skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And finally, I feel no one else is realizing that they are happily hacking away at the amazingly well-paid branch they're sitting on. As soon as a company's IT department is practically fully remote, why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a fraction for that same face broadcasted from a few hundred kilometers further east or south? German is hardly used in business context here anyway and lower-wage countries within ±3 hours timezones abound.

Any company that thinks this way is a company I don't want to work for because they are incredibly short sighted. Assuming "1 developer" = "1 developer" is so incredibly stupid. Developers (all humans for that matter) are not interchangeable cogs in /any/ industry (and yes, I'm including factory workers). Some jobs might be able to slot in a different person with less disruption but there is always disruption, for a developer this is massive. Even if bean counters think it doesn't matter, reality will slap them upside the head (or more realistically the company since these short sighted thinkers often hop away before the consequences come back to bite them).

Shared language/culture/understanding/rapport is so important that I would hire a "1x" dev over a "2x" dev if I got along better with the "1x" dev. The argument that I'm replaceable by someone in a cheaper country has never held water for me, I've seen first-hand outsourcing fail miserably time after time. The top-tier talent in those "cheaper countries" demands top-tier rates but for businesses who think "1 developer" = "1 developer" will also hire the bottom of the barrel talent then act surprised when productivity falls of a cliff once what was already in the pipeline runs out.
The annotations are appended to the original PDF. I wonder if there's a library to collect all annotations and merge them into one file.
In the US, I have about a five minute drive to the nearby train station and then I'm something over an hour by train and subway into the city depending upon where I'm going. Aside from not being able to actually walk to the train station, I'm not sure how you improve on that given the distance no matter what country you're in. And having done that commute about 3 days a week for over a year, it was pretty bad even though I wasn't driving.
Are there logically possible alternative mathematical worlds?
Even though I am European, and this war is practically at my doorstep, it's still hard to believe that it is actually happening. If anyone had predicted it 10 years ago, I would not have believed it, even though I already had a rather low opinion of Putin.

The fact that he just continues with this lunacy keeps shocking me. Though it must be incredibly hard for a dictator to admit that you overplayed your hand, I can not wrap my mind around the fact that this is not the preferable alternative to the current situation, no matter the cost to his reputation as a strong leader etc.
Public Duty Costs Allowance Guidance
If flying is one of the few times where you are allowed to be offline, it sounds like a rather 'meh work environment.
> WFH can be predicated by zoning / city density

I would add nature as an opposite factor to city density. A lot of magical places exist, but they don't usually have offices and jobs. Remote work enables one to experience them.

Many years ago I had been remote working for a couple of years and then realized that I didn't have to continue living in Dallas with 100+ degree summers and air quality warnings several days each month. I moved to a ski resort area in the Colorado mountains. Even without the time flexibility that I had (which enabled me to snowski on weekdays when the slopes were empty... fresh powder all mine!), the summers were bliss with dozens of mountainbike trails of all degrees of difficulty. Needless to say my physical fitness became the best of my life, without effort (it was "play"!)

That was probably my favorite place to live (and work) in the world, even counting beaches in Phuket, Thailand. The nature options were beyond what most people can imagine. The only reason I left was lack of available remote work when my job ended in 2011. So I moved to Amsterdam for a job and got to experience the oppsite but also awesome lifestyle.

I would suggest remote workers take advantage of their freedom and spend some time in different places. My ski resort location was planned just as a month, but I stayed three years because it was so great. Such a thing just wouldn't have been possible had I been working in an office. One can always go back to a company with an office after exploring the alternatives.
A few years ago, I didn't know how to feel about someone Internet streaming a medical podcast from their laptop speakers for hours on a long flight. Impressed at the connectivity, but annoyed.
> it's basically been disproven at this point that simply lowering cost does not necessarily lead to better outcomes for the country

This is a pretty squishy claim, but there's a mountain of work in economics showing that the Jones Act punishes Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam.

> lowering costs by offshoring labor had hollowed out the middle class in America

Again this isn't a settled claim. Automation probably had more to do with the shift in workforce. Moreover all advanced economies have shifted to more service work, without necessarily experiencing some of the same difficulties as the US.

The Jones Act has actually been shown to have made US ship building and ports less competitive by shielding them from competition. US ships and ports are basically 3rd rate at this point.
thanks, that means a lot!
> Who is being gone after?

Donald Trump, Ronald DeSantis, Greg Abott all have been under aggressive FBI investigation. Nikki Haley had her tax records leaked to media.

