skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the removal of parking requirements typically doesn't address the parking-lot scenario depicted here. It's often a developer handout that results in a degraded standard of living for existing residents in the neighborhood around a new development.

Let's say a developer builds a bigger, taller building than what was there previously and adds residents. If they're not required to include sufficient parking, the new cars will flood the surrounding neighborhood, and existing residents will now have no place to park. This depends on the type of neighborhood, of course, but it happened in mine in Chicago. Not being able to just come home and go inside, but rather have to drive around and around in ever-larger circles (in the winter) to look for a parking spot because some alderman got paid off by a developer to screw his constituents... that's the reality.

We're seeing this in L.A. too, where local politicians will sell out to developers and publicly excuse it by pretending that parking creates cars and cars = bad. L.A. is a giant county masquerading as a city, and it's never going to be Amsterdam (you hear this asinine comparison all the time). Pretending that people aren't going to bring cars to their residence is absurd and damaging.

But big vacant parking lots growing weeds? Hell yeah, we have those all over the place, around dying malls and boarded-up Macy's. But what did CA politicians do? Pass laws that allow developers to destroy one single-family home and build 10 units there, overriding any local zoning or review and without local ability to prevent it.

So now we're going to pave over even MORE ground and cut down MORE trees, while said malls are still sitting there. As if the place isn't hot, barren, drought-stricken, and depressing enough.

Anyway, that's what I think of when I hear "get rid of parking requirements:" corrupt sellouts.
> why people still use wlog [?] checks instead of going with other methods that they could also choose to use, in 2024.

Anecdotally, I wrote a check to my landlord yesterday, because a few months back they claimed they never got the automatic bill-pay from my bank, and my bank said it was already sent, and weeks later my bank said the recipient refused to take it... Anyway, no party was ever able to tell me why an automated process that worked unattended for months suddenly stopped working for no discernible reason.
the same higher-level forces shape the public project's fate into certain doom that led to hospitals buying the absolutely shittiest tech.

because there's no clear signal (in the private sector there's some drive for sales, market share, profit), only made-up hyperpoliticized bullshit requirements and maybe some barely coherent vision.

as long as there's not a clear technocratic organization with sufficient independence and competence these projects are rudderless yellow duckies on the sea of tragisocial medicine mismanagement madness.

no party involved really has enough resources to deliver something nice. it's like high speed rail in the UK or the US. as a public project it's already stillborn, because it's too expensive to do it right (or if it would get the right amount of funding it immediately attracts unlimited scope creep, and the usual vultures show up, it becomes a typical everything bagel project, solve EMR but also education and childcare and whatnot), and to do it efficiently it would require draconian standardization and heroic amount of data migration work.

and on top it gets over promised and under staffed and so on
This should be "Show HN".
Ah, gotcha, very cool. Sorry I just wasn't sure what I was looking at with the repo.
I mentioned exploring because I had a similar conversation a few weeks ago, and a friend mentioned they liked the exploration in the game. Maybe what I should have said was that moving around the game world was painful, but moving around the game world should be exciting and interesting (in my subjective view - again, totally possible that this just isn't the game for me, I mean no disrespect). Eg, the caves full of puzzles and such felt like a chore. But the puzzles should have felt intriguing and challenging. But I didn't feel like I was moving the pieces of a puzzle around, I felt like I was moving through molasses made of Zubats.

The fights in RPGs don't take you to another UI, play a long animation, just so you can try to run away from the fight. The wild pokemon are just constant. Way too constant to be interesting. It just felt like the game was trying to slow my progression with busy work - there's no challenge in pretty much anything expect the final fights, so why I should I bother? RPGs drop you right into the combat, so it doesn't break the flow and feels exciting.

Pokemon Stadium was more fun for two reasons. There wasn't any grind, you could get right into the combat. (I don't recall if there was a campaign and I don't recall the mini games, I just played free play.) And I wasn't fighting brain dead trainers who had no strategy, or yet another level one Pidgey; I was fighting my friends and family members. When I won it was because I played well, when I lost it was because they played well. It felt more like Smash Bros.

If there weren't so many wild pokemon and if the trainers steadily gained in strength instead of being totally flat until the difficulty rose like a brick wall, the game would be much better, in my opinion. Maybe instead of a model where you're constantly assaulted and need to be repel, you could be lightly peppered with wild pokemon unless you used an expendable to attract them.

That's just my game design criticism, if someone is enjoying Pokemon I wouldn't want to rain on their parade.
You are not wrong but Apple predicted that none of those things mattered and they were proven right.

MMS worked well enough but was/is pretty limited. Video calling existed but postage stamp video at 8 frames per second was not something that anyone wanted to actually use. And don't get me started on J2ME, an ecosystem so vast that Google didn't even bother to include it in Android even though they are both based on Java. Although other phones had better cameras, none took what we would call an acceptable photos today.

