skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like that article mixes its units. "Profit margin" is usually taken as net profit margin, and 8.89% is a reasonable average. No business stays in business with a 9% operating margin. So then the article compares net profit margin of the average company with the operating margin of the railroads. This is completely invalid. So much so that either the author of the article is incompetent or deceptive. Union Pacific has a net profit margin of about 29%, which is a little higher than Apple (25% most recently), so definitely quite a nice margin, although not as good as Visa (about 50% the past few years) or Equity Residential (50%; I believe they own large numbers of apartment complexes in cities).

I'm not defending the lack of sick leave, but that profit margin figure is just wrong.
Nah they have almost no savings for retirement/in general. They may inherit their parents home, but thats a long ways off. But when you hang with them, you realize that when working full time you are missing out on psychological states and experiences that are taken from you by having a full time job.
A general strike is illegal in the United States. The US government, under the control of wealthy capitalists, has ensured that capital's interests are protected in law to the detriment of the workers who actually create value.

> Among the practices prohibited by the Taft–Hartley act are jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns. The amendments also allowed states to enact right-to-work laws banning union shops.

Labor in the US is weak by design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act
Content I value the most on HN are posts that get non-experts to ask novel questions that solicit explanations from experts that are understandable by me.
Oh man it this would be fascinating but definitely a book of what could have been.

If we had more visibility into details of why/how certain species didn't survive or how their competition "won" it would be a super interesting read. That said if it collected all species that didn't survive the book would >>> then the ones that have survived so clearly not viable to produce.
This method worked well with the following self-sealing envelope: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WRQ2V7R
Americans have asked me why I write "2/12/2022" or "2 December" when "it's not pronounced that way".

Well, I pronounce it [the] 2nd of December. Just like they say "4th July!", but only for that single day.
Jeff Bezos' 127M sailing yacht has completed construction
And claiming that an election was stolen that actually caused some idiots to storm a government building and putting the VP of the United States in danger is not associated with violence?
I'd rather take sound null safety over records. To say it's taking them years is disingenuous when they've mainly been working on null safety all this time, not twiddling their thumbs.
Porcelain bowl technology has improved greatly in the last couple of decades. Updating that might save you the effort with the auger and plunger, and make the regular use a little more pleasant as well.
Get a Canon and install CHDK.

https://bw.vern.cc/chdk/wiki/CHDK
Automotive and other mixed-criticality systems is where these two worlds butt together and have a lot to learn from each other.

Mech eng processes on one side, ASIL-style safety requirements in the middle, and someone wishing to pour a bucket load of Android apps into the same computer from the other end.
> I really don't understand why Intel and AMD haven't fully implemented this point: just implement the instructions that compilers use, plus the ones needed for bootstrapping and kernels. Put all the "legacy" instructions into user mode library code. It would simplify the silicon, likely reducing bugs.

You mean how x87 instructions is microcode emulated on SSE, which is microcode emulated on AVX hardware? (EDIT: I had a tidbit on MMX but I think I got my history wrong there)

None of those x87 instructions "exist" anymore. The CPUs support them, but its just microcode emulation. There's no x87 stack, or 80-bit registers on modern computers anymore. Its all careful emulation.

> The guiding theme, if there is/was one of CISC architectures was the ability for people to write assembly code. That's why there are all those string manipulation instructions and the like

REP MOVSB is actually the fastest way to memcpy on Intel machines, actually, thanks to "enhanced movsb".

It turns out that a single instruction to do memcpy is a really, really good idea.
And script doctors etc. can actually make quite a bit of money so a vague working on scripts isn’t an obvious red flag.
I find the state management in flutter needlessly complicated and I don't see why they threw out decades of GUI development wisdom
"Horrible" but always with you.
While soy is gluten free, most soy sauce brands are not..
FIDO, UTF, WebAuthn. It can't get here fast enough.

User authentication has been a hot mess for at least two decades. Passwords need to go.
Pretty much. The "adults" were only a few years removed from childhood anyway. The ones that were around at least.
NSO sold their software to central american cartels? I mean, that's the implication?
LLVM really is the tail that wags the dog for smaller compiler projects.

In addition to QBE as many have suggested, you might take a look at AsmJit, if you are using C++.
Protect the Stack
Paid leave doesn't prevent the railroads from doing PSR, it just makes it more expensive. Right now, they're pushing the cost onto the workers, and also the public, since sick workers ultimately burden the health care system and there are safety risks in having sick workers operating trains. This makes PSR look more efficient than it actually is for the economy at large.

