skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh man, its distributed cloud, Xaas, hyperautomatin, xr, quantum computing, VUI, CNPs, and a multi experience.

Sorry I ran out of buzzwords
Preprocessing for recycling is a big concern too. When I still worked at the farmers market in San Francisco, I overheard one of the small-time sellers telling the staff that she couldn’t take the compostable green Bio-Bags to Marin, only SF and Alameda County — as Marin’s waste disposal facilities apparently weren’t equipped to shred them before composting.

The dense compostable plastic cutlery must demand even more processing, and/or higher heat in the compost pile. Recology’s compost piles outside of Dixon are absolutely massive, mid-size hills unto themselves. They must get pretty hot in the middle.
Chinese tennis star recants sexual assault allegations against CCP vice-premier
And still others are struggling with, "How do you not understand that Apple is trying to balance the trade-offs between 'allow an app to do anything' and 'protect users from malicious software'?"

I think they could do a better job (e.g., a simple setting in System Preferences that turns off recording notifications), but to pretend that they're doing this for no reason at all or that the orange dot is a show-stopper for a significant fraction of their user-base is just not making an argument in good faith.
I have to install a plugin to allow my WP sites to support SVG because they can potentially contain scripting, what a pain in the ass. All we wanted was vector images, what we got was vector images and a couple kitchen sinks. Bring on the alternatives.
I'm seeing the same thing in firefox (Linux)
That's called running a scam and that's not really comparable...
I took it last year, the woman has a mesmerizing voice! (and the course is great too :D)
If you're an experienced software dev it's a bit basic.

I like Flutter a lot, but I'm not a fan of Dart. It's a false friend, it makes you believe it's simple and mostly a copy of your favorite language, but once you start to dig a little deeper it feels like something bolted on, hacky, not designed.

I come from the .net world which is the exact opposite: C# is a superb language but every UI framework MS has ever produced is sub par. Now if I could get Flutter with C# I would be a happy man.
If/when Windows Terminal integrates sixel support, any cheap laptop should be able to do that OOB (some of them with a USB to serial adapter of course)
This feels like "There's never been a better time to build buildings..."

But then the rest of the article is about 4 story mixed use apartments and not necessarily any other type of building.
I have found it a bit difficult to understand how TypeScript is involved here. Are they using the actual `tsc` library, or have they rolled their own? It is not very clear from the docs, overall I feel TypeScript support seems a bit of an afterthought reading thru the docs - they are very JS heavy in all examples
Fair enough. I respect that.

I always thought CS theory misses out on the more interesting area of computation. As if algorithms are just one "dumb" way to map the giant reality of creative potential into itself. Practically speaking it often fails to do that, despite our theoretical understanding...

Even though your language may be "turing complete" like other "general purpose" languages in theory, if it elicits more interesting algorithms and creative expression, I do kinda get your point.
That's cool. Ill dig in bit further. Sorry I have not read the above links yet. But follwup question may be answered in them. I noticed a github connect feature. Is that for being able to pull the code into your own IDE and develop locally or does all code need to be added inside FlutterFlow?
I think management simply has way more variance, and maybe, I'm not sure, more expected returns.
There are many other popular vector graphics formats beyond those mentioned here. Lottie has already displaced SVG for animation/motion graphics, and for static content IconVG exists and is backed by Google. There's also PDF, PostScript, Flash, the glyf format in OpenType, etc.
Flat organizations over a certain size just develop their own hierarchies usually based on seniority. If you can’t see them, you’re just on the bottom.

Flat organizations also end up building the same thing 4 or 5 times because nobody talks to eachother. As a consultant, I love flat orgs — it means we’ll be there for a while because nobody can really tell us to leave.
How is everyone moving and also moving somewhere better? Is it not the case that the majority of open job opportunities are ones other people have recently left from unhappiness?
At some point I wanted to see what an Android API looked like, and HTTP toolkit was, by a huge margin, the easiest way to do that. I had previously tried mitmproxy, Charles, and a few others, but only HTTP toolkit worked reliably, and with only a few clicks. I was instantly a convert.
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/874808285
I haven't played anything by Ubisoft in a really really long time (nothing against Ubisoft per se), but I have to say based on reviews/walkthroughs [1] of Far Cry 6 on youtube that it must be a masterpiece. Not because it's any good, but because it unintentionally is so hilariously shitty.

