skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t get this line of argument.

Sales force believed their business will do better with Matthew Mcconaughey as opposed to those 8k employees. They may be wrong, but it’s for them to figure out if they’re wrong.

I understand the argument that workers should not be disposable, and workers shouldn’t be fired at will, even with at-will contracts, and companies have responsibilities towards their workers. In fact, that argument is popular enough that most countries, including the U.S. until recently, gave workers and their unions privileges that wouldn’t be afforded in a different scenario. And if you want to argue that workers rights have been diluted far too much in with you.

My problem is instead of making this straightforward argument, when you’re trying to compare the firing of workers to spending on a completely different situation. There’s no possible way for an outsider to know what the value of having McConaughey sit around is, what the contractual details are, what the cost, both monetary and otherwise of splitting from him, etc is.

My response to this headline isn’t to be more sympathetic to the workers. It’s to wonder what the hell McConaughey getting contractually paid has anything to do with the poor treatment of workers by Salesforce.
Hey, I work in a company where user-facing documentation is written in LaTeX! I even contributed few commits to it.

I'm not sure though why sales people would need to edit it.

My discontent with LaTeX for documentation is that searching it sucks. I mean, you do get literal search for words, but if you want something smarter... PDFs don't interact well with searching tools we have.

Another problem: interactive scroll. In HTML documents you can scroll sections of documents independently of each other (if you need to), so you can create ad hoc views of your documentation that could be more useful to you (eg. collapse a bunch of tables or code listings just to see the text in between).

On the other hand, if you want to print it, oh man... it's going to look so much better! :)
Hydrocarbons work quite well and are (comparatively) minimal impact on climate change. There's been some paranoia about fires, particularly in automotive applications but it's actually a quite small amount needed to do the job.
In general, it doesn't really make sense to count someone who isn't trying to be employed as unemployed in general. I am not sure how you would distinguish between a 60 year old who decided they had plenty of money and would rather not work for someone any longer and a 60 year old who got laid off and can't find anyone to hire them for the work they are trained to do.

And, as you say, there are labor force participation numbers if that's what you're interested in.
What does some random EU bureaucrat know anything about it?

The commission is even worse. Most countries just send their loudest/incompetent/etc idiots to get them out of the way for a few years. Just look the commission president…
But it's not clear why that author decided to talk about Mars. They didn't connect their comment to to the article at all.
some nyc bridges and tunnels charge both ways. for the bridges and tunnels connecting ny and nj, you only need to pay going nj -> ny.
What I meant is: if you address to just "Knoxville" how would they know it's the one in Tennessee?
The whole book is about the search for an entertainment disc so addicting anyone who watches it winds up so enraptured by it that they consume it endlessly until they wind up dying.

Sounds a bit like a less intensive phone/social media addiction if I've ever heard of one.
At least they commit HARD to the bit
Journey Through Freedreno
If your area of expertise is putting out a general purpose shape area compute library, then maybe. If your purpose is elsewhere and this code is a tool to accomplish that --- not so much. Not everything needs to be fully general. Write the tool you need, whatever that ends up being.
Living in Spain I really learned to appreciate a well-working postal service which is ultimately a small, but meaningful factor in quality of life.
That said, the postal services are generally pretty good in Spain, but there's a big problem of addresses, and the very outdated databases that were true at one point, but someone since re-named the street two-three times already (or just made up a street name to get some process going, like to connect the electricity when the final street name wasn't given yet). Lots of houses have one official address (on the deed), one (or three) address that everyone knows it by. The street signs and even the house numbers are wrong sometimes. Our house currently has no less than five addresses, used with various providers.
>I'm not sure why you wouldn't want a market based proposal in this case.

Because a market requires certain conditions to be true: equal access to information, many buyers and sellers, and that the products being exchanged are comparable. It's possible that requirements 1 and maybe 3 can be met, but 2 completely kills the possibility of an efficient market in this proposal because there are far more sellers of time than buyers.

All capitalist economies (that I know of, please correct me if I'm wrong) employ regulation of market activity to compensate for imbalances in one of more of the three areas above. The theory for doing so is not based on goodwill to all people or something like that, but because distorted markets are inefficient and waste value.
> All you may need is HTML

The opposite of a great truth is also a great truth: You may need more than HTML.

The problem is (and I believe this is what the author tries to draw attention to) that people are fighting all sorts of half-backed stacks without necessarily having a fully justified reason for every incremental complication invovled.

The web is obviously more than a "clean page of text" metaphor. How much more we don't even know yet.

What would make this journey of discovery shorter is the simple golden rule that "computational complexity should be commensurate with the result"
Server performance tools to save your ass
> Almost like "It's too overwhelming for me to actually think this through, so I'm choosing to just not."

