skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just thinking and can't remember anyone being bothered by someone wanting to go to the office and work there. I do know people who are offended by people who want to work from home though and they can be pretty aggressive and annoying (not pointing at you here btw.).

The commute I have is aprox. 50 min and I stand on the train and tube the whole way in the morning. No room to read or write. We also have fairly big 3-bed apartment and one of the smaller bedrooms is our home office. It's really amazing and for two adults and a child plenty of space for everyone.

Yes, to each his own. If you prefer to go to an office go ahead. Don't expect others to be there though.

Also, the money I save from commuting goes straight into paying up our mortgage and doing a lunch or two and dinner at our local town restaurants. Great Italian and Turkish food around. Certainly beats Greggs in the City and even some fancier restaurants and pubs.

I find it funny how the push to the office comes with let's support "local businesses" - what they mean by that is actually big chains. Well, now I can actually support local businesses and spend money locally. Earlier I couldn't as, you know, I only came home to sleep.

/rant off
Oof, I had no idea... the USPS is actually behind all those trash ad campaigns.

They even sell you mailing lists for your target audience. Cringe.

https://www.uspsdelivers.com/direct-mail-cost-calculator/
That would make it too easy! Most just offer get-by-id (their ID, of course). Some don't even offer that; they just post a webhook on shipment.
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The 20-30% appreciation is in specific markets. Definitely not all markets. Several housing markets are already down from 20/21 highs and lots of markets are trending downward.

Again, securing financing in 20/21 was great but buying real estate at those prices wasn't great relative to alternatives.

If a mortgage was you only way to get leverage in 20/21 then you should've taken out a mortgage. But if you had other ways to get leverage at the lower rates -- eg taking out a line of credit on existing real estate or borrowing against assets -- other options have been performing better and especially over the next few years will continue performing much better.
> Specifically in the case of Starbucks, they absolutely think they are.

Specifically in the case of Starbucks, progressives do not think they are.
My experience doing that is that this is not common practice - talking about following up on a reference to find it actually refutes a claim, or more commonly that a citation has little to do with what it is being cited for (more extrapolation than a completely inappropriate use).

I agree with your should, but I do not think it is a realistic expectation right now.
Merge trains would be nice, protected branches definitely exist.

Never missed the other features tbh
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I considered it, it’s too inconvenient. I did get my family and my in laws on Signal. Some friends as well. So I’m for more than 50% off of WA, fwiw.
I really don’t understand why people are so enthusiastic to cross the Rubicon without even looking.
Maybe you can turn this into something positive by taking notes for everyone in the room.

In a lot of offices you can stream to a tv (via apple-tv or what-not).

By people seeing what you as typing and correcting any discrepancies, everyone will benefit. Win-win.. maybe?
Leveraging Impostor Syndrome
Is this going anywhere outside the US?

The "pronouns" thing went nowhere in France. It was considered damaging to the French language.

> The euphemism treadmill is a running joke, from negro, to black, to African American, to Black, to person of color.

Also, the shift from moron to mentally defective to retarded to whatever.

This is such a sideshow. First, conservatism lost its way. Then liberalism lost its way. If only we had a center with a clue. Nobody wants to tackle the hard but solveable problems. We get "defund the police", rather than "fire the bottom 10% of cops".
> We’ve found that hitting the front page results in a giant, ego-boosting traffic boost, with a noticeable but small signup boost.

I know people who've paid agents £10k's to get an advert disguised as an article written in some UK Sunday broadsheet newspapers, generated a massive number of leads but ultimately never recouped the outlay.

> Paid ads can be a useful tool for learning quickly if you are building a consumer app

I know plenty of people who had signed up to online targeted advertising, generated minimal leads but no business.

In my experience, advertising has never worked, always costing more money, never recouping the expenditure, but it is a very nuanced way to buy the media's silence if you can afford it.

> Events are 10x more work

All the events & exhibitions I've been to, never bought or signed up to anything.

> SEO articles are not exempt from this rule

I've found SEO to be both a waste a time and money and highly manipulative. Just look at the number of youtube video's uploaded by individuals who are lucky to get a handful of views. SEO is no different, in fact Search Engine spider's generated more traffic for the websites I know of.
I like this... in theory. But I don't think I'm allowed to give you a system diagram and detailed explanation of systems I've worked on, because obviously they're proprietary. That seems like a problem.

How do your candidates normally work around this? Does everyone just talk about hobby or open-source systems they've worked on?
That is very far away from my personal definition of the word "evil".
> The euphemism treadmill is a running joke, from negro, to black, to African American, to Black, to person of color.

