skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair, not the best example of regulation countering the tragedy of the commons, because it's just made up. Unfortunately, any real world examples I can think of (nature preservation, gun control, ...) are seemingly controversial.
> this straw-man version of a lazy WFH employee

It's not a straw-man, I've seen behavior in the past year that I've never seen in my entire career things as absurd as someone working 7 other jobs while pretending to work for us.

Frankly it isn't worth the risk or waste of time or money anymore. Thankfully just by saying you need to be in the office a few days a week will weed out 90% of timewasters.

>employers who have a delusion that their workplace is important enough that people need to sacrifice a large portion of their lives just for the opportunity to be there in person.

Employers don't owe you a living, you're welcome to go work somewhere that's fine with you not showing up.
>Society should not be in the business of subsidizing businesses in this manner.

This framing doesn't make any sense. People need to eat regardless of whether they work for Harvard or not. If they didn't work for Harvard the government still need to pay for the food stamps. Therefore it's not really clear how we're suddenly "subsidizing" Harvard if the person in question decided to work for them.
Yes, thats correct. However the existence of X department at all refutes the authors premise and conclusion - and if X exists, it’s entirely possibly for Y to become better.

Specifically this is entirely false due to the existence of X:

> Is this preventable? I think not.

I> f you look closely, all these problems fundamentally come from:

> Decreased skin in the game, which reduces team alignment

> N^2 communication, which creates need for managers and specialization, which reduces individual agency and breadth of learning

> Reduced risk tolerance, which slows everything down

> #1 and #2 are inevitable results of having more employees. #3 is an inevitable result of having more users, partially due to government regulation.

I think a large company enables Y departments to exist without the company imploding immediately. Survivorship bias ensures most startups that last longer than a short amount of time to appear like X, when I know there are plenty of dysfunctional startups (a friend tells me Ghost is a great example). But due to the economics of a startup they evaporate quickly. In a large company Y departments can limp along for a long time or indefinitely because Y’s function needs to exist and the company can afford for it to suck ass to work there without it going out of business. However invariably X departments in large corporations are where the magic happens, where people want to work, and what moves the large enterprise forward.

I’d also note that not everyone wants to work in a startup environment or are able to. Many engineers got into it for a good paycheck and don’t have much interest in anything particularly dynamic or engaging. They’re perfectly happy committing once a month and sitting in meetings. That’s not me, but I can also see when you build an army, you can’t build it out of special forces only.

So, instead of saying X can’t exist, when it clearly does, I think it’s more useful to say you should be careful where you work in a large company and seek out actively the X departments by learning what Y departments look like and how to spot an X department.
Yes, in all Windows version starting with probably 95 and until 11, you could put your start bar on any edge of the screen.
Is there a passport other than USA which has these properties?
I do. Not only because I don‘t want to rewrite my apps but because for me Objective-C is beautiful and better to read than any other language I tried. I never saw the point of learning a new language to implement the same things. The only benefit I could see was for Apple, pushing me a bit farther into their ecosystem which is incompatible with anything else. When it became obvious that Swift was the way to go I switched to js / hybrid app development for new projects. This seems to also die out now, but I‘m still sticking to it.
Narrowlink isn't on here. Is it not awesome?
I’m 99% convinced this is one of those things that will quickly go out of fashion and leave behind thousands of projects using “that legacy fox thing the previous devs wanted to use”
True, the economies of scale here will really only kick in once the robotaxis can also pick up your food order en route.
Svelte Ripple Action
Recognize that we need scientists as much as scientific dissidents. These days both seem in short supply. The dissidents are routinely "cancelled", e.g., during the COVID era. Big Science has been corrupted by government money worldwide. And as soon as one hears "scientific consensus" you know you're listening to a political statement not a scientific one. And that applies to climate change. Science is never conclusive. There's always the possibility of a different answer. The history of science illustrates that clearly. When the answer is "final", science is no longer the ongoing motivation.
What's the point of robotaxis if you can't screw in them? Are you just supposed to stare at your phone with all that extra time?

They'll probably eventually get shittified like everything else and refuse to move if you're not staring at ads in the cabin.
> therefore it's always political

Therefore it will always contain politics. Just like everything humans do. Just like software engineering. But that doesn't mean the technical aspects of software aren't also important. All the political insights in the world won't tell you how to make a webpage or how to build a telescope.

Tell me there's politics involved and I still have no idea what goes on in your research lab or your software team.

