skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mind takes me to:

"We decided to make our color a slightly darker red than standard maroon, but only by 1 point of hue, because we know that subconsciously the person will finally associate our brand with the world ending dread that we are hoping to convey"

I literally think its just a bunch of people trying to stay relevant and answer the question of "why do you even get paid 10 million a year?"

At that point why not just call it like Kevin and Steve or something, it'll be unrecognizable and move publicly away from the vile reputation that J&J has had.

In any case, I will keep ignoring this nonsense. Maybe one day they will rebrand to writing out J&J in a language that doesn't exist to show that they are so future thinking, we can't even fathom what the brand is!
Not OP, but I know my manager was let go because he didn’t agree with his manager (VP) in the new re-org structure. I’m glad he didn’t agree because we are customer facing engineers and under the new re-org, we would be under a person who had no desire to think about issues from an external client perspective. It would have made the entire team miserable and less efficient but the VP had an attitude of “why don’t you just do as you’re told”.

Sometimes it’s just poor leadership, but leaders have power.
This isn't my experience, so I went looking and found this:

> Uniform Unit Pricing Regulations apply only when stores voluntarily provide unit pricing information. The unit of measure chosen must be consistent across like items within the category.

So if a store offers unit pricing it must be consistent within a category.

https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/laws-and-regulations/us-retail-...
If you are paid in stock, you might want to find the lowest common manager between the two teams, and ask for an org-wise raise for your side (due to morale issues, and lower expectations for business growth 12 months from now).
To note, human interaction does not equal work from office either.

A decent portion of the white collar workforce is sales. Lawyers and accountants, recruiters, real estate agents can also be traveling a lot and/or work at places that are not their offices.

I'd also argue customer support shouldn't need to be done in sweatshop style offices, though weak connectivity could be an issue in more decentralized settings.
Relative to weed, it’s a lot faster.
Hopefully we get to sue them out of existence this time
Strongly agree. My (no tech) job would barely even be possible at my house because of the impossibility of any kind of informal or spontaneous interaction with someone from whom I need to learn. This leaves aside the fact that I want to be able to set some boundaries. A short drive is worth it to have a separate, quiet space to work.

The IT world really made a mistake by creating a space that’s so unpleasant that it’s easier to work at home. I think if a significant share of tech workers had an office with a door we would not be having this wfh rto conversation.
Instacart raises IPO price range after success of Arm listing
I'm going to trust the recommendations of a professional association with dozens of named authors written after an extensive public notice-and-comment period, rather than what seems like a bespoke equation from some pseudonymous blogger with no expertise in the field, cobbled together in 15 minutes with coefficients that appears to just be the first figures found on Google.
Are there no hobby-level GPS chips that do hardware decoding?
TikTok also has accounts and real estate in the EU, which can be seized.

It’s not a good idea to play chicken with a continent.
I remember WAP, and had an early-phase smartphone with limited Web support (Palm Treo/Centro) which ... remains one of the better phones that I've had (hard keyboard among other features). You wouldn't want to read much on that, but as a quick on-the-go reference, particularly when travelling, it was handy.

One of my daily drivers is a large (13.3") e-ink tablet. Reading on that is actually a pleasure, though it's led me to another conclusion: scrolling sucks.

I much prefer reading paginated media, and if at all possible, fixed-layout media (e.g., PDFs rather than ePub) both because the same material stays in the same place on the same page regardless of other settings (I have a strongly spatial memory), and because the layout is usually just simply much better than what fluid-layouts achieve.

What really drives me nuts though is having to scroll on webpages. It's imprecise, half the time I'm clicking on something I'd not intended to, and it's much harder and less pleasing to read.

But size and print clarity alone make this a huge improvement over smartphone displays.

Sorry to hear about the eyesight issues.
The rise of robust middle classes in Asia have also put a squeeze on the world's chocolate supply in the last decade or two. These days in the US, it's hard to even discern the cocoa in most "chocolate" bars.
Kind of annoying that the return value of getProtectionUsed() is supposed to be Protection(), but clicking on that link returns a 404.

