skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The government of an area could spend $3m (say) to try to revitalize an area of town, but that might not even pay for redoing the sidewalks or whatever.

So instead they give a $3m tax credit to a largish company to locate in that area, which brings in X number of employees each day; and those employees will eat lunch nearby, etc. And then stores begin to open around that area because the demand is there. If done right, the government gets way more than $3m worth of redevelopment, and more than $3m in increased incidental tax revenue (sales tax, etc).

If done wrong it's a horrible flop, but they're usually just out tax money they wound't have received anyway. This is why you see it being done so often.

WFH is disrupting this strategy.
How is that even possible? Is header generation hacky? Or does it really generate the AST?
Does GMail do this for spam detection? I always thought they do but didn't read the TOS.
>> I live outside London in the UK, and the cost of travelling in daily is around $7500/year taking into account train and parking costs. Most software engineer will be in the 40% tax bracket for the top end of their salary. That means a company need to pay an additional $12500 to just break even.

The cost of lunch in Midtown Manhattan is now $15 to $20. People often say, "why not pack your own lunch" and others remind them they just took NJTransit-->PATH-->Subway1-->Subway2 with standing room only so carrying lunch is impractical.

Different segments of the population have different concerns. For the elderly and frail, it is their joint health and the difficulty of transportation without seating. For some, the $12500 cost is huge. For parents, it can be time with children.

I'd say the cost of commuting FOR ME is losing 40% of 50% of my free time with children. By the time I get home at 7:30pm or 8pm, their bedtime is approaching.

I'm currently on a 2/3 WFH/RTO schedule and it is a nice balance, especially after 20yrs or 5x schedules.
How about designing neighborhoods in such a way that there is a grocery store within a 15-minute walk from your house? And place a school next to it, so you can grab some groceries when you drop off your kid.

That'd already massively reduce the amount of driving required, as you suddenly no longer need to drive a few miles for your groceries. And because you don't arrive by car the grocery store doesn't need a huge parking lot either.
I assume this only applies to their standard service and not when you activate the E2E encryption option ?
Where I live I can hear both trains, a nearby busy road and the highway. The trains are really not a problem, there is a well defined maximum and they gradually ramp up and down in noise level but the road & highway have me sitting up straight at times wondering what on earth is going on. Usually either a truck that uses its air brake or a bunch of motorcycles without damper that suddenly open up. Especially at night that can be enough to wake me up and good luck trying to sleep after that.
> And I don't do it because I enjoy doing it. I do it, because I'm forced to

You sound like exactly the sort of person I’m talking about. I’d spend a maximum of 2 hours per week grocery shopping, and I can make dinner at a couple of dollars per portion in 15-30 mins with no prep. I’m not sure what anybody could be forcing you to spend 15 hours per week doing.
The only way to have more fun than abstracting broken software is abstracting broken hardware.

I can imagine somebody spent months on those few lines of assembly.
Sync makes Lemmy feel a lot like Reddit, especially since it used to be my go-to app a year ago. Lemmy feels like it's been flooded with repost bots from Reddit making the content feel a lot less engaging.

Personally I'm okay not having the topic on Lemmy if there aren't any people posting about it.
Wait what? "spare money lying around?" that is a complete misunderstanding of how this works. You make it sound as if that money is some kind of "donation". THat Google is doing Mozilla a _favour_ here. But nothing could be further from the truth: instead this is a business deal where everyone wins. (Read: generates a stupid amount of revenue)

Google probably makes at least 3x of what it pays Mozilla in search royalties. At least. Who knows what Google makes with what it does after Firefox has done its small part.

This is a hugely profitable business for Google. That has _nothing_ to do with "spare money lying around". This is a cash cow for Google. Specially since they do the same with other players like Apple. Many many billions of dollars are at stake.
Do you mind highlighting the appropriated terminology and what would be better terms to use?
See articles 24 and 25: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

Threatening a person's livelihood if they want to take a couple days off to go to the doctor is denying them "a standard of living adequate for [their] health and well-being". Additionally, if you force your workers to come to work sick, you also threaten everyone else's standard of healthy living by unnecessarily exposing them to a contagious disease.
Ditto. Hybrid is a hat trick to lure those who categorically reject on-site roles. Once in, there are dozens of ways to justify needing you in most often.
we have a comedian here
Ok. Some rando can also push you on the track as the subway comes in. I think last year it was close to 100 deaths on the subway in NYC. It's pretty much the same amount of pedestrians who died in a car accident.