These sort of reductive, absolutist claims only sound wise when you're young. They basically never tell you anything useful about how to act in the world. Years ago a friend of mine would rant at length to anyone who would listen about how everything in human society is based on economic incentives. He's right! But I could easily make the same argument about all sorts of things. Everything in human society is also about status. Or politics. Or the myths we tell about ourselves (like religion and science). Everything can be explained by evolutionary biology. Or the tribe, or the individual. Or how children are raised. And so on.

There are so many important perspectives to have. But if you really want to know what goes on amongst scientists, there's no alternative but to spend time talking to them. You're so much more right, and more wrong than you think. The details are, also, everything.
"You have to turn in your laptop."

Way better than "IT is upgrading everyone."
That will be a bad day to have a set of working eyeballs.
What if the compiler detected the order itself, found cyclic dependencies and refused to compile if such dependencies exist? It can do that without requiring you to specify your order manually. Ordering by hand or C# are not the only two choices.

I could implement this with a super simple prototype where you list dependnat files as comments at the top of each file. I'd honestly rather do that than reoder items in XML by hand.
From that graph, it seems to just be about other parts of the world catching up, rather than an actual decline in the West. It is clearer after switching the graph from relative to absolute mode.
If this happens, is it going to be an exhibition, or will they actually be trying to hurt each other?
So there are many regulations, making many things much harder and sometimes extremely inconvenient and potentially hugely privacy-invading, with all the negative effects also for legitimate entities which are MUCH higher in numbers, only for something that is 1% efficient.

Great, what a waste of resources.
> if you know that a huge amount of the population is allergic to citrus fruit

"But guys, what about lemo—", "John, you know we all except you are alergic to citrus, don't you?", "Oh, sorry, completely forgot, let's move on".

???

I don't understand what point you're even trying to argue. If some misguided manager would come to you and ask your opinion in him chosing between Miro and Figma, presumably you'll ask him a bit about his needs and then reply with something like "Well, while technically Miro would suit you better, what you actually need is Trello" instead of, I don't know, saying "they're not simialr products, no point in comparing them" then turning your back and leaving. Right?

That's an entirely reasonable scenario IMO even if it involves meaningfully (i.e. "yep, one of those is definitely more suiting than another") comparing Trello to Figma.
What even is the specific tragedy of the commons in this case?

I mean real, observable things, not theories.
What lockdown? Not a single jurisdiction in the US did a true lockdown like New Zealand, Italy, etc. Not even for two weeks.

I also can’t think of anywhere in the US where anything was still mandated closed a single year after it started, let alone multiple years. I’m struggling to think of anywhere that even came close to a full year.

The revisionism around Covid has gotten wild. Certain businesses had to close for a few months (with government aid), capacity limits came and went for a while after that, and some places required you to wear a mask for longer. But somehow the narrative has become “the government would not let me leave my house for multiple years”.
Is one needed? Rust is in the Linux kernel, in the Windows kernel, and is used by the most active blockchain.
It does support that. I'm using it like that on two machines.
And the price is everyone suffering for that 1% of criminal intercepts. If you propose a weapon or a drug with such efficiency you would be laughed upon. Why financial world isn't doing the same?
Decent analysis, but what kind of solution is “don’t use Jira” with no alternative suggested?

Jira is a fine tool in and of itself, just don’t turn it into a religion.
When Microsoft does not have market-share lead, they are pro-customer in that market - hardware in this case. If Microsoft has the leading market-share and doesn't feel threatened, they are anti-customer, ie, Windows.

This usually holds for any large corporation.

"Elsewhere, Microsoft has been doing a better job ensuring that consumers have access to both service manuals and essential parts needed to independently repair the company’s hardware, ranging from its Surface tablets and laptops to Xbox game controllers."

Microsoft's Surface tablets and laptops (I didn't even know they sold laptops!) are a blip compared to Apple. Notably absent are Xbox consoles; they don't have a market-share lead in consoles, although though with their recent acquisition, they might in a few years. So yeah, no console right-to-repair nonsense.

Corporations are just like people: they act in their own interest, with the big difference that most people are moral and will consider how their actions might adversely affect others while corporations don't give a shit.
Flutter and Dart future are tied together, both rescued by AdWords business unit.

