skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always used a generous amount of wood glue to the joints of any self-assembly furniture with the result being the furniture stays in one piece long after the finishing material has become worn and shabby.

The fixings supplied and the material construction are just not capable of providing a solid, permanent result otherwise.
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Two of your last three comments refer to loeber.substack.com
Depends on what you get, and how you build it to boot. Some people will just use a drill or force the screws in too much. I did botch my current desk, but I just kept it, it's still sturdy. I too have kept plenty of Ikea products. When I bought my house they left some Ikea stuff, so it's at least 5 years or older and still sturdy.
Billy are great and easy to customise to fit- I made a wall of black shelving in a bedroom and shelves for a built in closet with them (before IKEA started doing closet furntiure). I've found that they don't re-assemble well, they're never as tight after that.
You’re describing the outcome of one individual person. Money is just a tool for allocating resources. Saving 1 million of resources is a good thing.
> Silicon valley’s foundation is building tools of war to defeat fascists

Entirely by accident - the US wasn't fighting fascists for some ideals of democracy and freedom, or to liberate conquered peoples, or to save Jews being slaughtered; but because the fascists were invading and declaring war left and right, including against the US. Without Japan attacking, and Germany joining, the US would have probably sat the war out (of course still contributing a lot of armaments and loans to the UK, but that was probably as far as the public and Congress would have allowed things to go).

> the world’s most diverse nation

The US doesn't even make the top 50 other than in religion, which doesn't count IMO (because US subreligious groups are incredibly close to one another):

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-dive...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ethnic_an...
Apple got where it is though by focusing mostly on the consumer and only a little on the pro user.
Oh wow, looks like he's also published it to the rust package repository.

The rabbit-hole deepens.

https://crates.io/crates/sahomedb/0.2.1

Also bragging about it on Medium: https://medium.com/@ellysam/introducing-sahomedb-a-high-perf...

Also another pseudonym or his "team": https://medium.com/@samowvance10/the-purpose-of-my-project-a...

At least searching for some of these entries links back to this HN post.
The majority of work on Chromium is done by engineers on Google's payroll.

There certainly are OSS projects out there where the majority of work is done by volunteers and where companies profit from their labor. This isn't really one of them, at least not in the way you are describing it.

Applying one "truth" to the entire world generally means that you're simplifying things to such a degree that they become meaningless or even ridiculous parodies of themselves.

I feel like that this might be what you are doing here.
I admit I didn't cross check every detail here, but this article reads a lot like American "pro business" literature that cries about regulation stifling innovation, hurting American international competitiveness, etc.

The conclusion that the EU must stop fining American tech businesses does not follow from the evidence presented. I am willing to take them at their word that EU regulators are overly fixated on Meta and Google specifically... except here we are in a thread about Uber.

The principle that fines for bad behavior should be doled out to citizens is noble, but laughable. Is there any precedent for that anywhere in any developed nation state in the last 50 years? I'm not talking about damages in civil suit, I'm talking about proceeds from fines being directly redistributed to citizens.

Overall, I am very happy that, as an American, the EU is stepping up to govern and regulate American businesses, while the US federal government itself continues to extend its decade-long vacation from governing.
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> So, hiding true intentions and needs is better?

No, it is illegal. Your proposed law would have the opposite effect of the law that passed: every company would include this in their employment contract and would have legal protections to make employees work overtime.

In addition, there are exceptions:

> To cater for emergencies and jobs with irregular hours, the rule still allows employers to contact their workers, who can only refuse to respond where it is reasonable to do so. Determining whether a refusal is reasonable will be up to Australia's industrial umpire, the Fair Work Commission (FWC), which must take into account an employee's role, personal circumstances and how and why the contact was made.
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> feel very emotionally passionate that all US tech companies are evil and doing this on purpose.

Oh no, it's the US government that claims authority to use these companies to surveil EU citizens that is the problem here. One that, unfortunately, does affect all US companies.
I'm out of the loop here, can someone explain?
if we believe the commenter below about ebay prices, you might be able to buy a new car if you sell it
In my experience it's been very hit and miss with their furniture. As an example my parents bought me a Markus chair and a desk when I was in middle school. The desk broke when I slammed my math book on it one time and as for the chair, I'm still using it to this day (I'm 30)
The way I heard the story, Olivetti management had planned on naming their new Z8000-based machine the "M16", for 16-bits, and luckily a few americans were able to convince them that, in at least one non-italian country, this syntactic space was already occupied.

