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We need to get rid of taxes being separately listed as well. Taxes should be treated as a business expense. I pay you for food, then you pay for electricity, water, heat, supplies, taxes, insurance, etc. and keep the profits. That's how it works.

Just state one number on the menu for each item and charge exactly that number. I'm more likely to buy something that says "$12" than "$10+taxes" because it's deterministic and not some vague probability distribution in my head of how much "taxes" is.
We need a style guide for hand gestures.
You invite people to answer, yet you only want answers that agree with you. Strange.

Anyway, I do disagree with you, but that's fine. Enjoying remote work or not is entirely a personal preference, and there's no single answer. Which is why it feels wrong for so many companies to have strict policies either way.

I personally enjoy remote work, and wouldn't want to go back to an office. I can be much more efficient working in a home office, have less distractions, and be happier overall. I do occasionally miss office banter, and bonding over lunch, but I definitely don't miss the drama and politics that goes along with it. Not having to commute, working in my own environment, and the additional flexibility are cherries on top.

For me, the office wasn't a social club. There are other venues much more suitable for that. I also don't think that you need to know someone personally in order to work well with them professionally. The team-building events many companies insist on having to improve "team spirit" and "work culture" are cringe beyond belief.
There's profitability for the business, and then there's profitability for the shareholders. The latter is the bigger problem because it compels all businesses to become increasingly profitable at monotonically increasing speeds. If only we strangled all the profitability out of the stock market (with some really draconian taxes and regulations) we could rein in capitalism and have a more sustainable economy. But that's a pipe dream.
Thank you for this article. I think it's a recurring tragedy what happens to good things.

Good things were good because some key person invested time, effort or resources into creating something good. StumbleUpon, Digg, del.icio.us, phpBB forums, BBS before that, IRC, Geocities, the old and early web, usenet, winamp.

Some good things stay good because some key person is immutable, such as Python's Benevolent dictator for life or Linus.

It is difficult to get people to invest in things so they last unless you demonstrate lots of value.

And if people think they'll get rich, they pour money into it such as web3 or bitcoin.

How much would you pay for a high quality resource or website? Sadly, I think it's "nothing".

I've thought about curating and paying particular high quality bloggers or wise/insightful commentators to contribute or sponsor regular posting. I would like to see deep dives into famous codebases or technologies.
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Don't you know? Business owners are the risk takers, so they should be well rewarded. That means making the most out of everyone working in the company, having to eventually do the least, reaping all the benefits of technological cost efficiencies, able to buy multiple vacation homes all over the world, and so on. These things cost money! And with rising property costs and high interest rates? Someone's gotta pay the bill for that Aspen vaca home, and the business owners have earned that right with their initial hard work leading to their current no work.

Why, and when things get bad, we don't want them to have to sell off their hard earned vaca mansions? Where will their dogs live then? In one of their living homes? No, they get bailed out whenever things get bad, then the economy won't crash aka they don't have to change any behaviors at all.

With these nasty Chinese raising their prices, and gross truckers asking so much money, everything is getting more expensive for them. How will they buy their 3rd 10,000 acre ranch in Wyoming with that kind of price increase? The good for nothing customers should pay instead!
I was similar, a bicycle is a vehicle and I even called the toycar a vehicle because I think they were talking about those cars kids build and race down hills. I was considering more about "how is this typically powered?" and "what is the F=ma if it hit someone?"

If it's typically not human powered, a human typically rides it, it's typically heavy, and typically accelerates enough to seriously injure another person with minimal damage to yourself it's a vehicle. That's why skateboards and horses aren't vehicles but the bike and toy car was. Even the bike is dicey but it's fairly unanimous throughout the world that a bike is a vehicle.
> Since the written offer is apparently mandatory [1],

It is mandatory if you commercially distribute binaries not accompanied with source code. More precisely, the GPL says you only need to do one of 3a) accompany binaries with the complete corresponding source code 3b) accompany binaries with a written offer valid for any third party 3c) pass over the written offer you received but only if your distribution is noncommercial.

Based on this there are two important points.

First, Red Hat always accompanies binaries that it distributes accompanied with source code, therefore they do not have to provide a written offer. Also note that only the written offer option is valid for any third party, the "accompany binaries with source code" option is not.

Second, it is important that the rights you have according to the GPL start and end with the binaries that you received, they cannot be extended arbitrarily to future releases.

Both points are related to the "dissident test" at point 9b of https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html.
That is a bs claim - sure, an online store can't guess prices without additional information (just like shipping needs a zip code to estimate on most order pages)

But a physical store - everything is the same price no matter who buys it. Paper towels are never cheaper or more expensive at the grocery store unless the paper towels themselves change price.