What people did use all the time was the browser and only the iPhone had a decent one. That was the only thing that mattered. Heck, the iPhone wasn't even a very good _phone_ and even that didn't matter.
This impulse isn't true for us (I'm the CEO) and so I've wondered why this accusation toward management is so common.

I suspect, but obviously don't know for sure, that merely making use of the real estate doesn't factor at all. It's more "come into the office because that's how I know how to manage people" and "somethings actually are hard to do remote."

We are productive remote for some things, but then get stuck on tricky issues that seem to get solved instantly when we are together. So we solved that by gathering twice a year at company retreats and having budget for more mini-gatherings. But our feeling is that going back to the office will never happen.
No. It was changed for FY 2020. Before that you had to pay in full beforehand with a complete petition and get refunded if you don't get selected.

It was quite effective at weeding out non-serious job offers.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/11/08/2019-24...
[0] (259 points, 22 hours ago, 155 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39185895

Also related: "Opposition grows to Boeing 737 MAX 7 safety exemption"[1] (3 points, 4 days ago) "Boeing Requests Boeing 737 Max 7 Certification Exemption over Anti-Ice Issue"[2] (3 points, 25 days ago) "U.S. lawmakers decline to add Boeing 737 Max exemption in defense bill"[3] (37 points, 1 year ago)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39142262
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38889084
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890415
Humans evolved to mimic each other. Fads, fashion, culture, dialect, accent, manners, shared knowledge - the same root.
Global warming caused widespread ocean anoxia 93M years ago
The banks didn’t do themselves any favors with Zelle either. All they had to do was make a nice copy of paypal/venmo/cashapp/etc but they inexplicably did not, and now we have the meme that Zelle is mostly fraud. In my experience the implementations are horrific and don’t integrate with anything else my bank is doing so I do t feel comfortable pushing people to use it rather than paypal or venmo.
Humble people don't allude to snake oil when dissing competition's naming scheme.

Edit: relevant video, because whoever downvoted did not get what I was referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUT4d5IVY0A
You should read Power of Babel if you like this topic!

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Babel-Natural-History-Language/...
That's something that the state and federal govt. can easily regulate through the Dept. of Education. The converse is more absurd. If I want to study X, and university Y wants me, why does a third party dictate anything here ?
"The Star Wars" Rough Draft (1974) [pdf]
Oops, thanks, edited.
FTA:

> Also under the new rule, USCIS may deny or revoke the approval of an H-1B petition if it determines that the fee associated with the registration is declined, not reconciled, disputed, or otherwise invalid after submission.

The fact that they mention this suggests that they couldn't do so previously... which is pretty mind-boggling.
OP, can you clarify what you mean by the tittle? You have been able to enable Macros as an experiment for a while now, right? And Macros still haven't achieved GA, so I'm not sure what has changed. Is there some point I'm missing here?
Then it's a race to the bottom with titles. You're no longer a software engineer, you're a "computer technician".

H-1B is probably one of the most gamed and abused visa categories, perhaps next to marriage-related stuff.
They’ve improved tons since the 1990s. Let’s have some perspective.
Uh I guess you aren't respecting the NDA then?
Lucky! I think it's just Airtable there with very light usage.
Have a different auction for different worker skill classifications.
I had the watch they launched with, which Apple pretends didn't exist as they named the next model the Series 1 and this model never got a name. The watch improved considerably in the next generations, so you can do the math back from your Series 2 to get a sense of how truly bad it was.
We all forgot how awesome inertial scroll was. Scrolling through emails or text messages was absolutely bonkers - it actually allowed us to use the full informational capacity of the screen.
Commercial property prices are disconnected from reality.
Thanks for the info. Looks like I was mixing CWD with the tapeworm parasites and CWD is related to prions
Fair, but this isn't a new change this year. If the catastrophe that you say will happen was going to happen, we should already be seeing it since at least 2020.
Did the Future Already Happen? – The Paradox of Time [video]
A Trojan approach to guide and trap light beams via Lagrange points
Indeed her decision rests on that finding.

But according to the opinion, the issue was not what was included in the proxy statement, but what was left out. For example, details about those directors and their relationship with the CEO. Was that intentional?

Call me crazy, but having the CEO's divorce lawyer as the General Counsel is impossible to ignore as a potential red flag. Why. There are only so many reasons he would be given the job and most of them are problematic. Was he in charge of preparing this proxy statement.
MBAs eating the world one acquisition at a time.
Most people working for organizations with multiple offices have to videoconferencing all the time anyways. If video calls were really that big of an issue, having offices around the country/world would’ve stopped being a thing by now.
And the underlying cause of people's intuition failing them is caused by those configurations being equally likely, which is a quirk of the question.
I’m not sure what your point is. There’s a well established standard in Delaware for upholding conflicted transactions and the process for cleansing them ex ante. That this particular transaction lifted the tide for all boats doesn’t mean that all, most or even many similarly conflicted transactions result in a positive amount of value creation for non-controlling shareholders.