[1] see e.g. the ongoing walkthrough by Mighty Jingles
Yeah, that's totally reasonable (even a requirement for anything remotely important these days!). I'd consider that setup devs owning their deployments.
Google OnHub router support ending in 2022
I am positively confident that I could teach a bunch of art students (so definitively non tech people) how to create their basic website only using html and css (without any framework/library etc) in 2 to 3 days including the domain and hosting part.
New Zealand has/had plenty of predators, they were just all avian [0], [1], which hunt by sight, and during the day [2]. Existing/nesting on the ground with good visual camouflage is a adaptation to avoid avian predators. Obviously it doesn't work that well against mammalian predators.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_falcon
- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_eagle
- [2] exception here being the Ruru (an Owl)
On one hand, if you compare Venezuela to another oil-rich state Norway, and the difference in their economic results, what stands out is that Norway was very conservative with their national state oil fund, while Venezuela under Chavez was pretty liberal with using those funds to buy regional political backing (note 'conservative and liberal' here just refers to spending policy). The collapse in the price of oil in 2008-2009 thus had a far more crippling effect on Venezuela's economy compared to Norway's.

On the other hand, Norway has not been subjected to the same kind of crippling economic sanctions that the USA has applied to Venezuela and it's an open question as to what would have happened to Norway's economy under those circumstances.
Conflict of interest is something we take seriously and have processes in place to ensure this doesn't occur. All reviewers aren't able to review or see the reviews from all customers, we have tools in place to facilitate the best matches for both compliance as well as quality and familiarity.
Reading all comments criticizing some modern AAA games: If you are into simracing, we are entering a new golden age.

Particularly with Automobilista 2, the latest update is amazing, and the developers, called Reiza, are more of an indie studio instead of a big player. But the end result is nothing short of AAA quality.

Other titles we enjoy are Automobilista 1, rFactor2, iRacing, and Asetto Corsa Competizione.
The examples in his benchmark image are noticeably blurry compared to the SVGs. Is this due to his software renderer or something in the format itself? Because for me most of the reason I would use vector graphics in the first place is to maintain a crisp look regardless of resolution, and if the middle images are what I can expect from it then I definitely wouldn't use the format.

Edit: Nevermind, this was answered in another comment, apparently it's a limitation of Chrome
Have you considered including a source that supports your statement?
How is this not the same as contracting a freelance dev? You might as well contract through wipro / infosys / tata / cognizant / hcl.

I am annoyed at how replacing software engineers is somehow viewed as a business problem that can be solved as a SaaS business or no code tooling.

PR's customers need to hire more developers and pay them well. It is expensive and hard, but that is the market business people need to accept.
That sounds very interesting. I feel like firmware/hardware automation combo that swaps RGB filters and takes exposures in accord could provide interesting workflows for owners of those monochrome digital cameras.
They're often deployed elsewhere for missions and/or training, but the home base for all of them is Whiteman AFB. There's only 20 of them.

I do wonder how many megatons of nuclear weapons are stored there, about 20 miles from my house. Maybe best not to think on that too much. :)
> The most meaningful difference is a lack of labor protections.

It's 100% about this, and more generally evading regulation.

My casual observation of recent economic history is that there's an undying libertarian fervor to pursue things that escape government control. All the major "growth" lately has been in web, crypto, and space. Things that are largely unregulated.
Essentially, that's Nintendo's first-party business model (or at least as close as it gets in the industry).

But the "acquiring some of this talent and determining what projects they might want to work on" is the standard bloodletting that happened every few decades in the game industry.

Usually, this resulted in the next Blizzard, Westwood, Dynamix, etc. being founded, growing, and then dissolving into the next wave of smaller companies.

But it's been screwed up the past cycle though, as the investment required to make AAA-level games was only available from large publishers, who set terms that generally resulted in development studio bankruptcy and subsequent buyout-by and incorporation-into the publisher.

Which is how you got your Activision Blizzard, EA, Take-Two, Ubisoft arrangement.
> American civil life has been defined by conflict.

How many times has the Capitol been stormed? How many times has it been possible for a party representing a clear minority of citizens (however defined) to gain or hold on to power via gerrymandering, rejection of votes, or state-legislative nullification of results? When, in the past, has it been possible and to a large extent legal for corporations and hostile foreign powers to influence our elections in a significant way? At least some things that are happening now are unprecedented (even if we disagree on the exact set).

Also, please note that the authors have actually studied what other changes act as precursors to civil war throughout the world. Perhaps we shouldn't put our own intuition above that, without at least considering the evidence they present.
Did you miss the part where it was a California Retail Association staffer who made that comment:

"Asked how the organization arrived at that figure, a CRA staffer said that “there’s no way of knowing exactly” how much organized retail crime affects the bottom line of businesses. The staffer said the estimate was based on a back-of-the-napkin calculation: If organized retail thieves steal $70 billion annually, and California accounts for 10% of the U.S., California’s losses add up to $7 billion, meaning the Bay Area “is likely in the billions itself.”"