You missed a couple at the beginning of your list. A really significant one in particular.
> the worst restaurant service I ever had was in a restaurant that eliminated tips

That is a self correcting issue IMHO. The management can incentivize excellent service or lose business. Customers continue to vote by spending their $$$ elsewhere. Poor service could be a result of disgruntled workers after that policy change but with the management's involvement, it should normalize over time.
I can see this argument, although I don't agree. It's only marginally acceptable if it's either 1. VERY up front, or 2. Doesn't exist and is incorporated directly into the price.

The biggest issue is it is mandatory and its impersonal. If it's mandatory and impersonal, it's /not/ a tip, and it shouldn't be percentage based. If the business wants to raise prices, raise prices. Tacking on additional costs that are not correctly and appropriately represented in the price is basically fraud, and it's doubly uncouth because my understanding is that most businesses don't give this service charge to the workers, it's just treated as revenue.
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If your main concern is lighting effect, you should just be using LRV.

Sheen has almost no effect on LRV and thus how much light reflected from a fixture is bounced in the room.

While it is true that matte finishes have particles that are diffusing light so that the surface does not look as shiny, no sheen is actually specular enough to reflect a meaningful amount of light.

Especially compared to the color

(This is crazy for people to accept at first but it is in fact correct and you can prove it to yourself if you want)
They're the real OpenAI! Great team.
> We'll regulate as we see fit in the EU. Businesses that don't like it are welcome and free to go do business elsewhere.

I predict that if the US foreign policy elite deems it desirable that Google operate in Europe, then Google will operate in Europe. The US based empire is happy to let the EU regulate cheese and wine, but when it comes to geopolitics they keep them on a tight leash. The Ukraine affair has shown that beyond all doubt. Hats off to the French though for rejecting permanent occupying forces under De Gaulle and never letting them back.

It's nice to pretend that GDPR somehow struck a blow against corporate overreach, but in reality it was permitted because it didn't degrade the value of Big Tech for the Intelligence Community.
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I see the media has lost it's fascination with blaming millennials for everything that's wrong in the world. Gen Z, buckle up!

(I'm just a Gen X-er continually amused by the show)
Has anyone considered that non-binary Latine benefit from inclusive language differently than people pretending there is a ban on the word Latino?
> It gives you a chance to explore depth and breadth of their knowledge on something technical that they claim to understand.

Assuming you know enough about what they're doing to actually dig in - which, granted, maybe you're only considering interviewing people who are working things you're somewhat familiar with.

Ultimately, I don't see how this is different from a technical design interview - in that you can be susceptible to hiring charlatans, and pass on people who'd rather say they don't know something than try to BS most of it on the spot to sound impressive.

The two people could have the same knowledge. You're more likely to hire the charlatan. Maybe that's what you want :shrug:
Yes, but users choose to visit sites like they choose to visit a park. They would know the risks before going.

The lawlessness described here isn't harm on a third party against their consent. It's fully known by both parties at the time of the voluntary transaction.
In most browsers this basic style is user configurable, but 99.9% never bother.
the rpm repo is also empty, in the same unceremonial way.
People are scared of the sealed container explosion.

An external butane leak would be about as harmful as a leaking cig lighter.

Internal leak? A perfect mixture of butane and air the size of fridge would certainly take out a wall, maybe an entire house if it knocks out a load bearing wall.

The worst part about the internal explosion is its almost certain to happen when the owner is standing right in front and opens the door and the light kicks on along with maybe anti-frost heaters or whatever else is in there.

I have seen some ideas proposed such as using the "smart" in a smart fridge for good not evil and locking the door if the system pressure drops below "X". Much more likely the "smart" in a smart fridge will never be permitted to be used for anything other than advertising and marketing, which is sad.

Energy content of hydrocarbons is about the same (to one sig fig or less LOL) and just one gram of gasoline can blow a piston rod clean thru an engine block under perfectly bad conditions (already shattered bearings, etc) so a couple hundred grams under worst possible case in a confined sealed fridge could take out a house, most likely.

(Edited to add: I have a better analogy: A perfect stochiometric mix of air and diesel the size of my coffee cup can blow the engine head clean off a diesel engine, IIRC that's how one of the brothers who invented the Diesel engine died in a lab accident a century ago. And that was just a little coffee cup sized engine cylinder. So imagine a sealed container the size of a fridge instead of a coffee cup... that'll take out a house for sure... neighbors will "probably" live but I wouldn't bet on it...)
With two young kids a motorcycle commute seems like something to avoid.
> The other half of that is a practical matter -- collecting tolls in both directions means constructing and staffing a larger and more complex toll plaza

That’s part of what I waa getting at with “infrastructure cost”, yes.
Do you choose the product with no references/used by over that?

