skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share this list of furniture makers anytime a post about modern furniture comes up. I usually get dinged for posting luxury goods, and am told I must be detached from reality. Here it is anyway:

If you're in the market for buy-it-for-life solid wood furniture:

https://www.thejoinery.com

https://vermontwoodsstudios.com/

https://hedgehousefurniture.com

https://57stdesign.com

https://www.57thstreetbookcase.com/ (all bookcases, some veneer and plywood)

https://www.spekeklein.com/home

https://www.pompy.com/

https://www.chiltons.com/

https://roomandboard.com (mix of solid and veneer, some MDF)

These makers are in a league of their own, very expensive, incredibly beautiful hand-made pieces:

https://www.sammaloofwoodworker.com

https://www.thosmoser.com (highly recommended)

https://nakashimawoodworkers.com (new commissions around $7K-$15K for a coffee table, $20K-40K for dining table, plus shipping; older Nakashima pieces are highly valued in the art world and sell anywhere between $15K-$300K)

https://www.wright20.com/search/nakashima/items#past

I used to own a lot of IKEA furniture and as I've gotten older, have slowly replaced those pieces with items from Knoll, with custom pieces from local woodworkers, with a few pieces from the studios listed above. Yes, they're expensive.

But if you like art and design and you care about quality, you save for what you want to buy. I wanted to be surrounded by great craftsmanship, so instead of buying "stuff" and instead of spending money on lots of subscriptions and services, or constantly upgrading phones and computers, I buy one piece of nice furniture every year. I believe the more you appreciate the things around you, the more they begin to influence your own work, and your sense of place.

I regularly see a lot of IKEA furniture on the side of the road and in dumpsters. I think this is the difference between buying "things" and having "possessions" but that's a discussion for another day.

PS: Find a local woodworker, they'll build what you want and it'll be better than anything you can buy at the store.
How does that matter ? Compensation is compensation. It is still money she gets to spend, don’t you think the board and she calculated the potential increases and bargained accordingly? Does it not cost the company and shareholders the same whether paying in options or cash [1]

Shall we tie all workers compensation to a high base + lots of options ?

- 2020 profit $13.672B
- 2021 profit $17.878B
- 2023 profit $20.981B
- 2023 profit $22.344B

Yet GM cannot afford to give 10% year on year hikes for next 4 years ?

If management is responsible for profits then they are responsible for the losses too do they return money back in bad times ? Of course not , they will just negotiate more options to compensate for low price . Do you think she will stay and work even one year at her base compensation level of 2M ?

hypothetically let’s say the better salary is going to cost GM 10B a year . The profit would halve and stock would crash , it would still be a healthy company with 15B in profits but management and shareholders will be pissed, would it bad outcome for society or the company ?

In a unregulated capitalist ecosystem, the company will always pay the bare minimum, the shareholders and management incentives will not allow anything else .

Look at Apple for even starker example, most valuable company on earth unimaginable profits every year yet they pay their retail staff peanuts and don’t give them basic benefits because they can and the market expects them to.

[1] It does , all else being the same - They could have sold the stock for the same money in the market, or simply not diluted everyone with new issues and increased the stock price to reflect that.
Romania has the highest home ownership in Europe. Hungary is third. The UK is near the bottom.

In eastern Europe it's common to see young people building their own houses in rural towns near the big cities. They earn less money, yes, but they don't waste 50% of it on rent.

It's a different way of survival.
“Artificial” usually isn’t a positive thing when the word comes up. We’re often told to avoid artificial sweeteners, artificially hydrogenated oils, artificially enhanced flavors, artificial dyes and colorants… and that’s just in food and beverage, and totally ignoring the luxury image of natural hardwood instead of wood veneer, natural glass/crystal instead of plastic.

Diamonds are just about the only thing I can think of where artificial and natural are encouraged to be seen as equals. I’m sure some people have a naturalist/spiritual angle, but I’d bet most are simply applying the wisdom of so many other shopping areas to this one.
> I’d expect a big boost in wages since they left Europe due to a loss of available employable market

Despite Brexit having arguably been driven by immigration concerns, immigration to the UK has increased since that vote, and reached a record of 606k in 2022 [1]. It has been increasing since 1995, and in 2015 13.2% of the UK population was foreign-born [2] - so not counting children of immigrants.

[1] Britain’s record-high immigration — in charts - https://www.ft.com/content/cb9120d8-0595-49d9-8f66-92b95acba... - unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/Wqalm

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/imm...
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Yes.

