skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
House foundations, light switches, and water delivery, along with the professions that install them, are all regulated and licensed. There is somewhat of a trend for the quality of those things to have regional variation, e.g., lower quality in places that have historically had weak code enforcement and weak unions. And yes, the regulation probably did make those things more expensive.
Reminds me of hiring an in-house team of Salesforce engineers to build out and maintain the hugely expensive CRM you bought because you… didn’t want to spend engineering time on a CRM.
Taiwan has a healthy distrust of the Chinese government, as they were burned during the SARS scare.

Their surveilance detected the covid outbreak early, and they were the first country to lock down, at the end of December, 2019. This is while the WHO and CCP were saying there was nothing to worry about. The CCP was already supressing the truth and arresting doctors who tried to spread the alarm.

They had a game plan ready to go that they had developed after the SARS scare, so they just ran that plan.

Even so, it took them until May 2020 to reach covid zero. They were the first country to do it.

This provides a best case scenario for lockdown and containment - an island nation that caught the problem before a general outbreak - and it still took 5 months.

Since then, they've had new cases from foreign travel.
Because nobody forks things that are bad?
Avoid google.

Noted
Mate I’m sure I already have. Been battling a migraine since 10am.

(Joking, it’s really just a plain old sinus headache)
The problem you describe is why presidents will only sit down for interviews with anchors/journalists/networks who they have some guarantee will treat them favorably.

It's ironic that to get more than this from politicians, it seems we need to be MORE forgiving of them. That is a hard pill to swallow, as a citizen.
The Referer Control plugin is probably still the best option, even though it hasn't been updated in a long time. There are a few newer ones that supposedly deal with the issue of sites breaking, but I haven't tried them.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referercontro...
But the concept of water being fed through pipe, from a reservoir, chlorination, etc have been around a long time. Sure implementation details change, but they and the concepts they build off of have been around. You mention pvc, copper, and pex (lead is over 50 years old and many have been replaced). Those are just materials. How do they affect end user on a daily basis?

How long has electrical be 120v AC? How long has auto voltage been 12v vs 5v?

Details, materials, and implementation change (building off of prior versions), concepts and overarching system designs are slow to change.
> Better tyranny of the majority than tyranny of the one.

There is nothing like tyranny of one. Its always Tyranny of interest groups, which is true in any system including democratic system where rich and powerful controls most.

Today most of the US elections are controlled by billionaires and who is going to win depends on their blessings. Same is true for India.

US, India represent the majority of the human population under democratic system and how it works.

Look at any HDI or UN statistics that matter and see the conditions on largest human population on one side represented by democratic India and on another side by a closed system in China (people call it authoritarian, although its a mixture of many systems). Examine closely and you will notice both the systems work in some areas and fail in others, no one can claim superiority over other system. But a narrative of good vs evil, superior vs inferior is a root cause of conflicts. If people began to see things from humanity’s perspective with respect of each other world would be a different place.

An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. Solution to armed conflict is not more armed conflict by supporting one group against another with weapons of destruction.
Same experience coming from France. Everything in the USA is just lower quality. Be it goods or services. And Americans seem ok with it.

There is a lot of overhead everywhere. Dentists have an army of assistants. Any product to order requires it's sale agent. Even if you already know what you want. You must deal with the agent. Car dealership have so many sales but good luck getting an appointment for fixing the shit they sold you. Look to by a house, and be ready to deal with insane fees and agents. All this overhead has to be paid somehow I guess.
A policy that anyone with nuclear weapons can freely bully the rest of the world seems like a less wise course for the long term.
I’d have to look at what Apple requires, but I think deleting comments is good (maybe replacing them with a slug). That’s considered heresy, though, by today’s “data is money” crowd.

I have seen apps that delete an entire thread, when a root comment is deleted; including responses by other people. I think SMF did that.

In the case of our app, we leave communication between users to other apps (like Mail and Messages), so we sidestep that problem.

Actually, the reason we deliberately push communication out to other apps, is so we’re not on the hook for it. There’s no reason for us to have the users communicating with each other, via our app. Long story, but privacy is a real big deal, with our user base. I’m super tinfoil about security.
Start with a full stack app with user accounts, deploy it to the cloud, then add websockets. After that come back and ask again for next steps.
The actual top four in Russia in 2020 were YouTube, VK, WhatsApp and Instagram in that order. (Facebook and TikTok are #7 and #8 respectively.)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/867549/top-active-social...
They will disappear as soon as Russia ends its cyberwars and returns to democracy. We saw it happen in Russia in the 90s and we've seen it in other countries.
Sure, but who cares?
Cormac McCarthy: two new novels coming in 2022, 16 years after The Road
Before you accept any offer from FANG/MANG/hot startup, *make sure* you understand the on-call expectations. Example: at Amazon, *even data scientists* do on-call. Practically all SWEs before Principal do. In AWS, first-line managers do on-call (they typically don't in Devices/Consumer). In places like Alexa, you can expect to have shitty 5-6 week on-call rotations and extra helpings for holidays. AWS at least advertises this in their job postings, other orgs (cough Alexa) do not. So buyer beware.
In general, I would hazard that our reconstruction of Paleolithic and Mesolithic societies is sketchy at best.