> what is so ruthless

There are multiple cases where even the judges were objecting FBI actions why they had to aggressively raid the peoples home. https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/07/15/judge-questions...
Nonsense, on a long enough timescale your descendents will intermarry with other people, and the wealthy and powerful of future generations will be your descendents. Dave Thomas may have had a major influence on the US with his restaurants and charitable foundations, but if he had never been born in the first place he wouldn't have been able to accomplish any of that. I chose Thomas as an example because he's a literal orphan and his adoptive family wasn't particularly wealthy either as far as I can tell.
Nice UI, and the approach works quite well (occasional wrong choice of palette compared to ground truth). It’s kind of fun to turn my photos into B/W and run through the model to try and guess the output.

Do you have a privacy policy for the uploaded photos? I’m not keen on uploading anything important without knowing how it’s stored or will be used in the future.
This thread is so surreal, way below normal HN standards, people blindly yelling their own truths, like we are discussing ie Trump.

And yes you seems to be one hell of a biased user, very hard to agree with you.

Why can't there be 2 alternatives to default Chrome, with their own strengths and weaknesses?

I personally prefer Firefox who is completely independent on code changes on chromium core code (but getting Google's money in same vein as ie Apple is) - once some privacy-removing code change is baked into whole Chromium codebase, Brave's main selling point is gone. But I respect them for offering the best-available solution on Chrome-inclined users.
I love and use Brave. The page modification feature that adds BAT donate buttons is opt out, not opt in.

That said, they still let you opt out and they are one of the few browsers that still have a culture of making the web better for the end users.
In which world is SpaceX not healthy? I mean, _seriously_. Investors are trampling over each other for the opportunity to get into their private stock buybacks. They've had a record number of launches this year and Starlink is coming out of "unproven" territory and into "let's sell this" territory. Plus they just successfully tested inter-satellite links.

You best anchor yourself to the ground... lest you drift away.
Do you value your time at $0?
> You can use the browser without any of the crypto features, or the ad rewards program. They are opt-in.

Nobody claimed Brave is forcing crypto down its users' throats. Instead, that their embrace of crypto signals characteristics about their management, culture and priorities. Some are attracted to that. Others don't care. Still others see it as a red flag. None of these positions rises to the level of disparagement, or accusing others of lying.
Vertical tabs don't really have anything to do with tree-style tabs except a superficial similarity. The entire point is the automatic hierarchical organization.
It's weird to me that this would be a rare thing for people to be able to handle because it's the default for, like, most of adult life except work. But usually you're working with even worse data and feedback in ordinary life, and don't have anyone you can tell to go figure it out for you and report back, like an executive does.
It must have gone downhill since my last flight with them. I vividly remember getting something like 18 Mbps in a speed test and was shocked that they were giving it away.

This article from 2017 confirms that it was 15 Mbps at one time: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-travel-briefcase-airl...

It looks like they have since reduced the free tier to less than 1 Mbps and added a paid option that allows you to stream video.
You do you, but calling them "extremely good jokes" suggests to me you're just not familiar with this particular pattern (which if you used Reddit, trust me, you would be).
Eh, all international shipping will collapse the moment the US Navy stops being the oceanic police for everyone for free.
The point with scheduling is that on a normal plug, it make take long enough to charge your car that you can't charge it completely during the time window where electricity is the cheapest. So the parent comment was arguing you need faster charging to save money by doing all your charging in that time window.

But yeah I have a hard time believing it's gonna be a big enough saving to offset the cost of the charger.
There's an inverse relationship between wavelength and range, and the higher the frequency the better the resolution.

https://acousticstoday.org/wavelength
Also if your product can't handle 3 years of use then maybe you shouldn't be selling it
Depends on your imagination.
But that's a matter of temperament, not intelligence.

Some people just prefer to be given orders, others prefer to give orders.

The paycheck is typically much fatter and your prestige much bigger if you're one of the latter types, but that doesn't make you any smarter.
By being single with no children and working in tech.
You are taking every story around and passing the worst possible interpretation as truth, when all of them have been already cleared and/or shown that the accusation was baseless. When there was indeed an error, it was promptly admitted and corrected.

Judging by your grayed out comments, the only thing that shouldn't be taken seriously is you. Have a good one.
It seems to me that there isn't a consensus because, in the post-covid era, every company had a large segment of the "prefers WFH" people and they all insisted on their current company accommodating them. I'm not saying they did anything bad, there's nothing wrong with advocating for your own interests at work, but a lot of people who like WFO are justifiably frustrated because they thought they had joined a company that did have a common consensus.
^ This 1000%.

And they know that if they need anything, you're there for them. Always.
Security isn't binary. There's a difference between normal commercial-grade security, and being actively engaged in warfare against an adversary with serious cyber and space warfare capabilities.
As we have seen with Assange or Steele dossier, search warrants don’t matter. FBI abused and misled FISA judges on multiple occasions and rubber stamped warrant by the administration which largely uses FBI as its street cover.
So it sounds like you're asking for a package where you get (basically) the ability to draw lines, circles, textures, etc.: the basic graphics primitives.

