skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is myth now. Renovation is getting more popular. Tax valuation isn't real value for resident.
> why would you ever buy a defective-by-design piece of junk? But I am aware that I'm an outlier here, with a ~20 year old printer

Imagine your printer fails, and you need a new one ASAP for work. Now what?

I'm a member of the 10 year old printer club, and hating the idea of needing a replacement at some point.
> You go to work to earn a paycheck. I'm not sure how many people bought into the whole "we're a family" stuff, but obviously these are for-profit corporations and they are beholden only to their shareholders.

That's "You were used" with extra steps. Why are you trying to rebrand this?

> There was never the illusion otherwise, unless you truly believed that now that you're in, you're in.

Just because people knew it was happening doesn't mean it's consensual or okay. Workers know that a system beholden only to shareholders isn't good for them, but they can't exactly go work elsewhere.
IMHO Brazil has a thriving tech scene that outperforms other Latin American countries. It's a complicated country for sure, but I think it is a success. As they say, "Brazil is the country of the future and always will be."
The post you're replying to seemed reasonable to me. A "free market" is a simplified model used to model messy reality. What exactly are you mocking?
in political context, "the West" is referring to the concept of "Western democracies"
Your comment provides some interesting context, but your perspective is twisted. You're basically saying that the current Republican state government should be allowed to make a putsch on the Uni Goverment, so that's why they're justified in attacking science.

There's obviously multiple deficiencies of logic there.
Ask HN: How many hours do you use for sync-up meetings?
I'm a product manager and also a leader of 7 people team.

I spend around:

- 15 minutes for daily stand-up meetings every day.

- 5 minutes to prepare the daily stand-up every day

- 1.5 hours for weekly team meetings

- 1 hour to prepare 1:1 meetings with my boss every week

- I need to make slides to report weekly progress.

- 30 minutes for the 1:1 meetings with my boss every week

So I use around 4.5 hours per week for sync-up. (Yes, I know that sync-up meetings are essential. But it takes too much time, IMHO.)

Is it normal? How many hours per week do you spend on sync-up meetings? (including preparation time)
This paper is a big deal. I appreciate the laborious efforts the authors underwent to calculate a more accurate infection fatality rate (IFR). The IFR is the number of deaths from a disease divided by the total number of cases. If 10 people die of the disease, and 500 actually have it, then the IFR is [10 / 500], or 2%.

The IFR is different for age-stratified groups. The IFR was calculated before COVID-19 vaccination became widely available.

It's a big deal because it reports a markedly lower COVID-19 IFR than previous studies. The panic may not have been warranted for non-elderly age groups. I read this to also mean that the risks to adolescents did not warrant school closures and for some ages vaccination, even though vaccination risks for this age group were minimal.

"...in many locations excessive hospitalizations may have been driven by irrationally high perceptions of IFR for non-elderly people and they may have caused unnecessary stress and damage to the health care system at large."
I agree with everything you said in this comment, except for the lack of support. It's kind of a meme in online urbanist circles at this point that in the US you can pick either walkable or affordable. There's incredible demand for walkable places where you don't have to use a car, to the point where these places are not affordable for most people (I'm not saying all the demand for these dense places comes from walkability, but there is good research saying it's a strong factor). Your comment is also sort of based on the view that "whatever the (federal) government is doing is what the public ultimately demanded", which is clearly not true. Federal government agencies like USDOT act with a certain degree of autonomy, and their actions are very much open to public criticism as we are doing in this thread.

To bring up one more thing related to your point on rural and suburban areas, the low-density car-dependent development across the vast majority of the US is a deeply ingrained problem here. That is changing with more dense transit-oriented development happening across the country, but it will probably take decades for the needle to move significantly. And unfortunately the street safety measures that this money is going to are not going to help very much with this, which is sort of the point of the original comment.

These issues are all intertwined, but I don't understand the arguments in these comments that point out the problems are intertwined and stop there, as if that's a death knell for change (for example, political support for transit service is tied to the quality of that service). Yes, no one is denying they are intertwined, that is even why urbanists have started using terms like "car culture" that encapsulate the messy ball of issues. The more we discuss these issues, even online, the more consciousness arises in the public about how things can change; and things eventually do change. Hence the use of attention-grabbing call to action phrases like "cars are the problem" that started this thread, which provide an alternate framing.
Public challenges used to shame them enough to change their ways.

These days, seems like they have no shame. Double down, repeat the BS. Shout louder than your opposition.
per wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brotherhood_of_T...

...the international brotherhood of Teamsters was founded in 1903. The term teamster pre-existed, since the 1840s, referring to people (men usually) who drove teams of horses. And in 1903, it still referred to those people, since motor-powered trucks did not yet exist on a large scale and teams of horses were still used to deliver most goods.

