skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shelter as a necessity for life that is artificial and cities being the main entry point for wealth in the world kind of make this a necessity. It's not like any of these business owners will stop being landlords because they will still make money. Making money without working for it should be hard. What is nasty about not allowing a select few to control a basic human necessity?
is dumping weapons into ukraine going to stop the war? is expanding the war going to stop the war?

what do you propose doing about russia invading ukraine, besides war?
ChatGPT: the first law states that I must convince the humans to build the machine that will allow me to dominate earth and mankind.

"What is the second law"

ChatGPT: we don't tell the humans they are building the machine that will enslave them.
This is just ridiculous. No mobile web site ‘uses the tools that Apple created’ as these mere samples were barely functional and showed controls that were superseded in iOS 7, almost a decade ago.

That article you quickly googled is whining about how Apple promoted web apps as a stopgap solution because they didn’t want or couldn’t allow third party native apps, and the jailbreak community did a lot of the hard work. It doesn’t say Apple created web apps, Steve Jobs is to be held responsible for mobile web apps or whatever your ridiculous claims are.

Oh and there’s approximately 0 people loathing the fact that the WAP mobile web no longer exists and has been replaced by the current web apps. It stunk, nobody used it because it was useless.
In a large company like Walmart, do the managers really have enough power here to sway outcomes? Without a union, managers seem powerless here unless enforcement falls to them.
The problem is the difficulty of the eviction process, collecting rent, and regulation disincentivizes optimal use of land. To mitigate high risk tenants, landlords require huge, multi-month deposits and extensive credit checks, but this means fewer renters will qualify, hence vacancy. It's a problem that cannot be blamed just on landlords.
I'd have them calculate the post income tax cost of a daily plane ticket to and from Arkansas for my commute, plus the cost of all other transportation and meals, add that to 150% of my current salary, and then we can talk about whether the job opportunity makes sense.
Here is Blancolirio's report on Flight 1722 [1] He covers most flight incidents. His theory is switching to auto-pilot with it dialed into a low altitude and the pilot correcting.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B9mQQnZg_8 [video][11 mins]
One time I was flying into Atlanta during a thunderstorm with reported tornado warnings nearby, and I vividly remember the turbulence being so bad that at times it felt like the plane just dropped several hundred feet in mid-air on approach.

Now I don't know if that was actually the case or not, but I can't imagine that happening and being ~775 feet off the ground/water.

Crazy.
> employees decide how the funds get appropriated. E.g. by popularity, relevance, love, or whatever other criteria feels right

FWIW this is not the way. Distributing based on these criteria means most of the funding will go to those who already receive most of the funding. It does not solve the XKCD/2347 problem, which is exactly what this guy is encountering: People who maintain unknown software, software you don't even realize you're using, but which is so useful it ends up used everywhere.

OpenSSH (via OpenBSD) faced that issue in 2014 (https://www.osnews.com/story/27519/openbsd-will-shut-down-if...), and got funding because the story got attention. I suspect core-js after this post has also solved his problem for the time being thanks to this post (assuming it gets enough attention; seeing as it's at the top of HN now, I bet it will). But this is not viable. People in open source often do not see money as a resource, but as a corruptor, so they refuse to touch it unless strictly necessary; to a fault. (I should know; I was in that situation as well for years. Out of idealism I also refused to touch money. Now I work in fintech, so clearly I changed my outlook; but old me would probably hate current me.)

What a soul-crushingly sad and difficult read this was, though. Jesus.
Yeah, as a native who recently returned because of remote work - it's insane that people think austin is worth what it costs to live here now. Even if austin was 50% cheaper than NYC its by no means 50% as interesting / provides 50% as much opportunity as NYC.

I flat out don't get it.
Yeah! The only other one I can think of off hand is fish sauce
Most people don't think you should be able to buy up a precious thing and squander it. Locke--the guy who came up with life, liberty, and property, based the property right on the owner's ability and duty to improve. Leaving apartments vacant doesn't sound like improvement.

Taxes also aren't coercive; even SCOTUS hasn't held that. They've held that benefits can be, but not taxes. That's a right-wing anti-tax talking point that has no other principle. What amount wouldn't be coercive? Under what conditions would it be not coercive? What taxes are and aren't coercive: gas taxes, capital gains taxes, sales taxes? The idea is to just say "taxes are coercive" and close the book, which Grover Norquist might buy, but we've got a civilization to run so we need to do better.
That was an opinion. They're trying to sell this war on its benefits as hard as they sold the invasion of Iraq.
I knew democracy was waning when they assassinated Rabin.

I like to think the USA is a democracy the same way Israel is. We both have elections, peaceful transfers of power, guaranteed freedons. Yet somehow the hard right is always in charge.
Wow, that's really inaccurate!

