skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a new Bunnings near me where the entire building footprint (including outdoor, etc) is above the ground-level carpark. Once in the building or garden centre, there's every impression you're at ground level because the experience is like every other Bunnings, but without exposure to the elements. Then there are solar panels on the roof.

The total footprint as a result is far, far smaller than other large Bunnings buildings in the state.
I use umami. Its lightweight and doesnt have too many dependencies.

https://umami.is/docs/features

There is also goatcounter with a slightly uglier UI but it does its job well and consumes even less RAM than umami
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/marijuana/20...

> Under state law, that first day for adult sales at licensed dispensaries is supposed to come next month. The enabling marijuana legalization legislation signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy last year directs the CRC to begin adult use marijuana sales before Feb. 22, with 30-day notice beginning Jan. 23.

> But there's a catch. The CRC is yet to issue any licenses for recreational marijuana sales, so even if sales are approved as of Feb. 22, there won't be any dispensaries selling it.
If you don’t think $129 for earphones is an expensive luxury for the average person, you are in a bubble. Apple offers payment plans for them because people can’t afford to drop that much cash in one go.
Solar panels are not reflective
Show HN: DevToolbox - Developer utilities as an offline desktop app in Flutter
The idea is that a phalanx trained under the assumption that their formation was nearly invincible as long as they were experienced enough and worked together well. Both the members of the phalanxes and the generals would be hesitant to risk that by sending them against another phalanx where they lose all their inherent advantage and would need to fight in a different way.
Yes - still stay connected and inspired.
Not all of the self hosted ones, especially if host uses a reverse proxy to rewrite the URL to something random.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29861370
What if the Industrial Revolution had started 2k years ago, and why it didn’t
Unless the author got the green light from Zach, I don't think it's fine that they reproduced an SMBC comic in there. Without any credit, to make it worse.
Easily at least a hundred of them...
Refusing to write out Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Tesla comes off as juvenile which perfectly explains why this is such a terrible explanation for the current job market:

Nothing in this article wasn't true two years ago; This could of just as well been titled "I think I know why you can't hire engineers" and been posted any time in the last 50 years.
I agree, but legally, there does seem to be a limit on how far you can go about cloning another concept. I remembered the following case, and was able to find it back:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gamesindustry.biz/amp/2012-...
Yes, they tend to be right. A stable long term trend in NGDP fixes pretty much all of these issues. Inflation and Real growth can figure themselves out independently.

If there is a supply shock, you will have lower real growth but monetary policy will not react to that because its a real signal.

Market Monetarists were very active training to tell people that the Fed in 2008 were actually deflationary. That I think is what eventually will be the consequences, just like it is with the Central Bank.
I disagree. Sort of.

I agree on why folks like it. Is a fun shared exercise.

And it is the unique way of sharing that makes it popular with this crowd. This is a game that is fun to share, and does not ask for permission to my accounts to make that share.
I really like my company, have continuously advanced within it, and I’m at point in life that while I still care about money, the difference in my happiness of an extra $30-60k/year isn’t particularly material but a bad work environment would be.
Honestly the statement was just to avoid other people derailing the conversation, unsuccessfully
or pip install :)
To be fair, HN is run by a startup investor, which attracts a specific audience.

A lot of commenters here have kind of fetishized money and early retirement.
I guess so? The bit I quoted was about the extent of the relevant discussion.

The rest was on how one year is a more reasonable spacing for boosters, if we need them, and how so many people getting omicron probably will reduce the likelihood that we will need more boosters
Another reason companies can't hire right now is because they like to shoot themselves in the foot with their terrible interview processes.

Any < 100 person startup which is doing Leetcode interviews is letting go of so many great candidates who will actually get the job done.

A lot of times interviewers turn interview into an ego contest where they are looking for reasons to reject. Try your best to remove those biases. If you are a company, have a predefined set of 10 questions that your interviewers can ask from -- make the evaluation criteria as objective as possible. There is no place for "vibe check" in technical interviews.
Here is the original Folders esolang: https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/Folders/
From the smokers I talked with yes. I know one guy switched to vaping because it was much cheaper (and, even though we won't know it for another 30 or so years, much less unhealthy).
I first encountered that method in NX CAD.

Siemens is an old company who tends to get investments right. Apple uses Siemens design software, so who knows? Perhaps Apple had influence?

Great implementation!

At the time, I was in a heavy pre-sales role and would make the help system a part of the demo. I am pretty sure everyone saw high value there.

And talk about complex, with depth, subtlety! That program demands more than mere buttons can deliver!
Looping back to the beginning, the taking of property without compensation.
This just feel unjust for me.

It bothers me to see a coworker getting underpaid just because they have certain personality traits (that are unrelated to their actual work).