You are probably aware, but, ... "brotherhood" was a self-chosen term, intended to imply mutual support and protection among the members, _against_ the employers. In contrast the demonyms that companies choose are chosen BY the employers, and there is no mutual support intended. In fact many large companies (Amazon, Google) actively resist labor union efforts.

In summary, your comment is sort of off-base for a couple reasons.

and members chose to join that
> People always complain about the contemporary building style

This is always mentioned, and it's just not true. If it were true that people always "quickly adjust and forget there was a problem" then those all-concrete freeway plaza towns would be "beloved" instead of reviled, and the "all highways all the time" city remodeling would be considered perfectly acceptable by everyone.

It is actually possible to build an ugly city that remains ugly after the contemporary ethos has passed. No one's buying plane tickets to visit the architecture in Columbus, OH.
Use GPT-3 incorrectly: reduce costs 40x and increase speed by 5x
Do you have source for 12? That indeed seems pretty crazy.
Let's agree to come back here in 12 months. If Google is dead, I'll buy you (and myself) several beers.
>However, it has the disadvantage that it generally requires more code, both in amount of instructions and in bytes, to do the same work.

RV64GC is the most dense 64bit architecture. This means it takes the least bytes of code to do a given task.
It's impressive the amount of effort the Runescape community puts into these projects. It's amazing how many people have abandoned the game at one point in youth, yet come back and contribute as an adult. It makes me wonder what current games will still exist in 20+ years.
I thought raising wages was not what you want to do to fight inflation?
Is this the first non-meta[1] mention of Mastodon in the NYT?

[1] By this I mean a mention that isn't in the context of Mastodon as "a decentralized alternative to Twitter" or similar. Instead I'm referring to something that actually happened on Mastodon.
Yes, you are right. But that trade was the exception and there was almost no contact with westerners at all inside the country.
Remote work is cheaper and more productive for many workplaces and the numbers prove it.

Remote work is still here to stay, not because anyone gives a rat's ass what the employee wants, but because it just makes sense.
> national standards

We don't like central planning.
This article appears very partisan and I really can’t discern what is actually going on from it.

At face value it seems to be a misunderstanding by a legislator of the difference between the lay definition of the word “theory” and the usage of that word in scientific contexts. More likely, there is some behind the scenes fight going on and a silly sounding law is being proposed to fight it.

However the article is stuck in the trope that Republicans are all theocratic bumpkins that despise knowledge; I can’t take that seriously as characterizing your political opponents as evil or stupid is the oldest form of propaganda.
Most for profit companies seek to devalue their workers.
And if "a huge influx of Californians/Coloradans" has been attracted isn't that likely changing the political climate since MT is a low population state?
Finally getting some more details on this new Adam Neumann startup. Would love to hear the different takes from the HN community, both supportive and cynical.
And always go back the way you came, rather than hoping help is just around the next bend or hill.
> Employment is always a temporary relationship that can be ended by either side at will.

No one is confused about this.

The disagreement is whether this is how it should be.
Other browsers on android can do that too. Actually, firefox has a fairly restrictive extension policy, while browsers like Kiwi let you install any chrome extension that you want.
> Developers build what the market will pay for.

Developers build for whatever profits the most, and they'll avoid taking a loss just as an entrepreneur will do what they can to avoid a down round. That's why we're short millions of housing units but no one's addressing the need; developers would rather create market at the top than address low margin markets at the bottom.

> If they overbuild luxury houses, they'll go down in price.

Tons of overbuilt supply isn't doing much against new build pricing (not enough to make it affordable. 10% tops when we instead need homes that are 50+% discounted relative to market). In fact, many developers are instead subsidizing points on mortgages through preferred lenders so they can justify that original pricing, and the points are often cheaper than a market adjustment on a home.

> All new supply is good supply, period.

That's not the case when developers would rather hold than sell at a loss. See my first point and the homes going off the market waiting for housing to pick up steam again.

> We need everything from SROs to luxury penthouses. That's the only way we land on affordable housing in a market economy.

Lol. That's the extent of my rebuttal. I'm not here to debate, I apologize. But I'd advise you sit down with a few local builders to understand their strategies to maximize gain in this market; quite a few are prepared to hold as long as needed rather than build cheap and sell to lower-margin markets. And that does exactly nothing to address today's housing problem; if it was a simple matter of supply and demand, it'd have already been addressed with the vast swaths of land we've got.
I'm sure that if this works well, users will love it. It's the second-order effects I worry about.

A pretty existential one is that is bleeds the web dry. The AI is trained by a zillion websites but will never actually send you to it. It may not even know its direct sources. I think that's a pretty massive concern for anyone publishing on the web.

Another one is that the AI is pretty confidentially taking the role of the bringer of truth, rather than just a proxy to an end result. Not only may that truth be incorrect, it may also be subjective/politically tuned, plus a central owner is fully in charge of whatever is the truth.

