skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see the breakdown of total dollar value by type of construction. For example where I live there seem to be mostly (by total number of units) large multi-family buildings, and then a smaller number of new custom homes and additions/large remodels.

My experience goes against what the article says about hours for the custom/remodeling jobs. It seems that here GCs give an estimate for a project, but based on an estimate of hours, and the final bill will come in based on the hours. Similarly, subcontractors will give an estimate of the total, but then will have labor in their invoices to the GCs, which then get passed on to the customer.

If anything, there seems to be a tendency of being very generous to say the least with what counts as a work hour. Especially GCs dropping people off in the morning and picking them up in the afternoon and "project managing" the rest of the day, but in some cases stuff like commutes, lunch, breaks, etc seems to make it into the count.

That said, it might be specific to my area, or this type of construction is minimal in total dollar value compared to the industry, so I'm not arguing against the main point of the article. Even if we halve the real hours, construction's productivity gains are nowhere near the gains of agriculture or manufacturing, probably just enough to get back to the peak of the late 60s. And in any case, as a customer I pay for the final project so the inflated hours still count for my view of productivity.
That was really a low point of the EFF. Not a local minima, and absolute one...
The larger an organization gets, the more typical a chunk of society it is, so its effectiveness gets closer to the societal average, and further from whatever can make a small organization special. I think this explanation covers all other explanations I've seen.
Kudos Cloudlare.. but

I've tried to migrate to cloudflare a couple of times.. I've never was able to find a way to setup routing for each `/path` of my website. I have different repos each controling one aspect of my website. This is a breaze to setup using cloudfront `origins`. My best guess is that I have to setup a Nginx between my content and cloudflare.

Maybe its me but I've always found cloudflare UI/UX confusing and hard to use. AWS is very bare metal UI, but it actually makes sense.

Hopefully as Cloudflare is launching new products, like R2, will force them to improve UI.
"extremely supportive" as in hostilely taken over by.
That only answers "What is it called". It doesn't answer the question that the author asks, which is "why"
> This is absolutely nuts.

You have never worked in regulated industries, haven't you?
The real answer is typically "These rules is why I have my job, I can't remove them since I want to stay". It is like when you automate 90% of someone's job they usually don't get happy. This is the same thing but the opposite, bureaucrats de-automate tasks to create new jobs.
> MS hired Guido to work on general computational speed for cPython.

van Rossum applied at Microsoft, they took him and he chose that project.

van Rossum had never shown any interest in JITs before. While at Google, he maintained that Python was fast enough. While at Dropbox, he initiated Asyncio (fixed and improved by many people) and integrated typing (Jukka Lehtosolo).

If a fast JIT emerges, it will likely be by existing Microsoft JIT experts. They should familiarize themselves with the cliquish nature of Python, rampant credit taking by those who did not do the work, and sidelining and active defamation of those outside the clique once the work is done.

It could be a major career disaster to get involved with these people.
Such as legacy effects.
That seems disingenuous. It purports to be a repository of facts, not a repository of the contributor’s opinions. Had the messaging up front been “a place for leftist opinions” it would be fine.
whats the deal with the 3 camera holes and only 2 cameras? is that future proofing?
>it turns out that COVID vaccines are so effective that it even works reasonably well for variants

As per this CDC[1] report - "Two doses of mRNA vaccines were 74.7% effective against infection among nursing home residents early in the vaccination program (March–May 2021). During June–July 2021, when B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant circulation predominated, effectiveness declined significantly to 53.1%."

Exactly as I originally commented and you deemed false, due to the Delta variant, we observed an efficacy level (53.1%) considerably lower than any other modern vaccines. I'm not sure what's controversial about the statement that it's obvious that the COVID vaccines are unforunately not working nearly as well as we were originally told that they would.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e3.htm
In the Chester, Saint John photo (4th one) you can clearly see a non-grouted horizontal line across the stone walls. I’ve seen this in many cathedrals and was wondering 1) what it’s for and 2) if that’s part of the original construction. My guess is that it’s some sort of contemporary mitigation to avoid cracks?
I wish org-mode supported text coloring. There are macros but you need to redefine them in every file and you must add support for all types of exports yourself. That's truly the only thing that bothers me every time I take notes/write small documents with it.
> For some reason they didn't do that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Probably because that would have escalated the situation, and given the baddies[0] leverage to go after Anonymous with a lot more than a 4-hour blubberfest.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOpPNra4bw
this « article » and the whole website feels odd. It looks like a news website but the articles all look like paid marketing placements.
This is covered in TFA.
> something like a Laser for society

What does that mean?
Sorry, TF1st Comment: https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Best_selling_Capcom_games
There are no courses that don't eventually intersect with land, or other ships...
The terrifying part for me,is that by now I've been on both sides of that conversation multiple times - and the third,less seen side, where the paying client explicitly and specifically asks and expects you to implement such a Process as part of "lessons learned".