At some point the algorithms in our head has to stop trying to think about things and instead just go with an option. That happens at different points for everyone, some stop thinking earlier while others basically never stops thinking about things so have a hard time getting started with anything.

I don't think that it is fair to say that one is better than the other, they are just different and are good at solving different kinds of problems.
I'm sorry but this is fantastically funny. I really enjoyed your comment and the way it is written.

I'm the sort of person to argue about which sportsperson was better than which other. The stats are just the stats.
The problem are large building air conditioning systems, grocery store chillers and industrial machines - they contain an awful lot of coolant and are very expensive to replace which means they tend to last for decades.
Supply is much less elastic than that. For a short randomized surge of 2 hours, how many new drivers are going to actually come into the road? How many of the rides will complete at that price? How long will the surge last?

No one is dropping what they are doing and commuting an hour for a 2 hour surge. Odds are the surge won’t be present when the drivers arrive.
Isn't there a large gap between "no longer cost-effective for mobile applications" and "end of life"?
I recall that Costa Rican addresses are more like directions:

https://www.crcdaily.com/p/why-doesnt-costa-rica-use-real-ad...
The "normal" way this is done is with trees. During the summer, they have lots of leaves and shade the house (especially if you have them in the right place for the summer sun) and in the winter the leaves fall off and the winter sun can shine through.

But insulation matters much more in the winter; the color/shade only reduces the energy load, it doesn't dissipate it.
There are better octane boosters, the only reason lead was used was because it was marginally cheaper.
The protocol is just registering a public key for each device to the server-side directory. A device-specific private key is generated and kept client-side on every device that logs in to iMessage.
That’s exactly how Irish post codes work and only use 7 chars: https://www.eircode.ie/

Although a check digit would have been worth it IMO
Maybe this is before your time, but there have been runtime minifiers/“builders” in the past. I remember them in the PHP days.

It’s not a new idea.
> though I think all of us have known that the ever-increasing TC wars amongst big companies was unsustainable

Just wow! What about ever increasing stocks? ever increasing returns on VC funds? You've gotta be kidding.
I'm afraid that in my case it never got easier - maybe the opposite, actually. As you get better you expect more from yourself and your clients do as well.

Part of it in my case may be the fact I'm an introvert and just being "on" around so many people is tiring.
China sends 25 planes, 3 ships toward Taiwan
Refunds are still frictionless for consumers. It's vendors who have to maintain product quality and prevent fraud to avoid returns. It's not Square's job to make sure that a vendor's product is high-quality or that customers really want to keep the products they buy.

Credit cards mostly work the same way.

https://www.cardfellow.com/blog/credit-card-refund-fees
Does anyone remember in old-timey puzzle books that you might have read as a kid, the example puzzles (maybe fictional) of how the British postal service would decode people's addresses expressed in rebus form?

Like:

HILL

----

MIKE

----

WOOD

They would say the post office cleverly got it delivered to Mike Underhill, Overwood UK.

I guess that was for a more leisurely, less efficient time.
Also GA is, in the end, a relatively small-scale activity, so leaded avgas isn't much of a public health hazard like leaded automotive gas was back in the day. More of an occupational hazard for people working on and flying those planes, and higher maintenance requirement on the engines.

Hopefully they can manage to roll out G100UL at scale so 100LL can finally die. And then that final TEL plant on the planet can be shut down for good.
Costa Rica’s enigmatic addresses (2021)
That is interesting, thanks for sharing your viewpoint. In that case, I agree with you, at least insofar as I very much want to see more social democracy in the US than we currently have. But I think it would require the citizens to have a great deal more trust in gov't than we currently have, so not anytime soon.
Many generations of people fought and died to not just let the monstrous assholes with resources decide everything.
It’s almost time to switch your clocks in California again. Here’s when and why
If biking is a choice then so is driving a car, and cars are far more dangerous to pedestrians.
Delivery Reports – Reasons to Adopt This Practice // Leadership Quickstop
How a simple practice can add a lot of value to a team's work.
Non-Paywall Link [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/0OkdN
> Worst case is 49.9% of people suffer horribly under state enforced "social good".

As an iPhone, iPad, and iMessage user, please explain how I will "suffer horribly" from being able to interact with the iMessage service from non-Apple devices.
Why sadly? This is basic consumer protection stuff. It seems like currently this fee ends up being paid by the vendor or some middleman, but that seems like BS too. Visa/whoever should be returning the fee and folding it into their business model as the cost of doing business.
New Biden Cybersecurity Strategy Assigns Responsibility to Tech Firms
Those people should be accountable for that, sure. But Matthew McConaughey isn't accountable for that. We don't know the terms of his contract -- just that his contract was better than that of at-will employees (which, of course it was. The contracts for executives are also better than those of at-will employees...that's how this works) -- and we don't know what all was included as part of it.

