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I don't disagree that private equity has, historically, not been great at adding value. Sometimes they're good at cutting waste such as private jets and fat management perks. They're finance people, not product people, and that shows up in what they do to companies. More leverage than innovation.

But it's wrong to ignore the impact of competition from very low wage countries. China truly has hollowed out a lot of industrial operations, especially those that ship easily and are not super high tech.

(One might object and say that we don't care about industries that are not bleeding edge. It's true, degreed engineers don't have to care. Tell that to someone without a college degree.)

I'm here to tell you that it is extremely difficult to compete against low-cost country labor if you're doing basic to mid-level industrial manufacturing, because I'm a partner in a company that does that. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to avoid making things they make, because I pay people a reasonable wage, I have to pay their health benefits, I have to pay skilled machinists and engineers, and all of it is 6-20x the hourly costs of their equivalents overseas.

Some just say, well, automate all of it! And anyone who has experience in manufacturing knows that's not a great answer. "Lights-out manufacturing" is a bullshit myth propagated by people who know nothing about manufacturing except watching a couple YouTube videos. Because the labor that can be automated is already fairly limited. It's already mostly automated! It's the mechanics, machinists, tool and die makers, electricians, mechatronics specialists, production managers, procurement, quality managers, mechanical engineers who are most of your cost. Team leads whose jobs are mostly to monitor the machines and tweak the dials. They're good jobs and they pay quite well. A lot more than their equivalents in China. It's not the automatable direct labor that gets you - it's the skilled overhead labor costs inherent to manufacturing.

So, this business does quite well against its domestic competition. But what can I do when the Chinese competition reliably comes over and offers a product for half the cost? Mostly the answer is to avoid making that stuff, and specialize in smaller, higher margin niches. Which works, and is an answer for the business. But it means much less production happening domestically, because the niche stuff is usually a fraction of the volume. And that has lots of knock-on effects throughout the economy.

Go to Germany and talk to people in their industrial sector, like I have. You hear the same story. Factories shutting down because of low cost labor country competition. Magazines catering to Americans talk about how Germany has beaten this, but you'll find the reality when you talk with people in depressed German towns that have had yet another factory move away. This isn't only an American story.

But sure. Let's just blame the accountants and their "pyramid schemes." There's our villain. Investigation complete!
Better still: add a unique prefix to the error code, so it's googlable.

The Typescript team does this with compilation errors, like `TS12345: frobulating types cannot be transmuted`.
In this case the "managerial class" would repeal the Jones Act and marvel at the resulting efficiency?
I know, Kagi did a great job with getting people to pay for their value. I saw that and was impressed! I mean I would rather people pay and have no ads. I really don't like ads.
I'm pretty sure it's on the Daily WTF, FWIW.
Fewer people would do the trick also. And it would preserve air quality, water supplies, area of land needed for agriculture, and many other measures.

Wrt to the article, building more wouldn't work anyway so long as landlords follow the company's advice. They'd just let all those units sit empty,
What were you actually doing during the periods of nothing? Just internet browsing, watching TV, sleeping? Any offline non-tech hobbies?
ty! i'm glad you enjoy the tool. As for whether or not this tool could replace a professional colorist, I think it depends on the specific project. For some projects, Palette could do a great job of automatically colorizing photos, and for others, a professional colorist would still be necessary to get the best results. Especially when the projects require historical accuracy or a high aesthetic standard. it also makes colorization more accessible, which leads to more opportunities to refine results manually or say print the results.
The issue is that working from the office no longer exists.

I am aware of precisely zero software development companies in London that work from the office in the normal way that almost everyone did in 2019.

I can either do Zoom calls from home, or Zoom calls from the office. Barely anyone is there.

That's not WFO. That's just a waste of time, worst of both worlds.
I've been thinking about the following question a lot in the past few years: How do we keep our work from damaging us? I think a lot of people here have offered good advice here: put guardrails on your work. No reason to work over 40 hours/week. And if you need to, work less than 40 hrs/week for a while. If that doesn't help then maybe a sabbatical is in order.

The cult of constant productivity is strong in this culture. Try to recognize it and resist it. Don't rest so you can be more productive (I often hear this) - rest because you are a human being who has worth regardless of how productive you are. Rest because you realize you are finite and have a finite amount of energy to give. Rest because you need to. Consider practicing sabbath - sure that's a term usually associated with certain religions - but the concept is applicable even if you're not religious. Pick a day to disconnect. Don't try to be productive. Get out in nature and let your mind wander. Disconnect from social media. Try to connect with yourself, others and nature again.
hmm so how is Google to get Apple's iPhones to support RCS if Google hasnt completely opened their API?
I do understand the intention. You want info for a decision whether to grant or deny the resources. I'm just doubting the practicality.