It's noble to say "ouch! well let's make sure we don't do THAT again!", but yeah ; over time the processes and procedures do expand ad infinitum :-/
I would have bought a Fairphone last year instead of a Realme, when the camera wasn't ten years behind :-( Is this state of the art? (Not very fancy just a state of the art sensor and optics).
Thanks for being very supportive and helpful friends.
People in the replies are confusing language popularity with developer demand.

Reminder: you don't need 10000 jobs. You need one. Aiming for a niche market rather than doing shotgun is a perfectly valid strategy.

Find what fits you.

(random example: if you care exclusively about income and employability, learn COBOL)
I often talk about this when I do consulting work: the difference between succeeding accidentally and succeeding deliberately.

(If they are not succeeding, they can't afford to hire a consultant, of course)

It's my firm opinion that there is a U shaped curve of chaos - new companies do not yet know what they should be doing to make money, and large companies are inherently too complex for any one person (or subset of people) to actually understand what is happening.

This is why I prefer to work with and for medium sized companies - companies that can have goals and metrics that lead to success, but are not yet so large that they are inherently unknowable.
I use Cython for the small part that has a tight loop in a Django project. Using Cython with Django itself sounds difficult, but the Falcon framework looks like it uses Cython.
If the analogy is continued, it might also be harder to steer away from an iceberg.
The article says its for a autofocus system, as well as colour and time of flight sensors.
This is really nice OP, love it!

Reminds me of my own Chrome extension, Refined Hacker News [1], with almost identical keybindings built into the HN interface. Neat coincidence :)

[1]: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#on-items-a...
Seems like a great command line tool. Congrats!

FYI, I have made a browser-based tool for viewing and editing CSV files. Super fast, with Excel-like controls: https://editcsvonline.com.
There is no reason to disable scrolling even if the primary interactions are supposed to happen with keyboard. I don’t want to remember which websites allow scrolling and which don’t.
I like the design - too bad that HN does not allow for you to add comment support. That would make it perfect
Like always, US is fighting for peace! *grin
It's the same difference as if two cars were told to "synchronise speeds" (rates) and instead they synchronised accelerations (rates of change).
I think it already has been abused, the law has nothing to do with it.

Just don't venture to places where that is not the case and we can agree. We have different requirements for interesting platforms and should keep it separated for the most part.
I'm from Europe, so I'm not sure. However I think the US basebands are not supported, sadly.
I understand how others can suffer from writer's block even though it does not pertain to me. Have not happened and never will. Typically those who suffer writer's block go into writing on the false premise that all writing should be inspired. Like the first sentence you type on a blank page should be heavenly divine. There is this false notion in our society of a true, mythic writer that is a muse-inspired drunkard puking paragraphs reeking of genius. If that's how you think about writing then, of course, writer's block will be common.

When I write, the premise is I attempt to turn shit to gold, eventually.

Closer to the truth is as described in this article, writing is more like blind plumbing work. It's very revisional. Whole paragraphs and pages are reworked and outright deleted left and right. The final script is rarely in the order you started. Then your editor goes to work, butchering your baby. It's very painful, but you know this is the way to end up with something the reader finds readable.

Reading a published novel as a wannabe author, you must keep in mind that it's revised to perfection. Repeatedly hammered like a Japanese sword. Writing is definitely a forging process and not magic.
After being in the trenches on this type of thing: unique_id is officially optional, but HIGHLY suggested.

Personally, I like to use the MAC since it means code reuse, but whatever it is make sure it’s there and unique.
Friend don't be so cynical.
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Not seeing you at github.com/kawsper so not sure what the PR was ... but thanks for the PR! :)
Sensei's Library has been around since I first started playing Go back in the early 2000s. Not a single thing about it has changed, technology-wise, in that entire time; but the community is still adding content to it daily. I guess it's kind of like HN in that regard, but with twice the longevity.

It's a little corner of the internet I earnestly hope never goes away.
Others already noted how shaky your assertion "Reality, in being geometrical, is infinitely informationally dense" is.

Instead, let me throw out another extreme (but fun) view in the opposite direction: Finitism [0].

These guys not only reject the existence of the continuum; they reject all infinities altogether! In finitism, even discrete things exist only as finite objects (that is further constructable – Ultrafinitism [1]).

So no infinite universe, no "set of all natural numbers", no "limits" and other ideals over infinite domains. Screw Platonism. Hello Wittgenstein (and Wolfram).

I don't know how far that theory can be taken in a practical sense – most body of science is built on Platonism [2] – but I have to say finitism does appeal to my CS heart and my earthly experience.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_recursive_arithmetic
For additional context most manufacturers state the longest you can read passive EPC Gen 2 tags is about 30 feet. We were able to build a device that allowed reads at over 200 feet and could have easily done more.

