skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the manufacturing methods used in the factories are different today. For example, you can now have all the boards nailed together by robots. Other things are still the same. Electric wiring, for instance, is still a largely manual process.
They're measuring square feet completed per employee. Houses are twice as big now as they were 50 years ago. Anyone who's every done a remodel or new construction knows that 80% of the time is spent on the last 20% of finishing work, and with twice the square feet, that's twice as much finishing work.

Also, does this paper take into account increased regulations? Both the time spent complying with new building codes as well as the time spent waiting for inspectors?
I'll second this. Zen and stoicism saved my sanity towards the end of the 2010s and through the pandemic.

For me it's not so much about the infinite list, because I've always had many thousands of tabs open and surf so much that there's no way I could ever bookmark everything (since the mid-90s).

It's actually about the opportunity cost of distraction and finally work itself. Beyond a certain level of experience and mastery (perhaps 10 years), no job has enough variety to satisfy the ADHD mind. We all become Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad: manning a parking booth that could be fully automated while we secretly plot ways to escape and "get real work done". Which is the central theme of movies like The Matrix.

The only thing that finally brought me out of burnout back to living was to realize that life is both a pointless game and the most sacred thing there is. Meaning that once I turned off my inner monologue completely and finally just observed, I found gratitude for all of creation through non-attachment.

Applied to HN specifically, it might help to step back from the rational and look at it holistically. You and I might be missing out, but the whole world is learning and growing together. We're part of a higher consciousness now, a virtual mind overlaid on us that will transcend us before 20 years is out and we enter the New Age. These are the memoirs of Gaia (insert deity of choice here).
I'll try doing that at my boss, see if it makes him any clearer.
Amazon has around USD 58 billion in cash and short term investments according to their last quarterly report. Stripe's last "valuation" in 2021 was at USD 96 billion so today, based on the market cap behavior of similar companies like Square or PayPal, that number should be at USD 30-40 billion today.

It would be a large acquisition but not unheard of.
As comfortable as 3M half-face respirators are, having people in the room wear a mask until vapors subside is a hassle - especially if the room is in the basement or a northern climate where opening a window isn't possible or desirable.
What Kotlin calls value types aren't the real deal, just syntax sugar for primitive types with method with a single field.

KMP taken to the extreme, is better for Kotlin just to do its own thing with Kotlin/Native, except it is so behind that JetBrains is using Rust instead for Fleet services.

Java is expected to have language level support for some of those features, will Kotlin catch up?
Yet another great example of how much of our world is powered by unsustainable practices. These are credit card solutions that provide value today at a much higher price tomorrow. The sad thing is that we already know how to address these issues, and instead of encouraging, educating, and improving those processes we are doubling down on the things that are making the system more brittle.
The majority of saas business is like this: Numerous engineers trying to invent new unnecessary features or sitting idle through irrelevant projects and meetings or doing continuous refactoring and ‘let’s use the new x tool/process/language/whatever’ every x months, numerous managers ‘managing’ them and managing these managers and fighting about headcount and other irrelevant metrics and so on, numerous product managers having no clue and just copy-pasting features from different saas, ux designers iterating on the designs every year and so on, founders keep founding the same saas with another tens of competitors building the same thing snd so on.

We are really privileged to be in such an industry, gaining so much money (depending on location) compared to other professions and doing so meaningless job. IMO the majority of saas business would operate decently with at least half of their staff or they shouldn’t exist at all. Most of them just facilitate invented features for other saas anyway.
ChatCody, the GitHub Bot That Boosts Team Productivity
ChatCody is a new Github bot that utilizes the latest GPT model to streamline the code review process and boost team productivity. The bot can perform a variety of tasks to help software development teams save time with comments on both pull requests and issues.
And at the beginning, they tried to partner with Enron to do it. For some reason that part didn't pan out...
Public-APIs/public-APIs: A collective list of free APIs
Yes-- that's precisely what I'm saying. They should be better at validation, and my experience is that `data.table::fread` in R is the best in class.
First, let me say that I'm not attempting to give my own opinion on the direction that folks should go in. I'm most interested in bringing awareness as to what's going on so we can have deeper understanding and discussion.

With the school his is from, look at what their vision isn't. It's not to create well educated people who can excel at their jobs. Their vision isn't to create people who are self sustaining adults who can operate in society.

Their vision is to get people civically engaged around certain forms of change.

The specific forms of change are not agreed to as a culture in the US. This is an area where we don't have good in depth thoughtful conversations, either.
Yes, that's true and that's why I state my position: the choice to bring in foreign capital changes the equation drastically. They were lucky to get funded, and burned through the cash at a higher rate than they should have to make it to the finish line.