Compare it to progress bars. How often do you see those progressing in linear correlation to time left?
Huidu Your Lunzi – Chinese Tech Terms Explained
> wife was resigned to her career already being destroyed

Really? She traded one job for another or does corporate life really matter that much to her?
no, still not, I checked on both microsoft edge and firefox, I checked incognito mode too

it's strange, how it's only the twitter column, instagram column once gave me an error message (something about blocking embeds? can't recall) but was at least showing something from instagram, also that went away after a refresh

twitter just has a dull grey background, like the column was left blank or something.
I've been working on a custom ML pipeline to create novel Gameboy music by training on existing songs through the CPU instructions that produced them.

The project involved writing a custom emulator (Rust) and an awful lot of data cleaning and preparation software, with the ML training and inference written in Python.

https://github.com/jawline/Synthic
Sounds like this should be default
Thats great then find one of the companies that forces people to work from the office.

Don’t be upset when you have trouble finding talent unless you are paying out amazing salaries though.

This to me just gets into people trying to control other people. You have your preferences and thats fine but forcing it on others always causes problems.

If you start your job search with this requirement in mind though i don’t think people should have issues. I look for my jobs based on being listed as fully remote and the rest of the company being largely remote as well. As long as you aren’t at a company trying to force everyone back in the office I think its all good.

I do know my last company of size 1000+ has been trying to force people back slowly. 50% of my team left and now that they are pushing harder i am having people reach out to me every week about openings.
It's easier to be creative when you can bounce-off an idea with a coworker immediately, rather than wait for the Zoom meeting or wait for them to answer your Slack message.

We're actually building a virtual office to make having these quick chats easier (gloo.chat). If you would want to try it out, or even just provide some feedback, that would be amazing given we just got started. Totally shameless plug.
I'm slightly annoyed by the description "first known map of night sky" because medieval is late, and there must be some cave paintings or carved stones with the sun and the moon at least. And "first known" must mean "earliest surviving", because wouldn't there have been a few maps in the Library at Alexandria? What about China?

It's Hipparchus which dates the original, and doesn't make what it is less cool, but my brain thirsts for a little more clarity/context in the headline.
In NY, it is 1:3 up to 6 weeks and 1:4 after 6 weeks for day care centers. See page 22:

https://www.ocfs.ny.gov/programs/childcare/regulations/418-1...

The 1:2 ratio is for “family daycare”, whatever that means. That is on page 19 of this document:

https://www.ocfs.ny.gov/programs/childcare/regulations/417-F...
Pretty much yep. I'd also say it boils down to age which tends to correlate with having a family and also better WFH conditions. When I was young, single, living in a small apartment going into a nice office was great. Nowadays I'm older, have a wife, a kid, a house with a nice garden office. I still love and enthusiastic about what i do but thanks to the internet i can do it from the comfort of my own place.
> But why do it at all? There's no evidence that the Jones Act has worked.

But there are more options than that, like strengthening the Jones Act to make it work better. It's a false choice to present the options as a binary repeal or keep.
Yes an older one, but honestly it’s fine. You could maybe get the slightly fancier oasis but it works.
> I don't want my browser, its vendor, or even my search engine to decide what is or isn't "disinformation", or "white supremacy"

Good! Mozilla isn't saying that browsers should do that at all. I don't know how you got that from the article.

> I'm an adult human, and I'll do that for myself.

The entire problem is that you will never be able to do that, in the context of social media. Simply by using YouTube, or Facebook, or whatever other social media feed, you've already trusted that website to decide what you see. The alternative is you having to sift through hundreds of thousands of social media posts yourself, and again, humans can't really do that.

So (unless you have a better solution) the billions of people who use Facebook are at the mercy of its ranking system. Shouldn't we thus demand that Facebook consider the societal consequences when they decide how to rank things? Or should Facebook do whatever they want when they decide what billions of people get to see?

That seems to be thrust of the "disinformation" line you're referencing:

> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.
- Learn the memory palace technique. It's thousands of years old and really works. People use it to memorize tens of thousands of digits.

- Take B. monnieri. It's not a huge effect but it does seem to have a real positive effect on memory if you take it for a while.

- Practice n-back

- Get good sleep and exercise frequently to optimize your brain health
Thank you... I'm going to check out your videos and slides.
Ya, there aren't any local to me without driving 20 minutes and finding parking, and I'm too cheap to join one anyways.

Running group has helped, just hanging out with adults and overhearing conversations is nice - they're mostly running focused though.

My commute time was nice to just veg and listen to podcasts; it's weird how you have the same time in a day but don't ever just go sit in a chair and listen to a podcast for 30 minutes when that's what you did regularly for years.
What are some of the ways to conduct interviews for idea validation?
"Just Cause" was certainly not intended by Bush or his minions to be a pun. Remember, this is the same family that gave us "Mission Accomplished".