Not saying it's completely equivalent. A lot of these were probably suicides and all, but let's not pretend subways are a magical utopia full of unicorns.
Cargo ebikes can make a lot of this work if you live in a city, tho the more kids you have the harder that gets
The subhead is "X user quits paying for Twitter Blue to protest X commandeering his account." That may not matter much to Twitter.

I'd lean towards a subhead of x signals product direction while angering some users.

One good thing is Twitter does move followers etc
https://johncbogle.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/...

The problem is that most people are too small to have a material impact.

The best the smalls can hope for is to invest in companies that are majority owned and run by owners you agree with.
> Want everyone to work less. Not happening.

It could. How did we settle on 40 hours?

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1052968060/how-the-40-hour-wo...

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The first demand of organized labor was 10 hours - the 10-hour movement. And they made a concerted effort and were successful, to a certain extent, to obtain the 10-hour day.

By the late 19th century, Hunnicutt says, the workweek begins to shrink to something closer to 60 hours a week for more and more people.

But it took the Great Depression to make 40 hours the norm. Government saw a shorter workweek as a way to fight the massive unemployment crisis by spreading the remaining labor out over more people. That led to a series of laws that eventually enshrined 40 hours as America's workweek in 1940. And it seemed like that trend would keep going. The most respected economist of the era, John Maynard Keynes, famously predicted that improving technology and increasing efficiency would deliver a 15-hour workweek by 2030.

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A California bill is out to redefine the work week as 32 hours.
If the city made an actual progressive public investment, and simply turned these buildings into (reasonably) affordable housing, they could easily kick-start a long overdue development density increase. SF is such a nice place to live, and could be such a nice community. It’s a shame that local politics has made it impossible for people who don’t come from money or exploit others to survive there.
That falls 100% into "shitty workplaces being shitty workplaces".

"My workplace used WFH as an excuse to get more labor out of us outside work hours" is not evidence that WFH is inherently going to lead to that. It's just evidence that your workplace is shitty. It is one anecdote, not actual data that can be used to describe trends.
"..for any purpose", how is this ever supposed to fly in the EU or UK? Should be opt-in, not in the small print, and entirely optional.
USA really is a hellscape. The more I learn about the world, the happier I am, I'm not born there but in Europe.
To your point, the people who use/think they need cars probably have a lot of misconceptions about not having them.

But at least they’ve both had and have not had cars.

Not to your point, if you’ve never had a car or even experienced the joys of driving itself or simply being able to go far away on a moment’s notice, your “gladness” of its avoidance may ring as hollow as the blind individual who is “glad” they aren’t bound to the tyranny of visual entertainments. I mean, that’s a nice story you’re telling yourself, but do you really have to information to know?

In particular, once you have children, a vehicle becomes a near-necessity anywhere outside a city.
So the article is true, but you don’t like it because it’s from WSJ?

Let me guess, I should be reading CNN, TheHill or WaPo?

If people keep demanding sensationalist news that drives people to action then you’ll end up with people that mistrust the media.
I just wish there were better studies done on the effects of msg but the pendulum has swung in the other direction. Initially bad science came out of xenophobia, now questioning msg is seen as xenophobic.

My wife gets really bad headaches and migraines from msg, and it’s a wide variety of food. She can’t eat dishes with parmesan, no Doritos, no tomato heavy dishes, as they all have naturally occurring msg. In the early days, when I didn’t know about my wife’s msg reaction, I put msg in her food and didn’t tell her and she still got a migraine. So it’s not “in her head” like this article says is, for people living in NYC and SoCal.

Even Kenji mentions while msg is fine for most people, his sister gets bad headaches from it.
> We haven't kept on lowering the weekly hours because despite the unstoppable productivity gains, people want more stuff.

Which people?

It's the ones with all the money and power who actually control this. Don't try to blame this on regular working people.
I literally just quit my cushy senior leadership job at a megacorp because they asked me to come back 5 days a week. Switched up for a distinguished engineer role at a late stage startup making more with more interesting work and no one telling me they value controlling my physical body over my contribution. If they value my physical body over my work, they can have neither.
I used Sync for the last couple years and having it for Lemmy is great. It feels like I'm browsing Reddit and has made the transition much easier. I wish I could leave Reddit entirely, but there are a couple of subs that don't yet have an equivalent on Lemmy.
> 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.