As a matter of public policy, we should make companies bear the true costs of their business and have those costs reflected in their pricing, rather than foist those costs on the public under the table and off the books.
This echos my set up, and it's quite stable, particularly if the overlay is pinned.
For most of the last several years, I carried a flip phone, and I'd keep a compact camera in my bag. I just don't like smartphone interfaces in general. I really like camera interfaces; once you get good with it, it's very quick to set exposure, ISO, etc for exactly the kind of look you want. I also like being able to access files on my computer for editing, processing, and backup just via an SD card rather than having to send them through some 3rd party service.

Generally, I agree though, that software for cameras is pretty poor compared to what it could be.
Ask HN: Have we passed the Turing test? And how close are we to AGI?
even for a sophisticated user, figuring out what chatGPT is saying as human or not is really difficult, if not impossible (the current chatGPT is programmed to give itself away, but I can imagine a version that would not)

Considering the advances we're seeing on AI atm, have you reviewed your timeline for AGI? Something I didn't expect for a while now seems like will be solved in the next decade. That's my impression.
For at least the past 500 years in the Western world, each successive generation of kids has surpassed their parents in wealth, education, and standard of living. Why is "kids these days" still a thing?
Logjams at the part were a combination of insane regulation, even more restrictive union contracts and lack of slack capacity. For example, there were rules around stack depth, rules about truck loading and unloading, lack of automation and the fact it was simply cheaper to leave boats stacked up.

Agree on the point - we have a huge amount of fragility built into the system, and just - in - time logistics are a huge driver of that.
Even the old "go to the venue box office" option of avoiding fees is no longer an option in many places.

Here's what the website for my local big venue says:

"Please note the TD Garden Box Office does not sell tickets at the public on sale. All tickets should be purchased via www.ticketmaster.com"
Does it make your life easier or harder? (How easier is it to recover from FAT32 than from "specialized format")?

Does specialized format means you don't ever need to recover from them or noticeably less?
Interesting. Look up the Boer flag, of Musk's South Africa.
> Are you basically saying that I can build my front end using clojure?

Unless I misunderstand your question, this has already been possible for some time: ClojureScript + React/React Native.

There are some impressive videos illustrating this. The devil is in the tooling and setup, but once that is in place the pace and ease of development looks great.

It's really amazing to make a code change in my text editor and see the UI on my mobile app update instantly.
Certainly the Catholic Church has had significant swings, I take your point, but so far it has never waned into irrelevancy.

I counter your Protestant Reformantion point with the Catholicization of Latin America.
Home solar is great in these situations as you have full control of your energy supply.
And Trump still hasn't conceded 2020... who cares what people say when it's nonsense?
What I don’t get is why folks don’t just quit and go to an industry with less abusive labor practices - hell even construction laborers get days off.
How do you feel about corporate welfare?
We should do a better job of getting more granular on that piece, because it really does matter, but the above isn't the right way to do that math to answer the question prospective students have, and is misleading in the opposite direction. The outcomes report is directed at prospective students who want to understand what will happen to them if they attend the school and look for a job.

You have to remember that (for this outcomes report) nearly every student uses an ISA under which no one is required to pay us unless/until they get a job using the skills they learned. There are a number of people who attend never intending to switch careers, a (large) number who ghost us the day after graduation, and a (large) number who get a job but don't tell us until we get tax returns (so we learn they were hired only after this outcomes report).

Our team works their asses off to work with these students, and is doing everything they possibly can. Slacks, calls, texts, emails, some of which are auto-generated from me personally, and in some cases even physical mail, to try to get them to work with us. If they respond _in any way at all_ with anything other than something that equates to, "I don't want a tech job" they are job-seeking in the outcomes report. We have built tooling to make applying to jobs easier, we find jobs that you should apply to for you, have an outreach generator where our team will write emails to hiring managers for you, and more recently even what we call "job search takeover" where we work with students on resume/portfolio/job criteria in advance, and we will actually do all of the work to fill up your calendar with interviews.

Students who look for a job in any way whatsoever get hired at a very high rate. In my view, if you're a prospective student, that's the information you actually want to understand. The fact that there are a number of students students (most of whom are using ISAs) who never intend to look for a job or don't look for a job is a fair indictment of our business model, but not a fair indictment of the quality of the school or the likelihood of getting hired.

So how should we treat that in an outcomes report? If you're a prospective learner do you want to know about the hiring rate of the people who ghost us or don't intend to look for a job, or do you want to know the hiring rate of people who map to the profile of what you expect to do?

