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>To make this claim about the US is to overlook that basically all western countries have 40 hour work weeks.
>Are they all failing democracies too?

If said populations voters in general think otherwise and its viable to execute, then yes. If not, then no.

The point has very little to do with 40-hour work weeks and almost everything to do with the lack of policy reflecting reasonably implementable wants and needs of the population at large (again, while not trampling on human rights of minorities).

The reason you see Americans hating on America is because they're unhappy in some way shape or form. Looking at those complaints externally, one might be inclined to dismiss those complaints because the situation is better than other locations relatively speaking in some respect from outside looking in. Ultimately, that doesn't negate the unhappiness of those complaining or a failure of a system designed specifically to address those shared views and frustrations through policy. It's possible for some things to appear "better" from the outside relative to another basis and still be undesirable by the population at large.

I'm not well versed in labor rights in every country but in the US its not great, I can assure you. If you're comparing it to Somalia, it's probably amazing. That doesn't mean it can't be better in the US. Americans are often comparing America to itself and usually in a historic context: are things getting better or worse? We want to see progress, improvement in our lives or at least stability. That's of course not always possible because reality sinks in. When the pandemic hit, it wasn't a situation we could just "policy away" a viral infection without tradeoffs (social distancing, isolation, etc. were policy based but had ramifications on people's lives).

I had a colleague from India who shared this frustration, they came from poverty in their country and moved into a high paying tech position here and would often bring up the same point that while so many complain in the US, "its better than many places." That point isn't invalid but that doesn't dismiss the desire to make it even better here, especially if it's possible and it's not the case of simple power imbalances. I came from poverty in the US. Maybe my poverty wasn't as bad as his poverty as a basis of comparison? Does the comparison really matter? We both want enjoyable happy present and future lives, let's focus on that instead of "who had/has it worse" and not use the worst to set the bar of progress.

So, whether or not the situation is worse somewhere else doesn't invalidate frustration unless you are against progress for a population in general.
I'd imagine all of the low power binned chiplets are going into EPYC and sold at multiples of desktop prices.
Considering how failed was the launch of the iPhone 14 Pro (I had to wait for 45 dayss before getting mine) and sales of the "iPhone 14" (which is just an iPhone 13, basically) this is just expected
I've been doing a 4 day work week since early 2019 and it this has had a tremendous positive effect on my mental and physical wellbeing. Despite being in a 4 day work week just over 4 years now I can confidently say that I'm not thinking now that 4 days are too many and I need to go down to 3 days. Actually I am very content with 4 days. I am a lot more productive than I was during 5 day work weeks. I feel so much fresher on Mondays and ready to tackle some programming tasks that I even get up early on Mondays nowadays and enjoy to have an early start. I WFH (something I already did before Covid) and when I wake up I normally make myself a coffee and then I'm straight at my laptop. The hours between 7:30 AM and 11:00 AM are my most productive hours of the day. Often I have some late meetings which can drag until 6PM so I tend to take a longer lunch break which allows me to hit the tennis court during sunlight hours and have a hit at my local club or go to the gym. By 6PM I have had a super productive work day and got a good 1.5-2h sport session in as well. In the evening I am completely free for my family which is a big bonus point.

The biggest benefit of the 4 day work week is that I never get to the point where I run low on energy as the week progresses. A lot of my friends who work 5 days never have enough time to recover over the weekend so they enter work on Monday still not fully recharged and then deplete their energy even more, so as weeks go on they get more tired until they have a holiday or fall ill for a few days. This never happens to me, so not only do I feel more focused and energetic for work, family and hobbies but also it means that when my weekend starts on Friday I don't actually waste my Friday to mostly sleep and recover. I honestly can't see myself to ever go back to 5 days a week, unless I was really desperate for a short term income boost where someone pays me an unreasonable high amount to slave myself off for a few months but otherwise there is no way I will sacrifice my health for something where I don't even arguably achieve more than in my current 4 day work week.
You know the formula is

[earnings] x [earning multiple] = [stock price]

When the earning multiplier is between 50-100 for AMZN in recent times. If the multiplier is 100, $1000 a year in earnings translates to $100,000 change in the stock price.

So I am talking about a much smaller than $100,000 spend. But seriously. Say AMZN had slowed delivery to NYC and LA down to 5 days and sped it up to the heartland to 1 day. Jim Cramer would be talking about it all the time on CNBC, it would be a running gag on sitcoms that AMZN is slow. Nobody would be crowing about how great their service is because people in the heartland don't have a voice. But my congressman gets 1 day service in DC and will vote for anything AMZN wants because he thinks we are getting 1 day too.