I will be less likely to stay at such a place, even if for me personally the pay is fine.
The price on exchanges has little to do with onchain activity, which has always been a criticism of the valuation metrics, you are somehow reappropriating that retroactively in a way incompatible with the other criticism

its mind boggling… I would say more but I’m reserving my thoughts in case you have a rationale that is more convincing
Initially we followed that model, we would have a designated integrator that incorporated changes when you hit a milestone, and ways of filing that into other developers images as they went, but it was very error prone and a lot of regressions would pop up for the integrator as they struggled to keep up.

Envy fixed that, you could start with a fresh envy image and grab your updates. You could also isolate developers in their own branch like git and get proper warnings when you had integration issues when merging.

Basically the integration job went from full time to a couple of hours a week.
like art, not all software must be commercial
Rate limiting.

About a decade back, we used to use the email approach at a non-profit I volunteered at. Annually we would need to send a bunch of texts of a short time period. Think "once a year event".

Eventually we had to stop using that solution. Most texts went through, but there were enough failures that we had to switch to twilio. I can't remember when; I guess 5 or 10 years ago? Getting old.

(We didn't immediately switch to twilio. There was one year during which we used my personal phone to send out an obscene number of texts from my personal phone number. Figured out that was a bad idea pretty quick.)
Hi HN, dev here.

There are existing projects like CyberChef and DevUtils, but I wanted an offline app that was at least eventually open-source. This also gave me an opportunity to explore Flutter for cross-platform desktop apps. Flutter gives the ability to build native GUI apps for Windows, Linux, MacOS _and_ Web (in case organizations want to self-host it internally for their entire team). The value proposition is unresistable, because the only real alternative seems to be Electron.

Mac and Windows builds have been tested. The UI style is standard from the macos_ui package.

So far, Flutter has been a pleasant experience but the desktop platform seems not quite ready for prime time. For example, webviews are only supported on Android and iOS.
Because we know a creator's sacrifice by not monetizing, money can buy them comfort, security and freedom (less time working, quitting job even). I don't think most people will fault anyone for choosing to monetise their work.
Are you talking about victims of Indian consulting companies that are basically hacking the H1b system? Yes they need to be dealt with. Perhaps they need to just block consulting jobs from the program generally. Stick to at least enriching employers who add some value to the system other than just performing arbitrage.
flappy bird guy freaked out on the monetization. When you aim for low 10k and get 16m it can be .. punishing. There are worse fates, but (the little I read suggests) he wasn't entirely happy with it
Spoilers:

Tubas on a checkerboard turned out to be an addicting VR game, to the point where the entire crew of the Enterprise was essentially zombified. Wesley and Ensign Robin Lefler (played by guest star Ashley Judd) saved the day.
I use bread, or nothing. I've caught a lot of mice in unbaited traps. Mice are super curious creatures, and if the trap is in their path they often poke at it out of curiosity.

Bread works great; I moisten it and smoosh it into the trap platform where it hardens and must be chewed to consume it. I avoid oily and stick stuff because I reuse my traps. No sense throwing out perfectly good traps IMO.

I hate killing mice BTW. I have a couple of giant mice in my back yard who have completely annihilated the infestation of earwigs that plagued us for years. I see those mice out there nearly every day, and I tell them thank you, and I beg them not to enter my house. So far they seem to be listening.
I think we agree completely!
He should create a free Wordle app that lets you play once daily, and then a $9.99 in-app upgrade that lets you play unlimited, that pops up after you’ve completed the word of the day. The unlimited users should still see the word of the day whenever a new one is available (to keep sharing high). Best of both worlds.
This. he may have future FOMO but I think that will be a small part of his make up, overrun. by the reality he made 100m+ people very happy
Nice. I got a visit from someone in Brazil, who was teaching programming in the San Paulo. I looked at a picture of a bunch of his students, and most of them were women. He was teaching them to solder. I immediately took about a $20, and handed it to him. I think its time we send him a care package.

Garoa Hacker Clube
Ask HN: A new web where applications are first class citizens?
The WWW was built to transport hypertext documents, which became interactive thanks to JavaScript. Since HTML5, increasingly complex webapps are being built, and daily on HN people complain about Electron & bloated frontend tech.

I think the web grew naturally to dominance, and in the process lots of work went into optimizing JS performance and building browsers into the huge runtime environments they are today.

My question is, what would it take to build a new web that aims to support highly interactive applications from the start? Something that provides a unified runtime across different platforms, loads lazily / needs no installs, and uses a more performant language with fewer pitfalls than JS. Bonus points if it is as open to user-side modifications as the current web.