I know the returned values are probably the above-defined PROTECTION_* constants, but "not having to guess" is precisely what documentation is for.

<Insert joke about programmers not testing this documentation here.>
Well said. Following a set of rules is no substitute for experience, despite any pressure to do so.

Since every situation is unique, even if similar to others, I think it's always best that programmers rely on their judgement and experience when writing code instead of a set of axioms.

And besides, blindly embracing a set of rules is acting more like a robot, instead of a human being.
Thank you, I didn’t know that. This is a bit different since they’re printing the mold, and it sounds like those molds are being pressed very hard. But I’m no expert, I don’t know whether this is harder or not.
While it's true that this can happen to external tools, it doesn't happen very often. Companies have a very strong incentive to ensure their products are supported long terms and work well. For in-house developed software it happens frequently that past employees leave the codebase in a state, where new team members end up rewriting it.

So it's a bit weird to say you shouldn't use closed source since there is a small chance things change in a way we don't like, and then your alternative is to use in-house software, where maintenance issues in the future are pretty much guaranteed.
Artificial intelligence can revolutionise science
"a considerable payout for the tech giant that following a years-long investigation into its data practices."
It's literally being taught in classes at a major Canadian medical school, in 2023.
Quite true, +1. And the sun never sets on the plethora of serious problems which modern Britain provides for easy criticism. ...But you said "the biggest problem". (Vs. "a bigger problem".) Thus leaving yourself open to obvious straw-man interpretations by every amateur historian and pedant on the web.
Agreed.

We live in a surveillance culture today. And those photos and videos will haunt you wherever and whenever you are in the future.
Even not so far from where I live on London there are single track roads with high sides and occasional, often informal, passing spots. Even in the town I rarely get anywhere without finding somewhere to let a car pass the other way, or they let me through. Not rooting against it, just sceptical.
I never thought about that. Was cursive a workaround for non-modern pens? I thought it has to do about writing speed, but this was a relevation..
>but that's what it takes to try: obsession

Having a diamond mine owning dad (Musk), a 250K loan from your parents (Bezos), a businesswoman mother with connections to IBM leadership (Gates), a half-billionaire real estate mogul father (Trump), financial support from friends and family to the tune of $1 million (Thiel), an $100K cheque from your father (Zuckerberg), and so on, doesn't hurt either.

Or a stable middle and above class family background, with the support to study, preferably at an elite university.

Or family connections.

Or a safety net in general.

Or being at the right place, at the right time (like at the early eighties PC boom, or at the late 90s web boom), and at the right country too (not many opportunities if you're born in a family in Lagos).

Or the ability to treat people as a means to an end, and lie, cheat, backstab, and take advantage of them as needed to get ahead. Including the ability to turn a blind eye to shady things you caused or implicitly ordered but don't need to know the details of.
Well, it tries to. Whether or not it succeeds is the subject of lots and lots of debate, but single payer systems I'm aware of have accountability models driven by (usually public-sector) audits and quality controls that try to optimize for health outcomes. The rationale being that the payer (government) spends less overall, and is more likely to be supported (voted for), if the population has good health outcomes in areas that the government can influence via the healthcare system.
A single use function absolutely makes sense - you are effectively naming a block of code in some way, documenting it.
That people need this explained to them, readers of a financial newspaper no less, is a little concerning.
I know, we are not supposed to discuss voting. But I'll still say that seeing an informative comment based on real-life experience of being a solo SaaS founder being downvoted is discouraging. It's a signal that I should stop contributing.
Of course this gets posted to HN right after the optical drive in my Dreamcast stops working...
Exactly, 4C is a quantity with temperature units. Units have no semantic meaning without context. Dimensioned quantities have the semantic meaning that you give them.
Link to actual product details: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smarttirecompany/space-...

