skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We already successfully exclude low-performers due to Stack Ranki--er, Unregretted Attrition--so this policy will only be impacting the insufficiently dedicated." /s
Not really. Vehicles are a large part of the Western fabric for example, and the popularity of SUVs in the recent decades have led to an uptick in emissions - therefore, disincentivizing SUVs is one option. Governments are already rolling out solutions like "greener home" grants, that offers rebates for improving insulation. If scaled across a country, lower use of AC/heating can have a significant impact on energy demands, and it was an easy program to implement. Food waste is another angle that is a no-brainer.

In the food department, legumes and whole grains are not "luxury" items, but can serve as a substitute for meat. Even omnivores (I am one) who are health-conscious tend now to make a point to include more of these in their diet, and they're cheap.

Bearing in mind that these interventions are meant for short-run downward pressure on emissions (in the West), and short-run interventions are what we need. There is low-hanging fruit still, which can be exploited without dampening quality of life and without "mandates". In the long-run it's all a moot point, between nuclear/fusion and renewables. There is also a ton of public/private investment into carbon capture, renewables, the works - but that is not moving quickly, even though this would be the most valuable.
Facilities and real estate are among the most significant expenses for any tech company in a prime location such as Seattle or SFBA. If remote work turned out to work flawlessly, there would be a huge financial incentive to shed all that.

I find it frustrating that we always need to come up with some sinister explanation for any decision we don't like. It's always the corporate profit motive, and when it doesn't fit, we try to invent some personal profit motive for execs to act against the best interest of the company, without a shred of evidence.

I know several execs involved in RTO decisions for a public company. They have sincere convictions and some arguably flawed data to back it all. I don't agree with it, but this way of thinking that everybody up to and including my pay level is a good and smart person, and everybody above is clueless and evil... it's just juvenile.
That number is ridiculous but it's also the broken window fallacy. If people spent less on healthcare inefficiency they'd have more money and spend it on something else. So it's not like you actually have to preserve the wasteful bureaucracy as though you're gaining something from it -- the jobs would just move to whatever industry supplies the things people would buy if they weren't forced to waste their money on this.

The real problem is the employment, because then you have not just the industry but its unions lobbying to preserve the inefficiency.
> basically these mandates seem likely to be driven by stress at the top of the management, not based upon actual data. If you are asking for data that means you aren’t in charge sadly.

Data is great and all (and I'm not defending this particular decision), but at leadership levels you have to make judgment calls all the time even in the face of data that may say otherwise.
> Wouldn't most of the high performers who don't want to go back to the office, just quit and get a better job, while low performing individuals would stick as long as possible since they could keep slacking as long as they go to the office three days a week?

Maybe, but that sounds like a problem that isn't guaranteed to happen and isn't one that you'd be personally held responsible for, since everyone else was doing the same thing... how could you have known? No one ever got fired for buying IBM and all that.
Do you mean faster than learning it or faster to execute?
While I admire your ethics, I feel like a lot of technical job interviews are structured such that you're supposed to actively collaborate with the interviewer. The interviewer is allowed to give you hints or suggestions, and they're very interested in how well the candidate takes hints.

And sometimes the hint can be a trick! I recently did an interview where the interviewer asked if I should use a shortcut to compare two strings, one that assumed there's only one way to normalize a string. I almost fell for it, but then I hesitated and mentioned that I was concerned about some languages where that assumption wouldn't hold. They agreed and were happy that I chose the safer approach.
My favorite counter-acronym to DRY is WET: write everything twice (or thrice!). Doing and then redoing it once you understand it better is the best way to learn how to apply DRY correctly.

> Non-DRY code is by definition complex: You now have more interconnected parts than you need. So really, if you make your code more DRY, you _simplify_ it.

It really depends, I think there are some assumptions here that could use clarification. The whole point of choosing duplication is to disconnect parts that shouldn’t be connected, so I don’t understand what you mean about non-DRY code being more interconnected than duplicated code. Conscious duplication (often called “forking”) allows people who depend on a piece of code to change it without breaking anyone else. When you merge two pieces of similar code, they already had two or more separate uses, and you’re adding a new connection, tying together the fates of two or more different users. From now on, if they don’t have exactly the same agenda, there will be tension and/or bugs.

