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Reminds me of Domino's talking about supporting local businesses, fixing roads and deploying electrical vehicles. Long story short Domino's spent exponetially more on commercials advertising their "good" deeds than on the deeds themselves.

For example spent 54 million on commercials talking about supporting local businesses... provided local businesses 100,000.

https://i.redd.it/3vks4w3nddh81.jpg

Seems like so much in our society is smoke and mirrors these days.
leaded gas should be limited to extremely low-volume applications, because it's enormously harmful

this regulation is more like banning unleaded gas
I'm sorry, it appears your OS image isn't signed. Please submit it to the certification authorities along with the inspection fee of $25,000 to ensure that it complies with all necessary regulations.

Computers are going to become more like cell phones with locked bootloaders. TPM is already a mandatory feature thanks to Windows 11.
I struggle to see how it's not possible to have features gated based on the capabilities of the partner you are chatting with.
This Tom Scott video shows some of the surprising (to me) lengths to which the USPS does go to figure out the right address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c Obviously this doesn't apply to your case, but I certainly didn't think they'd have a national center for decoding terrible handwriting.
Taxes, healthcare, social security, free massages and lattes?
> almost certainly going to kill or maim them

You are strawmanning by providing worst-case scenarios.

Is it reckless and arguably illegal to offer jobs on an oil rig? As an x-ray technician? A vascular surgeon?

When does risk become so great that consent is unlawful?

When is compensation so large it’s compulsion?
A genuine desire to learn? Really? I don’t think so.
"negotiation is a relic of a long gone era and flea markets"

So how did you determine salary last time you were hired?

(I last negotiated a price in a retail store about 10 years ago - if you call that a long gone era then I feel rather old).
When Seattle started with light rail, they ordered custom cars that were "specially designed for the Pacific Northwest". Nobody was ever able to explain what was special about the PNW and light rail cars. But hey, it cost a lot of money!
Deno is the "these go to 11" of the Node.js world.

Creating a whole fork simply to not build TypeScript, reinvent a worse package management system and a useless security harness.
Around 2015 (still under Schultz), I got the impression Starbucks actually cares about its partners. They paid above-market wages to attract good people and provided good benefits.
> Why?

One more thing to know, to update, to break, to configure, to consider when debugging. The existence of source maps proves just one aspect of the pain this indirection and complexity introduces. I’m not necessarily arguing the trade offs don’t make it worth it, merely that there is a cost and there are good reasons we’d want to avoid it if, all else being equal, we can.
It'd be for emergencies or maybe the one planned night you can't charge from the grid. Same as those primary-EV hybrids, it's just that you wanted this specific truck that happens to be full electric.
These people perhaps have hidden financial motives (e.g. share holdings in scanning software companies), or they lack the technical expertise to judge the impact, and they may actually think what they want to do is a good idea.

In any case, they must be stopped at all cost. Freedom is priceless in the literal sense of the word, or people would not be willing to die for it.

Germany has a historic responsibility (after two totalitarian regimes that spied on its cities in its past), which thankfully means a substantial part of the population was educated in school enough about the dangers that they would not support any party who let that kind of nonsense creep in, probably even regardless of which party is in power.
8k of 25k is not some "single digit %"

u sound like u get paid for salesforce-pr
Well I know of other employers that do take in to account the impact on the life of they're workers and families, and will hire very conservatively, and would resort to firing only if very extreme circumstances.
It's because they were not trained in American style business schools, where everyone is just a number, And there's no such thing as decency.
You somehow believe this is natural, it's not, it's insane.
The whole point of market economies is for those who have the most wealth decide how resources are utilized.
yup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
Not only that, but it enables product owners to actually express the features they want, in such a way as they can be implemented. Without that devs and product owners tend to second-guess each other.

I've recently introduced Cucumber and it's been an incredibly useful framework for collaborating between developers and product owners. I'd recommend "Writing Great Specifications" by Kamil Nicieja.
To shed heat you want it to be reflective in the parts of the spectrum that represents sunlight and emissive in the IR windows so it can radiate into space.
Higher interest rates mean that investments in technologies that will pay off in the long run have to have a higher ROI than they did a year ago, hence less money going into them and layoffs at some places. I'd be super surprised if this reached across all programming or associated jobs.
I know this thread is from the EU- but I'm giving the US perspective here just FYI.

>There's is a near infinite number of competitors to iMessage

50% of phones in the US are apple phones. Nearly everyone is exclusively using iMessage (and doesn't even realize that it's proprietary while trying to mix in SMS). Hardly anyone uses anything like whatsapp here. Good luck getting any somewhat older person to use multiple messaging apps. So to say there are an infinite number of competitors is completely disengenious.