What I think is more interesting is how the duties imposed on controllers, directors and officers of Delaware corporations are, in my opinion, one of the key factors that have directly contributed to such a massive creation of wealth over most of the past century that $56 billion is a merely a drop in the very large bucket.

Delaware as a venue for capital formation and value accretive corporate norms works so well that I’d think anyone raising third party capital would welcome the enforcement by all shareholders, whether they hold a million shares or just a single one.
Is there a precedent of the sort? I am curious of the long term effect of this ruling in CEO effect. Especially since the burden of proof/justification actually falls on the board. It might make it harder for captured boards to reward CEOs
The problem with replacing a lottery with a salary ranked cutoff is that all skills do not exist on a single linear axis proportional to economic value. It is not as if all academics are currently highest paid across the economy, so why would that be true of imported academics?

To me, an ideal skilled worker system would define quota categories by skill/job at a much finer granularity, i.e. hundreds or thousands of different H1-B sub-categories somehow weighted by policies rooted in national strategic interest.

Maybe some kind of blinded auction process that could minimize abuse. Both potential employer and employee go through some vetting process and post their needs/skills using a standard ontology. Then, a matchmaker assigns job offers that are binding. You might allow either party to reject the offer and go back into the matchmaking pool for a limited period or number of offers before they are evicted with a cooling-off period before they are allowed to reapply.

You would also need some kind of anti-abuse audit. Otherwise, malignant players could establish esoteric job requirements via covert channel and then mislabel both the worker and the position to try to force the matchmaker's hand. How do you distinguish a truly rare skill from covert ear-marking?
My honest opinion is that you should get citizenship upon graduation or shortly thereafter, but I haven't really thought it through enough to figure out unintended consequences of that.
This is really cool, thank you for providing the details.

I did a bit of digging, and I think the crucial result that I did not know 25 years ago is the "threshold theorem" [1], which to me sounds like an immensely important result. However, it appears you need quite a bit of noisy cubits, wikipedia mentions 1000 to 10000 for a single logical qubit, but it appears that that's for a level of noise well below what's currently achievable. In any case, quantum n-body problems with tens of entangled electrons are doable with classicla algorithms, so to make an impact you'd need many millions of noisy quantum cubits, maybe even billions. After (admittedly fairly shallow) googling, I found out that IBM plans to have a quantum computer with 100000 noisy cubits ... sometime soon.

On the other hand it appears that solid advances happened on the theory side, according to this editorial [2] in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

Still, I can't shake the feeling that it's all just another case of nuclear fusion. When it will happen it will change the world, but that's going to be in 30 years, 30 years from now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_theorem

[2] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c01043
The only thing about this that I’m concerned about is what happens when ransomware levels up and starts creating plausible scenarios of impropriety with photorealistic evidence.

Imagine you get a text one day:

“This is Sharon, I need you to send me $1000 via crypto or I’ll send these photos of us at the hotel to your wife”. Followed by sexually explicit photos of you and a woman who works at your company, but you’ve never even met in person, only ever zoom meetings.

You call the number and the person who answers sounds just like Sharon. She ignores everything you say, tells you that you have an hour to send the money or she’s going to call your wife, tell her “everything” and send the photos then hangs up.
There are a few issues that cross my mind ...

First I assume you mean a '360 x 360 degree' image - meaning you don't want a circle, but a sphere. [0]

Second, much of your image would not be useful, obstructed by the Sun, Moon, Earth, and all that direct and reflected sunlight. I suppose JWST, being in L2, follows the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Over a year, does L2 allow a clear view of the entire celestial sphere?

Third, the number of pixels would seem to depend very much on the chosen depth of focus. I don't know what the zoom levels are, but theoretically it could snap a nice, sharp wide-angle shot of the entire unobstructed sky. (I don't think wide angle is really JWST's mission - more high zoom to spots over 13 billion light years away, but I also don't know much about its optics.)

[0] What is the proper mathematical expression instead of the awkward '360x360 degrees'? what do astronomers and airplane pilots use? I can't think of one atm, but there must be one? A spherical coordinate system for direction, analogous to degrees of a circle?
They’ve definitely lost market share, but even if you would prefer to buy Airbus they now have a backlog of ~9,000 aircraft to deliver.

For reference in 2022 they shipped 661 aircraft and 735 in 2023.

I’m assuming they are increasing manufacturing capacity but that doesn’t change the fact that their backlog extends into the next decade.
A lion's share of H-1Bs go to big tech companies where people make $250k a year or more. And where total comp of $400k+ is common for senior roles, with no regard for visa status.

