skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is kind of a conflict of interest here, no? Providing professional services can raise capital very quickly. Connects you to potential buyers. Provides guidance. Sounds like the same thing a VC gives you, but you retain all the ownership of your company.
Survivorship Bias

The ones that are still standing were built really well. Each will have its own reason for standing so long.
I should have said today's big attempts at further automation.

> We have plenty of kiosks, self-checkout, automated fulfillment and logistics, etc happening. We also have plenty of higher skilled jobs having portions automated. Productivity is way up in the last 50 years, and that's through automation and mechanization.

We have indeed accumulated tons of this stuff over that time, and that's good! But the more labor id frees up, the less incentive it is to continue down that route.

Like, why buy another kiosk, if there is a gazillion people clamoring to be your cashier?

The only way to keep constant the financial incentive for further automation is to keep labor markets tight, which we either do by bumping up demand, or reducing labor supply.

My point is a lot of people talking about a "jobs apocalypse" seem to assume the technology will just happen no matter what, but that's not true. Stuff gets stuck in the research phase if it's not profitable to develop. The supply of "potential automation" doesn't create it's own demand for actually deployed automation and this is even worse, because the resulting stagnation obscures the root problem.
I've wondered if maybe the "stones" of the Pyramids were poured. It wouldn't surprise me given the lack of gaps.
Do you allow for the possibility that you, as someone who prefers loud and busy offices and feels more productive in such, might have a blind spot in how you "measure" coworkers?
I don't think you can think about what to do in any serious way without understanding how we got here. Including American attitudes towards the social policies you're likely thinking of.
Why is this news? It's a 5MWh vanadium flow battery. Another country put online a 800MWh vanadium flow battery (160x larger) this year [1].

> Not only will this be the largest directly-transmission-connected battery installed in the UK to date, it will be the largest vanadium flow + lithium-ion hybrid battery ever deployed.

This is like boasting you have the world first, largest ever potato+nuclear reactor energy source by throwing a potato in an existing nuclear reactor. Good PR for securing the next contract from dimwitted bureaucrats, I guess, but hardly a genuine exposition of cutting-edge technological development.

[1] - https://www.power-technology.com/marketdata/dalian-uet-rongk...
Just make it so it's easy to employ people cross borders and you are trillionere.
> In a country like Germany, France or in Scandinavia running a business is harder because there's an expectation that businesses can take care of their workers. A lot of red tape exists to make sure that a business can shoulder these things.

That's not true. Red tape is red tape, it serves no other purpose that perpetuating itself (and since we're on this topic there is much less red tape in the UK than in France or Germany.

If you're a business an hire someone then you have to pay their salary and any taxes to finance healthcare and other benefits. OK. There is no need for red tape for this or to make it difficult upfront to incorporate a company, just make it clear and simple to know what to pay and how to pay it when or if you hire someone.
All of this could/should be replaced with coding.

Why not illustrating concepts by some coding with a database ?

It sucks, when those finance specialists have no idea on coding to teach others, which left a hole on those sucking ERP software to fill (but failed).

Or, if you can't teach using programming, you still don't get it.
Oracle to Buy Cerner for $28.3B
If placement is considered a kind of advertising spend (and I think it is) then impulse buys are going to be an ad spend in general. Gambling, porn, junk food, that kind of thing.
Spotted the manager /s
That was much later. OP is referring to the Cairo project and its Object File System, which was canceled.
I've been trying to use this product for a personal app I'm making. its really good until its not. There needs to be better controls for mock data in listviews, I don't want to hook up to API in the tool, I have my own data, but I need the listview to aleast pretend theres data there.

Also the lack of positioned widgets in conjunction with stack views makes it hard to transfer the flutterflow experience to the actual app. What happens if I want anchor a view to the bottom of the screen in a stack? I cant without positioned widget. Imagine I have this view https://github.com/o1298098/Flutter-Movie/blob/master/srceen... and I want the bottom white part to be the "top" of the stack. This image isnt the best example because the poster is the entire background, imagine instead I had a column and I wanted to stack the bottom white card over it.

These kind of details make me have to abandon a almost perfect tool, but its utility is not quite 100% that is causes me to have to throw it all out.

I really wish I could use this tool with all the native widget, not just some.
My Career of Treating Patients Has Ended
I think we’re missing another key factor here. Most “well preserved” buildings are ones that are in continuous use. So they get maintained and repaired. A temple in south India is about a 1000 years old. It has seen repeated damages - some intentional during conquests - but survives to this day because the damages were patched up within a few decades. The “few decades” it can go - even with damages - is likely from the material and construction. But the centuries that add up comes from regular maintenance.
As a founder mainly working on my own this article resonated with me.
10-12 years ago, I had to make a CRUD / booking website - I had zero experience with webdev. I got a working example up in about 3 days, using MySQL, ASP.NET, HTML/CSS - that's about it. I had mainly experience with native windows development in .NET, so the back-end part was pretty easy to learn.