EPC Gen 2 was designed to be an efficient, cheap Tag for inventory management and not used in secure applications. Anywhere you see it being used for something secure - it can almost certainly be broken.

I’ll be releasing the specs for the platform we built at a talk soon, so that everyone can start pentesting EPC Gen 2 tags for cheap.
But your past the initial pipeline for radicalization.

A slightly more effective approach for you might have been to remove such videos from their recommendation algorithm. But, that doesn’t mean it’s ineffective for people who would be initially discovering this stuff.
I like it. It's strangely refreshing! I do agree the colors are a little odd. Might be the strangely part! :-)
It's an informative website. This is bad UX for an informative site. Sure it can support keyboard shortcuts for additional fast access. It will be better for power users. But disabling scrolling with mouse and touchpad is hostile and counter productive to the casual users who might be interested in the content.
Wow, that's a stylin' basic
Until something big happens (Kodak?)

But failing can be good and bad.
Scott just dismisses the cost/money reason. I am certain though, that money and availability/pervasiveness of modern building techniques/materials (non-availability of old techniques/materials) are the key reasons, why such old style buildings are rarely built. Cost and more generally the effort of planning/designing something that doesn't fit the current material/technique mainstream is just disincentive across all layers of the process.

Take this [1] example of an old industrial building. I like it and think it's inherently more beautiful than for example the Google headquarter that Scott used as the first example image of his post.

Now let me ask: does anybody think that planning/constructing this building today (bricks & mortar) would be less expensive than throwing another boring concrete/glass/metal cube with plain walls and no structure into the landscape? I very much doubt it.

[1] https://pixeldrain.com/l/seH4qNcj
I used to think the same thing, that we're moving to people wanting to regulate evrything. But after watching/reading about a bunch of modern history, looking at the past century it's always been like this, it's just a combination of decades of regulation compounding as well as old regulation being taken for granted.
It's not about moral high ground. It's about lamenting the vast wave of anti-intellectualism that has reached such a disturbingly high level.

You cannot lead an effective society in which people embrace the doublethink of simultaneously refusing to acknowledge experts, refusing to even attempt to understand something themselves, and still demanding an understanding of something.
It's a tricky balance between a useful records, and stifling peoples comfort to discuss and speak openly.

General solution is to send "meeting notes" at the end - sounds bureaucratic, but it's exactly what you describe - a chance to document and verify "hey all, this is why we agreed on, right?" As well as provide that summary to others who missed it. Ultimately way more useful than transcripts and thus always worth it's time - yes one person will spend 20mjn writing it up, but it'll save time of at least 20min times number of people missing or distracted , plus any time that would've been lost due to misalignment or poor memory etc.
The electricity cable, running across the three identical half-cylinder pillars?
I would 100% disagree with this. The AWS UI is considerably more confusing and complex than the cloudflare UI, even if just due to the fewer number of features and options.
Is it really repairable? I mean if a chip in the core module fails, can you buy just the chip and replace it or you need a whole new module? If the latter, then what makes it different from any other phone?
I find this amazingly insightful.

One thing I've been thinking lately is, what if everyone had as part of their "goals"/"performance review" structure -- how have you helped another team (in a non-close branch of reporting structure) do their job/accomplish their goals better?

It's probably naively optimistic to think there's a bureaucratic solution to bureaucracy though, which is basically what that suggestion is.
This sounds like a writing deadline in search of a problem…
There were not any differences between the rival consoles. They're just slightly different computers.
Denmark is repurposing discarded wind turbine blades as bike shelters
Do you think bank insurance is free? You seem to think crypto can't have insurance or maybe that it'll be costly while ignoring that bank insurance is something you are paying for. It's not free and the bank isn't doing you a favor.
I think every upvote on your comment is a request for a blog post or runbook. I would certainly be interested in that.
In a few years or so, the runtime itself will be in JS. It's unavoidable, this is the way things are.
I have a Fairphone 3+, bought about 6 weeks ago. I might have waited if I'd know this was on the horizon. I flashed mine with /e/ OS (WTF's with that name?) and it has been fantastic. My only complaint is the fingerprint sensor is a little clunky.
I’m not going to say it’s the same, but I have a bit of a story here.

My first gig was at a small software retailer, straight out of high school and balancing study at uni. Picture a GameStop competitor but selling home/commercial software and licensing as well as games.

The owner’s approach was to employ a series of teenagers who saw this as an opportunity to get that elusive “foot in the door” first job experience despite being paid less than half minimum wage for the hours we were actually paid for (hard not to envy today’s junior Devs walking into jobs out of uni today, yet alone the eye watering salaries, but then again there’s something to be said with romanticised rear vision for working your way up the ladder during that golden age of the early modern web).

