skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paw, which many people love, has a neat and similar feature: you can get extensions that convert the request you build in the app to any format: curl, python, etc.

It's very handy.

https://paw.cloud/docs/getting-started/code-generator
I'm not sharing my experience for sympathy, I'm sharing it to challenge the "parents are basically Jesus" narrative of society. If an adult child doesn't provide care for their parents (or even limits contact with them) then society thinks the child is the asshole. Yet it's been my observation that 9 times out of 10 the asshole is the parents, not the broken and innocent child. We have to navigate both the severe emotional turmoil the parents caused and the (sometimes severe) societal disapproval of distancing ourselves from the toxic relationship.
Where did I say that? I asked about CocoaPods. I’ve used Maven, NPM and NuGet. No one is even answering my question.

> How does CocoaPods compare to Maven, NuGet, or NPM?
Interview with Colorado Based EDM Producer and Musician El Viaje
> Further the US and European trends are already downwards.

US CO2 emission trends are downwards because the US stopped burning coal. In the same time, they've switched to natural gas produced by fracking. Fracking leaks methane. Taking methane and CO2 emissions together, US greenhouse gas trends are stable and not downward.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-literal-gas...

I don't know about EU trends. I'm not very optimistic.
Oh, I'm aware. I work in enterprise software. I see what the customers want.

I've also been on the receiving end: my company has one tool that doesn't work well. So for three years, there's been a push to get rid of it, but there's never been agreement on any replacement.

There's one particular use case that stakeholders think isn't handled by the replacements. The result is that we use both tools, and manually synchronize them. Someone wrote a bespoke automated tool to bridge those two SaaS apps, but it doesn't remove the manual synchronization, just reduces it.

Oh, these tools? They aren't for something low touch. People are in both tools constantly. There are questions about which pieces of information are accurate, and who's responsible for which updates. The time waste is significant.

But the problem isn't the software. The problem is that people can't make a decision. When you ask someone higher up, you get vague assurances that we're still thinking about the issue. In the case of the companies with their mergers, having one tool support both systems isn't doing anyone any favors. It just lets them limp along with excess complexity.
> if they don't have sufficient backup power

They have backup power which can get them through any expected power outage. They don't have unlimited backup power that would be able to get them through a "apocalypse" or major terrorism scenario where the world is ending and power will be out for more than a week. Preparing to survive an apocalypse or major terrorism incident is possible. Build all facilities a mile underground with a self enclosed ecosystem. Might cost trillions, but can be done.

PG&E has intentionally deployed, at short and inadequate notice, what is equivalent to a terrorist attack on west coast infrastructure. No one prepared for or expected that scenario. Past events have shown that PG&E management are sociopaths who intentionally engaged in mass criminal negligence which resulted in dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of property damage. Even under the oversight of a captured court, they continue with their games.

If there is any sanity left in California, the USDOJ would bring the executives who deployed this plan and the judge who signed off on it under terrorism charges. If any deaths occur as a result of these antics, it should be capital charges.
I mean, it's next to a war zone, with tons of military hardware moving about, preparing to enter fighting. It sounds like pretty reasonable counter-intelligence (not to mention counter-propaganda) move.
Such a shame ... time to pony up some more of that "vision" Softbank.
The abortion theory is pretty much busted by now. You find the same crime-reduction pattern in European countries were abortion has been legal since the 1940s. You don't find subsequent crime increases in countries were abortion has been outlawed or access to it has been severely restricted.
I've been reading the life of Napoleon III (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III).

He <<commissioned the grand reconstruction of Paris. He launched similar public works projects in Marseille, Lyon and other French cities. Napoleon III modernized the French banking system, greatly expanded and consolidated the French railway system and made the French merchant marine the second largest in the world. He promoted the building of the Suez Canal and established modern agriculture, which ended famines in France and made France an agricultural exporter. Napoleon III negotiated the 1860 Cobden–Chevalier free trade agreement with Britain and similar agreements with France's other European trading partners. Social reforms included giving French workers the right to strike and the right to organize. The first women students were admitted at the Sorbonne, and women's education greatly expanded as did the list of required subjects in public schools. >>

But then, he was Emperor of the French (the last one) and had absolute power... What you propose we do with NASA is something similar in long term vision, but then again, we live in a (?flawed) democracy where any long term investment is hotly contested and annihilated. I wish we could find a better way, a new age of enlightenment so we could finally do great things again.
The biggest difficulty is that many of the web 'accounts' I've created have been only ever accessed via my Google account- i.e. I effectively don't have an account there w/o my Google account.

