skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has the web won on mobile? No. In fact there was a time in which Cordova-like apps were getting very popular, but react-native and then Flutter, Kotlin and Swift have ended that. Or at least that's my impression. react-native is almost like the web still though, but the fact that people are doing react-native and not Cordova must mean something.

Meanwhile, 10 years ago the only ways to do desktop native apps were the old -- very good, but old, with that old feel -- technologies like GTK and so on. Now there are these other things I cited above, and more! It's a renaissance.
The top comment in the thread has been “cancelled”? Do you feel like that usage of “cancelled” is stable ground we can all stand on?
Sounds like it makes sense in their case, though in the Balkans "banned" means "keep doing it, just don't tell quite as many people".
Thoughts on the Elizabeth Holmes Verdict – Science – AAAS
What kind of car appreciates in value?
I've been on HN for many years and also wouldn't have thought of this distinction. The post was interesting and relevant, thanks for posting it!
If you're not satisfied with the service of your current provider, you are free to take your business to the premises of another service provider who had chosen to implement plans that are more suited to your needs.

I don't mean to be snarky, but putting it in more business terms. For some services the service provider offers several alternative plans, some have only a single one-size-fits-all plan
Greydon's page is based on my original article: https://eighty-twenty.org/2018/06/13/mendeley-encrypted-db.
FWIW, the Raku Programming Language nowadays *DOES* offer a valid migration path in the form of the Inline::Perl5 (https://raku.land/cpan:NINE/Inline::Perl5) module. This basically allows you to use all of CPAN that doesn't do source filters.

This allows you to gradually move your code into Raku, replacing Perl 5 modules by Raku ones as needed.

As we're about to reach the 2000 modules in the Raku ecosystem mark, it should be noted that many modules from CPAN are not needed, as they're builtins in the Raku Programming Language. And many CPAN modules have outlived their usefulness in any programming language.
In this context we’re talking about merely being able to maintain population stability.
Kazakhstan government is facing incredible amount of protest now due to rising fuel prices. Makes me wonder how much of that is due to their cryptofarms putting upward pressure on energy prices across the board… Some people got the memo it seems
One very important thing I'd like to highlight: using one shared browser instance rather than N is not gonna make your apps that consume 1GB+ of memory suddenly consume much less than that, the problem for those apps is the code they run, it's not the language, it's not the platform, it's the badly written code, and Tauri doesn't change that.
Thanks. I've got a basic understanding of Russian and have some settings on my phone to read and write in Cyrillic, so I wasn't sure if it was something to do with that or just the way the site works.
The written record provides an extension of the natural human memory.

It can't fix "you're a bad writer."

And maybe isn't even useful if you have really good memory.

But no need to posit "magic" for an improvement.
>2. Ask anybody on the street if they demand more money and 100% will say yes. Why doesn't the Fed increase the money supply for the random Joe on the street, but does so to cover unsustainable liquidity commitments made by banks?

The unsettling answer is that you would lose your job if they didn't do that and I don't mean because the chaos a bank collapse causes. No, I just mean that the money in circulation would dry up so fast, your employer won't have any money to pay you.

>4. A mockery of a feudal economy in a way. And this is where we are heading.

It's a feudal economy from the start, it's just that early on, most of the money is circulating in the hands of workers and once it stops it has to be borrowed from those that take it out of circulation.

>5. We can prove this one as being false. Money neutrality has never been demonstrated in the long term. In fact most forms of money ended up guided by politics, hyper-inflated the supply, was banned, price-controlled or otherwise collapsed due to some inevitable populist political decision.

Thanks, you are absolutely right. The problem, however, aren't the politicians, they have inherited a system designed to collapse on its own. It shouldn't be possible to take money out of circulation. Hyperinflation is effectively a problem of forced indebtedness. If the politicians had the option of refusing debt they would have taken it a long time ago.

As I said before, cash guarantees you a 0% yield on your investment, therefore money can be taken out of circulation with no loss to yourself but huge losses to people who are dependent on circulating money. They (including politicians) need the circulating money now, so they accept loan conditions that are not compatible with current market conditions.

The system will collapse one day, so why not let it collapse a few years later? It's only logical. Meanwhile anyone who wants interest rates to go up wants the system to collapse earlier than necessary.

>It's pretty funny how the Fed keeps telling us they look long term, inflation is transitory and markets will work it out in a few years without intervening. But when the repo market crashed they didn't wait "for the market to work itself out", they rewrote their whole rulebook and launched support facilities the same day.

As I already said, that money too will be taken out of circulation one day.

>By now it's clear they are making it up as they go and they are just dominating the system with increasingly excessive interventions into a self-exciting oscillation.

