skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even a 1.1:1 ROI is still a sound investment - non-compliance with taxes usually closely coincides with other criminal activity like wage fraud, employing undocumented people, selling re-labeled expired meat or environmental crimes like improper waste disposal.

By regularly auditing especially large employers, the incentive for companies to commit these crimes because they'll get away with it suddenly also goes away. Simply said, if you can make an extra million dollars a year in profit, your company will be fined 100k if caught, and your company has an audit chance of 1 in 20 years, you can expect 19.9 million dollars in extra profit over that timeframe. Now, assuming an audit every five years, you're at only 4.9 million dollars of extra profit and the high chance of getting caught again and getting a harsher sentence as a repeat offender.

Regular tax audits have far-reaching side effects.
What's the overlap between religious anti-abortion motivations and the sentiment that the fetus must be able to lead a life outside the womb? I hear a lot more about the "lead a life" as though it's a definite good, but not so much about the afterlife implications.

The bible (and God) don't say much about living life apart from the duties you have to praising God or treating each other one way or another (loving each other, stoning each other, etc.). The Judeo-Christian bible revels in stories of torment for the living, so being accessing life outside the womb is in no way intended to also access liberty or the pursuit of happiness. In fact, a delivered infant could be celebrated for a life of unremitting suffering (which seems sort of perverse, but I find the purpose of that God to be mysterious along with everyone else).
You can easily make a claim that Google is a $1.4T firm vs may be a $40 Billion Twitter-like also ran if it weren't for this

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
I just use Fabric and shell scripts.

It works, and its not complicated.
How many bots?
Does this mean insisting on getting “preferred” rather than “common” shares?
>I don’t think productivity was ever the goal of this software.

I'm not entirely sure about this. During the early digitization era productivity was a big driver. Modern word processors are a godsend if you've ever tried to typewrite a document for publication (forget anything with complex formulae) or dealt with actual physical spreadsheets? Office itself and it's now many clones is a fantastic set of tools for productivity.

My opinion is that we've created a world in technology now that drives technology for the sake of tech and financial drivers. I regularly deal with people who think it would be a great idea to build a system to automate some aspect of business that's already well optimized or generalize something they thing is general but is really quite niche.

There are certainly cases where it makes sense to develop a system around something but you need to consider the full cost/benefit tradeoffs, not just benefits which industry tends to do.
How many Software Developers are there in the world?
The meme is “let that sink in”
That doesn't matter. Value was still exchanged, and can be measured.
It really sucks that Russia is stirring up the hornet's nest like this.
Just think back to that Office Space scene where he's explaining he has eight bosses

The circumstances make it so that we're incentivized to do enough to not get fired
Once again show me an economic policy that is tied to GDP
If he wins the NASCAR cup maybe it can be asterisked as the “Deviousness Trophy”
> went full send with the wall

How did the term "full send" come about? Why is everyone saying it these days?
Breaking the site guidelines like this isn't allowed, and we ban accounts that do.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
People even use extra keyboards to input their emojis,
but we "can't" input math or programming symbols? Really?

Your usage of emojis may be different from mine, but personally I'd estimate they appear in text about once per sentence (or even couple sentences) at the absolute most. That's quite a bit lower than the symbol density in most code.

An "international" keyboard layout gives you already a
shitload of "special" signs.

Unfortunately not always the _same_ shitload - for instance, the OS X layout for Norwegian has the seemingly-ordinary ( and ) on Option-Shift-8 and Option-Shift-9!
Yellow Eyes: A Short Halloween Story
This take is seductive & alluring for the "I have it all figured out" folk. It tells you there is secret power you can have, a secret truth that describes it all, waiting to be unlocked. It purports to help you decode, to see truth.

In fact, you're just dawning the special filters the author has in mind, a super-skeptical narrow-minded distorted view. The story says it will help you understand, but it is a very biased very particular set of frames it wants to limit you to. To sow distrust, to foster incredulity. This is pure meta-disinformation.
How could anyone believe that switch would work without evaluating its argument or branching?
> What about a private sector solution?
Something like Amazon ratings?
Yelp reviews?

Very few companies have been able to do this well and to scale to modern volumes. It’s too easy to do it cheaply and/or cave to commercial interests.
one loose panel or an open exit gate or any other of little things and it would have been a serious accident
> My problem was solved, by a VP, in the code!