Two of us, while balancing sales and service to customers, and keeping the store running (receiving and unpacking stock, boxing up and posting customer orders, phone calls, stocktake, cleaning, directing the occasional casual staff), without any formal education, with tools that don’t match today (no especially useful libraries or tools, eg pre-jQuery, Ajax just catching on and feeling like magic, plain PHP, .NET 2.0 without an ORM etc.), built and maintained a website that in my view rivalled Amazon’s UX at the time (we developed some novel ways to group and present licensing and editions that surpassed Amazon in this space).

On top of this we developed and maintained a bespoke WinForms POS/inventory/accounting system that handled all sales and ordering etc., supporting tools to handle pricing/forecasting, automation scripts to keep customers updated etc., and a series of integrations with suppliers to pull near-live stock availability and pricing for perhaps 40k SKUs from around 80 suppliers (none of whom had APIs so we were screen scraping custom portals, parsing the odd PDF price list, or best case pulling CSV email attachments).

The net effect was with minimal operational effort we could effectively compete with far larger businesses and provide a better experience.

This included the ability, with near zero-touch, to surface a comprehensive catalogue of stock while maintaining minimal inventory, automatically take customer orders, place corresponding supplier orders based on the best price at that point in time (rationalising and aligning across price lists, with consideration of preferential contract terms or shipping timelines), publish near-live pricing and ETA changes, administer a customer loyalty program, and provide automatic updates to customers.

We just got stuff done because we didn’t know any better.

I know this is several scales lower in complexity than Amazon, eg fraud detection, volume of catalog and sales, reseller accounts etc. but again we were not 1000s of Stanford and MIT educated engineers.

Incidentally this has shaped my view of the undervalued power of having bespoke software supporting your core business operations, despite also driving home the risks and perils of reinventing the wheel.
Kraken also discovered a major bug in Namecoin in 2013:

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2013/10/28/developers-attem...
I try to set this up but alternating between work and home computers makes it feel messy enough that I stop using it =(
Of course, although I still argue that convenience is often mistaken for efficiency. You grow dependent and it won't be too cheap without any competition, at some point the manufacturer decides without input from the industry.

Depends who diverse these customers are. If there is a lot of plurality, there is less mutual dependence and the position of the customer weakens.
To the folks that were around - was that statement true at the time, in a reasonable/charitable interpretation? Or is it just a early form of gatekeeping that got written down?
It's great.
But.
Can you please give me an option to just select the entry as if it was a 'normal' menu instead of scrolling the whole page and keeping the 'cursor' steady at the top?
I’m not sure whether you’re serious, but:

Bigger cars? Supersonic city trips to the other side of the world? Weekends in Antarctica? A week in one of SpaceX’s hotels? High-resolution screens on every wall of your home, plus the AC needed to keep your house cool? Reshape a mountain to improve your view? Transform lead into gold? Mine bitcoin?

If energy were free, I foresee accelerated destruction of nature. At best, the world would become a gigantic park.
> They were incredibly strict about disruptions and people using devices.

That's Robert Fripp. Nobody else in the band gives a damn, and Adrian Belew has even joked about how people are welcome to take pictures at his shows.

On the other hand, back in the day Adrian would tell people to stop smoking in the hall, that it interfered with his singing, etc. Not an issue today, I'm sure.
JS is almost close to the metal nowadays thanks to the stunningly optimized JIT.
Yeah the title had me very curious about how that would work
This topic is frequently the one with the most hyperbolic revisionist statements, and I'm glad you point out the obvious to someone here. There's a near infinite list of things that would have gotten you in trouble socially if it got out during any time after WW2 to the late 90s.
I saw Belew sometime probably 2009 in a solo show in near Cincinnati OH. Amazing player and his solo albums are top notch. Later caught one of the first Adrian Belew Power Trio shows in Springfield OH. It was him and Julie Slick on Bass and Eric Slick on drums, both I think from the school of rock in Philly. Check them out on bandcamp.
Which is probably an intended part of the analogy.

On the other hand in these orgs you have people crying "iceberg!" all the time.
This is a really good point, and could well be true, although I think it's a bit more complicated.

Fission has two problems: the emotional one – weapons/danger, and the practical one – cost. Yes weapons could be a practical issue, but I think it's more an "emotional" issue.

The question is, is it only the practical reason that is preventing widespread adoption of fission power? On the surface, maybe! Unpacking it a bit, I'm not sure. Anti-nuclear sentiment has caused government policy changes, not the cost issue. Similarly, restricting nuclear power technology to only certain countries is a political issue, not a cost issue, and more closely aligned with the former.

Cost is a big issue, but I do wonder if we'd get over it if the danger aspect disappeared. The long term economics of nuclear power are actually really good, it's just that it takes ~10 years to realise those economics compared to (e.g.) ~3 for natural gas.
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