If deduplication requires adding an abstraction layer, then that absolutely is adding complexity, and it happens because the code being de-duplicated was not exactly the same. Code that’s truly duplicated doesn’t need to change in order to de-duplicate. So you can delete a copy in that case and centralize the dependencies onto the remaining copy. That eliminates code but doesn’t really simplify; it has the potential to simplify future development, but it doesn’t simplify the code at the moment of deletion. With modern build systems and project structures, however, it might take a lot of work and it might add complexity to get the DRY code into the right spot where it’s visible to everyone who needs it. Another reason for duplication is to avoid having to do backflips to get the code into the right file or scope.
>open more regional branch offices

To what end? If most of the people you work with are scattered around different regional branch offices, what's the point of going into the nearest one other than to have basically a company-supplied co-working space?
A really great trick I learned is to use the 3 way calling feature of your phone. Call the insurance company, go through the please go away don't bother us menu system (now with voice recognition!), wait on hold for an agent, speak with the agent and tell them you are going to conference in your doctor's billing department, and call your doctor. Have them speak directly with each other.

This is also usually necessary to find out if something will be covered.
Well, one hardcore way is to just switch to another app and let your contacts know where to find you if they need you.

I switched to Telegram 2 years ago, haven't installed WhatsApp ever since and all my contacts got comfortable with Telegram that I don't miss out on anything important anymore.
Clarification - not true.

I can point you to several people who have great jobs, great insurance, and tens of thousands of dollars in medical expenses. Nowhere else in the civilized world does this happen.
University of Michigan working to fix internet outage, could take days
Star Citizen is trying to handle physics for objects in stations/planets/ships, debris, asteroids etc. A couple orders of magnitude more objects, I think.

Note that I don't play or follow either game, but I think you're making an unreasonable comparison.
Do you really not understand? Powerful people are making tons of money at the expense of everyone else. Isn't that how the system is designed? What's confusing about it?
As of a few years ago, you need to update your thinking about Forbes from "fairly respected business media outlet" to "blogging platform". Most of the contributors are not journalists per se, nor are their articles edited or fact-checked any more than a blog article would be. This is fine, except that it isn't made clear at all to readers, who often just recognize the brand name and assume a higher standard of quality than there really is. Forbes is in the phase where it is withdrawing any banked up credibility it earned in the past.
Keep in mind there are people who signed on as remote employees that own a primary residence in an area far away, have children in school, a spouse who can't relocate, and so on. These folks effectively need to now look for another job.
It's been frustrating that for years Mac has had no native way to create a site-specific browser. Chrome can do it for you on Windows. On Mac there is stuff like Fluid, but for reasons I don't remember every time I try it I wind up being frustrated. Finally the Mac is getting a built-in way to create a SSB in Sonoma.
I think I understood it.

My point was that we regularly undertake things that are regularly just as, if not more, dangerous than tinkering with batteries. This fear-mongering from manufacturers is silliness designed to let them get away with consumer unfriendly designs and regulation under the guise of safety.

Repairing a bike is something that I learned in middle school, and working with batteries is something that I would trust a high schooler with a few hours of training with.
I think Elite's devs bit off way more than they realized they were willing to chew, especially with Odyssey, thus dropping consoles and VR.

On the other hand, over the years they've left so many things broken/unfinished or just in general avoided certain things, makes me wonder if maybe the foundation itself was unstable. Eg powerplay being ignored even when it wasn't working right, many years between the addition of new ships and the lack of creativity in terms of the ship's capabilities, similarly with SRVs, weapons bugs, completely failing to capitalize on the excellent PvP mechanics they have, the relative standstill of the Thargoid plot until people largely lost interest, the stagnation/disconnect of Colonia from everything else etc.
That ~9kW is probably split over 3 phases. Here you have 3x20A main breakers and then each circuit has a 10A or 16A breaker. So about 3.7kW limit for larger appliances (16A * 230V) on a single circuit, but should not exceed 20A on one phase. Stoves can be connected to 2 phases, 400V and get 7.2kW.
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use: two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" -Seymore Cray
Cashrain Bug Bounty Program
the healthcare I had access to in the US was far better than the healthcare I had access to in New Zealand (or anywhere else), regardless of how much I was willing to pay.

Can you back that up with data?
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You're looking at the chart for "ordinary" poverty, which they've pegged at $30 equivalent per day. Their threshold for extreme poverty is $2.15/day.
Foxconn Selling Two Empty Wisconsin Buildings After Failed Promises
Absolutely right. One of the most important questions to ask an abstraction is: what can I not do with this? If the answer is "nothing -- you can do everything you could before", then the abstraction is an inner platform. The entire power that abstraction brings is in "focusing" on the problems we care about solving; it must make other problems impossible (ideally ones we don't care about). It follows from the No Free Lunch theorem.