Yes, it alters market dynamics and the whole reason it's done is that the same skills are not available domestically for that price (or at all) - but talking about "low-wage labor" and "exploitation" as the whole point of the program is pretty rich.
From what you linked, it looks like it was free earlier, and it became $10. "Moreover, the nominal fee would assist DHS in recovering the cost of administering the electronic registration process. "
This is very cool! Gonna give this a shot.
Just because you don't see a use case doesn't mean one doesn't exist.

The original comment explained perfectly well how they would use it. If that use case suits them, then its their prerogative. This gatekeeping of use cases is so odd; why does it matter so much how someone else uses the device?
Sorry about that, when I first posted I copied the URL from the page I was using. It had a bunch of login cruft that doesn't work for public access.

The link should be updated, so it should work now.
As long as Jiffy Lube doesn’t put the new oil in the radiator.

Sometimes you do things yourself because that’s the only person you trust.

But oil changes are one of those “do it yourself once so you understand it and then let Walmart do it” kind of things.
Ah, I mixed up MADV_DONTNEED (which is older) with MADV_FREE.
Apple Maps still sucks though. Even if it’s better now, recent use is still ridiculous erroneous.
An employee with an H1-B is definitionally not an illegal immigrant. H1-Bs are definitionally documented legal workers, the companies using undocumented workers are not companies interested in getting visas.

The solution to the "apparent" scourge of undocumented workers is to make it so that the people running companies the use that undocumented labor are the ones who go to jail, and in the event ICE finds undocumented labor the minimum fine for the company should be a significantly greater than one multiple of the amount the company would have had to pay a documented worker, in addition to ensuring the undocumented workers are fully compensated at the amount a documented worker would have been paid. Threatening to report them to immigration, underpaying, and wage theft are all clear evidence that the company knows they were employing people who were not allowed to work.

That's all that would be needed. Instead of ever more draconian penalties for the undocumented workers - many of whom have lived in the US for essentially their entire lives at this point, and simply don't have a choice - the penalties that should be being increased are the ones that apply to the employers. It's great because it will stop all that evil undocumented labor people claim to hate, because now these employers have to pay the undocumented labor if anything more than documented labor, because undocumented labor can report unsafe or illegal working conditions, come out fully compensated and in addition to those costs the employer has to pay even more in fines, while the managers and executives who knowingly employed said laborers go to jail.

That said as we've seen in Florida, plenty of businesses in America have set themselves up to be unable to operate without violating the law, so when Florida started passing its various "lets punish the workers, but not those that employ them" laws a whole bunch of businesses couldn't handle the idea of capitalism and complained about how they couldn't get any workers.
We have so much evidence about how musk “succeeds” over the past three decades, that his claims have about a 1% chance of happening. Dude has got a terrible track record of claims vs delivery.
Understanding the Core Technology Fee for iOS Apps in the European Union
> Only on the backs

I think the fact that healthcare, education, and housing (necessities) were all far cheaper then, relative to wages, also made it far easier to "drop out". The things that were more expensive then but much cheaper now are things that are essentially luxuries, like everything you can buy from China at Walmart and Amazon.

This was a time when you could graduate from college with little or no debt -- and more importantly, have a large cohort of friends, now also equally educated, who were in the same situation. You could find cheap rent, avoid buying a TV, and make do on very little.

Today rent and student loan payments alone ensure that most people who might combine the working class grit with the educated creativity and out of the box thinking to want to do weird stuff like this, can't afford to do anything but get a mainstream job. And even if they make it work, people don't do stuff like this alone, and all their friends have mainstream jobs.

Hell, even as recently as 2011 you could get a studio in Manhattan for under $1000.
The biggest thing for me, from the Verge review, was the limited field of view. Apple sold it as filling the users entire field of view and it sounds like that isn’t the case. When I first saw the reality of the Microsoft HoloLens, that was my disappointment there as well… Google Glass as well. I don’t want to feel like I’m wearing an AR device, as so far, that’s what everything has looked like. Limits of the technology, sure, but until that is solved I’ll have a lot of trouble throwing money at it. I still plan to head to an Apple Store at some point to try it out for myself.

As far as viewing with other people, this doesn’t seem like an insurmountable challenge. They have the theaters, they have Personas, they have spacial audio, and other Apple devices have features for watching content together with friends. Put them all together and it seems like if several friends had Vision Pro they could feel like they were sitting in a theater room together while watching a movie. I’m not saying this will be easy, but it seems like all the building blocks are there. The Personas are probably the big weak point, especially looking at someone next to you, but with the focus on the movie, I that’s probably the least important part.
But that's pretty much the point, isn't it? Apps on your computer are supposed to feel (a lot) faster than a website.