And it's not like receipts don't already divide things up - unprepared food (in MA) is untaxed, but prepared food and some other things are so grocery store receipts already divide food up into categories and indicate where the taxed items are.
As the owner of the site, just to set everyone's expectations… There are currently more than 1,000 sites in the pool of submissions, and I'm probably approving 20-30 per week, depending on time available.

Also, a large percentage of those submissions are related to tech in some way, mostly due to last time the site featured on Hacker News. Given that I try to approve a mixture of topics every time I do a few, don't expect to see your blog about [computer/internet/programming/etc] appearing on the site immediately!
> "I don't know why HN is so against algorithms problems."

Half of developers are below the median and, to paraphrase Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to support something, when his salary depends on his not supporting it."
similar to portage's useflag, it seems.
But root on android is almost effortless.
> If we play with the arbitrary 12-week line you've drawn

The situation in the US is generally worse, and is a humanitarian situation that is concerning for us in Europe.

If you've ever been pregnant or known someone who has been, there's a huge difference between week 6 and week 12. 1 in 3 people only know they're pregnant after 6 weeks. That difference alone means that before 12 weeks you almost definitely know you're pregnant, but at 6 weeks you have a high chance of not even knowing.

> it makes sense to preserve the notion of life that follows from them, the one that you're arguing against for some reason.

I'm arguing against the peculiarly Christian definition of human life. Debates over Christianity are a defining feature of Western culture.

> Pain is irrelevant to the question of humanity.

I agree. It's mostly a question of how Christian you are (or influenced by Christianity).

> The Malikis, for instance, believe that a fetus is ensouled at the moment of conception

That may be the case, but I didn't say that the belief that a foetus is a person is solely Christian, just largely Christian (and, possibly, Buddhist).

> I think it's hard to make the argument that most peoples consider a fetus as something totally unrelated to human life

I didn't say it's totally unrelated to human life. Intentionally maiming one's finger, say, is also related to human life, but an observant Jew who would neither condone abortion nor self mutilation without good reason would still find it strange to think of a foetus or a finger as a baby.

> are in agreement

They are not in agreement that a foetus is a person at all. That is the only point I've been trying to make. And it is the religious belief that a foetus is a person that raises the temperature of that particular debate in majority Christian countries, even compared to other countries with traditions that may forbid abortion for reasons other than "fetal personhood"

> Is it possible that you're projecting your own cultural background on to others?

I expect we all do to some degree or another.
> “The American people are going to pay the $16 billion bill to prevent the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank,” Kelleher, the Better Markets CEO, said. “Those banks are not going to cut their executives’ bonuses…They are going to recover those costs in higher fees and rates for everyday banking services and products for Main Street Americans.”

And once again, average Americans are going to foot the bill for all of this.
Making a second, third, or fourth set of manuals would have obtained substantial economies of scale whether in the 20th or 21st centuries.

There was a time where PDF didn’t exist, there were no tools to create, let alone view or print manuals. Even when these became widespread, a number of troglodytes would get bent out of shape if their new appliance didn’t come with a (preferably bound!) paper manual. Most of these folks have either passed on or begrudgingly assimilated.
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A little bit on what makes the sample return mission so hard:

The crux of the matter is getting a fueled rocket onto Mars that can launch back into low Mars orbit and rendezvous there with a waiting satellite. The size and weight of this return rocket is itself constrained by its ability to fit into an aeroshell and survive entry and landing without breaking. You quickly get into a regime where you're trying to land the heaviest thing ever attempted on Mars, which makes the landing conditions harder so the rocket has to be sturdier, which makes the landing vehicle heavier, and so on.

The Martian atmosphere gets you both coming and going. On the descent, it is thick enough to make supersonic retropropulsion very complicated and potentially unstable, but too thin to slow a really massive re-entry vehicle down sufficiently with parachutes. You end up having to fire rockets that kick up a lot of rocks and dust during the very last seconds of the landing, while at the same time relying on your onboard computer to find a safe landing spot.

On the ascent, the atmosphere is thick enough that you have to deviate from the most efficient launch trajectory and worry about aerodynamic forces on the ascent rocket. Because of the atmosphere, the launch rocket has to be staged, which makes it bigger and heavier than you'd ideally want. And you can't use the most efficient cryogenic fuel, because there's no way to keep it from boiling off on the long trip over to Mars and down.

There are also non-obvious couplings between the lander and the ascent rocket, like center of gravity issues when you pack the rocket into the aeroshell, the question of how to get the samples into the rocket and point it up, and constraints on the design imposed by the hard conditions of atmospheric entry (15G acceleration) and the low surface temperatures.