Would this mean that billionaires would have to manually manage their portfolios themselves? I assume not because they could hire a non-"faceless" firm.

Ultimately, this feels like an objection to BlackRock that would prevent the average person from having a chance but do nothing to stop the problem of large companies and already powerful individuals gaining more power.
“A lot of students go into medicine because they want to help patients,”

From my experience, this hasn't been too true but thats ok because becoming a doctor is a very hard path and they deserve to make money. Although, i am concerned because there seems to be a doctor shortage and economics dictate that doctors can make much more money by opening their own clinics and ferrying patients in and out (i.e treating symptoms as quickly as possible with medications or surgery) and it seems like a lot of problems in modern society have deeper root causes.
If you look at the valuation of companies that hire or were started by top talent, all companies should want them. Crab mentality can make you rationalize scaring them away.
It's a 3rd party mobile client for the social network Lemmy.
Also, any messages, files and contacts you share via their service.
This subthread is about “how would the grocery store fill its shelves without roads?” more than it is “how could we avoid the final driving by grocery customers?”
In Ireland about a decade ago we privatised about 15% of the existing Dublin bus network. And... no-one noticed; the old state monopoly and the new private company now run buses under the livery of a new state organisation, TFI, which sets fares and dictates routes. Quite why the private company wanted anything to do with this is slightly unclear to me. The incentive for Dublin Bus was... possibly simplification of operations? They seem to have taken the opportunity to more or less entirely get rid of their single decker buses.

But, so far so... good? It's working surprisingly well so far, though I do find the routes operated by the private company a little less reliable than the Dublin Bus ones. It probably helped that this was done as part of an overall expansion, not just a re-allocation; Dublin Bus lost about 15% of its fleet but got replacements; AFAIK it kept all its drivers.
Why not switch? I've had good experiences with competitors. I don't know if they're as nice for mass meetings instead of one-to-one or small groups, but at least for the chats I've had, there's never been any reason to go to Zoom.

(I care more about spyware, privacy, and user sovereignty than AI training.)
Thank you for this post. It led me to reread the comments on Joe Armstrong's passing.

Sad and wonderful. We should all aspire for the wonder to exceed the sadness.
Behavioral Theology: Quantifying the effects of beliefs
> NL is an easy case to make though: super densely populated so there is a large tax base for such projects.

See "The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ

We don't care about the densities of entire countries, we care about the densities of where people live: cities.

For the US, 40% of the population lives in counties on a coast:

* https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html

200M people live with-in 100 mi (160 km) of a border:

* https://www.aclu.org/documents/constitution-100-mile-border-...

The US population is already highly concentrated:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:County_population_map.web...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_populous_coun...

There are large swaths of the US where there's a whole lotta nothing (population-wise).
Looks like an interesting idea, but I have no cue about music to help you.

Anyway, anecdote time: My wife used to play random chords in the guitar. She explained me that if you follow some rules it would sound good. I don't remember the details, something like

X -> Y or Z

Y -> X or W

Z -> X

W -> X or Y

where X, Y, Z, W are actually A, B, C, D, E, F or G, but I can't remember which ones. (Did I mention I don't play the guitar?)

So I made a program that played in the speaker 4 notes per chord, and followed those rules to select the next chord. It was surprisingly good for the low effort I made. It was not fantastic or groundbreaking, but not horrible at least.
Thankfully nothing like this is in Jitsi Meet’s TOS: https://jitsi.org/meet-jit-si-terms-of-service/

It never ceases to amaze me how companies choose the worst software!
I’m sure it would impact the budget but based on the state of roads here in California, the vast majority of the damage seems to be from trucks.

A lot of those four lane roads can’t be sized down without blocking emergency vehicles’ basic mobility. They’re sized for worst case scenarios and at least in my small hometown, for example, meant to allow large numbers of emergency vehicles to move quickly between suburban sprawls in case of large fire or earthquake.
Once you start to recognize journalistic tropes you see them all the time. This sounds like the "person we were able to get ahold of that is tangentially related so we can have a quote" one.
Most people don't buy a month's worth of groceries at once, though. When there is a grocery store right next to the train station, you just get what you need for the next two or three days when you pass the store during your daily commute.
> I certainly see families on subways / bikes.

So metropolitan area. Do you think its by choice or necessity? The way i see it no one would take their sick kid to the doctors by subway/bike if they had a access to a car.

> will provoke such rage as you wouldn't believe from otherwise seemingly sane people.