(these days it seems it may take some bubble-wrangling to convince uncle Google that when I type "t3x" I want, not Tikka, but NMH)
Resourcely is 100% remote and we're crushing it. We have more access to tech talent than companies that only hire in the Bay Area. This is a puff piece designed to get outrage clicks and nothing more.
Giving ikea furniture resale value also increases people’s willingness to buy new. The second hand market may be worth propping up because of the core business.
In 2013 I also worked as first time contributor on a bug that affected the linux version of Firefox.

Firefox took 2 hours to compile in my pentium dual-core Intel laptop, it was in August so warm inside the house, the 2 hours compiling at closer 100% cpu made the laptop halt due to excessive temperature before finishing. I also recall the build failed because of out-of-memory error (ram exhausted) I had 2GB and had to expand to 4 GB or something like that.

After overcoming the struggles I was finally happy as the fix was committed.
I would much rather companies “spy” on me than the government.
In that case, I'd expect a source would be easy to provide.
> Emacs can native compile packages in parallel

via external "jobs"
There are few different levels of Ikea furniture quality.

If you buy the lowest quality, it is composed of "particle board" (AKA pressed sawdust) and "corrugated cardboard" (https://youtu.be/24F5JlKkxR4?t=76). This furniture is incredibly easy to break and it will often not support being screwed together twice.

If you buy the higher quality furniture, which is often soft wood like pine (which is still incredibly low quality compared to traditional hard wood-based furniture), it will stand up a little better. It still scratches easily, because it is soft wood, but at least you can reassemble it after it has been disassembled.

Does Ikea sell any traditional hardwood furniture that is made out of things like maple, oak? I think not. Did they ever? I think they might have early one, but I could be wrong.

To be honest, it is likely a net environmental win that Ikea uses these cheap and low quality woods and sawdust and cardboard. Pine grows so much faster than hardwood, and reusing sawdust and cardboard is really low impact on the environment. I guess you have to balance that against the shorter lifespan of its furniture.
Even the article doesn't claim any connection between Lidl and Gaia-X.
No, it's definitely not. Moderation means I can run my group how I want, you can run your group how you want, and others can decide if they want to participate in either of our groups or start their own groups.

Censorship is when someone else dictates how we can run our respective groups.
That calculator reminds me of Neumorphism. Its seems like there really is nothing new under that sun.

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/neumorp...
I love these two. If I ever read a Russian book I insist on using one of their translations. I can speak and read Russian on a basic level. They're able to make texts sound like Russian, but it English. It's pretty amazing really.
Rust feels impossible to use until you "get" it. It eventually changes from fighting the borrow checker to a disbelief how you used to write programs without the assurances it gives.

And once you get past fighting the borrow checker it's a very productive language, with the standard containers and iterators you can get a lot done with high level code that looks more like Python than C.
I am not a fan of comparing bad software with erosion or organic decay. It's feels like avoiding responsibility. Software is software, it is made worse by people, nothing else.
I'm 67. I joined a gym and started strength and cardio training when I was 51. I had no previous sports or exercise experience as an adult other than walking a lot, so I had a lot to learn: what all those machines and other exercise devices were for and how to use them, what exercises work which muscles, how people structure their workouts, how I should structure my workouts, what motivates people to work out, what motivates me to work out, etc.

Fortunately, and to my initial surprise, I found that I liked both the process and the results. Once I started, I never had to push myself to go to the gym or to exercise. I also enjoyed the third-placeness of the gym and getting to know people outside of work.

I quit the gym when COVID was bad, but I had some extra space at home and gradually assembled a good set of exercise equipment. I take a nerdy pleasure in buying and using various cable-machine attachments, grip exercisers, elastic bands, and, especially, swinging implements (maces, light and heavy clubs, Sandflails, cylindrical and hexagonal steel rods bought from metal suppliers, etc.). Ten years ago I went through a bodyweight period, and I include no-equipment exercises in my workouts, too.

YouTube and Instagram have been great resources for ideas about equipment and exercises. Many of the influencers can be a bit too dogmatic, but I can usually learn something even from them.

Like the author, I do feel my age more these days, and I also find myself needing more rest than I used to. Unlike him, I have never even considered doing marathons, triathlons, etc. Running hurts my knees, and I feel I can push myself hard enough without having quantitative targets. To each his own.

Working out at home is convenient and comfortable, but I do miss the gym sometimes. I have considered rejoining but haven’t yet, as I wouldn’t be able to do swinging-equipment exercises at the public gyms where I live.
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US companies literally cannot abide by EU laws, because they are subject to US laws, which conflict with EU laws. This is what all these European judgements are disagreeing with.

The companies are not at fault here. The governments are at fault for dropping the ball on coming to an agreement. We’re on like the 5th round of this. Compliance is impossible.

Until the two governments fix this, US companies cannot operate in the EU without being at risk for pilfering from EU government.
How exactly are they overplaying their hand?

