skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that it's absurd for us to ask if it's possible to provide housing for workers in these extremely small towns with vast amounts of open space. The point is that we have the technology, the means and the capital to solve this issue without visibly effecting the landscape of Colorado. A few small apartments would go a long way to helping workers live decently, instead we have chosen privation.

If you wanted to double the population of Vail by adding apartments of the size I laid out (a midsized, 5 story building) It would take up .2% of Vail's legal area. I'm not really suggesting that -- but pointing out that the government would rather the working people of these towns to live out of their cars, or live in overcrowded dorms rather than allowing people the basic dignity of an affordable place to live.
carburetor skills was an advanced training topic at the Ford Company Training Camp, I did not need it for our squad assignments, so I guess I did not miss out. I make good money on our conveyor line. Fancy decorative writing means nothing to me.
> > Most drivers are awful, at least here in the US

But so were you and I as kids who had just gotten their license or even before when stealing dad's truck behind his back.

Actually the most fun happens when you are awful at something, it means that the learning curve is still in the steep phase.
Personal responsibility culture.

It's the same thing when Shell tries to shift the conversation away from their responsibilities toward your personal carbon footprint or McDonalds asks whether you recycle enough.

I'm sure OP isnt doing it deliberately but we are steeped in this.
25% of Annual Revenue and firing of all CxOs (CEO, COO, CTO etc)
I don't think this is true. Demand and Agglomeration effects will always increase land/location value. The question is whether or not there is an increase in land value per capita. When you limit density then only those most willing and able to bid up the price of locations will increase the land value per capita. If you allow density the land value per capita will decrease (more affordable) while the total land value still increases.

Edit: Any perceived amenity affect from limiting population density is really just a scarcity effect.
> Overall I think the new design is fine

It being fine seems quite wasteful though. Should it not be better for it to be worth the resource expenditure?
More quality input for machine-generated art, hooray!
I think it's personality differences. The people who love being in the office probably do best in that environment and likely got promoted into leadership as a result of their interpersonal skills / ability to navigate office politics. Those people cannot fathom why others would dislike going into the office, because it's so natural and normal for them, and they tend to think people complaining about it are just being kind of immature children. After all, the office has been great for them, so it's gotta be great for everyone!

I think it's an introvert extrovert split, primarily, with extroverts more likely to be in leadership roles and therefore dictating to everyone else to live like they do.
I'm most familiar with AWS so I went back to a trusted (and far more expensive) platform where I didn't have to deal with amateurs literally turning off a paid service.

I may explore OVH in the future, nothing against them at all.
Hmm. This seems like an ad for someone's courseware. That's totally fine, but might have wanted to label it as such.
>You cannot fork it and change its licence

You can't do that for Godot either.
In class warfare it is a poor choice to give the wealth class this benefit of a doubt.

If their seemingly poor decisions—and to a laid off worker these were indeed poor decisions—were not made of incompetence, to a worker it is better to assume they were made out of class interest. Or as Marx’s razor goes:

> Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by class interest.

In this case you have no evidence to even hint that the people being rehired won’t fill up positions lost during the mass layoffs. If you are a worker, it serves you better to assume the mass layoffs were done with the sole purpose to enrich the shareholders at the cost of the business, and assume that the rehiring is evidence to the fact that this poor decisions collaterally affected the health of the business, and by extension, the value for their shareholder.
The value in the Quora post comes from the perspective provided by Justine Musk's response, having been married to the obsession needed to attempt to achieve this. You're right! You'll likely still fail, but that's what it takes to try: obsession. The potential wealth is a byproduct.
> but i guess europeans are used to losing out, and actually prefer it?

losing out on companies that are detrimental to our social fabric, democracy, and psychological health of children is a good thing. Mistaking company values on a stock market for population health is the human equivalent of acting like a paperclip AI
> Math is just a tool, as long as the objects behave in the ways you need

and you can't derive a contradiction

> you can do whatever you want with math.

Fixed.
Searching "Flexon" on Wikipedia redirects to Nitinol.

This article claims its the same stuff, just a specific alloy:

https://www.pressrelease.com/news/myeyewear2go-com-eyeglass-...

The Beta Group, who claims to have started Flexon, says "Beta advanced the technology of Nitinol with its pioneering Flexon Ophthalmic Eyewear."

https://www.betagroupllc.com/wrought-nitinol/

Sounds pretty legit to me unless I see something else saying otherwise. I think they just stress the titanium of it as a lot of consumers probably think of titanium as a "space age" futuristic metal that they make space ships and the SR-71 and Lt. Dan's legs out of. Saying its made of Nitinol means nothing to a lot of average consumers.
So they increase margin to cover for uncertainty and incorrect estimations. And in case the original estimations were right, the higher profit is just unintended consequence.
You are absolutely correct with this.

