and changes as it moves away from the West.

It'll be up to many factors if this nationalism is peaceful, pragmatic, and without many frills like Mexico's recent push for self-sufficiency in gasoline/agriculture[1][2], France's energy nationalization[3], etc. or radical, discriminatory and even violent, like Trumpism, Brexit, etc.

In terms of policy I expect we'll see more tariffs, fewer new free-trade agreements, some countries might roll back on theirs, and we'll see much more government intervention to help national industry compete. Beyond economic policy this will include immigration policy, but it doesn't necessarily mean forbidding immigration. Countries that do it pragmatically will keep using it as a tool to capture value and protect national interests (getting the right workers, strategically capturing investment from some foreigners but maybe not others, etc). Countries that don't will base policy on prejudice.

I don't expect free trade to end anytime soon, or for things to get as tense and divided as during the Cold War, but do expect "soft" blocs to be better defined. In terms of the tech industry, I wouldn't expect more "great firewalls" like China's, but perhaps more regulation over data collection and physical location, taxes, and even bans (like Huawei's in the USA, TikTok in India) or forced sales (like what almost happened to TikTok in the USA).

[1]: https://mexicobusiness.news/agribusiness/news/mexico-will-ac...

[2]: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/28/mexico-plans-to...

[3]: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/france-announce-deta...
Thank you! I've already tried to make a post a couple days ago, but it got immediately hit by the spam filters. Big thanks to the HN support for resolving this so quickly :>
Where I live (Wales, UK), a recent report examined school attendance since the start of the pandemic. Not only does attendance continue to decline in the high single digits, the affect on the worst-off in society is truly devastating. The decline there is in the medium-high double digits (Table 3 in linked article).

https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2022-04/a...
>You can't blame them for taking cheap Russian gas to keep jobs and prosperity for a few decades...

That's like saying: "you can't blame the drug addict for choosing short term highs for a few years"
"GP" stands for 'grandparent' (at least I think it does) - so in this case by GP comment I meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32676920.

Yes, in a sense everything is ideological/political, but not in a sense that would make garden-variety snark the same as substantive, thoughtful comments—it's not. We want thoughtful comments here, not snark.

Whatever ideology you favor, I assume it's about something deeper and more important than internet putdowns, so HN's rules should be easy enough to adapt to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nobody wants to talk about it but we really need to decriminalize hiring druggies.

Drug addicts can work quite well in the trades (drywall hangers are famous for being meth-heads in some areas) but once "enforcement" starts cracking down on hiring them, they can't find work.
Why Do Children Die?
Go is a compiled language that uses a linker which means that only the functions that are called end up in the final binary. So yes, go does "tree-shaking".
I’d claim that if a person owns 10 percent they can afford to fill 9 percent of those and push up prices such that it becomes a net gain. It seems as though housing is priced on the edges of supply and demand and that a slight excess of either can shift prices for the future units being bought or rented.

I once spoke with a general manager of a large hotel that explained to me how certain levels of vacancy were targeted for this reason. I feel as though the methodology would be somewhat analogous.

Further, there is statistical modeling for sale that indicates what can be afforded in geographic locations. I’d claim that additional housing would be priced to what’s affordable rather than attempting to outbid the lowest listing as housing is a price-inelastic good.
The point you seem to be missing is that Chromium isn't a standard.

If you want to reduce fragmentation while avoiding having one entity with too much control, the solution is fair setting of web standards and multiple browser implementations from different entities.

Requiring everyone to "just fork Chromium" would leave far too much power in the hands of Google (as if they didn't have far too much power already).
Do you consider all people who are politically conservative to be fascist or just Trump supporters?
"The Book of Kubernetes
A Complete Guide to Container Orchestration
by Alan Hohn"
If it's unable to comply with the law and stay profitable, then maybe they should go out of business.
You know my comment said some people, wealthy people lived better in some ways than present day impoverished factory workers? Farm hands, Eastern European serfs and so-forth did not live better by any means.

As other have noted, the industrial revolution also got much of it's impetus from peasant being driven off the land they cultivated.
Add the Bypass Paywalls extension, it works on Firefox and Chromium. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
No, but if you can spend decades building up convincing PoCs and pitch decks without needing to worry about starving, rent or healthcare you are more likely too. Sweden is more entrepreneurial than most of the rest of Europe for this reason afaik
Richard Hamming gave a famous talk on this back in 86 (and repeated many times -- I heard him give it in '88 and it affected me greatly. His essay on the subject has circulated widely: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

Actually this talk is on the topic of the title of this blog post. The blog post itself seems mainly a complaint about current circumstances.
How China’s YouTube Became a Rare Safe Space for LGBT Streamers
Hey, just so you know, that “share links” button leads to some of the best share options I’ve ever seen on a data website. You could combine those three lines on one chart and share as a static image for example.

Only sharing bc I was late to the party on them too.
I didn't see that - but thanks for the link [=
In the 50’s, the population of the U.S. was under half of what it is now. And lots of professionals (and their high wages) like to live, or must live, in urban areas driving prices up in those same areas.

Supply and demand, combined with “rugged individualism” valued so highly in the states. That individualism is largely what drives NIMBY mentalities.
I did a very similar tool like this for Cryptocurrencies, I can use this opportunity to shill it here https://www.dca-cc.com.

For a while already, I procrastinated adding stocks to it, although people have asked for it https://github.com/vladanpaunovic/dca-crypto/issues/42.

The tool you looks beautiful! Congratulations!
if all you care about is money, sure. but if i hire you i care about your experience, not the money you already accumulated. and if your partner only cares about your money, find a better partner. spending a few years gaining experience instead of earning money is not nothing to show for. on the contrary. it's the more valuable experience for your future. money is not everything.