Here's my question to you: would you really want to build a hex map at that level? To me, that just seems an awful lack of abstraction. It's one thing if everything you do is a one-off figure, but for this you really want something that packages it together in a way that makes sense. If you don't get that from something like this package, you're going to build it yourself (best case), or just do without (much more likely) resulting in ugly, impossible to maintain code. I know, because I've been there.

Here's a challenge to you: what exists outside of the Latex community that is remotely comparable to this? (And not just this, but any of the number of other Latex packages that do similarly impressive things.) I could be wrong, but as far as I know those things generally don't exist. Maybe the closest match would be in the web/JavaScript community, but I don't think those things make it so easy to generate PDFs (especially high-quality ones). Latex, for all its faults, seems to encourage this sort of highly powerful level of abstraction.

I share your frustrating in trying to get things to integrate, but for this sort of thing I just don't see a good alternative.
I used to do game design as my hobby. Now I do game design as part of my job (programming and design), and that’s fun, but not as fun as it was before. Now, peoples lives are affected by whether I do a good job now (Eg, bad design -> failed game -> my friends at work lose their jobs). I also have to do it when I’m not in the mood as well, with strict deadlines.

I don’t want that to happen to my writing, which is purely enjoyable right now :)
I can’t have music on while I work, especially not in headphones, or I just start listening to it, so this is not a universal solution.
Very nice! I like it a lot and remember me the disk drive "head" algorithm for collecting data on different sectors (OS exam...24 years ago)
> why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a fraction for that same face broadcasted from a few hundred kilometers further east or south?

Because if they are worth anything, those people will find somebody else willing to pay German wages.

Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
You can do both of those things in Firefox, IIRC.

Right-clicking is in about:config as:

dom.event.contextmenu.enabled -> False

You can also bypass any disabling features by holding shift when right clicking.

I think this setting forces scrollbars to be visible on any scrollable content in FF as well (though this one I'm only about 50% on):

layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible
I used ORB descriptors and Hamming Distance for a fuzzy/partial/inexact reverse image search at my last job. While it didn't scale like the OP does, it found some really interesting fuzzy matches.
Possibly it was not called Necromancer, but Wilderness Campaign? Game features a necromancer's castle: https://www.mobygames.com/game/apple2/wilderness-campaign

Or perhaps "The Eternal Dagger", which has a necromancer's cave: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/appleii/577550-the-eternal-dag...
I don't think Chrome will actually go through with it. It would drastically push away the nerds (who are the ones what setup stuff for the rest of the family). Nobody cares if the browser is technically better, if it is infested with ads.
>It's amazing to me how virtual and real pinball are really not comparable at all in terms of enjoyment (at least for me personally). I still don't really understand why.

Have you tried it in VR? With free head movement, and proper 3D sound simulation, the physics feel a lot more real.

It's still missing good haptics. I think the PS5 DualSense force-feedback controllers and trigger might be able to give you the feeling of the ball rolling around different places, but I don't see anyone trying to make this work in virtual pinball yet.
> Anybody have an account I can use?

People don't want to create an account just to view things.
Just update the Jones Act so that the only vessels allowed to dock at US ports are US vessels or vessels coming from the flagged country. So if a ship from China wants to dock, it better be a US or China vessel.
If you run anything non trivial in a cloud, chances are that one person will still be cheaper than the one or more person cloud operations team that you have now.
I think the operational description of the Cato Institute is that of 'neoliberal ideologue', not necessarily 'conservative' or 'liberal' (not that those two latter terms have much meaning anymore, there more like keys to rather mutable dictionary entrys whose meaning fluctuates with the daily political intrigues).

Neoliberal is a bit easier to define, it's basically the notion that international pools of capital should be liberated from the restrictions imposed by the persistence of nation-states.
'I need to be reading docs on the latest <X> release to determine if we need to upgrade...' is moreso what he meant I think.
“A virtual particle is not a particle at all. It refers precisely to a disturbance in a field that is not a particle.”

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
Wait until our particle accelerators suddenly start saying "you are but bugs"...
Stedux – Redux for Stencil Components
Have you used it? Or are you just repeating unsubstantiated things you read online? Google is at least as shady as Brave.
Hello everyone,

I would appreciate any opinions/feedback about a project I'm building named Stedux.

It came out a necessity for a new Stencil side project when I learned the stencil/stencil-store state is reactive just one level deep. In Stedux the reactivity is the same one would expect from Redux, meaning on any selected slice of the store.