It was immediately followed by,

"Leaving aside some of those assumptions, how did they come up with that $70-billion number? The staffer pointed to a report from the Retail Industry Leaders Assn. published this year. But that report didn’t find that organized retail thieves stole $68.9 billion per year at all — it estimated that all retail crime combined, including employee theft, regular shoplifting and fraud, added up to that number."

In other words, a rebuttal of the quote.

The final paragraph is,

"On the other hand, stolen merchandise can sometimes be recovered. The CHP reported that it contributed to recovering $20 million in merchandise stolen by organized theft rings in 2020. If the national average of 0.07% losses holds for California — Mathews at the NRF said the group could not break out data by state — that’s more than 10% of losses to organized retail theft in the state, well above the national recovery rate for stolen items (excluding cars), which hovers below 4%, according to the FBI."

I had no problems making sense of that.
Any chance you can provide some examples for issues you've encountered "behind the scenes"?
> very few companies actually value them accordingly

This is something that has definitely gone through waves a few time during my life time.

In particular I remember the early startup era (~2010) developers were treated very well (though I don't think they were ever treated that great in the games industry). Ironically they weren't paid as ridiculously as today, but they tended to play a much larger role in the company, and their time was treated as very valuable.

Back then startups would be a team of engineers, a designer, a marketer with all of the product vision coming from CEO or maybe as very senior product role (typically cofounder). The contemporary world filled with PMs would have seemed (and still does to some of us) foreign to anyone at the time.

The truth is industry tends to despise a "monopoly on talent", and so we've seen the bureaucratization of the industry. The rise of boot camps has worked to devalued the skills of a talented engineer (though it might be harder now than before to hire talent), interviews are formalized into a robotic screening processes, and the current structure of teams, largely driven by PMs/product owners, has radically devalued the input form engineers in the way the product is developed.

If you have been in the industry less that 10 years you'd be surprised how much say engineers used to get in at the start of the most recent tech boom, as well as how different the hiring process was. In 2011 the two biggest signals for interviews were a strong github page and especially OSS contribution. Passionate, curious software engineers were the most sought after people and they were considered very much a part of the leadership of a company, driving it's culture and success.

Today engineers have been more or less reduced to hot-swappable drones across the industry.
There's a _massive_ difference between an unremovable and highly visible orange dot and the small chance that "notifications, OS alerts, security prompts etc." could pop up. I think it's undeniable that there's a contingent of people who play live video who will be negatively affected by this change and I'm surprised so many in this thread are implying that if they don't own a playback card, their experience doesn't matter.
They tried to seize power by overturning the pending confirmation of election results. The legitimacy of Trump was him getting elected, him refusing to let go would be seizing power.
I always thought this was an overhyped myth until I watched a relatively innovation-oriented enterprise purchase a database company... So many hilariously bad powerpoint slides, so much money on the table.

When we were instructed to use it, we discovered that the "database" (really just a custom prolog engine + storage container) couldn't support paginated queries. Would have to fetch millions of rows on the server, then pick only the 20 we were interested in to send to the front-end.

Most of the dev team spent the next few months doing little but dreaming up powerpoint presentations we could use to get millions, as every schema change required recompiling the entire db from source, so we had lots of sitting around time until management figured out how badly they screwed up.
I agree with you 100 percent on this. Communication is sort of a super power. It can go a long way.
that is impossible in lot of cases
They have pretty big appetites, they eat a lot.
Or maybe the other 19 were 0.1x engineers? ;)
they rolled their own. if you're not emitting types it can be a lot faster than tsc
The parser supports parsing TS enough to be able to strip the TS-specific syntax. It doesn't run `tsc`, and it doesn't type-check or anything like that.
It smells a lot like a ponzi scheme.
Unpaid internships should be illegal. Not only are they exploitive, but they also classist.

The ability to ensure you get “the right kind of person” is the probably real reason for them. It’s no different that legacy admissions really.
You have autonomous states, [edited out: A mild oath of exasperation, annoyance, frustration, anger, or surprise]. And Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
And municipalities.
It’s not always easy sharing a name in journalism
I see a lot of comments regarding lacking context/knowledge of the full system/integration. I get that, but I think there is real value here. I have absolutely worked on teams where they were fire fighting for months at a time, where there were 1-2 developers total, and just not enough time or resources to do proper code reviews. While this service could miss big picture things, it could absolutely catch low-mid tier issues.

My biggest issue would be from a security perspective. The background checks and everything are nice, but there are some systems I would just never let this service touch.

Overall, this is interesting! Wish the team behind it the best of luck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr9KS-hmXyU
I put my mom on Ubuntu 3 or 4 years ago. It has been absolutely uneventful since then. This wasn't the case when she was on Windows.
DuckDuckGo and Google give me no results for that proverb in English; what does it mean?

