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Maybe they do but consequences for bad actions are not 1000x average employee. They actually get a golden parachute when they screw up, destroy a company and lives of thousands of people.

So rewards and consequences are not at all proportional like you are trying to imply.
I just got back from the Netherlands, which is an interesting contrast. They use probably the same amount of space as a six lane stroad in some places, but instead of being entirely for cars, it looks like this:

- 1 or 2 car lanes (each way)

- a tram line (one each way on each side of the street, or in the middle)

- a separated, 2 way bike lane on either side of the street

- a separated (from the bike lane) sidewalk

- a canal

As you can imagine, this takes up a lot of space. Despite this, things feel much more walkable. The reason? No enormous parking lots around every store. Parking is generally almost entirely done at P+R parking lots outside of town, then taking public transit in.
Whats the cost of the surrounding needed to have a moderately effective collective transport (improperly named public, since it's generally private, subsidized by the public since being economically untenable)?

Let's start from the need of density. In the past cities was a nightmare but a need, in the modern era they was the motor of any civilization since they was the place where ideas can be exchanged and so evolve, where most enterprises and customers and workers co-exist. But after the first logistic revolution in the '80s most productions have gone outside the city, in entirely artificial distopic district build around mega-factories, where worker's live, but not where customers live, without really exchange of ideas being "isolated big factories". With TLC/IT (bad) evolution we finally got enough bandwidth and work models to work remotely, exchange ideas remotely, the new agorà is on the internet (BBS, nntp news, then the web).

So? So, well, cities once needed for many reasons do exists only for very few reasons, the most prominent is being kind of labor camps for poor who live to work, to earn enough to pay services they need to live. Unable to substantially improve their condition since costs suck most of their earning.

In that sense the cost of public transport is the cost of keeping up a decadent gigantic structure: the city. A shared cost with some other cleptocratic business, but nothing else. This cost is HUGE.

Some, let's say McKinsey dream flying cars https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full-... and while I'm less optimistic in timetable and scalability terms that's the cheaper theoretical evolution we can hope for. Because IF we will been able to reach a point where we can move anything by air then we can give up roads who are one of the most expensive logistic infra we need anyway for low density area, far less expensive but since so many road not less expensive than the hyper expensive high speed and high capacity roads links between cities.

IF we will reach such goal (and I'm pretty convinced not so fast, but we will) than the best density balance will be leaving and working spread in vast areas in small buildings, perhaps with just few district for things that we still can't do at smaller scale.

As we chosen to go from mainframe to cluster, for mega-ship and mega-plane to smaller ones, so we will do for living.

Collective transportation does not fit AT ALL despite the contrary interested propaganda.
Human flight and brain drain in Europe
You know how the USA has a President? Switzerland has 7.

What is the role of the CEO? Is it to make decision? Is it to be a public facing role, a representative of the company as a whole? These can all be replaced with collective bodies coming from the firm itself.

There's a lot of structures of governance that decentralise the power of the firm and they work pretty well. But the current system is not really viewed as a problem for the people who participate in it. The boards, the CEOs, etc. these are not positions that truly need talent and shrewdness these are positions that exist for people to aspire to. This way, the bulk of the people in the firm have a clear structure to look up to. It's not that Sundar Pichai does work worth 225M a year, it's simply that he happens to be in the position of the CEO of Alphabet. It can be anyone (anyone in those upper circles).
I'm pretty a lot of CEO compensation is in options? Company does poorly and they take a massive compensation hit.

Seems like incentives are pretty aligned?

If Sundar leads a company that goes from being worth $340B to $1,500B today (+$1.2T dollars), him getting $1B of that doesn't seem that out of place?
Does it include far-right and antifa, or only a side?

Are morons/scammers going to abuse it and make annoying tweets just to get fired?
I loved the concept of index funds at first glance.

But Blackrock et al convinced me that there must be a better way. It's the responsibility of capital holders to employ their capital intelligently, not to hand it off to some faceless corporation and hope it gets invested well.

This means owning shares in companies you understand, and then voting in their annual meetings (this can be done asynchronously).

Capital is power, and deferring all of yours to Larry Fink is a horrible idea, even if you agree with him on most things.

Owners should always, always act like owners.
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"Unions have been pushing companies to improve on-the-job conditions. After lobbying for it last year, major freight railroads have started offering short-term paid sick leave—in some cases for the first time—to union workers to ensure ample staffing and service levels."