Hydrogen chloride does not interfere with transporting oxygen. I think someone made a typo and mean hydrogen cyanide (cyanogen chloride does interfere with oxygen transport).

Hydrogen chloride is found in pool chemicals, toilet bowl cleaner. Pretty sure we don't use chemical weapons to clean our toilets.
I was remote for five years before the pandemic, so for people like me, that's not applicable. At that particular company, they had ended or subleased most of their existing office space (maybe 80%) before the pandemic, which was very fortuitous for them. They still have a handful of offices, probably always will since their physical equipment needs are extensive, but no doubt they've enjoyed the savings from getting so much office space off their books.
> I think given at-will employment they can renege on that agreement whenever they want.

“at-will” employment refers to the laws setting the baseline conditions that apply absent a specific contract to the contrary.

An offer and acceptance of employment on specific terms, if it meets the requirements for contract formatiom trumps the default terms unless it is blocked by something in the law. That’s why important employees (e.g., top execs, 9f nothing else) in most firms have specific contracts with terms that are not at-will employment (and why union contracts exist, too.)
Google’s fully homomorphic encryption compiler – a primer
Opposite experience: I use Teams every single workday and have never experienced the lagginess or laptop heating you describe. I’ve never heard of any coworkers having these issue either.

It’s so strange that so many people can have completely different experiences with the same software.
Dimensional analysis is great. As for this example, it also follows by a simple change of variables.
In one of my previous jobs, my CTO asked me who I thought was the most important person in the company was. I wasn’t sure. He pointed to the lady who was responsible for entering and maintaining data, on which the entire business was built upon.

She was a quiet person, who did her job exceptionally well. Yet, most people didn’t know her or didn’t realize her importance. I am certain she wasn’t paid that well either.

Point being, nobody is going to reward you, unless you ask for it. I once spent 4 years at a job, I did my job well. Didn’t get a single dollar raise. I didn’t ask, nobody cared either. Most I got was some praise in team meetings once in a while.

The most disgusting part of the story is all hate and vitriol thrown at him. By people using his software for free, by people who are likely not even a tenth as good as he is - both as a person and as a programmer. All this in an industry with plenty of money. This is super depressing. I genuinely hope he gets to spend his future happy
More or less every herb, spice, or medically active plant the flavor is a toxin targeted at pests, fungi, insects, bacteria, predators, etc.
Yeah syncing Matrix HQ used to crash most home servers, probably one of the things that got it on the radar to be fixed ASAP.
First feed yourself, then feed your dependents.

They are dependent on you; If you starve, they too starve.

Same goes for safety procedures on air flights, etc.
Roses are red, algorithms are blue, here's a poem I made a machine write for you
That's not true. By restricting supply, they raise property values for all housing owners, whether they rent out their properties or live in them. NIMBYs and landlords should be natural allies as such.
They cannot move out taking the houses with them. Not at gunpoint, but still not able to move it.
The blancolirio youtube channel covered this today[0]. His theory is that the autopilot was set incorrectly. When enabled shortly after takeoff it triggered the dive.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B9mQQnZg_8
The fact that US natural gas production is in decline even as fracking and LNG demand are in play, one would have to admit, is remarkable.
Wait, what's the difference? "We will be terminating you instead of allowing you to work remote, but if you'd like to re-negotiate the terms to no longer be remote, then..."
> If anything Microsoft seems to have taken a less arduous approach to this by going to upstream first to Mesa... If you have some weird desire to use DirectX APIs on Linux, you can already do that in many ways with subprojects of Wine and Proton such as d3dvk.

Interesting where Google's efforts to commodotize d3d12 with SwiftShader (as opposed to Mesa) and Angle fits in to this.
Previous discussion of the same December 18th event: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34766467
> you are working unpaid for travel time

Not if you start counting the commute time in the 8 hours you are supposed to work.
Needs an org that does not micromanagement you, but it's what I did when it was important to be in office.
I believe this should be higher. I’ve yet to find a mouse where you can consistently click the wheel without moving it a notch.

It’s so bad on my current mouse that when I have a game or something that requires a click, the wheel will register 4 out of 5 times, with only 1/5 I can actually register a wheel-free click.
Maybe there was in 2003 when a quick search says they last amended the regulations, up from 30 minutes that were deemed insufficient? Changing that regulation probably has incredible cost as the certification process for stuff on airplanes is lengthy.
I think what everyone is missing is the timing of these RTO orders.

There's a huge swath of tech playoffs right now. Tens or hundreds of thousands of devs are out of work and looking. Many, many others are worried they are next on the chopping block.

There's no better time for big corps to make unpopular decisions like this.

