skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

I tend to move countries every few years, which means I leave many of my friends behind. For a while, social media was a good way to keep in touch, but nowadays nobody I know regularly logs in to social media any more (me included), so that route is gone.

About a year ago I decided to start doing a 3-6 month email blast, like those family holiday letters people used to send in the snail mail days. About half my friends I wasn't able to find their email addresses, and when I contacted them on social media they didn't reply. The other half received the email blast, but only two or three have ever responded.

You'd think this means none of my friends are "real friends". But I have since then run into a few of those people in person and it was like nothing changed, our friendship continued how it was years ago for an afternoon or an evening. So I don't think it's that other people don't want to maintain the friendship, it's more that we have kinda lost the knowledge of how to keep in touch. And I'm not sure how to fix it.
a friend of mine would send all people he knew new years wishes via regular mail.

It was hundreds of letters he would all print out and sign manually.

Most people would ignore it, a few even found it offiensive fo receive a mass letter.

But every year dozens answered with a happy reply.
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> Apple ... Their software competency is below average

This doesn't sound right. I'd put them as way above average. Possibly leading the pack out of the public companies.
All Microsoft tech has an aura of mediocrity, but I guess that is part of the appeal too.
I'm not sure why you'd want to use it as a development device when there is a not much heavier MacBook Air available with the same brain in it. I actually ran from September 2021 to January 2022 with just my iPad Pro as a computer for all personal tasks, which include programming, and decided that I was artificially limiting what I was doing for the sake of a minimalist ideal. iOS is just not the right tool for the job.

Each Apple device has a very nice overlapping niche and a lot of consistency between them but some devices are intentionally not designed to do some tasks. iOS is fine for non power user tasks and simple automation but nothing more. For 80% of what I do that is fine so I usually go to the iPad first always. But if I want to sit down and do full on keyboard based productivity it's the MBP every time.

The iPad Pro has a very special place in my heart though. It's the most reliable and efficient machine and with the Apple Pencil it's a game changer. I love to take it with me when I go out for a weekend and will sit in a hotel, do spreadsheet, organise tasks, do some drawing, watch some streams, casual messaging and emails and even video and photo editing. But not programming!
Yes, usually transactions are executed at the resting order prices (i.e. whatever is already being advertised in the market, and a transaction can involve multiple orders at different prices).
Since you claimed to have beaten the market for 20 years consistently, would you care to provide evidence for that claim?
> a hybrid private/public pension model like the US

I'm not sure pensions exist in the US beyond a few public sector ones. The US model is entirely private at this point for all intents and purposes.

Also keep in mind that only about 55% of the US population owns any stock (including retirement accounts) [0], so (IMO, not an economist) the US is most likely looking at a retirement crisis in the coming decades.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...
Ask HN: Are “no-code” and “serverless” terms misleading?
This might just be me as I remember rolling my eyes the first time I heard about "cloud" and I still think it's just somebody's else computers. Don't start me on "private cloud".

I find IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, WYSIWYG, etc a lot more accurate.

The server or the code not being visible to you and the fact that you can't work directly on them does not mean they do not exist. You just buy/rent an abstraction on top of them and you are still very much paying for the servers and the code. The server infrastructure still has < 100% SLA, the code still has bugs, etc.

Modern cars require pretty much no setup or maintenance of the engine by the driver. The engine is mostly successfully abstracted away. Would it be accurate to call modern cars "engineless"? Using a Taxi or a furniture moving company does not require you to own a car. That's the point of those services. But nobody describes those things as "no-car".

All this might seem as nitpicking but I don't think it is. I think the terms are intentionally misleading. What is your sentiment?
I feel exactly the same, and honestly, it keeps me from approaching some people I‘d like to.

If anyone has figured out a pretext or mental framework for warming up conversations that have effectively died long ago, I would be delighted to know about it.
When I was completely new to investing I put my money into AAPL, TSLA, AMD and TSM based on my experiences with them. That portfolio would have done extremely well had I stuck with it.

I think the dogmatic "nobody can beat the markets" is hurting people who then think they may as well give up, and patently not true when you look at traders who beat the market year in and year out, and minimize their losses when they do lose.
Sure it does, if you make it do so. Use net real rather than nominal returns as the input to the equation
FWIW I had fun reading it :)
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. I just started playing with three.js. No game dev experience. It is so easy to use.

My goal is to create a personal memory palace app. My wife and I are winding up to learn Blender together so we can collaborate on little cartoon scenes of our puppy lol. I share that to share the general tip with everyone: having a problem to solve or end in mind when trying to learn a new tool helps a lot!
Arguably, would the web exist today as it is if not for robustness principle that also leads to "almost impossible for anyone other than one of the giants to create a working implementation"
Everyone is in the mood to write about text rendering today for some reason, love it. Great to see so many points paralleled like this article talking [1] about sub-pixel offsets being a challange and Nuklear's Wiki article talking [2] about snapping glyphs to an interger offset.