Another potential issue is that some of our understanding of Paleolithic societies comes from observation of modern hunter-gatherer societies, which exist in a context where they've been pushed off of any agriculturally productive land. I'll point out that cereal crops require substantial processing to be made edible, unlike things like berries or meat which can be eaten at point of collection, so... if cereal crops are the founder crops of agriculture, we had to know how to process them to edibility well before modern agriculture gets under way. When did that happen, and how widespread was it compared to other food sources?
I'm not sure "efficient" is the word you're looking for here. For a given post, there's only one of the poster, and presumably many readers...
Yandex News are definitely in line with Russian government propaganda. It's a news aggregator, so it might look like propaganda because all popular news outlets are propaganda. Not sure if they filter anything themselves. But I think it still makes sense to put a pressure on the company anyway.
> Well, perhaps Earth would be in the middle of an ice age

It wouldn’t.

> And there is evidence to support it

There isn’t. Show us the link.

Earth’s cycles are measured in the many thousands of years. The industrial revolution has 200-300 years and hasn’t really made a dent since the last 100 or so.

The amount of denial in a supposedly well informed crowed such HN never ceases to surprise and depress me.
> To get concrete, we submitted an application for an apartment let.

It's so hard to hire good help these days. And in the case of apartment building management, it sounds like they're renting out just fine despite the bugs and process fuckups. Hell, even you havent walked away for a competitor.

> Barrier to entry: Businesses like real estate require large capital and tend to be crowded already, so it is difficult for a disruptor to appear.

In a sense, there are startups in the "long term rental" space providing a better frontend to shitty landlords. Even airbnb is moving into that market. Whether they can successfully out UX Prometheus while relying on prometheus as a landlord I cannot say, but its one path out of capital requirements.

> Cultural normalization?: This is the most intriguing point for me. Maybe this level of shoddy service has been normalized and accepted in America - or at least the area we live in. Maybe people just don't know better and hence don't ask for more, and therefore companies can carry on providing what would be considered a sub-par service elsewhere.

Lots of people own housing instead of rent here. But you'll find plenty of similar angst about mortgage processing.
Do you a reference for these statements? I'd be curious to read more about the topic.
Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles releasing a previously unknown decoy
Try to buy a phone from best buy and not have them set it up for you. It's impossible, they will refuse to sell you the phone.
Do we need to replace all the fossil fuels from Russia?

Conservation, electrification, etc. LNG from the US

100 million barrels of oil globally can’t be reduced to 95 million?

Coal generated electricity from Poland? Horrible but necessary
UK Supreme Court says Assange cannot appeal extradition
Hackers target German branch of Russian oil giant Rosneft
Breaking: "Bricked" bricked
They were in some countries.
Anything isometric really appeals to my eye.

There was a company I saw a few years ago integrating isometric systems architecture diagrams with real-time health status.

It could’ve been something like https://www.cloudcraft.co/ but I didn’t bookmark it back then.
It's going to be really interesting to see how things shake out in the coming Fall/Winter if Europe can't immediately ramp up some
L̶N̶G̶ natural gas production or figure out where it's going to buy some. Regardless, I'd prepare for some serious price hikes for L̶N̶G̶ natural gas.

Before the war broke out in Ukraine I had no idea how much Europe depended on Russia for L̶N̶G̶ natural gas, and it's honestly pretty scary considering how much residential heating is dependent upon it. You can survive without gasoline to drive around in your car - but the vast majority of Europeans need heat in the Winter.

I'm imaging some WW2-style "Set your thermostats lower! More than 62 degrees and you're on Putin's side!" propaganda if the conflict continues into late 2022.
Yeah, my choice of wording was bad. By "never antagonized Russia" I meant "didn't provoke this conflict." I know the countries have a long history.

Ukraine's democracy wasn't perfect, but elections were successfully rigged at least. It was functional if not necessarily unassailable.
BestBuy is a big Ruby shop.
Webkit is not committed to fully implementing the HTML Living Standard, or more precisely, they are committed to killing off the parts they don't like by declining to implement them. They point-blank refuse to implement Customized Built-in Elements, for example, and in such (unusually, for the context) vehement, uncompromising, and unconstructive language¹ that I can only surmise some Apple apparatchik's fragile ego would be irreparably shattered by even contemplating an amendment of this position.

Thanks to such attitudes, Safari remains the "new IE", the problem browser for which developers must find workarounds.