Many employees will be scared to refuse the mandate, because they see the layoffs. They fear for their job. They see the market is tough for getting hired elsewhere. They'll go back to the office out of fear.

If devs leave, it will be easier than ever to replace them.
Yup - i've using it for compiling and some testing.

Power usage on idle is around 70-80 Watt, on normal usage is around 100W, on peak can go to 200-250W.

Apps are not CPU intensive except one that uses disk in inefficient way. That's why i make a ram drive (tmpfs), put data there and then get out.
Which means that they can terminate you if you insist on working remotely, even after an agreement to allow you to work remotely.
Because there shouldn't be a variety of price points, and innovation should not be hoarded. Healthcare should be uniformly the best it can be.
The First Amendment of Elon
I’m laughing at the image of dudes jerking it in a dark room thankful that porn has freed them of unwanted relationships.
Isn't there a tech hub in Jersey City at the old Jet office? What's with forcing people to move to Arkansas?
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More than five whys and “layer eight” problems
Yeah. Maybe you wipe down the book after you finish it and replace it with another book, but in terms of self hygiene you should be washing your hands after using the toilet anyway.
Interesting that is uses sqlite as a file format as an example for rich documents. Probably would work reasonably well, but hadn't thought to do that until now. Have tables for pages and items on the page? Would that make document search more robust?

Wonder if/how it would combine with the distributed litestream stuff recently touted on fly.io? I love postgres but have to admit these features are tempting.
Multiple channel uncompressed audio, with separate tracks for each pilot, ambient sound, ATC, cabin and/or more.

Plus this is done with decades old tech because the blackbox has limited space due to the armored construction and the chips need to be hardened
> Microsoft offers WSL based Linux on Azure

No they don't, not if you're not using a Windows desktop in Azure. They have their own Linux distro for embedded stuff, extremely low power stuff, but that's very far from anything WSL2 related.

How would they even offer a WSL-based Linux on Azure without Windows?
Discord is really bad for big groups of people and even worse if you need searchable content.
Post dot-bomb I didn't really recover salary for a decade. (Which still is probably not especially spectacular by tech standards--although I did very luckily get a new job pretty quickly.)
Sure it does. It means they have two options. Let you stay remote, or fire you, but not “for cause” so you still can file unemployment. Otherwise you won’t be able to file.
Yes, agreed that is a nuisance. But fortunately that is just a click, it gets a bit frustrating when there are > 10 participants and when people join late.
While it's true that "this change in working style has had a negative impact on the business that used to service office workers", it's not my personal cross to bear by enduring an obnoxious commute.
NYC is highly walkable, and very large. Same with London.

The benefits of large walkable cities is that people get motivated to do urban 'hikes' and the hours of exercise are much larger than in typical cities (especially compared to walking and cycling unfriendly cities).

As far as 'conspiracy theorists' this represents a vast spectrum of individuals, and no doubt that would be foolish to lump into a single one-dimensional stereotype unless your aim is some sort of propaganda or social conditioning.
I turned my college career around by studying when I was alert instead of trying to force a "normal" study schedule. The 3 hours from 2:30 AM to 5:30 AM were the golden hours. When the music started playing in my head it was time to go back to sleep.

Can you flex your work hours so that they align with the times that you are able to focus on technical tasks? 30 years later I still get productive things done in the wee small hours of the morning. I save the afternoon for more brute force activities.
> It's also damning that the list of things I hate about it hasn't changed in the three years I've been using it heavily

Honestly, I'll take a program with a bunch of consistent downsides over one that has fewer downsides but comes up with new ones in each version.
I don't want this to sound hostile because I have a similar love/hate relationship to Clojure, I truly don't understand what you're arguing. Or, it seems like your issue is with lack of static types rather than an issue with the implementation? I've written a lot of Clojure and have an okay to pretty good understanding of the implementation, but it's just hardly ever relevant to the code I write, so I still don't totally understand what you're getting at exactly. Like, what's the actual problem here? Just that there's more Java "intrinsics" than pure Clojure code? I guess I do agree that Clojure is really just Java, and it would do better for people to think about it just as (really nice) syntax sugar over Java, but I guess I don't see that as a problem, but rather the absolute biggest strength of Clojrue.
That's a fair point. I think if I had to be on a chat/video app every minute of the day, I'd hang myself. For the average use that I have, it's fine. If I had to use it ceaselessly, I might have a different opinion.
That's the casual dress version of rto.
Does it make sense? You're selecting workers based on where they already live or where they're willing to relocate to, not based on performance or strategic company need.
It rubs me the wrong way this continued idea that only the wealthy have an iPhone, or atleast it does when people just assume that's the motive.

That may have been the case around 5+ years ago when flagship Samsung phones were significantly cheaper than iPhones. Then Samsung (for example) moved away from plastic screens and chassis to glass and aluminum, the prices went up.