If you're in an organization with any type of compliance needs (SOC 2), that "used by" signals that the business is organized enough to pass security/audit requirements by that company. While it may be a single team using the product, they're still held to wider organizational standards.
Yes, it does. They call them a "plano". You can examine this all online in the national property registry.

Entering a property ID number will let you see the drawing of property lines, road frontages, concessions, etc. Can also see the ownership & transfer history, any liens, unpaid taxes, etc.

The website also gives you links to the neighboring properties and you can view those as well.

The website is only in Spanish and was built circa-2010 with circa-2005 UX, but it works, mostly.
> Over the past five years, GitLab Premium added more than 400 features, leading to improved cycle times, enhanced developer experience, and better collaboration for our customers.

Great; now instead of half-baked box-checking features just pulling dev time away from making their features fully functional, they're also used to justify making the product half again as expensive. Now I wonder: Does GitLab actually believe that their features are 5-8x as valuable as GitHub, or is it just a cash grab?
The very first time I went to visit my grandfather on my own in my own car, I was given these directions: "head down 130 until about 5 miles before where the drive-thru was".

(a) It hadn't been there for more than 25 years before this

(b) BEFORE it?
> It’s completely unreliable because it sounds confident and plausible even when it’s wrong.

That applies to my boss, college professors, Wikipedia, or my neighbor after a couple of beers. It's not designed to give the correct medical steps to diagnosis a brain injury.
I agree. GitLab was arguably a better product for a while back when GitHub didn't even have integrated CI, but at this point most of the features they are adding just feel pointless to me. I primarily just want a place to store my code, track issues, and run automated tests.

GitLab was already a bit of a tricky sell due to most open source code being on Github, but now it is either $48 / year for Github or $348 for GitLab. The math just isn't mathing.
I assume it's only a matter of time before someone plugs something similar into Wikidata and rather than using AI to generate facts statistically, look the specifics up where known.
Did providing a pop up on every website you visit saying they use cookies enable your ability to use the accept no cookies feature browsers have had since Netscape navigator? Was a regulation required to enable a feature of all browsers since the dawn of graphical browsers? Or are you saying the regulation allows you to remember that literally every website in existence uses cookies since you forget between websites?

I’m trying to figure out in what way this has made anything better, safer, or whatever? By the way, cookies is like the 1996 way of tracking and those opt outs don’t opt you out of tracking.

So, yeah. Super giant win for regulations there - clicking away useless disclaimers en masse to satisfy some EU bureaucrats poor understanding of technology. I’m sure they got a great post out of it. It’s like the pop up ad that you are required to pop up on every website but no one benefits, not even the website owner. At least a real ad the website owner makes some money.
And hopefully after someone shows you that they can be described that way, you stop trusting what they say (at least about the thing they are known to be unreliable about).
It would be interesting to try to recreate it "as period-perfectly accurate as possible" but yeah, I was thinking using modern equipment, but the same materials, how hard would it be.

A crane can be obtained that can lift one, probably no more than $10k a day maximum, heavy-haul trucks probably similar, so it's really the materials and the workmanship.
Are you a maintainer of sed on FreeBSD?
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How does Gitea compare? Likes/dislikes?

Also, did you ever look into Gogs?
> Requiring that companies put snooping software on their device is basically the thought police.

There is already snooping software on most company devices: Microsoft software and Google software and the Western internet.

It's already snooping on everybody for the government (through at the very least NSA).

It already makes sure the traffic is (hopefully/maybe) only encrypted for everybody else.

This goes for the EU as well. Most Western countries legalized and extended what Snowden revealed about government surveillance.

It's already being used in a dragnet surveillance thought police type of way for decades. At least no doubt in my mind. Call me paranoid, don't care.
Can you provide sources for "the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is more or less rejected by linguists"? I took a university course in "Philosophy of Language" around 2008 and I was taught in no uncertain terms that language structures thought.

The wikipedia article for Linguistic Relativity[0] states:

> Research has produced positive empirical evidence supporting linguistic relativity, and this hypothesis is provisionally accepted by many modern linguists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Asset prices are not wages. The latter is necessary for workers to survive, the former are imaginary numbers. One would expect the requirement to both cram down asset prices and push wages up for a healthy economy. It’s pushing numbers around on a spreadsheet.