None of these problems are insurmountable, but they are thorny enough and interwoven enough that it's very easy to see how the price tag climbs into the billions, even before you factor in organizational dysfunction and inefficiencies at NASA. The fact that it has to work on the first try (since political factors rule out trying it piecemeal) is also a huge cost driver.

There's a great paper that goes into some of these challenges in detail: "Drivers, developments and options under consideration for a Mars ascent vehicle", DOI 10.1109/AERO.2016.7500822
When the commute is a requirement of employment, yeah, people take unacceptable commutes. They move to undesirable places and impose undesired restrictions on their (potential) family. Eating and all that. WFH and other workplace-flexibilities is a more civilized way of working. And if the BS about being difficult to get (good) people is true, improving the lot of the workers is inevitable.
I always think of "they" as "us" — the society we make create to serve our collective interests. And that is exactly what it exists for, why we create it‚ because it is required to change the things we as individuals are incapable of addressing.
Maybe, but all that kind of assume you will only type on personal devices, or at least do 99.9% of your typing on personal devices.

When I worked in Europe for roughly 1 week of every month, I was largely flummoxed by the occassional need to use a foreign keyboard mapping (a German keyboard has y and z reversed from the English layout, as I recall). Just that and a few other differences for symbol keys meant that every time I had to use a keyboard not my own when in Germany, I went from being a fluent touch typist, to a hunt and peck typist. Same for French keyboards, which had several key re-arrangements relative to English that I no longer remember. If I taught my kids on Dvorak (which I considered, as they were home schooled), that would have been their experience on every device they encountered outside our home. I'm sure they would have loved me for it.
> the massive contribution this is playing in inflation

Further, and I'm not necessarily against this part but it's also contributing to tip inflation in a big way. Now everywhere I go has that Toast tip %age screen when I buy something no matter how much or how little actual service was provided. Like most people I feel social obligation to click the button. And voila, now tips are expected for buying a pack of gum at the corner store. At least that money is presumably going to the workers and not the tech bros behind the scenes.
Couple of T14s (one debian, one windows) and a 4800U (both) here, all solid. I haven't tried updating the bios.
Hunter Bidens pp blew up the sub and the plans were on his laptop. Checkmate atheists.
I love projects like this. It's even simpler to just homebrew your own 8-bit computer / game console from widely available parts, and a great way to learn about and really understand how computers work. Computers have become far more complex, but the broad fundamentals are basically unchanged since the 1970s.
I think, it's more an aesthetic than a technical annoyance. But, since there was ones' compliment first (implemented in about every early computer), it may be worth mentioning that there was something lost, as well. (So, for a byte, the range is now -128…+127, which isn't that pretty, while it had been -127…+127 with ones' complement.)

You may be right about NaN representation, but I don't know for certain. Notably, negative zero lived on in scientific computing, and you can have it even in JS, if you set the language version to "1.2".

(Edit/Correction: setting the type to "javascript1.2" no longer works, all versions are now synonymous with just plain "javascript".)
I think it’s unfair that you’re being downvoted because DS9 does have some of the worst filler episodes and is one of the slowest series to gain momentum. Season 4 to 9 of DS9 are pretty amazing but if you’re not a fan of the characters (as I wasn’t either) then it can be a real slog to get there.

My personal recommendation is to stick with it because the pay off with worth the persistence. But I cannot blame you for giving up when you did.
> (and it shows)

bought two official xbox controllers and they both broke within six months so…
Tolkien was a shockingly wise man for his time. I've been enjoying reading his letters lately. Adds so much context to his fictional work as well.

Hah, well thank you! Luckily the hyperhidrosis has since passed, since it was just a temporary side effect from medication. But I'm definitelly gonna get one of these anyway, because it will definitely be an issue again sometime in the future.
Not really a surprise to anyone, I hope? Integration is always the second step in any serious immigration policy.
Wagner Group now just 400 km away from Moscow
I had a good tech lead. They did occasional code reviews and made occasional contributions and did some PoCs. But most of that was delegated to the rest of us. He instead instead managed most of the communication with stakeholders and then product manager.
That’s how it works in Germany. Consumers see final prices and an itemized invoice shows how much tax is included in the price. Advertising prices to consumers that do not include taxes is against consumer protection laws over here.
We're going to be using a lot of these in a new hardware sku at my employer sooner or later (it's in the works). We software nerds get to figure out the scaling problems on these big CPUs that don't manifest on the smaller 18 and 24 core CPUs we're using today.
This is an absurd analogy from where this began... I'm at most slowing down a server in Russia that is trying to defraud people, no one is getting hurt, and It's unlikely I'm costing them any money. Come back to reality.
Understanding and describing how racists talk about the groups they hate is not racist.
It’s absolutely hasn’t avoided that though. There are stories about culture war topics almost daily and multiple on the weekends.
Definitely check out Market street. Also the Tenderloin.
How's this better than IRC?
> we run our own npm server because we can't trust dependency attacks in the js ecosystem

What does this mean? Your deps get locked down with sha1(?) checksum automatically after you install your packages (unless you go out of your way to delete the lock file). Must be a valuable startup you have for someone to attack your build with a hash collision..
> Most customers will not notice and just pay this hidden fee

It'll depend on what they're buying. When I go to my local bar with friends and am cashing out my tab? Yeah, not noticing that. Eating dinner? Also not noticing.

