skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Climate change' is a hysteria because there is so much money involved in green tech. anyone with an ounce of common sense is an environmentalist, but there have been so many predictions of impending doom (which is your fault, repent and atone for your sins) that the genuinely important issues tend to get buried in the tsunamai of doomy junk science that is drip fed to Guardian readers and anyone else who will listen.

There is a real danger of the $$ cult of climate change $$ undermining important environmental issues.
I'll be honest, pricing in Europe is bonkers for many other sectors too.

We are investing into a drug development project, and had to choose a clinical trial partner. A small no-name European CRO quoted us ~$40 million. An established Indian company with a track record of launching FDA approved products in the US market quoted us $4 million. And they were supposed to be the "marquee" option.
For a long time, "vehicular cycling" was a big thing - the idea being that bicyclists should use the road as if they were driving a car. This put a lot of focus on teaching people how to ride a bike on the road, rather than designing safer infrastructure for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular_cycling
I'd agree with what you're saying, although I think it highly is dependent upon the personality and independence level of the individual. Even at jobs where I found the work interesting, I've never had the slightest emotional attachment to the company. I'm vastly more interested in working on my own projects and hobbies and after putting in the requisite 7-8 hours in a day I completely switch off.

It's the same for the ostensible loyalty towards ones hometown. I've been just as comfortable living in China as I have back in the states.

I have no loyalty to abstractions like symbols, countries or companies. Loyalty is reserved for friends and my family.
Overpromising and underdelivering is what you do when you can't meet the expectations and you need to try and get the business anyway. What's the alternative? Honestly promise a product no one wants to buy. Once you've manufactured a billion widgets you no longer need to overpromise and underdeliver. It's very similar to the silicon valley "fake it till you make it" attitude.
Or maybe the 20th century increase in allergies was caused by the sheer amount of bad stuff we created, or maybe it's because of the sheer concentration of badly ventilated environments where hundreds of people pass through every day.

AFAIK, there is no good evidence about any of those hypothesis, and weak ones for them all.
Who cares? You don't work there anymore. Not your problem.
I'm sure all the people now left homeless after their homes collapsed will be very understanding of how these amnesties helped solve homelessness. Oh, and it's looking more like 33k killed by the latest count, and over 90k injured.
>I would love to work in an environment where I felt valued as a person but I have yet to find that

CAN that even exist? The mercenary approach seems to me the only one that doesn't fall prey to living in a fantasy about how things "Should" be -- there is only the way they are: it's a business relationship.

Younger me thought otherwise. I was big into startup culture, enjoyed the comradery of working long hours, taking pride in this thing we were building together. Management was great. Hierarchy was minimal. I felt "valued"... And then we were all let go with a phone call. I remember just being like "...Ohhhhh. Right." It's a business relationship. That's as far as it goes. Anything else is an illusion.
Please don't. You may not owe price-gouging megacorps better but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
Was that last sentence autocorrected maybe? I'm struggling to parse the last bit about travellers and daisies.
And Comcast is still around and kicking its customers senseless.
Weirdly, it doesn't seem like a regulatory requirement to print the country of manufacture on the box. All of our food is clearly labelled but not pharmaceuticals?

It's the opposite in the US, for the most part.
Jump, a faster way to navigate directories (2017)
The sum of the 161 names on the list is 209109.64, or 13.4K Americans (making your estimate a pretty good one).
From a different polity (aus), if a senate seat falls vacant its filled by a nominee of the party who held that quotient at the will of the state premier, a power which has occasionally (very occasionally, but notoriously to cause a flip in the government by triggering a double dissolution of the chambers) been abused.

Would it not be kinder to the D party for her to stop now. Or, presumably have stopped years ago?
Cute and fun! The toe-tapping banana is a nice touch.

A minor suggestion for your export format is to switch from an "array of structs" to a "struct of arrays" layout:

For example, change this:

"steps": [{"isOn":true, "repeat":"1:2"}, {"isOn":false}, {"isOn":false}, {"isOn":false}, ...]

To this:

"steps": {"repeat": ["1:2",null,null,null,...], "isOn":[true,false,false,false,...]}

It's not necessarily more compact, but you can iterate over all of the collections with a single index.
> “In hindsight, I probably got a little carried away and overinvested relative to the uncertainty we saw shaping up in the market,” Ek said on an earnings call in January

Then why is management abandoning that strategy? That's what the entire article is about...
> But I probably wouldn't use it on more than one occasion a month on average, where the return trips are counted in the occasion.

That would make it completely nonsensical to have a private jet from a financial standpoint (and you are not getting wealthy by making nonsensical financial decisions). Jets don't really like to stay put, depreciating. They need to fly.

