skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When they realised that they wouldn't be able to marginalize the web, they licensed the Spyglass browser and bundled it as Internet Explorer. That was remarkably successful, as Windows users used that instead of bothering to install Netscape, and it wasn't long before many websites wouldn't work properly with anything but IE. However, over time Microsoft apparently put IE on a back-burner for further development as they tried to herd people back into their proprietary protocols. That left an opening for a comeback of Netscape in the form of Mozilla.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll do that!
In the extreme limit, for a multi-junction solar cell with an infinite number of layers, the efficiency limit is 68.7% for normal sunlight, or 86.8% using concentrated sunlight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limi...

There will never be a shipment of 90% efficient solar panels. Unlike fusion, nobody has even predicted that 90% efficient solar panels might be available in a decade.

If this is just a hyperbolic way of saying that people predict more efficient solar panels all the time -- well, yes they do. Many of those panels actually make it to market. The first terrestrial solar panel to reach 20% efficiency was introduced in 2012:

https://newsroom.sunpower.com/press-releases?item=122881

Today, a half dozen manufacturers offer modules over 20% efficiency. And the newer entrants are all doing it with simpler and more affordable cell designs than SunPower used in 2012.
There has been quite a few accidents that have gotten media attention lately. Sweden is not really used to teens killing themselves or others in traffic (overall we have something like 2.3 traffic deaths/100.000 inhabitants), so there is an ongoing investigation regarding rules and security regulations regarding (EP)A-traktors.

Personally I hope they get banned, because I am pretty tired of being passed on my morning commute by often multiple (EP)A-traktors going 100km/h on a 70 km/h road, driven by someone without a driver's licence.

That is the reality. Not the romaticism in the article.
Yep, they're basically using evasive language to admit defeat but also try to deflect blame and distract attention to another matters. Standard stuff, sadly.
Who uses a mouse on a plane? There’s barely any space for a trackpad
How Much Can Creators Earn Monthly?
Precisely, thank you for saying this.

I don't hate change; in the case of PipeWire, I absolutely welcomed it. The alternative was obviously broken and couldn't be iterated on in any meaningful way, so replacing it with a higher-level interface made all the sense in the world. I loved a lot of the iterations GTK3 made over GTK2 so the interfaces would be equally at home on a tablet as they are on a desktop. I appreciated the work that went into writing GUI package managers even though I'd never really use them, and while I don't agree with them, I'm happy that people are experimenting with containerized packaging.

Linux users don't hate change, we just hate regression. A lot of people's workflows rely on exploiting extensibility and niche features, much as others do on Windows and MacOS. When people pull the plug on old systems, or limit the interoperability of their application, they shouldn't wonder why their reception is negative; people want to take your project to the next level, all you have to do is let them. PipeWire was beloved because it did let people extend pre-existing features. It was a powerful tool for managing audio cart-blanche, and it released in a fairly feature-complete state. It's an example of the perfect Linux software overhaul in my opinion.

There's a lot of generalizations in the grandparent comment about how distributions 'hate' the lack of theming and whatnot, and all I can say is that those kinds of opinions are almost entirely founded on a premise of not understanding the majority of Linux users. Extensibility is king, and it makes a lot more sense for them to build a flexible toolkit that allows for both theming and accessibility options instead of locking it into a one-track design philosophy that just-so-happens to benefit a small handful of users. That's what people are mad about.
Hundreds of people commuting from all over to gather at some gigantic corporate center everyday should be a thing of the past. It was bad for workers, bad for the environment, bad for neighborhoods/housing, and a bunch of overhead for the company to deal with.

That said collaboration and socialization are a great part of working. My dream is satellite offices, it would be cheap to have 10-20 5000 square foot offices spread throughout the bay area instead of one giant 50000sf mega office in the heart of downtown San Francisco.
The main reason I miss the office: Meeting my workmates regularly.

I want the ability to go to the office most days, while having the opportunity to take a couple of days a week from home.

If it wasn't for open floor plans, I'd prefer to go to the office every day.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is an absolute gem in all terms and it was released in 2019, not so long ago. Shiny new Halo Infinite is very nice too.
There were failures like Cyberpunk 2077, but such cases were always present in the industry.
What abysmal quality are you talking about?
It definitely depended on where you were in the US. For some comparison, our home in Quincy, Illinois (built in 1895) did not have a No. 283 four pin setup like you linked; instead, the original phones were hardwired into the walls and the copper. Conversely, my grandparents’ home in Morton, IL had the 283 plugs.
they don't have an abundance of people like the other 2 tho
Oh, you're right, Moderna was funded by the US taxpayers:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2020/12/03/the-people...
Considering the fact that I made half a million dollars this year, I'm sure it was worth not having dental insurance
Speaking for myself, I haven't had an office with a door for a decade now. And if you go back to the top of my white collar career (that is, jobs done from an office (or notably, a warehouse)), I've had a door twice.