Search for videos with pattern "Gabe Brown" or "Treating the farm as an ecosystem" (a 3 part series, first one already posted here by someone), Masanobu Fukuoka (posted too), Jean-Martin Fortier / Les Fermiers video series and other videos by him, The Market Gardener book by him, Richard Perkins farm / Ridgedale permaculture in Sweden, Aanandaa Farms in North India near Chandigarh, Clea Chandmal short video about how forests harvest maximum sunlight and how that can be copied by farms, Geoff Lawton work on permaculture in Australia and consulting about it worldwide, etc., Elaine Ingham video "The Roots of your Profits", etc.
+1 to Matt Levine, if you're in tech/law/finance and not reading him daily you're missing out on the conversation (and the fun)

I'm also a daily reader of CNBC, and a multiple-times-a-week reader of the New York Times, Politico, and of course Hacker News
HN had a story about ground news a few years ago and particularly the blindspot sounded intriguing. I subscribed and like it so that's what I read daily. It tends to not get much local news though. I also listen to news podcasts while commuting (particularly podcasts by local journalists).
Startups aren't exactly known for good salaries, I expected a comparable salary just without the option grants.
Every news article has an obligatory "this doesn't belong on HN" comment, but HN is actually one of the few places where I can find insightful commentary that doesn't usually just devolve along internet tropes or politics.
No Call Left Behind
Would you say soda bottle preforms grow into plastic bottles?

https://www.teachersource.com/product/preforms-and-caps/chem...
I've already outlined that: clear expectations & when someone does something wrong, but otherwise seems to behave in good faith, explanations.
1500-2000 EUR per kid is usual in Amsterdam as well. There's a wage dependent subsidy though. Kita's aren't free, though much cheaper.
Leica cameras are very specialized equipment. The market is small. It is not that a random person would pick up a Leica camera. They are likely to be serviced at some point in time, as the range finder might need adjustment. A stolen serial number would be detected instantly.
Rebase don't work if the branch you want to merge contains itself merges (that potentially fixes conflicts)
Or maybe he was in a dunk tank and he was so bowled over that he swung his arm out triggering the latch but someone forgot to fill it with water.
Didn’t think I’d see “social contract collapse” in 2023 but here we are. Anyway, cute the flames, let’s eat the fucking rich already
For those confused by the title, there's Ampere computing (which makes ARM processors) and Ampere the Nvidia GPU generation (eg. A100). This is about steam running on the former though x86 emulation, and also can use the latter GPU architecture.
It's not the goal from what it seems. But it's definitely what would make it the most interesting to a lot of people, and it's what I think most people expected at some point.

For a lot of companies the only place JavaScript is ever used is on their website frontend. And it makes you wonder, why does it even still need to be JavaScript? With the rise of SPAs and the fall of normal document based websites, browsers are basically just becoming their own platform like Windows Desktop, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, etc. You could say it's been that way for a long time, but more and more apps are becoming web based only because the browser is now powerful enough to run what used to be a desktop application.

Browsers are literally just a VM with an address bar. We go to a URL and run a program, except right now there's basically the limitation that the program has to be written at least partly in JavaScript. Being able to deploy an entire website as WASM is just the next logical step from what I see.
Interesting podcast which touches on this too: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report...
Sierra No. 3
There's no such thing as "crony" capitalism. It's just capitalism without hiding the nasty bits.
From the linked paper:

> STEM and Business majors are very likely to pay off, even with high college costs.

An arts/humanities graduate who attended a private school (and had average costs of attendance) has roughly 50/50 odds that the net present value of their college investment will be positive.
Covid revealed good schools and bad schools. But it also made plain parents who valued education and parents who didn't.
Laptops are common equipment, Leica cameras are not. Especially M series cameras are only used by enthusiasts. They know about stuff and won't pick up a shady one. The next service would put them into trouble anyway.
But conservatives everywhere want exactly this. They are keeping their audiences and electorate stupid with Fox News, etc and making the rich richer.
> people will still want to signal their commitment/ability to provide when proposing

Anyone over about 25 and actually mature enough to commit probably doesn't care that much about the ring as long as it's not literally a funyun.

How about a nice home, a leisurely lifestyle and solid career, an amiable personality, a great social circle, track record of being dependable with family, etc. You know, the things the ring is supposed to actually represent.
Not every day, but I appreciate the global tech perspective of https://restofworld.org
I was told by a furniture store owner 20 years to use local cabinet makers to build bookshelves for you. He said never to have shelves installed in your house - a movable bookshelf costs the same as an installed one and you can take it with you when you move.
just because they only control (employ) 15% of the trucking industry (per some other source, not the article you cite) doesn't mean they don't have the power to block this kind of thing. That 15% might be enough concentration and funding to pay for the needed lobbyists.

That article even says

>“Even truck drivers who weren’t members of the union benefited from the relatively high wages and decent conditions expected in the industry,” Hamilton said. “All of them generally benefited from the relatively strong position that was spearheaded by the Teamsters.”

