skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's a 2 hour 30 flight apparently, times two, that's five hours spent flying alone, and the quickest time through an airport is 30 minutes or so even with all the VIP access. Cost of flying has gone up since then too, and probably rents on both ends as well.

I've long ago realised that cost, comfort, and commute are like the project management triangle, you can pick two: Short commute in a comfortable home is expensive, cheap home with a short commute is uncomfortable, and cheap and comfortable home means a long commute.

This is why work from home is so valuable, in that you can live comfortably and affordably (say, a three bedroom apartment in Barcelona) without the cost or time spent commuting.
When I open a Spotify link as a webpage, I can't play that song unless I have an account. At some point in the past you didn't have to.
It was, this article is from 2013; the cheapest flights I can find now are twice as expensive round-trip, and will likely go up even further to discourage frequent flying to try and reduce emissions.
>found a good solution to though problem

> -keep it in your head,

+write it down
The Swarm Doc
What a bizarre measure of ethics.

The law is not the bar.

A billionaire is creating the impression his portfolio companies are building successful relationships in the market by providing funds to the police with which to “buy” said products.

Evidence shows they have no input on the purchases and are entirely guided by Horowitz.

In addition he is funding other police requests in return for an unspecified level of special treatment and access.

What if this doesn’t strike you as rampant corruption?
The context switching gets more painful. You can no longer lock yourself away for a day or a week to bash out code. You have responsibilities, like "come to this meeting", "review that code from jnr person", "get me this usage data". Your business value is becoming decoupled from time spent thinking about your own code, and you think about other's code and wider business tasks and problems.
Try out Singapore and fly for example to Phuket. It’s a very lean process with optimised waiting times (read: nearly none) and walking distances on both sides.

It can be done, most airports are just amazingly inefficient. No idea why that is.
> Just because these fees are not immediately visible doesn't mean they don't exist. Get off your high horse.

You're the one pretending to be above the poster you are responding to while arguing a strawman. No one is claiming that healthcare costs are not being paid for.

There are three major factors you conveniently ignore:

- You only look at average earners. It's not surprising that the average earner ends up paying about the same. What socialized healthcare is to make staying alive affordable for those less well off. Averages across the population don't tell you the whole story.

- Insurance that covers all associated costs like ambulances minimizes the unexpected costs that can very well trhow people's lives into shambles. Yes you still end up paying for those on average but average lifetime healthcare contributions don't tell you the whole story.

- Being charged for ambulance trips forces people to decide between an unexpected cost and a potentially required life saving service. At first this may sound like a good way to reduce unneccessary ambulance use but most people are horrible at triaging the severity of their own health issues.

So please, get off your high earner horse.
> someone at the water cooler will smash your flow into tiny pieces.

Sounds like an argument against rto to me...
Too much nagging.
This would suggest that everyone laid off in recent waves were mostly under performers or over paid?
Are there < 1$ Arduino clones? How compatible are they with yubikeys? Are there any from trusted manufacturers? Any pointers?
I'm sorry, are you seriously proposing that I should read the text before commenting on it? That isn't how the things are done around here.
That's the point. Yubikey can charge a premium on the assumption that what it sells is secure. If it sells old stock with known issues, what's the point?

Also I returned my yubikey to my $work when my contract ended so I know at least Microsoft reuses these keys.
What do you mean by "jj clone" ? I assumed it was possible to start using jj on an existing Git repository, and continue using Git (and jj) afterwards. Isn't this the case ?
Even worse, it misses the point.
Shipping means you realize benefits for a target audience.

Enable someone to hit a revenue target, compliance measure, etc. if leadership doesn't care about that or can't work to that kind of framework; they deserve to go the fuck out of business.

Treating it as "please management" is incredibly self serving. You please management by often making them money; sometimes despite themselves.
What to use for data analysis programming,Talk is cheap！
To be clear, it is hated by many pro-Americans and some of its other customers as well, primarily for its cost (over runs).
> but if that frequency is what I have to do to stay healthy with a desk job, then I guess I'll be unhealthy

That's an interesting lifestyle choice, but don't be shocked if others refuse to follow along.
> But how can the pilot figure that out, while flying the aircraft?