It is never going to be beyond a niche thing, unless Google does indeed ship Fuchsia in large scale.
to put into perspective: phd graduants in Germany can earn 48k EUR per year in the beginning. (not every subject but certainly in CS), this is 10 % above average income in Germany and definitely decent. And yes, some phd student decided to stay in Germany because of these conditions.
Not if it’s being orchestrated on lines of class And wealth
I think all the "a few days" and "a week" stuff that generates these kinds of debate is a total red herring. Yes, it's hyperbole. But it's also true that people with experience successfully applying a bunch of different technologies are great hires onto a team using a technology they don't yet know. It's just a process measured in months rather than days. But if you need to hire someone because you have something that needs to get done this week, then you've already screwed up.
When it comes to choosing between a Mac and a PC, many people opt for a Mac because of its superior build quality. However, it's worth noting that Apple products have consistently received low scores from iFixit, indicating that they are difficult to repair. For Microsoft to win, maybe the strategy is to advocate for repairability and encourage Apple to prioritize it in their designs. Thereby taking Apple
s focus away from innovation to repairability.

iPhone 14 was underwhelming in sooooo many ways, but it's repairability went up! My sense is that the iPhone 15 will lack innovation due to the USB C conversion... and we will see what the iPhone 16 will bring.

But legal troubles force Apple's hand, and they can't focus on adding value in other ways.
If you turn it around that way, a person who is working for Harvard but not getting enough money from them to pay for the basics is the one subsidizing Harvard. It's giving them the benefit of the work and undercharging them for it, and making up the difference with food stamps.
Did gmail migrate off GWT?
In the example provided, the code uses Prisma. Am I missing something?
RyotaK
These are still cost centers even if your organization owns them. The employees gotta eat.
Maybe,but it seems like a self perpetuating fraud of the taxpayers and students who are funding education costs growing faster than inflation to me.
I’ll cop to not having paid much attention to Go generics, but handwaving over my dubious syntax, what’s wrong with:

```

type Iter[T] interface {
More() bool
It() T
}

type mapOver[T] struct { Iter[T]; func (T) T f }

func (m mapOver[T]) It() T {
return m.f(m.Iter.It())
}

func Map[T] (it Iter[T], f func(T) T) Iter[T] {
return mapOver{it, f}
}

type Range { to, at int }

func (r Range) More() bool {
return r.at < r.to
}

func (r Range) It() (is int) {
is = r.at;
r.at += 1
}

func DoEach[T] (it Iter[T], f func(T) T) {
for it.More() {
f(it.It())
}
}

// etc

iter.DoEach(iter.Range(10), fx.Stdout(fns.MultBy(2)))

// or whatever

```

Translating to English:

If you can do it just fine with the syntax you have, why do you need to add it to the core language?
7% of staff teaching 2% of students seems like a good choice for a cutback unless there are even less efficient departments.
Again with software sites that have no screenshots or say what the Thing does, really.
It is ridiculous to assume that any law would completely eliminate crime.

But it is a fact that those crimes depend on money laundering in order to extract proceeds. And it is a fact that AML laws help law enforcement to identify the financial flows linked to money laundering.
Just curious: does Alt+Tab work for you?
This is a great start! Is there any way I can style the components myself? If so, I'd use it
The WHO only declared COVID-19 to be airborne in December 2021.

There were many articles at the time describing this failure. It’s interesting how quickly it has faded from memory.

I’m on my phone, so this is just an example from a quick search. Again, there are many like this:

“Public health organizations including the World Health Organization (WHO) initially declared the virus to be transmitted in large droplets that fell to the ground close to the infected person, as well as by touching contaminated surfaces. The WHO emphatically declared on March 28, 2020, that SARS-CoV-2 was not airborne (except in the case of very specific “aerosol-generating medical procedures”) and that it was “misinformation” to say otherwise. […]

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States followed a parallel path […]

“The very slow and haphazard acceptance of the evidence of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by major public health organizations contributed to a suboptimal control of the pandemic, whereas the benefits of protection measures against aerosol transmission are becoming well established.”

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ina.13070
What I wish I could put in the title: Author uses full Linux VM in browser to showcase security research & CVEs instead of writing a standard blog. Navigate paths inside the VM to find more. Cool!
This is a good time to reflect that high-value economic activity has an unexpected side to it. Apple is a good example - nobody believed post-2006 Apple was possible before it started throwing out market changing products, and the idea that a phone company would swoop in and become the most profitable tech company was not on people's radars. If something had disrupted Apple, it would never have been detected. We'd probably still be slowly moving away from Blackberries even now.

The article raises a good point that the small amount of proceeds seized isn't evidence of failure. But the people saying compliance is negligible aren't properly accounting for the danger of increasing barriers to entry in the financial markets. We've got no idea what household names never came to be because they got bogged down in so much paperwork that they never hit a critical mass.

