skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do it from time to time for an event (like a conference) or meeting in the nearish-by city. I'm at least 90 minutes door to door whether I drive or take the train. The day's not a waste--but it is a very long day. It's mostly events to tell you the truth; I have very little reason to go into our office there these days.

I did actually commute in about 50% of the time at a previous job. It wasn't really sustainable long term.

(My nearer office is a relatively easy commute though I don't go in there either.)
None of these proposed bans or guidelines seem specific to cars, so why are they being narrowly targetted at them? Bans on bait-and-switch, fraudulent fees, junk fees, and requiring upfront disclosure of costs and conditions should apply to anything that you buy.
US minimum wage is $7.25; 40 hours a week would be $14,500 in pre-tax income. Average car ownership, per AAA, costs $10,728. Adding in the $3,400 for tuition leaves an entire $372 for food, clothing, hygiene, entertainment, and medical expenses. Seems reasonable!

Setting aside quickly Googled statistics and the risks of using averages to understand individual situations, plus the wide state-by-state variation in support to community college, let's just take the minimum wage and your $70/week number. Let's also set aside how it's quite hard to get 40 hours per week these days in a lot of jobs because of corporate schedule fuckery that was much less severe when I was punching a McDonald's clock.

That's circa 10 hours per week of pay or 25% of their time. Is that number a lot? I would say yes. I don't know many people who can save 25% of their gross pay. If that's you, congrats.
Someone patched Chrome to enable raytracing with WebGPU: https://github.com/maierfelix/chromium-ray-tracing
I'd say that most of the websites still use HTML/CSS/JS and are server-side rendered - well, at least 40%+ of the web does (WordPress).

The distinction mainly is in the apps. Yes, web apps almost always use a framework like React now. Others have already explained the whys.

However, it's still possible to do webapps the traditional way, with the server-side approach, adding only a little interactivity via JS - techs like LiveView and HotWire: https://hotwired.dev/
Obviously not Microsoft word but I built my resume builder using vanilla JS, html and css:

https://resumetopdf.com/
Why bother? Arathorn and his fanboys will come out of the woodwork to shit on the author of any such piece as soon as it's posted.

Just Google Matrix and privacy and there are all sorts of things that come up.

The matrix.to links, the default identity server that was eventually removed after Arathorn personally gaslit me on this website about its existence (why did the bad default to use matrix.org as an identity server need to be removed if it wasn't a problem, hmm?)

I mean the real question is: do you want to use a distributed database for chat? If you love waiting forty minutes to join a channel on another server, Matrix is for you!

I currently use a Matrix server with two other people and I love telling them "I'm going to join a channel on the matrix.org flagship server, so nobody will be able to send messages for an hour or so."

Meanwhile I'm using a different chat product on the same server and it works fine while Synapse plugs away at.. uh.. joining a public channel.

I've gotten off topic.

Point is, Matrix is terrible, but thanks to the sunk cost fallacy people are still pushing it. Stuff like the OP prove to me that the basic failures I've seen in UX with Matrix stem back to a spec that is too large and makes it possible to do too many things that aren't chat, to the detriment of the chat features.

Hell, I once witnessed an hours long shouting match in the Synapse Admins channel on the matrix.org homeserver about whether or not Matrix was a chat protocol or not, because it does so much more -- and this argument was between very involved community members/contributors!

Maybe, just maybe, we'd be better off using a protocol for chat that knows what kind of protocol it is?
It would be better to end corn subsidies altogether which have wide-reaching effects on the health of Americans.
That's fair.

I was not criticizing people for their take on the subject, but rather for coming after the author instead of discussing the article he wrote.
Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
What do you use to launch your weekend project these days?

Example, I'm developing a simple Python project that uses database. Need db service that I don't want to manage. Also, want to auto scale
> set the impossible goal that it would one day supplant the absurd profits of their ad business

Who says they’re replacing ads with VR?
> Practically the definition of "process over people". There are certain types of people who thrive in that environment. The people I've seen be successful there are either people who successfully disassociate their working lives from their personal lives or who are engineers with high technical ability but lacking social skills.

That has been exactly my experience, after 5.5 years. My team spends 4 hours in sprint planning every week (there are 9 of us). It is way more important to try to plan out work than it is to actually do the work.

> The bigger problem I have with the company is the types of managers that environment creates. The primary function of a manager at Amazon as far as I can tell is to enforce process and the secondary function is to maximize output of the people reporting to them.

I did burn myself out trying to reduce operational load. I wasn't arguing for it the right way, so I ended up doing it myself. I was able to measure my results, but it didn't even count towards a promo because I didn't "harmonize discordant views"... instead I just did what needed to be done.

Many many folks inside Amazon say it has a startup culture. That is false. Try to find out how many of those folks have actually worked outside Amazon before taking their advice.
There's been a recent effort to move it forward, which is how I heard about it.