The standby instruments were working and falling back to them in the event of a primary flight display failure is part of the training
Yes, I also really like Songlink/Odesli! Their search also works faster than Spotify’s or Apple Music’s search.
While in Barcelona rents have been skyrocketing, largely due to British and other "expats" moving in:

https://www.ft.com/content/d82f2c93-ab1b-46c7-b25f-ba768b813...
Why would you expect it doubled?

Population has not doubled, wages have not doubled, remote working became common after 2020 covid.
I wonder if it’ll be normalised in the future to live in a place like Barcelona and travel to a place like London once a week for two or three days for work and then go back to live in Barcelona. Perhaps a hostel like place in London to crash after work + Pub in those 3 work days, while enjoying a nice comfy house and local culture in Barcelona for the rest of the week..
there is the possibility of a an apocoliptic outcome in something like this
, a slow boring apocoloipse where the plastic digesting bacteria mutate and evolve to the point that they no longer need there insect host, and then go on to
eat every last bit of plastic on the planet, the article does suggest that developing said bacteria on an industrial scale could be done.
From a biological perspective,plastic is a huge and ideal energy dense biological niche that is unused or defended, and nature, famously, abhors a vacume
An apartment like that could cost 1500€ today. Also, flights are also more expensive.
There's a continuum from tiny planetesimal to a huge star of 50+ solar masses, and sometimes the distinction is blurred.

Many red dwarf stars are hardly larger than Jupiter despite being more than 80 times as massive (this is commonly cited as the lower limit for protium fusion, which is the definition of a star[1]).

> Surely you wouldn’t call a sub-Jupiter-mass body a “brown dwarf” just because it formed in isolation?

In my view, the criteria for what gets classified as brown dwarf stars isn't the circumstances of their formation, but only their mass and hence the nature of fusion (if any) in their interior. So if a gas cloud collapsed into a single sub-Jupiter-mass body, it is a planet. The article says a 7-Jupiter-mass star could be a brown dwarf, and I believe the lower limit is unclear because there could be deuterium/tritium fusion at such low masses, and even at higher masses there could be no fusion at all[2].

I think the article was trying to make the distinction between gravitational collapse and accretion, but honestly, accretion can also sometimes go runaway and produce a body that is about brown-dwarf mass (i.e. 13-80 Jupiter masses).

[1]: https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/page/low_mass_stars_brow...

[2]: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/770/2/1...
off topic, but I'm so mesmerized, I can't help it -- the translation is just perfect, even though the original is ripe with colloquialism. Not too long ago, this was SciFi.
Amazing! The forest scenes are beautiful
Ask HN: Where are the other structured output LLMs
As far as I can tell, only OpenAI has a robust structured output mode i.e. JSON mode or a schema of your choice.

Why do the other model providers not have a robust json mode yet?

This is a pretty killer requirement for doing anything serious with LLM's i.e. recieving structured output enables all kinds of workflows beyond just chatbots.

Can we get reliable structured output from Anthropic or anywhere else? I saw this https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/test-and-evaluate/strengthen-guardrails/increase-consistency but it looks like just prompt engineering rather than a specific API level change which is what I assume OpenAI does, something like switching over to a fine-tuned version of the model designed to output only JSON.
Don't you think having 300+ commands in /bin is a clear signal something is wrong with Unix? No?
Yeah but then you have to fly Ryanair

Every. Day
> If you have ever heard Mainland Chinese recordings dated back 30-40 years ago, they were shouty, harsh and ear-piercing (plenty examples on YouTube).

Sounds interesting, but I don't know what search terms to use. Does anyone have any representative examples?
you put an adults bodily autonomy over a innocent babies life.

I would hope most people have enough self awareness to not compare a foreign hostile disease that does nothing but kill its host to a human life.
So you're in a thing going close to the speed of sound, the thing starts malfunctioning, you look out the window, think "ahh the weather is nice, therefore the machine will probably not kill me" and keep flying? How does that thought process go?
Musk is claiming that it recently reached record usage highs, as measured by "user seconds". It's a bit unclear whether he is counting X as a different platform to Twitter though, and "user seconds" is pushed upwards by video content that takes longer to consume. But usage hasn't obviously declined since the takeover either.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1854777813464662307
I bought a pair of BLON earbuds as my backup set that I keep in my bag so I've always got a set. Am very happy with the sound quality and thought they were fantastic value for money
> I am using VirtualBox. Who will be happy about this? Server Hosting providers?

