skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General Motors CEO Mary Barra, the highest-paid chief executive among the Big Three, made nearly $29 million in 2022. Securities and Exchange Commission filings show that this is 362 times the median GM employee's paycheck [1] (this pay ratio is required reporting from public companies now).

Profits at the “Big 3” auto companies—Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis— skyrocketed 92% from 2013 to 2022, totaling $250 billion. Forecasts for 2023 expect more than $32 billion in additional profits [2] [3].

Polling shows a majority strongly supporting the union's efforts in this regard [4].

The money is there, and the people who doing the work are asking for a greater share of the profits generated by their work. This is not unreasonable, and Labor should continue to turn the screws as politics shift, as well as structural demographics causing labor demand to exceed supply for at least the next decade.

[1] https://wamu.org/story/23/09/13/sky-high-ceo-pay-is-in-focus... ("Sky-high CEO pay is in focus as workers everywhere are demanding higher wages")

[2] https://www.epi.org/blog/uaw-automakers-negotiations/ ("UAW-automakers negotiations pit falling wages against skyrocketing CEO pay")

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/15/biden-says-record-profits-sh... ("Biden says record profits should ensure record contracts as UAW strikes Ford, GM and Stellantis plants")

[4] https://i.ibb.co/r7TsFtY/qd18hourfcob1.webp
> Something about me doesn’t come across in remote interviews.

If you don't mind me asking, are you physically attractive? People do behave differently around nice looking folks, especially in person.

I have the opposite problem of I look better on (zoom) camera than in person (not really in shape, etc).
Very cool article.

I'm one of the creators of https://webhooks.fyi/ and will do a PR to add this one. Thanks!
Not sending engineers, but when I worked for a smaller dev studio we did need to contact Unity and get support a couple times when we got stuck on something. I think we ended up paying for access to the source code and the development manager ended up making a couple of changes in the source code to get something working better as well (I don't remember the specifics, I was working in Unity but on a different game at the time).

This was like 10 years ago though. That guy worked on multiple arcade games in Assembly back in the day too (you've likely played games he worked on if you've played more than a handful of popular arcade games), he was no slouch.
A big +1 for https://heavens-above.com/ (referenced in this article.) I love that site.
The parent is saying that these "increase in margins" are companies trying to get ahead of inflation. The media narrative has been to blame the corporations, despite the real issue being the economy. There are elections to worry about, so we can't have that.

Smart businesses don't wait until they start losing money to make adjustments. They plan ahead. These "margin increases" are literally increases due to inflation which will companies expect to take hold over the next 1-2 years. There could be a variety of factors for this. One such example is corporate bonds rolling over to new interest rates which are expected to start happening en masse very soon.
That was some well written and experienced response by Justine Musk.
My experience is similar to yours. I had to start blowing air or sucking air out of the “self inflating” port to sleep or pack the mattress/pillow.
You kinda do, because the biggest obstacles are zoning laws and regulations.
Sorry. In hindsight I needed to go to bed last night and not be hanging out on hacker news.
Feels off to be putting a lot of presentation logic into new .nue files. Maybe I've just grown used to .tsx and Angular's LSP consuming html templates and giving me full intellisense, but I wouldn't trade that for a smaller bundle size. If I really wanted to optimize for bundle size, I'd probably just server side render tsx templates, or whatever built-in templating language my backend language has, eg. Razor for .NET.

Nevertheless, I have to agree with the a lot of the other commenters, I would have loved a concrete example front and center, I have to chip into the chior of people dismissing the initial importance of bundle size. I'm also sure a big application written with this library will be able to balloon once you begin using dependencies not optimized for this library.

Generally speaking it's my experience that a lot of frontend libraries unfortunately tend to crumple once the long tail has been reached.
This article works hard to paint one picture, and then presents arguments and evidence to the contrary. It’s basically a sob story about local musicians and ski lift operators not being able to afford housing, as if that’s a new problem. Then:

> Even as Summit County adds waves of remote workers, it has experienced net negative migration since 2020

You click the link of that data and it talks about how the local government is desperate to attract workers and full time residents, rather than having mostly vacant second homes.

I presume they want to attract wealthy workers, given the choice, since that spending will be local and help the economy. So, assuming they get what they want, which is an influx of wealthy, employed people, it’s entirely clear what will happen to real estate prices. I’m sorry, but no one ever said you’re entitled to only having to play guitar in coffee shops to support themselves. That’s what college kids do, who don’t own houses.
or else what?
Molecular activation of the MAP kinase p38α cytokine storm 'switch'
Linux 6.7 To Make It Easier To Toggle Support For x86 32-bit Programs
If inflation is 10% and profits go up 10%, most likely that's inflation's effect.
CPU Land is an accessible introduction. This chapter covers ELF https://cpu.land/becoming-an-elf-lord
Can you find something post internet?
> I've been hoping to write a script to backup stuff into an S3 bucket. I just never have the time.