[1] https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/#subpixel-offse...

[2] https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear/wiki/Complete-f...
"News site's constant negative of ad-competitor Facebook hints at waning news influence."

Don't get me wrong, I don't care for FB's product, but the constant coverage is a bit pathetic.

FB are required to disclose all sorts of low probability risks to investors.
Maybe money chose him?
Agree on the desktop. The peak of development was when Windows, Visual Studio and .Net framework releases were synchronised and we were targeting Windows Forms. That was almost bliss. I got so much work done.

That started in 2002 and ended in about 2010.

I built some stuff in C# on Windows CE as well which was interesting too.
How dare you have fun.
Ah, that was a dark time for WYSIWYG editing on the web. I actually made my own back in that era [0] (well a little later, but when TinyMCE and CKEditor were still the goto solutions), and getting it to work cross-browser when IE6 was still a thing and had no dev tools was an absolute nightmare.

[0]: https://github.com/nicoburns/ghostedit
There's still vendor lock-in though
Fixed rate for lifetime?

Something I didn't realise until recently was in the US it's normal to have a 30 year mortgage with a fixed rate from the start, rather than a fixed rate for a few years and then either a variable rate or requiring a remortgage. My understanding is that most mortgages in the Netherlands tend to be 5-10 years fixed rather than lifetime.

In the UK I feel there's a lot of distrust of stock markets amongst normal people, partly because the FTSE doesn't grow (back in 2000 it was about 7,000, today it's about 7,500), and that's the one reported on the normal news. There's no widely reported "FTSE dividend reinvested" measure.

Add in the mortgage mess from annuity mortgages where people were sold the idea they could have their cake and eat it too, ended up without enough money to repay their mortgage at the end. Throw in the pension collapse of Equitable Life, the pension fraud from Maxwell, the stock "boom" in the 90s where normal people bought shares, driven by the selloff of nationalised industries, and then seeing those shares vanish in 2000 and never really recovering and you get a general distrust of private hands managing money, and a preference to trust the government.

This meant people put their money into houses starting in the late 90s, which combined with increasing household income as new families became dual-income led to increasing house prices and a snowball effect. Even 2008 didn't really impact, as it was mainly sold as a US problem which had an effect on the UK, but not a major one.

The UK government (any colour) will do anything to keep house prices growing as that's how you get votes.
20% cost on remittance is an absolute outlier, the average global cost is around 7%

https://www.saveonsend.com/money-transfer-services/
I agree - most people should buy low cost index funds but that is not enough - they have to space it out as monthly contributions over many years.

If you put all your money in at thr wrong moment, like say the Nasdaq in 99 then you waited 13 years just to break even.

But if you bought monthly you would have done very well because you averaged into the market.

The alternative is if you really understand valuations, diversification, risk and market psychology, like I do, then you can consistently beat the market. Most people cannot and most people you pay fees to do it on your behalf won't.

You could consider buying berkshire hathaway instead of a stock market index.... assuming the lead investors don't die too soon.
As someone coming from Node who has only recently (with .NET 6) taken a good look at the ecosystem, it appears to me that there have been a lot of breaking changes to get where they are now.

On one hand, I love that they’re trying to reduce boilerplate and align closer to something like Node with Minimal APIs. On the other hand, nearly every reference guide or tutorial I look up is outdated and I’m left trying to figure out what changed between .NET 5 (or earlier) and .NET 6. I was following the Little ASP.NET Core book one day and things like there being no Startup.cs anymore (being merged into Program.cs) took me a minute to figure out, as there’s also no definitive resource for a newcomer on what has changed that would make older documentation inaccurate.
You can do good enterprise software, but it isn't free. That's the issue.

If you're prepared to pay for a solution that actually fits your business and you have tight coupling of good software developers and intelligent people who will be using it you can get good results, but people either want something for nothing (won't pay for it) or are mentally incapable of constraining what they want. Some firms simply do not have the staff nor culture to do things well, unfortunately.
It's worth noting that the game is fundamentally _easier_ if you're not working with an institutionally sized portfolio.

1. You don't have concern yourself with market impact

2. There are niche opportunities that lack the capacity for funds to bother spending their time on.
To add to the confusion what TCL calls arrays are not what other languages call arrays.

The above syntax is needed for lists, not arrays.

If you want to increment a value in a TCL array all you need to do is:

incr myArray($i)

However that array is basically a dictionary, a hash map of (integer in this example) keys to values.
Some of these things were included later on.