If you want to know how you can make a real practical difference in fighting pollution, supporting this company is a great way, as the standard "rubber" tire is a big source of plastic, forever pollution: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/tires...

I've followed these developments, the really sad part about this is nitinol shape memory tires were at first hoped to be a possible way to entirely avoid the disintegration of synthetic rubber from friction on pavement into microplastic/micropollution. Tires are responsible for an incredible amount of pollution even if you convert a car to an EV, that and brake pads. The NASA rover wheels that used nitinol for tires for example had no rubber at all.

Unfortunately this company found that nitinol wasn't enough by itself to give good tire properties, for one I think there were issues with traction. So they ultimately have just gone ahead and added the same tread material to the nitinol where the 'rubber meets the road', but at the least we can be happy these tires require 50% less rubber than normal ones. It also seems if they can get their re-tread program off the ground it will offer a reduction in the rubber that ends up in landfills: "In addition, METL tires use far less rubber than conventional tires, and the company is experimenting with different lower-emission rubber compounds".

If you care about pollution, we should all still support this company and purchase these tires if we hope to encourage them to perhaps have the budget for further r&d, it is a little sad though that there's no offering that's truly nitinol only for those who would be willing to sacrifice on other material properties.
Margins almost always increase anyway.

I'm not sure anybody fully understands the mechanism (for the most studied phenomenon of economics, inflation is quite badly understood), but that doesn't change the fact.

Anyway, if you run the Keynes model for macroeconomics, the average margin increases very naturally when the money supply increases. It increases even more if the new money is injected in the economy by well distributed government spending. Still, that's one model we have that kinda works, but it's so full of problems that you can't take its predictions for granted.
No special syntax but they do have special semantics, as per the "rules of hooks".
If you make $100k in a year in wages, and after all your expenses you net $16k in savings, 1/8 of that is $2k. Imagine violating some law that harms children and your fine is $2k.
Yeah.

Its seemingly too big for a programming exercise. Minecraft Classic isnt really broken or super limited like the targets of many open source remakes. Its not commercial.

The big selling point seems to be support on really old desktop devices and iOS/Android? Assuming the mobile controls are good.
Now in a Functional lang, that has good scoping and private functions, etc.

defmodule Pizza do
import Pizza.Pizza, only: [new: 0]
import Pizza.Order, only: [new: 0]

def create_pizza(order, oven_temp) do
order
|> prepare_pizza()
|> bake_pizza(oven_temp)
|> box_pizza()
end

defp prepare_pizza(%Pizza.Order{size: size, sauce: sauce, kind: kind}) do
toppings =
case kind do
"Veg" -> ["Tomato", "Bell Pepper"]
"Meat" -> ["Pepperoni", "Sausage"]
_ -> []
end

%Pizza.Pizza{base: size, sauce: sauce, toppings: toppings}
end

defp bake_pizza(oven_temp, %Pizza.Pizza{baked: _baked} = pizza) when oven_temp >= 400 do
%Pizza.Pizza{pizza | baked: true}
end

defp bake_pizza(_, pizza), do: pizza

defp box_pizza(%Pizza.Pizza{boxed: _boxed, sliced: _sliced, ready: _ready} = pizza) do
%Pizza.Pizza{pizza | boxed: true, sliced: true, ready: true}
end
end
Tucker Interviews Javier Milei – Argentina's Leading Presidential Candidate
Interesting move, but I think a likely outcome is that nothing happens. In theory other publishers like Marvel are now able to publish Fables content, but why would they? They have their own IP.
> Musk supports using Starlink in defensive actions and it sounds like you do as well.

That's the problem though - having your own special definition of "defensive actions" makes the whole sentence meaningless.

It's like if I said "I am a vegetarian"... and by vegetarian I mean I don't eat animals I personally have seen while they're alive. You see how that's a problem?

The US Government has been very clear that they don't condone Ukrainians using NATO-supplied weapons to make attacks into Russia. That's a common-sense definition of "offensive" - doing something to attack the opponent on "their side".

