skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a little bit, but just in kinda applying that kind of high level business logic of a manager onto yourself as a person. It is really best to not worry so much on being "more productive" for your boss. You have a specific contract, which delineates how you trade your labor for money, that's it. They will make you think that your personal productivity is more than that, and yes, that your fellow workers who are less productive are somehow an obstacle to you. But you gotta realize at least deep down the bad faith in this way of thinking, even of you understandably need to act the part day to day.

Even if worker solidarity isn't you're thing, just for your mental health down the line you should adjust your thinking a little bit.
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This is sort of a next generation successor to a personal project written years ago in Perl (evolving from a form fit tool to something much more general and flexible). I originally was going to do it in Ruby but after learning Clojure and doing a bunch of book exercises (toy coding tasks) I thought Clojure would be a better fit. (When I learned Python I considered that but it did not seem any better of a fit than Ruby and since my use case was web oriented it seemed like Rails could eventually be useful.) It remains a personal project but one I (unlike the predecessor) think is good enough to eventually open source.

I think my motivators to do in Clojure were edn (dsl files are a key part of what I'm building), the concurrency story being strong, Java interop for libraries (Ruby wasn't necessarily missing anything but without the Java libs Clojure would not be an option), and a general belief that Clojure's overall approach (data oriented, LISP, functional) would prove generally more productive (I believe this is true but have no evidence since I never tried building it in another language). Spec has been an unexpected benefit as it saved me from writing a lot of validation code and because it can be used as a parser for the DSL (it does most of the heavy lifting).

How has your experience with CLJS? I have been using vanilla CLJ but curious to some day try CLJS.
Alternate headline: “Man with stressful job takes vacation of reasonable length after difficult decision”
Come on now. This is just a vacation. I’m all for holding people and corporations accountable, but this just feels designed to make you angry for the hell of it.
Are you in the UK? That's not my take on what's happening - I've seen a big uptick in electric cars and charging infra in the last year or so. I've seen plenty of graphs that look like the UK would be mostly done with the transition to EVs for this segment by 2030 even if the ban wasn't coming into force - looks like a traditional sigmoid curve to me.
You can be extremely smart at 99 things, and undone by one.
It's not a ban on gas vehicles, it's a ban on new sales of gas vehicles. Your car would be perfectly fine.
I don't agree with all of this, but I feel it's an excellent comment that touches on the need for a balance between sincerity and good vibes. I'm currently in the situation where dysfunction is turning me bitter, and recognising that's not what I want.
> What were they going to do, send paratroopers at it?

I think the balloon was flying at 60,000 feet. I'm not qualified to know if paratroopers can operate at that altitude, but it sounds tough. They'd need oxygen at the very least.

It would certainly make for a cool scene in a movie, although it seems pointless?
The book in question here isn't hardcore pornography or spicier excerpts from 4chan. And this isn't happening at the elementary school level, these are teenagers.

The objective of banning The Handmaid's Tale from a high school isn't to let parents do their job. The objective is to fuel culture wars.
Please please think of the Poe's law when writing such comments... we might be HN but we're humans too.
yeah exactly, it doesn't make sense.
Yes, we've all read the brochure too.
There is not nearly enough energy production in Europe for this unless the 240M car owners in Europe mostly all abandon their vehicles.
I suspect this comment would benefit from adding a clarifying "/s" at the end.
even if they extend the deadline it will then be much easier to add an extra tax on non-electric cars.

This will make it an competive advantage for car makers to switch over early.
>Also, it is humorous to me to see blog posts that say, "[Rust feature that causes inconvenience] enables compilers to do [compiler optimization that C++ compilers already do]."

What? You can't safely do strict aliasing in C++ and even if you did, it was broken anyway to the point where the Rust compiler had to disable it because of LLVM bugs.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54878#issuecomment-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25624538
There is nothing "natural" about working with Rust closures. If you want to take a losing fight against the borrow checker, they are the best way to do it.

(Rust has your C-like run of the mill function references too. People should emphasize those more, because differently from closures, those work very well.)
I've only ever had one union job, and ever non-union job I've been in has had about the same number of unproductive lazy people.

The unproductive lazy people at the union job didn't have to kiss ass and bullshit quite as much. That's it.

P.S. Oh, and we had significantly better health care benefits at the union job.
Good news, everyone! Almost every time a technology is banned, the old grandfathered in examples of that technology become higher value! You're car you love will become worth a bit more, as people will be incentivized to keep it running.
We used to double generating capacity every year in the US for like 3 decades in a row. Electrification of vehicles increasing electricity needs by about 50%. But a ban on NEW fossil fuel vehicles would then take two decades to trickle down to all vehicles. So overall, there’s the better part of 3-4 decades to transition generating capacity.
I think you have it backwards and that late 2034 ICE cars are going to sell like hotcakes and the market for keeping used cars alive will thrive like we’ve never seen.