Ironically enough, I do have a door at home.
This is pretty much what happened to me. New company is not friendly to WFH except for the occasional day here and there, but my compensation has quadrupled. I am not complaining.
Not always a Ponzi, but there is certainly a "greater fool" theory at work in venture capital. The rush to take loss-making companies public makes that clear, as does the handwaving away of poor financial metrics with platitudes like "tech stocks are different".

Now that SPACs have emerged, tech companies aren't even bothering to go through the regular route because SPACs let them do it with less financial disclosure.
White boards are fine for design ideas with boxes and arrows etc. We're talking about being asked to write code on a white board.
Sounds absolutely dreadful
I think a significant amount may also be pull from FAANG companies which are now getting a lot more into 3d content creation. I don't have so much visibility on the games side, but at least in film and VFX I am seeing a lot of former colleagues at studios moving to those companies for much higher salaries and job stability.
This is wonderful. Thank you.

I have questions about how much it would cost to get started in the way of tools, but I'd imagine the resources above will cover that, so I'll RTFM. I'm hoping it won't require my finding some old-school lathe from the 1950s...
I like how tqdm can manage multiple progressbars in the same terminal. I have used it to track the progress of multi day processes. It also produces a nice animation on jupyter notebooks.
"According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), total U.S. tax revenue amounted to 26 percent of GDP in 2014, with about one-third of that coming from state and local government taxes. In contrast, the OECD average was 34.4 percent of GDP and the highest rate was 50.9 percent in Denmark.

"If Trump was talking about the federal income tax rate that individuals pay, Americans still do not face the highest tax rate in the world. Again according to the OECD, the country with the highest national income tax rate is the Netherlands at 52 percent, more than 12 percentage points higher than the U.S. top federal individual income rate of 39.6 percent." ("Is the U.S. the Highest Taxed Nation in the World?": https://www.crfb.org/blogs/us-highest-taxed-nation-world)

Note: "top federal individual income rate" is the tax bracket and your actual tax rate would only approach that as your income approaches infinity.

I can't speak to mental health epidemics (twitch, twitch), and while we seem to lead the world in school shootings, they are in practice rather rare. But we are pretty disorderly.
We use reinforced concrete, concrete with steel bars inside. This allows us to built really thin and strong concrete bridges, balconies, roofs, etc.

But the steel rusts after a couple of decades.

Rusted steel is marginally larger than new steel.

So when the steel bars expand by rusting, it pushes against the concrete from the inside, causing cracks. Then lots of water can get in it rusts faster.

Eventually chunks of concrete fall off and structural collapse follows.

If we built like the Romans, it would be more expensive, but would last 1k+ years.
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Twitter deeplinks open the third-party Twitter client I have installed (Fenix) on Android for me.
It works fine. The room stays cool in summer because the outflow duct is wide for good flow, plus insulated and separated from the rest of the room so it doesn't radiate its heat back in. I've seen some bad portable A/C installs and they were inefficient because they did something like make the exhaust tube too long, or reduce the calibre (thereby making it basically a partial blockage), or fail to insulate things properly. They're not a panacea, but they do the job.
the UK is no longer part of europe.
Bingo.

This is why we have things like the 85th percentile rule. There is no such thing as a road with a speeding problem, just a road that is designed for and thus encourages higher speeds than the posted limit.

When that happens, you have to change one of those two things. Either fix the road to match the desired speed, or raise the posted limit to be appropriate for the road as it exists.

Anyone who simply advocates for stricter enforcement of the limits as they stand without changing anything does not understand the problem.
I'd like to ask a follow-up also as I don't do any Mac dev, but has this API been around for a bit then? Like Monterey has been out for a bit and it's a little surprising that this article and the subsequent discussion is only popping up now, especially if there is an API answer to it already.

I ask earnestly if the change is really such a substantial one?

I have mixed feelings after reading the comments as I think that there are fairly valid arguments in both directions (e.g., that the solutions are plentiful, but also that workarounds aren't really a solution), but the arguments feel a bit empty if there's a "right" way to be handling the visuals that just isn't being used.

As a user I like the change in general as I have caught naughty applications that try to use mic input when I really don't want it, and my misclick/absentmindedness is not uncommon, so seeing such things helps a lot as I don't really think it's reasonable to constantly be checking the various app permissions to make sure they're what I want. This is a good reminder for me.