The US banking sector is sick. It is becoming quite centralised and much more dependant on money printing than a healthy system would be. It has been part of the casino directing investment away from wealth generation and towards wealth-destructive ventures. AML/KYC is one of the things driving that and just because the cost is unmeasurable doesn't mean it isn't there.
Judgment is a good thing for society. These fictitious fields hurt the credibility of real fields of study. If you’re a doctor—or anyone else, but especially a doctor—you should be publicly, vociferously, and condescendingly judgmental towards homeopathy or chiropractic. It’s your obligation for the good of the public.
Big Bang model was originally formalised by Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics Georges Lemaître.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

Expansion of our local group of galaxies is coincidence. We are falling into Big Attractor, which falls into Shapley attractor, so our local group of galaxies is stretched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mQr6mzmzbU

https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02483

(unproven ideas:)

On big scale, gravitational noise, discovered by LIGO/VIRGO/NANOgrav, causes red shift of photons.

Microwave background is light of distant galaxies with z=1000, or about 4 trillion light years.
This is exactly what my first thought was. This is a futuristic/dystopian version of taxicab confessions.

Nobody there to see it but also no human to confide in after a late night.
This sort of victim mentality is endemic to the region.

WV could have taken the path of western PA. Not perfect, still some deep scars, but a flourishing new economy that can help pay for long term recovery and provided youth with some sort of future.

WV chose victimhood over adaptation, for decades, and here we are. The article isn’t just about cutting humanities departments. WV is so thoroughly hollowed out that it can’t even afford to keep its flagship Computer Science department fully staffed. It’ll be left out of the great onshoring because there is not sufficient human capital or infrastructure.

It’s the state government version of a private equity “strip mine the assets and wind it down” operation.

Constant victimhood is a self fulfilling prophecy. Opportunities were there. WV was too busy being obstinate to take them.
I was talking with a bank teller in a tourist area. She told a lot of local restaurants are opening 4 or 5 bank accounts and depositing every evening, because no individual bank wants to accept the whole amount, because of AML. This in a country where most paymentscare digital.

What's the cost of all these restaurant owners doing all banks every day?
School adminstration should be a sub study of MBA, they are mostly the same, or at least should be. Of course MBA programs deserve question too.
I’ve been a happy customer at Dynadot for many years.
Really disgusting behavior, you'd hope that the richest educational institution would pay a living wage to the folks pushing innovation forward and teaching their students
> For instance, while an epidemiologist can provide valuable guidance on measures that could reduce the spread of a virus, they might not be equipped to assess the broader implications of these measures on aspects like the economy, child development, or mental health

Amen to that. Some / most of them seemingly had little grasp of the the concept of cost / benefit analysis. And we let these jackasses (some, not all of them) drive the bus!
Pass. No screenshot, no information, no explanation. WHY would I even try software without this information?
See my sibling reply on projects versus time-boxes and CI/CD of outcomes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100090

Telling me "it isn't going to work" is why I call this approach "heresy".

By contrast, I've observed across every size firm from 1 to 150,000, it does.
Until very recently single-language frontend + backend stacks were not the norm.

As tRPC is in competition with solutions like GraphQL or REST APIs where the backend can be implemented in a big number of languages, I thought that limitation was worth pointing out.
So AML works because now criminals must pay a 15% fee. While if they were above board they would pay taxes, insurance, various social fees. In the Netherlands corporate taxes are 25%.

Literally the criminals are better off financially with the worthless anti-money-laundering system than we have than with being legal and paying taxes.

What nonsense.
Its subsidizing because Havard is getting their labor for less than its actual cost (the minimum cost of labor being the basic living needs of those doing the labor). The government is covering the difference - therefore subsidizing Harvard who absolutely have the means to pay they full cost (and then some) themselves.
It never used GWT. They claimed GWT can be used to build apps like gmail and that was misleading. They didn't write it using GWT since it predated the existence of GWT.
The Carrot Problem
> someone working 7 other jobs while pretending to work for us... Thankfully just by saying you need to be in the office a few days a week will weed out 90% of timewasters

Either they're not producing enough output to warrant their salary - in which case you have good grounds to fire them regardless - or they're perfectly productive - in which case why does it matter?

The biggest issue many managers have is that they have no idea how to measure employee output, separately from time spent at the desk imor in meetings.
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> Higher Education Administration

This is good as a first step. Better would be Higher Education Administration Administration, a PhD-level field dedicated to the theory and practice of administrating academic programs about higher education administration.
Amusing little article while this is still a novel service. If this is actually happening, it will stop almost immediately because the combination of passenger-facing cameras and non-anonymous rides will get you barred for life.
I read it as a little joke referring to C++, for what it's worth.
Brilliant!

“Get Lost In The Middle” is what they’d call it.