I'm absolutely in favor of making it impossible for adtech to make any profit at all as long as they build their business on monetizing user data and exposing their users to all kinds of hazards.

I find it funny that so few people here see a problem with that kind of behavior. It's as if they expect society to serve the market, instead of the other way around.
Kind reminder Google broke almost all TCP fingerprints (i.e. JA3) when introducing grease values and other stuff such as random order in the ciphers in Chromium. I work in a bot detection company and we put a lot effort on it, currently have an advanced implementation that ignores some extensions, order the fields, remove the grease values etc.
Thanks - this is awesome. I will investigate. Might solve the problem I’ve had forever!
It's not as different as you think it is.

Most people got used to zoom meetings and async interactions, and they too liked it more than open offices. Big companies have it worse - they have the cubicles/open offices and their coworkers are in other offices throughout the country. This is all too common, and WFH made life much easier on everyone.

This was less true for executives, who were suddenly on 10 hours of zoom calls a day, and whose jobs are most affected. I truly think they forgot that ICs have a very different life than them.
I think it is, at least in some cases. I've found that Elm/React are like this with dynamic elements.

First, you code the component you want with hardcoded styles and data. Then, you extract that to a function. Finally, you pull out the harcoded styles and data into parameters for that functoin. Now you have a reusable component.
The problem is, this isn't a question of, "Will Epic do something like this tomorrow?"

It's "Will Epic do something like this at any point in the foreseeable future?"

Will Epic's leadership decide to IPO in hopes of more money?

Will they take a lucrative private buyout from some other billionaire with more money than sense, like Musk?

Will they hire new upper management that persuades them they need to do something like this for Serious Business Reasons?

Will they retire and be replaced by people who do the same?

The problem is, if you build your game on Unreal, you're essentially betting all its future commercial success on one for-profit company's decision to remain Less Of An Asshole Than The Other Guy. The choice of what engine you use has suddenly become about much more than just "what features does it offer?" "How many developers know how to use it?" or even "What's the pricing structure today?" You have to worry about whether they'll get it into their heads, for whatever reason, to retroactively change their pricing structure in a way that ruins you financially.

On the other hand, if you build your game on Godot, or some in-house engine, you know you'll never need to worry about that.

Also worth noting: If the gaming industry, and the public at large, send a clear enough signal to Unity now that this is unacceptable, that makes it much, much less likely that anyone else will try to pull bullshit like this in the future.
Maybe the cat decides to live a double life with some other family and doesn't want the first one to know about it?
Ask HN: Going solo as an HPC/DL specialist?
I have an academic background in HPC (C, C++, CUDA, numerical programming and simulation) and DL (PyTorch, Deepspeed). My academic contract is coming to an end and because I was too busy I did not prepare myself well for what comes next. I am searching for a new academic contract or an industry job in this niche but it will probably take some time before I land a new job/contract.

In the meantime I am considering doing freelance consulting in this niche. However, I do not know where to start or if it is even possible. If it may be of relevance I live in Germany and am limited to the EUA region due to VISA reasons for on-site work.

Where do I find clients is my first question. Is there a better approach than signing up for UpWork? Should I setup my own website or is that unnecessary? Do people expect a Linkedin account? How do I win clients?
thanks – yes, that's what I'm trying to figure out. What are the use cases for this kind of pricing.

"there are people for whom that makes sense" – I'm trying to find them, without much success so far :-)
Like renormalization. Still seems wonky.
They're just making stuff up at this point.

> The new look, which includes a different shade of red, aims to recognize J&J’s shift into a “pure play health care company,"
The unstated assumption is that we aren't going to build new towns.

Vail is a post WWII development. It used to be nothing. Colorado still has A LOT of undeveloped land. Water is an issue, but residential use is pretty small, and it doesn't matter if my residence is in Vail or a new town, I still am going to need water.

The problem is that opportunity is, for some reason, being geographically limited to fewer and fewer places.
What if they escape?
Everyone should experience it at least once, probably.
(2018)

still pretty funny seeing it play tho
Here in Australia we seem to be having high inflation of food, which the main supermarkets (a duopoly) are blaming on the cost of goods.