That's human, we all participate in recreational outrage when it suits us be it drivers or those who oppose them. Sorry to hear about that crossing and hope your kids will be fine.
An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it
I use Zoom for work and never got an email explaining that suddenly they can use call recordings to train some AI models and sell this to 3rd parties.
> Podman is a cloud-native

What does cloud-native mean actually?
Number of kids and population count of your town please.

Thank you.
Actually, they only affect their hosted meet.jit.si service, right? Not if you self-host Jitsi on your own server (which you should if you're a medium-large company, for data protection and all that)
In Australia discussion about workers rights as universal human rights began at Federation in 1901.

An early Harvester Agreement ( ~ 1901 ?? ) set the minimum wage as a livable wage - to cover food, clothing, rent for a family unit with 40 hours of work.

Sick leave was introduced into industrial awards in 1922. From 1935 to the 1970s, paid sick leave was gradually introduced into federal awards until 10 days sick leave per year became standard.

Current workers rights are laid out in the National Employment Standards made Federal law by the Fair Work Act (2009)

The yearly entitlement of paid sick or carer’s leave is based on an employee’s ordinary hours of work. It is 10 days for full-time employees, and pro-rata for part-time employees. This can be calculated as 1/26 of an employee’s ordinary hours of work in a year.

Sure, these standards are by no means global rights but they are universal within Australia where the general ethos for a hundred years has been that everybody deserves a fair go .. hopefully that persists.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/national-e...

https://business.gov.au/people/employees/employees-pay-leave...
I know that's the popular thing to say nowadays, but it really isn't.
I lived in Ohio from 1980 to 1985 and NYS until 2020. There was lots of cold weather and snow. Waiting until the snow melted was fine advice, quite reasonable.
Link to the app listing (op’s link goes to the data safety info):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.syncapps.le...
I don't see the data outside of GIS databases, but I'd be willing to bet that in a lot of (most?) places a significant majority of roads [ADDED: total mileage] are 2 lane roads to home and business endpoints. Add in the fact that you're going to have an interstate/etc. highway system even if you only had truck traffic and the wider roads are mostly denser suburbia main routes and areas within cities.
Thanks. I vaguely remember the different steps (developer, stop bath, fixer, stabilizer?) -- but don't the times spent in each - need to be different?
Check out Beekeeper Studio
https://web.archive.org/web/20230130143126/https://blog.ever...
What's more innovative a new frontend framework or getting to the moon? A more efficient way to show ads and monetize user experience or creating the first semiconductor? A large amount of innovation nowadays is just rent seeking and very gradual refinement of 80-100 year old ideas.
Without new fundamental breakthroughs we're hitting diminishing returns here
> Roads also support the transportation of goods […]

There were roads before cars and trucks:

> Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” He considers the perspectives of all users—pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for “justice.” Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of “efficiency.” Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking “freedom”—a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States. Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change.

* https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262516129/fighting-traffic/

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2924825-fighting-traffic

Various goods managed to be delivered even before cars/trucks.

And it would be possible to restrict/prioritize use towards commercial vehicles.
A failed experiment with Rust static dispatch
Come on, it's not even a heckscape. Basically a bigger Europe with cooler animals. It's important to have a little chill.
Critique of Lazy Sequences in Clojure
I also wanted to ask about extensions. How does it work internally? Does it ask the database for parsing or does it have its own syntax analyzer?
Note that no actual citizens voted on this supposed covenant.
Before that:

> Customer Content does not include any telemetry data, product usage data, diagnostic data, and similar content or data that Zoom collects or generates in connection with your or your End Users’ use of the Services or Software (“Service Generated Data”).

I could be wrong, but my take is that there is not all that much to see here
I used to live beside a rail bridge that had a train passing about every two minutes at peak times. Most of the time you'd never notice this; it was mostly quieter than the road traffic noise beneath. What you _would_ hear was the track maintenance noise at 2 in the morning from time to time (though it was a 150 year old heavily trafficked bridge that they couldn't shut for long term maintenance without bringing the system to a standstill, so I probably worse for spot maintenance than most).

> The noise of trains also reduces the value of the properties next to the tracks.

There are probably edge-cases where this is so, but in general being near a train station tends to boost property values. Now, obviously being near the station but far from the line would be ideal, but near station near line is probably better than "no train".

(This is assuming commuter service, where if you're near the line you're probably near a station. I suppose long distance lines with no commuter service running through built up areas would be an exception, but that's unusual in most places).