skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem with the author's POV is posing the problem as a choice between making for yourself or making for no-one (by trying to please other people).

Trying to please other people is how a market economy functions. You do not produce the things that you would ideally want to produce but the things that other people need.

I think the issues you raise are totally correct, and don't just apply to entrepreneurs. Most developers will, if given the choice, build complexity into products. They will develop things that are fun to develop, not fun to use. And when people want to build a new business, they will usually try to build things that are fun to build...not many people want to build things for water treatment plants or waste disposal operators, that isn't fun or cool.

So I think there is a way in the middle. You should be guided by your own want (but that want should be the product, not building the product) but business is about serving customers. The puzzle over market fit is strange to me...if you aren't building something that other people need, that isn't a business. You have to respond to the market, other people as much as be guided by your own beliefs.

Side-note: you see this in almost every walk of life. Craftsmen prefer old techniques that are fun but result in lower quality. You see it in medicine. Investing is an interesting one too...you only get paid if the world comes round to your view but some people will actively shut out the opinions of other people...that ends badly 100% of the time because you are shutting out the only information that will stop you from making a bad decision (eventually).
I think you’re incorrect. There is a standard 15A socket. There is no standard 19A socket (but there are 20A sockets that are compatible with 15A plugs)
Nah, the problem is as old as sailing.

Sometimes the cargo liquefies for a short period when shocked, then stops flowing. This would cause the ship to list as the cargo takes a new shape.

Hard to debug is when the problem causes ships to be lost with all hands. Think in terms of early planes flying into cloud cover and reliably spiraling to crash.
Good way to weigh things

I say this about every study

My main point is that it likely wont get peer reviewed, ever, unless it goes viral and people ask questions
>As software engineers we've built lovely tools for ourselves (development environments, VERSION CONTROL, etc).

Hmm, can't say I agree with your second point. The industry standard version control is notoriously messy and hard to work with.
For me reddit lost sight of why I used the site about 3 years ago, or maybe that's just when it got bad enough that I no longer felt unsubscribing from all defaults was a suitable solution. There's really nowhere left to hide from the rigorous enforcement of orthodox leftist thought. It's mostly a mutual admiration society where the boundaries of allowed disagreement and interesting discussion may touch here and there but are mostly disjoint sets. Even tech-adjacent subreddits have frequent fits of posturing for the in-crowd.

Some of that could be said about HN, but somehow it's different here. Probably because low effort posting is pretty well policed. I'm happy to leave reddit to the adult children stuck in time to talk about superheroes and congratulate each other on being a good person™. Every now and then I miss what it was.

Edit: said liberal, meant leftist
I'm predicting we'll see a new version of the get rich quickish scheme: how to hold 3, 4, even 5 remote jobs at once.

Just buy my course to see how I made millions in my pajamas! Also if you get three friends to sign up, you get in free!
I prefer Slashem and P.R.I.M.E =)

A pity P.R.I.M.E is non-free.
Why was the title changed to replace the ordinary word liquefaction? I clicked the link because I had not seen "liquification" before. Not sure it's even a real word.*

* (to the extent there even is such a thing as "real" and "not real" word)
It is optimal for the growth of your wealth in the long run. The issue of utility only comes into play if you have to bet a finite amount of times and you don’t plan to or cannot live forever.
I think that in the long-term it might be better if English didn't become the main language of the EU. It ties us too closely with the US culturally, because the US is a massive native speaker of it.

I have no idea what we would replace it with though. Everything seems to have massive problems.
The suburbs in my area are all served by the local city. I’m not talking about rural areas.
Well it's June now. We're pretty close to what summer is.

For the record, I'm in the Miami area. I think it's a little cooler here than some places more inland and upstate. Or maybe I'm imagining things. But what a difference the trade winds make (to me at least).

Like I said, it's June and I'm still not using the AC. I just open up my house and enjoy the breeze. Some people, particularly up north, like the have their AC on 60 and wear layers indoors. For me that's a meat locker. I'm all about it being 75F with a breeze inside.
And yeah, web apps, so you can go through the drive-through anywhere you want. That works fine for some places but it's not at all comparable to parking and properly visiting, for many reasons of capabilities and reliability.
> That sounds insightful, but there's no point in screwing a buyer for a tiny today payday.

Except: 1) most people will only buy a property once, so there’s very little potential downside for the agent, and 2) is not about screwing the buyer over, is about driving the whole market higher so they can keep pumping their commissions up and convincing more owners to sell. The latter is specially easy to do in smaller cities/communities served only by a small number of local realtors.