Just charter a plane at this usage level.
Your link compares is talking about emissions of their investments, which doesn't make sense to include as part of their CO2 footprint. If the ownership of these companies somehow were magically distributed in a "better" way, the incentives to pollute would roughly remain the same.
Which is less of a disaster? That's all that matters and you making it a binary situation is overly simplistic and likely done on purpose due to your political beliefs
Maybe in your jurisdiction, not in mine. I have the same master bedroom setup, and it shows up in my country records.
https://archive.ph/NK9pm

Feinstein is a longtime tech industry villain on the "catastrophically ignorant" track,[1][2] especially around encryption.[3][4] I'll especially remember her brushing off kids who lobbied her on the Green New Deal:[5]

> “I’ve gotten elected, I just ran,” she added. “I was elected by almost a million-vote plurality. And I know what I’m doing. So you know, maybe people should listen a little bit.”

The SF Chronicle ran a story in April about her progressing cognitive problems. She's 88.[6]

The race to replace her was already competitive before she'd even announced her retirement.[7]

1: https://www.politico.com/story/2012/06/feinstein-im-no-techn...

2: https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/sen-feinstein-sh...

3: https://www.techdirt.com/2016/04/08/burr-feinstein-release-t...

4: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/3/12/21174815/earn-i...

5: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/431238-kids-confront-fei...

6: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/dianne-feinstei...

7: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-01-20/california...
A Turkish friend told me at the time those buildings were being built that Erdogan was buying votes and loyalty from those buildings inhabitants. So he is absolutely not innocent
I live in the Netherlands and biked (in almost any weather) to school for about 4km every day from ~8 years old.

But I wouldn't dare bike to work in most places in the world... Even in Belgium I would hesitate to do this in the big cities.
Clue on conversation "history"-- "While ChatGPT is able to remember what the user has said earlier in the conversation, there is a limit to how much information it can retain. The model is able to reference up to approximately 3000 words (or 4000 tokens) from the current conversation - any information beyond that is not stored.

Please note that ChatGPT is not able to access past conversations to inform its responses."

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6787051-does-chatgpt-rem...

Some interesting techniques I've seen involve essentially a ring-buffer and after each turn a call is made to summarize the conversation up to that point and use that as context for subsequent prompt
My understanding is that a significant amount of Edrogan's support actually comes from foreign-resident voters - either expat Turks or people with dual citizenship. There are e.g. British and Germans with Turkish citizenship who don't have to deal with the fallout of voting for him, but love his rhetoric and persona.
I've spent time living in China and where I was they had these fantastic protected bike lanes. They were double wide lanes that had an island (with a decorative but still robust and functional metal barrier down the center and attractive plants and trees all around it) protecting it from the traffic. It was like a bike specific roadway that only interacted with cars when crossing at intersections and it felt so safe that riding downtown in crazy Chinese vehicle traffic became a non-issue (they did need bollards at the entrances to these lanes otherwise someone in a smaller vehicle would eventually try to use it to get around the traffic). I wish we had that sort of system where I live in the US.
I'm wondering if she wore facemasks in grocery stores before the pandemic? Or else they're probably tracking her purchasing behavior anyway by video. Maybe not 9 years ago but surely by now.
I think it depends on what kind of street it is.

If I had my way, downtown areas would have very low speed limits, and narrower streets would discourage cars from going fast. People who need cars (or, make deliveries) could still use them, but the streets would be slow enough that pedestrians and cyclist would feel seen and in-control.
When talking about unions the focus is generally on hourly wage jobs where the skills are quite transferable and thus workers’ leverage is less.

A factory worker installing bolts on a panel in some car isn’t gonna get opportunities to show “individual performance” or get to develop “personal relationships” with their supervisor who’s probably managing dozens of people

In context of white collar salaries jobs, esp software engineering I agree with you 100%.
Was the clock broken when it told me it 6.30 the other day?
why would it be illegal? employees are welcome to find jobs elsewhere
This is something that I'm working on and hope my next startup will be about, I know there are others interested in it. The problem is generally the regulatory environment, it's a surprisingly difficult thing to do in any habitable location.

Marc Lore is working on this, throwing his billions into a concept for a new city out in the desert somewhere: https://cityoftelosa.com

The team at Culdesac are trying this in a "compliant" way, they built an apartment complex with basically no parking in Tempe, AZ but are positioning it as a car-free neighborhood. I believe this is their prototype and they hope to scale it up in future projects, this is about as realistic of a path as I think anyone has.

Building for cars is required by law across North America, and getting around that is quite hard.
Ideal starting conditions to eat more healthy
I have a friend who spent 30 years working for a factory building aircraft for the military. One year, a new lead manager comes in and decides he wants everyone on the floor to have a college degree and fires my friend and the six other people there without college degrees.