One group would be macOS users who want to virtualize ARM64.
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Not at all. Assuming a city has a mix of people with database, web and security experience is perfectly reasonable. You can definitely find someone capable enough to run manage the project, and as I said what needs to can still be outsourced.
What is the issue with disabled persons ?

Also, what makes you think of a disabled person, when you are in front of GIMP ?

This looks like obsession (or lack of homonymies, which are quite common in french, but maybe not in some 'simpler' languages ?)
This article is from 2013 and it's not true anymore.

Just did a search and the cheapest 3-bedroom flat in Les Corts area of Barcelona starts at 1500 EUR/month, compared to 680 EUR/month in the article.
There are only 2 offers at this price, the rest start at 2000 EUR / month.

Cheapest flight to London (and back) on same date (Nov 20) is now 76 EUR, compared to 34 EUR in the article.

Interestingly, the prices in London seem to be around the same as in the article.
I one time talk with a guy running a scraping company. A client of his wanted all products from all of his suppliers in a single interface. One really slow website was constantly changing things specifically to make scraping impossible. He had to fix it every few hours then they changed everything again.

I gave him the perfect solution: Why don't you just call them and ask how much money they want for access to their product catalog? Give them tiny bits of information if they don't approve immediately. Tell them it is for one of their customers and that their site is to slow. They are the only supplier not in the interface which is bad for them and bad for you. If they still refuse offer them access to their competitors data at a modest fee.

He couldn't stop laughing, he never considered it. When the sun set the next morning he put in the call. They gave him access immediately, they were so happy to finally get rid of his crawler messing up their analytics data. Apparently the people on the other end of the tube also didn't sleep. They had a good laugh about it.
But neither is London. Both London and Barcelona rents are up between 40-60% since the article was written as far as I can tell:

https://www.catalannews.com/business/item/barcelona-rent-pri...
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/discover/property-news/average-rent...
Just use the ”following” tab instead of the ”for you” tab, and you get that on X.
People buy cigarettes with pictures of what they do to you on the packaging in the EU as well.

I expect it's a combination of gambling (surely I won't be the one affected by these possible outcomes) combined with an instant gratification mindset (feeling good now trumps possible long term consequences).
> I don’t see how you can achieve any meaningful goal without collaborating with people in power.

Depends on how you define meaningful. Raising happy & healthy kids, helping someone in need etc, can be meaningful to many people, but don't require 'collaborating with people in power'.
Fusion is a commercial product, and UTM is a hobbyist project. How can
you compare these two?
Salaries in Spain, are around the same, too.
Sometimes I like to think that these silurians stayed around, and decided to "civilize" us, not realizing that in the meantime we evolved intelligence that exceeds theirs beyond their comprehension.

So they forced their civilization upon us, which they presumably consider highly advanced, but to us, it's nothing but primitivism repulsive to a healthy human.
(not the person you're responding to, and I wouldn't have expected it to double, but definitely increase with double digits %)

Yes, but it's well known that in most of the developed world housing is becoming more expensive and housing costs are outpacing wages, for a variety of reasons.

Here's an infographic about the EU, based on Eurostat: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/ZAsqzx4tRo
> it is almost certainly neither cheaper nor faster to do so yourself, even if you have experience baking bread.

You are severely underestimating how much a company will mark up the cost to make a profit.

> Do you make your own clothes? Certainly it must be cheaper to do it yourself rather than buy a shirt from a company, right?

Poor analogy. The fare system being talked about is a big investment that doesn't need to be replaced every year. A closer equivalent would be building your own computer, and yes many people do. The parts they manufacturer they still buy or have made.

> Repeat ad nauseam.