[0] https://www.climatechangemakers.org/issue-briefing-ffs
Private bank loans also play a part in increasing the money supply and inflating bubbles too. But who is to blame for reserve banking and our current soft-money standard which facilitates endless cycles of extreme booms and busts?
I think it depends on the state you're in and the inventory of the car you're buying. Some states have already implemented strong consumer protections that would have encouraged this style of transaction and eliminate many of the mechanisms where it could go wrong.

Further, in the last two years there have been a strong demand and low supply for vehicles. Many dealerships were selling out of cars months before they were even delivered - meaning they're bought sight unseen. Finally they get marked-up 10% or more. So even the cheapest bid is still well over the sales price established by the manufacturer.

Source: Bought a car in 2021, did a lot of research.
depreciation is certainly a subsidy to capital, which is entirely unnecessary and distorts markets by upsetting the pricing mechanism. financial firms will happily provide upfront capital to any future profitable project.
that is less a problem with mozilla and more a problem with CEO class that get massive pay yet often its difficult to distinguish who is a real proffeshional and who is full of hot air
Good luck with all the alcoholic types you're going to be generating as a side effect of forcing people with anxiety issues into talking in a public space. You'll be seeing self-medication for gaba dysfunctions as people try to keep their job.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303399/
Just another attempt at killing innovation and enshrining fiat to the detriment of small businesses, sustainable energy, and unbanked cultures worldwide /s
I worked back at microsoft when gates was still there. we had saturday meetings all the time. Like a couple of times a month. I was routinely doing work at 11pm trying to get things checked in before midnight. This was before gates had kids, we all joked. The stock made the job lucrative but it was killer, I can't believe I did that. Mostly I saw people retire, not quit or get fired.

The difference with amazon is that everyone experienced knows a fair number of people who quit because of the stress and negatives, with lots of money on the table if it goes 2 or 3 months. I have two friends who quit, each with a quarter million coming if they stayed one more quarter. It would have to be pretty bad for that. I didn't see this happen at microsoft. We made progress in our jobs, and rest and vest wasn't even an ironic statement.
>I would like to hear in what possible way this is a better idea (practically or politically) than just a straight carbon tax.

Why not both?
OP's username is lama_mama so no missed opportunity.
I'm from the EU: we could cut energy requirement for heating by 50% in a very short time just by properly insulating buildings. It's also rational to reduce the regulations blocking + further incentivise build out of wind/solar along with prolongation of existing nuclear where possible.

Lets do that instead of sucking yet more oil/gas out of the ground.
I strongly disagree. I worked at an analytics company that had and needed a privacy ethics department. They were great. It was a mix of lawyers, philosophers (degree in the subject), and former developers.

They consistently thought about the nuances of baking privacy into a product in a way that I didn't have the background or time for. Every time I worked with them, they helped me build a better product by helping me tweak the specs in a way that had minimal impact on our users (unless they were a bad actor) and strongly increased privacy protections. It was like having a specialized PM in the room
Very interesting indeed. That's some food for thought.

Though I should note that if this code has a "store.js" file, this is not the kind of store that I had in mind. More like the Svelte store [1], or Redux (which I find awfully complex).

I didn't know the "storage" event on Window [2] (which, for the record, triggers when localStorage is modified from another page. Does not trigger when modified from the same page, which makes localStorage not sufficient as-is to build the kind of store I'm referring to).

[1] https://svelte.dev/tutorial/writable-stores

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/stor...
Because it was a time of magic. Every month you could find things that were significantly better, significantly cheaper, or completely brand new. (And by "completely", I do not mean "a new product that does the same old thing". I mean something I'd look at and think "I never even thought of doing that with a computer".)

There was just a newness and excitement, and the ads show it.
More than that... does it really do anything? Making companies spread their expenses over 6 or 7 years instead of 1 to 2 doesn't seem like a big deal if they are constantly investing in new facilities.
Simple enough to trust employees to be conscientious and good

Most engineers I know are responsible and ethical, and have strong moral compasses.
P-Lisp ran on an Apple II: https://archive.org/details/P-Lisp_v3.0.1
Lightning CSS: Parse, transform, bundle, and minify CSS
It’s simple. Mobile users are genpop while PC gaming users are more technical.
So dont do it at all? Because the republicans are likely going to take the house in November, and they definitely arent going to pass this.
It's not their job to build, it's their job to ensure that what you build isn't crap on any number of fronts (security, compliance with regulations). You know, important things that impact your users (if you have the best software ever, but it leaks user PII in the HTML because you're a dickhead who wanted to build fast without any regard for security, that's not great).
I'm not going to defend deceptive dealership sales practices, but as long as you have a good credit rating they often offer very good APRs. Most manufacturers have captive finance arms to juice their sales numbers and the financing terms can be better than what you would get from an independent lender. For example, Toyota is offering 2.49% on a 4-year loan which is lower than the US Treasury yield so if you do have to buy a car then you can literally make a profit by borrowing from them.
How Transistors Work [video]
I use the "hide" button to tailor my HN experience.
PeopleSoft is now replaced by Workday.
No disrespect but your experience with foobar seems like the inverse of how it works? It definitely has a Library function, but my workflow for using foobar for years now is:

- Install

- Turn off visualization

- Drag and drop folder full of audio on the main window

That's one of the things I like about it the most: I do a ton of reorganization of my audio, so the fact that foobar can run in 'dumb' mode is a godsend.
If that's a real opportunity she has, I wish she'd leave Mozilla and take it. But given the abysmal performance of Mozilla, is she actually worth as much as she claims? Why should we believe her?
Internet gambling isn't legal everywhere.
The power bill will have you standing out like a sore thumb...
Yes. Reminds me of the ol' classic, "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" by Joel.

However, I do believe a (slightly) better competitor could be created, with better technology, better workflow, etc. If well-capitalized. If it had well-factored plugins. If you had a top-notch team to design all that and then build it.

That's a lot of ifs. Joel says it isn't guaranteed a brand new team will even do better than the old on the essential angle. It's risky and costly enough to prevent it from happening.
I remember last time a looked into this is that there are really no tax subsidies that the oil and gas industry gets that are unreasonable. Absolutely every industry with high CapEx font-load their amortization.

It is the non-tax subsidies that add up. The US' military interest in the Middle East seems to be entirely based on the oil reserves in the region. How much less oil would be pumped with warring countries and unstable regimes? Also, oil companies largely don't pay for the environmental damage they do. If burning oil left a stinky purple gas instead of an invisible gas, they would be paying far, far more to stop it or get rid of it.
The problem now is that you take journalism serious and it has just become yet another boring website. A lot of articles also read like advertisements in disguise.
> Apparently Douglas Adams found it very difficult to write. According to the biography by Neil Gaiman it was almost painful for him, every book or manuscript a chore.

As an author of many years and thousands of pages, I can relate to this. There is an oft misattributed quote on the matter, "I hate to write, but I love having written." In my case "hate" is too strong a verb, I merely find it exhausting. And yet somehow I wish I had more time to do it.
https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle
I was born in the late 80s, but I also feel nostalgic. I think it's because there was more of a sense of play in computing back in the day.

I feel a real romanticism for vintage computing.
Click the back button and move on with your life by only clicking early tech only titles?
I bought a new car recently that there was very little haggle room on but at least no markup (other than the doc fee, etc.) Also took 6 weeks. But I did get a $15K trade-in on a 75K mile, 11 yo car with visible body damage. I was shocked. That must suggest something about used car prices.
I'm sure people understand the message. They just don't agree.

My reading of the article is that the author is spending a lot of words on saying "Look, this is why being selfish asshole is actually good! And if you don't let me be selfish, you're actually the asshole! You should award empathy to privileged people first, they deserve it more!" which is terrible message, even if the article was well written, which it isn't.

It was already disgusting message about hiking, the moment the author said "you can also apply this to poverty and obesity" he crossed the moral event horizon.

Both on hike and in society you have duty and responsibility for others - and that includes slowing down for them when necessary, both physically and metaphorically.
The last time I checked (year ago), the MacOS version is much less configurable. I don't think you can really change the interface with config files like you can with the Windows builds. This might have changed though.
Okay, what are the magical qualities of "the war you mean WWII" that make its participants, who have special significance to you the British, repel the unruly youth of the United States? Or, is it possible you're just a grouch, the latest in a line stretching back to at least Socrates, complaining about "kids these days?"
A bunch of people started overcomplicating things in order to impress their peers so they will hire them to BigShinyCorp Inc. Things went on for 15 years and ended up with an abomination in which everything has 53 levels of virtual machines behind it. Because i guess virtual machiens are fun.

Yes they are perfectly fine, dont waste your time
Imagine you pissoff Jeff Bezos, sould it be cool if he pays your employer to fire you, your landlord to get rid of you, hires a private detective to dig up dirt on you and offers every future employer money just to ruin your carreer?

Thats what free market allows.
Of course, however, a tax cut is not a subsidy. Economic concepts can very easily be wrongly conflated with each other or misreported by the press or politicians. There's an obvious qualitative difference between a government subsidy (the act of taking property from some to give to others) and a tax break (the government merely stealing less).

As far as this bill specifically goes, I haven't read the entire thing, but the bullet points seem to be all about reducing tax burdens. As an overall opinion, I think more people and industries ought to have tax breaks.