10 years later, I had to do something similar...I think I spent a good day just setting up things, before writing a line of code. And then a couple of weeks for the rest, learning by doing.

I don't know - websites today are much more complex...in fact, I'd say that most such websites are basically web apps, which have replaced the native software we wrote 10-15-20 years ago. But I didn't end up with a good feeling after I was done.
What are math or physic functions that include many magic constants.

Like e = m * c (1 constant c)
Or A = r * PI * 2; (1 constant PI)

I know there are equations that contain more than 1 magic constant. what are they?
Yup - create a better work life balance. Work is not a substitute for a social life. Work less & socialize after hours and on weekends.
With how I see everyone working during full remote work I think having an office will be viewed as a competitive advantage in the near future. Going from office mostly remote work will be another stage in a companies life-cycle. Cutting edge and heavy R&D reinvestment to stable slower long-term growth.
I tried using the custom widget, they dont work. I kept getting errors using and there's no helpful tool tips or any messaging why it doesnt work. Providing boilder plate/sample custom widget code would be helpful.
I never claimed they can. But so far you can run an app in full screen mode and unless a special event happens, you won't get something on top of it. The audio indicator is completely different, because as long there is audio recording in your system, you don't seem to be able to get rid of it. At no time. If nothing exceptional happens on your system, the OS should allow full-screen apps to run. So far, all OSes did so.
Yup, if only we can work from anywhere...

I am flat out refusing non-remote jobs (I was remote even before covid) even though I am just an average engineer. One recruiter argued with me - she was like "remote workers should be paid less", lol. In my opinion, remote workers should be paid more, as companies aren't spending on their office space, electricity etc.

If our species survives for another 100 or more years, future generations will look at our cubicles and laugh. There is absolutely no reason for digital workers to go to office (with very few exceptions).

The one (only?) good thing that came out of COVID is people are realizing a lot of bullshit they have been fed all these years about work and are pushing back, though slowly - one of them being remote working.
Not just that (since there's a lot of situations you may not be able to actually fix bugs in the moment, just work around them), but it also aligns incentives and enforces lessons learned. If you know you're gonna be on the other end of that pager, maybe that hack won't see the light of day. For more senior folks, pattern recognition around how things were built and what issues they led to are incredibly valuable. Being able to tell a junior engineer no don't do it like that, we did that last time and it led to x y and z, could save the company a ton of money and pain.

If you're separated out from ops, what would ever drill that into you? Saying you're too busy for ops is just wild to me. That's some of the highest effort to reward work someone can do.
Flat Earth or creationism for people who who are more responsive to a strong dose of techspeak.
Please respect https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt, which asks people not to crawl the site more than once per 30s. HN's app server runs on a single core and we don't have a lot of performance to spare.
We go to different festivals, clubs, and parties I think.
> Nope, two on my right hand monitor

That UX seems completely unnecessary

> Nope, no button at all on the left

Buttons are nice. You can press them. You can feel them. You can see them.

> reinstall? What is this 1998?

Believe it or not, in 2021, if you've missed the window to do a dist-upgrade before Ubuntu EOLs the release (which is much quicker on non-LTS), there's no easy way to upgrade the distro - the recommended option is to reinstall.

> any script would be in there

What about on Windows? Now you've got different repos for different OSs, which you manage. Any script you write needs to be maintained. The button is universal. No extra effort needed. No maintenance.

You press the button and the monitor shuts off. It's the perfect UX.
I think grandparent refers to the lack of any remaining "logical Mondays", despite the upcoming "physical Monday" on the 27th.

If one is off work and wearing pajama pants and drunk on rum-and-eggnog by noon, what day is it?
It seems like many companies are more willing to offer high salaries to new hires than to give incumbent employees competitive raises.
The most exciting thing about BestBuy today was the wireless eInk Price Labels
WHO sounds alarm over rapid spread of Omicron
Visual Studio might well have used it but the point was what happened to WPF since it was released. Almost nothing. It wasn't complete when it was launched and has never really been updated in a significant way.
Working in the software company management, I think 100% remote is not great either. We developed a policy that Mondays are required, Wednesday are encouraged, rest is work from home. We have some fully-remote employees.

When there was a long period of 100% remote during Covid, there were some issues:

- Spontaneous interactions: Someone complaining over the lunch about issues with some library, just as a small talk. Someone else says, "hey, have you tried X instead?". Someone joking about product feature that actually ends up being a good idea. Ask for some feedback on what you're working. Discuss some issues over the lunch. In remote-only setting, everything requires setting up a meeting. That often formalizes everything, and less things end up being discussed.