I assume Github and some of the others have mechanisms to migrate to a 'local' account, but I'm fairly sure some of the others would involve basically starting from scratch.

That said, for $17,000, of course I would, it would pay for the inconvenience many times over.
Why china in particular? It doesn't seem to me that most people here are from china. So why are chinese threads submitted/upvoted more often?
Sometimes you worked really hard and had a great strategy and your multi-year plan is starting to come together. All the pieces are snapping into place one after the other and you feel a great sense of progress... but then, at the last minute, it all falls apart based on some random freak incident that doesn't make sense and nobody could have predicted.

That's the reality of capitalism. The successful outliers are so rare, they may as well be fictitious characters in a fairy tale. Their experience has no meaning, no bearing whatsoever on the lives of real people. Their only purpose is to propagate the lie which holds the system together for their own benefit and at the expense of everyone else.
Zillow CEO: Not betting on iBuying would be an “existential threat”
I miss the simpler time, where everyone was just an anonymous nickname behind a keyboard, and genders weren't relevant in most discussions.
> There are only so many homes, and it's often illegal to build new ones. Now your colleagues and friends are your competitors for the same homes.

If it's illegal to build new homes, that's certainly not a free market or "capitalism."
I’m also curious why OP should think that this might permanently stunt a career.
Usually companies that advertise paid interviews ghost the candidate in case of either unsuccessful interview or candidate opting for somebody else. OTOH if you want to work in some bleeding edge team that would catapult you to elite status, like AI autopilot at Tesla/SpaceX, you would be fine with an unpaid crazy project to pick you out/weed you out in the first phase.
Moved to the Bay Area from LA couple years back.
The Bay area seems like everyone is perpetually overworked and stressed. I take my kids for soccer/basketball lessons, and standing on the sidelines, hope to chat up with parents, but they are glued to their phones or horror of horrors ( some have their laptops open and coding!). LA was so much more chill, just easier to chat up with people, invite people over spontaneously and make friends.
People have asked for this or the Spanish version of Angular or Russian Java. If I only spoke those languages I might want that as well. Surprised no one has tried to introduce this into popular programming languages.
DHTML involves trading 99.9% or so of your computational power for greater convenience of programming.
I was talking more about the GUI/command line divide.

SolidWorks/Blender are fundamentally GUI apps, even if they do contain some programmatic features (like parametric filters/models/...). Also, all media software have something like "Unix tools who do one thing well" - plugins, filters, ..., but you compose them using the GUI.
Depending on your threat model, it might be suitable to have it removed and roll the dice if something goes wrong. Would be swank if Apple had an option to wipe the device and flush the secure enclave if it can detect physical tampering (momentary contact closure) with the traces for the port that was removed.
Probably! I mean, you can't get a ticket driving 100mph with no license plates in CA, so I'm not exactly worried about CHP whipping out a plane and measuring the curvature of my mirrors.

I haven't been able to source OEM euro driver's side mirrors for the Tesla, but I had them on my VW and have them on my BMWs.
> Trump made the decision not to attack Iran and start WWIII after Iran downed a US drone
> He hasn't started any new conflicts

He has started a (completely unnecessary, in the opinion of almost everybody) conflict with Iran. The violation of the treaty and the sanctions are an act of economic war- which is much cheaper and less bloody than a military attack, but almost equally devastating for the victim. Trump is very happy with choking a whole country and he wants it to die in silence, without making too much fuss. Should he get a Nobel peace prize for that? I don't think so.

Not to mention the fact that Iran isn't happy at all at the idea of being silently choked so it'll keep staging provocations until either it can get a relief from sanctions or Trump is dragged into a war of his own making.
> writing complex, highly configurable software is hard.

Especially overtime! And especially when different parts of the elephant are done to please different customers! It's hard to manage tech debt and feature creep when the software is being pushed in 4 directions by business, even if business has VERY close relations with customers (like companies I've worked for do).
Yeah, end of last year. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17960722/magic-leap-one-... You can apparently buy one at https://shop.magicleap.com/
Because despite this...

>It doesn't seem to me that most people here are from china.

... they are having an outsized impact on US culture and politics right now. That may change, but not any time soon.
so like, everyone basically? The other problem is that these companies competitors aren't necessarily any better, they have just successfully avoided the issue. Very few companies - and probably close to none whom are global - are actually taking a stance that supports Taiwan and HK. I suppose a list of companies whom have taken a positive stance and put something at risk would be more interesting to me.
a geologist with a shovel and a lab kit would do more science in a week than all the robots ever sent to mars altogether.
This behavior does not seem like something I would put beneath any large financial institution. The large sums of money at stake for them make the collateral/fallout of these types of scandals small in comparison.
Check also other online shops. Geizhals.de is your friend in Germany.
> Since when are Word, Excel [...] enterprise software?