There’s plenty of people trying to game almost any valuable market in the world. You don’t think at least some realtors (of course not all of them) are trying to do the same? Specially when most of the buyers and sellers are in it for just one transaction in their whole lives, and there’s so much money involved?

Think of it as the prisoners dilemma. If you play once, the optimal is to screw over the other player. That’s what realtors are facing 90% of the time, a sequence of one-time prisoners dilemmas. Except if they do it right, they get to increase the value of the outcomes over time.
We often take maritime shipping for granted as it is a very old industry, but these very large, heavy and powerful boats are insanely hazardous workplaces, and there are both the incentives and the deregulation to transform them into death traps for employees. As is implied in the case study mentioned, when the ship's master declined to test cargo for humidity level... More stats here https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/shipping-disas...
Dynamic scientific visualizations in the browser for Python users
I didn't know about this. Interesting!

https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/SF-s-sinkin...
> Their UI was somewhat lackluster

I remember looking at ProntonMail 3 years ago, before I settled on Fastmail instead. To be clear, I have no intention of leaving Fastmail; they have the perfect feature set for me, and have been forthright and competent when it comes to publishing details regarding the problems that have cropped up with their service. I have nothing but respect for the Fastmail team. Russia is in the top 3 countries for which the blocking of Fastmail doesn't concern me; no service is immune to this kind of government interference.

That said… just to refresh my memory, and in case anything ever does happen to Fastmail in my country… isn't ProtonMail the one that had the WORST UI I've ever seen, where every click within the settings was a new maze embedded within another maze? I remember the UI for one of these popular and "secure" email hosts being so ultimately gross, as if it was designed and coded by a 10 year old who just discovered HTML with no knowledge of CSS, where it was just pages after pages of checkboxes and radio buttons with no documentation? Was that ProtonMail, or one of the other very few and far between options?

I remember only having looked at a couple of the modern options to cut my ties with Google, and Fastmail was so far above and beyond the other "viable options", such that it wasn't even really a choice. One of the options clearly looked like a lot of low-level work had gone into security, but that it was effectively unusable from the perspective of the users–including admins–who had to contend with its interface?
Why does it seem to be impossible for other cultures to compete with the Americans in the realm of movies, tv shows, music, etc.? Is it just a matter of money? Couldn’t the EU fund their own version of Hollywood?
> Many people won't touch GPL derivatives for their business / side-project-that-might-turn-into-a-business so such a license can have an inhibiting effect in adoption. Developers generally aren't stupid, they know that and they choose more permissive licenses, because they want to be seen, they want their solution to be used. They maybe want the fame and open doors associated with having such a project take off. It is a trade-off under their control.

It's a race to the bottom, largely because developers aren't unionized. Developers who would do work under the GPL get undercut by those who are willing to do it for free.
I think you provided the right framework for thinking about this question. I would say that the miners are making bitcoin using raw materials, including electricity and computers, as inputs to a process. The miners are producing or issuing bitcoin, rather than buying it or finding it. Even if electricity is provided/given to a miner with the expectation of bitcoin in return, I believe they are working together in a common enterprise for profit, rather than the miner conducting money transmission.
> I find Biden's position on this to be odd given that he also agreed to a Russian oil pipeline recently

It's a gas pipeline, not an oil pipeline, which is very different.

> The reality is we need oil.

The reality is that we need -- and for the most part have -- cleaner sources of energy. Whether or efforts to kneecap supply is a good move right now is certainly up for debate.

> Now this oil will be transported through some other means, at a higher cost to consumers, with potentially greater environmental risk.

That's true, and is not great. But if you make oil more expensive, cleaner alternatives become more attractive.

> I am also deeply concerned that the withdrawal of permits signals an extreme degree of instability in America's business environment

To be fair, this particular permit had a clause saying it could be revoked at any time by the sitting president. And another poster points out (haven't had a chance to verify) that this particular pipeline has been opposed for over a decade, even during the Trump administration, with the permit approval essentially happening for political reasons.
This article paints a misleading picture of Florida's COVID procedure when you consider Florida's largest county.