I have a feeling that I just described Flutter; please share if something like this is being worked on.
Plausible has an events API that allows you to record pageviews and custom events without JS.

https://plausible.io/docs/events-api

(I'm the cofounder)
I have been told that MySQL / MariaDB is significantly more scalable than Postgres, although I expect that opinion is based on old data. I don't have firsthand knowledge of this, so I can't comment further. Came to the comments to see if anyone knowledgeable would react to that point. (maybe they can reply here :) )
They’ve been sitting there, open, for a really long time — probably close to two decades. Maybe longer? It’s an arcane enough feature that they’d probably just kill the service altogether of they became problematic. Can be convenient for hobby dev projects.
I first encountered that method in NX CAD.

Siemens is an old company who tends to get investments right. Apple uses Siemens design software, so who knows? Perhaps Apple had influence?

Great implementation!

At the time, I was in a heavy pre-sales role and would make the help system a part of the demo. I am pretty sure everyone saw high value there.

And talk about complex, with depth, subtlety! That program demands more than mere buttons can deliver!

And my own ability to use the tool improved dramatically. I have 20 plus years doing sales, service, and support. OTC, SDRC, UGS (Both those two now Siemens, Soludworks, Solid Edge...)

Hands down, these methods crush anything else I have seen.
I got tired of working as an engineer in the marketing org at Mozilla and told my boss I wanted to move to another team, so we shopped around a bit and found that the team working on web tools used by Firefox devs (e.g. crash analysis, experiment system) had a headcount to trade, and a few weeks later I was on a different team and the marketing team was interviewing to hire someone new. It was pretty normal and happened a lot.
Easily. They can chew their way into plastic jars and even five gallon buckets if given the time.
I've been in the market for a tool like this. If this or dura used inotify events instead of polling, I'd use it in a heartbeat.

[long story about a weird real-world use case for this kind of tool]

For "reasons" I work in a cloud-based container that has persistent storage mounted via NFS. That's where we're supposed to keep our git repos, since that's the only place where we get persistence. The codebase is huge though, and "git status" takes upwards of 10 seconds on the NFS.

I started keeping my .git directory in the NFS and having the actual files on the "local" container filesystem. That makes git fast again. But it means I lose any untracked changes when my container dies.

I'm currently using an insane solution that I want to get rid. I'm using lsyncd to rsync my files back to the NFS as I work. But recovery is still slow as death, so I pointed lsyncd to an "rsync" script that runs rsync and then does a git diff (with hacky nonsense to include untracked files in the diff.) When I lose my container, I can then apply that diff after rebuilding the repo files. It's insane but it works really well.

At any rate, this is a cool project. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to use this instead of rolling my own ungodly hackfest of a solution.
I’ve also been recurring for the last 10+ years and can concur with total comp is the #1 factor by far, followed by remote-friendly / remote-first work.

A 3rd factor for me however has always been the tech stack. Engineers I recruit are keenly aware that if they get stuck in a non-modern or too-modern tech stack that it could hurt their future career opportunities.

You can’t just contribute to open source and reach a high level, at least not very quickly very often. They want to jump into a high growth company and contribute to large interesting apps / services that get used in production. Open source is great, but on a resume, it’s nothing like saying you launched an app that handles millions of dollars in transactions, or billions of API requests.
What Is Matrix?
Haha try as I might, my child brain still panics when I see that red LED and I end up saving more often because of it haha
I've had this happen at my current place, my pm kept raving about me and giving me alot of kudos. Another pm grabbed me and have a good relationship with her. It's nice to feel appreciated.
How long are they going to last?

Also, are they working on Java 6?

These are important questions because Amazon pays 300K for Rust. That seems like a combo that makes folks wonder maybe let's give them a shot, right?
It was just light humor on author's part. I didn't think it was juvenile.
This isn’t a problem if you use getters.
Seen it multiple times. But more discussion was involved - I would start ask questions and talk with other team not solve their issues without asking. I don't know how exactly other people went about it.

Imo, company either allows internal "poaching" or will have larger turnover. People need change once in a while, both psychologically and to learn something a bit new. And it breaks the us vs them mentality because you have friends in other teams.
Everything is infered. That's why pretty much every scientific model eventually gets overturned or at least refined.
I've made an end-to-end encrypted web analytics SaaS. No need to host it yourself, your data is visible only by you.

Partially open-source at https://github.com/chiffre-io, with the aim of publishing it all in Q1 2022.

https://chiffre.io
Firstly, I think you are mistaken about heat. It is objectively true that cities are hotter places to live in general, disregarding climate change. This is partly due to the large amount of materials which absorb heat from the sun, such as black asphalt in massive parking lots. It makes cities less pleasant, for sure.

I also don’t think you understand the “war on driving”… the point is that you have less freedom in a car dependent world. You can’t conveniently choose to walk to the grocery store a few blocks away when there are 6 lane roads which pay no respect to pedestrians. You can’t choose to take a train to a concert, since passenger trains are rarer and rarer.