For instance:

DR DOS 6 had Netware Lite; DR DOS 7 had Personal Netware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_NetWare

I think several versions of DOS included MSCDEX.EXE (or DR's equivalent), but not the device driver, because back then there were lots of different CD interfaces: Mitusmi, Panasonic and Sony on sound cards, some early EIDE ones, and SCSI on higher-end kit.

Mouse drivers came with your mouse. ;-)

MS did have a network stack bundled for free on the NT Server installation CD, and some versions of it support server mode for peer-to-peer operation.

DOS could do all this stuff, but you had to assemble the bits from different sources, and this was sometimes for good reasons, sometimes technical (a profusion of incompatible CD-ROM interfaces) and sometimes commercial (P2P LAN support).
I kept a pager for as long as was possible. It is really the service I want. I had this tiny object that ran off a single AAA cell for something like a month that would tell me if there was something I had to deal with. The available technology has degraded significantly since then.

You would think that pager service would be significantly cheaper to provide than something like 4/5G...
But none of the young Taiwan people I talked to claim they are Chinese. YMMV.
Google drive link doesn’t load on iOS, getting a spinner.
> I am pointing this out because by understanding why people actually complain it will deepen empathy for the complaining person and also avoid creating a pseudo classist framing of the situation which is actually not only inaccurate but harmful for understanding the people involved.

You misinterpreted my original point and when I attempted to clarify you're now telling me what I'm "too focused on," as if I don't understand that all people have stress.

So I'm finding this reply a bit ironic. Maybe it's supposed to be and I'm just not picking up on the bit.

You ascribed some malice to my original post that wasn't there and are now doubling down. Why?
So it is in Italy. In UK fixed rates usually last 2-5 years, then revert to variable rates (and inevitably you have to remortgage).
Why is 500K of public money being spent on this? Any one with more context? Is there anyone I could speak to against this?
Yeah, use Qt instead :)
>do folks review their notes at all? I suspect back links aren’t the actual problem.
During undergrad, I found I rarely reviewed my class notes,

Discussing the word "notes" is not easy because it encompasses a bunch of different uses.

- (1) notes as transcription of an external source or memorization aid: e.g. a professor might say something and a student writes that down. Or one comes across a fact and makes a note of it.

- (2) notes to organize internal thought: a canvas for generating/synthesizing/connecting/etc ideas. Things like personal commentary on topics, weighing pros/cons of different future actions, drafts of song lyrics, research ideas, etc.

I think your comment is mostly based on thinking of notes as (1). A lot of people that constantly review notes are talking about category (2).

Sometimes when I spend an hour trying to figure out the right ffmpeg command line options or Linux "find" syntax that works correctly, I'll copy paste those as "notes" in my "tipsandtricks.txt" file. Those feel like a combination of (1) and (2).

Also, if the mental model of "notes" is dominated by (1), it would seem like having a hypothetical universal recording tool combined with a more complete search engine would make note-taking obsolete. I mentioned in a previous comment that such a search engine still wouldn't handle type (2) notes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30153479
The British criminal justice system is apparently falling apart, it would be a tragedy if no (or insufficient) heads roll for this.
Thunderhammer ... at a time when it wasn't possible to get through game mechanics quest/loot.
So we should simply throw away all non-"Retina" monitors just so software developers don't have to bother with the intricacies of subpixel rendering anymore? Not really good for the environment...
Electric motors have instant and constant torque. I never heard of power and torque curves being applicable concepts.
It's a stochastic argument though. If, say, 60% of day traders lose money, then 40% necessarily make money -- but it's still EV negative unless you have a strong prior you belong in the 40%.
Ha. Give it a try it very good.
> part of the problem is that the level of compensation that's actually required in this case is enough to render the Post Office insolvent.

That would be good IMHO. Some people will disagree, but the post office going bust, and then nationalised would be a good outcome. It should never have been allowed to be privatised, it’s a national service, a place for providing contact to many different essential national provisions.

True it needed to cut costs, moving into smaller premises does that. Even the partnership with WH Smith’s and village news agents are sensible. But it should fundamentally be a government provision.

And while they are at it nationalise Royal Mail, and properly split Open Reach from BT and nationalise that too.
No one gets sent to prison because of TV licences.
> And they ended up telling the courts they were certain enough about the system to jail people based on it?

I think that should open them up to unlimited liability. How hard would it have been for them to audit a single problem site to find out their software was trash?
Okay so I can tell you these guys have 4 letters all capitalized. If you can name a few that you think they are, I can tell you if you are right or wrong...
Imo this is more like the case where the market/money reflects the opinion of the 1%.
This might be a language thing. In Denmark "elite" is the official label assigned to those who compete at the highest level in any given sport. So say a runners club may have an "elite" team or "elite" runners. It's just a label really, nothing else.
When is "but the children!!!" going to be recognized as overt manipulation?
The radio firmware can be remotely updated, without the OS being involved. EG, by carrier. It has direct access, without OS involvement, to many peripherals.