Florida's largest county (Miami-Dade) was very much on lockdown all through the summer of 2020. All restaurants were closed for seating, only takeout was allowed until well past summer. Masks were mandated and required everywhere even outdoors, enforced by fines of at least $100 for each instance of being caught without a mask even outdoors since mid 2020 until very recently in 2021. Masks are still required in most indoor businesses. Even Miami-Dade County public schools didn't allow my child (and more than half of all students) to return to school in person for the entire school year, which ended today, still remotely.
Great comment. Thanks for sharing your lived experience. Technology does evolve. But it's always helpful to have in-depth perspectives.
China's youth are 'lying flat' in protest of their bleak economic prospects
I didn't buy it until I figured out the (very convoluted and possible) way to build on it while ag. Because rezoning is a long, expensive process that can trivially be blocked by a single neighbor that doesn't want to rezone with me. I wanted the parcel because it was in what I considered a desirable location for a reasonable price. In my region, finding property is getting very difficult - and unless you want to go super far away from civilization, you don't have so many options.
This is really good news. Whenever I see people talking about if previously infected people should be vaccinated, they always mention how we don't know how long protection lasts for previously infected people. This study includes this section:

Duration of protection

This study was not specifically designed to determine the duration of protection afforded by natural infection, but for the previously infected subjects the median duration since prior infection was 143 days (IQR 76 – 179 days), and no one had SARS-CoV-2 infection over the following five months, suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 infection may provide protection against reinfection for 10 months or longer.
>But we collectively don't feel a lot of empathy for folks in other industries.

People work for free on things they enjoy and not what others want. This is no shocker.

I don't have builders building me a house for free just for the fun of it. In general in the world, if you want someone to do something that you want and not what they want, you have to compensate them for this work. And this works fantastically for areas where people are willing to pay. The consumer hardware we have today is mind blowingly good and the software to go with it is outstanding.
Patreon probably gets by because a lot of Patreon rewards are physical items, or other services performed by the creator where Patreon (and by extension Apple) cannot guarantee will be received.

Meanwhile an app whose subscription model is “you get access to digital content” falls square within Apple’s IAP rules. I’m rather shocked Fanhouse got approved in the first place.
This is a super important point. The "you're free to use a browser" argument would be very fair if I could tell my customers about that option, or charge 33% more for the iOS version, or simply not have a way to pay through the app.
Wow, wow, those are dangerous letters my friend.
No, it wouldn't have. I have friends who had a trip planned to Florida, but changed to Arizona when they saw how bad the outbreak was in Florida.

I'm sure they're not the only one.
> I for one like the single store because it creates consistency. For developers, for privacy info, for subscriptions.

So... don't use other app stores? Nobody is forcing you to.

> If sideloading is allowed when then malware is also close to get on the phone. Not my phone probably but the average joe, my family members, students, etc.

Average Joe's aren't even going to know that sideloading apps is an option, let alone know how to do it. And if you're worried about grandma/kids doing something silly there's parental controls for this sort of thing. There just needs to be a way for power users to use other apps.
Can’t speak for everyone, but my perspective is: ‘We can afford high prices more easily than an apocalypse.’
I feel like this is a case of having your cake and eating it too.
It's the best. I was able to move out of the place I was in, which was a traffic-dominated hellscape and a complete "non-place" and the ultimate marriage of convenience (and not even that convenient), and move to a great place with fresh air near a great beach for a similar price. I've got a tan this year already. Not because I'm trying, but because I went from trying my damnedest to never leave the house (the surroundings were that boring and unpleasant) to now getting outside every chance I get, because I want to. It's so obvious - spend your life in a place where you want to be. But it took a pandemic to give me and my employer the nerve to do it.
The CoL adjustment is max 15% within the US. If you’re moving out of SF or NY to a lower CoL area, you’re making bank just on the taxes, much less CoL.
The thing is I fear if they'll try to push AZERTY as EU's "working keyboard layout".

Will be the time I'll look into moving to Antarctica.
more ram is s one time investment while poor feature presentation and buggy implementations are difuse issues.

if i can solve a slow experience with another stick of memory, thats of a lesser probldm
Your quote states the problem of the 286: it was cumbersome to use and had many limitations that were solved only with the 386, which was the first successful Intel processor to implement multitasking and virtual memory.
Personally, I have joined a company and scaled the team from 12-52 engineers over the pandemic. Our productivity is through the roof and everyone is getting really well and forming good connections.
> The refusal to issue a septic permit noted in a nearby comment is a prime example

The problem isn't that they're forbidden from using a septic field when there's a perfectly good sewer line nearby. The problem is that they're being charged $40k for a sewerage connection. Where I live, it costs only $1000 for all the permits and inspections required for a new connection.
AFAIK git was initially built to be a source control engine for other tools to build on top of, but most people have just used the underlying engine since it was easier. But I've really started to grok git after using a program called lazygit [0]. Basically a terminal UI on top of git where I don't have to remember the messy language of the engine, I just need to remember a couple of keystrokes.

[0] https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
Yeah, but you don’t think that this just perpetuates economic injustices from past generations?

Like I’m sure all the black business owners in Tulsa would have loved to do the same for their grandchildren, but were systematically denied that opportunity. Why should we go so far out of our way to support the will of certain dead people but not all of them?
Did you commute every day on the subway? If so how long?