Maybe I am making too much of it but there is something psychologically dangerous about a "premium" service that is worse than average as opposed to better than average. It's like Medium. I find Prime now is such an insult to my intelligence and is one of just a series of such events (like them telling me they don't care about bogus product listings) that I just want to cause as much pain to AMZN as I can.
People who land at Newark airport in New Jersey and want to use the trains to get to New York City have to figure out the difference between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn station. Must be awful for people who do not use English as their primary language.

At the Secaucus station, the two Penn Stations are in opposite directions, and I am sure many end up going the wrong way and wasting an hour.
I would never trust an AI designed in the pleasant SV to guide me in wilderness, no.
why would I expect my phone to get that right on the first try and not verify it? how lazy have tech people gotten that they blindly trust terrible tech?
Can we slightly modify some strains and let them live in the wild? Instead of developing something new but do not let it multiply.
Any penalty that "makes an example out of someone" is by definition not fair and not justice
Yes. Hence what I said.
i was trying to be sarcastic, to draw parallels between photography and art. I believe most of the criticisms to ai art also applies to photography (and probably were actually believed in the early days). Photography obviously still involves creativity and skill. Therefore so does AI art.
I'm going to disagree here. He started a signal fire which he left unattended in the desert which ignited a 230-acre blaze. Hiking in the desert is quite dangerous and his actions could have easily endangered others. He's lucky that no one else died as a result of his actions and I can easily see why this kind of penalty would be made in this case.
It is not wrong. I pay it every month.

https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html

The enterprise plan.
GPS will work in most locations, yes, but most apps don't have a simplified basemap, unless you have preloaded it.
I pay $20 a month
Sure, I’m not saying it was impossible to mix them up, just that naming them like that isn’t criminal negligence. There are lots of places that are close together and have similar names.
There's already a number of parody LinkedIn accounts. The real accounts are so crazy I really wasn't 100% sure this was a parody when I first read it: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexander-cohen_work-money-ho...
I was thinking Galileo was an analog of GPS which wouldn't do much good for someone who wanted a rescue. Knowing exactly where you are doesn't help much if you can't tell anyone.

I am far from an avid hiker, but if I was going to be doing anything remotely dangerous away from regular cell coverage, I'd take an EPIRB which I believe has some satellites in the loop but sort of works in reverse of GPS. I think the rescue bills might approach what this gentleman is being charged, but sometimes circumstances call for it.
https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html

Enterprise is $20 (for me at least)
Seems a little disingenuous to tout the superiority of the U-2 over balloons for surveillance overflights of the USSR because the USSR was able to shoot down some balloons and issue protest notes about them, while neglecting to mention the U-2's own record in that area.
Yes, but real world performance ( aka compute speed ) has been like desktop Linux, "it's here, but not really" ( we are talking about general desktop, laptop, server here, not mobile ).

Having said that, Apple's M1 was the real one that changed things, also ARM on the server is starting to actually be a mainstream thing, so I get why AMD and Intel are sweating, I just hope they can pull it off because a World where you need to buy a +$1000 aluminum box attached to the CPU you want to get is not a better World.. or worse: Doing business with Qualcomm.
The issue you're missing is most "GPS Apps" use information gathered from the internet, and most people don't download "offline maps" which I used to do, which would allow you to GPS as you suggest without data since all the location information is now locally stored.
If it wasn't for the unprepared going off and getting lost, search and rescue teams would have to pay people to get lost. Airplanes sometimes crash and other things that are not the fault of the unprepared, so we need those teams and we need them practiced.

This is cheaper than planning realistic training, and the unprepared is better training as well.
Also, maps.me uses openstreetmaps, which has very comprehensive and surprisingly accurate trail maps, and the entire world (or whichever sections of it you desire) can be downloaded for offline use. It's been my go-to for years.
Sounds like a password with extra steps
I use Rclone but sadly started this process before it supported crypt so I use encfs
And RISC-V ISA.
Chess predicts who will win based on the board state, otherwise a chess engine wouldn't be able to beat world champions. Try building a chess engine just by studying human moves and not running any logic or simulations and you'd get a shit chess bot, even if you throw millions of dollars of compute at it if you don't make it play simulated games and this map out board states it will be shit. Just getting the chess bot to make legal moves would be very hard without hardcoding the rules of chess, we can hardcore chess logic but we can't hardcode language logic so we can't solve language in the same ways.

That is the state of LLM's today, I don't think there is a way around this without having some sort of logic engine, similar to how chess engines played and simulated games to train and test things.
It got even more silly when Napapijri sued a French clothing company called Geographical Norway for trademark infringement for also using a Norwegian flag on their logo.
Twitter is indeed going great [0].