Thats proper tech leadership right there. Thanks for sharing, shame this is not the norm.
In the same sport there's also the Mankad.
I agree, and adding to this another thing I find now is it's very very hard to spot young talent now if they're fully remote. In a team of 100+ people how can I remember who's performing well, who's good at certain tasks etc when all you are to me is a muted microphone and an avatar with no camera showing. Working in an office with others post COVID isn't about what we're asking you to do, it's about what you bring to the table and offer others. Communication problems among the younger workers (I mean lets say under 25 who've hardly worked in an office before because of covid) are a real problem now. Some don't know how to act, how to behave, how to muck in and be part of a professional workforce with people who have 10, 20, 30 years more experience than them.
I for one am very excited about real life Tamiya car racing.
Well, they completely got away with it. Absolutely no consequences whatsoever.
And it's interesting how long some of these GameCube moves/bike positions can leave a mark on a sport. Just three weeks ago Filippo Ganna broke the Boardman's superman position record (from 1996), finally topping the last of the hour record tricks [1].

[1] https://www.velonews.com/news/road/filippo-ganna-smashes-uci...
yea, I've been reading those enterprise architects for too long and I've had mixed feelings about ifs too

fortunately I've went into real world code bases that saved me from those ivory tower ideas like prefering OOP approaches over control flow instructions just because
This is really interesting.

The incentive to pull off this kind of move, running the clock down a bit, that was already present. But there's a certain social expectation that you won't game the rules so blatantly, so that's a disincentive.

What the existence of video games does, is allow people to do things like this in an environment where social expectations and pressure don't really exist. It's like a psychological primer. You do it so many times in the video game, more and more you think, gee, why not do this in real life?
Sharing individual iOS notes with others will probably result in greater reach than convincing them to join your Mastodon instance and keep track of your posts.

Self-hosted Mastodon might be a good product by itself, but people need to stop pushing it as a Twitter substitute because that's not what it is.
> Democracy is just executing the will of the majority.

Only if you’re a dictionary. Democracy as practiced routinely resists the will of the majority (eg attitudes towards climate, reproductive rights), and also routinely reinforces minoritarian protections once established (eg accessibility for people with disabilities).

Democracy is ultimately the same thing as any other governing philosophy, except it’s more malleable by people without concentrated power than most other systems. Certainly more than a bank or whatever.
Put roller skate wheels on the passenger side door for the next race!
Well...I'd say the LA Coliseum has it beat out for the shortest track now :-) But I guess I wouldn't really count that one either, for reasons.

Incredibly fun to watch. I work for the #11 (and others) so this was very disappointing from that angle (particularly since his record at Phoenix is pretty good) but overall it was such a fun move that highlights a good attitude for drivers & teams to have, but is also just plain entertaining.
I've heard these described as chinese murder vans
> The result was a lot of config changes making noise in metrics that could be read positively, without implementing the state of the art systems that took a year before you could write a fancy success workplace post about it. That would risk poor performance reviews and the shuffling of reasources away from your team as a result.

Meta has recently switched to a performance review cycle of 1 year (from 6 months). It sounds like one of the reasons this was done was to help make such work more possible.
Curious to know your definition of freedom, and what system of government it is compatible with.
That sounds genuinely awful and detestable.

"Oh, you're bored of a tenth of a gigabyte of React and TypeScript every time you load a web page? Here, we're going to ship you the entire browser every time you reload!"
> I once advocated serious changes to the labour laws are what is needed, and was inundated with "join a union" posts.

Strong unions are the way to get changes in labor laws and how to get collective action.

If we could all just magically come together without any organizational structure in order to effect change in the government and laws we would have already gotten it done.

There isn't a way out that doesn't involve organized collective action and something that looks very much like unions. Individualism doesn't work to effect the kinds of changes that are necessary.

People were inundating you telling you that you needed a Union because what you want is a magical pony, and unfortunately you're the one that is out-of-touch (although in another sense you're not at all out-of-touch since most people believe that there simply MUST be some way to effect change without collective action--which continues to fail but nobody will give up on the dream).
> As noted by the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, the COVID-
19 Lancet Commission, and the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence 90-Day Assessment on
the COVID-19 Origins, more information is needed to arrive at a more precise, if not a definitive,
understanding of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and how the COVID-19 pandemic began.

> Based on the analysis of the publicly available information, it appears reasonable to conclude that
the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident. New
information, made publicly available and independently verifiable, could change this assessment. However,
the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of accuracy.

Say these exact words in early 2020 and try and get away without being called a lunatic.
Roy “Horsecollar” Williams really missed out. He broke quite a tidy sum of bones with that move. Dirty? Hell yeah.
Please do this! I’d love to attend such a meetup.
My favorite is Eddie the Eagle. Watch the movie or read the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Eagle
This is the next part after "What is the Essence of Computing" discussed a day or so ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33383881

EDIT: Starts with this: http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/c839b0d2d6b6417787b1/why-s... (light edit above, I had missed that this was the first article in an apparent series before)
How would someone tell when this article was written?
> Then for regular websites, have them deliver a HTML rendering engine

I think this is a dealbreaker, that is simply too much data to have to send over every time you want to load a webpage. It kills mobile immediately since most users have data caps.
New 3D Quantum Accelerometer Is 50 Times More Accurate Than Classical Sensors
> What about the regulators that allow drunk and distracted drivers everywhere

In what places is drunk driving legal? The laws exist and are rigorously--if imperfectly--enforced everywhere I've ever lived.