But I totally get not wanting the dot, as it's even been a prank on a site I go to to have a tiny red pixel just to annoy people (and it's a prank I've used). So I get the frustration with an unexpected visual. But, if there's a way to do the same activity by having the app utilize the correct API, it seems like an issue that is solved in the next update from these visual production apps, no?
It reads more to me that the terms that the world is giving have improved, so the companies have to respond- it should and does go both ways with leverage.
Isn't that just "wet streets cause rain"?

Once you tell people that one tribe is the Left and the other is the Right and they choose one to align with, they're inclined to pick up its other positions out of tribal loyalty. That doesn't mean they're actually principled policy groupings. They're just how a coalition shakes out when you need 50%+1 to win.
Kudos for knowing how to take a feedback man, this is extremely important for entrepreneurs!

I'm in the hustle as well and one thing I noticed is that it's not uncommon for entrepreneurs to incorrectly evaluate the potential of an idea. I wouldn't have bet in a few of your projects in which you're were trying to jump on the bandwagon making something that already existed in the hopes that your implementation would be better than established ones.

I personally believe you've got to innovate to succeed, you've got to have an edge over your competitors, make something different, address a market need, solve a costumer pain. And most important of all, validate an idea before compromising to it, to make sure you don't end up a victim of wishful thinking.

For what it's worth your latest project seems innovative to me, a tool which I had never heard before, targeted at a niche market. Wish all the best and luck.
I think a lot of this is a variant of "survivor bias" ("failure bias"?): a whiteboard interview tests unrelated things like nerves/anxiety/stress/context. You have no idea how many of those candidates you interviewed were just having a bad day, or were too focused on trying to solve for "traps" in the interview they stumbled over basics, or had to do so much advanced string manipulation that got trapped in trying to re-simplify their concerns from real world practical work (forest) to "basic string manipulation" (trees).

I think a lot of it gets down to what are we actually testing for here?
if anything the opposite should be true: A small homogeneous market with a language barrier is a great testing ground where a new product can grow and then become global. Facebook started in harvard, and some EU fintech startups are doing well in Sweden, i hear.

Global expansion is not an issue; every american company can easily reach the whole of EU. And there are many many european startups whose main market is america. Unless you mean that, products are so tailored to their home market that they don't have global appeal.
> but I don't see the link manager thing turning into a billion dollar unicorn.

I suspect for every $1000M unicorn, there are 1000x $1M businesses.

1. Many of those 1000 $1M businesses can be very derivative, but with some focus that is just too specific for competition (vertical, market, # of clients, feature focus, whatever). That link manager could easily be a yummy small business.

2. I suspect one can make as much money *adjusted-for-risk* with a $1M businesss as one can trying to make a $1000M business (cap-table and yearly profits are also often ignored, and one might make little especially if one is not the founder of a unicorn).
"XML is bad" is still one of the worst engineering arguments. Why is it bad? What is the tradeoff? Things that are bad are easy to quantify as they're measurable. What does it have? It has strong schema support built in. Any intelligent IDE allows for cmd-space completion by reading the XSD. I don't buy this argument as full XML parsers are not even as complicated as HTML5 parsers, which nobody seems to have an issue with. It's not the end-all-be-all of formats, but this is something that's oft-repeated and never quantified.

Your second point is actually valid though. If the TinyVG format takes advantage of non-tree based data-structures, I can certainly understand the motivation. I have a hard time conceptualizing how a tree based format would be beneficial to a vector format, other than describing metadata about certain "areas" of the image.
My best workplaces have always been open offices with high quality coworkers!
Yeah, a lot of big studios are struggling to produce quality games. Gameplay is recycled, graphics and effects feel tacked-on and too expensive for what they are. Ray-traced puddle reflections and 80GB of assets aren't a surefire way to an immersive experience.

All that seems symptomatic of under-investing in development, especially the exploratory & creative type of development, i.e. R&D. At least Epic has spent some of that Fortnite money on building great tech for UE5, it seems, and that will get proliferated through use of their engine and matched by competitors in time.
that IS the technical portion. You don't need the typical leetcode BS questions.
Not only that, but they lose important context. The goals and priorities are often lost and the new guys end up relearning the hard way
Well... it might have raised a red flag about how incredibly dangerous the feature was, because there would be no way to make the verification shut up about the code that implemented the feature (if the verification did a good job).

I don't know about log4j, but in the case of many such features, there would be a PM or somebody insisting that you have to implement his pet idea, no matter how much the tool screams.
It is, I used to love the noise of it, the chunk, chunk as a call was connected. The switches were so big and noisy compared to now, just realised its one of those things thats disappeared into the past.
And I'm telling you yes there is. You could still get an alert from Steam logging in on your full-screen app. You could get a Windows Visual C Runtime Error that pops up on top of it. You could get a macOS notification or a kernel panic report and it would pop up right on top of your full screen application. Apps cannot override the I/O system of the OS.
care to provide an example?

