skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, it sounds like you're defending the system that doesn't empower the public good. I hear reports time and time again that private companies that go publicly are burned by the artificial and unnatural need for constant growth. Going public serves greedy individuals (shareholders) that have no connection to the service or product that real people depend on.
I wonder if anything can be done to sense what they used to look like, maybe by scanning for places where residue of clay fell off or was covered over like they mentioned.
Certain social circles wants to live near each other. Moving away simply isn't an option in their head space. It would mean abandoning what they consider their family.
Third paragraph from the article:

A UAW official told The Intercept that the union’s account, which they paid for, was verified until Friday morning, when suddenly it wasn’t. The most recent entry for the UAW Twitter account in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, from September 9, confirms that the union was blue check verified. A request for comment from Twitter earned the auto-reply, “Busy now, please check back later.”
OT: what's your blog based on?

I looked for a colophon / about site page with no joy.

Source suggests it's simply hand-coded HTML?

Hrm... Apparently, plus some webscripts?

<https://www.jefftk.com/p/designing-low-upkeep-software>

<https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/blob/master/makers...>
Yup. Joel from Joel On Software covered this years ago. He made sure all devs have a quiet, private office, with window and door.

The problem is, it’s cheap to just throw desks together in an empty room and call it a “fish bowl” or “open office section”.

Most companies don’t care that it affects morale, productivity. Just that they were able to seat 5 more people with a cheap trip to IKEA.

Can’t stop people taking the lazy, easy alternative.
> The correct thing for the EU to do if they actually cared about this is to enforce true validation of ages on social media. This is exactly what's being proposed in the United States, with a 3rd party verification service being required for all social media to actually verify ages.

Sure, this can be done already with KYC on the platform. YouTube and Meta already has this.

Even with those mechanisms, Meta still delayed their release for Threads in the EU after getting fined repeatedly and Google still got fined for privacy violations around user location again.

So fineing companies works well. They just need to increase it into the billions of dollars for repeat offenders for them to cave and think again.
Typically, Apple stuff arrives on or before the posted delivery date. Under-promise and over-deliver.

iPhones virtually never deliver early, so it should arrive Sept 22, with a very high probability.
Oh thanks, now I see it (and was miles away of guessing it myself :-))
In the corporate world I've seen (across many countries and cultures) there is no such thing as a "separate, quiet space to work" unless you're fairly senior. The irony of course is that fairly senior folks are on zoom/teams/webex calls 12 hours a day and quiet introspection isn't part of the job.

The common pushback from employees forced into RTO is they are commuting to a significantly worse environment where they still just sit in teams calls all day.
Use Abstraction to Improve Function Readability
Because CPUC allows a much higher return on capital in California.
I don't disagree with you about the things people are sick of but there's an implication that none of this would be happening if only the people in charge were introverts and I really don't see it.

Corruption and greed are accessible to both introverts and extroverts.
Germany used to have that legislation, removed in 2009. Legal packaging sizes were e.g. 100g, 250g, 500g, 750g, 1000g.

Removed because it was, unsurprisingly, not the lowest common denominator EU wide. It's almost universally considered a tragic loss, I guess the only exception are those whose job description includes getting creative with packaging size.
With Milk so expensive I expect the smaller "gallon" will come out soon. It's already happening to half-gallons, some are at 59 oz now but that's not widespread yet. Alternatives (oat, almond, etc) I think simply started at 54 oz. and never offered full half gallons.

Here's the ice cream comparison if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr-oq79iur4
I’m curious from a technical perspective, but don’t care much about it in practice, especially in the current state that is not safe enough to be a chauffeur, and too boring to keep the driver engaged.

Trains and subway are “self-driving” EVs. Build more of these! You can read a book and not run over anybody.

For the problem of “idiot drivers” I think driving assists can be good enough. For safety, cars don’t need to drive 100% of the time, they only need to reliably brake and avoid collisions, which is a subset of the self-driving problem.

There’s also a lot that can be improved with low-tech traffic engineering. If the US could ban turn on red, and start liking roundabouts, it would significantly reduce risk of serious crashes.
Not just OG status, quality. The Chinese knock-offs truly are worse. I've seen this gadget on Youtube before, compared to one of the knock-offs.

Executive desk toys are a classic premium market!
My calculations put that at a glide slope of around 3.6 degrees down.
Vail boomed because of the ski resort. People won't be nearly as attracted to a mountain town that's far from existing ski resort, and starting a new, viable ski resort is hard.