I don't see how you can blame the VCs for that. I've seen a couple of VCs invest in language eco systems and/or language related products and some of those are quite successful but they had a working product and paying customers, they decided to use VC as an accelerator which is perfectly ok.

If you need VC to do your basic research and you are pre-product with all kinds of unknowns then that's a bad match regardless of the field, unless you make it perfectly clear up front that you expect that follow on rounds are going to be required.

As for outcomes: there are successes, soft landings and failures, I have not seen a fourth case in practice across many, many companies. Not as many as YC but a fairly representative fraction of that number.
Probably autocorrect (cpp->com)
Structural Integrated Panels (SIPs) and Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) are two examples. SIPs are made from compressed foam with pressed wood on either side and are precut in the factory to fit together at the job site. ICFs are basically giant foam legos that you assemble together and then fill with concrete.
You should try Swift's Combine library. It works pretty nicely for modeling / cleaning up complex async flows.
Really? I had a Quest, lots of my friends as well, I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been mind blown by VR after experiencing it
It cannot be the case that “all expenses” have grown faster than inflation (which is what real wages takes into account).
Yet the posted article reads like they want to ban Aristotle or Voltaire. The same people who banned Dr Seuss have a problem when Florida wants to ban gay-sex explicit books from elementary schools.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/02/six-dr-seuss-books-will-be-d...
Is the Second Coming nearing?
Good point! For those who haven't noticed the most important fact about the USA economy:

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...
Hey, do you have an employee referral program? If so, can you refer me? Would love to apply, however I know employee referrals gets one a foot in the interview door quickly.
I seriously can't recommend this guy enough for general repair/building work...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnorhjQR4zJkT7AVNhu395Q/vid...

Friendly, super knowledgable, takes the fear out of the DIY.

For electrical, I do a lot myself, but when it came to running a 50amp line + breaker panel inside my place (which also required outdoor ladder work) to replace the steel conduit indoors, I just hired a professional even though it was very expensive.
That's an 11 year old article. Might want to indicate that in the subject/title, as is customary.
Brevity is the mother of wit
Yep, I struggle.

Things I've done.

1. Delete my account, change /etc/hosts or use OpenDNS and block it.
2. Restrict it to one device and only for 1 hour a day.
3. Sign up for a digest email from another service and only use that.
I would love to see a discussion from somebody who really likes Nix on why it isn't ready for prime time yet/just play devil's advocate aloud on why it isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I feel like I must not be doing anything "serious" enough to need package reproducibility at that high level. I'm aware of things like git checkout/tags, package-lock.json, Cargo.lock, Docker image tags.

What is a real world use case where Nix isn't overkill? I've read toolchains but... nvm (node version manager), rustup. I still Rust on a machine once and I never think about it again.

It feels like the Kubernetes of package management/build if you will complexity wise. "Do we really need this or is it just what everybody else is doing?"
I thought Cost Plus incentivise people to do unnecessary work? Since getting x% of "plus" on top of a huge messily, error filled contract is more than a lean efficient one?
But people still want and yell for “affordable housing”. Can’t have your cake and eat it too
As an employee, part of the upside of a pay cut is that I'm not looking at successive rounds unless the business is still bleeding.

As a business, it depends on the type of business, but pay cuts tend to be a more effective way to stem bleeding. For example, a consulting firm (so horizontally scalable) with 90% of the employees can only do 90% as much work. Revenues dip. That leads to a cycle where further layoffs are necessary. A pay cut, on the other hand, doesn't have the same dip in output as a layoff.

Now, all that said, many businesses (including some that did layoffs) are vastly overstaffed, to where productivity would be higher with fewer people. But even that can be managed more gracefully.
People like Peter Zeihan argue that the USA seems like it will have a large replacement population just because they had a large population to begin with (boomers -> Millenials -> Gen Alpha). There are things that can blunt this (Millenials can't afford to have kids) but so far it seems like it is holding fairly steady. Given this it would be difficult to argue for them getting stuck in some specific technological era.
Are undocumented workers also tallied?
Self-Hosting Standard Notes on a Synology NAS
I had always heard of this - and so highly regarded for years(!) - but never used myself.
You’re responding to a different point than the one I made: it is true that western civilization has been Christian for roughly the past 2000 years.

Certainly, other civilizations exist, before and elsewhere, but what proof do we have to demonstrate that other systems would have produced a comparable outcomes: in terms of progress, human development, etc.?

And could they sustain themselves? Many cultures and religions have failed, been out competed, overrun, or collapsed.

