skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Impressions from a first-time english speaker"

> A little background on me: I’ve been speaking French and Spanish my entire professional life

...

> The Bad

> I’m accustomed to gendered pronouns in both French and Spanish, so it was nice to see that in English. However, the lack of gendered nouns is awful. French and Spanish both have what I would call “sane” gendered nouns (shown in this dictionary), where you know of everyone's gender based on the adjective you hear.

> On the other hand, English has a weird grammatical system where you need to listen to the pronoun to know someone or something's gender. I want to know if someone is a man, a woman, or a chair based on the adjective, not just the pronoun.
End of support is February 15 2024, not 2022. But your current server licenses are perpetual so you _could_ keep running them.
> No state government can take on Walmart or Amazon.

An alternative theory posits that these massive corporations in fact depend upon the centralization of governmental regulatory and fiscal powers for their very existence. Regulatory capture is much easier to pull off when there’s only one central authority that needs to be captured.
I've been using it and loving it for a couple months now. I honestly didn't realize it wasn't open yet.
>Obviously not. If that were really true, no one (left or right) would be making a fuss about this law.

I don't follow this at all. How can "making a fuss" legitimize a perceived problem into objective reality?
This is presuming that the cost of bitcoin mining are sustainable over the course of a hundred years. What kind of value do you see for BTC that makes mining profitable in 2122?
7-day charge!!! WTF, how come I never heard of this!!!
The EU seems to be fining big tech quite a bit.

Do you think individual US states wouldn't be able to organize like that?
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We use the most progressive, production-ready/proven technologies including NextJS, Apollo, xstate, Chakra UI, framer-motion, and Hasura. As we integrate more web3 technologies (out of actual technical necessity, not just for the sake of slapping a buzzword on), we are carefully evaluating all options in the space.

Jobs we are hiring for:
1. A front-end engineer who:
a. Knows css like the back of their hand,
b. Has significant experience with chakra UI, styled-components/emotion, or another css-in-js library,
c. Is a react expert (>=3 years).

2. A full-stack engineer who:
a. Has been using NextJS for at least 2 years and fully understands all the advanced features it offers, including SSR and API functions.
b. Has been using Apollo for GraphQL for at least 3 years and understands how to use features such as optimistic updates.
c. Really nice-to-have, but very unlikely: experience with the JS library "xstate".

3. A web3 engineer who:
a. Has been writing solidity for at least 2 years, ideally 4 or 5,
b. Has worked on solidity optimizations and security checks.

4. A web3-native JavaScript/TypeScript engineer who:
a. Has used alchemy or similar tools extensively (and in a production environment).
b. Has a great sense of the ecosystem and what tools exist.

5. A data visualization expert who:
a. Has written code to generate beautiful data visualizations.
b. Has come up with ideas for what should be visualized from a set of data.

6. An integrations engineer who:
a. Can understand external APIs with minimal/bad/no documentation
b. Can create JSON schemas from documents.
I have mostly enjoyed my transition from Windows to Mac. I agree the the default of not being able to Cut and Paste in Finder was annoying but there is one thing that absolutely makes me furious:

The file save dialog box has this unbelievable limit of 38 viewable characters! I regularly have to deal with 50+ character naming conventions where the first 38 characters are the same among many files. It is a huge hassle of cursor navigation that is so unnecessary as I am looking at all this unused real estate in the dialog box.

For those of you long time Mac users: why are you not out with torches and pitchforks???!!!
People are already paying for those externalities in extreme weather events caused by CO2, also from carbon taxes in other countries that wouldn't have been necessary otherwise, from people who have to buy more expensive cars and fuel, etc...
IMHO:

Rust integrates a bit better with existing software. Inclusion of Rust in Linux being an example. Go culture tends to value pure Go projects a bit more than Rust's, where Rust wrappers around C libs are more accepted and common.

Go is generally easier from a social point of view, there's not much to learn as it's largely a repeat of what people are familiar with. So introducing it in a workplace is easier as the on ramp is minor.

Ubiquitous greenthreading in Go seems to make the integration piece a bit harder, but the onramp a bit easier.
Ironically this is the best time to be a seller on etsy.

But regardless of platform, ebay, amazon, etsy, shopify - you are always at mercy of the platform and being deplatformed.

Sellers should use the platforms as a funnel and then once they verify their idea works, pop it onto a private hosted website within their full control - ofcourse this is a bit complicated, but not really, even something as silly as wordpress + woocommerce + stripe would work, and if you get big enough spend, can get a better rate on credit card gateways. Or, go full crypto.
Are they? Why haven’t they already? It looks like they are supplementing peak capacity right now with gas plants dynamically reacting to varying demand with storage being oders of magnitude too small.
Funny. Coming from macOS to Linux Mint, I find I can make many of the same or similar arguments but against Linux.

The UI is inconsistent, esp. wrt the menu bar. Keyboard shortcuts are inconsistent across different apps. macOS remembers window positions, GNOME doesn't. macOS can use different backgrounds for different monitors, GNOME can't. The GNOME Panel is a poor substitute for the macOS Dock (which itself is severely limited) i.e. doesn't offer any visual cue that an app is launching. I could go on.