Meanwhile, they've both reported their highest ever company profits. :(

So, clearly they're full of shit about the cost of goods being the cause rather than their own price gouging.
I don't blame someone with prime real estate for trying to protect their asset, I just wish they would be more honest about what they're doing. They want to hurt the working class to maintain their own wealth/lifestyle, but they'll use the left's language to pretend they aren't the problem. It's such a funny meme at this point. Oooo that's gentrification, that's like, racist, man. Don't you know it's the billionaires' fault? Subsidizing demand? Brilliant! High density housing? Don't you know that's just gonna drive up costs!
Welp, you're out of the club now.
The research paper linked by the parent comment is using Gross Operating Surplus and EBITDA metrics: Gross operating surplus differs from profits shown in company accounts for several reasons. Only a subset of total costs are subtracted from gross output to
calculate the gross operating surplus. Essentially it is gross output less the cost of intermediate goods and services to give gross value added, and less compensation of employees and taxes and subsidies on production and imports.

There are obvious financial cost increases that have happened which are falsely represented as 'profit' in this analysis.
Maybe they changed something very recently, but it was certainly impossible to play two games before without offline shenanigans.
Is Brazil also the country where you must disclose when you change something in the recipe of the product?
i mean their whole platform is built to suit the needs of people who pirate movies and TV. it's a system purpose-built for watching pirated content. they might pretend it isn't to attract investors and avoid drawing the ire of authorities, but we all know what it is.
It was when it AI came along that the problems began.
Building a Unix Top-Inspired Tool to Monitor the Stock Market in Real-Time
Bingo re: Unity going public. Once you have a stock price (and assuming your early investors aren't the most aggressive type in the first place) the goal then shifts to infinite growth, and lately tech companies (even Google Netflix etc) have had to make user-unfriendly decisions to justify ever growing valuations in the face of rate hikes. Unity isn't the first, but it has maybe done it the worst.

One of the "analysis" threads by a VC on Twitter mentioned the engine not making as much money as the ad business as "unsustainable". But it's the same nonsense Musk spouted with Twitter not being sustainable or "making a profit" -- it made a profit but not given the market realities deliberately hoisted upon it.
Mostly, although Lazarus has an incompatible ABI (LCLs vs VCLs). So legacy projects relient on third-party components don't benefit from it.
They'll just write bigger golden parachutes into their contacts to offset the risk. That or suddenly everyone is an EVP and the C levels all are just paid fall guys.

But 25% revenue might work.
Maybe they've added a fix to their detection system since? I quite literally have a netscan abuse report from them filled with the above UDP IP and port.
I would say that application servers with EJB and JMS are a good environment for implementing microservices. Everything uses less resources (memory) and communication is much more efficient, plus everything is written in Java, which makes it easier to maintain consistency.
Is there an accompanying VenerealDiseaseRecord?

That seems like the sort of thing that this would tie to, seeing as this tracks prophylactic status and nothing else.
Was going to say the same :-D
Those numbers look scary at first sight, by that doesn't seem like a particularly fast rate of decline I think? IANAP, but a normal fight gets to a cruising altitude of ~35k feet in ~ 10 minutes from ground level I think? So this was not some meteoric plummet.

That being said, obviously there was some serious safety issue, so kudos to the pilot for quickly and safely securing the aircraft
They brought this on themselves. They never needed 7700 employees just to maintain an indie-scale game engine.

Epic maintains their far more advanced engine with 2200 people, and they also run a AAA live service game.
This is a good start as a starting fine as I said and have been calling for instead of a ban.

Increase the fines into the billions of dollars if they repeatedly continue to violate the privacy of their users. This has happened with Facebook before.

There is no defense in large compaines getting away with this and all social media companies with over hundreds of millions of users that violate their users privacy should be fined, as found with TikTok. No more exceptions or excuses.

So that concludes that TikTok is no different to Meta when they screw over their own users privacy.
I agree with this and add that it's especially repugnant when manufacturers collect data for purposes unrelated to the feature they're developing.
P**r-checkers are great folks, but you could have been a nuke! :)
That's fascinating, thanks. None of the various analysis I've read so far have hit on this point but it makes sense.
it’s unnecessarily reductive to summarize with “government wants you to be poor.” while i agree with the general sentiment that the government has ceased to work in the people’s best interests, there is a whole set of cultural differences between colorado and manhattan that more readily explain this: pioneer/land grab mentality would be my starting point. it’s hard to overcome the decades of expansionist mentality that dominates the area.
At this point it feels like most brands are ripping me off; I'd be more interested in finding out which ones aren't, lol.

Edit: this is what Carrefour is doing to an extent, but we don't have them in the US.
Their website[1] says they're going with bike tires to get product into people's hands faster. I'd imagine that vehicle tires are on the horizon.

[1]https://www.smarttirecompany.com/faqs
Cereal boxes are my favorite example of this. Each year, material scientists at the box factory push the physics of cardboard just a little more so they can increase the aspect ratio of the top panel.