It tries to satisfy these constraints:

- easy to consume API in components

- small package size (currently around 1.1kB according to Bundlephobia)

- no dependencies

Gladly awaiting your thoughts!
How come? What is this disaster mindset? Even Ukraine and Russia agreed on how to open grain corridors from Odesa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_Grain_Initiative
Very true. Most agile principles are optimized to squeeze the most out of everyone. There is no space for breathing.
That is probably only cosmetic as the crypto related background processes will continue running and cannot be turned off. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5429

I haven't installed brave in a long time, but maybe someone can try disabling the 'features' and check if these processes then turn off or not.
Its not just the commute but the other things around the house you can parallelize e.g. during a zoom meeting and save time. Doing the dishes, laundry, working out, running errands midday without traffic, not having to go to the dmv on saturday. That really opens up a lot more time than just the commute. Its really an entire paradigm shift of changing work from a block of time removed from the day, to just a series of tasks in your job queue that has some home chore tasks as well that can be taken care of when its actually convenient. You basically become an hpc job scheduler. Thats way more efficient than the blocks of time approach with going into the office and not being able to do these things.
Haha, I really tried to make it clear that the post just is my opinion and I don't claim to be "right" about any of those things. The reason it's so obscenely long is just that, I wanted to elaborate on how these things appear to me. I really tried not to fall into "WFH is shit and everyone who likes it is wrong". I mean even the title basically asks for input.

And yes sure, in one or two places I phrased things bluntly but always tried to make it clear that it's how it seems to me and not reproaching anyone for their preferences.
You can literally just set this up in your reddit settings though.
I don't mind working at an office. I do mind getting to the office though. One of my first jobs involved a 1 hour and a half commute, and another one back. Insane I know.
Egypt’s audacious plan to build a new capital in the desert
This is the crux for me. It's not that I find the opinions of the office fans offensive, it's that their ideal situation changes mine. They don't just want to be in the office, they want ME there too. They drag us into their problem. Where I work the office people pushed to get back into the office, now they're there and nobody else is and their new quest is "how to get more people in the office." You don't. We don't work in the office. You do.
I mean, was it that hard to get your team to adopt git or another version control system? I've only had one team that struggled with that, and they struggled with a lot of things. Everyone else adapted quickly to it. Working in Smalltalk would be no different in that regard. It's just as easy and just as hard as working with git in C# or another language. Someone forgets to check in a new source file, everyone else has a broken build. It's obvious quickly and gets addressed.
I read "not care to invest themselves beyond what is necessary" as in meaning invest themselves into the job - not a general statement about the person.
I have friends who are like that - they work their expected hours, but don't do anything extra - they don't expect to get raises nor promotions and they are perfectly fine with that. They put their energy into other things (which they can't live off), but they are by no means miserable, lazy or mismanaging their lives
Thank you. My god, WFH and crypto are two topics HN is not good at discussing.
It's more of a branch than an actual fork. It's using an automated build process where they add/tweak/enable/disable stuff on top.

The analogy I like to use is they (Chromium-based browsers) are in another lane on the same road whereas a complete fork diverges to their own road. The former is still beholden to whatever direction the Chrome road goes.
> Then there are people who work mainly to get paid and do not care to invest themselves beyond what is necessary. But are those really the majority? I always saw tech as the field where a disproportionally large amount of people truly love what they do. Mostly, because it takes so much grit and persistence to get good at it that most people wouldn't succeed unless they see something in it beyond putting food on the table.

This seems to be the take of most people that want to go to the office. It's an insulting take. No wonder I don't want to see your face in the office if that's what you think of people that prefer working from home.

To me it seems like all the things you like about the office that you listed above are things you are supposed to get out of having friends. Have you tried that?
It does make me sad what became of Mozilla
Your public transport options are not common for most US dwellers. There are 10s of millions of people in the US who don't have access to any real public transport, especially trains.
Asynchronous in the sense that your phone call with a colleague could be interrupted at anytime due to a baby waking up. I am writing from experience (as the parent). Or not even be able to schedule meetings.

I have not seen or heard of many businesses that are completely asynchronous.
Google Search is not a competitor to Mozilla Firefox.
I've found that quality on the fediverse is quite high, but takes curation and exploration to find people you want to follow. Once you have a good seed of people, it grows pretty organically as you follow people with interesting posts boosted by people you do follow.

It's the only social network that I've actually stuck with and enjoy, having tried and fallen of both twitter and facebook. A big part of that was unfollowing people who posted political stuff and following people who posted stuff about cool hobbies and whatnot
As an individual I have essentially no ability to improve housing policy, etc.

I can however apply for and work at WFH jobs.