If anyone has ideas of a better way to slice that data to convey the best information to a prospective learner, I would love to hear it.
Or on Youtube as attention-retainers. It's really good at drip-feeding content over weeks/months, and changes what videos are recommended based on the duration of the viewing session.
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/
Converting Jupyter into a data app in a single line of code
I'd consider myself part of the community. I advocated for Svelte and lead two projects in my company, I spoke about Svelte at meet-ups and I did some mentoring around svelte and data visualisation.

And I agree with you. Rich has strong opinions and he likes to stir some discussion. And that's fine, he always responds with nuance and mutual respect. Problem is when community parrots his one liners. If I had a nickel for everytime I got yelled with "vdom is pure overhead!" or "jsx is an abomination, my templates are pure html".

In the end I'm not even sure if it is something specific about Svelte, or just any non-react solution has to bash React loudly.
> SvelteKit is unusable at this point, the routing system has undergone several major changes for example but there are constantly several breaking changes, DO NOT USE.

They state sveltekit is feature complete and there are no more planned breaking changes before 1.0. I think you can use it now, with relatively low risk.
Ask HN: Return to office announcements – what's your plan?
Our CEO is about to deliver news in 'everyone should attend' meeting category. Invite already has phrases like 'how great we we will do - together - again' and I am internally cringing already, because I got here precisely when my old company tried to go full RTO. I have been preparing for this eventuality for the past few months in small doses ( wife changed her shift to take care of kids; I started to send feelers out for remote only positions in my area of expertise -- but, not unexpectedly, full remote is THE desired perk so it is actually harder to get ).

I very briefly debated consulting, but I honestly don't think I have the kind of mind to juggle those hats well to thrive in that environment ( then again, having seen some vendor's work, maybe I do ).

I guess the real question is.. how are you preparing?
Why are people using BLoC? I thought Provider and now Riverpod are what was recommended, which are the global singletons you're talking about.
> and have had no trouble dating

That's the part I find most fascinating. I just can't fathom how that will work out down the road.
You can still buy alarm clocks too, even though your phone has one, just like it has a flashlight. Cheap alarm clocks are so cheap that only a slight benefit like always having it on your shelf is enough of a reason to buy one. (Expensive ones are decorations and not mainly bought in order to tell time.)

Watches have gotten less popular though.
There’s free speech from a legal perspective and free speech from PR perspective. I’d argue that free speech from a legal perspective is actually pretty free in most western countries.

From a libertarian perspective private platforms should freely decide what they allow and what they won’t. The public can also freely criticise them and move away. Advertisers can freely decide if they want to advertise there.

Every libertarian should visit a true neo-nazi site like Stormfront to see how much we are allowed to say.
Tim Cook on AirDrop Suppression, Protests in China
The blues also put forward the paid sick leave as a separate bill rather than putting them together. That's no coincidence, but a political strategy.
Hydro mountain back then, poop power now!
Many do, and employers promptly abuse it. Many who have been lauded in the covid times as heroes, the people who really keep society together, are criminally undervalued in compensation and other benefits. Aside from these, there are field where the love for the field is looked upon as a compensation in itself, and therefore it pays less and abuse more, for example computer game developers.

Although, I don't think work is the default for humans. Evolutionally speaking I'd think taking care of the self, the partner, and the immediate next of kin would come first, and would take most of the day. In this light, a 9-5 is really unnatural, because you give "your best" to a completely different context. I see the point in it personally, but I also understand why it could feel unnatural and undesirable.
Backward compatibility. They could microcode all the lesser used instructions, but the surface area of existing code is very large, and intel and AMD care more about running existing code faster than new code.

There is a reason that even the obsolete x87 floating point stack still runs a near optimal speed.

Also I don't think it is very expensive to maintain most rare instructions. The cost is primarily in encoding space, but until they support a different ISA (possibly as an alternate mode), they don't have an option.

There is also the "small" advantage that a very complex architecture is hard to implement, validate, and/or emulate, giving an advantage against the competition.
This may help dispel some errant thoughts: Unless there is an authority for verifying records made to an immutable, authenticated, verified, distributed, bft ledger, multiple distinct versions of the same event can be recorded and the act and content recorded for posterity. The ledger's guarantees merely cover the boundary of the act of recording, but not the thought that is recorded.

So, opinions alert:

Truth is not a balance sheet. It is not a mathematical object, in its entirety.

Authorities will always be necessary. This will require social trust.