(1) e.g. https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/509 and other forums besides
Perhaps the strategic decisions of one the largest and one of the most complex organisations in human history cannot be explained by simple reference to undergraduate microeconomics
I really appreciate your comment. I agree about "how to win friends and influence people". It feels manipulative as hell. Can you expand a little on how to actively listen better? I feel like when I try this, the conversation becomes one sided and I have to bow out for reasons you mentioned. I feel like my chances of meeting someone that I can actually authentically connect with are slim because my standard of authenticity seems higher than whats typical/common.
> All of the (Garmin, Strava, Apple, and Google [who is trying really hard but failing]) want a monopoly on your health data. Garmin is the only one I actually trust currently, as they've shown 0 willingness to monetize your health information.

I guess their huge data breach that they didn't notify and spent weeks fixing doesn't phase you, but it punted me out of their system.
This happened also this week to my partner. She's an artist an her Instagram account is a crucial part of her promotion. It's very disheartening that Instagram is not solving this problem.
Ikea is a bad example in IMO. I moved countries 3 times in the last 10 years and bought many of the same exact Ikea items all 3 times. The quality went down each time. Things that were previously metal became plastic. Things that were previously reenforced in 4 positions were now only 3. etc....

Also, several of the more sturdy things they had they no longer sell and what they have now in the same category are vastly less sturdy.

I agree though, they do still have some good, quality, sturdy kitchen tables and a few pretty good sturdy sofas.
This comment is almost a parody of the terrible comments the author is referring to on reddit. Expecting someone to respond with, "No, your opinion is bad!"
I guess someone didn't see the /s or maybe OP was not amused.
Hong Kong also had a similar experience, but they don't have the same success.

Also, early success doesn't translate into continuing success in the drawn out pandemic with multiple waves and multiple variants. I don't think being early is enough to explain it because the introduction of subsequent variants is sort of independent from whatever came before.
Why are they called hooks in React though? I have a hard time associating meaning with it, given the way React hooks behave.

And I really dislike React hooks because it is so, so "viral" to the code base - "viral" in the sense that any non-component that uses a hook must also be a hook; and so, before long, either the majority of your application code becomes hooks for no other reason than the fact that you want to use a hook deep in the call chain, or you take the hook out and keep passing the argument down.
Biden frequently misspeaks or gets confused, and refuses to take dementia tests, so if he really can unilaterally launch then I'd actually be pretty worried about that.

(I think there are other people in the loop in the case of the US president though? Personally I've always been most worried about the Royal Navy's submarine captains, who really do have the ability to launch unilaterally in a very direct way)
‘If’ is never really paired with ‘else’ in natural language either.
If you're going to do that (and beware that it's a way that amateurs can lose their shirts), then think about sequence. Steel, for example, may lag natural gas by some time period (I don't know how much). I guess that food will lag the farthest, but I don't know by how much.
I'd love to chat. Looking forward!
If he/she performed a surgery on a hard to reach area of themselves and there were no complications, maybe let them pass, it's kind of impressive?
No email on your profile, ese!

Aside from that BitGym looks great!
100% positive that your current jurisdiction did not declare war on Yandex.
Netlify provides a good DX
HA offers paid only web access, through Nabu Casa. Openhab sez theirs us free - haven't checked if it's like 100% free
Datacenter carbon neutrality and de-biasing ML models are two that I can recall off the top of my head.

These are, of course, unrelated to account deletion, but it shows that big tech is at the very minimum aware that social responsibility is becoming a more important part of business.
I don't think Firefox actually takes donation anyway. It's specifically put under Mozilla Corporation so it can generate profit.
Just like the no-fly zone is a non-starter in this war, because that would mean that US and NATO planes become immediate targets, the use of the US Navy in fighting Russian forces would mean that US Navy ships everywhere become immediate targets too.

Many missile commanders all over the world are just itching for the sight of what happens to an aircraft carrier that gets hit by 'carrier killer' missiles.

Just as the aircraft carrier made obsolete the world's battleships, the anti-shipping long-range missile has made obsolete the world's aircraft carriers. We just need to see it happen, just as we saw what happened to battleships in 1940 and 1941.
It is hard to think of another industry where someone's impression of daily-grind junior backend work is "leetcode" instead of "Why does this stupid json parser choke on floats that don't have any digits after the decimal!? Let's try a different one."
Contributing to Complex Projects
Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function
https://berthub.eu/gazmon/ generates nice charts of Russian gas flows to Europe, based on data from ENTSOG (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas).
I'm fine with this move but Mozilla has sunk well below an acceptable bar. The company sucks and has failed us all. The CEO is a joke and should have never been in the position.
I'm a fan of Capacitor and Ionic for the reasons you mentioned. That said, they sit in a web view, whereas this library seems to support true native navigation which is really exciting.