OSes are a tool. Use what works best for you.
Rhetoric aside, the point is that mass-manufactured products do not belong on Etsy.
Now that the goal posts are squarely on the moon, let's put them back into their original position. We've established that your dealer isn't trip sitting in the absence of an experienced friend. So who is?
My mother's cats love to hide behind things to bat at the other walking through, ambushing them.

After realizing the mirror could be used to spot a potential assailant and take evasive measures, they stopped trying to get each other at the doorway to my mother's bedroom.
That's what they get for using cupric oxide. At this point they should rebuild it from scratch in ferric oxide.
Yeah this annoys me too. I just had get used to the fact that if I context switch away to a different desktop, I should switch back with ctrl-left, not with cmd-tab.
> finding the building blocks of modern applications (database, auth, functions, presence, realtime subscriptions), making them easy to use, and then sharing the source code.

Great observation!

> I’ve learned a ton just from cruising around supabase GitHub.

Glad to hear it!

> Can you say which of these new components will be open sourced?

All of these components are open source and licensed under Apache License v2.0.

> There are some other features (e.g. function hooks) that are also closed-source at the moment.

I actually worked on the initial implementation of function hooks. We've actually already open sourced both the client (see: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/88bcef911669595428...) and the pg_net extension it requires (see: https://github.com/supabase/pg_net). I think we've yet to open source the SQL commands needed to create the schema, functions, etc. I'll talk to my team and we'll open source it.

> Is Supabase heading for an “open core” model?

I don't think so. We want to continue to open source our projects under either MIT (client libs) and Apache License v2.0 (server libs).
> NYC and DC picked every single representative, senator, and the President.

This is essentially the goal of those who complain about the electoral college and the Senate.
Resigning CEO or related CxO is pretty common way to express apologize for public in Japan large company. The problem is that it won't change anything unless the problem was caused by the CxO.
> The choices of plans offered by companies is far, far smaller than the choices available to me on the open market.

On the flip side, the cost my employer pays for my plan is far lower than they would bill me for it on the open market. Last time I looked at the individual market it was amazing how bad even plans for $500-1000 were! They could give me a raise exactly matching what they'd stop paying and I'd still lose out.

Edit to clarify: That's not a "this is cheaper to us after we account for the tax break." That's a "this is the rate it costs us" vs "this is the rate it would cost you" difference.

The negotiation power difference is real. Private market health insurance would need to be well-regulated or we'll all just get screwed even more.

Employers like this because it gives them power over employees and makes it more attractive than being an entrepreneur not just to save money on taxes.
The law arguably bans that, and grade-schools are extremely lawsuit-averse. That ambiguity puts educators under threat over innocent words - having to worry about crossing that line accidentally is a burden and a disrespect placed on people who have a hard time already doing an incredibly important job.
The world’s largest bee and the cautionary tale of its rediscovery
This is a bit of a difficult comparison. Apple also spent orders of magnitude more on marketing the product. Probably an order of magnitude more developing it.
I'm using Beeper! The app is solid, feature set meets my needs, and overall works quite well. It's still rough around the edges in a few spots. I'm waiting for the e2e protocol to have a self hosted bridge option, but once that's rolled out I'm a happy camper.

Some smart people are running this, that's for sure.
Gotta ask… what is the whoop giving you that Garmin + TrainingPeaks or some other workout program isn’t?

I’m assuming you are training for something serious/seriously training since Apple Watch is usually sufficient for more steady state working out.
- Home Security systems

- Thermostats (nest, ecobee)

- Home wi-fi (eero)

- Sonos

- I think Whoop and Oura will get there

- Beats headphones

Problem is, there are plenty that don't get headlines because a single-product category company isn't going to generate profits like a conglomerate like P&G. You also can't simply just throw tech into every product category.
We're not there yet, but we're trying :)

Some other companies that are tracking towards sustainable success that we look at are:

* Oura

* Wyze

* Peloton (though they made some growth mis-steps)

All three of those follow a subscription model to get off of the "‘consumer electronics’ release cycle" that Eric calls out in his post. That's not the model that we're following, but we do have an alternate strategy to avoid falling into that same trap.
We're doing cross-plat work and I have a macBook that I sometimes need to use to compile and debug stuff.

Even after a couple of years, I dread having to work on the mac. Could be me being used to Windows since the DOS / Win3.1 days, but I feel right at home on Windows - know most nooks and crannies; macOS feels like a kid's toy by comparison (an ATM or kiosk terminal) - it literally feels like being asked to do work with my right hand tied behind my back. I actually enjoy working on Linux desktops more than on macOS.

For the past year I have a home setup with a Windows laptop and a macBook side-by-side hooked up to 2 external monitors and Barrier software KVM; the idea was to use Windows for work and mac for personal. But I never venture outside the browser on the mac - a chromebook would work just as well.