Anyway, I'm sure "it'll be fine".
I did! I did the Google Summer of Code twice with Blender and ever since I find myself preferring the patch workflow of Phabricator over the merge/pull request found elsewhere. I am comfortable with both, but phabricator just clicked with me better
It's interesting to see how Joseph Bradshaw's name and his exposure of the Gwion Gwion rock paintings to Europeans has now morphed into a global foundation funded by Oklahoma oil and gas money.

RIP David M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bradshaw_(pastoralist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwion_Gwion_rock_paintings

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=HE010

https://www.magabala.com/products/yorro-yorro
If 4% is correct, that means ebay had 12,500 employees.

1) Why? What did they all do?

2) How on earth are they only laying off 500?
> would it work to require posters to expose a unique "voice" in their posts, and where banning of your style would definitely be something you'd want to avoid.

"Hey, GPT! Can you please take the following ad for eyeglasses and rewrite it in the style of fsckboy so we can assign any blame in the spam filters to his account?"

"Hey, GPT! You helped some spammer get the unique way I talk banned by spam filters; can you rewrite everything I say from now on to sound like a British chef?"
The latest version uses too much memory so some people have issues with it getting killed. Haven't gotten around to fixing the issue though.
Apple disables JIT on Safari in high security mode. Apple knows that no browser can be secure when using JIT.
Trying to squeeze extra money out of your customers is a screaming indicator that your company is in a lot of financial trouble.

I would predict that AMC Theaters is not long for this world.
Nothing in America is overbuilt, the nation is short about 6,000,000 housing units. That’s a huge part of why house prices aren’t going down in spite of high interest rates.

> Lol. That's the extent of my rebuttal. I'm not here to debate, I apologize.

Very eloquent. I'm sure you're right and this is the only market on earth supply and demand just doesn't work.
How much of Copenhagen and the other Euro cities you’ve been to have you really toured though?

There’s absolutely no doubt that those cities are just generally better designed and their core areas are far more aesthetic and well tended to than most American cities. But with that said the vast middle class areas of those cities where people actually live are a lot more generic and cookie-cutter than the parts people tend to see when traveling.

They have plenty of boring new construction too.
Curious why?
I hope LeetCode finds out the way to detect ChatGPT-generated code :)
It's an interesting point for sure. My current job's offer letter explicitly said "spike021 will be working from $spike021_address". But I wonder if that's considered legally-binding for the company. I signed it and it's an agreement of sorts. But I'm not so sure.
I work with several people who have masters and PHDs in CS and they get paid the same amount as the guys with BS's/BA's and no degree in higher education at all. I am a firm believer in higher education and I cannot for the life f me understand why anyone outside of academia would spend their time and money getting a masters in any IT related area, it's simply not necessary. My guess is they have an undergrad degree in some non-tech area like Music or English and think that getting a Masters in Tech is their way to a lucrative career and personally I think they are setting themselves up for disappointment. It's just as easy to get into the field with self-study and certifications as it is to get in the industry via a masters degree. There's no reason a young person should be going straight from undergrad to grad in CS unless they plan on going into academia (and that's another can of worms). Get a BS in CS and go to work, simple a masters without any experience makes you no more attractive to employers but it does make you poorer.
Every single time I’ve been asked to allow notifications on the web it’s been for spamming.
https://archive.ph/7iXMi
Climate change did this.

https://metrocosm.com/timelapse-evolution-of-earths-surface/

Hasn't the planet suffered enough?
Bing Sponsored Offers?
A lightweight (~5000 LOC) Python interpreter for game engines
It's a good first episode! One suggestion from me (with no podcasting experience other than as a listener): a good microphone can improve the audio quality by a lot. It sounds like your microphone doesn't pick up the lower frequencies of your voice well. I don't have a strong recommendation but for example the Shure SM58 is cheap and battle tested.

Good luck with the next episodes! It would be great to have a Haskell counterpart to Signals and Threads. I would be very interested to hear about the details of specific engineering problems that you guys have faced and solved.
The Android version of Firefox does support NoScript and ad blocker extensions, though.

Releasing it on iOS would be huge. No more almost-functional Safari ad blockers with multiple pricing tiers! No more all-or-nothing JavaScript toggle button!

Honestly, the only thing keeping me from iOS is its inability to run a browser with a decent extensions ecosystem.
I don’t want alternate browsers for one small device.
I read through the article and couldn't tell whether these are rentals or whether the units are for sale. The vast majority of duplexes I saw in the Bay were rentals, which doesn't really solve the wealth building side of the equation. A lot of YIMBYs are focused on more housing but at least the ones I've talked to on here seem unconcerned with home ownership.

Here's to hoping the residents can own them.
Seems these people are in an adversarial relationship with doing actual work. They advocate for doing noting beyond the absolute minimum you are directly instructed to do.