Here it is [1]. Funny thing about backups is everyone needs something similar, yet everyone ends up rolling out their own tool set. Backblaze turns out much cheaper than S3.

[1] https://github.com/undebuggable/backup-upload
Record profits in a period of inflation is not surprising.

If the value of the Australian dollar halves, then a company doubling it's raw profit figures is really just staying maintaining the same profits in real value.
This should also be a wakeup call to anyone using closed source tools at all: DynamoDB, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, AWS Lambda, Azure, AWS, Azure Devops, SqlServer, Oracle, etc.

While some of these tools are best in class, it's borrowed time until the owner decides to change the terms, stop offering it, or raise prices enough to damage your business.

Closed source software tools are a liability, and the benefits often are only minor compared to the risks.

I've been on several teams where entire projects with dozens of person years of effort had to be thrown out because tools stopped being supported or were made prohibitively expensive. This isn't about open source posturing. Relying on closed source software you can't easily switch off of just isn't worth the risk.

(As an aside, I'm not a purist, I'll use tools like JetBrains, because I could easily switch off to open source tools if I had to without any disruption to my business)

Edit, I do not suggest writing your own tools, I suggest using great open source tools: postgres, apache, Linux, mariadb, open source languages, Redis, couchdb, etc.
Threads, Weaves, Clothing and shoes were high technology for most of human history.
I was in the US on Thursday September 6th and Thursday September 13th.

From everything I observed in the days and weeks following, there was a massive increase in feelings and expressions of unity. (These were also temporary.)
I think this comes down to ambitions. Unity wanted to be an advertising company and when that goal started slipping away, they did something drastic. Epic wants to be a store and a virtual production platform. Who knows what they’ll do if those goals seem impossible.

It’s also worth remembering that Epic isn’t the good guy here. When incentives align, most corporations are capable of some pretty awful stuff. With Epic specifically they made accidental purchases in Fortnite very easy and then intentionally buried the refund button outside the store under an obscure settings page [0].

[0]: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/...
The WFH conversation, especially on HN, has been beaten to death. I’ve heard every viewpoint 1000 times. There is nothing else to say let’s just ban the topic.
Everything you said + progressing hypermetropia for the last 25 years. When mobile screens got half decent sizes, I already hated the medium.

When people said that those text pages, around 2000, what was the name? WAP? were going to get everybody online, I was very skeptical. But of course, that was pre-iPhone.
Personally I think it's the latter.

Edit: And I don't think it's only attractors, I think there's not enough detractors to toxic players.
If I run my app on Azure, is Microsoft responsible for me breaking GDPR?

SAP runs your instance, but isn't responsible for what you do with it.
Someone working part time for a few hours to get a ski pass, and otherwise living rough is different from people working full-time and still not being able to afford housing.

Being a ski-bum is fine (I was one in college), but that's not what is happening.
Better to mine some cobalt than to cut down some trees eh. (This time I'm being sarcastic.)
I’m pretty sure that 5s time 20 years ago was on a 1.44MB floppy, too. A real floppy! Not something emulated.
I understand what you're saying here.
You can airdrop now if the phone is an iPhone and the laptop is a MacBook of some sort.

I also am a sucker for notes, I use the native apple notes, but this probably works for any syncing note client

- Just add the link in notes
- Open notes on laptop
- Link is there
You are describing the Chicago Board of Trade. They set depressed prices for farm goods so the middlemen can take a bigger markup without causing civil unrest.

This is one reason the farm subsidy still exists.
This always seems to be a worse problem than IC performance. Managers have power to remove ICs. But nobody really has a lot of power against politically strong dead weight projects.
Great article, thanks for sharing.

I love Vim, and although my usage is totally vanilla these days, I use Vim plugin for VSCode which is awesome (lack of :norm is the only downside I've found).

Vimium for Firefox is also a must-have https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
This is all true, but the reason people don't is the same reason as many human behavioural tendencies: (1) most people don't feel they have much money to spare (people on bigger salaries/incomes often get more expensive houses and cars so end up feeling like they have little cash available), and (2) people feel that "one dollar" is too little to make a difference to the dev's life so it's not worth giving anything.

Whether those reasons are reasonable is separate; it's just the way most people act, and it's hard to imagine what will cause enough people to change that will make things better for developers.

Better for developers to find ways of monetising via "pro" features, commercial support, etc, as it's easier for people/companies to justify paying money if they feel they're paying for a product or service.
While this is an exceptionally cynical article it contains a truth that transcends app development.