I lived in NYC for 10 years and I hated the summer daily commute because all that aliveness led to hangovers and me sweating all that magicalness out daily on my walk and wait on the platform.

You aren't wrong that NYC is great in the summer but it's also a special kind of hell with heat and humidity. Both can be true.
That's akin to being the biggest fish in a fishbowl. There are minor dialects of minor languages with more speakers.
What part of Florida? I’ve only been to Tampa and Fort Lauderdale.
Chances are, I’m not the first person this has happened to. I’m looking for prior experiences that may help before jumping into a potentially expensive attorney consultation.
I’m fine with the in-group/out-group stuff.

Just let there be a relatively permanent core and the rest of us can just shop on the open market for advancement.
So I suppose intern is also L3?
This is yet another nail in why we need to get rid of the whole accursed trusted CA+Browser disaster.
There is already a decent understanding of documented reinfections. The first such cases came out a year ago, e.g.: https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200406006700320 , or https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-doctor-reinfect... By the end of last summer there were clear documented cases with secondary infection from a different viral strain than the original one, e.g: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3681489 The original publication (and the reply that I cite that raises some concerns, but leaves the main argument in place) estimated that the protection from a past infection is about 83%, so significantly smaller than that from the 2-dose mRNA vaccines. https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n124/rr-0
Holy shit, Azure really charges that much? Does the tls certificate come with some other service or unique feature bundled as part of the cost? AWS basically charges you for the API calls, cents really, and I’m fairly certain GCP is at least as inexpensive if not free. Can you at least export it and take it with you? That’s really the trade off with AWS, private keys aren’t exportable. But it’s so cheap that it’s a non issue. If I want one I can manage myself I can pay or use letsencrypt.
We should do a secret Hacker News Santa.
It's not absurd. Have you never heard the term "contract of adhesion"?

And contracts aren't the same as laws and regulations, so throw that strawman out. Laws and regulations are enacted through a process designed to serve the greater good.
The thing is, we can argue ad infinitum as to what an acceptable commission should be. There’s no “correct” value. No matter what it is, someone will always complain that it’s too high. (Case in point: brick-and-mortar merchants who complain about 3-5% merchant fees for accepting credit cards.)

But the fact that it’s been this way for over 10 years and the app ecosystem has been very healthy is a pretty good existence proof that it’s not as big a deal as some vociferous people (who, in the end, usually just want more money for themselves) make it out to be.
We would basically get few people that will abuse it and slowly we will get back where we were. Worked in a company that was flexible about WFH but they had to change these policies because of those people.

Also people in managerial positions absolutely like being in office, so they will also add more pressure for going back.
> Get the job from the bay area and then move.

What’s to keep you from getting a job that’s ostensibly in Washington state and then moving to California? I believe that’s called, “tax evasion.”
Imo focusing on weather is overrated. I worked in the bay area for 3 years, and year the constant weather is cool but for me, far more important is where my friends, family and the things I want to be near are. A nice house, cool activities, vibrant community and stores, etc.

Not saying those things are in NYC, there's many other great cities, but I definitely wouldn't pick a place just for the weather.
Cobalt is not a rare earth. And cobalt is also not particularly rare either. For a long time there was just not much need for cobalt and the mines in Congo were cheap, but nobody bother to develop other mines.

However there are at least 4 huge nickel/cobalt mines being developed in Canada. More then that in Australia. And more other places too.

Moving of cobalt to more nickel, iron or manganese is clearly the path forward however.

Lithium is the trickiest part to scale since is practically acts more like a complex chemical then a commodity metal. Each 'mine' is highly costume in the form it lithium arrives at and the process needed. And the resulting chemicals are not commodities but rather have to be qualified with each manufactures.

I would say lithium of the quality needed is the closest to a real supply issue. Gravity is after that even if its something people don't think about much. Nickel is not exactly rare but the problem is that the current nickel production growth is very dirty.
they were giving up when in 2015 they allowed bots to push the_donald to the front page consistenly leading to a steady diet of propaganda subs and hate fueled subs.

they were and still sre just as myopic is their tainting public discourse in pursuit of social media
Don’t forget the reasons why you left NY.
Would be nice if it share some screenshots
Conflict of interest - say you're working for two companies that are in vaguely similar spaces (e.g. Google and Apple). Seems like grounds for a lawsuit.
The company in question has 10,000+ employees.
Original blog post author here. The short answer is that Manifest V3 does not currently support these extensions (or their broader use cases), but we want to support them and have some ideas that we plan to explore.
Maybe dusters use Emacs. Earthers probably use some 70-year-old version of MS Visual Studio.