If, and that is a big if, American big tech decided to pull back from Europe, I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up being a good thing for the local market in anything but the short term.

It’s very hard to compete with them (even in the local US market). Their disappearance from a market as big as the EU would likely spark competition.
Along with Meta, Snap, PayPal, Airbnb, Slack, Salesforce, Block, Autodesk, Chime, Kelly-Moore, McAfee, Trimble, Chevron, Virta, Charles Schwab, and many many others. Good riddance to them all?
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Skew in what way?
I'm in Latvia and senior developers are paid 60-90k here.
Ah yes, my bad, it seems it might only be for the first 12 months then $3.6/mo.

Do take a look at the other clouds, Oracle in particular offers an ARM VM with 24 GB of memory for free which is interesting for some workloads.
Looks terrible to me but apparently both are acceptable:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-couple-singular-o...

> When writing of a couple getting married, it is more common to use the plural form ("the couple are to be wed"). When writing of an established couple, it is more common to use a singular verb ("the couple has six puppies, each more destructive than the next").

So according to MW we're a bit more right than NYT.
While the CLOUD Act exists, and in general while the US refuses to recognize privacy rights of foreigners and grant them sane due-process protections, it seems logically impossible to comply with US and EU legislation at the same time (the European Commission’s repeated but non-binding pronouncements to the contrary notwithstanding). That US companies aren’t exactly in a hurry to try looks to mostly be a distraction.
it's a scheme thing, not necessarily clojure.

(def foo '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10))
(let [loop (fn [x]
(if (empty? x) '()
(cons (+ 1 (car x)) (loop (cdr x)))))]
(loop foo)) ;=> (2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11)

It's just a way of simulating a loop with a recursive anonymous function within a let binding. As far as the fn, it's because lately I've been programming quite a lot in fennel[1] that borrows syntax from clojure. Although it should be said that this also isn't valid fennel code unless it's in a macro, but that's beside the pont.

the (let [loop (fn ...)]) is something I learned here[2]

[1] https://fennel-lang.org/
[2] http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/scheme/scheme5.html#the...
The action by Uber was complettly avoidable.
Most of it is not meant to be disassembled at all, e.g. bookshelves with those circular cams and screws into particle board. Flat pack assembly is just a cheaper way of getting the furniture to you, if you move or sell it, keep it whole. I bought some fancier Crate & Barrel bookshelves recently that were being discontinued and the things arrived whole in wood reinforced heavy duty cardboard. They wanted C$300 or something for shipping and 2 bookshelves filled a 6.5' truck bed.
I'd also be surprised if that browser name is "Chromium", given that Google Chrome doesn't brand itself as such. (And vice versa.)
Snowden, Assange, China, Russia it's all uncorrelated and a distraction to the "Nothing to hide" argument.

You can review it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

I will also add: that hiding has a very successful track record (for all life forms) over time, because you don't ever really know what the future holds.

I also have a pet theory that there is underlying physics/information theory here that explains this (similar to thermodynamics/entropy, might even be the same phenomenon) ->

too much concentrated asymetric information becomes a single point of failure, and yields brittle systems.

Stated a different way:

As the dependencies on a single process rise, the probability of the entire system failing approaches 1.
I wouldn't call it "simplicity". Elegance, maybe. The 3D-printed manifolds are devilishly complicated.
No that makes no sense to me. Or are we pretending cross-compilation doesn't exist?
Cpp compile times are shame as hell

This shit shouldnt need this many resources for debug builds
They aren't overplaying their hand, or at least they aren't according to anything presented in that article. The author frets about some balance of power, but does not make a convincing case that the EU position is threatened in any way.

Less we also forget that US public sentiment is shifting. If anything, big tech needs to be careful.
> By "common core methods", I'm lumping together a bunch of approaches where, in the words of the immortal Tom Lehrer, "the important thing is to understand what you're doing rather than to get the right answer".

Well, maybe that's really misdirected then, isn't it? Because the actual Common Core standards aren't really behind your complaints.

I don't really agree with the rest of what you say, though. Rote and math drilling are very important, but understanding is pretty important so you know what method to select. IMO, a good math class is 1/3rd rote, 1/3rd intuition/pictures, and 1/3rd efforts to add rigor.

It's worth noting the whole lot of the world introduces pictures and geometric methods early, like some of these curriculums are trying to do, and gets better results in math education than we have. Though I don't really think most US teachers know how to do that well, yet.

> Understanding what you're doing is important. Understanding what you're doing on the way to getting the wrong answer is not really, unless your goal is to get the wrong answer.