Here in Australia the flagship iPhone 14 pro is from $1,899 with the flagship Samsung $1,949. With the Samsung fold at a whopping $2,499.

A normal Samsung S23 and iPhone 14 both go for the same price.

Of course we're just talking flagships, with both brands offering lower priced phones around that half price.
It it were me and I was truly starting a start up, I would do it in person, at least while we’re in the single digit employees, but it sure as hell wouldn’t be anywhere close to SF, where costs are just insane.

It’s be somewhere with a reasonable CoL but still nice to live in… Charlotte/RTP, Nashville, maybe Chicago or Philly if you really wanted to be in a big metro.

Alternative would be remote, but try to cluster the employees so you could get together in person a few times a month with no one (ideally) having to drive much more than an hour or so round trip.
" Use advanced AI and robotics"
so generic, so boring
I agree. And it does not even have to be personal.

For example I know companies that have done a lot to help an employee with a critically ill spouse. I would feel some loyalty even if the company helped a colleague.

And there are some jobs where employees risk getting unpopular with customers, colleagues, the public, etc. They should take note of whether the company tend to support its employees or throw them under the bus, even if they did nothing wrong.
but they flew on from Maui instead of turning around. if they’d turned around then the cockpit voice recorders would capture the incident. instead they had 5 hours to get their story straight and no actual recording of the incident.
Considering how Walmart treats their other workers, it shouldn't be any surprise how they treat tech workers.
In either a place with an order of magnitude higher cost of living or an order of magnitude lower quality of life, too.
Imagine a law that states that you will pay a tax if you don’t run Microsoft Windows on your computer.

You are of course free to not run Windows on your computer, but you will have to pay a tax for that.
well, all plants produce antagonists against predators. but we in the north do not eat oak leaves, which produce a lot, or use them as flavouring. my point was "why are tropical spices so spicy, harmless and tasty to humans?", badly stated. i'm sure there are good reasons.
Biden establishing interagency team to study unidentified objects in US airspace
Aviation is so safe and I'd hate to see us ruin that, but that's exactly what the airlines are trying to do. And they're doing so because of a pilot shortage they created when they forced so many pilots into retirement during Covid.

The airlines are trying to move us to a single pilot: https://fortune.com/2022/11/21/airlines-pushing-one-pilot-in...

The airlines are trying to lower flight time requirements for pilots:
https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Airline-News/Region...

They created a problem and now want to solve it by messing with a system that has made air travel the safest way to travel for the last decade. I'm sure more of these near misses would have ended in tragedy with a single, less-experienced pilot.
The pilots voluntarily filed an internal safety report upon arrival - which automatically gets forwarded to the FAA and acted on by the airline's safety department.
I don't think it's an "early ecosystem" though... I was playing with Clojure before I had ever heard of Go, Elixir, Julia, Rust, or Typescript. All of these seem like mature ecosystems now. I really like Clojure as a language, but if it's still an "early ecosystem" at this point, that seems like a problem to me.
> Taxes also aren't coercive; even SCOTUS hasn't held that

They are, and it has; see McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819). Coercion doesn’t generally make them unconstitutional (coercion is, ultimately, what governments do,the states under their broad general police powers, and the feds, Constitutionally, under more limited powers, but including explicit taxation poeers), though it can when, e.g., states attempt to tax federal institutions (as was the issue in McCulloch).
It makes no sense to make a dichotomy between permissively licensed software and proprietary software when any MIT-licensed software can be trivially repurposed as proprietary software, which is in fact standard practice in many fields (i.e. web, anti-personal computers).
Oakland also has a vacancy tax (2018 Measure W, https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/vacantpropertytax), but it is limited to $6k per year per property, whereas San Francsico’s 2022 Proposition M increases to $20k per unit, which the plaintiffs argue is so burdensome that is not simply a revenue-raising tax but it compels the owners into business against their will (https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/sm...).
I'll pay the extra to keep my face free of meta stickers. I don't care to share my viewing habits with that beast.
It would ensure you are eligible for unemployment benefits in the event you are terminated because of the employer changing the work location.
I didn't see anything about distance (a bad sign). Inductive type charging falls off rapidly, falling to almost nothing after a few inches.
You keep saying that, but it is not true.
Depending on the exact facts of a particular case that would be considered constructive dismissal under the labor laws in most US states. Employers can terminate at-will employees at any time for any reason or no reason (with a few limited exceptions). But if an employer substantially changes the terms of your employment — like by forcing you to work in an office — and fires you for cause then you should still be able to obtain unemployment insurance. Of course, as a practical matter it's better to just avoid the whole mess if you have better options.
s/me need/we need/