skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got one of those overpriced Herman Miller Aeron chairs at a bankruptcy (for 10% of the new price), removed the arm rests and am super happy with it, no more back pain since I got it and before it was unbearable. It takes a bit of work to set it up properly. This is the 'old' style before they made economy models, it is built like a tank and I fully expect it to outlive me, maybe one day the webbing will need to be replaced but after more than a decade of continuous use I can not see any wear at all other than on the caster surfaces. Keep an eye out for bankruptcy auctions near you and put in lowball offers, if you snag more than one you can always sell it on Ebay at a profit.
I get a strong feeling that you're an ableist and generally an asshole.
It's kind of a shame the new Book of Dust trilogy just isn't doing it for me. La Belle Sauvage was interesting, but The Secret Commonwealth felt like it tried too hard, and also undermined Lyra's "secret ability" to an insulting degree.
No one serious about decent public transit, reducing personal automobile use or transport by bike lives in Houston. In addition those 6-lane highways are all toll roads so they shouldn't be counted as subsidizing private car traffic.
My mom's (then) boyfriend sold his car back in '96. He was a science man but not on a particularly number-hard field (veterinarian).

He still ran the numbers.

I was too young to fully understand but basically accounting for every cost it was cheaper to call a cab or rent a car for every situation that actually requires a private vehicle, plus it saved loads of time overall (repairs, maintenance, checks, cleaning...) and headaches in general.

The discussion stuck to me, and I'm always amazed at how it became a realization for so many people decades after.

Granted, this was Western Europe where public transit is ages ahead of most of the US.
As a sensory scientist it's really frustrating to watch computer scientists appropriate our terminology and use it incorrectly.
I don't think this is a reality we disagree on... companies accept it too, but still keep hiring those 8 to 10 folks. But those 1 or 2 usually get special treatment of some sort. The 8 or 10 are disposable commodities.
That's where instacart comes in.
I took a glance and it seems that your employer could pay for the ticket and then they don't pay income tax, or they can reimburse you for the ticket, but then they must pay income tax. Kind of a strange system. Would you be responsible for the income tax if they bought the ticket for you?

Not saying I believe you should work on site or remotely, just got curious about transit reimbursement rules in the UK.
Sanderson's popularity automatically polarizes people against him sometimes, but I also really like his stuff.
In case you are interested, here are two tips I found for remembering loose vs lose:

1) add an 'r' at the end and pronounce it in your head (looser, loser)

2) convert to past tense (loosed, lost)
You had me at "pressure cooker". I don't even want to remember how [cooking] life was before I discovered the InstantPot, and the world of options such opened in kitchen.
Yeah the USA is an outlier in most regards. If that's the only thing you can compare it to, I can see why you have a different idea of what's normal
As the parent of two kids, I really don't understand this at all, much less the idea that it's some sort of trump card against lower car lifestyles. Have you actually considered what a car does to your life?

Think how much better your life would be if you didn't have to worry about cars killing your children, as it's one of the biggest sources of child death.

Imagine the freedom if your kids could go to sports practice, to school, to music lesson, without you driving them everywhere.

People in he Us have some sort of Stockholm Syndrome with cars. Their are our captor but we seem to love them still.
1) Serta Essential Mesh Low-Back Computer Desk Task Chair. The lumbar support is adjustable, and the seat is adjustable in height and depth.

https://www.amazon.com/Serta-Essentials-Ergonomic-Low-Back-C...

2) LEMBERI Fabric Padded Desk Chair. It has a padded seat and backrest, and the seat is adjustable in height.

https://www.newegg.com/p/3EB-00B2-000E5?item=9SIBMXKJWA9752

Lastly

3) Have you considered a standing desk?
It’s nice they look at the costs, but it would be fair to also look at the positive effects of roads for economies, that value probably greatly outweighs the costs for many roads. Goods need to be transported anyways and in many situations there might not be alternatives for roads (e.g. transport food to grocery stores).