>As a result, I don't understand why people are so mad at iMessage that they need it crippled. You're not forced to use it. Apple doesn't block other messaging applications

First, apple is not perfect with SMS integration. I was on android for many years. My mom (an apple fanatic) would constantly complain that her messages wouldn't go through, or my messages wouldn't come in. Apple has some SMS issues that, while rare, are either intentional to some degree or they refuse to fix. It got to the point that my mom literally wanted me to move to an iphone simply so I could message her properly.

THIS IS WHAT APPLE WANTS. You are absolutely a fool if you don't acknowledge that.

They have half the market share and create a walled garden to the point where people feel they must move to their platform simply to properly communicate with people.

That being said, I did move to iphone recently. Not just for this- I was sick of android because I want a phone that just works. However, even I felt compelled to just make the switch since everyone I know does use an iphone and iMessage will make it easier for me to communicate with everyone. It was definitely a large factor, even though I hate myself for doing it.

Apple is not innocent at all here- it's an objective fact that they have half the market share and specifically do not open up their messaging platform in order to get more people to switch over. It's a flagrant abuse of their power.
It's not the pilots alone, it is also the piece-of-shit-airplane industry which employs a handful of people here and there, enough to have a little suction in Congress.
Hi, author here! Over the past 6 months, I've been building a hosted service for a database on top of k8s at QuestDB, and wanted to share some of my thoughts on the topic. I was inspired by the recent twitter discussion led by Kelsey Hightower a few weeks ago. Hope you find it interesting!
>widely used in residential refrigerators and similar size systems.

Not in the US (because of the flammability), unless something's changed very recently.
I just started a career in web development and do 95% of my work in React and I love it. I'm able to ship features for customers to use insanely quickly. When it falls out of favor and I need to learn Svelte (or whatever) my plan is to just... do that? It took me a week to start being productive in React.

It isn't like this isn't a problem outside of web development, either. Imagine getting hired to maintain some legacy engineering software with a GUI built in Delphi and a backend written in Fortran...
Wokeness is moral panic. We must root out whiteness around every corner.
There's no "reason" propane has to be louder but most propane refrigeration systems are used in industrial or cost-conscious applications where making the equipment quiet is less of a priority. When designing pumps it takes a non-trivial amount of engineering effort to ensure that the bulk of the noises emitted are above/below human hearing range.
Speaking here as an employee that was affected by layoffs in one of those companies that hired like crazy during the pandemic.

I see no problems in their behavior. The insane rate of hiring was useful to give a good boost to my salary in a couple of years.

Here's to hoping they go back at hiring like crazy again.
25k what? Salesforce had over 80k employees at the time of the layoffs.
If you're really looking to optimize hash map performance, you should try Abseil's flat_hash_map. It's able to do some things that the standard library's maps cannot because it doesn't have to stick to the standard library's guarantees of pointer stability.
> R152a also falls outside the PFAS definition.

Oh, so it might be possible to use the contents of "canned air" gas dusters as refrigerant.
Are you asking permission to start your own business or start freelancing? Because that's the clearest way of not having a boss (by being your own one).

If you're scared, don't let it stop you. Everybody who has, was.

Good luck.
I might be missing something, but I'm not seeing how import maps are related to tree-shaking (of individual declarations within a module)

Importing ES modules directly instead of bundling will probably mean you ultimately load more code, yeah, which is one reason bundling hasn't gone away. Though you get other benefits in exchange- more granular caching, free and very granular "bundle splitting" (every module is "split" and can be downloaded lazily or in parallel), on top of the simplified workflow.

Will be interesting to see how popular each approach ends up being, with ES modules getting more attention lately! I think at this point people will only use something if a framework they like uses it, for better or worse, so I'm glad to see a framework that's representing this alternate way of doing things
That's quite a harsh statement... What's so bad about package management? And what's useless about the security harness?
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How many financially bad decisions you made in 2022?

Did you buy real-estate in 20/21 when the mortgate rates were 2%? If you didn't that's a terrible decision. Did you take responsibility and fire yourself as the primary bread-winner for your family? Why not?

Did you buy any high-growth tech stocks in 2021? If you did, that was a terrible decision.

Any idiot can arm-chair hindsight decisions
I'm about 900km+ far from almost ALL of my friends. It's just 1 hour by flying, of course +3 hours for the whole end-to-end transport ceremony. Plus hotel cost if it's more than 1 day. If it's only 1 day it's also not worth the round-trip ticket price.
5B is probably too high an estimate, but there are somewhere around 1.4B cars on the road today. And around 288 million in the US alone.

