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Sad for developers.
What I had in mind regarding desktop were big tools like Blender, Photoshop, Blender, IntelliJ IDEs, which existed long before Electron.

I think it clearly shows that complex UI apps require cross platform UI, or will remain single platform (Xcode, Visual Studio).
It's not the resource but the cognitive load is so high when you have to click little parts and you can only interact as good as what the UI offers.

Apparently Windows is human first which isn't what servers are meant to be.
Working is not just about work, we're spending a good amount of our time with our colleagues. I cannot imagine me sitting alone in a room, working every day 8 hours for 10-20 years and never meet anyone in my team. All the team building, get a smoke together, off-work activities... are gone. Sounds scary like a chapter in Black Mirror.
> It seems weird to expect someone with no programming training (an IT guy) to either build or sign off on something they have no understanding of. In large/high stakes settings, being risk averse and knowing the limits of your understanding are very good traits.

Which raises the question, why does such a person even have the authority to make calls on what software can or can not be used within the company? You shouldn't have the right to make these kind of decisions without basic understanding of how software works (beyond "I click stuff and things happen, magic!").

> What was the testing plan for this AHK script? What edge cases were considered? Unit tests, integ tests.... was there a preprod environment for it? A trial run? Can you safely roll back if / when bad data shows up? What's the retry strategy for network or up/downstream fault tolerance? Is there alarm or monitor coverage for bad scenarios?

Without understanding of how software is built, those are questions the IT guy can't possibly ask thoughtfully. They become a mere checkbox ticking exercise. And most of them don't apply anyway.

> If I were an IT guy with low level skills, I'd be proud of myself for making that hard call.

It's not a hard call. It's the easy call. The ass-covering, responsibility-mitigating, work-minimizing, consequence-free default deny call.
Honest question. Why does it matter?

We are looking for ideas to bend our mind. I'm happy to keep the authors gender, race, religion, or nationality out of that. The same applies for HN comments.

Going through all 278 comments to find a female name is more notable to me.
That sounds all pretty trivial.
Yeah, mine too! Stories are really the best way to imagine the unimaginable. Ted Chiang is a master in of this type of story (as is Greg Egan!).
As much as consumers would love the idea of non-profits sweeping in and doing the same service as businesses sans the profit margin, this is simply not what we observe in real world very often. Running an organization is hard, and people doing that usually want to be compensated for their efforts.
As many as wannabe sys admins.
This might be true for a service with a basic setup of providing the same address for deposits. If they did it the right way, they would provide a unique address each time. Such a list of addresses is only known to the key holder unless they were to share it.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...
I just thought it was funny that you said in a different post you hate your job and are already looking for a new one [1]

I don't think your problem with quitting has anything to do with WFH policies.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157538
I use the same service, but I always knew it as draw.io. Never noticed when they started redirecting to this domain.

This is very valuable to me as a Linux user in a Microsoft Platinum partner org because I can't run Visio natively.
> and any native code you’ve added yourself.

I think you undervalue just how important this bit is.

It’s so easy to bind your own native code to react-native, it’s quite the game changer for those of us that have been managing two (or more) native code bases for different platforms for the past decade.

I have successfully merged two separate projects for the same iOS/Android app into one by simply writing JS bindings for the existing native code and moving all the business logic to react-native. I probably deleted more LOC than I wrote, and it’s still 90% native code- this is a GPU intensive A/V app.

I’m not a web guy so I can’t compare it to vanilla web react, but for native app development RN has been a huge productivity boost.
No judgement , but just a reminder that this is a company making expensive battery cars at a time when nobody's driving and oil prices are negative
Oh cool! Will look into this!
21st Century Design [6min video]
That's not what the example "shows". The standards aren't raised, but lowered. First, let's just agree on some terminology health codes are the "standard". If you only clean before an inspector arrives (and you are sure that that's the only time to do so) your standard is lower on average over periods of time or altogether, depending on the offense. If you don't know when the inspector is going to arrive, you are incentivized to keep to the code at all times, which is the reason you aren't supposed to know.
Working remotely crossed the chasm today
Yes I fully understand that. I am not blaming Amazon at all. I am blaming AMD for not capturing more and doing better. Never in the history of Intel have they been in the technically disadvantage they are in, and yet AMD hasn't prove they are able to make anything meaningful out of it.

I hope AMD has learned something working with Hyperscalers and their Zen 3 will be a much better roll out.

Just to put some number in perspective, even if AMD earned "zero" revenue from console makers, their EPYC line dont even get 5% market share in the past quarter. And that is with Intel selling at full capacity.
It’s probably as simple as online poker being in a legal gray area in America, unfortunately.