Are folks building transportation businesses employing drunk drivers?
Tesla has no board of directors. Did you hear, did you hear this, they got bought out.

As far as the owners' opinion, what about the customers? More of a leading indicator, no?

Why would GM suspend advertising? Because they're just dying to get dirty in the culture wars, or...because of the obvious conflict of interest when the owner of Twitter owns their competitor?
This concerns me about eSIMs: https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/xnudl2/no_ro...

The gist of it is that carriers can prevent you from moving eSIMs between phones, or charge you every time you do so.
She sounds like a rational actor.
Honestly, it's mostly because they pay more. They're more selective and thus have better engineering talent meaning Twitter engineers on the average are going to have a better engineering skills than Tesla software engineers

Tesla engineers likely are drinking the Kool-aid or were not talented enough to get offers at better companies.

Lastly, it's not "just tweets" at their scale. That's like saying Netflix is just storing some video files in CDNs.
Again, the outright lies he tweeted were not something that were provably false in less than 24 hours.

Just consider his infamous "Funding secured" tweet. I considered that a lie, but there is obviously enough wiggle room/deniability over what "secured" actually means. That's not the case here.

In any case, the deadline has already passed. If there were to have been mass layoffs before the Nov 1 deadline, it's too late.
This can be accomplished on Windows11 with a custom Visual Style. Ive seen it done before on some deviantart themes. Would be cool if someone could release a stock Windows11 Visual Style with only this modified.
> All of these (except logging on to the same data from all my devices, which is nice) benefit the developer at the expense of the user.

Glad you pointed that out. And, in the most prevalent application of Conway's law[0], those changes enabled and are entrenched by the "agile" practices in software development. Incremental work, continuous deployment, endless bugfixing and webapps fit each other like a glove (the latex kind that's used for deep examination of users' behavior).

It also enables data siloes and prevents any app from becoming a commodity - making software one of the strongest supplier-driven markets out there, which is why the frequent dismissal of legitimate complaints, "vote with your feet/wallet", does not work.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Pushbullet SMS forwarding is another phone in the drawer solution. I think they also offer end-to-end encrypted SMS forwarding. Of course highly dependent on Pushbullet infrastructure.
We're going to see a lot of this "commoditization of creativity" outside of just common spaces in the near future, thanks to LLM and generally-available AI: from writing, to music to anything.

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing though — we just have a higher bar of defaults. The Airbnb-homogeneity is just setting a higher default bar of quality; anyone is welcome to do more work and break out of it. It's just hard. It's like Airbnb (and similar) is setting a Strunk & White's "Elements of Style" to interior design.

A similar kind of thing probably happened when newspapers and magazines started making certain looks trending, and everyone started doing that thing. We're just seeing that at a global scale now.
If life in Japan is what catastrophe looks like, then they've proven that a high rate of economic growth in perpetuity isn't required for decent living standards.
I recall “if you ain’t cheating’ you ain’t tryin’” has been a part of NASCAR since getting more money than running shine.
I'll see your Handmade Hero and raise you "But without a compiler".

Specifically, Roller Coaster Tycoon, hand-written in x86 assembler by Chris Sawyer.
> Much better would be a UUID generated from unique values, like a hash of the timestamp and publisher of a book. If you limit the length and number of the fields you hash to generate the UUID, you could even prove there will be zero collisions and eliminate any need to collision checks and thus an organization that charges money.

That's false. Your algorithm of hashing a timestamp and book publisher name cannot be proven to be collision-free.
In the kind of conversation you're proposing, do you think that, in addition to the very concrete asks I would have, there's a place to say something along the lines of "I just generally want to feel like you have our back, that you're fully present, that you're accountable, etc" or is that just too general and too close to coming across like a personal attack?

I could also reframe that as concrete requests like "It would help me if you gave us more of a heads up if you aren't going to be around", "It would help me if you made more of an effort to join meetings that we schedule where your input is needed", "It would help me and the team if you provided more regular updates on work that is in your hands so we can better plan work", etc
Wrong turn? Rat race? Compared to what?

Your ancestors 200 years ago were malnourished, working the fields all day to eke out a miserable existence, never enjoying a single luxury in life. They didn't know how to read or write, and in any case wouldn't have had time for such luxurious activities.