[0] https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/
It's possible to specify no alias in C with the `restrict` keyword, but it isn't a widely used feature. With Rust, a whole bunch of bugs related to it were found and fixed in LLVM, so I think you're correct that it is the most widespread rollout.
That's why I said reflect on the system, not just your own actions within it. You can try to switch careers from a job that actively crushes puppies to one that merely maintains the puppy crushing machine, but the problem is the puppy crushing itself and if the only way to pay your bills is to contribute to that, that's a systemic problem, not one of personal responsibility.
For many 300,000 is a life sentence without parole. Two years in prison would be less cruel. Something feels wrong about this justice..
My work flow doesn’t have me redownloading the entire set. I have the drive mounted so it’s more light push and pull.
That's massive title editing going on here. He started a fire by himself.
Ask HN: What was your Plan B?
I reckon at least a few of you here were really into programming computers and were certain you wanted that to be your career from an early age. What was your backup plan if things didn't work out as you intended, what else could you have chosen as your profession?

I started programming halfway through high school, I liked it a lot and I was really certain I would succeed, although I screwed myself in doing so because I failed to acquire any other marketable skills.

Now I'm 3 years out of school, unable to attend college, I've unfortunately strayed from my path and I'm failing to find my way back to it.

So I come to you HNers for advice... What alternatives would you have picked?
I think the question it's meant to make people consider is, "Is this action I'm about to take really the last resort to save my life?"

If it's truly "die vs. do this and live the rest of my life in debt," yeah. It's worth it to take on the debt.

But it'll force another level of creativity out of you before you decide the only way to save your life is to light a whole dead tree on fire and hope for the best.
Yes. I'm a whale. They could certainly flip a flag in the database to treat me accordingly. If they showed some sign of listening to any of my concerns it would be different but if it is "talk to the hand" and sending me spam emails trying to gaslight me about "the benefits of prime" all I can do is cut off every dollar I can to them.

And it's not just me. AMZN has been counting on people letting their Prime subscriptions auto-renew and I'm not the only one who comes to this conclusion. Other people posting about AMZN's problems over a long time also helped me make my decision and like a contagion I'm sure I will help others make that decision.

Personally I find the Prime changes insulting for this reason: They want me to believe "Prime" is a premium service worth paying for, but "Prime" is now slower than all other online retailers, including getting packages shipped from Japan. A "Premium" product is supposed to be better than the alternatives, not worse. I feel like I am being spit on that they suppose I am stupid enough to fall for it.

They also sped service up to the big media cities so whenever I turn on the TV I hear about people who are delighted to be getting 1 day deliveries, which also pisses me off -- it's an insult that just keeps getting repeated.

To be fair I have been falling out of love with AMZN for a long time and the Azure move has been coming a long time
They don't seem to approach the level of Surströmming...
I don't know if it's still the same, but from Stansted airport you had a choice of taking either the train to Liverpool St or Liverpool Lime St. Fun times for tired travellers.
>Twitter cut 80% of it's workforce and is becoming MORE productive.

Yet they lost most of their top advertisers, have cut APIs since they broke, had multiple significant outages, had it's value more than cut in half by investment firms, took on massive debt, is failing to pay basic bills in many countries including the US, has a CEO that got upset that his tweets were not the most popular so installed a special exemption for himself to push his tweets and his alone to users flooding them so badly he had to tune it down.....

Yeah, it's going great.
Masks absolutely worked in Seattle. The number of diseases right before masks mandates were lifted and right after was immediately obvious to everyone.

Even antimaskers admitted it was true they just spun it as kids not getting exposed to the diseases they should be exposed to.
One of our local parks intentionally has Back-In Angled Parking on its adjacent one-way street. Granted, it is in a residential, traffic-calmed area with speedbumps that is primarily for residents and park-users and not intended to be used to transit the area.
> it's mostly not person's fault they happened to have worse health than others

How can one come to this conclusion given the trends in people’s weights?
Look up "broken window economics."
Not TV anchors, Avatars: How Venezuela is using AI-generated propaganda
I wonder how many transistor shrink steps we once EUV High-NA tools are in production.
Namely, before it becomes insane and too much unreliable to be reasonable.
Google’s acquisition of Croatian maths app Photomath
Meta verified fixed a huge problem for power users - support. For everyone else it’s not a feature targeted at you.
> the concern about experience is negated because there will always be enough experience in the body

This is a circular argument. The concern about infinite term career politicians is non-accountability and entrenched institutional corruption. Saying "well the institution has its own inertia and will still function" doesn't solve the original problem.

> After all, presidents get 4-8 years. Does this mean they’re so unable to do the job they outsource

I mean... yes? Presidents have a huge sprawling infrastructure that supports them. If there's anything the back-to-back presidencies of Trump and biden has taught us, it's that the organization surrounding the office of President largely run things anyway (Trump because he was dangerously unhinged and biden because he's grossly mentally deficient).