If you think the Fed is intervening, why are you not complaining about the people taking money out of circulation that force the Fed to do stupid things? Why does that not count as massive market intervention? If you had a 6% annual tax on cash the interest rate would have dropped to 0% in 2000 and the money supply wouldn't have to grow as much.
> There should be only 1 way and that way should not have hacks like use negative margins.

There is: flexbox and grid. All kinds of alignment can be done with basically a one-liner in both layout systems, without any hacks.
Tauri looks like an alternative to WebView2 + .NET Core.
I remember making a Rox AppDir of that. It was written in Python[0] IIRC and I had to modify a few lines to account for relative paths. I miss Rox...

[0] I misremembered, it was actually Perl.
If I remember correctly the notion of Google Sharing Ad revenue with Apple came from Oracle in a trial and was never proven. Not to mention the number dont add up from 2014 - 2019. We will see how this play out once we have Google's number from quarterly report.
>to add a .h to where ever you need to call those function

No, it can be in a single place and you can just #include it.

>This .h will need to know if it got included multiple times, and so isn't just a trivial declaration.

This is the point of using header guards.

>It's just easier to have a single .h you include.

Depending on the build tool it's the same or only marginally easier (you save like 10 characters)
Author admitted plagiarism. Supervisor asked for retraction. Publisher: “nah”
Well the $12-10Bn are confirmed due to court documents, so assuming it grew in 2022 is not that wrong. What are a couple of billions here and there anyway :)
Heh, you're forgetting how well it went last time someone said "let them eat cake"
I do not see it anywhere on that site. Perhaps the search doesn't work. Can you link it directly?
Make an argument and stick to it.

You said…

> as the trial results for vaccine effectiveness against infection for all the vaccines were clearly and widely reported to be significantly less than 100%

This is not true.

Now you’re saying… I don’t know what you’re trying to say. That you understand basic arithmetic, but don’t understand how vaccine efficacy and herd immunity works?
I can remember using 56k dialup and downloading ISOs around 650MB.

A 60MB download would have been fine.

Indeed, with the annoying habit of proprietary software to install "Download managers" that download the actual software, I would be happy for just a 60MB runtime for the actual program itself.
The problem of 4k is efficiency. 1440p is already 2x at 14 inches, which at normal viewing distances is about as sharp as people can see. Going up to 4k does not really improve visual quality, but it dramatically increases the pixel count that must be rendered, which burns through a lot more power. 4k laptops have worse battery life and worse display performance than 1440p laptops, but they offer no upside for those downsides.

There is a reason macbooks, still the gold standard for hi dpi rendering, have never had 4k panels.
I got mine a few months ago, and overall I'm rather pleased with the purchase, however I don't think I'm quite as satisfied as the author of this article. For the most part, I think it's a really great machine, but there are some oddities that have caused me trouble. I've been running Arch Linux + Plasma on it, and have gone between X11 and Wayland (more on that later).

- My touchpad is really flaky. Sometimes it works perfectly, but most of the time simply clicking just... doesn't work. Moving the cursor, tap to click, scrolling work fine, but the actual pressing the touchpad to an audible click won't result in a click on the machine. This seems to be a hardware issue, it can sometimes be remedied by pressing down across the whole touchpad, but not always, and it seems to be worse when it's cold in the room. Also, once in a blue moon it won't initialize quite right when waking from sleep causing it to be hypersensitive; putting the device back to sleep and rewaking it fixes that.

- They mentioned they were fond of the battery life, which surprises me as that seems to be the devices biggest failing. I'm somewhat new to Linux laptops, but even after setting up hibernate and deep sleep and all that, I simply can't leave it on sleep over night or it will drain the entire battery. The battery life while using it is fine, not as good as my old MacBook, but I've had to start shutting it down when not in use.

- The speakers really aren't great. A big part of that is the fact that they're downward facing, which seems a really bizarre design decision to me.

- Fractional scaling. This is more of an issue with Linux itself. I actually really like the display as a whole, particularly the 3:2 ratio. However, 1x is too small, and I found 2x to be too large. I've been using 150% scaling, which worked well for the most part, except some applications wouldn't obey it (cough Steam). I then tried switching to Wayland, which seems to have fixed Steam's issues (and the trackpad scrolling notably improved oddly), but xwayland programs have really blurry text.. There's always a bit of a tradeoff, although I'm still experimenting with this. I also find this display gives me more eye strain at later hours than other screens I use. YMMV.

Overall, I would say I am satisfied with my purchase however. I love the keyboard, love the modularity, I like the customizability. I don't regret the purchase, but I do think there are some things potential buyers should be aware of.
Yeah, I find they’re best used for data where the creation time is public information, like chat messages or logs
Intelligence is many, many dimensional. Leetcode isn't capturing it.
My brother in law worked in steel for years. Being on call and doing everything to avoid downtime was totally normal and he has tons of entertaining war stories.