- Morale : Working with everyone in the office is somehow good for team building. Maybe Morale was lower just because Covid was bad for everyone, but most people would admit they experienced it.

- Developing team connections: If you know someone in person, it feels easier to ask them for help, etc. Some ideas posted online, like shared board game via zoom is really far away from in-person interactions.

- Some people are quite good at focusing at home. It varies person by person. We have some people, who are great at fully remote work. In my case, when I am at work, I am working. When I am at home, I much often end up doing stuff like reading HN.

I am not saying it's not possible to work around those somehow. We tried several ideas posted online, in some books like REMOTE: Office Not Required, but it didn't work for us.
"The numbers" used in the article mostly come from the National Retail Federation, not the Po-po.

There are two main sources of crime information in the US: the FBI's reports of reported crimes, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' surveys. (https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ntcm_2014.pdf) The latter do not depend on police reports.

"The numbers" would have to climb quite a bit to get close to peaks in 1990 or so.
Only going on your statement of GUIs and Electron, have you seen https://tauri.studio/en/?
Good questions ... e.g. look where the founders of Elastic come from (Israel & Netherlands & Germany) and they initially incorporated in the Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic_NV
The 3D Product Model Canvas: Thinking and Strategizing in Volumes
Yeah, it was not the best for games overall. But yeah, no other soundcard hardware could really replicate that sound of the circuitry built into the GUS, it had a special tone to it.

AWE32 and later cards were more perfect in technical and quality sense when playing back tracker music, but what was lost was the specific kind of tonal quality that GUS had when playing back.
I would presume that the board know what they are doing: hogFeast why do you presume you are better informed and can make a better decision than they can?

The obvious relevant example of replacing a CEO with a ham sandwich is John Sculley, which the organisation probably still has some fear about. The other relevant example is Paul Allen, a lost decade for Microsoft.
Given the distance between the different colors in the photograph and the internal refresh rate of the camera one should be able to calculate the speed that the plane was traveling at.
My guess: Each owner says "it's your turn to feed it", and so the cow is never fed. And when the cow does give milk, each owner quickly takes the milk, claiming they haven't got their share yet.

It's like the human-scale version of socializing the costs/risks and privatizing the gains.
As a former middle manager I completely agree with this. It can be a very difficult role. I called it the the A-symmetry of knowledge. As a tech person on tools you have such a small view of the company at large and all of the other issues that are going on. Most of which you as a manager cannot/should not share with your team.

I have had tech leads come to me with solid solutions for their little slice of the world except it would be detrimental to another team or project that you can't talk about yet.

So you have to delicately tip to about your tech team with out upsetting them. Which is difficult because they largely see you as useless middle management. All this while doing the dance with the senior managers/execs justifying why your team deserves bonuses and pay rises, or taking their half baked ideas and 180 flips in directions and trying to calm them and figure out what problem it is they actually want solved.
I'm not convinced. I'm from a rural area with very wide roads, virtually no pedestrians, great visibility. Basically everyone went the speed limit or under. At most 5 over. Where I am now the roads are much narrower, less visibility, overall just not as good for going fast. Despite this, the speed limits seem to be higher and more people speed. Almost everyone does. Go to most small towns in the US and people drive slower (despite the fact there's less traffic). This makes me think speeding is a culture thing, and with the right enforcement the culture could be changed.
> frankly are not in technical people's forte

Amusing to see this attitude on HN in the 21st century. Have not the last 20 years of startup successes having very technical founders successfully transition to more managerial roles more than demonstrated otherwise?
You’re correct on both counts.

For the first one, the lawyers summarize it as this: “another only should you not cross the line, you should stay as far away from it possible to give the most clarity to your actions for the regulators”.
> A standardized test might actually be ok but I doubt it could encompass all of the technologies that appear over the years which one would use at a company if the company is looking for a specific skillset.

I think the problem here is the company never knows if it is looking for a specific skillset or not, and "how specific" to hire. Then using that as a crutch to avoid asking hard questions of itself if it can hire-to-train.

Most specific skillsets can be trained with a broad enough education. That's what most other industries/career paths rely on. Software uses the excuse that technologies move "too quickly" to avoid hiring to train or hiring generalists that would be fine with a specific skillset if given the right guidance/time/budget.

> I would be willing to bet that you have at least one thing on your resume that is embellished ever so slightly.

I don't. Why would I?

This is exactly what I'm complaining about. As an industry we've taken a "guilty until proven innocent" mentality and interviews aren't about respect but presuming lies and always about "ferreting out" the liars. It's awful and just about no other industry works that way in hiring decisions.