Another constraining factor on development in Colorado is road access. Almost all traffic between the mountains and the highly populated Denver metro area (including the only major airport in the region) is along the I-70 corridor. Absent the construction of a new major tunnel across the continental divide, if you are far from that corridor, your site will be much less attractive.
In France, there is always the price per unit. And since the units are not in grain of barley nor a game of guess work (is this ounce dry or wet today?), it's obviously much easier to compare.
Have you tried Yatse?
Not really. Not once you get the primitives nailed down, and your network architecture/endpoint management sorted.

In fact, most of the biggest things holding back Linux in schools is the lack of a multi-billion dollar corporation extprting enough money that after the "student and educational discount version" is released and a few paltry assurances by a salesman that support will be a thing that school administrators are fine with provisioning networks of it.

Novell, contrary to popular belief, exists, and works just fine with Linux, windows, and Mac. Lets you use your own servers and cloud infra and everything. Novell itself is just a bunch of effort put into migration scripts, some custom OpenLDAP schemas, a few augmented endpoint agents/pieces of groupware, and the ever important to the Enterprise license management framework.
There’s a fun anecdote about Bell Labs where an electrical engineer, Nyquist, was found to be one of the connecting points for patent output in the company. Having lunch with him seems to have outputted greater numbers of patents. I know there’s going to be so many other factors but I know I’ve learnt a lot from hanging with colleagues over lunch or at the pub, what’s the replacement to that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nyquist
You're right comrade the scales have fallen from my eyes and I see clearly now there is only the noble honest upright workers of the world and the evil scheming capitalists, (also the kulaks that we will need to go after eventually).

How could I have not seen this before we are engaged in a war against the bourgeoisie and must recognize it as such all things in the world from the operations of the market to international politics are driven entirely by the rich waging war on the poor and nothing but.

Come unite fellow dog walkers, and baristas, rally to the cause underappreciated poets and artists you have nothing to lose but your chains, let us rise up in violence and consent no more to this explotation.

After all it was the capitalists who declared that "he who does not work shall not eat" it is the capitalists that prevent free and abundant healthcare from flowing to everyone, it is the capitalists that are the cause of greed and scarcity in society, let us dismantle their systems of oppression, the state, the church, the telecommunications corporations, the railroads companies, let us dismantle them all, for only then will we truly have abundance and plenty for all!

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
Sounds pretty reasonable "on its face".
So you haven't researched the actual fines and warnings the EU gave out to EU and non-EU companies. but you just feel like the vibes are totally off?

I was really expecting better comments from hackernews. If we're talking about vibes you should acknowledge that it makes sense for the EU to protect their people and their personal information from really large foreign companies. Even more so from companies that are aligned with the state that has one of the largest military powers in the world.
And then I find myself checking the packaging of a frozen pizza (please don't judge me). There is a small plastic window on the front and I can tell that there is a pizza inside and from tipping it I can tell that the pizza is smaller than the box. The label says that the pizza is 500g (20 oz) which is totally useless to me because I can't remember if the box said 500, 550, or 600g when I bought it 3 months ago.
It doesn't unless it is outpaced by the increase in demand for housing. This person makes it sound like they have a ton of brand new houses in Austin with nobody living in them because they're too expensive. I can tell you as a former Austinite, that couldn't be further from the truth.
I’m not sure. A mountain chalet is already a property tax bonanza for a small town. A $10m Deer Valley slopeside house would bring in a ballpark of $100k in property tax per year, and the people rarely being present means they aren’t even using community services very often.

I don’t know if money is the problem. I think it’s more systemic; places like Aspen will NIMBY against any attempts to do meaningful housing projects.
Article is subscription locked, so I just read the (patronizing and reductive) headline.

The problem never has been lack of housing. The problem has always been lack of land. You can only build new homes on existing land and nobody wants to repurpose existing land to build new houses. Where exactly in NYC can we build new houses?

And what houses are we talking about? Single family houses that are not a good use of land? Huge multifamily complexes that further stress the crumbling infrastructure?

Housing costs are not my top priority for my QOL. Building more houses will likely impact me only in negative ways.

And again, the article is subscription locked so all I can do is read the headline.
In the interest of fairness, you could reverse your whole comment and it would still ring true.

Not to say that you are implying it yourself, but when these points are usually made, it comes with an implication that the “extroverts” are seeking to perform some sort of superfluous duty, or something that is at the very least leaser.

Again, in the interest of fairness, anyone that isn’t able to see that WFH presents genuine challenges for leadership that aren’t just about “micromanaging”, “butts in seats”, or “feeling important”, really needs to dig deeper.

Speaking from the perspective of someone that recently had to build a small team from scratch entirely remotely, it has certainly been harder to build momentum, culture, rapport, etc remotely. These things are all important and all materially affect productivity. Onboarding is substantially harder. I had a severely underperforming team member (my standards aren’t terribly high, he interviewed really well, and I’m almost certain he was trying snd failing at over-employment), and working remotely turned it from essentially a non-issue into a months-long ordeal.