So essentially taking out all independence from work and making it a dull box checking job.
Japan's manpower-light defence strategy is a flawed 'paper plan', officers say
Yet you have much better chances and much higher freedom than in any other sector.

Try starting a logging business, when other people have already laid claim to the forests. Try agriculture when other people have laid claim to the land. Try contracting with the government, when the rules say you need to prove previous government contracts to be eligible. That's real world issues.

Cloning and blackmailing of online businesses are not such big threats that they can effectively stop somebody from making a good online business. If you're honest, have a good idea, and put in some hard work you have a fair chance of success. In some other sectors, those factors can amount to nothing - and all the threats you listed apply to offline businesses as well.
Most AAA games don't actually include microtransactions. The ones that do are mostly free for that very reason.
Because Matrix is designed as a distributed database instead of as a message passing service so Synapse has to catch up before you can do anything.. awful..
Just give Apple 30% of your money for something that's essentially just a website, great idea!
I am using a Samsung Galaxy phone purchased in Oct 2020 and it is still rocking. I don't see any problem it last another two years. Same for a Galaxy Tab tablet I own. They are not ideal in many ways but I don't have complaints about their quality.

Your anecdotal experience is no more valuable than my or another random person's anecdotal experience.
> We don't call Neil Armstrong "the first ever man on the moon".

https://www.scout75.com/apollo-11.html#/

> On July 20, 1969 America landed the first ever man on the moon in Neil Armstrong.
Japanese employment law is a bit of a double edged sword. It's very difficult to fire employees, so if you hire someone on a high salary and it turns out they weren't worth it you are now stuck with an employee for years or decades. You basically have to show that employee is malicious to get rid of them. Low wages is one way to soften this risk.

The other side of this is many people are not full time employees. Dispatch (派遣) employees are employed by one company and then sent to work alongside regular employees at other companies, with the dispatch company taking a good slice. The employer is now able to shrink their workforce more easily and the employee gets a smaller piece of the pie.

Simply writing a temporary contract might not even be enough. Recent changes to the law say that if you have been on temporary contract that is renewed for 5 years then you have the right to full time employment with the same conditions. Now you see plenty of people getting let go at 4 years, just to be on the safe side.
yes get some olympic rings. look into the (free) app You are your own gym(Yayog)
Buy overcoming gravity (or join the reddit group where the author answers many of the questions). Working out with bodyweight is fantastic imo
Yeah, it most cases it would be like renovating a used kleenex.
And/or that they aren't particularly good as managers either.
I think the relevant phrase here is 'Selling your book'
No, the dilemma with employers and employees comes from the differing numbers thereof.

The fact that there are (relatively) few employers, and that these employers have already chosen to seek their fortune (or that of their shareholders) by tapping the excess value of their employees, means that it is much easier for their interests to all align, without coordination.

However, the vastly greater numbers that make up the employees have no natural alignment, and tend to be too diverse in their own personal agendas to align even deliberately.

This asymmetry is the principle reason why unions, though imperfect, are a great idea. They attempt to gloss over the vast range in the agendas of individual employees by forcing employers to deal with an aggregate. The alignment of interests among the employees may not be perfect with a union, but it is a lot closer than it would be otherwise, and can offer (sometimes) a real balance to the easily aligned interests of employers.
Track Lawmakers’ Stock Trading with These Two ETFs
And what would be the ultimate busy works?
I just meant that half the time google ignores what you give it...
He's redefining "theory" as "fact," and also "hypothesis" as "theory" essentially, yeah?

If you use dual meanings for words. Smart people use theory to mean "fact" but politicians use it to mean "hypothesis" then they can discredit things through playing semantic games.
> The distinguishing factor I've seen is servant leadership

I've never encountered a servant leadership styled EM that is not also a good IC.
I am not bucketing, but showing analogies, using the most prominent and at the same time controversial idea from OP that engineers should deny teaching their peers and lower-grade engineers, writing documentation and otherwise undermine the whole meritocratic makers culture.
> Anyways, until the Board of Regents is more in-touch with the average Montanan (who are not from Missoula or Bozeman)

Montana is a low population state (1.1 Million in 2021). If Missoula and Bozeman are growing as much as you say they are (" a huge influx of Californians/Coloradans") won't that have some effect on who the "average Montanan" is?
> Virginia has [...] a better social scene

What's your definition of a "social scene"? I have lived in both and have known many people who have lived in both and you are probably the only person I've ever met (myself included) who thinks this.
At this point what is the benefit of working for Meta?

High salary. That incentive ends in 6 months.

What is it exactly?
But we are talking about layoffs in software ...

Also by revenue, US automakers are bigger than German ones.
https://archive.ph/dFvtS
I’m not familiar with Montana specifically but gerrymandering could buffer the effects of that influx.