skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see the pros of the European approach, but reducing equality can not be the only goal. If the economy keeps falling behind, the median standard of living will keep dropping. A strong economy can adopt higher taxes and more social services due to election pressures. A fallen behind economy will find it much harder to jump back.

The other problem is that tons of European talent keeps going to the US. The people who have the skills to make higher wages might not care about inequality too much, since they would be the ones benefitting from it. I am not sure how Europe can solve that though.
> The average French person has a life expectancy of 82. In Mississippi it’s 74.9

Like 90% of these "gotchas" for southern states (including lifespan comparisons) end up decreasing or disappearing entirely when you condition on racial demographics. Not to say that invalidates the problem; just that comparing Mississippi to France doesn't make sense at all from a demographic standpoint.
If the economy is good and you are connected in the startup scene you can someday get a new job in a few days or weeks if a startup fails. there is no stigma in being involved in a failed startup.
It banks on the experience that many have had where delaying a decision has resulted in "Lossing" out on staying where (or at a price) you wanted. Much worse if coordinating with multiple parties going on the trip :)

I guess the most fair disclosure would provide a Google flights like pricing chart that shows cost increase and seasonal availability projections.

I try to make the decision independently of the point of sale vendor. The aggregator can help limit impact of these tactics by API contract with these sites that focus on price/availability without artificial urgency.
I've heard an excellent way to board is to have people walk as far into the plane as possible, then take a nearby seat when they can't walk further. This is like boarding back-to-front, but handles variance in luggage loading more efficiently.
See, I told you the FAA had flawless logic. (Thank you for the correction!)
I think that's also illegal in Canada
Or “Beer me”.
Agreed. It was a good tip.

My goal in leaving out the link to my home page was to make the Writing Gaggle home page more prominent than my personal blog. (I manage hosting both, see.) I only added my blog index page as an afterthought when I saw a ton of 404 errors on my server a few months ago because people were manually navigating to it.

I'll consider adding actual navigation to my page template though, so maybe you'll be less annoyed ;)
An Uber spokesperson said: “We are disappointed that the court did not recognise the robust processes we have in place, including meaningful human review, when making a decision to deactivate a driver’s account due to suspected fraud.

“These rulings only relate to a few specific drivers from the UK that were deactivated in the period between 2018 and 2020 in relation to very specific circumstances.”

That’s corporate speak for: we’re assholes who use automated processes to rule about some of our human drivers in a way that may be unfair and leaves them with no recourse. It’s ok though, because it only ruins a few people’s livelihoods.

I’m glad this guy stuck it to them in the courts, I hope he got a good settlement. The article didn’t say.
>especially as motorway driving isn't on the driving test and learners weren't allowed on motorways at all until 2018, so most drivers have never had any formal motorway training

The geography of the UK makes it difficult to require that- there are very large areas where it wouldn't be possible for a learner to reach a motorway then get home in a typical 2 hour lesson. Even if you only required learners to go on a national speed limit dual carriageway it wouldn't be possible in some places (far north of Scotland, for instance).
Maybe in some cases.

But if you were laid off, it means the company didn't value you a lot. OK, maybe they didn't value you much because of their current needs--which may have changed since you were hired. But making a bet on staying in the company's orbit just in case they have a change of heart doesn't seem like an especially wise one in general even if it was a "no hard feelings, it's just business" breakup.

There are boomerangs where someone went to a startup for a few years and that sort of makes sense but that's different from being laid off.
Is there something like this for Android?
He made Singapore rich, but something has gone wrong with the system
Startups also want to pay you less and expect more out of you for that money. It used to be you could potentially get a payday out of the equity but lately it seems somehow, magically that ends up with the founders and investors. I don't see a compelling reason to work for a startup in 2023.
You might like this CGP Grey video that explains it pretty well:
The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo
>What a fullstack guy would do is irrelevant here, because if their requirements changed, they’d just redo it

That was obviously a really general rule of thumb not intended to be an actual architecture guideline...
It is to a large degree government policies that drive US success. For example, the steps taken for energy independence (and then some), or moving manufacturing back, and support future tech - see the current disagreements with Europe about trade, or how they supported private space companies. There is soooooo much policies stuff going on that gets lost in the headlines about more visible things, fortunately, on this very website alone I get to see a g glimpse occasionally. The rest I see when I follow other headlines, such as the mentioned trade disagreements.