One way to make sure your abstractions are focused on solving the right problems is to always define them based on what you need, not based on what you have. The root of the abstraction vs. duplication debate comes down to this. Indeed it's unhelpful to look at two pieces of code and say "these look the same; I will abstract them!". Instead you say "wow these have really similar needs; I will define exactly what that need is and they'll both ask for it."
Unity of Opposites
I understand. As consumers we need to find a way to reverse this.

One of the problems is that the vast majority of consumers are not tech or privacy savvy enough to understand. Just getting them to be careful about passwords, use passwords managers, etc. is horribly difficult.

Just the other day I had a conversations with someone who is enthusiastically using an app that gives you points for scanning your shopping receipts. Receipts that have all kinds of information on them. In some cases they print your name, address, phone, etc.

I tried to make them understand the myriad risks involved in handing-over that kind of information to some random app publisher. I tried hard. They just don't get it. The responses ranged from the typical "What could go wrong?" to "The information is already out there" and "Experian gets hacked all the time, so...".

TV (and other products, but TV's seem to be at the top of the abusive list) manufacturers take full advantage of this ignorance and just blast consumers with advertising and data gathering technologies.

Not sure what the right path to a solution might be. Legal, political, technological or a combination of all of the above?
> The go runtime has similar capabilities as the BEAM runtime when it comes to concurrent workloads.

Only if you think that the BEAM is similar to being able to easily spawn a function on a separate thread and having channels.

Last I checked, goroutines had no mailboxes, supervisors, process monitoring, registry, and its scheduler has a much smaller scope and featureset than the BEAM's.

I swear it's obvious when people comment about the Erlang ecosystem without having really used it for anything.
I think you are spot on.

In the last 3 years we had insane hiring sprees, layoffs, full remote proclamations, RTO proclamations, all perfectly synced between companies.

This synchronized zigzag makes me think that 1) C-suite pay is indeed too high, and 2) we may have concentrated risk.

On the latter, when SVB busted, it was clear that a small cohort of VCs in chat rooms dominated the decisions of tons of startups, thus they all had very similar behavior.

Perhaps the stock market is the same at a larger scale: a relatively small number of large investors can mostly steer what companies do.

If so, then there should be opportunity for companies that don't dance to the same tune.
twomoresoops plz
This.

It's the only major reason to bring people back to Urban centers. Real estate, both commercial and residential, would take a hit in every high cost of living urban center. City centers, like Seattle, have been begging Amazon to bring workers back into the city.

This may be a bit bias on my part from what I've seen, but businesses are finding that remote workers just do their job - nothing more. No white-boarding sessions. No coffee chats on cool ideas. No being pressured into doing some weird prototype.

I work for a MAANG company and get nasty emails monthly about my "attendance". Yet, I have in my contract that I work a week in the office and a week out of the office.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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And it's great, until the ring is broken. If a ring becomes disconnected, you then have a single 4mm circuit rated at 18A carrying 30A.
The five day work week has entered the chat.
The SEC rewards whistleblowers very handsomely — you could call it part of total compensation!
The difference is that one (the post's) is systemic, "by design"; the other is episodic.
The premise here is that they're holding off a layoff, or at least minimizing the layoff. A benefit of not doing a proper layoff: when you tell people you're just enforcing a new policy, you can make exceptions.

So, if this doesn't reduce the workforce enough, a proper layoff will soon follow. We saw Google enforce "return to the office" in April 2022 followed up by layoffs in January 2023. Microsoft had similar timings WRT to return to the office and layoffs as well.

And again, the premise here is about layoffs, letting a large number of people go. Amazon can fire individual slackers if they want to without playing these games.
Let me give an example bad abstraction that isn't due to littered conditionals, but still very bad.

One time company A had a database, and code that loaded persisted object state from them. Some of the objects could be soft deleted. Rather than check various objects for soft deletion, the team decided to check all objects for soft deletion, regardless of their type, by querying a table where objects had to be listed if they were still live (not soft deleted).

Fast forward a few years, everybody follows this pattern, and there is massive hotspotting of that central "object lifetime" table that has basically two columns (object_id, is_deleted) that becomes a latency bottleneck because absolutely everything is joining on it all the time.

Truth is, it made it convenient to code with this, because you never had two ways of checking whether an object was live, and by construction you could never make the mistake of operating on a soft deleted object or forgetting to implement lifecycle deletion.