I guess it follows that if you directly deposit from Chase to those sites, Chase would close you down too.
Yes it's also part of the reason I prefer coding for myself. I can ignore a lot of "what ifs" and edge cases because I'm always there to pick up the mess if something happens. I get to focus on the stuff that makes an impact and forget the idiot-proofing :)

Or said another way, it can be fun and also effective to "Do Things That Don't Scale" [http://paulgraham.com/ds.html].
US Democrats try to ban Internet shutoffs until pandemic is over
I just started transcribing every recipe I make. Even if you can extract all the essential information from a recipe site, some changes are needed:

- I need to convert recipes to metric. I am neither equipped nor inclined to cook in freedom units.

- A "can" or a "packet" is not a standard unit of measurement.

- Package sizes vary between countries. I often adjust recipes to avoid wasting food.

- I cook by mass, not volume. I convert the units them round them.

- Instructions are sometimes too verbose. I make them easier to follow while my hands are busy.

- I will make my own changes and I must write them down somewhere.

Besides, sites go down and links break. Food.com broke many of my bookmarks a few years ago. Other sites went dark. My recipes are plain text. They are editable, searchable, editable, and available offline.
Why is Microsoft doing this instead of Facebook?
Hacker earth developer survey 2020
can such a diagram be generated using text markup ? i want to have this in revision control and then generate this in a static page (Nextjs or Gatsbyjs)
But why do they have to make profit? Original founders already cashed out, current management and top employees will most likely cash out in the private round.
I’m in Australia so I often half-joke: let’s sell everything we own and go live like kings on a remote Indonesian island.
Australian (and pretty much everyone else’s) grasslands are threatened and while mowing them isn’t idea, it’s a lot better than many of the alternative uses. Growing something that wants to grow versus some water intensive crop, or cattle is a straight win.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment...
>> Making them separate companies creates some transparency and illusion of accountability.

I would not be so dismissive of it -- there are good reasons to have separate companies. You can offload some risk by getting co-venture (as in Waymo's case.) More importantly, you can have other critical partners be co-invested with skin in the game. In the case of Waymo, if I were trying to raise funding, I might get money from P&C Insurance companies -- it could help align great future partnerships that make 1+1=3.
I get that Roger Penrose is an incredibly smart guy, but I really don't see how he comes to the conclusion that there are any quantum effects in the brain. Even if there are, I don't see how they are necessary in any way for consciousness.

It seems like he took ideas from an area he's an expert in (math/physics) and tried to apply it to biology without considering how much of a different level they're on.

To put it in CS terms, it's like a genius electrical engineer who could design a complex circuit but doesn't know much about computers as whole saw a video of a kid playing Minecraft. He/she might assume that to be able to run such a complex system you would need specialized quantum/superconductor/graphene/whatever circuit, but in reality it's just the same classic building blocks at a higher level.

Consciousness is just a biological process, but it's abstracted so far away from the physics it's built upon that a physicist might have trouble seeing it.
I have never used this but something better for GUI would be great even if commercial; what I miss (as a native GUI dev) with all(? if you know any besides framework7 which is basically only mobile) of these html/css frameworks is that there is no equivalent of a control library that can be rapidly used without using (bucketloads) of css. When you browse the examples you see that most have some desktop controls like menus etc; I don't want to 'make' those; I just want to start with a theme (Material) and (as backend dev) never touch css while still being able to make something that looks ok and works like an actual GUI app instead of a web page. Like I can (and do) do in native tech all the time.

Is there anything with Electron-ish apps (Sciter is preferable it seems as it has less bloat)? I searched for instance for a desktop theme for Electron and only found a mac os x theme which indeed works like described above but I don't want everything to look like mac os x or windows or linux or ios or android; either it should look native-ish (nothing beats native though) on the platform it runs on , or it should look like something completely 'new'.
You can not outpay greed.

Cooldown periods might have helped if it were not for the simple fact that many of the position offered to past officials are in fact very well compensated board:committee seats that require very little activity. The implicit assumption by both parties is this is for services rendered during office.
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If you really care - then it's really not hard to find.

Otherwise no one will bother looking at it.
Everyone wants innovation, but no one wants responsibility. So anything can go as long as someone else signs off on it.
Actually the trend is in the opposite direction, towards more enterprise size businesses.
Trivial to evade: Just transfer to your own wallet (e.g. Electrum) then back to yourself (from Electrum to Electrum again), and then to the poker site. They won't be able to prove that the intermediary (second Electrum address) was you.
Because testing is probably not done at all. And even if it was, it isn't the bottleneck in this story.
Looks very nice. Please, add also basic HTML (no CSS, no JS) rendering. Link tags like next in header are sometimes used to add some structure, that is seldom exposed by browsers.
If you do that you also have to disregard the other myriad ways in which Indianapolis is a better place to live than SF.
An open network for secure, decentralized communication
What do you mean by “what is their path to making money on this?” Original founders cashed out very well (remember Lewandowski’s 120 millions?). I’m sure current management will manage just fine in the private round or some other “stock buyback program”.
False dichotomy. Native applications can be cross-platform.
I ran a bitcoin price leaderboard website, and my bank sent me a termination letter. Will be interesting to see how they react to this
No, well not in the sense that things have become so tribal.
Maybe more likely it'd derail the work away from home movement ;) My maternal grandparents ran a farm, and I gather that they were quite the team.
> These ERP systems are often fairly bespoke