It really messed up my friend, he was really close to a comfortable retirement, but had to borrow against his 401k to make it through until he could get another job. He was the safety officer for the entire factory, 15+ years of experience doing that. Now he's too close to retirement age and no one will hire him, even though he's personally a long way from retirement.

So now he's working a physically demanding job on the line making cars. All that experience and skills with safety? Junk.

No company has loyalty to their employees. It's all about the next quarter.
> We also have seen some evidence that animals nearby are dropping dead and humans feeling sick.

This is precisely the kind of decontextualized data that leads to inaccurate conclusions. Without data on normal animal die-off rates, there's no reason to believe finding dead animals is unusual in this part of town.

And of course people feel sick; they've been told they were exposed to a scary chemical. It's going to be very hard to separate psychosomatic effect from physiological effect.

(The dead fish are probably directly causal. Swimming in hydrochloric acid will do that. But they can also directly sample the water to figure out if the HCL levels are dangerous for human consumption or contact, and I've seen no reporting to suggest that is the case; fish are way more sensitive to water quality than humans).

> The correct thing to do is not dismiss concerns, but to put in place measures to stop corner-cutting

No argument there. Independent of this specific accident, we know there's a pattern of accident rate increase that indicates a culture of lax safety standsrds (and I completely believe the rail workers who have told us they are heavily incentivized to cut those corners). That should stop.

> and provide guidance to residents of East Palestine that isn't just "don't worry about it".

Unfortunately, that is the only guidance in the absence of other data. Otherwise, proving "everything is fine" is proving a negative. Is the question "is their risk higher than last month?" Yes. "How much higher?" Pretty much not very much if they didn't get sick by now. "What should we do?" They're doing it in the form of burning off the carcinogen and checking low-lying areas for any escaped volatiles.

What else is there? For an average citizen, they may as well go pray to whatever god they believe in; it's as useful a preventative as anything else they could do.
This reminds me of actions of Putin's mafia regime in Russia. Has India which occasionally prides itself in being a "democracy with the rule of law" fallen to this level! That the government there can do things like this (which also reminds me of Watergate) without serious consequences is not a good thing and a good showing for India.
Is that what they call a “loyalty tax”?
In his autobiography Akio Morita (founder at Sony) tells a story in the 1960s, they'd hired an American salesman, who had done very well for them for many years, but then the guy thought he could make better money elsewhere, so he changed jobs. The next year they were all at a big electronics conference in Las Vegas, and Akio Morita was there talking up Sony's latest products, and this American sales guy walks up to them to say hello. Akio Morita, and the rest of the Japanese team, thought perhaps the American would have a sense of shame and so would try to avoid them, but instead the guy walked up and was very friendly and chatted with them awhile. Afterwards Akio Morita realized that the American saw nothing shameful in leaving Sony for some other company that was paying better. It was a bit of a shock for Akio Morita. He had initially thought of America as a paradise for managers, because they could fire a worker whenever they wanted to, but that incident with the salesman caused Akio Morita to see the other side of it, that a worker could quit at any time, and so Akio Morita developed doubts about the American system.
Democrats here aren't especially well known for doing anything that helps their party, tactically or strategically.
The biggest obstacle for me has been the weather. If it rains, you get soaked and all of the shit from the road flies onto your clothes. And during winter, the roads are so icy and uneven that I'm worried I go tumbling downhill and slide right under a car.

Helps that the bike path situation here is decent, where you're usually on a shared-use path with a curb, although you really need to pay attention when the bike path crosses a road. Some people just don't see you and others don't know that they actually need to yield to cyclists in quite a lot of intersections.
Yes, and I don't want to follow that because most of the companies restrict third party apps. This means that you can't have a custom client for a good percentage of the companies.
I fantasize about that, too. You might be interested in the work of Culdesac (https://culdesac.com/); they're building an expressly car-free neighborhood, from scratch.

I'm optimistic that I can make strides closer to home. I have only ever lived in places that predated the advent of automobiles. At one time, they were very accessible via walking, biking, rail, and trolley. So, last fall, when I moved back to Providence, I made it my mission to get involved in local transit activism. It's been a great source of social and civic satisfaction, and I intend to repeat the exercise when I move again next Fall.

It feels like positive change is (slowly) happening.
What is it, 80s? There is no “company loyalty” since 2000s, and soon there will be no “jobs” in general.

