skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly why I cannot stand using the kiosks to order food at a fast-food restaurant. They take what used to be a five-second process to verbally state an order, and turn it into a multi-minute agony of taps, reading, canceling suggested upsells, etc. before finally getting to completion.

I guess the restaurant saves having to pay a person at the counter to take the orders, at the expense of massive customer frustration to the point where I hardly ever go to these places anymore. And then they wonder why their year-over-year sales are declining.
Customers are generally more forgiving of long lines and quality decrease than price increases.

The value of time is subjective and often not purely rationally weighed. People will run a red light to save 35 sec. but then lay on their couch for two hours.
Capital, and access to it, and the costs associated with raising it, is a thing.
RSUs only vest if you are an employee the day they vest. If a salesperson wins a deal and you fire them before paying their commission that’s different since they closed the deal first.

It’s very common for companies to let individuals go before bonuses vest.
I do like the change, i can't even sign up with my email to twitter - most likely because it is a custom domain.
I don't understand your point; you think it's just fine that people deliberately slandered and lied about a pizza place to the extent that someone believed it, went in with an AR and fired rounds and that's all fine because no one died?

Surely even if you think that was fine, it would have been better than fine if the guy did that same thing to a pizzeria actually was a pedo ring? My comment was only saying that violence induced by outright lies has a relevant difference than violence which is a reaction to things that actually happened. Those seem clearly different even if you think censorship is not a viable or correct solution to "violence induced by misinfo".
> because of someone who believes the incorrect speech of influential figures and I desperately do not want further injury or violence to occur spurned by incorrect speech on the facts of reality.

This person was mentally unstable/disturbed. I'm not sure we should frame our world, an freedoms, around the craziest of us all, otherwise our society will eventually look no different than an insane asylum.

I do believe there are memetic "contagions", but I also believe that a better solution is proper mental healthcare for those in need, like this person was.
I suspect I was just unclear with my comment[0]. I do mean to say that even if there is merit to the person's complaints, it is a valid response to tell that person to go and do it themselves. I'm not convinced that they'll make something half as good and that's very relevant if they're going to be complaining. I'm less likely to take a person seriously if all they can add to a topic is, "This is bad and someone needs to make it better!" while remaining unwilling or unable to be that "someone". The minimum would be even just a suggestion of what to do instead.

Anyway, I actually think this is rather controversial with valid opposing perspectives, so I don't intend to invalidate yours! This is just where I land.

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> if this individual doesn't like it then I think it's totally appropriate to challenge [said individual] to do it better
To those dismissing Tesla FSD as “snake oil”, I’d recommend a quick YouTube search where you’ll find countless customers using FSD without intervention on city streets with complex junctions and poor visibility.
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I was expecting a lot more on release day!
We're having Ryan at Handmade Seattle [0] this November to discuss memory management strategies (with other engineers across the memory-safety spectrum.)

You might prefer a public, conversational setting at the conference instead of a personal blog post. That said the article made useful technical points. And he wasn't hurling expletives or denigrating any individual.

[0] https://handmade-seattle.com/
Facebook only ever had a monopoly because they bought anything that looked like a competitor. When they failed to acquire Snapchat and TikTok, they were guaranteed to lose their monopoly. They have no idea how to get and keep users' attention without infuriating them at the same time.
I sort of think of the absolute value of lines changed as a pulse.

You can do -100. You can do 100. You can net zero from 100 adds and 100 subtracts (abs=200). But it’s something. If you have long stretches of zero that’s not good.
Yeah, its what happens when you get fired but everyone wraps their arms around you in a big group hug so security can't get to you: de-termination.
Not only do the markets not trust Zuckerberg. But since he still has a controlling stake in the company, the stock should trade at a steep discount since stockholders have no say in the company.
sometimes the most senior engineers don't ship a ton of code to prod, but they should certainly be writing code to figure out where the organization should go, justify the ROI of their ideas, demonstrate a large-scale problem that needs resources mustered, interrogate business logic databases to tie disparate ideas together, understanding the scale and frequency of large scale problems, and so on. If you're a senior engineer and can't point to any code you've written in the past 3 months, maybe you're not really an engineer, because you're not using engineering to solve problems.

I think a lot of software engineers get too comfortable with the idea that meetings are deliverables - they aren't; meetings are coordination and planning. if nobody completes the work that was coordinated and planned, the meeting was nothing but a waste of time. Depending on your seniority as an engineer, you may have written code to decide that the work should be done, or you may be tasked with writing code to carry out the plan. If you're an engineer and you're not writing code on either side of meetings, you should dig deep and figure out why.
Well that multiple client fairness gets solved by using something like CAKE. There are youtube demos doing exactly this even with links limited to like a few meg.
Op here. I am a cyclist too, but cycling means I have to get the bike out the shed, cycle there (which admittedly is fast) then lock it up somewhere (not always available outside the shop) , then cycle home with my shopping bag.