But this whole thing was about Crimea. Crimea is part of Ukraine, despite what Russians and Putin's fanboys have spouted for the last 9 years.

> All it is doing is dividing us.

This phrase gets used so much by one crowd, it's almost like you're wearing a red MAGA cap.

The idea of course is genius. Make people feel bad for standing up for what they believe in, by guilting them into believing that it's better to support insurrectionists, racists, homophobes, etc - whatever shit-bird ideals the American Right has put on display that day, if you argue that they're a shit-bird, the instant response is "this is dividing us".

No shit. Most people don't want to be considered part of the same group as right wing extremists.
This is an EXCELLENT proposal. They would fight just as hard to ensure they never receive the second strike to avoid the forever-doom that will loom over investors.
I think this is a bizarre take. We have no “right” to anything. We’re just sentient sacks of meat and flesh.

If self-driving takes over, fine we can spend our time doing something else.

It’s like saying, if mass produced food takes over and we no longer have to hunt we’re useless and redundant. It just means something we used to do we no longer have to, so instead I can spend more time ranting on HN or something.
Not to sound too much like a marxist, but @falcolas has a point here. If builders were offering a public service, they would likely sell their new homes (condos, townhomes, high-rises, etc.) for cost plus a reasonable percentage. But new homes go into a speculation market where the exchange value of the home factors in profit by the rentier class who add nothing to the value of the transaction.
Which part? That 10% of all houses in the US are vacant? A quick Google search shows that 10% is probably low.

That they're not competing? What evidence is there of this? Prices aren't falling, after all.
Beginner typing is a discrete muscle action, under conscious control and attention. Hunt for, or try to remember, where the letter is. Hit the key. Then the next. Sort of jerky. Letter by letter. Fluent typing is a more composite act, a sort of dance where the fingers roll back and forth in combined motions efficiently. Not coincidentally, fluent typists are prone to mixing up words like "fluid" and "fluent", as I just did and had to correct. Type entire words or phrases correctly, incorrectly. Often they sound similar or have a similar semantic sense. Slightly fuzzy erroneous activation, of ingrained muscle memory patterns, is my interpretation of that effect.

A similar level of fluency emerges with handwriting over time. One stops forming individual letters, and whole sequences become one extended flow of the pen. Entire words. It detaches the executive function and short term memory and attention of the mind, from the flow of individual letters and how words are spelled and put together. That becomes an automatic process. We might want to encourage that fluency in more than one mode.
I’m sorry to say, but with a phone, if you change the settings, you’re a power user.
Are you aware of the mass amount of pollution of synthetic rubber tires and just don't care at all? Or unaware of the potential for metal tires (perhaps not this iteration but future ones) to improve on that?

If you care about a greener future or like the idea of a world that someday doesn't generate tons of plastic dust every single day through abrasion on concrete, then even if you decide the current product doesn't solve for your needs, this product and development along these lines is something to celebrate.
> Colorado still has A LOT of undeveloped land.

Not just Colorado! I live in a state that's pretty much middle of the pack for size and density, and there's no shortage of open land around here. No water concerns, either, with plenty of rainfall.

> opportunity is, for some reason, being geographically limited to fewer and fewer places.

I think the economic history of the past few decades (at least) has been one of trading away resilience for higher efficiency; bigger and more geographically centralized economic engines that are more efficient, but are more vulnerable to shocks, as the recent supply-chain issues have shown.

Covid and its aftereffects may reverse that trend.
> they all resigned together but the company couldn't find anyone to replace them on linkedin.

I would believe that they got zero real applications if the company was underpaying and had a decent number of skilled people who were there out of inertia, which would also account for them all being able to find other jobs quickly. It takes a particular culture, but I've seen things close enough to believe that that could happen.
Toyota does not live by the timeline of Tesla. It reminds me of the time the Germans became obsessed with diesel whereas Toyota focused on longer term projects. It did not end well for the German car companies. There's a good chance that Tesla's short-term strategy ends up not mattering.
Meanwhile, you have smoking and brushing, which are not at all the same as what they are in English.