I've had interviews find lies that a recruiter edited into my resume, but that's a problem with the industry's relationship with bad recruiters and doesn't seem a good reason to call me a liar, when I'm not the one doing that.
I took the Appbrewery course and it seemed extremely basic and also not updated for latest Flutter versions. I found the free Flutter Apprentice on Ray Wenderlich site much better.
EMA authorizes Novavax as EU’s first protein-adjuvant Covid vaccine
Doge it is then, for now. How long until the first countries adopt the Grin standard?
If you go to the office nowadays, it's more quiet than a tomb. So it's actually not that bad.
Plastic coated rebar is a product. In theory it can solve the rusting problem, but in practice the coating will get some nicks during installation that can concentrate corrosion leading to point weaknesses. There are additional concerns with the bonding between the concrete and the coated bar.
A Need-Based Perspective on Increasing Returns
Huh. I really enjoy Dart and found a lot of it very elegant. What about it did you not like?
> native GUI desktop app

> There's a reason why toolkits like Electron

pick one
Is is accurate to describe prison as college for the criminal career path?
It's almost the opposite of a language, in that it's probably harder to do anything with than just using whatever the native assembly instructions of the machine are. It's explicitly designed to be annoying, an example of a Turing tarpit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
> for the same reasons we preserve Victorian era buildings.

Not really, christians destroyed a huge amount and ruthlessly, and tons of marble was 'repurposed'. The best chance of a building to survive was being used as a church
Franky somebody should do like a TinyDF replacement for pdf... That's also a somewhat bloated format at this point.

Ideally though, the tiny* formats should be forward compatible (?) and interpretable as a valid non-Tiny* document. That would be quite nice for wider adoption (like JSON).
Either reads fine to me.
The Romanian MiG-21s [0], Polish MiG-21s (when in service, before retirement) and MiG-29s along with the Bulgarian MiG-29s were upgraded to NATO standards. The primary upgrades were the radios and IFF transponder. I'm not sure if they all included

It is widely rumored that certain spare parts for NATO MiG-29s are actually made in US, from sources initially supporting the Adversary training missions of the 57th Wing Nellis AFB and US Navy Adversary training missions, including TOPGUN department. This is primarily for the MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-2...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57th_Wing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Aviation_Warfighting_Dev...
they might as well have posted on an article about growing up homeless living in a tent to talk about how they loved to sleep in tents, all the time, on the weekends when they were camping as a kid, much fun!
Basalt rebar is chemically resistant and doesn't corrode. It does have a lower tensile strength than carbon fiber but is suitable for current designs.
Please take the time to spray the monitor with gasoline and light it on fire. There's no need to accept such terrible UX. The power button has been the perfect UX since the invention of power buttons.
https://archive.md/SshQZ
>many people don't have homes that are conducive to working

That's because (up until this shift) they have been forced to live in close proximity to offices. For the price of a downtown apartment, you can live in a suburb or rural area with more space that you could need. The longer this forced shift (pandemic) goes on, the more people will move away from the poor quality of life cities. Once they get the taste of a life without tiny overpriced apartments and time sucking commutes, they will only go back if they are forced - i.e. don't have the skills to easily jump ship.
I found where they parked it. https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B043'29.8%22N+93%C2%...
Giant 555 Timer
Norway is a small, educated, oil-lucky, well managed "socialist" country whose welfare backbone is a fiercely protected sovereign fund that relies on diversified investments in the capitalisms of the world and thus their correct outer and inner-workings.
Now that we have an exact match of what a plane like this looks like from the point of view of a satellite, one could scan the entire Google maps for this same image.
> It's not that they're not interested, it's that they have no idea how to figure it out. They would love to know, but have no idea where to even start.

Maybe. I would think the human factor is also involved here, namely that it's hard to admit you're doing terrible (in this case: losing a lot of good talent) so people kind of get into an echo chamber where they and their club pat themselves on the back for how well they're doing "despite adversity".

It's quite pathetic really but that's Homo Sapiens for ya. I've been guilty of the same in the past. To finally understand how wrong did you get various factors is honestly like traveling to another dimension. Most people can't and will not ever do it.

> This is of course not ok, but this is a very textbook case of "don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence".

90% of the time I am inclined to agree but not sure about this case. There's a lot of money at stake in the gaming industry and I'd be inclined to think the higher-ups at least are quite aware of what they're doing. They simply surround themselves with deluded people that will allow them to coast on deflecting blame for as long as possible.

And finally, I could just be paranoid and I am not claiming anything for a fact, it's just how I am viewing it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's a great illustration of why limited regulation can be desirable: if the law says you must apply brakes, it bans downshifting for engine braking (a better means to slow, arguably)! Regulation ossifies a "state" of the world and it may be inaccurate, or it may become outdated compared to the needs of the future.