Haha, surreal, wall street journal is now telling me that "unions are the institution by which people (in the richest country in the world) are beginning to secure basic human rights for themselves."
Hopefully this stayed on the front-page long enough and Andrew gets to reply from his perspective.
Trains can't break quickly.
Kinda interesting to look at the satellite images and see this little hub formed around every station. And the retail strips that form along tram routes.
The best is being ready to rock and roll on something you were brought in to handle and being chained to the starting line.
As someone who has lived next to both busy streets and railway tracks, I'd take the train 100% of the time.

Trains are a low rumble for a couple of seconds every ten minutes ago. Cars are a constant whining noise. It is bad enough that I can't work in my home office with the window open next to a busy street, but trains aren't an issue at all.

To be fair, I do live in a country where almost all trains are electric and do not honk at railroad crossings.
It's the most friendly free DNS I have encounter.

- It's really free instead of "annoyingly free" that requires you to confirm every month that you are still using it.

- It lets you update with a simple HTTP request + token (e.g. "curl ..." command), no login protocol, nor any special login protocol that good luck if it's supported by your router or DVR.

- Simple copy-paste instructions for dozens of systems, instead of others DNSs that have no docs and their only instructions is to make you install their adware/spyware app

- No ads. Just a simple donate button at the end of the admin page which I haven't visited in months/years
Well, my anecdata is that this got much worse at my company after COVID made work-from-home a thing. There used to be no expectation that you would work after leaving the office; people would stay late sometimes (not that late), but once you left for the day, that was pretty much it. Some of my coworkers literally didn't own a computer at home.

Some of it was on the workers' end (including me). It just becomes so easy when you're in the same physical space at all times.
Honest to god, how hard do you think his job really is?

It's like a plumber coming over and hitting a pipe with a hammer and charging you $300. You paid $5 for the effort and $295 for the knowledge of where to hit the pipe.

I mean how hard is software engineering? Should people be paid $500k? Garbage collectors work harder than most FAANG engineers I know.
The Serta looks quite good actually, thank you for the recommendation. To answer #3 I have an old wood desk that was my fathers and I won't part with it for sentimental reasons :-)
I love the look of 7-segment displays. If you want one that is WiFi controlled via an ESP32, check out my blog post:
https://willem.vooijs.eu/posts/cute-astronaut3/
> Lynn Kelley, a business consultant who recently published a book, said she was worried about a possible UPS strike affecting the book’s distribution, including large bulk shipments for some upcoming events. “There might have been some delays,” said Kelley, adding that her book is on Amazon, which handles shipping. “My concern is even if Amazon does use an alternative to UPS, everything will be slow because there’s not a lot of extra capacity.”

Is this the reporter's friend, or something? Really bizarre thing to put in the middle of the article, completely irrelevant and just feels like a subtle ad for this person's book.
This looks like something between fine tuning a top layer and a zero shot approach.

This is probably what future voice models will begin to look like as they begin to capture prosody and other fine characteristics in a few hundred kb.
> Optionated Code Formatting

"Optionated"? Opinionated or optional? Or both?
I would somehow tax inactive capital. Capital that is not directly invested in a company or pays for employees. Everything laying around or on the stock market should be heavily taxed.
Eh. No I think it’s really the commute.

Commutes are long. They also need to happen at specific times. It’s easy to start your day +/- an hour or two when working remotely. It’s not really an option if you’re expected to be on site by a certain time and have home obligations prior to that.
This video is in Vancouver, BC, Canada and explores why kids don't walk to school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqvQ-5784po

Goes into depth on some of the complexity, with one conclusion that car culture in general is reinforcing for many reasons, including more cars making it more dangerous making cars more attractive.
it's very much still a "POC" to verify that the libpg_query approach works - perhaps I should have made that more clear from the description. We have a PR open which adds source code generation to the Rust crate which is close to merging.

your comment is useful and why we submitted this to ShowHN - it's easier to get these sort of early feature requests than in 3 months once we've implemented more functionality. I'll drop a note in GitHub Discussions to investigate the Nil approach.
This is part of the problem I suppose. Top talent likes to get things done, will do it anywhere. There's always a group that gets nothing done, they're less visible when they WFH. But for the middle, how much productivity do they gain or lose by going remote? Also, the mix of "stars" is probably different on site or remote. Some people who really were crushed by commuting and working in a distracting office are shining at home, others who need that routine and comraderie are struggling to be as effective.

Voluntary office work probably helps, but friends of mine who liked being in the office talk about going to work to sit in an empty bullpen and do the same zoom/slack teamwork they'd do at home.

For me, I don't have the experience as I have a job that needs to be on site.
aside from how high the labor cost for that would be
Eigenfaces: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on Faces
I remember playing around with this. Went and looked at my private repo and it was ~6 years ago.