You have fewer choices and less freedom if the only convenient choice is a car. And what if you don’t have or can’t get a car? Your mobility is extremely limited.

The “war on driving” is all about creating more choices and freedom for transit. It’s not saying all cars should be outlawed. It’s saying that the bus or train should be just as convenient as driving in a city, and that biking and cycling within a mile or two of home should be even more convenient than driving.

And, most importantly for you, in a city where everyone has many transit choices, driving is much more pleasant. With fewer people driving cars for trips that don’t really need them, there will be less traffic and less need for massive roads which are dangerous even for drivers. This video is very illuminating: https://youtu.be/d8RRE2rDw4k

In fact, I’d recommend watching even more videos on that channel to really understand why having more alternatives to cars is a good thing.
I don't think I would like such a system that maps everything directly to memory.
At least, with the current separation, if some program's or even the kernel's memory gets corrupted, I can just restart my computer and it will usually fix it, whereas using an NVRAM in such a way could make it easier to break things in a durable fashion.
I actually love this answer, but I will point out that any arguments relating to "deserving" - especially in relation to companies' profits - becomes a very different discussion. We live in a capitalist system and "deserves" = "can achieve within the law". I offer no assessment as to whether this is a good system or not, but its the one we have.

It's absolutely reasonable for a government to impose its own market rules - but even there, the government follows its own logic for what to impose. Either to benefit consumers, protect local industries or industry segments (e.g. smaller companies), or increase tax revenue. What's the logic behind such a restriction? Unless applied to all app stores, this would be unfair to Apple.

For both customers and app-developers, we make an assessment of value and decide which phone to buy or which phone to target with apps. For app developers this involves a contractual obligation they freely sign on to. Making an assessment of value that is based on not meeting the obligations you agreed to is an act of bad faith. You don't "deserve" to play on my turf if you're not following my rules. Go play in someone else's yard. I can see how it makes sense for a government to assess whether everyone's yards needs to be follow a basic set of rules. That currently exists in the sense that no contract or agreement can upend the laws of the land. Is new law required here? Perhaps, but then it won't be Apple specific. Depending on how its worded it may apply more broadly than to just app stores. In which case there's a whole raft of rent-seekers who may not want such laws.

Fundamentally, it boils down to this (in my view):

Are smartphone ecosystems private property upon which third parties are allowed to conduct commerce subject to the property owners rules?

OR

Are smartphone ecosystems a public commons upon which third parties are free to conduct commerce as they wish?
Not sure I get the argument here— federal enhanced unemployment benefits have been over since September, so there is no longer a monetary benefit to remaining on unemployment in almost all cases.

Are you arguing people aren’t relocating or something to that effect?
Clearly not a legit answer.
Primary Dealers aren't bidding up gasoline.
Fresh claim over role FBI played in suicide of Ernest Hemingway (2011)
Inflation is probably around 15% for most of Europe and US, there's your reason: you are not paying enough.
Yes! Here is my 22 lines of old school php code thrown on a old and unsexy lamp server: https://gist.github.com/mickael-kerjean/289d3d0be8fab2f90e2f...

It has been used for about 3 years with metric tracked directly via sql queries. Today, I got a more fancy dashboard that make graph from the sql queries but that part is optional (my grafana dashboard screenshot: https://ibb.co/S3RTyjm).

After trying a few other analytics tools, it's hard to beat the power of just asking a question in sql
That’s why i always have HomeKit disabled but it’s the damn Apple upgrade or power cycle that keeps flipping it BACK on.
It's a fun game and I like that you can only play once per day. I have to admit I was surprised to find that the game was free, especially after seeing the NY Times article with its narrative of "Wordle is a love story". I thought for sure that was some marketing story tossed together. I think it says a lot about me (and society!) that my first thought was he was selling it.

I think I'm also disappointed that numerous clones are coming out and they're all going to cash in on the craze and will probably eclipse the original.
has there ever been a leader that has prosecuted a war that isn't named as a "war criminal" ?

Not trying to diminish your statement, but what defines a war criminal?
If anything can then the term has no meaning, it turns any act of war into a criminal act.

How do we make that term actually MEAN something again? Do they all have to be "Hitlers" or "Pol Pot's" ? surely not...
Stuff you learn when you start interacting with the petite investment property class...

Contact your city councilperson and state rep/senator. Public policy doesn't need to punish this sort of behavior, but we should at least stop rewarding property owners who do this sort of thing.
The question of "what would make you change jobs" seems super-prone to social desirability bias—and the author does nothing to control for that. Does anyone have links to research that does?
I used to forward all my hotmail to sms in 1997. I felt so techy doing email on my little flip phone.