One of my favorite health food cereal brands now offers their stuff in just the plastic bag at a bit of a discount. The environmentally friendly packaging lands on the bottom shelf with the less reputable brands, but whatever.

(I’d prefer it just be in the cardboard with no plastic, but it is still a win).
I see. And this error explains why I’m being downvoted and don’t deserve any other answers?
Housing builders don't want prices to fall. Nor do the investors who fund new construction and buy existing houses. In other words, the general public are not the ones you need to convince.

EDIT: Nor do existing homeowners want to see their house prices fall. So anything that relies upon them voting to change the value of their homes is a non-starter too.

Plus, houses are touted as a major investment vehicle for the average citizen. If they all go underwater due to lowered prices, it'll result in a pretty big economic crisis. So most government agencies won't want to see house prices go down too much either.
Thanks a ton for posting this! You saved me a lot of trouble!
They're sending people a bunch of invoices without any due dilligence. You're going to get companies that double pay because they're not sure/don't have time to review licensing contracts. The business model is very scam inspired.
am i the only one who finds the vilifying of a "dumb user", of internet, of anything, if not just dumb in itself, then just a bit unethical. sorry guys, you are all just here on this planet along with dumb people. that's so sad, huh. sucks to be you.

making accessible things is actually good. not sure how that "dumbification of software for the marginal user" really aligns with what happens with apps. sometimes things don't get "dumber", or "simpler", or "easier to get even for the most basic of users". sometimes things just get worse. or get more complicated, internally (to exploit that user) or externally (dark patterns). simplification is really not the reason nor the 'evil thing-ruining machine' running behind the 'worsening of everything'. it might be the myriad of business processes, including a/b testing and orienting on whatever metrics analytics spit out, but like, despite almost pointing to that, this still diverts to 'things get simplified for the sake of the user' (boo hoo cutting features removing buttons). sure. but that's not the problem. the problem is the process that leads to, not just 'simplification' but whatever changes that happen.

>nearly all popular consumer software

is it really?
Servo Browser Engine Enables New Default UI, Replaces OpenSSL
"Works" in the sense that it keeps prices from going to high. Fails in that it prevents people from preparing adequately for forseeable disasters and bringing in more of the things people need in a disaster.

In my opinion, disasters that have some level of predictability (hurricanes are the best example) shouldn't have price gouging laws. If you were allowed to raise your prices arbitrarily high, and you knew a hurricane was coming, what would you do? Bring in as many of the goods as you thought you could get higher prices for as you could. This results in an equilibrium where lots more water, food, batteries, etc. gets brought in, prices rise only somewhat, and no law is necessary.

Now, I agree that for disasters that aren't forseeable (like earthquakes), you lose the signalling value, so I'm more amenable to it.
A few usage tips:

- Whatever attachment system is used for animal attachment, it should break open under the cat's weight or less. Otherwise you are running a hanging-to-death-site locator.
- A harness with the tracker mounted on the top (spine) seems more tolerable and robust than a collar
- Remember it is a *"collar tracker"* for your expensive purchase, not a *"cat tracker"*, and you will remain satisfied.
> I don't see Discords as any different to web forums

A rather huge difference is that you have to sign up in order to use Discord. You usually don't in order to search web forums. Signing up for something is a pretty huge ask.
You are making an assumption that there is a tighter coupling with Instagram's infra than in reality...especially at launch.

I could see maybe trending topics as possibly a feature that would be nice to have at launch but the others?

The following are my thoughts if I were a PM choosing features.

search - What are you going to search for when the app is brand new? I believe we did have user search as I recall using it so you must be referring to content search.

DMs - Do we know what their anticipated user projections were going to be? I could see this feature being a worthless endeavor vs other things they could have done if the userbase ended up being small.

a web version - These guys are a mobile first company, the large % of users are on mobile, their existing web properties are either in maintenance mode(facebook) or just thin wrappers(instagram). I can see why this wasn't a priority.

non-Instagram account creation - Sounds like either this was a way to bypass overhead in their typical new user generation or they felt one click signup from IG would encourage more active users/reduce issues of bots which may not have been thought out at launch. It would be interesting to learn more about this unclear part of the infra.

Europe - Even for big company launches they typically american first, likely for the same reasons why we dont see big new tech companies ever launched from Europe anymore: too many little issues dealing with all the different countries in the union, issues with complying with various regulations.
Just compare corporate profits before and after Covid, see e.g.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CA.PA/financials?p=CA.PA

Not much of a difference. Certainly nothing that looks outright malicious.
Thank you! This has been running for several hours now. If this allows me to fix it, I'll be very grateful. I've been delaying re-rooting all those worktrees for 6mo or more.. :)