Let’s also not forget that economists often state that in a bad economy it can be a good idea to invest in infrastructure (including roads) as it provides employment and can help boost the economy after the economy has recovered from a recession, due to better logistics.

Certainly a country like The Netherlands benefits a lot from it’s high quality infrastructure. Makes it very quick and easy to transport goods from a harbor like Rotterdam to Germany.
In many places kids are able to walk, bike or take public transit themselves to get around. So parents don't have to spend all their time driving kids between activities.
Whatever their ambitions are, it doesn't seem to be something that's doing the world very well. Inequality is increasing, climate change is boiling us alive. Houses keep getting more and more unaffordable... These people only work for themselves and their close circles. It just doesn't seem to be a structure of governance that is doing the world very good.
Drive a tank?

That's absolutely awesome
I don't know if he's a visionary or delusional
I think this should be encoded in antitrust law.
I had 4 off-brand ink cartridges that suddenly wouldn’t work in my HP inkjet printer. Pissed me off so much I went out and bought a $350 Epson printer. Never again HP. Why did you turn evil :’(
You got a solution? Are you going to travel back in time to prevent the second amendment from being written? Or are you going to get a 2/3rd majority of state governors to call for a constitutional convention? Maybe you can convince 2/3rd majorities of the house and senate to overturn?
Choose whatever language you're most comfortable/familiar with so long as it's not C or C++.
If you can reliably release insulin you’ve more or less treated type 1 diabetes though.

Regardless, shrug.
Why do half a billion?

Let's make it $500,000. Nobody needs more than that.

Right? I'm being serious. You can live a luxurious life on $500,000 per year.

Oh wait, well compensated tech people make more than that, so let's pick a higher number!

"A rich person is someone who makes more than me"
The physical desk surface as a clean interface motif hiding all the internal complexity is a big part of the Memex that people tend to skip over in the conversation about how hyperlinks solved this all years ago. The use of windows as an approximation for physical depth perception allowing something to be 'on top' is still only a very limited implemention of what is digitally possible.
The nonsense is the idea that they are paying based on your location due to your presumed costs. That is the nice way of saying they are paying you what they think you will accept because they think you are in a region where you do not have better options.

If you rejected the offer, and they wanted you, then the location based pay would magically change.
NL is an easy case to make though: super densely populated so there is a large tax base for such projects. Doing the same in the United States, Canada or Eastern Europe is a completely different proposition from a financial point of view.
@dang very misleading title and editorialized

Of course there is no 100kb text-to-image model
That works if you have upper hand in negotiations. In case they have 50 applicants for the job, and 5 pretty good then this can easily be a showstopper. Which is fine if you have 4 other negotiations happening in parallel, or possess a unique skill they desperately want (many think they do, most don't).

Its trivial for company to understand the relationships with location and pay in given country, when you come to an interview these rules are probably already sort of set in stone.
For comparison, $25-30/month is the lower end of what US mobile carriers charge per line.

That $25-30/month gets you access to a nationally covered 5G/4G mobile ISP that cost billions to build out. Having said that, does it seem reasonable to assign the same monthly value for an early stage search engine?
When the Internet is down, I have the TexLIVE™ documentation files, and not much else to read - I need to fix this somehow.
Show HN: SillyCoValley – I made a fast-paced startup simulation game
The question is where do the benefits of those positive effects land and where do the negatives

If I benefit by $5k and you lose out by $1k that's a net gain of $4k (yeay), but it's not good or you.
I certainly see families on subways / bikes.

I'm certainly not one of those families; my kids are typically transported like little mafia bosses in the back as they plan their crimes.

My older kid, though, started going to a new school, that's quite far away and he walks down to the train station, gets on the train, gets off at the end of the line and takes a light rail subway 2 stops to his school. It's terrifying, as a parent, to send him off like that, but it's been wonderful for him and he's grown tremendously.