Except your analogy doesn't apply across the board and you know this. If we extrapolate from your reasoning a city shouldn't do anything themselves.
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"The jet kept flying for 64 miles" and "the jet was fine" are WILDLY different things.
"And I have been correctly saying that this is foolish because it will destroy the entire internet communication industry and we get far more social benefit than drawback from said industry. If everyone has to know everything on their service then they can't let users post anything. Further, this has been well litigated already for other telecom services (i.e. for the phone company) and is why there is no liability for the telecom company if you, for example, use their cellular network to set off a bomb in a crowded area."

I get this is the underlying gist of the debate, but it doesn't follow at all from the deep thread, which focuses on a very specific point.

"It doesn't matter what the price is, the price is a signal of a totally separate problem, as I have already said. As I've also already said, this censorship nonsense of the last decade is indicative of editorializing and therefore in that instance it would make sense to have some liability to the platform, as they are exercising editorial control over what is being published above and beyond legality"

I'm sorry but you have no capacity for keeping a discussion. You bring the subject of free speech and politics in what originally is a rape case with almost no relevance.

Try to separate your free speech concerns to a separate top level comment or wherever it would be appropriate (probably not top level). And try to engage with the specific argument of a thread. Encapsulate, this is a nuanced topic, you can't repeat the base argument in a depth 7 comment.
That's typically what I've seen. If you are indispensable you won't get laid off as easily.
Weirdly, optics have never mattered at all in small or startup companies. And they manage to do pretty well, ship a lot of product and become large companies.

Maybe the problem isn’t the engineers, but the need for optics…
People in the part of the org that's cut. In my experience most layoffs aren't about cutting x% across teams, they're about the company deciding that they don't need entire functions altogether and getting rid of entire teams.
> In other words, these days we think that an algorithm that can't beat a human at "being human" is pretty bad.

No, that's a bad summary. The Turing test is not a great test of being human.
> This isn't your business though right? Why would you be worrying the owner is letting management be shit, and letting their asset crumble?

I really don't like this take to be honest, I will only work at a company that I want to work at. It's not like working a mindless 9-5 where I just want to clock out and leave. I'm there because I want to be and believe in the product/company I'm working for.

There's nothing wrong with that, regardless of managment, if I'm working towards something, I already feel I want to improve it.

It's not a "Hero syndrome" as you mentioned in your other comment, it's more having self respect for your work.
He has less than 50 hours in that type.
Also, the idea that the only reason people work on the project is that they need the money surely seems less appealing than that the only thing stopping them from working on it is death? Or are we now just okay with saying the quiet part out loud and acknowledging the exploitative nature of the economic system?
> city lacks external motivators like "competition" which drive increased efficiency / reduced cost.

Which is negated by the city not trying to make a profit and marking up the cost.
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That's true, but since then we also have had some sort of global event. One of the side effects of that event has been that remote work has become much more normalized around the globe. Which is reflected by the fact that the lifestyle of digital nomads also has taken off in recent years.
In 2008 I had a colleague who commuted from Birmingham to Lambeth. Sadly trains aren't as cheap as planes.
Got a pair of TIN HiFi T2 - failed within a year.

Got a pair of Moondrop SSR - failed within a year.

Got a pair of Apple earpods - works for two years without issues for a fraction of the price.

I'm done with the Chinese IEM meme.
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Decades old footguns - aaargh!
> no one says "I am avoiding large grocery stores because they force me to make too many decisions"

I say that. I 100% prefer going to the smaller store if I don't need anything "fancy" because the large offerings stress me out.

That said I'm fine with git and don't care about Jujutsu, so I don't know what that says about me :)
I get the point, but can Stansted really be considered as being in London?

It sounds like a trick by Ryanair to make the airport sound more important than it is, similar to their airport Frankfurt-Hahn which arguably isn't anywhere near Frankfurt.
To sell meals, drinks and other goodies. Tired travellers that are forced to wait are easy targets. Add in the occasional perfume store and Bob's your uncle.
Option 1: Increase punishments. Singapore handles this quite well.

Option 2: Goes back to 1. What does “messing” things up even mean? Losing everything and committing crimes? Increased punishments for the crimes.

After that we need to focus on making the cost of the punishments cheaper.