Also check out tailwind-rn for using Tailwind classes in React Native. The latest version even supports Tailwind 3 JIT compilation so you're bundling minimal TW class adapters.
I was actually describing the opposite situation: regulations helped the newcomers (who evaded them) and hindered the incumbents (who did not.)

In the case of taxis, while the medallion system (for example) gave medallion owners a monopoly on regulated "taxi" service, it also discouraged (or outright prevented) them from expanding services and competing effectively against Uber. Moreover the monopoly market's reduced competition did little to encourage innovation or service improvements.

That being said, your point is a good one in general, and the same result (regulation preserving incumbents - for a time at least - by increasing barriers to entry and shielding them from competition) repeats itself over and over. One could imagine a powerful company (Facebook) welcoming regulation as a way to preserve or prolong its dominance by creating a regulatory burden that potential competitors would struggle to overcome.
What is the alternative then?

Nobody has done anything after the fake bombings before the Cechnya intervention in 1999, which at least is in their own territory.
But then again silence in 2008 after the Georgia invasion, and again in Crimea in 2014. They are using their nuclear arsenal as a free pass to invade everyone and break every treaty.

I think it just became unsustainable at this point. And honestly this is the best we can do to help without making things worse.
With a web-app, you can write an extension. With native, no such luck.

https://www.fbpurity.com/
I remember running this on Raspberry Pi probably 7 or 8 years ago.

It was an interesting project because open source home automation feels very much like a hobby / non-work thing, but it was clearly created by someone with an enterprise java background. I believe there was a custom eclipse based IDE with probably at least one DSL for configuring your automation rules!
I remember being on call my first time ever.

The pager goes off and I return the page.

It was the trauma surgeon.

“Hi there I have a guy who shot himself in the head. There is brain oozing out of the hole in his head. What do you want to do?

Later on, I switched careers from neurosurgery to computer science.

My first time being on call for Google was not nearly as stressful.
It’s even more user hostile when your connection is not great.

It’s horrible UX when you open a bunch of tabs in the background and then when you try to read them, they haven’t loaded properly. Especially if you are on a train or something where your Internet connection is spotty and they could have loaded at the point you opened the tab, but now they cannot.

The main improvement here is that if it is built into the browser instead of implemented individually on each site with JavaScript, there’s a better chance you’ll be able to disable it globally.
Is DigitalOcean or Linode right for you?
I think it'd be a great fit to introduce some kind of 'git' hooks that could work just like github actions.

Currently, I have a static blog served @ [0] and it is literally a git repo that runs git hooks. I think the project you're doing is awesome, but it would be nice if it could be tuned, e.g. choose my markdown processor of preference, etc.

the git repo for the blog is here: [1]

My blog uses a forked tool called blogit (made by pedantic.software) and it's makefiles and a standard markdown processor with raw html templates for headers, footers, etc.

I haven't actually used this but I think it's promising: (mkws.sh) [2]

just spitballing some ideas here and there. Nice project.

references

[0] https://trevcan.duckdns.org/blog/

[1] https://git-trevcan.duckdns.org/trevcan.github.io.git/

[2] https://mkws.sh/
Consumer product build quality and outsourcing quality are the exact same problem. Somebody is making a thing and they don't make it well and the customer isn't happy. There is nothing special about the problem, it's simply hard to build things well. When you prioritize "shipping" over quality, you make crap. If you try to avoid the difficulty of quality by hiring somebody else to do it and they also prioritize "shipping" over quality, you buy crap.

Re: "getting a worse result even when they pay more than doing it internally", they either paid the wrong people, or they were trying to solve the wrong problem, or weren't good at using the product. If you're making Toyotas and you buy your parts from CheapPartCo, chances are good you end up with a crap car. If you buy your parts from Denso, at least you have the chance it will turn out well. If you take the Denso parts and assemble them terribly, you still end up with a crap car. And if you shouldn't have even used that part because your overall design was crap, you also end up with a crap car.

I'd say it's more likely the average person/company/etc will not make something well. Not only does it take more skill and hard work to make things well, they end up more expensive. If things are made well they probably took a lot more work to make them well, or the people who make things well are in higher demand. Show me a company that pays a premium for good vendors and full training for all their staff and holds back products until they pass a Steve Jobs-level of quality engineering, and I'll show you a company whose products work well, and probably charge a premium. (The only exception I know of is Toyota, because they are crazy enough to literally stop a production line just to troubleshoot a tiny issue. Their focus on quality has led to efficiency which reduces cost and increases production. But this is all Lean 101)

And this isn't a tech-specific problem because everything in the world has quality issues. The reason GM couldn't make a half-decent car while Toyotas were rock solid for decades was simply working harder on quality. You have to work hard to make something work well.
I cannot write software outside of Google anymore
voting with my pocket, deleting Firefox
An Academic Grudge Turned into a MeToo Panic