But man was that a poor abstraction. It was probably redundant with database functionality. It gave soft deletion capabilities even to things that didn't need soft deletion. It had a significant latency cost. But everybody adding a new object type just picked it because it was the way the company has decided it would do soft deletion.
Maria Zambrano
Citing part of https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-maria-zambrano as little intro:

»It’s nearly impossible to distill Zambrano’s layered ideologies into just a few words. She centered her thinking on the topics of the person, the word, love, time, creativity, and compassion as it relates to the human condition. She explored the political, the ethical, the vital, the spiritual, the mystical, the phenomenological, the anthropological, the historical, the rational, and the poetic. Zambrano is perhaps most famous for her combination of these areas as a means to understand a new reality: a notion she coined “poetic reason.” This theory applies human emotion and creativity to traditional rational and logical modes of thought, in order to give a new voice of truth to the human experience.«
No language ever won. When I started COBOL had won, not so today. Over the years various languages have won. Python is popular today for many but not all applications. That's about all you can say.
Perhaps it’s charging client A for work performed (i.e., time spent) on client B.
The California carve-out for hearing protection states: "The plugs or molds shall be designed in a manner so as to not inhibit the wearer's ability to hear a siren or horn from an emergency vehicle or a horn from another motor vehicle."

Ohio has a carve out specifically for motorcycles; operators of vehicles cannot (I used to own an RV where the wind and road noise at freeway speeds was well above safe levels for sustained operation).
Yeah you can't entirely cover the globe. But you CAN offer people more affordable areas to live in.

Even if you had a regional office a few hours away, its possible to go in once a week even.
It’s also wrong when active epics contain a third implementation of the “same” pattern.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen as much time wasted as trying to a tract the second implementation only to be proven wrong by the third. So instead of being for instance 8, 8 and 16 points to implement, it ends up barely squeaking by as 8, 16 and then 16 again.

It’s one thing to fight the Rule of Three for things that might happen. It’s quite another when it will happen.
The standard British kettle is 13A .. at 240V.
The panic isn’t unfounded. There is work being done every day that shows we our on our way to collapse. To think otherwise is equivalent to climate denial.
Isn't that all games though? Especially MMO's. Why do people think it's so much different for star citizen than any other game? At the end of the day, they're all just entertaining ways to waste time.
nullsoft waste
Not a fan of executives or management but there literally are two groups - RTO and non-RTO. Employees largely prefer one option and management the other. So effectively you have two group-thinks going on. Are you saying management should change their stance or are there other non-group think options here?
400V three phase is wired to all houses at least here in Finland. All 3 phases are wired to the electric box and then that splits phases to normal sockets and for lighting etc. Ovens use three phases and detached houses usually have separate 3-phase plugs outside for running eg. heavy construction tools, like cement mixer and such. Oh right and sauna stove also needs all 3 phases obviously.

Even apartments have that full 3-phases, but just for plugging in the oven and the sauna stove.
> So to rephrase it: never trust NATO's word.

If “trust” to you means “invent application far beyond the context to which a commitment applies”, sure, otherwise, no, that’s not a rephrase.
Are there any stats showing that Europe has more issues with electricutions and electrical fires?
Years ago when I saw a paper on that topic, I tried recording my own keyboard and trained a ML model to classify keystrokes. I used a SVM, to give you an idea of how long ago this was.

I got to 90% accuracy extremely quickly. The "guessed" keystrokes had errors but they were close enough to tell exactly what I was typing.

If I could do that as an amateur in a few hours of coding with no advanced signal processing and with the first SVM architecture I tried, it must be relatively easy to learn / classify.
Growing up in the sticks, I'm pretty sure there was an unlicensed trade school for squirrels in the area. Pretty much once a year, we'd need a replaced transformer from one of these unlicensed squirrel electricians. I never charted the timing of the year this would happen, but now I wonder if aligned with the start of a new class.
I mean, we had software for a good long time before Electron and it's contemporaries were an option. Somehow we still had prototypes, somehow we still had companies churning out native platform-specific software because there wasn't another way to do it.

Now we certainly have more options but like, what good is more options that suck? I would personally love to have more software that is more expensive, is updated less frequently, and is made by people who use proper tooling to create and maintain it rather than an avalanche of programs that all do the same thing, badly.

The fact that slack runs worse on an M1 mac than MSN messenger did on a Core 2 Duo in 2007 in my bedroom is a travesty and everyone involved in it should be ashamed of the product they're turning out.
> what separates the middle from the lower

Property. Historically, this meant land. Today, it means assets. Savings of any kind. The poor live pay check to pay check; the middle class could survive a bad harvest.
I've heard a lot of developers know that Amazon is a terrible company to work for, but having Amazon on your resume is a career booster. So they'll work there for a year or two just to enhance their future job prospects. Is this still true?