This incessant tribalism by esp. developers over the topic of remote work is ridiculously childish.
Could you present some evidence? Especially, could you provide evidence that preventing new housing has reduced costs?
id Tech is pretty solid
Not gonna lie, I was looking at their Q10 filing recently and I'm dumbfounded they have spent $450 million for "sales and marketing" so far this year.

ON WHAT AND WHY???
You have to be lucky.

Hard work makes you a magnitude more lucky.

everything and everyone else is just peanut-butthurt and jelly.
Just look at housing prices in places HN wants to live that didn't increase their housing supply.
If I think about a walkable city, I keep on getting stuck.

Regardless of whether I get around during the week to a doctors appointment, my work, friends, etc I still will need a car.

Not being able to buy things in larger amounts means that you get taken advantage of, looking at price per X at your local grocer vs Costco.

Then during the weekend I want to go into nature. You cannot economically have public transportation to all those hiking trails.

Some of you might say: what about a rental for when I need a car? Lots of rental places just flat-out don't allow you to take the vehicle off of paved roads.
>The minute your best-selling album is 10 years old, it's going to be repackaged and sold without you seeing a dime.

The story is that most bands don't make anything on residuals and so have to tour to make money.

But, in any case, one can already get the work for free, people choose not to.

I have an idea on Origin Marks [1] that works here, only one source will be the lead singer, only one source will be the songwriter, buy from them _if_you_want_to_.

[1] the reverse of Trademarks, kinda, they would show not the seller per se, as Trademarks do, but the physical origins - and all historic details would attach to the mark. Change the factory, OM shows it, sell your Trademark, OM shows if it's still made in the same place or not; buying an article, OM shows which of your options are made in the same place. OM would show not just so sold it to you, not where they got it from -- cut out middlemen and optimise supply chains, that's capitalism, right?

In this case, you buy a download, who did they get the TM rights from, ego did they get the cover art rights from, who did they buy the license for the music track from? Seller would be obliged to tell you, and there sellers too ... no money going to the band, don't use that supplier, go elsewhere.
Do you know of other fonts with the same goal as Atkinson Hyperlegible? It's gorgeous.
https://archive.ph/ybztr
I believe something similar to this happened to me on a ~20 minute puddle jumper flight. Late at night, nothing unusual then out of nowhere we descend to what felt like just above the tree-line, as in low enough to make out the edges of license plates on cars below, even in the glow of the street lights. Very distressing, especially because the pilots didn't mention anything over the intercom before during or after. We stayed that low long enough for me to quickly call my close family members.

There wasn't any feeling of falling at all. Also absent of any feeling of revitalization after a near-death experience, if that is in fact what is was or could have been.

Then back up just under the cloud layer, landed fine and then that was that.
I’d think employee productivity and retention would be high on the list.

Likewise as a recent founder myself the fact that I’ve been able to start a company with no office and have the flexibility to hire people from anywhere in the country is a game changer.

If big old fashion companies want to make people work in person, it’s basically just a gift for smaller competitors ready to eat their lunch.
I don't understand why companies can be so self destructive when it comes to this kind of stuff. I had a brief stint at a place that mandated a full RTO early 2021, started time tracking people, publicly screamed at coworkers that showed up five minutes late, wrote up employees for wearing masks, fired people that made ADA requests, etc.

Cult-y startup, but still.
I get that. And while I know "Apple" is a non-starter for some people I love my Apple TV for this reason. It's responsive, loads my plex library and lets me navigate it easily, and anytime I hit a text area I get a notification on my phone that I can tap and enter text from my phone. It's sort of the best of both worlds. Manually entering text via remote does suck, 100% agree.
The real question is, which protects the biological women more: forcing them to play with trans women, or forcing them to play with trans men? Because the latter is what happens if you institute a policy of “only biological sex counts”
Builders don't make money on the resale of existing homes. They want new homes to fetch the highest price, but they can also earn money on volume. Nothing built, nothing sold. Existing homeowners are the blocker.

And increased construction doesn't mean home owner go underwater. That's a pretty extreme situation. Housing prices are unlikely to drop barring a disaster like 2007. Houses will become affordable even if the prices rise more slowly. Encouraging home ownership as a means to increase wealth really has to go away. It's the major contributing factor to the aforementioned reluctance of existing home owners.
However, Steam offers more eyeballs, and in particular, more eyeballs that actually buy games.

The extra 18% doesn't feel as unreasonable when you get to make a lot more sales.
Companies didn't have a single easy worldwide excuse that people would readily accept for big price hikes. "Oh, it's because of the pandemic" was not a PR strategy available in 2010.