Sometime during Covid I was in a massive supermarket that was nearly empty. I was in the deodorant aisle trying to choose from the approximately 100 brand and scent options. I wanted a deodorant without aluminum because I had read online that aluminum in deodorant causes yellow stains. This used to be hard, only one or two brands used to specialize in that. But on that day, my usual brand had a "new forumula!" that included aluminum. While looking at the packaging I realized the brand had been bought by one of the big boys, like a Unilever, Johnson&Johnson, whatever.

I scanned the new ingredient list of the product and then scanned the wall of 100+ brands and scents in front of me. I started picking a few at random and taking a look at their ingredients lists. Every single one was the same. I mean, they have brand names that are distinct, color schemes that are distinct, scents that are distinct. But it was a total illusion of choice. Those 100 options were really just 1 option. The only differentiator between them was packaging and scent.

I had a moment. The bright lights of the environment. The decor of the supermarket. The just audible music. When I squinted my eyes even the packaging of all of the brands blended into a single object. The entire environment was perfectly tuned to keep me unaware at the illusion of choice.

A few weeks later, basically the next time I went to buy deodorant, I noticed that several of the standard brands now offered a new choice, boldly printed on the deodorant caps: "Aluminum Free!". Apparently I am as easily understood and marketed to as anyone.

What I mean to say, the supermarket is just as tuned to make you Marl. 99.9% of the time I don't read the ingredient list of the products I buy. Whoever designs these environments knows this. They don't want to compete on actual differentiators. They want to lull your brain into a sleep and then present you with the one precise differentiator you care about. In my case, it was aluminum. When they realized that small no-name brands were succeeding by solving a problem the big brands created, they just bought them out and then re-packaged their existing products to highlight the differentiator.

In that moment I saw it all. How we are turning ourselves into robots. How I was not immune. In my humble opinion, tech brands are behind the curve on this one. Consumer product brands have been mining this space for decades, probably centuries.
Personality differences are certainly a piece of it, sure.

But if the folks On High do not realize what the people doing the actual work value about their current position, that seems like a pretty big failure of leadership. If you don't understand the needs of those following you, you're not doing a good job leading.
Correct, the headline equates to 3,500ft/min. It's about double of the usual rate of decent, but still common enough that regular passenger carriers will sometimes decend at that rate.
This is where we could really use some empirical data to better understand these topics.

Comments already devolving into "Yes it matters!" "No it doesn't!" only citing anecdotal personal experience.
But the J&J logo and name also doesn't apply to the consumer products anymore -- Band-Aids, Johnson's Baby, etc. were split off into Kenvue this year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenvue

J&J is now entirely focused on pharmaceuticals and medical devices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_%26_Johnson

So the new different logo makes a lot of sense for what is essentially now an entirely different company in the eyes of consumers.
> In my opinion, the only reason this whole fiasco happened is because Unity the company has too many headcounts and has too much expense, and the reason for that is they grew too big, and the reason they grew too big is because they took the company public and in that sphere success is measured in growth, even if the company is much healthier if it had stayed smaller

This can be simplified to:

"The only reason are MBAs"
This is a pretty non-event. There are a number of system failures that can cause loss of pressurization.

I've listened to a lot of ATC recordings and there are many engine fires, bird strikes, and general malfunctions that never get reported on.

Here's a video of two pilots demonstrating an emergency descent in a simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHawjB2PzK0
Maybe not an app, but I would suggest some PHP forum software. You can quickly spin these up on most hosting sites. Scaling it could be a problem, and you may need to sustain and grow the platform with donations, or just force users to pay a set amount each month to use it. I was going to suggest AD-supported income, but I never liked that model, and most users just block ADs anyway.
End of the Internet
It's interesting that the increase in Vim commits is concurrent with the fist release of NeoVim. They've certainly both been good for each other and I'm hoping this won't change with Bram's passing.
> It's very naive to think that the Internet can transcend in any way law enforcement.

agree, it is naive. but for a while it did feel liberating to a lot of people.
Except that it is.

Programmers always have to deal with tradeoffs and maintenance.

They always need to have some kind of process.

They always need to use tools and naturally create them.

And the actual software design is part of the engineering also.

The most important part of software engineering in my mind mind are the error-correcting feedback loops. 100% of programmers use these, whether it's just thinking about their design and iterating on it, or using a compiler, debugger, tests, or user feedback, etc.

The idea of making the distinction between software engineering and programming is usually brought up to support some kind of cargo-cult belief about particular "best practices".

This isn't to say that we shouldn't study software engineering or have tools, processes, frameworks, etc.

But it seems that people get confused into thinking that the number and heft of frameworks, tools, tests and complex processes that you add into a programming task determines whether you are a "real engineer" or just a "programmer".

In reality, you cannot produce and maintain software effectively at all without using knowledge, skills, and tools that are in the software engineering domain.