This is in reference to 1964 and Jimmy Hoffa, when the teamsters were (I believe) still up and coming and AIUI were strong enough to lead "by influence" but not yet strong enough to lead "by authority".

In CA, autonomous trucking was just dealt a blow:

https://teamster.org/2023/07/teamsters-applaud-california-se...

That aside, I'm not saying that unions are definitely the reason, I just suppose they might be part of it. You haven't convinced me otherwise yet. I do see lots of articles on unions opposing these efforts (of course) and unions do have lobbyists. I'm not a student of this stuff so I won't belabor it further.

I guess Uber actually got out of the autonomous trucking biz awhile ago. It was Waymo that got out more recently. Maybe it's nothing to do with unions, rather exactly as they say: to focus their business.
What a great opportunity to re-share one of my favorite articles: https://priceonomics.com/diamonds-are-bullshit/

I really can’t think of an example better than people buying shiny rocks for absurd amounts of money that demonstrates how non-advanced we are, as a society generally.
If it were really unrelated, nobody would pay you to reverse engineer.
I understand you need the API. I mean why would the user or your customer not just use chatGPT instead of your product? Search engines themselves incorporate GenAI for such queries now.
BEV's are not proven over the course of history. If anything they have already failed once. The first time they failed was because of the lack of infrastructure. The economics of ICE are well proven. If the BEV cannot be viable without legislation that should tell you something is dramatically wrong with them, not encourage more legislation.
reuters.com

Most newspaper copy from there anyways and at least they dont bring their own opinion into every articly. In private tab you can read endless articles without an account.
Read "Britania Unchained" (available at various shadow libraries). Then, when you've read it, realise that it was written by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Liz Truss.

It's garbage front to back. We elect fucking idiots who are in thrall to a tiny clique of rabidly anti tax arseholes who would rather set their granny on fire than pay any tax at all. And then we wonder why the country is on fire.
33k is criminal, mate. You may be dealing with stuff and not want to "switch" right now but, find a short/mid term plan to switch because, even though UK is not US in terms of salary, it's also not Spain. The cost of living is very high not to have something that feels at least moderate.

You and your mates don't work in a "high tech profession" typical if they're being scammed with those salary ranges. That's not normal.

Now, the UK is definitely going to shit in terms of social contract and taxes, fueling wars and corrupt bureocracy instead of betterment of society, but that doesn't change the fact that the salary you have should not be such.
And don't forget people who live here who literally couldn't vote at the time and also have to suffer the consequences.
> What do you suppose is the value that distinguishes these two processes? The story?

Of course it is the story. The value in everything is the meaning we attach to it, not the thing itself.

With a natural diamond, it's the idea that you have a unique artifact formed over millions of years, an irreplaceable corner of the Earth and its history owned by you and you alone, which then suggests that you yourself have a certain uniqueness and irreplaceability.

You can argue that people should not choose that particular story and that particular meaning, but that's a moral argument, and not an argument about the object itself. (And if you choose to make that argument, I would first suggest introspecting over how much of your own stories and meaning are as arbitrary as that one.)

I don't care a bit for natural diamonds, but I have infinite respect for the stories and meaning people choose to embue their lives with. Ultimately, it's all we have.
We had it made in China. There are a number of online chinese jewelers. They will work with you to make the ring to your exact specifications. They will create a 3D rendering of the ring for your approval. They will let you pick out the stones you want. After it is manufactured, they will create a video showing the ring (or earrings or whatever) to you for approval before shipping it to you. I figured that for $700 we could risk it, but it turned out to be a gorgeous ring and we have had zero complaints about it in the 4 years since we received it. It is rock solid (pun intended) and as pretty today as the day she first put it on.
Is Steam capable of delivering aarch64 native games? For instance, is it correct to assume that a game developer can upload both an x86 and aarch64 version?
> The first three-year degree programs

Nah. We've had them in the UK for ages! :)
True...it's just difficult to draft a license that says something along the lines of "If you're Big Tech, we have the right to go after you, if you're small startup, you're safe".

I think there's a swath of Terraform users (likely minority) who find themselves in a legal gray area, or a legal black-and-white area, where they're directly at risk. Even if Hashicorp never intended to target small startups with this, the wording of the license unfortunately applies and is enough to make anyone nervous.

I think MongoDB had a similar issue when they went source-available, they seemed to intend to only protect themselves from big tech but unfortunately a lot of smaller players got spooked. I think (?) it's fine now though
Tivo became a verb too but it only a tiny tiny as fraction as big of a company. I think found it convenient to say
Looks very similar to the Exercism model, which also has a free WASM course filled with small exercises[1]. I wonder if the author considered contributing to that course or working together with them, it might get their work to a broader audience and leverage the existing toolset Exercism has to offer.