Each owner steals the other's grain intended for the cow and the cow dies and gives no milk?
Excluding animations kills this for me . We need more SVG animations on the web. But the state of animation in SVG is a headache unless your using a third party library .
Yep, you can push the latest changes directly to Github. We always use a specific branch "flutterflow". Users can then merge in changes, as long as the changes on the main branch are not changing the layout visuals significantly, Git handles the merge nicely.

Ofc you can't import code into FF from your main branch, at least at the moment. But it's still been working well for our users
Yeah, I've seen it come across here on HN. For my intended web application I already chose RSS as the way to go, especially because there exist so many feeds and because I'm familiar with XML.

If you have a blog and/or RSS feed somewhere online, let me know. I'll add it to my 'to follow' list.
offering choice ~ denying freedom

empowering ~ deny bad choices

Just my opinion, but these linguistic contortions undermine your point.

Providing users with a decision in which there is an asymmetry and/or incentives could be setting them up for manipulation. But i think there are ways to balance the asymmetry vs. just removing the choice. A simple report showing which apps were watching/listening along with screen time could be useful, for example.
>You're too old to be having melt-downs and it's a bad example to set for your relatively new child.

Sorry, but this just comes off as so ableist.
I only posted it because it's from Andreessen Horowitz
> At a congressional hearing on crytpocurrency, Bitfury CEO Brian Brooks explains the blockchain and how it plays an integral role in Web 3.0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSTNhBlfV_s
I got that on Kickstarter, still haven't played it yet, though.

I _have_ played and enjoyed Alchemists, another board game that involves deduction, though with other complex mechanics involved, and pure deduction won't necessarily win you the game.
If you're unable to retain the people with the necessary skills, it doesn't matter how high the demand for the field is.

There are very few people with relevant graphics programming skills. Who cares if 10000 undergrads wanting to be game devs if none of them know C++, and even fewer know what a pointer is.

You may think I'm joking, but even undergrads coming out of the most elite institutions have no knowledge of these things.

How the hell you gonna explain compute shaders to a guy like that? You can only license out these problems to third party tools so much. Epic isn't going to come in and save you when you fuck up the release.
>These people are living in a bubble inside of a niche and are addicted to wishful thinking.

Have you considered that maybe they don’t actually believe this nonsense?
> An example being Activision-Blizzard who keeps bleeding big names and new studios keep forming

If there's anything good coming out of all of this, it's this. We need less consolidation overall, and new studios emerging with this level of experience can only be a net-positive for the world.
Tesorio (YC S15) is hiring a Senior DevOps and more
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfUeUCErCmQ
Never, in about a million years, I would have expected The Mighty Jingles referenced on Hacker News. My internet career now absolutely went full circle.
Speeding is basically a function of road design.

Until this year, I lived on a street that was just wide enough for 3 cars. It had street parking on both sides of the road, and allows traffic both ways. Believe me, nobody is speeding on that street.
"The Mason Wasps", by Jean-Henri Fabre (English translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos). My Goodreads review of same:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55174302-the-mason-wasps
I can see that for e.g. DeFi but DAOs are essentially social. People are starting tons of these things for all sorts of purposes, from serious to mostly silly.

Some kind of social infrastructure will inevitably emerge but given that it's being treated as an afterthought, it will probably be pretty dysfunctional and/or recapitulate lots of known lessons from other social/political realms.
Many on the left are done compromising with the center because they don’t have to worry about the right doing so either. Personally I’m fine if the democrats get trashed in the midterms; maybe it’ll break the gerontocracy and give the left a fighting chance in 2024. Because with the current center-right bend of the DNC, I don’t have a dog in this fight.
The idea that we're that different than Syria (or many other examples one could name) is just a form of exceptionalism.
> > A great product sells itself.

> This is just not true.

Minecraft is the best selling game of all time[0] and while it's been marketed more since Microsoft purchased it, the first million sales happened within 7 months of charging for the game. Just over a year after commercial release it hit 10 million sales.

This was not a period of Minecraft marketing. Most sales were due to people simply seeing others (friends, YouTubers) playing the game and wanting to try it themselves.

[0]: Wikipedia claims 238 million sales, vs GTA V in second place with 155 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
> In the past you may have found some spaghetti code and various abuses of jQuery but you could probably grasp the codebase in an afternoon.

My first job out of college involved a Rails codebase littered with conditionally rendered jQuery snippets. It was a nightmare to figure out what code was even loaded on any given page. Give me a modern JS codebase over that any day.
I mean, I’d take advantage of that program. If it’s already installed then it probably has the permissions granted. So I’d only have to run it before recording audio.