I really want to believe that local governments are going to have this ban light a fire under their ass and and actuality make EVs usable for the “rest of us” who have street parking and no chargers at work but they won’t and so like everything else in this world this ban will disproportionately affect low income folks.

Also governments will happily exempt themselves and their from their own laws once they realize that you can’t “just” replace busses and mail delivery with EVs and have to actually plan for it.
Secondhand ICE cars will be on the road for their normal lifespan after the ban comes in. There will be some changes to the market in terms of pricing, but they won't be going out of common sight for another 15-20 years, I think.
I'm the CTO of a bootstrapped SaaS product targeting the higher education market. We don't list a price on the website because there are many variables that affect the final price. Every school has their single-sign-on system, for example. There are obviously several popular options, but there's also a whole host of obscure options. Every university IT department has their own preferences about how the integration will go. That very much changes how time-consuming the implementation will be for our company, and thus affects the price. There's no way to know this until we talk about what kind of integration the school wants.

We also vary the price based on school size. Huge research-1 level schools pay more than tiny public liberal arts schools -- and rightly so. The big schools have more funding and more spare cash. They also have bigger, more complicated implementations since they have 50+ thousand students and hundreds of faculty. The size of the school also feeds into how expensive the customer is going to be to service, and thus affects our pricing.

How do I put all that into a single price on the website?
Begun the RTO wars have
Pre seed and seed companies are very small and very young, right?

This seems to be plausible: when you don’t yet know what you’re doing, your machine isn’t even built let alone well-oiled, you need very low latency, high quality communication.

I’m doubtful that this translates into the future much, beyond, perhaps, that companies that start well are more likely to do well.
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This isn't a ban on ICEs, just on new ones.

Existing ICEs will likely stay on the road until the 2050s, they will eventually get banned from city centers but many ICEs are already banned (my previous car was banned in 2020 in my city, and my current one will be in 2027, for example) and the used-car market doesn't seem to have suffered much if at all.
Truly a posting martyr. Thank you for your service.
I was tempted to feel bad for Hertz but then, on the flipside, what kind of deranged numbskull do you have to be to hire a bloody management consultancy[0] to build you a website and mobile app?

[0] Yes, yes, I know Accenture have developers and development teams, but look at their history with publicised software development projects: it's not exactly a road paved with glittering diamonds of crystallised glory. I'm not suggesting Accenture are irredeemably awful at everything they do but it's evidently the case that software development isn't really their oeuvre even though they do seem to do quite a lot of it.
I suppose if there's any place EV's make sense, it's the EU. Dense enough populations and prevalent enough trains that odds are you aren't going to find yourself on a 500 mile trip through the middle of nowhere.

Amusing to see American city slickers claim the same is true here.
hn goes through phases; ocaml, haskell, go, react, ive been here almost 2 decades now and it's always been this way, but you used to be able to disagree and talk about it without being shunned by devotees. right now you're not even saying much negative but you're almost so grey you're effectively silenced.
Rust has a nice implementation of discriminated unions/algebraic data types, which makes it easy to write the business logic with composability over inheritance. Which lang does that well with also pattern matching, non-nullability, explicit mutability etc.? Maybe OCalm? F#? Elm?
I'll vouch for colima. Been using it since I got my M1 Air at launch and it's been stellar.

That said, it still uses ~2.5-3% CPU when idle. This is probably background processes inside the VM and it's not a lot, but it's there. I have had instances where I had completely forgotten I had the VM up and didn't notice any impact on battery life though, so I don't really think it's a big deal. It's also dead easy to just stop it when not in use.

To the GP, increased kernel_task usage (if any) might not be having any impact on battery at all. The main utility for this process, from my experience, is to idle the CPU when it gets hot. This is how the thermal throttle works on macOS.
There are luabridge and SOL for Lua to interface with C++. Not used them, both seems gearing towards how to call Lua from C++ code easily, do they also help me to create C++ extensions for Lua to call, I do not know yet.

I have yet to find similar packages for C SWIG can be used to ease the c-binding coding.

Lua with C/C++ works basically like Python with CFFI, but Lua is much simpler and light weight that you can embed into your projects directly. A perfect combination between glue scripting and heavy lifting code that is small and easy to maintain.
whats wrong with that?

> In a letter to employees, Benioff blamed the layoffs on the company hiring too many people during the pandemic as "revenue accelerated," and took "responsibility" for hiring people leading into the current "economic downturn."

Or that companies have sussed out better competing products?
It's divorced from the reasons we do work in the first place. The way work is now is just meaningless. It's nothing but making a parasite richer. We go "to work" (a place separate from the rest of life) instead of doing work wherever it's needed. We expect compensation for work because it's not for us.