Since Word 1.0.

Why do you think it is called Microsoft Office? The 1989 edition of Microsoft Word cost $500, equivalent to over $1,000 today, for a single seat. That's not consumer software.

Microsoft Home didn't exist until 1993, a decade into Office's life, when it had achieved complete enterprise dominance -- thanks largely to its competitors' failure to release Windows version in a timely fashion in the late 1980s & early 1990s -- and Microsoft began pushing into consumer software.
It took me a moment to get that, but oh the irony.
This story needs a write up! I'm fascinated!
Plasma Mobile update: Refreshed shell interface, fixes in apps and working calls
Discord used Elixir from the start
If I stopped using YouTube I would already be eligible, and the answer is yes.
It's been fantastic for our fast-growing SaaS startup. We've been able to spin up offices in 4 international cities in the last 18 months with very few issues, and our teams are productive and happy with the spaces.

I manage one of the new offices and have LOVED the responsiveness of the local WeWork team, the facilities, the infrastructure, and it's lightyears better than the previous office we were occupying. I don't have to worry about office-related issues any longer.

That is, if WeWork stays solvent and doesn't go bankrupt.

It's really too bad because their core business (renting office space) is done really well. Maybe a bankruptcy and restructuring would be good for their business, or maybe it will cause them to explode.
It being harsh does not make it any less true. Go is self admittedly catering to the lowest common denominator of developers.

And boy it works...

I have to write a lot of Go myself. I detest it, and use it only because the industry dictates so.
I am a SAP ABAP developer and it was my pleasure to debug a PO Badi the other day ... sigh ... looking at the mess of of their code I was just amazed that it was still running in 2019.
Somewhat related, and an excellent view:

The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w
tbh I don't think this is very compelling. my coworkers are certainly my competition for raises/promotions, but the company is large and successful enough that everyone I'm friendly with could get a raise and there would still be money to give me one too.

outside of work, the scale just makes this an irrelevant question. sure, maybe there are 10,000 apartment units I would like to live in and 20,000 people who also want them. my five good friends in the area don't really move the needle wrt how much I need to bid to actually get a nice apartment.

the incentive is there, but it's too weak to be worth paying attention to.
Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against 'no shorts' policy (2017)
I see my friends all the time. We are very busy, but we make time. If you care, you can make time.
Why are websites still hijacking scroll behavior in 2019? I can't even take the article seriously with my scrolling bouncing and glitching all over the place.
Another approach to the monolith func is to have a parameter struct. This offers us:

1. Named parameters (esp useful for literal number or bool arguments)
2. Optional parameters
3. Forwards compatibility as long as new args are optional
I'm using a specific example of a panic to point out that the panic is often unfounded.
> would now be making significantly more money if they didn't

Er, I think reality is closer to "they would be making significantly more money if they loved python more than Excel".

A wheelchair is a large clunky device that can't go up stairs or rocky hills. Legs are far more versatile. But it is incorrect to say that someone can go many more places if they didn't have the wheelchair.
>NYT doesn’t paywall until you’ve read multiple articles in a month. Since you already like it perhaps you should subscribe.

Just to play a bit of devil's advocate, I don't like NYT, but as a willful participant of HN I must read the articles linked for discussion, which inevitably eats up NYT hits.

The problem is that I like HN, and I feel a duty to read the article that is up for discussion if I am to participate in the discussion itself.

tl;dr : paywall news hits coming from a news aggregator and discussion site is not an espescially useful metric in determining how much of your user base 'likes' your service.
That's not how it works. There's always going to be someone willing to work in his sleep, plus 1 more hour of conscious time relative to the next guy.
First, there's a plausible biological link between lead and violence. We can performed double-blind controlled experiments with mice and see it.

Second, violence decreased in a given state 15 years after that particular state banned leaded gasoline. And it decreased for the particular cohort that had grown up without leaded gasoline but not particularly otherwise.

At a certain point you're left saying something like "Every time I point this gun at someone and pull the trigger they get struck by a bullet but this could be a spurious correlation!"
>But really if the rationalists just took a few seconds to think about it

Even better, if they just took a few more seconds to actually read the article prior to commenting.
I'm not sure how much you would even learn as an adult taking a typical US driving school. What you probably really need is a patient adult with a driver's license who will ride around with you.

There are higher-end driving schools for adults. But most of them are going to assume you already know how to basically drive and they'll be even less compatible with a full-time schedule. (i.e. you'd need to take some vacation time)
> making hardware so that he’d have to tools to make software

A very good point in the context of neglecting the Mac, the primary tool used to make software for all the other prioritized hardware devices.