If they are having issues with this it sounds like a management problem.
Adjustment is just cutting interference terms from equation.
Mathematically apparent wave function collapse is caused by quantum decoherence.

Wave-function collapse as a priori process is just speculation. Finding that it actually happens would be new physics.
HN, embiggening your vocabulary day by day.
I bet you could, or at least get close.

How much does a 100 pack of the cheapest thin patties cost? A 100 pack of american cheese? A 100 pack of terrible buns? The only challenge is that most grocery stores aren't even stocking food so crappy, not that the food costs are considerably higher.
It all depends on the definition of "qualifications".

Is a male with a PhD automatically more qualified to teach classes with female students? What if a male candidate is a misogynist?

Regarding the qualification of "experience"; in a field dominated by men, male candidates are likely to always have more. Women are effectively locked out by virtue of history with no reasonable way to ever achieve parity in this "qualification".

Determining who is more "qualified" is often a matter of judgment and opinion --- for both those doing the hiring and for those doing this sort of statistical survey. Was this survey done by men?
I have a hard time understanding why platforms like electron are so popular.

The predictions from Gary Bernhardt seem to really be true, in the future everything will be javascript.

I wonder if somebody actually tried to make an OS that only has a browser, that's what Chrome OS actually is, after all.
Have you ever tried using a unity build?
> "disseminating a lot of FUD on right wing outlets".

So when people get banned they should go home and curl up in bed when there's no more "left wing outlets" to speak at? Are you implying left wing outlets are for truth and facts, and right wing outlets are for lies and misinformation?

People may want to hear what this mRNA vaccine contributing inventor has to say. If his ideas and information are in conflict with the current public health narrative, that is something any adult has a right to listen to without censorship protocols kicking in.

> "Twitter is a private platform....I think they made a good decision."

Nobody gives a damn that Big Tech is private. Censorship is never a good decision. Big Tech has spent billions worming their way into our private lives. They want to be in every home, in every pocket. But when it comes to deciding to kick people off their platform for speaking their mind, it's "oh we can do that because we're private company".
Per https://github.com/Fournux/tauri-vs-electron it uses just 20 MB of ram on linux.

Why? I guess because webkit-gtk is less ram hungry than blink.
What I am really getting at is the dependence on growth. It's fine to have it but not to force it.
Thanks for the pointer. I will look into this with great interest and get a discussion going within my company about whether this implies that we would want to start permitting Raku into our codebase. But I very much doubt that this permission will be granted in the end.
> [...] alleging violations of the Antitrust Laws of the United States.

> The complaint charges that Google and Apple agreed that Apple would not compete in the internet search business against Google. [...]

IANAL, but how credible a threat must the potential competition be, for a sober judge to get interested? If Bob's Pizza Parlor got $10/year from Google for not competing in the internet search business - would that be anything but a bizarre joke? Similar for Apple - sure, they've got $billions. But also shareholders who don't want those $billions squandered. Apple's in-house expertise in developing and running internet search engines is ~nill. And how many companies, ever, have managed to create and profitably run an internet search engine - in a market with at least one established and profitable competitor?

With $lots_of_billions on the table, Apple's head negotiator might say all sorts of things, to squeeze yet more $$$ out of Google. (1)"Bing is offering us more." (2)"Customers are complaining that your search results are getting crappy." (3)"We'll set up our own search engine." (4)"We'll invent a time machine, and set both of Larry Page's grandmothers up with better husbands."

How many of those statements are credible? Legal? If (2) and (3) hit at Google's deep-seated fears, but (3) is not actually credible, is this any different (beyond the emotional cheap shot) than (4)?
> I'm starting to look at Golang to replace my Python usage.

I likewise switched to D and Rust and (excepting the difference in ecosystems richness compared to Python) am easily equally (or more) productive in statically typed languages.
that looks very cool!

I found https://gagarine.medium.com/use-sci-hub-with-zotero-as-a-fal... to get the pdf from sci-hub\

Thanks!
see also, a similar meme: delete this nephew: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/delete-this-nephew
> 3 days on, 3 days off.

That might be the crux of it. I gather it's similar on e.g. offshore oil rigs, one week on, one week off, but long, grueling days.

That said, this article (and the other threads) describe being available 24/7; you probably weren't expected to be on call during your days off.

Anyway, I think being on call is fine, as long as you get compensated for it - because you have to change your lifestyle to be available, plan things like going out or having a drink.
This is a great point. I think last I measured a basic electron browser/webview is about ~20-36mb which is not far from an about:blank chrome tab. The 300mb+ memory usage you see is mostly the javascript from the apps themselves.