We are all contractors and mercenaries now.
accounting rules need to change such that employees are assets, not liabilities.

https://hbr.org/2019/10/the-problem-with-accounting-for-empl...
Recent and related:

Data-Free Disneyland - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612732 - Feb 2023 (211 comments)
What tends to happen in London is about 90% of cyclists use the bike lanes, while a few racing-bike hotshots will skip them (especially when congested) and use the car lanes. Usually those guys are easily fast enough to keep up with the cars on busy city streets anyway. There's certainly no rule, real or imaginary, that says if bike lanes exist then cyclists must use them. But having decent cycle lanes there absolutely does encourage more people to cycle!
Unsurprising for anyone that has done business in India. This is not a dig on Indian people, but the society they operate in is incredibly incredibly corrupt, on a scale which is basically unthinkable to anyone who hasn't been directly exposed to it. I cannot imagine doing business of the precision that Apple is trying to achieve in India. There are many other lower precision arrangements that can be worked out in India, but something like an iPhone seems impossible without a complete sea change in how Indian society operates at every level.

Anybody who has done business in India is never surprised by the number of spam, scam boiler rooms, and other nefarious global criminal organizations operating in India. It's all part of the same pervasive corruption within Indian society.
JRE has been a huge success story
50mph wind really isn't that bad if it isn't gusty. Just lean in to it a bit. A flat deck isn't going to induce turbulence the way a traditional warship superstructure probably would have in those days.
The internet is terrible and Google is the reason.
Because that's the reality of what our average life could look like if would have a sustainable life.
Day 01 example >

// sum weight of items carried by elf
elf_weight := 0;
for weight : elf {
elf_weight += weight;
}

I'm not familiar with Jai syntax.
I'm curious, does Jai have fold/reduce?
e.g. smtg like: `elf_weight := elf.reduce(0, +)`

I apologize if this is already covered in the article, I've only read about half of it. Also I'm sorry if this comes off as criticism of the code or of Jai, I'm just wondering what kind of iteration and array/list ops exist (without watching dozens of videos).
100% work at another big-ish tech company on the networking stack and every time we decrease latency, we usually see an increase in traffic as more page loads succeed. It's still quite hard to make the case to PMs and business leaders that there's more latent demand left for our product at lower latency levels, but it's also hard to quantify that extra traffic into revenue vs costs of latency decreasing.
We're seeing the consequences of this stuff. Productivity is going down and you have a bunch of your typical CEO-favored sites going on about quiet quitting, ghosted interviews, unthankful employees etc. To counter this issue rather than improving the workplace they're deciding to try and enforce productivity through spying on workers and forcing people back into the office.

It's all a symptom of what you mentioned where CEOs, upper level management etc are all so thoroughly disconnected from the workforce that they make boneheaded and bad business decisions that destroy the business 3-5 years out. Though none of them get punished for it because of golden parachutes ensuring even the most failing CEO gets rewarded for destroying the company they were running.
In my experience it's less about what the end user does or doesn't want, but more about what the company can or cannot sell. That is why new features are the priority, because once a feature is complete, there is a clock on how long you can sell it. The problem, of course, is the that the market is usually 95% saturated from the existing customer based. So the gain is incremental at best as a few extra customers filter in now that the new feature is available, and then the race is on to find a new thing to tempt in new customers.

Reliability and performance doesn't matter to people who are chasing sales (which is most of a company, not just the sales team, because that's how company success is measured). Retention is someone else's job, and so the focus will always be on churning out more and more feature that can boost sales.
I'm sure there are political considerations.

India of late has a capricious regulation problem which makes it difficult for tech firms to have predictability.

And everyone already knows you can get decent quality manufacturing done in Vietnam. India would like to be considered in that same group.

Therefore it's in Apple's interest to present India with the opportunity to demonstrate that capability, while giving Apple a measure of leverage in cases where India's government is considering outlawing encryption or unmoderated forums or the shift key or whatever they think will make people stop complaining about them today.
Tesla took the textbook 'disruptive innovation' strategy, of starting with a niche product with performance characteristics very different from the conventional options, and targeted towards a small section of the market, then working towards larger user groups. They started with electric sports cars, and have moved into electric luxury cars, but they're not done yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War

At least 10 million casualties.

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

At least 20 million casualties.

Who said anything about 3000 years of Chinese history? You created a strawman and jumped with it from a bridge...

China has killed tens of millions of Chinese citizens in the last century and a half alone.

Just the Taiping Rebellion almost beats WW1.
Vehicular cycling is such a ridiculous ideology and mantra. John Forester has done more damage to not-cars-means-of-transportation than pretty much any other person riding a bike, and many more outside of that group.

The "Well there's your problem" podcast goes over a lot of his ideas in great detail [0]. The crux of it is what the above study says: if you want to encourage cycling you have to build dedicated infrastructure (and maintain that infrastructure in all weather and conditions) in order for people to view it as something reliable.

The key is to avoid what the parent poster specified by just increasing supply: to assuage fears that there are "only a handful of bike lanes and paths (and thus cyclists fear they are confined)" is to just build more. It's vastly cheaper than our current car-focused infrastructure. Cities exist today that seem to figure this out without turning into Amsterdam, so surely the rest of us can figure it out as well.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm29fd-s7tQ