But even if paying a celebrity $10 million for endorsements is a bad decision (and we don't know if it is or if it isn't -- it's probably a wash, as most marketing expenditures like this are), that decision is unrelated to why 8,000 people were laid off.
What are some good places to read up on these things (e.g. PCR 7 &, 4)?
What work do they generate for Square?

It's not really "Devil's" advocate to advicate for the current standard practice across the industry.
The government of Germany does officially support it. So I guess if they are serious about it we’re sort of safe for the next few years.
Low NFC people get a bad rap because they're quick to dress up intellectual laziness with moral posturing.

But cognition is as precious a resource as attention or compute these days, so maybe there's something to learn from them.
Real Estate from 20/21 appreciated 20-30%. With leverage you'd see 100%-200% returns. You can always sell now and realize that gain. At the end of the day, however you look at it, it'll be one of the stupidest financial decision you've made and you should take responsibility for it
With the ‘modern American in mind,’ Air Force OKs neck and hand tattoos
(it’s “malaise”)
As an only child raised far away from all family I find ancestry hugely interesting. Wanting to be part of a tribe is an inherently human trait. Finding jewish ancestry and that those that didn't leave eastern Europe were wiped out GREATLY changed my motivation to protect all people. Finding out that my quite unassuming grandfather (who made a huge difference in America's 80s farm crisis at the cost of his entire career in the 70s and was blacklisted from employment forever) descended from basically every European nobile and was more royal than my ex's side (who are very proud of their silver set handed down from their nobility) was so, so gratifying.
AMC is almost back to prepandemic levels though
Phil Schiller on App Store
The bizarre plot was ignited by complaints from eBay’s top management about the Steiner’s coverage of the company and included sending the couple threatening Twitter messages, live spiders, and a funeral wreath, as well as following them around town and trying to install a tracking device on their car in August 2019. Jim Baugh, eBay’s former head of security who orchestrated the plot and traveled to Natick to surveil the couple, received the stiffest sentence of nearly five years in prison.

What the hell is going on at eBay?
Well, yes, if you aren't in the country, you won’t show up in the country’s employment or unemployment statistics.
Wow, that's cheap! Is that in the US?

As for winter, what you say may be good for people with a house and garage who are driving to work and back (but then range should not be an issue anyway). It doesn't work when you street park and it also doesn't really work when you're driving long distances or with a car that's mostly outside, like a delivery van.
> last year.

I see we're still not counting the pandemic in this timeline.

It was October 2019.
Don't forget HN on that list. I think the minimalist design and lack of notifications are good nudges to log off, but it's very possible to spend too much time here. (As I would know from experience.)
"I could have told you that."

- Grandma
There was a submission on here a while back with someone using weird addresses etc. One required a cross word to be filled in and it got delivered.
>Isn't there a large gap between "no longer cost-effective for mobile applications" and "end of life"?

Not for lithium batteries. They have a significant change in voltage (internal resistance) and charge/discharge curve that is unique to each individual cell, based on the specifics of it's lifetime usage. That makes any form of safety critical application impossible. You cannot build a pack around cells with unknown or variable properties. Sure they could be used for hobby projects or DIY stuff, but that's about it.
Risk is almost always borne by the merchant or the bank, never the processor.
Naively, the category seems to be "high growth tech". So that includes both the SV megacorps and startups (which are also concentrated in the Bay Area).
I just don't think it adds anything to the conversation and the fact never needed to be checked anyway, its just a compulsion.

At this point I actually would rather not know than have to have someone googling it for me.

Also I now believe by googling it you're denying someone the pleasure of remembering it.
Okay, I understand that came across pointing, but I hope you know I'm not pointing at you. I'm pointing at "Market Rate" salary fixing, etc.
One thing I've noticed is that having competent and down to earth marketing folks also helps to boos overall morale at a company.
These Magic Code Sequences Will Rot Your Brain
Create your own ChatGPT for customer service in 15 minutes
I'm receiving lots of (non-SMS) spam over iMessage, though. Sometimes daily.
It does seem odd that companies would pay for services from Salesforce because of a celebrity quip, instead of a determination that said services would improve the company's operations.

Or perhaps these Marketing departments are just really good at internal marketing of budget usage?
KTH's official address is just KTH, 100 44 Stockholm. But since the '10' prefix already implies Stockholm [1], you could feasibly shorten it to just '100 44'.