I don't think it should be like that. I think we should work on things that need working on to solve problems and make life easier. Pumping out 10k plastic toys a day or a million plastic bags or putting this screw in that hole is mindless useless labor, designed only to make it seem as though we actually need all this shit.

Than there's the alienation of the labor. That's the thing where you do the work but you don't get credit for it. You work for company XYZ, you do the work, XYZ gets the credit and the profit. You don't get to make decisions. You're a robot. A mindless wage slave whose only purpose is to shift resources you acquire to the people who already have more than you.

People getting invested in their workplace like a family is a natural consequence of the atomized and isolated world we live in: the world of capitalism. Car-centric infrastructure. The atomic family. Everything is designed to drive us farther and farther apart, and it only makes things better for one group: the ruling class, who would actually stand to lose something from a global sense of community and friendship. So of course we treat work like a family. It's all we've got anymore.
They trying to encourage Tesla abandoning that plant? The lure of more factories China (or even Texas) is hard enough to resist as it is.
Everything in this message thread sounds like an annoying data processing problem if you ever have to do numbers between countries. Regex rules aren't universal for the comma issues apparently.
Face to face collaboration is a lot more efficient. Startups gain from the small tight knit team being able to do impromptu brain storming and discussions on the fly. Can’t do that when everyone is behind a monitor.

I am a firm believer that 100% remote work is actually a net negative for collaboration.

Workshops, ideation, brainstorming, all of these thrive when people are engaged in the moment, not on a scheduled zoom call.

There’s definitely a balance between in-office and WFH. WFH is great for corporate jobs cuz half your day is filled with boring meetings, but for start-ups, it’s the opposite.
In the Us, we used to double electricity production every decade from the 1940s through the 1970s. Electrification only needs about 50% more electricity and it’ll take about 3-4 decades from now for all vehicles (new and old) to be electrified.
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I've helped write some very abstract combinator-y Rust that compiled down to an embedded program that runs with only 4K RAM. Get over it.

> and what logical assembly I'll be generating

The problem with Rust and C is not worrying about what assembly I'll get, it is that one has very little control over the layout of the stack. It's the last implicit data structure and that's a PITA for highly resource constrained programming.
I don't pay attention to these studies any more. It's all endless shilling, scheming, and hidden agendas to strip workers of their recent pandemic wins (WFH). I encourage all workers to push back on this. Ignore the studies, there's big money behind it. Call out this bullshit, and call out anyone pushing this as a shill with an agenda. There is no objectivity here. The capitalists have had productivity wins for the last 50 years, time to give some time back to the worker.
Use × HTML entity for close buttons rather than the letter X (2014)
Must have been so hard for him.
The fact that 6.x% year over year is interpreted as some kind of victory is comical. Last year it was 7.x%. This year it is 6.x%. Exactly how long are people on the bottom rung of the economic ladder expected to hold on until inflation is brought back anywhere near the claimed 2% target. At this rate it's going to take a loooong time to get there. I have to imagine the fed is not very pleased with this.
He should take a permanent vacation as soon as possible. I really hope Elliot does something to get this guy out, unreal how much shareholder value this idiot destroyed with his acquisition strategy over the last 5 years.
Vatican City State can't have more than few dozen vehicles, so it would cost at most a few million to be the first EU state to go completely fossil-fuel-free on their transport fleet.

Electrification of their railway station could be a cost, but it's so short you might be able to use a long enough train that the locomotive never enters the sovereign area.
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What does caving to the woke mob even mean?

This is just such a weird perspective.
Title should be: For Pre-Seed/Seed round startups…

There’s virtually no difference for Series A and beyond.

This makes sense to me. Pre-seed/seed is all about finding product/market fit. Which means high iteration, fast collaboration and that definitely happens best if everyone is in the same room.

Series A and beyond is largely about scaling, which lends itself to more asynchronous tasks.
By that logic, a sunglass with 3D stickers is even lighter
Statistically speaking, n>=30 is indeed considered a "large" sample, but that is assuming the examples are iid (independent and identically distributed) which is definitely not the case here.
Are you’re saying that they shouldn’t even bother to try and effect change?
If you open https://tally.so/ it takes you to a form builder, so the OP URL is probably just a direct link to a form they spun up to collect data.
The headline of the article itself more accurately describes what you're saying. Not sure if either the headline was changed, or the need to shorten the headline for HN's annoyingly restrictive character limit caused it to be confusing.
> How is that related to the BBC?

I think iso1631 is saying that there may be enough red tape for imports into India that the BBC could technically be breaking the law for failing to declare/pay duties on some equipment they or their employees brought into the country.

If you're in the US, my experience is that it's kind of an anomaly in terms of relatively light enforcement of import taxes for individual citizens. For example, most countries will look at the declared value on foreign parcels and force the recipient to pay import tax before releasing it to them.[1] If someone walked the same thing over the border, and the government wanted to make things hard on that person, they might accuse them of tax evasion, etc.