That is the paradox with ERP: they are sold as off-the-shelf solutions but customization costs twice the licenses and always ends up producing a bespoke monster.
Not just expensive but the Azure web interface is a huge maze that I cannot even simply find out last month's cost breakdown in minutes. That was so much like Windows messed up UI, it wasn't funny.
You missed my point because I wasn't very clear. Apple is actively trying to lock users into its ecosystem, and a few years ago I discovered how hard it was to switch.

I have found that the time invested in learning how to use a tool is far more valuable than having a tool with a few more features. So with that in mind, I choose to invest my time and money learning how to use open source tools.

I would much rather be an expert in an open source tool rather than some tool that only runs in Apples ecosystem. (Just in case one day I can't use Apple hardware for whatever reason.)

Krita is tops.
Blender is awesome.
Inkscape is getting there.
I had expected this to be a story of pure fraud. Instead it was... something else entirely?

I’m curious precisely which laws Goudreau violated. Article specifically mentions arms trafficking, but that honestly seems like a far cry from the obvious conspiracies to murder/kidnap/etc. I’ve never really had to consider the question of “what American law are you violating if you are conspiring to overthrow someone else’s government on American soil?” If the US lacks an extradition treaty with the target, the target’s laws aren’t relevant in practice.
Cluegen – Python Data Classes From Type Clues
What? Animals are emotional, no? The part of the brain that is responsible of emotions is older and more primitive than the actual thinking part of the brain.
The fun thing about the Go compatibility promise is that it doesn't work as well as the go developers probably imagine; just last week one of my older Go project was discovered to be broken; wouldn't compile anymore. golang.org/x/crypto was responsible, they used some code that wouldn't work in more modern go compilers anymore. Granted, I had not maintained the project in 3 years but I also had everything vendored just in case go decided to break anything upstream, and the broken parts didn't even touch on anything that the compatibility promise excludes.

I think the Go devs should improve in that section a bit.
I get your frustration -- but at the same time, i'm darn glad they are doing "stuff" whatever it might be. Self driving cars will change the world in so many ways. Traditional industry was too close-minded to tackle the challenge and now we have non-traditional players (Google, Uber) leading the charge -- this has spurred traditional players to jump in. It also creates a statistical-ish way to spread strategy bets in approach. Hopefully some combination of the many approaches being used wins -- then we all win.
Yep agreed! 0.62 works flawlessly and the integration of Flipper standard on every project has been nice
That's something I'm fine with. It's better than targeted ads, and sometimes answers genuine questions.
Communist Romania. Things improved immensely. And that was definitely not a foreign oppressor. I'm sure there are others, but yeah generally it's rare.
That's really cool, actually, I'll have to read more into it. Cheers, thanks for sharing.
In other words, your value-added as a software engineer is significantly higher, as a fraction of the money in a transaction, than the metalworker's.

This is because of leverage. Implement software that speeds up a process by 20% once, and every time that process is used from then on the speedup adds value.

We're lucky to be working in a field that enables us to add a lot of value, for relatively little capital costs, and pocket a good share of the difference.
Yep, but not as well as tech internships. Still, the company was throwing money down the drain because they didn't know that even a semi-competent programmer could automate those jobs.
More coverage
https://regio15.nl/nieuws/lijst-weergave/31-waterongevallen/...

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/ungluecke/mindesten...

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2020/0512/1137952-surfing-deat...

https://regio15.nl/nieuws/lijst-weergave/31-waterongevallen/...
Because some things being good does not mean we shouldn't criticize the bad ones.
Speaking from some experience, Go is probably the best option these days at "do one thing well" command line tools - the mix of library support, native binaries, and the simple, stable language make it a good fit for a weekend project that opens files, munges strings and pushes them over standard protocols.

When Go has to support a large application that defines a platform in itself, the downsides of the language rise to the forefront, but that level of expression usually isn't entailed in a Unix-style CLI tool.

(Rust also has more potential for performance scaling in this space, but with the "if you have the time for that" kind of caveat.)
All the best of luck with the birth, from all at HN. Remember to create them an account :-)
Yeah, you get something which feels like free will which is physical universality along with quantum randomness (which can be deterministic RNG.)

Physical universality just means that the body appears to have a symmetry with regard to its operation over space and that it also appears to be self-contained (noise resistant computation.)