Conservatives aren't known for their sense of humor, which is usually limited to punching down and demeaning weaker opponents, not insightful self depreciation and candor. Case in point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_%C2%BD_Hour_News_Hour#Rece...

The "Just 'Cuz" interpretation was pointed out by critics of Bush's otherwise unjustifiable invasion. The US created the original problem by supporting and paying Noriega while turning a blind eye to his abuses and corruption for so long.

The operation plan it came from was called the "Prayer Book", so circular reasoning was the essential justification of its self fulfilling prophecy, just like with any religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...

>Origin of the name "Operation Just Cause"

>Operation plans directed against Panama evolved from plans designed to defend the Panama Canal. They became more aggressive as the situation between the two nations deteriorated. The Prayer Book series of plans included rehearsals for a possible clash (Operation Purple Storm) and missions to secure U.S. sites (Operation Bushmaster).

>Eventually, these plans became Operation Blue Spoon which was then, in order to sustain the perceived legitimacy of the invasion throughout the operation, renamed by the Pentagon to Operation Just Cause. General Colin Powell said that he liked the name because "even our severest critics would have to utter 'Just Cause' while denouncing us." Critics, however, renamed it Operation "Just 'Cuz", arguing that it had been undertaken "just [be]cause Bush felt like it."

https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/war-and-rhetoric/

>The incursion into Panama, which came to be derisively known as “Operation Just ‘Cuz,” is the hardest to justify on Realist grounds. The rationale for going in doesn’t stand up to the test of time but made some sense at the time. The Panama Canal was indeed a longstanding American interest. And the war on drugs angle was important, as was the the complicated relationship with Noriega. Regardless, we certainly didn’t go in to make Panama more safe for democracy. Nor did we stay for years nation-building. It was a limited incursion, over in less time than an NBA postseason.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210603051719/https://www.lonel...

>The US reaction was swift and unrelenting. In the first hour of December 20, 1989, Panama City was attacked by aircraft, tanks and 26,000 US troops in ‘Operation Just Cause,’ though the US media often labeled it ‘Operation "Just 'cuz."’ Although the stated intention of the invasion was to bring Noriega to justice and create a democracy, it left more than 2000 civilians dead and tens of thousands homeless, and destroyed entire tracts of Panama City.
I suppose requiring DNA samples from gun owners would not get off the ground in Texas. I'm surprised enough legislators in Texas even believe in DNA because it seems suspiciously like science.

Preparing parents to identify their child's body after the next mass shooting announces a failure of government to protect citizens, one of the fundamental duties of government.
I completely agree with this article, but it never bothers me in particular. But I'm a developer, so I'm an outlier. That said, I do wish that the error message I see every day would be simpler.

<looks at TypeScript>
Crypto? oh c'mon: fiat money is still the bottom line here. 90% of all interest in crypto would disappear today if they thought for a moment there was no way to turn it into cash.
I didn't say you misinterpreted, he's just bad at communicating what he actually means. There can't be multiple #1s so he must mean they're tier 1s. There is no other option since having 5 #1s is literally impossible.
Socializing with your colleagues has nothing to do with socializing with random people who happen to work in the same space. Work is part of many people's identity, they take pride in their work and enjoy discussing and improving it. It is also not part of many other people's identities. Both are perfectly valid approaches to life.
Brave's "skeevy" business model at least is trying innovative ways to get revenue. Firefox on the other hand get's 90% of its funding from Google, which to me generates a clear conflict of interests.
God of War Ragnarök – Shaping the Story
I took a couple months break after my burnout and slowly after that I enjoyed work again. Also a more enthusiastic team teaching you cool new things can help.
Honestly, your work seems like it's a huge part of your life, and it's not anywhere near that for the vast majority of other devs, working remotely or not. People generally spend their "absolute love" points on their kids, spouses, pets, friends, etc. and leave work to be a transaction involving time and money. And why shouldn't they? If someone absolutely loves Wells Fargo, GE, Microsoft, Amazon, or whatever, that company is not going to "love" them back.
A small benchmark for functional languages targeting web browsers
> have a central database of all error types

do you have any example?
Oh, it's certainly been to our benefit, no doubt about that at all.
I heard about this the other day. I can't express how much I dread it.

Folks get invested in their local grocery stores, we do at least.

And we were neck deep in the last merger with Safeway, since it destroyed the store that we went to.

Albertsons bought Safeway, but as part of the deal, they had to sell off some of the stores (which made sense, our store, Vons, was right across the street from the local Albertsons store). Somehow, Hagans (a small northwest chain) got roped in to sell the extra stores too. Hagans "overnight" grew from, like, 12 stores to over 200.

Shockingly, the transition did not go well, there were cries of shenanigans, and Albertsons ended up buying all of the stores back. Some of the local stores that closed due to the merger reopened, other's didn't.