You can see the hand of the US government in a lot of business places, trade, subsidies, it's trillions being moved in support of US business interests. And I like what I see a lot more than what I see here in Europe, and I notice that no matter who's president, these things happen regardless.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-manufacturing-factory-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-03/us-and-eu...

The investments into chip manufacturing too, they cost so much this always has to happen with loads of government support, directly and indirectly.

https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2023/02/biden-h...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-require-companies-winn...

> $52-billion U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and research program

You can keep blaming "inept government", but without it the US would be an insignificant backwater. Always and everywhere, since long before industrial revolution, business and government had always had to work hand in hand to create success. England did it, in support of the merchants, later of the new capitalists, Japan did it, South Korea did it, China did it, everybody did it. Very early even the church occasionally played a role, Mendel's famous beans genetic experiment wasn't a random fluke but part of an organized program in support of the textile industry, to find out the rules of inheritance to be able to select the right sheep more efficiently for more and better wool.

Silicon Valley was made possible by government too: https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo
Why would they? Managed services were never part of the Red Hat business model. They've added some cloud stuff as of late, but in general you don't go to Red Hat to buy or lease hardware. And I don't think Red Hat ever had any serious interest in selling you any either.
I would take

>need to zoom and pan to read

over every time I forbidden to pan and zoom by the site author.

Especially when I'm behind 43" 4k monitor and the site decide

WHAT TEN LINES

PER SCREEN

IS EVERYTHING

I WISHED FOR
The MIDAS [0] system used to set dynamic speed limits can make for some frustrating driving.

A few weeks back I had a journey on the M42 at evening rush hour where the dynamic speed limit was frequently cycling between NSL -> 60 -> 50 -> 40 -> NSL. Each limit was enforced for 1-2 gantries.

Even to someone who understands the benefit of dynamic speed limits for ensuring good traffic flow, it's not a good experience.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorway_Incident_Detection_an...
As a European who moved to California the societal stigma around young ambition in Ireland was brutal. When I started my first company in my 20’s and spoke to friends and family about it a phrase I frequently heard was “ah here, why would you stick your head above the parapet?”[0]

Having seen the kinds of Irish startups that get funding from Irish VCs they both tend to be run by Irish men in their 50’s/60’s who’ve been senior managers at big companies. Having reviewed a couple dozen Irish pitch decks it looks like funding flows based on who you know with little scrutiny given to ideas or even business fundamentals.

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/put-h...
My (personal) gut reaction would be that that CEO can fuck off.

That said, my advice would be to weigh whether or not the portfolio boost is worth dealing with any toxicity you may or may not experience. I suppose it's possible (not trying to assume, just that I don't know) that s/he doesn't know how toxic you felt the place was.
They don't compete. They reap the benefits of technological innovation without the need to push their own citizens to do the same.

It's a smart strategy. Smart phones , AI and Google come from the states, but that doesn't even matter given that Europeans have full access to everything.
the Active Denial System. it was deployed to Iraq though apparently never used. they've since miniaturized the tech and started selling to police departments (iirc) but I still don't think it's been used.

I really want to find a DIY build because the device fascinates me, but the only builds I've seen use a regular microwave magnetron rather than using the higher frequency.
Compare KNN and SVM based Movies side by side via Karpathy's movies
Check your facts.
As much as I am a firm European democrat, you might wanna see what Chinese “state driven capitalist communism” has done between 1975 and today.
Again, if the measure is number of people lifted out of poverty, China wins hands down.

Now, as much as we can’t consider China’s success without considering the lack of freedoms inscribed within the communist social pact, we can’t take just the good of American capitalism by only using gdp or trade volume as an indicator, because - again - inequality and lack of basic human needs and life safety wouldn’t be included.

Reference:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/l...
Thanks for the link to the interview. I never seen such a high level official squirm for so long. Kudos to Jon Stewart for pushing this.
But America bet on the winning horse. Manufacturing no longer brings in the big bucks. We are living in the information age. In particular, there is only so much growth that you can have in a well developed industrial sector.
Which company this at?
Is this discussion of castes among other Indian coworkers? They gain nothing from Caste signalling to you.

We should name and shame if a company doesn't act against discriminatory dog whistles.

I drink, eat meat, eat beef and do not bear any caste specific signifiers on my person. No other Indian expat has tried to enquire about my caste or treated me differently because it's ambiguous.

99% of Indian immigrants are Upper or Middle castes. The reason for this has not been studied. But a few causal factors can be.

- Wealth

India is a poor country. Most Indians upper or Lower caste are poor by first world standards. But the few Indians who are rich tend to be more upper caste (Scholarly, Mercantile or Landowning castes).