On the scooter I go the supermarket with the scooter, do my shop and it is so much easier to scoot home with a bag over the handlebar than it is on a bike.

I love cycling and I cycle a lot for pleasure, but for errands the scooter is just perfect, no effort, easy to take in the house or pub, or train, or shopping. After a day of work I often just want easy.

Before I had the scooter I did likely cycle more, but I also used the car much more.
> constantly shocked that "leveraged buyouts" are a thing

LBOs were a cure to the poison of the post-war conglomerate [1]. Those were run as personal fiefdoms by aloof executives and their cronies.

The traditional check was M&A. Conglomerates having no clean competitors, this–in practice–meant a buyer putting up cash and borrowing the rest, buying the company, taking out a loan in the company's name, using that to pay themselves and then paying back the personal loan. The only purpose the buyer's credit served was to gatekeep. LBOs compress that process, letting anyone challenge management if they can convince investors/lenders to back their vision.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conglomerate_(company)
The capture and revolving door definitely goes both ways.

Although my comment may not be sufficient to prove anything, there's a lot to explore with this topic. For instance, here's an example in the other direction:

>more than 80 former Schumer staffers have gone on to subsequently work at the Big Tech firms. And Schumer's two daughters have also both worked directly for Big Tech—one for Amazon, and one for Facebook subsidiary Instagram.

https://www.newsweek.com/why-chuck-schumer-trying-stop-antit...

This article is only about the one direction, but you can be sure the revolving door goes both ways in big-tech. Just look at all the ex-NATO officers currently wor
Even fucking Google keeps putting a half-page pop-up on my iPhone saying "WANT TO SIGN IN, OR JUST KEEP SEARCHING 'ANONYMOUSLY' LIKE A CHUMP?" or something just as fucking annoying.
What if each agent cost $100K and was bringing in $900K? Would that be worth it to you? Because that's what the Congressional Budget Office's estimate actually is. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444
'Scrabble variants' now cause the majority of new Covid-19 infections in the US
I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
The chart only shows change, not the actual value. If you look at a chart of the values you'll see that it's true we've just returned to ~2019 values:
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/productivity
a few of the providers required a photo of the scooter when you ended your ride. seems to address that issue.
Groups and Marketplace are huge products. I presume they are larger or have become larger than the newsfeed.
And also that it's moderated. Just like how we've got dang and company on HN, you've got to have good paid moderators.
I mean, at the time of the merge, the Phoronix post seemed to be the only one that gave a quick rundown of the whole "saga", with links to posts covering the relevant news from 2021.
I did not know that! Pretty cool!
> Also, "socio-economic status" is a spectrum between poor and wealthy, including all of them. Just like "race" includes all races. We don't call it "non-white-and-asian-based affirmative action", so i dont see why you have an issue with me not calling it "poor-based affirmative action". It is a sliding scale, with all groups within it having different weights attached. So calling it "poor-based affirmative action" makes zero sense to me.

In total: One can make up the groups ... and the weights. It's completely arbitrary. That's why socio-economic is closer to astrology than a clearly defined term. Sure, you can make up cool calculations (with statistics even!), but it does not mean anything.
Tbf python isn't exactly a language that's high in sugar to start with, it doesn't even have switch statements. Not sure why you'd want to take away even more until there's nothing usable left. People have the weirdest hobbies hah
I think you're conflating Venezuela with El Salvador?
Honestly, if you're this opposed to exploring Backus's 1977 Turing Award lecture, you are not the target audience. This isn't some obscure paper that's been lost to time, it's been cited 96 times in 2022 alone [0]. It's a huge freaking deal in the PL community, and OP is perfectly justified in referencing it and moving on.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2022&cites=7066062...
> the landlord is not contributing anything productive and is attempting to freeload off of other’s productivity

This is patently absurd. Does the Miller not provide anything productive when he brings flour to the Baker? The Landlord provides both a Good and a Service. Just because his contribution is not necessarily concurrent with the Tenet's, does not mean that he is not contributing anything productive.
What clothing were they wearing? Perhaps jeans and shoes are racist now too...
That stuff is typically in a VCS.

I don’t think it’s an absolute rule that no commits means someone isn’t developing. But it’s probably a reason to have a conversation.
You're taking on the cost of purchasing the property, which is certainly not nothing. But as a commercial landlord, your tenants pay all the costs of owning and maintaining it, they pay all the taxes, they pay everything. Every commercial lease is structured this way.