The most dangerous part of that commute, btw, is crossing the street to the train station -- it's 1/4th of a mile from my house, but that specific crossing kills a person every 18 months, almost to the day, and has for the past 15 years I've lived in this neighborhood. Any talk about fixing the problem, especially if the fix may inconvenience drivers, will provoke such rage as you wouldn't believe from otherwise seemingly sane people.
I really do like the data model of obsidian. For the most part the data (markdown files) and the meta data (the .obsidian directory) stay out of each other's way.
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50986683

Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28506017/

Prevalence of serious psychological distress among slaughterhouse workers at a United States beef packing plant

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841092/

Slaughtering for a living: A hermeneutic phenomenological perspective on the well-being of slaughterhouse employees

https://hazlitt.net/blog/monstrous-cruelty-just-world

The Monstrous Cruelty of a Just World

https://faunalytics.org/differing-empathy-in-vegetarians-veg...

Differing Empathy in Vegetarians, Vegans, and Omnivores

> it's easy to see how Germans could have no problem killing Jews in concentration camps if they were similar personalities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
> I’m quite happy with the products where you just directly pay them and receive a service

I’m the same way, but we’re a strong minority of users. I love that I can simply pay for YouTube Premium and not have ads, but that’s generally not a workable business model for many types of tech companies. In fact, I’m a bit surprised Google hasn’t done away with that yet, because I worked at a different tech company that frequently assessed the feasibility of subscription payments vs ad revenue, and the math just never worked out. There simply aren’t enough people willing to pay an amount that would offset the ad revenue loss. It’s the difference between stated preference and observed preference in consumer behavior.
Had 4 kids in Amsterdam NL specifically because there is good public transit and biking infrastructure. Admittedly, we finally got a car for baby #4, but our other kids walk/bike to school or get taken by bike. I personally found it untenable to have so many kids in USA cities. Car culture makes it hard — you have to take your kids everywhere!!
Big surprise.

Most work is done by a tiny minority. This minority will perform well from home or from the office.

The majority will slack off in both places, but less visibly so in the office.

So mandating return to office for the whole company (don't really see a practical way to mandate it for some only) to make bad employees suck slightly less, is of course going to annoy the productive few the most.
"$30,000 to “MC Technical Inc.” in 2021. Who are they? Well, they don’t have a website, that’s for sure. The business registry listing is about the only thing of the company that seems to exist. The listed address is someone’s house."

It is a nice round number so it is probably someone who did some work for them and sent them an invoice. There is nothing special about that. Unless you have an agenda to make it sound like something bad. Which I think the author does.

Many hacker news readers have their own incorporated with weird names that are registered to their home addresses. Because when you provide services to a company you ideally need a legal entity. Having an address is a legal requirement. And having a website is not.

It is that simple. The Mozilla Foundation probably has many contractors that do work for them.

Similar to "Why do some of the recipients of Mozilla money appear to be nothing more than empty shells of companies — not even having a simple website?" - it just shows the author has no idea how small non-profit / 501(c) world works. It is easy to make it sound like a headline but in reality it is probably just small non profits struggling to get funding to do interesting things.
I don't agree.

The whole idea Doctorow was pointing at is that startups could use massive amounts of VC funding to attract a large base of users, often by dumping their services on the market in order to kill competitors (what was once rebranded "blitzscaling" so we wouldn't notice it was at its core an illegal business practice).

Then, once that user base was attached (and ideally stuck due to barriers like network effects or the lack of any viable competitors in the space), you start milking them by "enshittifying" the service.

But if VC money becomes more scarce, that stops working. Companies will have to generate revenue much earlier, and compete on quality of service instead of who can raise the largest VC war chest to subsidize their operations. And they won't be able to wait until that user base is built and attached before they start monetizing. They'll have to create a revenue generating service that's also good to the user because otherwise the users just won't show up.

For the existing services? Yup, you're right, the masks will start to come off (and in many cases already have).