But this is also a bad explanation since most Indians who come to US for higher studies do so on a loan.

- Culture

Upper caste families even when dirt poor may have a higher emphasis on education which means they are overrepresented in employment based skilled immigration.

Edit: Vegetarianism often gets bandied around as an upper caste but most Urban Indians eat meat regardless of caste. So, except for a few cases caste is very much ambiguous since a caste that's upper caste in Western UP may be lower caste in Eastern UP.
Given the title, I was hoping this was a "how we're scaling our Perl backend" post, but still interesting. The hubris of using <div> class names like "persuation"(sic) is funny.
https://archive.ph/y0xZc
technically a higher caloric diet is considered "richer" :)
That seems fine then? Browsers are consumer consumption devices. And you have different formats good for other things. That's Apple's philosophy for HEIC.
This is just as anecdotal as your story and the original post: For the last 15 years I've spent about 100 nights in hotels per year all over the world and this has never happened to me.
When I had a reservation it has always been honored.

I've booked directly with small hotels, using chain sites and various aggregators (trivago, hrs, booking, Expedia, hotels.com). The experience has been pretty much the same.
My only reason to use aggregators is to collect rewards across different hotels.
Much like the water levels rising 11,000 years ago had little to do with internal combustion engines, time burying some thing or area with sand and soil is not a modern problem but is simply a function of the thing we describe as 'time.'
> The Starship and its Super Heavy rocket will launch from SpaceX's Starbase test site near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas, with the Super Heavy booster attempting a soft water landing splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico while the Starship vehicle circles the Earth for a water splashdown off the coast of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.

> the entire flight will take around 90 minutes
Snibbets: Tool for accessing code snippets in folder of Markdown files
Both pro and anti Elon HN posters are convinced the entire website is an echo chamber of whatever opinion they don’t have
All Chinese companies are possible PRC assets:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/huawei-would-have-to-give-da...

Note - I'm not commenting about whether these guys are PRC assets or not. Or whether there is anything nefarious going on at all. I'm just pointing out that they could be compelled to become assets, even if that's against their wishes.
Being from Europe, my perspective might be as biased as American fatalism but as the article says I think the key most important aspect is lacking a true single market and I'm sceptical of us ever achieving it.

The more we fall behind the more we'll cling to tradition and avoid further integration, a continuous cycle.
Relatively speaking the bigger the company the better the job security. Nothing is ever risk free. But a job at a large pubco is way more secure than a job at a random startup with 6 months of runway.

It was exactly the same a generation ago. unless you’re referring to industries that used to have strong unions 3-4 generations ago or something.
Scientists want to dump iron nanoparticles into the oceans to save the planet
Yes. It's called the "acceptable losses" approach to COVID.[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/28/covid-who-i...

[2] https://philadelphiaweekly.com/as-the-cdc-removes-mandates-w...
Most industrialized countries have abundant food and access to cars. That's not the issue.
He literally compromised live systems. You're using "credible" in the sense that you take him at his word that he won't do anything bad. That's exactly the wrong party to be playing trust in!
CGP Grey covered this already years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo. It doesn't work even optimally.

But more importantly, boarding isn't the only action being taken. You can't take off without fuel and luggage, and even food factors into turnarounds.
> to do that he has to replace the screen

Designed to be difficult or impossible to repair. Such strategies should be heavily punished.
Indeed, I didn’t expect to learn some physics in Fortune.

Hm, he has a blog [0], but it’s on Medium.

[0] https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang
That would be something
I have a feeling that trying to get people organized enough for some sort of carefully optimized boarding program would take longer than the time it would actually save
Yeah, screw that. If someone laid me off then wanted me back they'd pay for the stress of the layoff in addition to the salary of the new job.
Of the people listed as the main authors of the JPEG XL spec on Wikipedia, I believe 2 out of 3 worked at Google.

What's the "conflict of interest" you're talking about? AVIF? How is that their own format when JPEG XL isn't?

If Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft wanted JPEG XL and committed to supporting it, I bet Chrome could be convinced to restore the support. But AFAIK those companies have made no such commitment, or even any kind of indication of intent. Why should we have another image format that gets only implemented in Chrome, not the wider web ecosystem? (Of course, they too are members of the foundation building AVIF. Oh my God, so many conflicts of interest!)
There might be something to this, but the way the author diagrams it all is almost incomprehensible.
Ambition has it's downsides. Risk does not always return with reward and often the reward has a high cost.