(Tuxedo and blow dry, respectively.)
Triv – a syntax that compiles to HTML and XML and runs from a plain text file
Electric two-wheelers are creating a buzz in Asia
Because they can, programming for many is not only a job but also a hobby and passion. Doing something like this you can learn a tons as well and it is a worthy challenge in itself to push your craft.

People re-create classic games all the time, like tetris, for fun.
You did actually accuse me of "forgetting that a group is not its worst members," which would indeed be tantamount to saying everyone in the gaming community is awful.

Anyway thank you for the pointer that groups are groups, I guess? Not sure what you were trying to add to the conversation.
https://archive.is/YytBi
If the value of the Australian dollar halves, and a company manages to double its raw profit figures... doesn't that still sound like price gouging?

Why would their "maintaining the same profits in real value" be acceptable when no-one else in the end to end chain (producers, customers, etc) managed to in the situation.
Repeating a lie endlessly does not make it true.

Repeat after me: building any new homes increases housing costs anywhere anyone on HN wants to live

See: Austin, Frisco, Denver, Vail, Nashville, Miami, San Diego, SV, SF, Seattle
That's about 70mph vertically downwards.
Yes, great point here.

Build all the luxury housing you want. My first cheap slumlord apartment started its life as a luxury building in the 1930s.

The problem is when someone knocks down a 3-flat row house and builds a single family home in the same plot of land. Unless we have negative population growth that should never happen (and usually the places where knocking down a house and building an entirely new one makes sense are growing and desirable).
Similar to what rodorgas said about bluetooth, when you disable WiFi it’s normally “stop connecting to (currently) nearby wifi until tomorrow”. The radio doesn’t turn off and it still actively scans for other wifi to connect to (will connect 5min later at your friend’s house, for example).
Thank you for explaining it to me. I feel very differently about it (I don’t think there is any pretending involved), but now I at least understand the other side of the argument.
Buerli – CAD Workflow for React
Yeah this had me so confused.

I can somewhat go with punctures (some people just seem unlucky) but I'm trying to think hard and the amount of tubes I've had to replace in the last 10 years is... not a lot (and it's over several bikes, so I'd need several 500€ pairs of tires) and the amount of tires is basically.. I think I replaced one, after 10 years.

Then again maybe they're talking about people who actually ride a lot more than I do.
This is just absurd on its face. This kind of simplisticism is toxic af.
That's because technically N.m is the magnitude of either of the energy and torque bivectors; technically the product you should use is the scalar product for the energy, and the wedge product for the torque. You could use the geometric product too and just call both [(N.v1)(m.v2)] for vectors v1 and v2; you would even get as a result [(N.v1)(m.v2)] = [N.v1*m.v2 + N.v1^m.v2] = [(N.v1*m.v2)] + [(N.v1)^(m.v2)] = [Energy part] + [Torque part], which is kind of neat - units that depend on the angles involved but encompassing both cases
> Well, you can always modify source code and use it privately - you hardly need a license for that.

You do need a license to modify the source, use it internally, and then sell a binary you've produced with the modified source.
I’ve lived in and around mountain towns my whole life. There’s a relatively simple solution to this: taxation. If you don’t live there full time, you get to pay hefty taxes to the city/county. How do you verify this? Voter registration. If you’re not registered to vote at that address, you pay massive taxes. So, if you _really_ want to have a second home there, fine, but it’s going to be much less expensive for people who actually live there
I’ve noticed Americans tend to think of laws in terms of… computer code, almost, which isn’t true even for America.

But in that view, the fine is whatever size it is and if it isn’t enough, too bad.

…that isn’t how Europe works.
I don't know if determination and hard work are all that is required to be a billionaire, but I do know for sure that laziness, sloth, and sitting around will never make one a billionaire.