Either way, I'm glad more people are in the space!
You do realize that not showering/bathing was the norm for most of history? There’s no reason to develop skin conditions because of it.
California is a big place. Just 13% of San Francisco’s population is under 18; and Hong Kong is about the same. Garland and Bakersfield are double that. Public transit apparently kills a civilization’s desire to perpetuate itself.
> Coin mining has been on the rise in northern Kosovo, mostly populated by Serbs who do not recognise the state of Kosovo and refuse to pay electricity.

Think about that for a moment... There are a large number of people who just refuse to pay for electricity, and yet it is still delivered to them...

That is the real problem.
It is an atrocious fad imported a few years ago by young programmers coming from script languages, because they don't grasp modularity à la C and adding -lthatlib in a Makefile or a build script seems out of their reach :-(
Musk needs the working class in space or else his utopia on Mars won't even begin. This is yet another push to bring a work force of non-astronauts to space, showing off that anyone from the internet is going to be able to control a SpaceX vehicle at one point with minimal training.
It was diverse, instead of current monoculture of c c++ c# rust nim zig js typescript python Perl or go , we could use both languages: Basic OR raw assembly!
> The screen has a 3:2 ratio, high-resolution, and super bright colors.

No. Only in backwards anachronistic PC land is 2256x1504 "high resolution" in 2022.

The 14" Macbook Pro is 3024x1964. My XPS actually has 3840x2160.

Please kill this meme. 1500 pixels tall is not a high res screen.
Goldfish are good drivers, new ‘fish-operated vehicle’ reveals
Sysco is the country's largest food supplier. If they are saying 5-15%, why should people believe 40-50% from a second hand source?

I certainly haven't seen 40-50% increases in supermarket prices or in prices for local vegetables or local meats.
if they only knew it's really good for heating ...
"They hired a former Intel HR director for the AZ plant and the first thing he asked was about their diversity program"

Do you have a source for that?
The things you describe, managing complexity, is hard because there's no science around it. There's no optimization method for calculating the best way to organize code. It's not even formally defined what "organization" is.

As a result everyone just makes up anecdotal "patterns" without proof that those patterns satisfy any quantitative "efficiency" criteria. Again this "efficiency" criteria doesn't really exist, we have some numerical metrics for measuring certain things but we can't really say definitively which is more organized the windows code base or the linux code base.

So in terms of these kinds of things. Nobody really knows who does what better. Does hiring people who can solve LC type problems result in more "organized" code? How can we know when we don't even have the word "organized" defined? The existence of this problem in CS doesn't make CS harder because everybody is basically ignoring this problem and just picking arbitrary solutions aka "patterns" to solve things.

Coding is like physical construction, unbounded by the rules of physics and therefore MUCH MUCH easier then engineering a boeing 747. Try learning building a 747 from a bootcamp. You can't. Coding bootcamps exist because it's freakishly easy to learn programming while engineering a 747 is freakishly hard, hence the lack of bootcamps for building airplanes.

It's like making legos to fulfill your goal. In the end the thing we build with these legos likely isn't the most theoretically efficient thing but it works and we didn't need super high intelligence to build it and we don't need someone smart either.

The thing with programming is this. It makes you feel smart. The reality is, your not.
I agree. For quite a few people, both Photoshop and Office is software that is "done". It already does a thousand things more than they use so users would be absolutely fine to pay a one-time fee for a particular version, and just stay there. This option has been taken away, which is consumer-hostile.

I consider a note-taking service to be a different situation, similar to a photo hosting service. Costs are ongoing (and typically growing) so it's not reasonable to expect a one time payment.

As for the first case, both Adobe and Microsoft are thriving for forcing subscriptions, so it makes a lot of business sense. From their perspective it makes sense to dismiss the outrage. People that need the software will ultimately give in and those that are complaining the most, weren't delivering revenue anyway.

The important thing to understand is that both examples are industry standard, irreplaceable software. There are little to no serious alternatives. A startup with some very optional software can't afford this arrogance.
> Words mean things.

And as the reaction here shows, for lots of people "Full-Stack Web App development" means "spanning frontend and backend", not "frontend and backend and everything you could need for a complex product". And that seems to be shared by many other sources.
Several youtube demonstrations and contributions
https://youtu.be/OJGnpmnXR5w
https://youtu.be/VWYLb-ua9QA
https://youtu.be/EXY78gPMvl0 (Niklaus Wirth himself)
Ergonomy was so much worse. Programming Basic in front of the CRT TV in the livingroom was not pleasant for the eyes.
For me the appeal is that when a feature that I don't currently have becomes available it's straight forward for me to upgrade.

When the next iteration of motherboards come out, I won't be buying a new laptop, ideally I will go here https://frame.work/marketplace and just order the one that I want and follow the video guides to install it.

The potential to customize this is huge, larger than any other laptop that I'm familiar with. The ability to self maintain, to fix every piece of the hardware if necessary just makes this thing a win for me.