Such attitudes exist for a good reason. But at the same time the alternative attitude also exists for a good reason.
More available produce year round. Cheaper imported food from around the world due to dollar's strength. More diverse cuisines in big cities, with a lot better Asian cuisines (sushi!) in general than France, due to large immigrations.
Life expectancy figures are misleading though. Many people take it to mean "this is how long an average elderly person is likely to live" but is an average of all ages at death meaning more young people dying brings down the number. As the article mentions, the primary cause for lower American life expectancy isn't that its old people are dying younger but rather the violence and drug epidemics causing more young people to die early.
IBM did a 1bn USD investment creating the market for Linux based enterprise infrastructure, "vendor independent" on all their server products (PPC, s390 itanic and once available x68 based servers), with all IBM software products (db/2, websphere, ...) available "certified" on sles, RHEL and some Asian localized Linux variants.

this created an immense Push on HP, dell, Dec, sgi, ... to follow suit

and oracle, sap, Software AG, anything serious.

this push and commitment b IBM was.so.relevant because it established Linux as a serious platform with enterprise level SLAs and mutual commitments for the full stack.

the 4d chess was to establish a solid consulting business for "consolidation" on the "single platform"

and it paid off immensely for IBM --- and for most others.

given the IBM market position around 2000 this was pivotal and prophetic.
Funny because I can’t stand alt tab in Windows anymore. Alt tabbing through a bunch of windows just to go back to the other app I want to use. It used to be worse before tab systems collapsed all the window spam.

These days I like the distinction between tabbing through an app vs across apps. Only peeve is that alt tabbing to a minimized app should restore it.
I had a chance to travel abroad a while back and one of the biggest shocks to me was not being able to buy stuff with money. Like it didn't matter how much money I had, the stuff was just not in any stores. Ok, so what can I buy? No one knows, there is no walmart or bestbuy you just have to go to random stores and even then if they do have something it's much more expensive than in the US(in dollars).

Another shocker was how much in demand my dollars were. Everyone from street scammers to government officials massively tried to mess with me in different ways to get dollars out of me. Not because of exchange rates and the wealth it represents because if you want to buy stuff from other countries (not even the west) you need dollars mostly with euro and rmb also sometimes acceptable.

I have since gotten so grateful about so many things here.

But it seems no amount of wealth can cure the divisions and disdain groups of americans have for each other.

It really scares how little americans realize just how much they have to lose. I work in a technical field and get paid good but even when I was making $9/hr I remember thinking I had all my bills and rent paid, I was eating and drinking what I want (including my choice of beer and pizza! Lol), had my own car (shitty car but it got the job done) and I had free time to watch any movie/entertainment I wanted at the time and learn stuff like coding and infosec to do what I liked. And right now with no college degree I am literally doing what I love, I spend weekends on work related side projects even and get paid really good.

The only things I will not feel good about doing in the US is healthcare. If I get any serious sickness I will probablu become a medical tourist to mexico or thailand or something. And I had a glimpse into the prison and criminal punishment side of things a while back and it is truly terrifying. Like it was one of the main reasons I do all I can now to avoid driving a car, so I won't have to interact with the police.

One thing I have learned in life is while you should always work to improve your situation you have to always take bad stuff with the good. There is no paradise on this earth.
Strangest thing about this situation is that the "Attention Is All You Need" paper which, from what I read was crucial to give birth to the technology that fuels OpenAI's GPT actually came from Google Labs. So in theory they had the very upper hand implementing it, back in 2018. Did they put it on hold on purpose?
Isn't it the other way around? People have to stay in the suburbs because they can't afford to move to NYC?
I like Google travel a lot to find hotels and then I book directly. It's the best for cities because of how integrated with maps it is and since Google doesn't sell me anything, I don't have to be as weary of these dark patterns.
Let’s make sure we’re distinguishing between immigration of high skilled labor vs sending high skill jobs overseas or hiring high skill workers on low-wage worker visas.

I don’t know a single worker in tech that’s hostile to immigration of high skilled labor, nor afraid of said immigrant stealing their job. Most people I know would be grateful for some help.

I know plenty of people critical of work visa programs (including some of those working on them) and plenty of people critical of offshoring high or mid-skill labor. I also know plenty of people not happy about low-skill workers immigrating illegally en masse.

None of that should be confused with an animus towards immigration generally. Willfully blurring out any nuance in such a complex topic isn’t helpful for finding solutions or common ground.
> Puny

You meant "punny". Puny with one n means "small and weak".