HN karma doesn't really matter, because this site is well-moderated and people aren't in the business of selling high-karma accounts to bots like on Reddit.
Most people in the US want to own the house they live in, and most would also want to not move when they move jobs. I think the campus idea would only appeal to younger folks.

I'd also not like the idea that my life revolves around work - and this sounds exactly like that.
What you’re describing is an anarchist’s dream - libertarians have a range of what they consider appropriate government involvement in life, but by and large agree government is needed.
I just moved back to IC from manager.

Communication between teams on feature alignment (read: tons of meetings), planning my team's sprint workload, dealing with other manager's politics/bullshit, dealing with Directors political bullshit, etc. It's a huge time sink away from actual engineering.
Switzerland is not really part of europe.
That's incredible. Did they just... not involve any actual developers in evaluating the product of the company they were about to buy?
You do not need consent to place a cookie for just that purpose, so there is really no good reason for a website to forget your choices.
I put forth the question because I know that in some places (i.e. Northern Ireland), police stations and army barracks are obfuscated on Google Maps to prevent terror groups from using it to easily gather information for mortar attacks.

I suppose the chances of that happening in a remote part of the United States is much smaller but that with the resources the U.S Department of Defence have, I would have thought that they would take every precaution.

Edit: It appears it's no longer done in Northern Ireland.
It's more than that, and the POWER6 in particular and the RAIDs run a bit warm anyway. It may be overkill but it's never failed to keep the room cool even during bad summers.
You nailed this I think it's exactly right.
Incredibly, the new Macbook Pros released this year have HDMI, a SD card slot, and MagSafe.
Why we chose HTTPS instead of RDP for remote windows access
Lovely example! Beautiful postscript makes me warm and fuzzy inside.
I'm generally supportive of the idea that managers (and managers' managers' managers..) are in many places a value-add and it's hard to get to such roles by coasting, however I also am sympathetic with many of the cynical takes and think there's a lot out there in the world of open source and startups and small businesses supportive of less management. One take is I think management frequently create unnecessary problems for themselves that of course can only be solved with more management. Take for instance:

> you suddenly have 8 direct reports you need to meet with weekly and support

You really, really don't need to meet each of them weekly. Not even necessarily monthly. Depending on the individual, some you might need to meet more than others, but the idea that you need to meet each one weekly is a self-imposed problem that of course robs you of at least a full work day, and past a certain scale requires more managers to handle. This is ignoring the content of the meetings, which if you get into make the case even worse for management, because so often a short email exchange or even a short Slack exchange suffice for what otherwise would have been 30 mins to an hour. (One of my managers was rather skilled at digging out of me over the course of our 1-on-1s some of the minor problems/issues I felt were present with the team/company that I otherwise wouldn't have brought up in an email/IM (and if I did not more than once), but given that they never changed or went away in 6 years, and that I had already made peace with them, what was the point?)

Same thing with conducting a ton of interviews -- delegate to ICs of the team the candidate is likely to join! It's your own doing that you insist on having a screening chat with every candidate, or that you have this many candidates you're considering at once, or that you hire into a general "pool" where team selection/assignment happens later.

Same thing with the needing to suddenly write the reviews for 30 people -- the need for those reviews is entirely a self-imposed problem, and could be done away with or altered. (e.g. relying on ICs reviewing each other, or using objective metrics, or having an easier firing process than long PIP dramas, or just bumping everyone's pay regardless to keep up with inflation, or...)

Unfortunately system problems can typically only be done away with (rather than 'solved' with management work / more management) by someone at a higher level than you, whose higher role is in part supported by the problems existing in the first place.
Or you could just strap a camera to a few commercial airliners and have full coverage.
Not only that, jobs seem to have a "honeymoon" period after which you start to notice more issues you might have originally ignored (so things seem fine for the first few months)
And mine have been closed offices with high quality co-workers. Followed by closed office with OK co-workers.

I don't think it's the floor plan.
I wonder if this starts to pan out whether it might lead to something like the below comment regarding reduced consumption of digital media. I can see a scenario where the majority of businesses/apps/sites that implement this see a significant drop in traffic. Generally, people like stuff for free, and even though the expression of anti-advertising is in vogue, I find it hard to believe that the majority of people would choose paying any amount over a free/ad-induced version.
> On the other hand, I have no idea how long I will be able to continue to make money from my bots as it continues to become more competitive.

+10 to this bit (if I could).

Very generic amateur advice - take ~50% of your profits out, don't change your lifestyle or expectations (of your future financial situation), and make sure that your future husband is as reasonable and discreet as you seem to be.