And often using a lighter-weight process and tooling but with tight feedback loops with end users can be more effective than, for example, a complex set of tooling and processes that have long iterations.
Yes, platform/vendor lock in is a staple of the Java ecosystem. Why @Get when you can @RequestMapping? I actually prefer Spring's style here as the annotations in JEE are too generalized to be of use in a large codebase without having type conflicts due to naming.
> Copywriters, marketers, and other non-technical people can use a human-friendly Nuemark syntax for content management.

> *and* multi-page

This isn't human-friendly, that would be no markup with some Bold button that converts a word to bold where a simple search for "and multi-page" isn't broken
Teslas Think Yellowstone Bison Are Human-Dog Shapeshifters
That’s a simplistic view. “Beholden to shareholders” does not mean prioritising short-term gain at all costs. That’s not just my ideology, it is how publicly traded companies work a lot of the time, including the one that I work for.

To imply that there’s such a stark binary difference between a privately held and publicly held company misses a lot of nuance. Investors can want a quick out or be in for the long game in either case. The controlling parties pre-IPO have plenty of knobs they can turn to limit drive-by influence if they choose. If a company gets fucked by going public, it was already fucked before it went public, because the people behind the float either didn’t care about protecting the company, or didn’t know how.
A second major British police force suffers a cyberattack in less than a month
Imagine classic Visual C++ with it's form builder (versus the modern WinRT stuff) and hooks...it's much like that. I would say the experience is a little smoother. I do remember the version I used to use had issues with the form builder to where getting exactly what you wanted was finicky (the rendered/preview version was never quite what the compiled version ended up as).
That wouldn't solve anything. The housing would simply cost too much to live near and you'd still need a car to leave the residential areas which are not near work areas even in downtown neighborhoods.
My commute to work downtown is actually shorter from the suburbs than it was when I lived and worked downtown.
Public transit was over an hour to go just 5 miles from the east side to the skyscrapers.
Now I'm 30 miles away and my commute is under 40 minutes.
You can't just put a blanket on the subject and claim victory. I think someone above mentioned nuance.
> For example, Carrefour said a bottle of sugar-free peach-flavoured Lipton iced tea, produced by PepsiCo, shrank to 1.25 litres (0.33 gallon) from 1.5 litres, resulting in a 40% effective increase in the price a litre.

That's only a 20% -- rather than 40% -- effective increase in the price-per-volume, right?

[Calculation on WolframAlpha](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28+%281%2F1.25%29+-+%2...

Trying to figure out what went on there. For example, maybe they meant that the price-per-volume did go up 40%, and they meant that the reduced-size contributed to (rather than "resulted in") that 40% increase? Or, maybe ChatGPT did the math?
Avherald: https://avherald.com/h?article=50e68713&opt=0
It means nerds (male and female) are now an underserved dating market, compared to when dating sites were in their infancy.
I know we're supposed to be jaded by our past defeats, licking our wounds and cringing at the echoes of naive digital ideas we once thought had legs... I know that he's tricking me into liking him by writing well, with conviction and to the point. I know that it's hopeless now. That the empire has won. I do know these things, but... it's hard for me not to have hope.

Is it really possible that modern culture will all just be owned in one or three portfolios.
Competition means they don't have to want prices to fall for prices to fall. Come on, this is capitalism 101.
If there's one thing America has, it's space. There's plenty of land free of zoning laws and regulations right now.

Also, NIMBY homeowners don't want the prices to go down either.
Track log on flight aware shows max decent rate around 6,000 ft/min.

Ascent to cruise was around 1,000-2,000 ft/min.
How can you make a blanket statement like that? Some of us do. I've donated to Notepad++ a few times in the past and intend to donate more.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
An appropriate punishment would be: All children's accounts must be deleted and no new ones for minors allowed to exist for 2 years.

Any further infringement and the App is banned from the EU.
Nvidia maintains a fork of unreal engine which integrates with RTX for ray tracing support with their cards.
here;s the update. TL;DR there was no credible threat, it was internal to the company and non-local. "The officers took a courtesy report" which is to say, there was no credible threat.

"""When officers arrived on scene, they met with a reporting party who informed them that an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media. The reporting party also said that the employee works at an out of state location for the company, but that they had been unable to reach the outside jurisdiction to make a report.

The reporting party was advised to contact the jurisdiction in which the incident occurred, and officers took a courtesy report."""
Reminds me of the Pepsi brand white paper (which I have no idea if it was legit or not, but it smells such).
Moving the goal posts
It's pretty fast, but pretty well required because once you lose pressurization you want to get down to a normal pressure level quickly as staying at a high altitude is not particularly comfortable and everyone in the aircraft needs to have supplemental oxygen until you get under 10,000 feet. If anyone doesn't get a mask on they could be in trouble due to lack of oxygen.
This is my beef as well. While the crop itself may use the same amount, this is a tremendously unhelpful metric for reasoning about total water use.
House builders aren't the deciding factor. It's property owners.