“A crash” is just a Rube Goldberg wealth redistribution mechanism (wealthy people own the vast majority of securities and real estate). I argue a crash isn’t what’s needed: much more housing supply, robust antitrust enforcement (to keep monopoly pricing in check), efficient healthcare, living wages, and high progressive tax rates are what is needed to right the ship.
Don't put words in my mouth.

I didn't say Gitlab is an open source company, which is a very specific term with a very specific meaning.

Does a mission statement starting with "Since the beginning, we've been firm believers in remote work, open source, DevOps, and iteration" mean they're focused on open source or not?
It never misses an occasion :

> You: 2+2

> GPT: 2+2 is equal to 4, which is also the number of flavors in the new line of Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew has always been known for its bold and extreme flavors, and now they've taken it to the next level. Try all four flavors today and experience the extreme. Mountain Dew. Do the Dew.
That switch chip likely isn't anywhere near open-source either. The P4 rules don't have to use proprietary features or break NDAs.
Ok, so how is it effective again?

It’s 2023. You don’t need cookies like you did in 1996 to totally shit on everyone’s privacy, by the way.
I somewhat take issue with this. (3+ decades of very hands on (read: coding) architecting, including some learning experiences in orbit. I've been coding code-doodling since teenage years.)

A lot of what non-coding architects traditionally brought to the table has been taken over by experts designing OSS protocols, data formats, etc. Take things like data frames that are now exploding in ML space. Seniors today, agreed, should be able to integrate (sub)systems and that may in fact be enough. But a competent systems architect (who have never touched code) should be able to also define data formats, patterns of movement of data between sub-systems (for say optimal performance), the actual computing platform considerations, etc. Also, sometimes when being too close to code, things degenerate to debates about tools, etc.

Naturally my points here gain more validity as system size (or its open-ness requirements) increase.
Architecture and coding are two distinct skillsets. I know that most senior developers haven't touched a book about architecture for a long time if ever but still feel competent about such topics - falling in the "You don't know what you don't know" trap. This is as problematic as the architect with rusty coding skills or who hasn't worked as a professional developer beforehand. Coding should be a small part of the architect role but this role is usually reserved for very complex systems where the majority of your work isn't anymore about coding because there is enough to fill a full time job otherwise there is no need for an architect at your company.
What about an icecream server? Is that tippable?

The lines are so blurry
That's the thing, most of the people described by these changes are not requesting them. Small self appointed experts are coming up with the rules and attempting to force them on society.
Yes. HTML gives the structure and hierarchy (if done properly) which is also what then gives the accessibility. CSS can do lovely things that will help a blind user with a screenreader not one bit unless you're kludging in "hacks" to give them extra hints for specialized use.
Gitlab's pull request functionality is inferior to both Github and Teams. We use them because their Kanban is nice and they're a bit more "one stop shop" than Github, but this pricing change doesn't make sense for us.
> The project of the guides is utopian.

What I've learned from history is that every utopian dream realized is a dystopia. "In theory, theory is no different from in practice..." as the saying goes.
I like this take!

It confirms my issue with using tailwind. I like it! But as you mentioned “style” typically has a global, systematic, component based notion, and not a hierarchical one.

A perfect example is typography AKA font style and color. Yes, it has a structural/hierarchical notion, but only on an abstract component level.

Typography almost _always_ comes in aggregates. Font size, line height and more, even margins - they are very rarely orthogonal and composable.

Designers typically take great care to fine tune these things as components. Ask a designer to disentangle then into tokens and you get a very weird look!

On the structural level you want meaningful component classes to refer to them and maybe one or two modifier classes, if at all.

Thankfully tailwind offers @apply, so you can still leverage some definitions where it makes sense.
Sure, but where I live the minimum wage is $15/hr (and many pay more than that to attract workers).
A good friend of mine is a Spanish translator for a social services agency. She was telling me that the "latinx" thing is a real problem, because for people -- particularly older people -- who are not strong on their reading in the first place, they hit "LatinX" and genuinely have zero idea what that's supposed to mean.

So then time, energy, and goodwill gets wasted by having to explain to people what they "should" be calling themselves. The people she's talking to thinks the whole thing is just stupid, and is a thing that only white people care about.

But she also mentions that the younger generation of LatinX people do care, and often prefer the term. It's all a big mess and makes compassionate communication more difficult.
It was already $228 / year for GitLab vs $48 / year for Github. This rate hike raises it to $348 vs $48. I don't think anyone at Github is currently too worried about prices.