[1]https://exercism.org/tracks/wasm
which new build properties? there's a massive lack of supply and a huge amount of demand
Looks like it's the author's last name
> What is a “recoverable loss”?

Unrelated to the topic at hand. I'm not accusing ford of omissions to their 10-K. That's not what Hollywood accounting means.

> It seems like you are using orthogonal to mean “similar”,

No, I mean orthogonal. You simply do not know what "Hollywood accounting" is.

> And Lampert has done very poorly with his Sears investment, he has most likely lost wealth over the last 15 years when a riskless SP500 investment would have gained a ton.

Really hard to say, but he was able to leverage 4.6 billion dollars [1] to repurchase sears.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sears-chairman-eddie-lampert-of...
Sure, but I don't think that's crucial here.

Does it change any of the other information? I admit I shouldn't have written "both require the entire derived work to be distributed under CDDL/GPL", and instead should have written "both may require, depending on a court's interpretation, the zfs kernel module to be distributed under CDDL or GPL respectively".

I think the rest of the comment stands though, right?
You need to do something to demonstrate intent to follow through in order to get hit with conspiracy charges [that aren't politically-motivated].

You would, for your involvement with the car theft-- you're knowingly participating in a crime and provided material support. Assange didn't follow up on his own agreement.

Even in the famous "cannibal cop" case-- whether or not the cop was actually going to kidnap anyone, he did look up "victims" on the state computer. It was no longer "talk" once he took a step toward making it happen.
> European/North American parents find it weird to help their kids buy housing.

This is absolutely not true. I don't know where you're taking this from.
Disney lawyers, meanwhile, are looking to extend copyright to 50 years beyond the life of the author's 3rd generation descendant or the heat death of the universe, whichever comes last.
Plasmo? They're certainly further along in dev and doing great work.
Bedframe is a slightly differing approach to the same pretty much.
Outsource dangerous building blocks to qualified people, overpay for quality components, learn proper wiring (ratings, crimping, etc).
I don’t really care what license they use. It gets the job done.
Smart speakers, printers, thermostats, light bulbs, security cameras, door bells, locks, smartwatches, TV sticks...
The trick is to find your products somewhere else and then look them up on Amazon for a price comparison.
But... It's already distinguished. You just look at it and it doesn't look like meat. No need for extra labels?...
In that scenario I would MUCH rather the company be aware someone is putting that lust together, notfiy me in advance of the research being concluded, provide updates, organize and manage the contents of that list, offer solutions, patch the fixes in new models, and generally work with the people who already purchased the house.

I would not prefer someone to do it all in secret and then at the last second decide they want to inform the company.

Once such a thing gets broadcasted, there is inherent risk created for a lot of those existing owners that did not exist. Opportunistic criminals are way more common than premeditated ones.

Also if we gain the ability to monitor everyone who is currently probing houses for security issues, then if we are able to have a whitelist of people who pre-notified with their intent then we can more reliably examine people who might be looking to abuse the system.

I guess part of my underlying assumptions here is that we are moving towards a surveillance state and there are no signs of stopping that
anything that uses the template “How X did Y to improve Z by METRIC” and also hosted on company x domain is an ad.

for that matter, any blog post by a company is an ad. maybe not to sell product, but to at least build exposure and familiarity with the brand.
Frankly, this is vitamin-C cures cancer level offensive to ND folks.
Tesla Dashcam Footage Suggests Reasons for Autopilot Crashes [video]
Let's not pretend to be daft. The user can prove ownership by providing a PIN. They can also delete their data before transferring ownership to a new owner. (Not to touch at all upon the fact that selling devices is really uncommon to begin with.)

Nothing about any of that requires the user to cede control of their own device as a "solution".
Enrique Tarrio gets 22-year prison sentence, longest yet from Jan. 6 riot
Yep, backwards they did

(Disclosure: I'm from Digger and OpenTF so am biased)

Hashi's biggest miscalculation is that they put Terraform (an open language / ecosystem) into the same bucket as Vault and Consul, which are hostable backend applications.

BSL makes sense for Vault, just like it does for MongoDB. It is reasonable to prevent others from charging for hosting your code.

But with Terraform, the backend part (TF Cloud) was never even open source. And it's not required for Terraform to work.

Hashi shot themselves in the foot. Unlike with Vault or Consul, there is enormous vested interest in the community to keep Terraform truly open. Hashi trying to enforce everyone to use their non-oss backend with it will only result in Hashi losing the privileged (and well deserved) position among providers of commercial products in the Terraform ecosystem.