Everyone wants the right answer. A huge proportion of our population basically gives up on math at some point from 4th to 7th grade; they decide they're bad at it, and this self-assessment is more predictive of their future performance than their actual performance. This is really a general pedagogical thing rather than being rooted in standards or even curriculum, but a lot of the reason some teachers and programs are trying to celebrate partial success is to reduce this problem. The background trend is particularly harmful to girls, who for a variety of reasons tend to self-assess more harshly than boys.

In any case, this all has very little to do with Common Core, other than it started happening in the same decade. (Buying new textbooks to align with a new standard is a good chance to change things.) And it's really confusing to those of us with some domain knowledge who can't figure out the specific, non-CC reason why a particular person is complaining.

My background: I advise on math curriculum selection and development at a small private school; I coach a competitive MS math team that routinely wins (crushes— we are 4% of the local MS pop but had 8/12 of the top students last year) regional competition despite us being tiny. Our elementary school that feeds us adopted visual and explanatory methods early, and devoted a whole lot of effort at getting good at teaching this way. (Note, we didn't abandon rote practice. Also note that we are not really required to align with state standards, but for math we could do so with very little change).

We get a huge proportion of our student body through AP Calc; my eldest did it in 8th grade.
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They’ll need to switch to NFC eventually.
Couldn't they have kept the data stored in the EU? What US law prevents that?
> Lol. They would if there was a clear law/process to follow that didn’t get shot down every few months.

There isn't a process because US law makes it clear that US companies should be auxiliary to illegal acts abroad. And we find out every few months, that even when they aren't forced to, they disregard the law.

Sure, maybe they're not "evil", but they apparently can't find a way to be law-abiding entities.
Slightly off topic answer, but - I’ve been sleeping on a king sized IKEA mattress for about ten years now and I have absolutely no complaints. No moving parts or assembly required obviously, but nonetheless never had a bad nights sleep on account of this mattress.
It depends which items. They're not designed to be re-assembled but some pieces will re-assemble just fine. You have to be careful as it's easy to strip the screw holes e.g. in particleboard. I'd try to remove any shelves, doors, drawers, etc. and move the rest as one piece, giving it a quick tighten when you arrive.
Excellent illustration of the truly shocking scale of the impacts of corporate consolidation & winner takes all economics.

The scope and scale of companies is just so high. Unlike the world as it used to be, where lots of companies were doing the same jobs, we've concentrated industries into so few titans.

It's hard to imagine how we keep the social contract alive, with conditions as is.

It feels like America has made leap and bounds of progress towards de-governance, towards making legislating and regulating harder and harder. The FTC has finally awoken from a near total slumber, but with the courts aligned as they are it's hard to see that they'll really be allowed leverage to tilt the scales towards more human scaled, competitive markets.

Competitive markets wouldn't just be good for consumers; making competition viable is necessary to allow new opportunities to get started. Right now, the Thomas Piketty cycle of rich organizations and people getting wealthier has no remedy, has so few vectors open for others to try to match this.

(Addressing housing and health care costs, such that the risk of doing other things is less, would help enormously.)
Let’s get that number up! I want to see some CEOs opting for the E-Class vs the S-Class because they intentionally, willfully, knowingly treated citizens like plebeians.

You guys can get with the program now, or you can wait for one of those tent camps to abruptly rise up and drag you out of your Plaid Tesla and beat you to death with your own iPhone.
28.8% with dividends going by the TSP C fund which doesn't pay dividends but keeps them in fund.
It's a complete mistranslation of what Sören wrote. He just noted the missing change log entry, as you said.
Alternative question: has breaking European laws become a major American industry?
Without that deal, there wouldn’t be a Firefox. If/when it’s gone, there’s no one capable/willing to fund Mozilla to that amount.

Really there’s only 1 other company who can throw that level of money at us and it’s Microsoft. Without Google bidding up the price, doubtful they would pay as much for Bing to be the default search and it’s not like Firefox users would welcome that change.

Free software doesn’t work for long without some sort of corporate sponsorship at some point, and it’s not in anyone’s interest to fund it at this point. (And don’t say “the EU should” most Europeans are not clamoring for their governments to spend money on an American browser company with web compatibility issues that no one tests against)
Im curios: The author claims to be a EU - citizen, yet has an English name, has lived his whole life in the US and his thinking is deeply American (this made me chuckle: "You can view this almost like a class-action lawsuit, where some compensation is sought for harm done to a large group of people.
But for a class-action lawsuit to be legitimate, it must reward the consumers!")

So where is he from? Which country?
My cynical take: I make things that look hard to make to impress you but if you make them for me I feel my money is going into the calculator rather than the product.
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This is all feeling very incestuous and rapidly unmooring from reality.