But long-term I would expect a much healthier internet to emerge.
Just a simpler interface for creating reverse proxies or static sites and also maybe do automatic SSL as a cherry on top. Basically, I want something like Nginx Proxy Manager, but more lightweight and terminal friendly.
Since the privatization of public transport it has declined considerably, especially in rural areas. This is one of the reasons why I think things like public transport should always be a government affair and never be run at a profit.
The whole road cost argument doesn’t make sense to me. The problem is density, not mode of transport - we all need roads! The common denominator access requirement for all housing is a fire truck and ambulance for safety and delivery trucks to make space livable with bulky items like furniture, which also account for most of the wear and tear.

The money nondrivers pay in taxes for roads aren’t a subsidy to drivers, it’s the cost they pay for the safety and convenience we expect from modern civilization
Why is a daemon inherently faster? Why would `podman ps` be slower at a human scale?
That's impossible because that amount of money is not to buy material things but influence. It's a circular problem with no solution.
The BBC already put up a Fediverse instance (Mastodon), I expect that to happen more often. It's early days, but the fact that we're not at the whim of a couple of shitty Bay Area VC funded companies is so nice that I'll forgive the growing pains.
My theory: there is an entire generation approaching the age when their parents "purchased" a home that has lived with near-zero interest rates for most of their lives. This enabled people to finance lifestyles well beyond their ability to outright purchase them, shaping expectations. Not anymore, especially combined with the increases in prices.
It’s a culture problem, not an economic one. Cooking delicious dirt-cheap meals is easy, and doesn’t take an unreasonable amount of time out of your day. We’ve just had a few generations of western parents not teaching their children to cook anything. So when those people realise they have to figure out how to feed themselves, they simply don’t know any reasonable ways to do it, even though plenty exist.
Like any city, Houston has its own set of pro-pedestrian urbanists who are stuck here and are forced to promote the changes they want to see. Very few people are able to shop around for cities based on their car culture ideals.

> In addition those 6-lane highways are all toll roads

6-lane means total lanes, so 3-4 in each direction like Richmond Ave or Westheimer Rd in Houston which you have to take just to get to the gym or grocery store.

But I think you need to go to Houston on Google Maps and look at all of the freeways that are 5-6 lanes in each direction bursting out like tentacles from the center in all directions. It seems like you're not aware that these exist?
I've lived near train tracks and near busy roads and highways. I'll take the traintracks any time. You get used to them pretty quickly because they are always the same sound. Whereas the highway is a continuously variable source of noise depending on your current sample of exhaust technology (or lack thereof).
The (unfortunate) reality is these shifts back to office are going to be easier to pull off if a company is willing to lose 10% of their staff (or whatever the percentage ends up being) because the job market right now is very loose with a lot of people out of work, making replacements are easy (and quick) to find.

Some companies may even like the idea of shedding some of their top talent (who also tend to be paid a lot) if they feel they're still overstaffed from the covid hiring boom.

Source: I'm a hiring manager at a remote company. I've talked to candidates who are leaving their companies because they tried to negotiate 100% remote but their companies are refusing, so they're looking to land at a permanent fully remote position.

Edit: comment above is in the context of tech companies
Shitty workplaces will be shitty workplaces. You can have traditional offices where work-hours are respected, and you can have traditional offices where everyone is "forced" into doing crunches and staying until midnight.

I think one thing people always misunderstand it: WFH doesn't need to mean separating work and home is impossible. Separate room that you can close if you have a house. Or going to a co-working space. Or in my case: Renting a 2-people office with a colleague.
I'm all for cars. They're a wonderful tool and give a great freedom that is accessible to even quite poor people.

A very good public transport and walking and cycling city is great, but it is no substitute for a car, as the >50% of households in London, massive fleets of cars in Netherlands, etc will attest to.
> 1. Will I be able to use this in my IDE (say JetBrains or VSCode) alongside the programming language’s LSP? So that this project would only be in effect for the Pg SQL bits?