You’re free to assume you can create a better society on other principles. I will urge modesty, and refer you to Chesterton’s fence.
Nordic runes have a blatant filiatiation to Italic scripts, especially the Etruscan alphabet. It's rather natural that it would spread from the Alps to the North Sea through the Rhine River.
In that sense it's just as much descended from the Phoenician alphabet as the Latin alphabet is. But a direct descent from a Semitic script makes less sense. This being said there are cases of scripts being adopted from afar rather than from a neighbour. For example Transalpine Gaul used a Greek script before the Roman invasion, rather than an Italic one.
Similar to Microsoft being threatened by the Internet -- isn't it logical to throw as many resources as possible at it -- to conquer the new frontier? Otherwise it might mutate into something you don't control that threatens your money-printer? GPT-4 is trained on 1000x data as GPT-3, so its going to get a lot more interesting.
Here's the weird thing though. Bullshit Jobs could already be eliminated, yet they are not. Why not? Why would companies wait until AI to eliminate what we already know are Bullshit Jobs?
Yes, they typically are. But there are certain variations that are really large, 15 to 20 cm diameter I've had (and no less tasty for their size, which is pretty rare). It's like a four person meal in one apple :)

They aren't all that popular because they bruise easily and aren't very pretty, dry skin, not glossy, dull colors, mostly yellow, dark green and brown. But I really like them.
In kitchens where lots of frying is done, the whole place eventually gets coated in a thin layer of oil, even the parts no person could normally reach. Aerosolized or vaporized cooking oil, condensing on everything. I doubt working in a kitchen like that is good for your lungs in the long term.
Make a profile on dice.com or some such site and prepare to be inundated, at least for me in the US.
There is a lot of historical evidence, that deep knowledge and long tail expertise in specific industries is carried in groups of people with a close knit subculture.

Such knowledge can also be transmitted from one subculture to another, with varying degrees of success. In order to bring in new people, one must either bring in a few beginners into a majority competent population, or have one subculture highly motivated to absorb and replicate the success of another.

This is well covered in Migrations And Cultures: A World View by Thomas Sowell.
> (three 'transmitter' routers and three 'receiver' routers).

Three Tx antennas and three Rx antennas.

You need 3 of them to make a 3d point, otherwise you would have 2d/1d only. Even 1cm difference between antennas placement is more than enough.

> It seems that the person needs to be between the transmitter and receiver

You receive the direct signal earlier than the reflected one. If you find a way to capture both/only reflections then you can do it without LoS and consequently from only one device (though you would still need at least 3 Tx/Rx pairs.)
Society doesn't make true statements about society anymore.
Would you elaborate on what you’re referring to?
Texas, artificially cut off from the wider grid, exhibited its domestic governance failings once again. This has no wider implications for energy policy than that grid connectivity covers for multiple sins.

Need for fossil generation backing will decline naturally as storage is built out, but will take a long time to go to zero. Pretending otherwise makes bad policy. Building storage without renewable capacity to charge it from would be stupid because charging storage by fossil fuel burning would be monumentally stupid.
Disney+ isn't free though...
Gotta start somewhere. Older houses were built when energy was cheap and plentiful, and we're transitioning to a future where that isn't as clear.
Bad rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb
Just noting from my experience that many e-commerce platforms like Shopify have started charging an extra "third-party payment fee" for not using their own payment platform so all the savings gained from lower fees would've been ate up by the other platform.

Being aggressive in banks is only half the equation. You also need to be aggressive against the e-commerce platform's own greediness.
I can:

- Vinyl windows compared to old growth wood windows from 100 years ago.

- Vinyl siding compared to cedar shakes.

- Extremely poor wood quality in the lower end 2x4 and 2x6 lumber.

- Sheathing that's essentially cardboard in really cheap builds.

- Flooring is sad today in cheap to moderate homes.

Thing is there were really badly built homes 100 years ago and they just aren't standing any longer. We do get a but of selection bias when we compare old homes. The ones that are still standing were probably built well and of quality materials and have been taken care of.

You can build an awesome home today out of excellent materials like engineered wood, high quality OSB/ply/ZipSystem, and of course whatever you want to spend on flooring, siding, windows, etc.
In 2018 (latest I could find with a quick search), it was 1.3%. FedEx said that no customer is more than 3% of their revenues.
I would say that broadly the ergonomics of the product are where it is most differentiated. Datadog's solution - feels very much like a datadog product - in that it's a giant dump of data you have to craft to tell a story. Not all pipelines are the same, their execution patterns are different and expectations for Pass/Fail/Cancel differ as well.
>It puts a legal stamp on a lot of things so that ordinary people cannot argue that.