Buying a $3 coffee? You bet I'm noticing an extra dollar.
We trust and appreciate your judgement, of course.

That said - at this stage, the events definitely do appear to be quite significant.

Per the British MoD: "This represents the most significant challenge to the Russian state in recent times."
the font size isn't ideal, but I find the line width to be a far larger problem.

a traditional book will have around 70 characters per line [1]. by contrast, on my screen (13" M1 macbook air at default screen resolution and browser zoom), suggestion 5 has 231 (!!) characters on its first line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length
It depends on the numbers. But you don't have to borrow from the next digit the whole time and keep track of that.
As we just saw in the news this past week, the jury is still out about the wisdom of building and operating complex, dangerous missions "very efficiently" and with "innovations".
>have VCs been indirectly subsidising my dinner

Sure. And your "cab" rides and your co-working space and... Just like they did during dot-com. Just different categories of products.
The legal definition of a vehicle can become relevant in some surprising ways under drunk driving laws. Most people assume that drunk driving laws are limited to driving an automobile, but in most states it simply refers to vehicles. Consequently, every now and again you get a story of someone being convicted of drunk driving when they have been bicycling while drunk. You can also be convicted of drunk driving for riding a horse while drunk (and people have been).
The question intentionally left out the altitude of the vehicle in order to trick us into thinking it’s a harder question to answer than it really is. I agree that ‘over’ tends to somewhat imply out, and ‘through’ tends to imply in, and would indeed change the distribution of answers.

In at least some countries (such as the U.S., and I would speculate practically all countries in the age of commercial flight and private drones, but I don’t know that for a fact) there are laws that define whether flying “over” a public park means in our out, and the park’s bounding volume is defined with a specific altitude ceiling. (It may be different depending on the type of aircraft, e.g., civilian drone vs emergency helicopter vs commercial airliner, etc.)

The author’s trick worked. People are arguing over whether a hypothetical airplane is in the hypothetical park without knowing the altitude or location, rather than pointing at the fact that he question is intentionally under-specified and the right answer depends on important details that were left out.
absolutely not. openbsd decide to reinvent the wheel for their own bubble let them pay. you say server is openbsd only too in post. maybe not you but other openbsd devs dont give back either (despite project docs and policy) and even change the openbsd docs to no longer say contributor should give back to upstream (this is documented). why should there be trust this will care about others and the money is for this specific development?

tldr prove its not another openbsd NIH project and people outside openbsd care or f off
Probably Toast will get away with this.

I see, for example, a declared price of $11.29 for a meal and pay.

This is however not what is charged.

There is a 11% tax. Add $1.24.

There is 18% tip. Add $2.03.

There is a 99 cent fee.

A day later I get a text that I am charged $15.55 (shrug).

Disclaimer: I am from Europe.
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`let foo = "bar"` makes foo a string

`const foo = "bar"` makes foo a constant string "bar"

Where are you having the redundancy?

I can think of one place that causes me problems, which is typing and destructuring at the same time in function parameters. But there's no type redundancy there, the redundancy is having to write variable names twice.
What operating system? The 114.0 (June 6th 2023) release notes say:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/114.0/releasenotes/

> Users on macOS, Linux, and Windows 7 can now use FIDO2 / WebAuthn authenticators over USB. Some advanced features, such as fully passwordless logins, require a PIN to be set on the authenticator.
It's a bit more than a simple yes or no. There was a longish study about the topic: https://leadership.garden/back-to-the-office/
Many subjects that could also be quite interesting are still flagged due to the kind of comments they attract, i.e. the not intellectually curious kind. Even for more typical non-news HN content, things that veer into reactive territory get quickly flagged.

For what it’s worth, dang has commented on this specific event in more detail here [0] and addresses the curiosity piece.

Bottom line: all discussion about this event at this point will be made of speculation and hot takes, because we have very little solid info about the unfolding situation.

- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36456034
It's mostly the cache area rather than the frequency, right? Cache just takes a huge amount of space on the chip.
Do these companies have a need to have hundreds of millions of dollars of cash readily available? If they had bought treasuries and put it in a Schwab account it would be safe even if Schwab went bankrupt right?