See also: 9/11 and various civil liberties.
Shift left in tech projects – a heuristic breadth first search analogy
> All of which are entirely orthogonal to what makes working in an office a terrible experience.

I.e.: people
That's hardly abuse of economical power. Wake me up if they decide to remove some label due to a negotiation. Otherwise, that's the slippery slope fallacy, that is false on practice about as often as it's true.
That's hard to believe. Only five out of the twenty-six letters have different lowercase representations than their print versions.
I currently work with one day in the office every week and I find to to be perfect. That day is basically "meetings day" and once you accept that you won't get any actual coding done that day it's fine. In person meetings are better and more productive than video calls and packing them all into one day makes the rest of my week much better.
I attribute this to the pervasive publishing model where anyone can submit an article to any publication, and as long as the topic lines up with current events, then the editor is just a bot that is checking for spelling and the headline being clickable.
Optimizing LLMs from a Dataset Perspective
More people = more opportunities = more people attracted, and so on.
For the purposes of shaping public policy, shouldn't the focus be on those who can vote? They comprise the body politic, after all.
The boardroom can’t argue about whether or not to steal from the cookie jar when there is no cookie jar to begin with.

These are the moments I’m grateful to be living in the EU. GDPR was a huge circus of blame on EU bureaucracy back when it was introduced. A lot of hate poured out that every single paper you sign now needs to have a second separate GDPR thing for you to sign. Stupid Brussels making your life more complicated! But now everyone seems to be used to it.
As an introvert myself I totally sympathize. Unfortunately, until we introverts figure out a way to work together, the extroverts will continue to run the show.
That's a 2D single-player game— it gets way harder if you're trying to emulate the feature set of Unreal/Unity

Source: game dev using unreal
You do know that corporations are not people? Right?
Vehicles are considerably heavier it might be that these tires aren’t suitable for those weights and in any case tires are regulated so there will be quite a bit of testing and certifications needed to be done to ensure that these tires can be used safely as well as not have adverse impact on the roads themselves.
Leaving CEO pay aside, that means the median salary I'd $80k. And we're talking Rust-Belt, not Silicon Valley. That's a pretty good salary for the region, plus the benefits they get.

Not seeing how the demands are in any way reasonable.
by that logic there is no such thing as bad product, they just took different tradeoffs.
I agree with you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37419334
A vacant 2 bed room 1 bath house in Mansfield Ohio does not help the family of 5 in San Francisco let alone Cleveland. Where the vacancy is and the “quality” so to speak matters a lot.

Additionally, some percentage of homes have to be vacant to allow someone to move into it. You will need to provide evidence that the vacancy rate of a specific market is causing prices to go higher. Citing national statistics when talking about a local issue does not help.
Apple probably realized that they've been selling USB-C cables for years, even in their own stores, and those might have lacked an MFi certification. Better to avoid the ridicule and do the right thing for once.
Record profits as a percentage of revenue.

The problem in Austrialia is a lack of competition, hence Woolworths can get a 5.9% profit compared with say Tesco in the UK with 3.8% profit (the UK having far more competition)

Not only that but while demand is decreasing, profits are increasing. That's a ridiculous system and shows a broken market.
It's not inconceivable. There's obviously some agglomeration advantage. People are valuable to other people. For instance, I think if SF built sufficient new homes it would have a lot more young people and they'll make the place nicer and that will make it more valuable.
Yeah. If I ever return to office, I’m going to demand an office with opaque walls and an opaque door.

Windows are fine; door will be open much of the time. It will be closed when I’m doing algorithm design, trying to plan out an N step refactoring to get some rust code to compile, or napping.

I noticed that some of the millenuals / gen z’ers in the old bull pen (16 person cubicle) would just shamelessly sleep at their desks in the afternoon. I occasionally nod off when reading, but this was full-on pillow on keyboard stuff.

So, I’ve decided the stigma around napping in the afternoon is misplaced.
Awesome, site looks great. This is the type of stuff I love to see on Hacker News.
Mostly what I take away from this is that marketing works on everyone.
Living in a crusty old part of NY, I would argue replacing old appt buildings with new ones, even perhaps with a slight reduction in number of units, could still reduce housing costs....
> wrote up employees for wearing masks

That would have been my cue to start polishing my CV.
Wasn't it just yesterday that a bunch of HN folk were saying they didn't see any reason for tech workers to belong to a union?
Are we talking actual data deletion, or just "not serving it up when queried" or attaching a "do not use" flag to the data but keeping it?

Because if there's one thing I've almost never seen, it's data being deleted from a db.
https://archive.is/rMYey
Bearing in mind that TikTok is itself banned in China. ;)
That isn’t good enough. It should be $9.3B dollars since Google does this on a repeated basis.

A slap on the wrist like this will make them continue their actions and nothing will change.