You have an outlay of capital to acquire the property up front, and you have a minimal amount of risk if a large portion of the property goes unrented. But even a brand new owner will typically only need to reach 30-40% occupancy by square footage in order to break even, and the unrented portions can be written off for a tax credit.

I would love it if the commercial landlords I've rented from in the past were providing services for the exorbitant checks they were getting every month, but the only different I've encountered between commercial landlords and residential slumlords is that there are generally government protections for the tenants of a slumlord, commercial tenants not so much.
I think that other commenter baited you into a stupid emotional/culture war internet thing. That wasn't me, and I don't think that your rhetoric in this comment is called for.

I have never said "lol just run an extension". That's completely dismissing/ignoring my argument, and kind of disrespectful. It doesn't seem like you're actually trying to have a productive argument, especially since you're calling your own argument irrational:

> I don't accept rationalisation of inaccessible design in actual developer tooling or websites with a substantial amount of users ...

So if you're just trying to get into an internet slap fight with somebody, go do it with that other guy.
> I get money for my time and effort to provide their needs.

This is a pretext. You get money, give as little of it as possible to the people who are doing what you claim to be doing (maintaining the property), and pocket the rest. Owner is not a job.
They are expressions in rust

fn main() {
let () = return ();
}
Third Nature
> These companies that can't pay their bills are going to lay-off staff just to stay afloat.

Companies have been aggressively cutting staff for a very long time, often requiring a single person to do the work of two of three people. How much can they lay people off and stay in business at all?
my 2c is nihilism and cynicism are why.

Why bother, nothing means anything anyways? Why bother chasing the dream, if it doesn't come true?

People have increasingly been losing meaning and purpose in their lives. Old dreams like home ownership, family (including extended), close knit friendships, and eventual financial freedom/security have been supplanted by travel (broken by inflation & lockdowns, made fake by social media), fur babies (due to gender disparagement and estrangement), workplace politics / friends for a season (as we move for work, and have increasingly tighter requirements for friend groups due to technology (ie you can find people who agree with you online, so no need to befriend the neighbor with slightly annoying political beliefs), and life time of debt and little investment value[1].

So people are simply burned out being asked to pursue a long run strategy w/ a "promised" dream. The people delivered on their end of the bargain, but the dream makers didnt.

[1]: https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-dat... From late 1999 to 2016 returns on .inx after inflation have been down or flat. People no longer believe the "Buy the index and you will see profits" after 20 years of contrary evidence. Over the past 30 yrs the index using the "8% per year" usual claim, should have returned 10x but it actually only returned 1/2 that.

Why try, it's not going to work anyways?
I think it’s effective because the message is simple and scaled in coordinated fashion. To effectively answer to such an attack you need to massively distribute among the users refutals to every part of the attack message, with reputable sources and it needs to be brief enough so people don’t lose interest halfway. It could take a form of browser extension or a separate site with a dialogue tree of sorts where one participant is propaganda bot and the other the site user. Then users need to publicly post these (i guess you can ask fellas for help?).
Right. The failure rate for restaurants is (depending on who you believe) up to 60% in the first year. That's the kind of business that would simply cease to exist if prospective business owners had to convince lenders to fund large capital costs.
According to this it was 35% at the peak, and 7% is the current figure:
https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/data-remote-workers-de...
> While its largely irreverent, it still respects the material with far more care than some of the other new live action shows

Yup, it's satirical but not unlovingly. The recent live action shows are veneer of star trek characters and visual themes atop a Marvel movie.
> If I can look at a method

My resistance to the term "Premature optimization" is generally not about optimizing single methods, but usually either about optimizing how to split an application up to modules (services, classes methods) or about what technology to use for each component.

For instance, if you have an "inner loop" or basic computation unit that requires you to do several REST requests to other services (serially, with little room for parallelism) where it would have been possible to maintaina few hashmaps locally in your service with the same data, you may easily take processing time from 1 hour to 1 week for some computation task.

With some experience, you should be perfectly capable of undersanding this way before defining how to split your workloads up into microservices.
Meta is doing buybacks, which is just another form of dividend, so in that regard they are not that different.
Kudos for fighting the good fight, but honestly this is a losing battle. As time goes on, fewer and fewer of the people in the world using Markdown are interested in this distinction.
Every job in tech I have had (~10) have started with a recruiter reaching out to me, me asking the position range and then telling the recruiter I want the top of the range or more. No interviews with anyone in the company until the salary requirements are handled otherwise its just a waste of everyone's time. I couldn't imagine talking to someone to see if they want to hire me without knowing if its even worth it for me, it puts all the power in their hands.