Actually, it looks like Chalmers is the same way - the address in the footer of their website is just "Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg" (with the '41' prefix already implying Gothenburg).

[1] https://www.postnord.se/vara-verktyg/sok-postnummer-och-adre...
> there are always 24 hours in a day

Daylight savings time is a much larger departure from this rule ;)

> 23:59:60 happens when we add leap seconds to the clock

Not anymore! Or, maybe not anymore. We've agreed to phase out leap seconds before 2035 [1] and we probably won't get a 23:59:60 before then [2].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03783-5

[2] https://manifold.markets/Yev/will-there-be-another-positive-...
Been diving in the world of ChatGPT and other AI tech lately.

In February, I was working on two projects and just released them both recently:

https://trackmybot.com - public ChatGPT responses with public archive.

https://artsy.sh - dynamic drawing tool featuring DALLE-2 and Stable Diffusion 2.1 engine models.
> i can't even think of a valid reason to use objects once you get past the cat/dog/animal example

Because you have internalized the braindamage you claim others have. If you think "an object in code corresponds to an object in the real world" then you are victim of the object=noun method=verb braindamage.

An object is just a tuple. A method is just a procedure with an implicit param. OO is a way to factor code into pieces and to name and reuse those pieces. inheritance is for liskov substitution.
That's a feature of the Messages app, not the iMessage service.
> Because conversation doesn't (and shouldn't) work like that.

It often does.

Not everyone is like you.

Not everyone wants the same things from a conversation as you.

I agree that a lot of times, the veracity of these details don't matter. I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but: In my experience, there is a strong correlation between those who do not like being fact checked in these social situations, and those who make factually incorrect statements when it clearly matters (e.g. accusing someone of poor behavior, business transactions, etc).

We may be in the minority, but some of us do care to know whether you can be trusted. It's one thing to be up front and speak tentatively, and be open that you've gotten details wrong. It's another to give a fantastic narrative that happens to be full of incorrect details, and then complain when someone points it out.
Good. That surgical glue they used in the animal brains made them die horribly iirc
A great tip for content, when you learn something new, write a post about it. If it’s new to you it will be new to many others.

Doubly so if you couldn’t find a relevant post in the first place.

It’s also a huge benefit for yourself. I have referred to posts I’ve written on topics many times over in the future. E.g I spent hours configuring rspamd (https://blog.mailpace.com/blog/how-to-catch-spam-with-rspamd...) or setting up html modules (https://blog.mailpace.com/blog/using-html-modules/). Both are super niche topics that I struggle to recall the details of without my blog posts.
I thought it is illegal to make websites without React on fronted and Node on backend.
100% agree. There are a lot of unnecessary features, that I rarely use. As a customer, you need a simple reliable service.
I think that's why (well one of the reasons along with generally poor behaviour) most ticketing sites tag on so many extra "service" charges. Some charge to even receive a digital copy of your ticket! I believe they don't have to refund these charges when the event is cancelled.
Now it works. Not sure what happened.

Thanks!
> 7 fucking declarations. That's how much CSS it took to turn that grotesque pile of shit into this easy-to-read masterpiece.

Such drastic difference with basic adjustments, damn
Operation leveraging Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS for data theft
Starlink, China, and Upset Plans
What commercial product are they offering?
Well, conveniently the EU has a proposal for certifying open source projects.
Man the things that pass for innovation in the node-adjacent space continues to blow my mind. It feels like hte horrors of /r/programmerhumor meets generic internet hype-beast cycles.
I have heard a lot about R290 but at least in the US, I am not seeing much of a push to go there. R32 is an A2L refrigerant and (according to the article) isn't affected by the PFAS ban. In the US at least it looks like the main choice for the future, at least in the near term.
Watching FAANG offers nearly double over two years was not sustainable and anyone who thought that it was is delusional.
Show HN: Rust Lib for ChatGPT and Whisper
This is why I prefer to watch films on a Dolby Atmos or 2D laser IMAX screen. These outside bodies certify that projection and sound are built and operated to a quality specification.

You can find them in your local market if you do some research, most theaters do not have them and if they do it's only 1 of their screens. Theater chains do advertise them as a premium experience and reserve them for whatever the current big hit film is.

Corporate theater chains don’t care about fidelity, this is the only way to get a quality experience from their facilities.
How ridiculous. A big reason I buy Apple products is because of the walled garden. This feels like Europeans interjecting theirselves into my personal life and personal opinions. Hopefully Apple decides to just drop iMessage support for Europe instead of ruining a great product that Americans want to keep.
But (no ZIP) isn’t a ZIP