Given the extreme shortsightedness of Europe's leaders in trying to tackle their energy needs, I have little doubt that this act will come back to bite all of us in some way.
From somebody who's been in the industry for a little bit (only 10+ years, which depending on your perspective could be no time at all, or a lifetime!), I'd be wary of becoming too familiar with the "react way" (substitute your framework of choice.)

Aeons ago I learned js with Mootools, so much so I thought in Mootools vernacular. Imagine my surprise when Mootools went away seemingly overnight and I couldn't code vanilla js to save my life.
>>The only problem I've had was ear wax buildup

I purchased a hearing aid cleaning kit[0], and the little wire loop tool is excellent at removing wax.

[0]https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B089QMMSWW/
A 2019 article in Scientific American suggested that the Hadza example shows our bodies are adapted to require lots of exercise without paying a metabolic cost for it:

> Our bodies are evolved to require daily physical activity, and consequently exercise does not make our bodies work more so much as it makes them work better. Research from my lab and others has shown that physical activity has little effect on daily energy expenditure (Hadza hunter-gatherers burn the same number of calories every day as sedentary Westerners), which is one reason exercise is a poor tool for weight loss. Instead exercise regulates the way the body spends energy and coordinates vital tasks.

They compare the human need for exercise to the evolution of ram ventilation in sharks. By developing a system based on the assumption of constant movement, you become a more efficient forager. But if you stop moving, you die.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-evolved-to...
They just pulled that back. Resolution time is now unknown.
Given that there's no accurate global historical measurements of cancer, anything of this sort is going to be heavily biased by the measurement.

You can only look at this comparative historical thing in certain developed countries with long histories of detecting all cancers.
Supply is low. Why would the dealer even reply to you when they sell their entire allotment instantly and for way over book?
I've done the same in the past certainly. With the relative paucity of new cars available on the market due to supply chain issues, getting an actual out the door quote with real numbers without being in the dealership has been a lot harder for the past year. It's easing up a little bit as demand softens and more supply becomes available.
The fundamental problem is that HTML is technically stateless but a web app is not.

So to do anything that needs state (think google maps, or a responsive website) you need to either build or buy a way to manage that state, while working inside the confines of HTML/HTTP.

In many ways you can look at react, vue, etc as javascript applications that use HTML/DOM to render. The problem is that they don't really see themselves like that, so the way they present stuff is sort of fucked up. And even after all these years the DOM handling stuff hasn't adjusted to the reality of web 2.0...because presumably the devs want to keep backward compatibility with hand-written css/html/js.

The DOM is another one of those hacky things that survived and thrived.

If browser makers, the standards people, framework makers, and web devs got together, they could theoretically simplify a lot of this shit going forwards, but they don't because it's too hard. Instead, we have these sort of layers of bullshit that live forever.
Yes, or we would build less things like battery factories that can take up to four years to fully ramp up.
Have privacy geeks who keep saying "no one would trust FB with X" ever looked at the numbers? I keep seeing this sentiment around Meta and VR, yet guess which VR company has like >70% market share.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1222146/xr-headset-shipm...
> There are already concerts with paid tickets going on in platforms like Fortnite, that just happen to be able to act as multi-user VR environments, even though that wasn't their designed purpose. The demand is real.

There's no demand to watch computer animated concerts through heavy glasses in Fortnite coming from people who don't already spend a bunch of time playing Fortnite. This is an add-on to Fortnite, not anything that anybody really wants to do for its own sake.

What's the point of watching a computer animated "concert" in VR anyway? Who would get any joy out of that?
I am seriously mind-blown that you've never encountered this problem in Go. You're trying something, and you see an error, you comment out a function and replace it with a print statement. And now suddenly you have to comment out a bunch of things up to the import statement just to fucking test out a simple hypothesis.
Speaking of order of operations, first fix your grid, then electrify the homes.

Look at California which has banned new gasoline cars in 2035, banned new natural gas hookups, and also told people to reduce electrical usage and not charge their cars!
That approach would break down now if none of the local dealers has the car you want in stock and has already pre-sold all of the inventory they ordered. It really depends on where you're located and which model you want to buy. Good luck getting something like a Bronco.
>Yes, we need to get off of oil and gas

>Yes, we don't need subsidies.

>But wait for the war to be over and we know Germany won't be freezing, please.

If we're going to subsidize energy production until the war is over, might as well put all those subsidies into renewable energy that will further reduce Russia's global influence.
Attacks on Deidentification's Defenses
Yeah, and it's still behind an explicitly labelled "Unsafe WebGPU" flag. Description has this warning:

> Warning: As GPU sandboxing isn't implemented yet for the WebGPU API, it is possible to read GPU data for other processes.

Their own wording says it's unsafe, and possible to read GPU data from other processes, but can run from a site that has the origin trial enabled.

Is that really the case? Or should they change their wording?