Interesting idea, since I was enjoying Phoenix and Elixir. However, I jumped too quick I think into making a Rust NIF and it made the whole thing quite complicated. I was finding chasing down errors in multiple domains (Rust->Elixir->JS and back) to be challenging. I learned a ton on that project, however.

I wonder if it would go smoother now due to advancements with Phoenix and less javascript involved. I think some of the Rust libraries I was using have now advanced more as well.
Throwing them down a well would solve it, no?

If throwing them down a well would solve it, then can you think of a less extreme solution, like for example, sitting them down to let them know that they have to give up their political power?
What the hell is this? Has HackerNews now turned into a site where ACTUALLY GENERATING GREAT REVENUE WITH YOUR PRODUCT IS FROWNED UPON!?

I don't understand this comment at all. Is making money a bad thing now? I thought that was the whole point of being a hacker and starting a bsiness and then getting funding and doing hard work and then boooom .. revenue, money, profit! Success!

No? Not anymore? Or is Mozilla special and are they not allowed?

(Sarcasm - please do not respond)
> Cities like Seattle and Boston have generally OK public transit. But pretty much everyone I know personally (tends towards older) in Boston still owns a car because they do weekend activities and regularly visit friends outside the city.

I (French) lived in Boston for 9 months and I was pleasantly surprised how good the city is for cycling, there was not that many dedicated infrastructures (except along the Charles river, which still help a lot) but the reasonable density of the left bank means there's lots of small streets with very few cars and you can go pretty easily from one place to another: I was commuting from center Somerville to Chinatown and except during the few months with 2 meters of snow everywhere, cycling was much more pleasant and faster than public transport, and I would never have considered driving a car there given the cost and traffic.
It's very dependent on local public transit, whether you reasonably have to use a private car of some sort (whether you drive it or someone else does) for commuting to work etc., and your general lifestyle (i.e. if your car needs are to drive somewhere on the odd weekend or so, maybe a Zipcar now and then to visit someone, or the odd roadtrip when you can just get a rental you can probably get by without a car).
I don't agree, furthermore, the united states has next to no public transit anyway.
After the license shxt show I'm a bit skeptical on using anything from Redhat now.
Whiteboards
How to download UK Properties list?
How can I download such a data base?
You need a lot more road for everyone to have individual cars than you do just for deliveries and emergency vehicles.

http://lncarden.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/3/6/28369831/1419566_...
I was skeptical at first but found evidence to corroborate it's the same thing, the key fact being the company named Process Software.

The reference in RFC1340 for it says "Bernie Volz" of process.com. Searching on that let me to a Web-0.9 style page with the text "compressnet/tcp is a protocol that is used to compress TCP connections for WANS. It used two ports to compress tcp conections, one to send the compressed TCP connection data through, and one used for the management of CompressNet. This is a commercial product only."

https://donsnotes.com/tech/networks/internet/proto/compressn...
I think the option to go with ads or payments is fine. I pay for YouTube and receive a wonderful experience, others don’t want to or can’t pay, and they can still use the platform.
I don't think they know what the word build means. No builds are on that page, and even the GitHub links are just to the source.
We haven't kept on lowering the weekly hours because despite the unstoppable productivity gains, people want more stuff.

Want to work 6h per week? Live on the strict minimum.

Want everyone to work less. Not happening.

Regaining time spent commuting is a pure gain of time without conceding on throughput.

An argument could be made that if all workers who can converted to remote but also went part time, all kids would truely have parents and environment deadlocks we face would be more half solved.

But here we are still debating which of hybrid, on-site or remote is best for some company cultures, whether the model benefits employers or employees most and how can we make populations and businesses swallow a carbon tax
I have 6 parrots. They require hours of care everyday. The fundamental problem is the workday is too long, and not that I made a choice to add 6 parrots to my life.
Why is this link a Google search result, that immediately self-closes the tab upon clicking? This is on Firefox on Mac.
Dan Gwak on why defense tech is becoming the next big thing for investors
Well, one could take the whole "well regulated militia" thing seriously. Or one could say that "arms" was never intended to refer to weapons capable of killing many people in a short time, which is how it has been interpreted with respect to bombs and chemical weapons.

Failing that, sure, it would be nice if people could actually think the way the founders did, and seek a collective solution. But in a country where large numbers of people absolutely insist on the unrestricted ability to cause mass death, the only possibility is that the Constitution really is a suicide pact.
What we have in the U.S. is highly inefficient, unhealthy, and environmentally destructive. Virtually every store must have a dedicated parking space that is unused most of the time. This causes a huge waste of land resources. What results is a landscape that is hostile to walking and congregating outside, ugly, too spread out, and overly expensive to maintain.