At that stage, any further discussion (being able to read system ram or not, segregation or not) is moot, for, it's the ultimate in lack of trust.
I’m a visual learner so when I take notes I use colors.
If I need to be tested on the content after I finish the course I rewrite my notes in a more concise way and I organize them all in a quick reference / cheat sheet format. I may not need the notes but just rewriting, summarizing and reorganizing the content makes me remember the images of the pages better.

The next best thing is explaining the topic to someone who has no idea about it.
One thing I am always curious about the headline pitches of most of these tools is — they say that they are for building INTERNAL tools.

Are these not suitable for building an external SaaS web-app? What exactly is the limitation that makes them not suitable for a world accessible SaaS app?
I've invested in GM and avoided investing in Tesla. Mostly just because I understand GM, their business and financials and stock price history makes sense to me. I do not understand the valuations on Tesla, and hadn't even long before COVID and the most recent run-up in value. Clearly I've missed out on massive earnings if I had invested in Tesla instead of GM (although GM's done decently lately).

To me looking at the stock pricing, Tesla looks like a software company where tremendous growth has been occurring and is expected to continue for some time. To some extent they are a software company, but that software so far has seemed to me to require quite an expensive set of hardware to be sold with it in order to get the software and continuing monthly/yearly/feature revenues sales. This has worked for Apple, so it's not unprecedented, but it'll be interesting to watch how long it can last.

SpaceX makes more sense to me with having high valuations relative to revenues, it's a services company. The service is getting things to space and now also providing internet access. Tesla doesn't look like a software or services company to me, at least not yet. But maybe I'm looking at it wrong?
The houses do. The land they're on don't
Yes shifting down for a curve is a delight, but electric motors offers the experience of never having to shift up in the first place.
Building your ports from source using DPB
On the other hand, Valve has been on the forefront of adding microtransactions and lootboxes to their games, including paid games. They are not beyond optimizing for maximum profit even if it that mindset does not infect all of their projects.
Corruption.

I'm going to make a wild guess and say that the website has been contracted out to some senior politicians husband's (our corruption is now done by women and minorities, too, progress!) company or something to that effect.

Edit: Downvoters, it's pretty well documented at this point that the group of tories in power like giving gov. money to friends and family

https://www.sophie-e-hill.com/slides/my-little-crony/

Just recently they wrote of billions of pounds in COVID procurements that in large part went to very strange new companies and delivered nothing.
Yep. I’m bad at contacting family and my 700+ ppl in LinkedIn and yes I know them all or would not add them in the first place. Definitely going to try this.
I would recommend talking to your MP as a starting point:

https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP
A native English speaker would understand the sentence - in the same way that saying, "give me a lawyer Stan" can be easily understood. The person in that sentence isn't asking for a "lawyer Stan" but is naming the other person in the conversation as "Stan" or in this case as "dawg".

For a police officer, who regularly deals with this sort of slang, to misunderstand this - that only happens when they want to intentionally violate the rights of the accused.
I think houses mostly do depreciate in value. The land underneath them does not and this can often mask the former.

I live in a nice part of my city. My house is 100 years old, has terrible insulation, very old retrofit wiring, and needs constant maintenance to stave off decline. The house, with all the upgrades over the years, is likely worth about what it was when built. The land underneath it is a lot more valuable than it was 100, or even 25, years ago.
The system is not solving the "I forgot this person exists" issue. It is solving the "nothing prompts me to contact this person without having reason to" issue.
Quoting the original commenter:

> There are people with more capital, time, and knowledge than you who will consistently beat you.

Maybe you are one of those people, but the point is not everyone is good at it (the majority of people are bad at it)
I mean, given the timing, I would assume to distract from Brexit, Number 10 parties, etc.

This (pull out a perennial policy interest and suddenly promote it weirdly eagerly, to distract from the government's scandals) is at this point such a trope of British politics that people make sitcoms about it (half the storylines in the Thick of It were basically this).
Not a web person, but isn't https end-to-end encryption
> The core idea that caught on with Roam is the concept of a bidirectional link. Previous note-taking systems allowed linking in only one direction: you could link from one note to another, but the note being linked to had no automatic link back to the original note.

That's not really true. Backlinks exist since the first Wiki-Generation and has found their way into other note-apps I've seen over time. The problem is that it's just one feature of many, and rather poorly communicated. Roam had a stronger focus on this, and delivered a modern Wiki-Interface, making it more successful then the old boring wikis which are around for decades and already forgotten by most people.

It seems Roam is now walking the same road? After the initial hype, it must survive the contenst of the daily grind and prove it's worth beyond one dominating feature.