Human progress has brought us to the point where we have the free time to complain about how disadvantaged we are and how unfair life is, without giving a thought to the fact that our daily lives are far more luxurious than those of kings who lived 200 years ago.
This takes a lot of skill to execute. The level of commitment to it amazing. Any small mistake would have ricocheted the car into traffic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelk

> Nelk is known for popularizing and later trademarking the slang term "Full Send" (stylized as FULL SEND) which Forgeard defined as meaning "any activity you do, give it your absolute best".
Tell HN: Calendly should disable account if you ghost
When someone outsources their planning and scheduling to Calendly - basically letting other people pick a time on your schedule instead of having a back and forth conversation about it - that service should penalize them if they get a meeting in one of their available times and don't join it.

Basic plans are free, so those should just get disabled until payment is made to re-enable it.

Higher tier plans should just have a fine, or rise in price.

This is something I want to happen, not an existing company policy, if it wasn't clear.
I thought it's a skateboard thing, but apparently its roots can be traced back to rock climbing: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/send-it/
> Huge amounts of energy for a tiny bit of fuel. Zero carbon emission from operation. No venting of waste into atmosphere.

This isn't even really true if you look at the whole supply chain for a PWR. The energy density of the low grade ore that is becoming typical is no more than fossil fuels, and it requires vast amounts of sulfuric acid underground and in tailings pools that contaiminates the ground water even worse than fracking. It's significantly better than fossil fuels over all but still quite destructive.

Breeders would solve this if they existed.
Full send comes from extreme sports-style events originally, basically meaning "go 100% with no fear of the repercussions". In racing, it usually means going into a corner so fast you're basically risking or guaranteeing you won't make the turn safely.
For future reference (and anyone following along later), that is an "ncurses" terminal application.

You should see the customized JBHIFI terminal + keyboard.
Well, there was the proposal for WebUSB I think. I like it but seem to get shouted down.

If the browser was a little tighter to the hardware would be easier to dethrone App - with feature that currently can only be in app.
This is one of those events that I'm of several minds about:
1) This is what keeps people outside the scene interested and taking note - NASCAR absolutely should publicize and play up this moment, it brings a lot of folks to the sport. It was incredibly awesome.

2) A lot of times something like this is how you form some new regulations - it's truly one of those "You know, this was excellent but we can't do it again" situations.

3) The best course forward is to leave it alone and legal in this moment, publicize it, but also treat it as the formation of some new rules.

Side note, Nascar 2005, which he referenced as one of his inspirations for this, is one of my favorite gamecube games. I remember picking it up and playing it for hours on end, the soundtrack was awesome, and it didn't feel like an EA cash-grab at the time. Man how times have changed...

Edit: Extra info - the 11 of Hamlin has previously made it into the chase for the champion ship by _intentionally wrecking drivers_ , so by and large a huge part of the fan base believes he got what was coming to him.
Yes you can easily make a lot of claims. But I don't think they stack up, hence my request to "prove" it.

Also, of course, if you compare me (L5 Swe) and Jeff (L11 senior Google fellow/SVP) or Sanjay, you'll find that the roles we are hired into have vastly different compensation ranges. So even presuming this is true, it actually goes against your overall point that wide ranges for a single posting are justified. I'm not being hired for the same work as Sanjay.
> At pbf speeds, decoding is usually no longer a bottleneck, but bandwidth might be when comparing with gzipped JSON.

we were streaming a few hundred float datapoints spread across a dozen(ish) flat arrays over websocket at 20-40hz and needed to decode the payload eagerly. plain JSON was a multi-factor speedup over pbf for this case. but it's fully possible i was holding it wrong, too!

even when your "bottleneck" is rendering/rasterization (10ms), but your data pipe takes 3ms instead of 1ms, it's a big effect on framerate, battery, thermals, etc.

i'm a big fan of your work! while i have you here, would you mind reviewing this sometime soon? ;)

https://github.com/mourner/flatbush/pull/44
> It's not 1987, and I think the US might have also done a little bit of propaganda about the Soviet Union.

Not enough to be honest. An entity that exterminated people en masse and destroyed entire cultures and peoples deserves worse than just a but if propaganda against it.
Damn. Was it really that low? I ran into census data stating the following:

"Between 2019 and 2021, the number of people primarily working from home tripled from 5.7% (roughly 9 million people) to 17.9% (27.6 million people), according to new 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates released today by
the U.S. Census Bureau."

I Initially thought maybe the issue is average reported over years, but that does not seem to match either so I went to BLS[2] and the 7% number is there, but it is for for April 2022 and not its peak.

Chart data suggests double digit average.

Please correct me if I am misreading something.

[1]https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/people-w...
[2]https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/7-7-percent-of-workers-tel...