If they lose the developer community, who do they expect will build software for iOS, or the iPad that Cook loves so much? Seems very shortsighted.
Pikelet: A small dependently typed language
I think I'd only be willing to do that if I were unemployed. Otherwise I'm already collecting a paycheck for doing tens of hours of software development a week—the last thing I'm interested in doing is more of that, for free, on a project not of my choosing, so someone else will maybe start giving me a paycheck instead of whoever is now.
Flash implementation of Seam Carving: http://rsizr.com
I think it's spot on. Anybody who has participated in an enterprise sales cycle knows it's a ridiculous game of checking boxes created by random stakeholders who all need to have a say because they're Important with a capital I. At a certain point even a dev team with the best intentions can't create a usable piece of software with the resulting incoherent set of requirements.
As a Chromium developer speaking based on my observations, we're also responsive to fixing bugs that affect a small percentage of sites. The difference is prioritization, and whether we'll merge fixes back to stable branches for a respin.
it was designed to do exactly that though, those images simply aren't that interesting from a scientific perspective - but the scientists finally understood that public perception of science is at least in the same order of magnitude of importance as scientific results themselves.
Exactly right, even to the point of bringing up a few specific industries that do in fact have specialized needs.
What about a distributed P2P platform like Aether[0]? Would that be blockable by any given state or authority?

[0]: https://getaether.net
Brynjolfsson is advocating an entirely new measure of economic health that calculates benefit rather than output.

This needs to go well beyond a few internet services. GDP is a poor measure that was never intended for what it is used for today.
On average, we are earning more. It's just that one of "us" has earned over a hundred billion dollars in the past couple of decades, which drags the average up a bit.
> people doing business have been much more heavily affected, so far in this trade war, by arbitrary actions of the US President than of the Chinese government.

I don't really know how that's related at all to my original post, but sure the trade war has massively affected the worldwide economy, and business leaders are well aware (watch the stock market jump and dive every time big T reaches for his phone)

My original post is just adding that business leaders need to also be aware that China is more than willing to put companies between a rock and a hard place - stick with your morals and risk your China business, or give up your values and risk a PR disaster (see Blizzard). Business leaders need to price in this risk, much as they already price in the risk of tariffs, sanctions, etc. If US customers start to care about HK or Taiwan or Tibet or Xinjiang, that's an immediate and new risk to companies that feel pressured to censor themselves

To put it another way - when gay marriage became popular in the states, companies began to proudly advertise rainbow branded products. What happens if support for HK protests reaches that level of popularity? Companies with mainland presence get dabbed on
But there are enterprise versions of Word, Excel, and a few others. And it's worth taking a look at what those versions add. By and large, being able to centrally manage and update from the IT department, and even being able to deploy additional content (plug-ins, templates, etc).

So, they're not client-server, but they do add a server into the mix.

The other common set of features is related to distribution and access. Encryption, workflow management, integration into server-hosted software, etc.

At a certain point, I think that enterprise software development starts to look like enterprise IT consulting. The line between then is pretty blurry, and I think that the really successful enterprise software shops are the ones that don't have an allergic reaction to doing consultant-y things as part of the product/services they offer.
Another one of those, huh?

The only way to find out what kind of salary is possible is to ask for numbers that get rejected a few times. Additionally, there are many companies out there, with a surprising variety of job parameters. Finally, many people are not good or comfortable with the application process, so you need to practice.

This means you have to apply to many companies and have to have many job interviews. Long, multi-round interview processes and take-home assignments - reasonable or not - make this very difficult and expensive for the employee.

These regular company blogposts seem to respond to the pushback of applicants and try and establish this kind of application process as a norm. Unfortunately this would decrease the market transparency for employees even more - many people go through their working lives underpaid and in subobtimal working conditions without knowing any better. This procedure also feels asymetric - in a time where software people are supposedly in demand, it's the employee who is supposed to jump through hoops to get a job.
Personally, I've found it easier to contribute to Firefox than it is to contribute to, say, LLVM.
Yeah but for what quality of life?

Wages haven't increased while inflation has gone up.

So just fundamentally this means that the amount of work to maintain the same standard of living has increased.

So this statement/study is missing one or more variables.
That's part of it, but not all and also not the most important IMHO

Excel clones simply don't cover the breadth of functionality provided by the OG, not to mention key UX features like countless hotkeys and menu accelerators

Every Excel user understands Google Sheets. They just don't like feeling like they're strapped to a wheelchair