The randomness along with the noise resistance collude to create the appearance of self-contained agency. Of course eastern doctrine and even western physics knows there are no separate entities. Especially when the QM dicerolls are considered..you at their mercy for your supposed choices.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1896
There's no scenario in which the workers get charged with anything as they are not breaking any laws.

If a health department finds that a restaurant is too dirty to operate, they don't jail the workers or the workers but fine or shutdown the restaurant.

This is a similar kind of an order - the best county could do is to fine Tesla or shut them down.
I think he was suggesting that the word you were looking for was "caste"
LOL!

Imagine this - a bunch of restaurants band together and scrape... $100k to pay how many developers for how long?

To build an efficient competitor to DoorDash+UberEats+Postmates+GrubHub would cost upfront a few billion. The graveyard is littered with corpses of better funded ventures (Amazon had a delivery service, FYI)
The reason I asked is because we are not driving down cost. And judging from how HDD maker react they are going to milk this for as long as possible, all while our Data usage and requirement continues to grow rapidly. i.e Our total cost for Data is actually increasing.

NAND prices fluctuate up and down and the current lows are not very sustainable.

It seems the days of computing getting cheaper every two or three years are gone.
You're not missing anything. The local county has already said they won't prosecute the workers for violating the health order since Elon Musk is making them choose between their health or their livelihoods.

It's also unlikely the local county or state will prosecute Elon Musk since it's difficult to pinpoint the actual criminal violation he could be charged with.

However, it's very likely that Musk will be sued in civil court by one or more of his (ex) employees. There are a variety of different legal claims they could make, so it's hard to say what the outcome would be.
You can still do simple stuff, it's not hard: just don't use the complex garbage :)

I wrote a web app the other day with vanilla Python, it doesn't do much (it's a tasks app for my wife and I), but it does it's job, and in one file even! It doesn't use fancy front end stuff, just HTML template strings and some links that send CRUD ops to the server, then that saves the data in a big text file. It uses CSS to make it look nice.

I bet I could get a hundred people using it without edits, and it took a few hours. With a proper database and server, it would support thousands easily.
https://jrnl.sh
Of course they can, their whole business is designed around service.
I've been working with Xamarin / Mono and having a Cocoa front-end with a C# back-end is really the best of both worlds. Everything looks native, is snappy, uses relatively little memory and all of the not so immediately visible Good Stuff for macOS like accessibility, document state and AppleScript just works out of the box.

Most cross-platform solutions are awful in at least one of those three, usually all of them.
That’s a bit of a generalization. I’m from germany, so definitely a western culture. At the moment I have at least 10 different kinds of flour from at least five kinds of grain (including spelt, buckwheat and millet) in my cupboard. This is certainly above average, but neither of them is hard to find. They’re all from the store next door. At least buckwheat and spelt are widely available in all supermarkets, some more exotic grains like emmer or einkorn are available in most organic supermarkets.

What’s harder to get are different types of flour, some of which are fairly regional. For example “Spätzlemehl” is commonly available in the south, but generally unavailable in the north. Italian Tenero 00 flour is only available in select places. Whenever Swiss friends come visit I ask them to bring some Ruchmehl - Standard Swiss wheat flour - as it’s generally unavailable in Germany (unless you order online at your friendly local mill)
Interesting, so it's really the enterprise sales process greasing the wheels the way it always has.

Google didn't even respond.

That's very telling.
> Ironically, Hussein was the only leader capable of uniting Iraq, despite being from a minority ethnic group. Even better, he was a US ally long before the Iraq war.

There's an awful lot I feel you have wrong, but let me just ask this one question - what "minority ethnic group" are you claiming Sadd Hussein was from?
The whole thing is biased.

If the so called "low-income workers" don't have this benefit (imagine: workers on system relevant jobs such as medicine, bakery, logistics, grocery), it means they deserve a higher pay than the actual one they receive.

These jobs are equally-if-not-more-relevant than jobs in other fields and must not be always labelled as "poor jobs".

Not all the jobs require a computer in this world. The ones who have to stay on place must receive a higher raise.
In a recession, who’s looking out for the open source maintainers?
I'm no social butterfly but I feel the same way. Working in an office gives me regular light social contact that would be very tiring to get otherwise.
Personally the biggest difficulty I have had is getting ops people to change their habits. Software is only useful if people use it and retrofitting software onto existing processes is infinitely more challenging than building a software driven company from the ground up.
Gene therapy cuts fat and builds muscle in sedentary mice on unhealthy diets
Survey shows optimism in Yachting Mediterranean season
Amazon adding a delivery service to their Amazon Fresh + Wholefoods would crush all of the food delivery apps. Not sure why they are still trying with random restaurants, which will never give you a stable profit line.