I think that would depend on IDE support. For example, JetBrains IDEs have a feature for this.
I came accross a lot of such info from redhat. And I tried podman which is not bad because my scenario was not complicated. But days before, I tried podman-compose which behaved so poor. That's a pitty. After years, podman's ecosystem is so poor. I don't want to be trapped by sorts of small/hidden pitfalls. I have to switch back docker then. The quality prevails, not the advertisement. PS: I did not read the passage. The title is enough.
Stressful work is ok if it either

A) Increases your skill somehow
B) Gets you awarded a higher compensation

But most stressful work you encounter doesn't do either.

I find most stressful work caused mostly by poor long term planning, bad legacy code, or a poor work environment.
Man I was just looking for this forever, you rock.
Bouty makes excellent chair. Looking at their website I'm thinking Arista/Kadera/Fira. The model of chair I have doesn't seem front page but it is the Sity 9002.

The piston gave after 10+ years of service. Contacted them, warranty is for life, they had someone show up and replace it for free.
You’d only do that if you absolutely have to, eg when you’re very constrained by battery or you do actually need real time guarantees. Getting a device with Wi-Fi, BLE, GPS, logging, camera, etc working on a RTOS is just unreasonably complicated when you have a huge battery and 2W power consumption of the SBC is dwarfed by a kilowatt motor.
There is nothing to see here; where is it?

Is it Bird? Or is it a Plane? Or is it SuperApp https://qocial.com/market

sorry for the pun, just thought to make this post interesting.
You could write a whole book about anon.penet.fi. Probably someone has.
With kids going to school, working from home is definitely better to handle the unpredictability that comes with it. I have about a one hour commute to do (one way) to get to the office. I'd live closer if I could afford it, but it is what it is.

While I worked at the office, having a sick kid meant I had to call the entire day off, now I can simply keep him at home or go pick him up in 10 minutes and resume my day.

Productivity and stress-wise, WFH is definitely better.
1) looks like intelliJ paid versions support (or will support) LSPs soon. https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2023/07/lsp-for-plugin-d...

> Starting with the 2023.2 release cycle, the LSP API is publicly available as part of the IntelliJ Platform in the following IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate,
WebStorm,
PhpStorm,
PyCharm Professional,
DataSpell,
RubyMine,
CLion,
Aqua,
DataGrip,
GoLand,
Rider
Holy crap. That is an insane price. Seems like it's priced for commercial use.

I've had a thought in the back of my head to use a temperature probe like that in a temperature control loop on my induction cooktop, could probably do it with an arduino but I also don't want to make my kitchen an electronics project.

Is there nothing like this that is priced reasonably?
User Stories Enable Creativity
What comes next?
I did the same math and decided I wouldn’t buy a car since I could just use Uber when I need one. Turns out I never use Uber anyway since I live near a train station and major bus stop, I can get anywhere from public transport easily.
Can you try to get it added to Mason so people don't have to try and do a custom install?

https://github.com/mason-org/mason-registry/
I spent months spinning my wheels trying to get the Tailscale VPN / Traefik / Let's Encrypt automatic SSL cert generation working. Each of the tech support teams at all three of these companies are unaware of that Docker Desktop separate VM. I spent months with support from Tailscale and Traefik, and after I realized the existence of that separate VM and discussed with their support - that VM news to them.

The transition to Docker development is very poorly documented. I've taken two formal classes in Docker, read a book, and have half a dozen Docker projects done and delivered and this is the first time I've even heard one needs to manually set "$DOCKER_HOST". This industry is just a bunch of overly paid amateurs, blindly groping in a dark cave, a cave carved out of money.
I think paid jetbrains IDEs already do this on their own, as they embed datagrip, no?

It checks the syntax, gives you autocomplete based on the databases you are connected to, it even supports string language injection, so you'll get SQL autocomplete and checking for strings containing SQL in your code.

I'd love to understand what the advantages here are, other than the obvious one of being available for many editors as a language server.