I've never had a recruiter balk or push back on answering even for the roles I decided not to pursue. A recruiter doing so would be a huge flashing red light for me.

"If it makes you mad that job ads do not list salary, then there are good reasons and you will just have to get over or it not apply for that job.

It's that easy - if the ad doesn't specify salary and that is a key requirement for you, don't get angry, just don't apply."

Or the state could just pass a law making it a required field...
In my city they use organisms to process wastewater and the smell is quite remarkable. There is one section right at the beginning that smells like sewage, but the rest of the processing plant smells like freshly turned dirt in your garden, albeit stronger. Many years ago before they modified the process the smell was horrible.
A meta framework on top of a Meta library?
Depends on your lease terms.

Many, if not the majority, of commercial leases, including mine, are Net leases, which have the business maintaining the property (and paying the property taxes in the case of a triple Net lease). And many, if not most, commercial leases are not year to year, but over three or five years.
Welcome to OFAC compliance. In case you did not know, it is the finance sector's job to make sure you do not transact with any embargoed or sanctioned entities or groups the United States decides shouldn't be given entrance to the U.S. financial system. This responsibility is part of doing business.

You will not find a licensed payment processor that will not do this type of surveillance/due diligence, as they are strictly liable for any violations. If this creeps you out, join the club.
If you think about it as a diminishing returns curve, it becomes something that can be understood and explored. Of course, the sales people will try to get you to expand quickly and your most efficient spend will come first - after your inflection point, your incremental return will decrease.

However, fighting that pull is the optimization opportunities enabled only at scale. If I run 1 ad, I know how that performs. If I run 1000 ads, I know which ad performs best.
real reason is that it compete with WebP format :-)
So, why not do something actually constructive/

Like the math people have branches of geometry where the parallel axiom is not used. So is there a different model that works? Because all scientists will say "this is our model" and you can have different equivalent models, so what is your model, does it work and what it predicts? What experiment you need done to prove it?
Yeah but who pays for the developers?

Besides initial construction you also have maintenance, acquiring tenants, property management, renovations and improvements, etc.

If a company has the means and desire to do all this themselves, there's nothing stopping them from buying the land themselves instead of renting, but it's generally more efficient for a business to focus on what they are good at and leave the real estate issues to a company that specializes in it.
It may seems soppy, but comments about user satisfaction

I did some tasks in companies and for personal projects, and I liked the positive impact it had for some people

They were just satisfied with it. You knew you could create value. And by value, I mean not just money, but something that had a positive impact on their personal lives or work/life balance.
At best, you could even involve them, so that they learn from the experience, and do a part of the work themselves.

Being a (software) engineer can be very uplifting in some environments
> What if the police abuse their power

Then people are free to speak out against it. But if they weren't, that question would indeed be unanswerable.
> It's so rare for a superstar not to know their market rate as to be unlikely

You're no-true-scotsmanning 'superstar' here to assume, I suspect, that one of the attributes of a superstar is being in the know, and so on top of the industry and job market that they are aware how much their skills are worth.

For a certain class of superstar that may be true, but there are many, many very strong developers who are working in backwater job markets and have not looked for jobs in a while who literally have no idea what typical total comp offers from serious tech companies in hot markets are like.

There are plenty of high skilled people who have been blown away by an offer they thought was incredibly generous, only to discover they were actually lowballed.
I just think that without the draw of the motion controllers, the Wii U screen just really wasn't good enough to make the console worth using. The Nintendo switch was brilliant, you just had to think like a 13 year old to understand why that was always going to sell like gangbusters.

The games library was just too weak honestly, I think that was the main thing. The software problems were in large part caused by Nintendo under-speccing its machines catching up to it. Multiplatform's were particularly adversely affected.

All in all you were better off buying a PS4 honestly.
> Even laying off 25% of the workers would be hard to justify at this point.

It wouldn't because we're in a downturn and Twitter was already planning layoffs.
Elon Musk’s plan to charge for Twitter verification: a misinformation nightmare
If you can't make your point without repeating yourself, it's probably not a point worth making.
Yes. That's also not an expansion of the federal government. That's just hiring to fill the responsibilities that the federal government already has.
Most servers don’t need raw performance from a single chip they can do their workloads by horizontally scaling.
The true big brained programmer sat in a meeting and prevented a team of 25 people from wasting 6 months.
Those darn Woke Marxists at it again, this time denying you a downvote button, and me too! Now I know who to blame at least. NASA and the Marxists in leagues with hackernews.