In fact, if it wasn't for the wildly unconstitutional expansion of power in executive orders in the past two decades, Presidents would have even less impact than they do already.

> It’s certainly possible to design term limits that avoid various pitfalls.

I think term limits are an attempt to treat a symptoms, rather than a problem. Career politicians are dangerous because of legal outside influence. I think campaign finance is the right place to strike. Money, via ads and other means, shouldn't be able to influence elections.
> How often do you create new accounts at FIDO-supporting sites? You must have a different internet usage model than I do.

It’s introducing one more frustrating make-work item for the human. Now I have to remember to enroll all my keys at all the sites I’ve used them for. Totally manual. Totally forgettable.

These keys should act like HSMs and have proper backup and restore. Even if it locked me into a specific key manufacturer (like lost HSM backup/restore functionality does) I’d take that over the idiotic “just have multiple keys and manage keeping them all enrolled manually” story.
Best take right here. Yeah, the guy was an idiot, but was he Norfolk Southern criminal? Ad will Norfolk Southern go bankrupt from poisoning a town? Nope. What about Wells Fargo? I cold go on and on.

The government cares more about corporations than people. We live in a corpocracy, not a democracy.
Autocomplete saves a lot of time, what are you talking about?
In addition, GPS coordinates will work but it is not accurate nor stable. AGPS works accurately but it needs nearby cell towers.
Huel’s quality control is …. Creative
> Taking two knives (machete and a cutting knife), as though they are out to fight nature.

Isn't that reasonable? If you want to cut food, or do something that requires precision, you don't want to use a machete. If you need to bushwhack and clear some brush, you don't want to use a small cutting knife.
No, you're right. I believe there should be some mapping apps dedicated to hikers, but I think just downloading a map in two different mapping apps (just in case) should be sufficient.
> For example, configuration is in YAML, not a proprietary syntax.

This makes me sad. A product designed to be developer friendly and automate things should create a parser and custom config language, or at least borrow one. The whole reason there are so many is they are built for purpose to make a specific task easier. If you need features like templating and logic, you can slap in existing solutions like Jinja2 and Go templates. YAML is not a configuration format, it's a data serialization format. If you don't want to write a parser, use TOML.

My final note is: don't reinvent the wheel. There is a fully open source alternative to Drone.io (I can't remember the name) that forked a while ago. Drone is the best CI system for developers, hands down. Build on the open source codebase, build some proprietary extensions and a new UI, sell your product there. It's proven (because Harness now owns it) and you can help build the existing open source product at the same time.

Otherwise, I have no need for yet another build system. All build systems are pretty much the same to me (except Jenkins, which is pretty much the tenth circle of Hell) and I'd much rather use a fully open source one that I could pay for support + extensions for at work. Maybe you could make a better Jenkins?
Did you read that? Because it doesn't contradict what I said.

You probably meant this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

And that doesn't mention computer science either. Instead it says this:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Note that this doesn't even mention technology, just "startups" and "hacking" (which to be clear isn't specifically about technology either).
60,000 feet is a little high for a low cost drone is it not?
I just blink the blinkers in direction of parking spot. So far 100% of the drivers get it
I really want to comment on some of these idiotic posts but it basically goes on your “permanent record” so to speak, so I hesitate. Probably the same for everyone else, and why there is nothing at all to stop the rampant fake positivity which ruins the platform.
Isn't this saying that overall usage went down? And that advertisers fled the platform? I understand why VCs would want Musk's story to be true, that drastically cutting staff would increase profitability. But that doesn't indicate anything other than virtue signaling more or less.
I think we should be embracing AI generated stories, but separate them from non-AI. Plus, what counts as AI? If I'm writing a story and use AI to help with parts is that an AI story?

The other thing is I think AI will raise the minimum bar for 'good' stores. Ok stories will be easily generated so that non-generated ok stories will find no market.
That's nice and useful in many circumstances, but a phone - and an SOS signal - serve a different purpose: To save your life when you can't save yourself, e.g. if you are trapped or your leg is broken on the trail.
Correct: so since you're more likely to hit a pedestrian in the open area, you want more visibility when entering it on your intended departure from the lot, which is what you get if you had backed in.
This may well be beyond the etiquette of HN but listening to podcasts/YT/audiobooks on fast speeds and omitting silence breaks is really stupid. Slow frying your brain to save 5 minutes here and there doesn’t make you smarter.
Yes, I’ve been preloading Google Maps before trips for years because I never know if I’m going to pay for service while on vacation.
because a low cost drone has trouble ascending to 18,000 m with enough ammo and maneuverability to take out an object size half the Statue of Liberty in a controlled way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident#...
You're assuming somebody is going to be listening. Many organizations that would have been listening 50 years ago have had funding taken from them.