Ordinary people can argue it. They'll just get argued back at and mired by the other 50% of people who will knee jerk defend the government and the government and the interest groups will laugh all the way to the bank.
I would imagine that automation plays a role. And maybe car manufacturers can exercise more control over assembly lines, and don't have to worry about unforeseen environmental factors. Of course, that is just a guess, I don't know enough about construction or car manufacturing to really say.
Higher proportion of apartment blocks (almost always higher cost per sqft, with the tradeoff being lower land use) also seems likely to be an issue.
AquaTru. I'm pretty happy with it, purchased it used on eBay and put new filters into it.
I agree with you about letting people choose what they want, but I've seen very aggressive arguments erupt about it. I'm really not sure why. I think the question is why is this happening? The article mentions people having their wetsuits stolen, for example.

Maybe it's a simple matter of people trying to impose some kind of code of behavior on others, like so much else in life. But I'm not sure in this case what the resentment is about.

With some things it makes sense. For example, in triathlon and some open water swim meets, wearing a wetsuit does give someone a speed advantage, and people kind of abuse it (for lack of a better word) to improve times when it's not necessary to wear them from a temperature perspective. But defining those boundaries where it makes sense from a safety perspective is difficult.

So maybe in some cases people are worried at some level about having to purchase and use an item they don't see as necessary for themselves? Like they're worried they'll eventually become required for whatever reason?

In any event, arguments about it can get surprisingly heated.
Netflix's infrastructure advantage was/is in Open Connect. They work with ISP's and ship servers that locally cache terabytes of content as close as possible to the customer to reduce bandwidth costs for themselves and ISP's. Nowadays with higher and cheaper bandwidth there are many CDN's that have similar arrangements with large and small ISP's that Netflix's advantage is not as significant anymore. But even today Netflix's streaming experience is noticeably superior, just not enough for it to be a selling point anymore.
Of course fentanyl is the preferred opioid for a reason. Using other options could increase surgical risks. But that seems pretty insignificant for anyone with OUD given how likely they are to die from overdose vs. other causes.
I wonder how Chinese compare, I bet they doubled.
I asked ChatGPT to write a poem based on this post. Here's what it wrote:

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Two hearts, two minds, working side by side

In pursuit of a mission to make AI safe and wide

Microsoft’s investment allows us to stay true

To our capped-profit company, our mission, and you

From cloud computing to real-world use

We collaborate to ensure our systems are not abused

OpenAI API, Azure’s OpenAI Service, and Designer too

We’re working side by side to make our visions come true

Together we review, together we synthesize

Together we build, together we realize

The potential of advanced AI that’s powerful and safe

Ensuring its benefits can be shared far and wide
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. One is a description of a procedure and the other is a description of a number so obviously these are two different things.
Remember microsoft putting win95 on the first tablets and making them pretty much unuseable. When its the cow keeping the lights on, everything grows teets.
My assertion that more intelligence is required than commonly thought scales all the way down to the low value manufacturing. I’m often quite surprised at the ingenuity and skill that goes into low value manufacturing. In addition a substantial low value manufacturing base reduces the incremental cost of resources and tooling required by the high value manufacturing increasing the viability. Effectively setting up a cross subsidy.
Re: #1, isn't that 10cm only for Panchromatic (grey-scale). For what people care about, Multispectral (color), it's 40cm - which is considerably worse than what Google Earth provides.

https://albedo.com/product-specs
The crowd sitter and the Dumbold voting machine are included in the collection. (Just kind of hard to find since there are so darn many objects!)

The Sims 1 Crowd Sitter

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-sims-1-crowd-sitter-1f478b...

Dumbold Voting Machine for The Sims 1

https://donhopkins.medium.com/dumbold-voting-machine-for-the...

Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996)

https://donhopkins.medium.com/designing-user-interfaces-to-s...
You don't need to multiply by zero; there are comparison operations which will generate a mask value which can then be used to select the appropriate value (`vsel` for altivec, `_mm_blend_ps` for sse4, or a combination of `_mm_and_ps` / `_mm_andnot_ps` / `_mm_or_ps` for ssse3 and earlier)

At least on Xbox 360 / Cell, high performance number crunching code would often compute more than needed (ie: both the if-case and else-case) and then use a branchless select to pick the right result. It may seem like a waste but it was faster than the combination of branch misprediction as well as shuffling values from one register file to another to be able to do scalar comparisons.
semi-public spaces where you aren't isolated, like co-working offices.

if that's not feasible, a service like FocusMate in your home office.