Our store never reopened. In over 8 years, that space and sat empty in the downtown area. My mustache twisting cynicism tells me that Albertsons is keeping the lease on that space, and keeping it empty, to prevent an Aldi from renting it out and setting up shop right across the street.

Didn't help, turns out one is moving in down the street after renovating a closed hardware store. Maybe they'll give the space up now.

That merger was a mess, caused a lot of disruption, cost a bunch of jobs.

We shop at Albertsons, there's a Ralphs (Kroger) closer, but we like Albertsons better. With 3 years of COVID induced "new normal", I'm not looking forward to the collateral damage from a merger like this.
Saw a comic recently (xkcd? old one?) where a person was visited by a muse, who said "Working hard and slacking are not the only two things there are in life"

Reminded me to make plans for some of my personal time, not just piss it away.
Good thing all grandparents are the same, or else our models of how the world should work would have to be a lot more complex
I don't know but this is constantly in discussion on Blind, so I'd check there.
It was ruined for me the moment it became merged with Google Lense and productized with ads. When I do a reverse image search, I want to find that image! Not find all the shitty online retailers selling things identified within the photo!
They don't parse the error message as a natural language sentence talking to them. They take it as an opaque string, like a big error code. It literally passes through them without getting interpreted.

They learned that the affordances of these error messages are copy pasting into some place: a google search box, or a chat box asking for help. But it has no affordance of "interpret as an English sentence" for them.
God has to have a cause because you can ask the question? To me, that logic seems rather suspect...
> huge baby boom in 2024

Good. The US needs the new tax base.
Or my npm dependencies
This particularly infuriates me when it corrects words I've already fixed prior to the one I'm typing. There's a better highlight animation when it does it in iOS 16, but I still miss the animation most of the time (because I'm focused on the word I'm typing, not words back).

I want an option to disable that, but right now there doesn't seem to be a way other than turning off autocorrect altogether (which I've been alternating it on and off lately trying to figure out which one aggravates me least; I also briefly returned to SwiftKey [RIP] to see if its ancient less recently trained ML autocorrect model was better).
That's the only thing they are doing right
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33264220 (official Waymo blog post)
Uh, building more would certainly work, as it would make those empty units stand empty for longer, forcing the owners to lower rent. That's... how it works.
Too Much Volume? The Tech Behind ‘Mandalorian’ Faces Growing Pains
Wahoo, thank you for making Swurl your default search. Ya on an ultrawide, it is beautiful to see!

If you give me some more examples, I will add them. I am seeing a lot for hacker news. But how do you think it should be triggered? Show all the time, or show only in certain cases?

For industry things, it would be super helpful if you tell me some exact ones since I'm not in all industries, so I would really know first hand. Thank you!
“Los Angeles is the most populous market that Waymo has ever attempted to launch in. The vast metropolis of 13 million residents is the third largest ride-hailing markets in the U.S., with an estimated opportunity of $2 billion in 2022, according to Waymo.”

That would be considerable progress. Several thousand EV’s would also help the air quality in LA.
It looks really nice, I'll be using it from now on! Thanks.
For me, it's easiest to be creative when I can enter a flow state, and that's best achieved by muting Slack notifications and blocking out all external stimulus. Coworkers bouncing ideas off me "immediately" whenever they see fit is a recipe for decreasing my productivity.
Have you heard about 4DWW - Four Day Work Week? This is arguably the biggest and most-needed improvement in labor / worker rights in at least a few decades.

I can't wait until it is implemented across the whole world. England, Portugal, and other countries are at the forefront already.
If that's the case, then these people may just need training. It's likely that nobody has ever sat them down and explained that they have a responsibility to investigate their own issue. Often people feel they have to rush to get something done, and that they can't take time to troubleshoot. But if their bosses explained that, actually, it's fine if your work is a little late due to troubleshooting, they might do it themselves more often. You also may need to provide back-pressure by interacting via email/ticket.
Gluons are real.
I have a similarly mercenary and utilitarian POV as far as using products that personally benefit me. However, it's understandable that the idealistically minded prefer not to use/support enterprises they see as lobbying to degrade their pet issues - be that the internet, or the environment, etc. It's not any different than those refuse to engage with Amazon, Walmart, Hollywood, Chick-Fil-A, or subsidiaries of the Kochs.
Porting Charrua-Unix and Rawlink to Eio
This article describes the porting of the DHCP daemon charrua-unix and its companion library rawlink to Eio for the upcoming OCaml 5 release. Before we get started, it makes sense to briefly describe what DHCP is and how we use it in production.
haha, that would be cool! Thank you for submitting that!
> Nobody claimed Brave is forcing crypto down its users' throats.

That's literally what the GP comment claimed. That it's a crypto scam. Scams usually try to cram a fictitious product down your throat.

> None of these positions rises to the level of disparagement

Calling it a crypto scam when it isn't one does.