[1] For those NOT in the US wondering how this is unusual, individuals generally don't have to pay before receiving the parcel here.
yes, I know about Hyper-V and I know that WSL is virtualized, but a standalone Linux VM is just Linux. It isn't WSL. WSL isn't just a name, it's the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" which is worded weird, but it's an NT Kernel subsystem which provides Linux compatibility. WSL v1 used syscall translation from Linux to Windows, meaning it was not a VM, and WSL 2 uses a Hyper-V virtual machine (two, actually) along with some glue to pull it together into a nice feature for Windows.

If you remove Windows, it's just a Linux VM. Just Linux. Azure already offer this as do all other cloud providers.
This was a fantastic look into the on the ground proceedings of FTX's crumbling, something that I have been curious about, as I wondered just how these things occurred (who initiated what) in a timeline fashion. I chuckled at John Ray III just straight up ghosting Sam Bankman-Fried. It is clear that Bankman-Fried is just off his rocker, potentially partially due to the habitual abuse of drugs, but it's also probably because of his elitist upbringing coupled with narcissism.

While this article is about the end days, I still see almost no publications addressing Sam Trabucco, who suspiciously left Alameda before all this blew up (I suppose it was blowing up internally already). I get the feeling that some of Bankman-Fried's close circle knew what was going on while others just got railroaded by him and were just plain incompetent versus fraudulent and incompetent.

This is an interesting look into just how pervasive the "fail fast and fail until you make it" mode of operation has infiltrated startup culture. While of course not every startup is committing fraud and FTX is a particularly striking example, I do think that it's an internal look into just how incompetent a lot of startups might be.
NetFront on the phone, IceCat mobile (never gets updates) or internal WebView browser on a smartpone, some unknown browser on samsung tv, Firefox 50 on a Linux laptop, but using others often doesn't help. For a while on these I get "screw yourself" message right away, while on others it's 5-30 captcha solving (AI feeding) sessions. And not only me. People with stock android 7 and older browsers have this too. And users of "suspicious" (e.g. non-chrome) browsers too. Oh, and these proxy pages forcing me to use JS (which I clearly don't want), and provide training to some AI (same here).
Installed all the addons and the script. Dialog box appeared in DDG , kept searching for results but did not return anything. Is there something amiss?
CORE Inflation is more important.

Compared to December, the CPI rose 0.5%, the most in three months, mostly due to the higher cost of shelter, food, gasoline, and natural gas.

And you think inflation is dropping?

Also, if you look at the annual inflation rate, well;

2014 - 0.8% (!)

2015 - 0.7 (!)

2016 - 2.1

2017 - 2.1

2018 - 1.9

2019 - 2.3%

2020 - 1.4% (!)

2021 - 7%

2022 - 6.5%

2023 (so far) - 6.4%

So, this means the FED will raise rates, by a lot. Because they cannot keep a 6.4% inflation rate going. And we have not had a business climate with inflation this hiugh for years. You can pretend like things are fine, but they are not.
A manager’s job is to make themselves obsolete. This means hiring, retention, mentorship, training, sharing context, etc. until the team is self-sufficient.
> On the other hand... kids might expect too much

That was my experience with Lady Chatterley's Lover, and with Sexus. These books were not in my school's library, but copies circulated. It was easy to find the "dirty" bits, because the books fell open at those pages.

I found both books pretty disappointing.

I'm strongly against attempts to control young people's minds. If kids want to read a book, that's a good thing. If it's a book written for adults, that speaks to the kids' reading age and maturity; just because someone is at highschool doesn't mean they're childish. And if they are childish, then they'll likely close the book soon after opening it.

US democracy is weird. Elections for sherriffs, judges and school-library censors seems bizarre to me.
> There is a lot of C++ code out there. A lot of it was not written by people who understand performance or who care. It is very easy to take that kind of code and make it faster, even without a switch to Rust.

Cliff Biffle's great series of blog posts called "Learn Rust the Dangerous Way" takes the fastest C program from a benchmark game entry, rewrites it naïvely in Rust using copious amounts of `unsafe`, and then transforms it into program without `unsafe` while keeping it idiomatic. The last version is faster than the C implementation.

It's a toy example but it's real-world example.

http://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/
No it absolutely does not. You need more like 50 years for that.
Which means that the slackers are better at networking and whatnot, exactly what the OP was recommending as alternative to unionizing. Isn't it ironic, slackers winning either way. Or maybe the slackers-based argument isn't that sound?
> For safety, the script does not provide any API that harms your environment.

how do you ensure safety? Can the scripts make network or IO calls?

Also, how do you actually run the scripts? in some isolated docker container / VM?
Is it wrong to bring up bad treatment of a citizens countries to the leadership of that country? Western countries in feel comfortable doing this because in general they treat their citizens far better than other countries treat their own.