Social trust is the natural byproduct of healthy societies and its erosion a leading indicator of subsequent demise.
> I'm surprised you even have drivers available, with those work conditions I'm not sure why anyone would apply

Because there are many people for whom that job is extremely well-paid compared to other options they have available. And people put up with tons of shitty situations when they don't really feel they have an alternative.

This song from 1928 indicates this is not a new problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8-PZFPCs3g
If you think frontends, as a general category, are terrible, and backend software, as a general category, is more "serious", "real", or "important", you have precisely the mindset that produces theoretically useful gadgets that are ruined by poor user interfaces.
Thanks! Besides bounded variance they should also generally be independent. Or at least I'm not aware of a dependent variable version.
Illegal immigration is the market response to different economic potential across countries. Just like in physics, if you have chemical potential differences across a boundary and particles can pass, you'll only reach equilibrium when the chemical potential equalizes.

Even if an immigrant enters a country and is still productive and doesn't even use any social benefits, he diluted the job pool. Those getting out of the job pool get the socialistic benefits. So the average productivity could still go down. Those immigrants compete with locals equally in the job market, so dividing them into one group having benefits and another without doesn't change the stability condition. So instead of an immigrant coming and taking benefits directly, he comes, replaces a working local which just takes benefits.

Open or closed borders are a real dichotomy from higher up viewpoint which analyzes dynamics and stability condition, not a 'false dichotomy'. They represent a constraint in the equilibrium condition, which either exists or doesn't. The most you can do is filter the demographics which can enter or leave. But you'll still reach an equilibrium for each demographic with an open border. Like diffusion through filtering membrane. Or you can restrict the flow, but it only delays reaching the equilibrium, doesn't change where that equilibrium will be.

These stability conditions and dynamics are forces beyond the power of governments. You can play around them and find a reasonable trade-off, or you can try fighting them and get disappointed.

It doesn't matter whether the immigrants don't get the benefits themselves, they compete for wages with people that do. It's funny you're even suggesting to solve this problem with inequality.

By the way, in Israel for example, the construction industry is completely dominated by Palestinians. They don't get any benefits. Israelis just don't work in construction anymore. Even when people are jobless they don't even consider working in construction because the state of employment just isn't worth it.

You can't solve this by creating inequality between immigrants and locals. It's even worse.
You'd probably need to elaborate more before any advice here can be anything more than generic.

But here's one bit of generic advice to think about. Things like being rated an "expert" by an arbitrary system may be useful to have on your CV/Resume to get it past screeners. However, when it gets to the interview stage you'll probably have more luck detailing your experiences in working through challenges to deliver software. I call these "war stories" because they should contain the good and the bad, the victories and the mistakes.

If you've been working since 2008 you'll have them, it's all about being able to explain them succinctly and be able to answer follow up questions.

I'd advise having some to choose from in which you overcame tech challenges, and some in which you've been able to guide teams or organisations towards a solution as you need to show you can get things done in an org and take people with you, not fight against them.
Looking at the Python documentation can be dangerous
If I could consistently make $5k/month working 5h/week I'd quit my job in a heartbeat.
Working hard does not mean you do nothing but work :)
Anyone who's spent any time working in the work world knows that 90% of companies simply don't care about their workers, particularly at the lowest level.

If I put the company and then the team first, and the team and company think the same way, who is there to look out for me?

Only a sociopath, and a stupid one, would put their company ahead of their family. And there aren't that many sociopaths in society.

Loyalty must be earned, and most companies have earned not loyalty, but resentment and deep distrust.

(I have been lucky that I have mostly avoided such companies, because I have a fairly rare talent, but not entirely. Oh, boy.)
There is or was a compact camera market? What is it, 10 people? 5?
How's that abusing public infrastructure?

1. Wikipedia is a private entity.

2. It is very well funded.

3. That extension probably uses less resources than someone loading an entire webpage with all associated media just to look up a url.
Teaching relies heavily on "just do this extra bit you don't really have to... it's for the kids, after all". Stay a little longer, get this extra thing done, just buy that thing yourself, come in a little early to help with this other thing. You're sick but this kid emailed to say they didn't understand the lesson the sub taught... and you could help, so you do. Implicitly, when not explicitly. It gets a lot more obvious that's what's going on after you leave education and see what a normal job is like. Which might be less insulting if the pay were competitive, but it's not that hard for a competent teacher to leave for another sector and see a 20-50% TC increase. You lose the Summers but everything else is better.
Thank you for that recommendation! It ends up quite high on my to-read list!