I'm not saying everyone on the planet should own a car, but I certainly wouldn't bet on this market shrinking any time soon.
OP question still stands - what does some random American actor know about technology and why is he trying to influence EU law? To "protect children"?
I don't think any of this is alarming. Nor a reason we should stop trying to solve new problems as we learn of them.
Such stupid clickbait. Yes, Salesforce spends millions on advertising. That advertising brings in revenue. Thats how business works.
That's not what Salesforce did. They cut longterm and high-performing employees, and we still have freshly hired randoms who know nothing.
They are not using their own bundler. They are using esbuild at runtime to generate bundles for individual islands when the process starts up. Then they store those files in memory in a Map. When the bundle files are requested, it just pulls the copy that was generated at runtime.

Here is a link to the source where esbuild is used.

https://github.com/denoland/fresh/blob/main/src/server/bundl...

I personally think it would be better to bundle at deployment time so that the bundles don't need to be regenerated each time a new process starts up or on demand when a request comes in for one of the bundle files.
I’m undecided if this is wise policy or not.

One of the things the article doesn’t consider, but makes me curious, is the ancillary consequences of this. For example, medicine in the US functions this way. In practice, bad outcomes are illegal and policed with big financial liability. (Yes, yes— “negligence,” not outcomes are banned, but run it through a system of insurance underwriters, the court system incentives, and lawsuit settlement practices and the distinction collapses.) What’s the result?

One of the results is a wild employment market. Doctors are highly paid, partly as compensation for the liability risk. (Including risk they legally assume from nurses and mid-levels.) Health care systems won’t gamble on anybody else. There are high barriers to entry in the profession, which pulls young talent mostly from privileged backgrounds. (Hell, it’s practically hereditary in many cases. Attend a med school graduation and see how many parents and grandparents rise to renew their Hippocratic oaths.) Disruptive innovation in medicine is vanishingly rare at this point, in part because new approaches can be vetoed at many different points by stakeholders in this elaborate risk management system.

Curious if there’s a reason why the same downstream effects wouldn’t apply to tech or security work specifically, or if anybody foresees others.

(Btw, I don’t mean to dunk on American medicine. It’s a good system with some hard trade offs. It currently chooses high cost and high quality.)
Specifically in the case of Starbucks, they absolutely think they are.

Does anyone besides me remember that CEO Howard Schultz thought he should be president back in 2016? This whole thing just makes me want to shout from the rooftops: We do not have a left-wing party in the United States! The Democrats are anti-union and pro-austerity. We have a center-right party and a far-right party, that's it!
> How do I negotiate with Amazon again?

As a seller? You set up your own website and don’t use Amazon. There are literally thousands of mom and pop sellers that use Shopify and advertise on Facebook and Instagram
Yeah, the question isn't whether styling per se is needed, but whether CSS as a language doubling HTML's old presentational attributes, yet in a thousand ad-hoc, unchecked syntaxes and layout models ever made sense at all.

The author criticizes generators, but apart from those terrible mysql CMSs there's also SGML, on which HTML (and XML) is based, lending HTML authoring affordances such as text macros, shared fragments, templating, custom shortform syntax a la markdown, stylesheets, pipelines, outline generators, link decorators, with full type checking etc. etc. HTML feels incomplete without.

The Thief reference, though, I don't get - is the point that mission briefs and picked up letters are using Times New Roman? It's a terrible screen font at small sizes, and also HN could do with a modest style upgrade to improve touchable areas/distances and support for prefers-color-scheme if only to hide you're browsing the orange site ;)
Remembering how I nearly got myself fired from a Fortune 50 gig as a Principal Frontend Engineer because I dared question the VP/Architect who decided everything would move to Angular.

I did eventually get myself fired, but that's a different story ;)
People get used to that sort of thing quick. People once thought seeing a car was incredible, but when you see them all the time it doesn't register.
Yep, as much as I enjoy the occasional humour I don't want HN to become reddit.
You always have the option to turn off cookies. There is literally 0 check you have as a user to ensure a company isn't nefariously using cookies despite your preferences. All the law did was force trash pop-ups everywhere.
Where is this magical "elsewhere" part where there would be no layoffs?

It's mind-boggling that we have raised a generation of people who are absolutely clueless about "Cost-of-Capital". It is worse than people not understanding democracy
it could've been 1 kilomegagrams
Don't you feel dirty as a developer ever doing _any_ join because you know at scale someone will have to undo this join and break it apart between two services? OR, should we accept that some projects will never get to that scale and just go ahead and join!

It's like we are plumbers and sometimes we work on small houses and sometimes huge skyscrapers but every small house thinks they are going to sky scrape some day soon.
You ever go to Turkish Laundry? Nobody goes there any more, too many tourists.
> if they don't put a fashionable JavaScript framework into job description, they will not be able to hire front-end programmers.