It is good to have well maintained roads. It is not good to have what the U.S. has.
People don’t have time or expertise to be owners, especially at their irrelevant share of ownership.
You might find something here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_business_newspapers
Qualcomm is especially awful to deal with. Even as a high volume customer getting anything from them (including chip errata!) was like pulling teeth.
WFH is just deeply ingrained in some people and corporate cultures. Some corporations seem to be too apathetic or stubborn to walk away from their huge office leases. I'm glad my employer did.

Of course, in the client I work for, all the middle-management and above all work from home 100%. It's only the peons and their immediate managers who have to go into the office. It's so blatant I can't believe the upper management can keep a straight face while talking about how great it is to see everyone together while they themselves are remote.
I know the 8% is a statistic, averaging over lots of users, but it seems dramatically too low.

I have a flexible, remote job (I have have for 11 years of my 13 year career to date). When I think about the cost it would take to poach me for the exact same job, but non-remote, non-flexible it would be a multiple of 4 or 5 (maybe more). So 400% to 500%.

I suspect it's implied that this is for people who were granted temporary WFH status in the peak of the Pandemic...that said I think 8% is wildly undervaluing WFH
If I have to choose between remote work and coming into an office with an amazing team I would choose the amazing team every time. I say this after switching from a 90 minute one-way commute to remote work from home for 3 years. By awesome team I mean people who operate with confidence where confidence defines the distance between our honesty about perceiving a problem and our approach.

I only chose the remote work because I would rather be bored at home with my fruit orchard and personal electronics than bored at an office reading CNN with 3 hours on the road. When my directness becomes offensive only due to its direct nature it becomes apparent I have made a grave mistake in choosing a my social circle, and so I would rather work with an awesome team even with a long commute.
I don't normally engage with these kinds of comments but today I guess I'm extra curious: why is "paid sick leave" a "basic human right."?

I don't disagree that it's a good and moral thing to offer, I'm just curious about where these universally agreed upon "basic human rights" come from?
That entire playbook is predicated on cheap and plentiful VC money. If that money dries up--which was the premise of the original comment--that strategy will die off, regardless of consumer behaviour.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/java/openjdk/download
In the imaginary future where the Russian Federation disappears, emerging economies accelerate growth to improve quality of life, economic freedom, human health, and climate.
> Is the problem the office or the commute?

What if they are at home?

Because even with Star Trek teleport WFH means do not need to dress up accordingly to some common social dress code, enough for traveling outside depending on the season and so on.

I WFH in my underwire in a dedicated, locked, room at my own home in my own environment. So the problem is ALSO the office, not just the commute. The problem is the absurdity of keeping up models that was needed in the past, but have no reason today for most, they are needed only by some giant capital who profit pasturing humans like cows.

This is the problem: a society not centered on actual tech levels and for the people instead of for exploiting the most for the interests of a very little cohort.
I have been coding so long that I cannot use a keyboard at a height any higher than my lap or my fingers go numb. This is related to why I don't want arm rests. If my elbows touch an arm rest, even for a short time, it causes me discomfort and my fingers / hands start to become sluggish. If the keyboard is setting on my lap, I can type all day without any issue.
I didn't mean experience in general but experience with the specific project. If an organization loses everyone with that experience in a project, it's no longer their project. If they want to continue working on it, they must spend a lot of effort to understand it.

I have more experience in the academia and with volunteer projects than in industry. Based on what I have seen, while talent does exist, it's rare. Success comes mostly from having the right mix of people working on the right project in the right environment. There are far more successful people and successful projects than truly talented people.
I can attest to that. Been working remote for many years and home office is draining so i head out daily, outside the peak hours, across a small part of the city only, a precious pleasure.
Just PR move by both of these guys
I've never heard Cambridge called the Rive Gauche :-) But, yes, I don't bike personally (and don't live in the city) but Cambridge has done quite a bit to improve cycling infrastructure and there are also the bike paths on the Esplanade and in the Emerald Necklace. I won't say a lot of people cycle but a fair number of people do, probably in part because there are a lot of students.
I'm sure all of us working with distributed systems have had this exact idea at least once, good to see someone actually did it.
So we were accidentally cooling by polluting?
I don't think that is good argument to start polluting again.
Sulfur does have downsides, like acid rain.
MTA? Mail transport agent is the only thing I can think of!
>I'm just curious about where these universally agreed upon "basic human rights" come from?

From here:

>it's a good and moral thing to offer,

What is the minimum quality of life you want for your children?
There’s at least a generation who haven’t experienced the old ways and really lack a mental model for it. Engineering in cash-constrained settings brings out creativity. Growth at any cost engenders numbness to reality.
That's a long break. Since April 4th 2021...
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