This is not a "pretend answer" and it's perfectly valid for devs to be picky about it. Nobody wants to work on garbage that started out as XML+CSS and mutated into a nightmarish mess that some "backend dev" cobbled together when the product team and the rest of the real world came knocking.

It's ridiculous that there even is a distinction between backend and frontend in 2023. It's so much easier to maintain a project when the devs can't feign ignorance.
I've definitely been through some layoffs where most employees said good riddance and moved on with life immediately, so I think there is definitely some variations in morale response.

It is one thing if the layoffs are at a startup running out of money, and another if layoffs are at a profitable company
Pretty sure Derek and Clive came up with the shortest London address.
Exactly. Continuous learning is the job.
Bureaucracy has usually clear rules, they just follow, where you can go to court, if the rules are not followed.

The rules themself might not make sense and making sense of layers and layers of rules is not an easy task, but you can do it.

But with an blackbox AI trained on proprietary data, you won't know the rules and are blocked from knowing them.
IIRC the UMC404 was designed just after they bought Midas, and those engineers had a lot of input.

Behringer has gotten a lot better, their early days (20 year ago) they made cheap junk clones. Now they have some good gear as well.

Though the company itself has other operating practices people don't like. You should for sure do your research on them. I have some of their gear, but I'm not sure I'll buy more.
Any company that's paying $10M to a spokesperson will have (maybe I should say "should have") a lot of employees dedicated to that spokesperson and the campaign. They might have a clawback clause if the spokesperson shows bad judgement, and can also get some additional good marketing if they are proactive in distancing themselves from their Kanye-esque spokesperson.

So I guess, like you say, there is a quality control process regardless.

I think the larger issues are probably the decisions of the pre-seamstress process employees. Bad choices in materials or cost-savings measures can turn off customers.
>>are you really just taking notes, or transcribing

Good point - both :). Sometimes it depends on meeting, sometimes I take turns - i.e. I'll "transcribe" (mindlessly type as I listen/pay attention), and then in a lull or after we covered an "atomic unit" of idea/thought/topic, I'll revise and summarize (convert it into "notes").

My mind works extremely hierarchically, which is why laptop is my preference over any digital paper, with its ability to rearrange - bullet points are my note-taking weapon of choice, and indentations are my friend.

Many people say that they don't need to take a look at their written notes, they get benefit just from writing it down, and it works similarly for me I think - if I end a meeting with a structurally-indented bullet-list, it helped me structure topics/ideas/priorities/actions in my mind, and I'm good to go :)

(many meetings I do both simultaneously - I'll be transcribing mindlessly on private monitor, and screensharing a second monitor where I periodically organize key points and actions for everybody. Like driving manual gearshift, it's a skill that seems distracting initially but develops and becomes automated/reflexive with practice. Usually the transcribing part can be thrown out at the end - it's just there to support the organizing/summarizing/"hierarchizing" action:)
Computers don't really care about the current wall time. They just care about measuring time between events. If a piece of software about the current day of the week it's only because a person cares about it and wants to do something special on certain days of the week.

So, yes, time systems should be designed around the needs of people.
These are the same rulers that wanted to ban memes. We all know what this is really about - banning wrong think and criticism of them.
8/25 is 32%, no?
> to counter the influence of great britain and protect end-to-end encryption.

In 2016, a voting majority of the UK population decided to give up their
valued influence in the EU, and we miss them dearly (not sarcasm - they
were a much-needed voice for common sense). This event is commonly referred
to as "Brexit" or Britain's exit from the European Union, and eventually from
the European Council, which it once was a founding member of.
> The whole point of market economies is to let people vote with their resources.

How do negative externalities and imperfect information figure into that? Sure, I'd love to buy Monsanto's awesome defoliant because it's cheaper than BASF's equivalent, but I may also get cancer from it in 5 years, or I may be killing pollinating insects for many miles downwind and downstream.

Do you suppose market forces could have gotten rid of lead in paint or gasoline if regulations hadn't?
On my Pixel 6a running stock Android 13, the setting is under

Accessibility > Color and motion > Color correction > Grayscale.

No separate app and no development mode needed.
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Redwood has been getting a lot of press lately over their potential $2 billion dollar loan (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2023/02/09/redwood-...), but what shocks me with this is how low volume their process is now. I talk a lot about scale and volume in recycling - but 250NT of material is nothing. Some large car shredders generate that much in fluff/ADC in a day, and there are dozens of them operating around the country.

We recycle about 12 million cars a year in the US - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_recycling - this is 1,268 cars worth of batteries. We have a long way to go!