I actually wanted to install an USB network adapter because the machine felt so laggy and I blamed wifi; a thing that on Windows for the past 20 years has literally been plug&play needed futzing around with driver packages, an hour of searching for workarounds and at least 2 reboots.

I honestly don't know why so many developers prefer working on mac.
Ask HN: Suggest some good sources to learn computer networking
I am deeply interested in computer networking and just want to know if there is any yt playlist, article or anything that would help me learn from basics to advance level.
In Rust, that could be a Result::unwrap() or propagated using the ? operator.
The tweet definitely leaves a lot out. My initial impression was, "that sounds reasonable." I got insurance retroactive to my hire date when I switched jobs last, but it took time for paperwork to be processed, so of course I would pay up front before then. But the article reads more like the sellers dropped the ball by cutting the insurance without ensuring their former employees were properly taken care of. There is plenty of blame to lay at Intuit's feet, but it's not like the former owners of Mailchimp didn't know what everyone else knows. Sounds like they just wanted some quick cash and everything else was someone else's problem.
Pedantry on my part, but annotated does not mean including a stack trace, simply that it includes a description of the error. Given it's a non-nil check, you never gave a guarantee it's valuable, but the error is itself at minimum an annotation.

panic brings important context, but you're right in that it's not an annotation in itself. It's a program flow mechanism, but I'd argue it's very often utilized as an error flow one.

My larger point was that this still doesn't feel like an "antipattern" and I see that word thrown around enough as a conversation stopper that I've become pretty cynical about it.
The parent claims that the problem does not exist, not that the law has no real [side]effects.
When people release 500+ pages book to explain a build system, you know you're in trouble.

https://www.amazon.com/Maven-Definitive-Guide-Sonatype-Compa...

Go is way way easier to use than Maven and Gradle.

I think I use only 4 commands daily to manage dependencies in Go, it's that easy: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#daily-workflow
Sorry about your heath issue, I hope getting a trike helps you!
Indeed, and the commenter you’re replying to said just that.
It's okay to directly quote, which is what quote marks are for, with proper attribution, of course.
It doesn't work out well. This is an area of macos that grinds my gears daily. It gets even messier if you maximize an app, or use multiple desktops.

Often I need to quickly switch between a particular terminal window to a particular browser window. But it's always a gamble. I don't know what I'm gonna get when I press cmd+tab. It may show the correct window, or it may show all terminal windows, or it may even do absolutely nothing.
How does this compare to https://texts.com/

Anyone know?
I'm guessing that Google will seem to do everything they can to not have a coherent story here. :(

I can only guess what messenger platform they will push on their next phone.
I’m certain this was a change in design philosophy. And I think the exit of Jony Ive resulted in substantially more rational design decisions (form follows function), but any time that happens there’s a year or two of product pipeline that has to cycle.
This is not an article about running go applications on mcus (kb of memory) but rather cpus (mb / gb of memory) as the author mentions Linux and hardware like the raspberry pi series. Not to knock it but there’s quite a range for what people call “embedded software”. I was hoping for some insights into running go with constant time garbage collection or not having to link the standard library.
I’m amused that the author is allowed to install Logi Options (a massive electron bundling steaming pile of … from a company with a dodgy track record) and not Rectangle or AltTab.

Also no mention made of the Cmd-~ vs Cmd-Tab distinction.
> If you're a company, unless you were already planning to do some mass layoffs, you're going to give most of them that raise because the alternative is having a bunch of people quit. And if you don't increase your offers for new hires, you probably won't be hiring anyone either.

And yet price stickiness is a thing that exists!

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_stickiness.asp

This is the problem with a lot of "econ 101" stuff, it makes these big sweeping assumptions like "markets are price-efficient and operate at market-clearance prices" and after spending econ 101 building it all up, econ 102 and 200 and etc etc will spend semesters telling you why it's all crap.

Markets are not price-efficient, real-world prices are very sticky, and that includes the price of labor (actually labor tends to be far stickier than most other products). For example, vanishingly few real-world employers are going to offer automatic raises to cover cost-of-inflation, which is the same mechanism that you would be relying on to increase wages after removing health-care benefits.

A lot of people in retail/food are still making the same $11 or $12 they were hired on at, despite much higher salaries often being paid to new hires (guess the efficient market hypothesis says their on-the-job experience has... negative value?).

Tech is its own little thing, competition for tech labor is much much tighter, of course, but that much is obvious. In the real world, you can already see that labor prices are very very sticky and owners will almost never choose to pass these savings along.
Large groups cannot “process” anything; individual humans do that. Maybe what you mean is simply that humans act tribally, and most of the traditional tribe proxies (clubs, churches, etc.) have weakened or died off in modern society so we are left only with borderless ideologies as tribal allegiances.
The outage has been in the past week and it's down over 10%... talking about the last months price changes is irrelevant compared to the last week.
Actually the petunias *did* know [0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/198068-another-thing-that-g...
If you conflate decentralization with blockchain then they pretty much are. All cryptocurrency is built on inventing new models of scarcity (note: this is independent of whether it's inflationary or deflationary, inflationary currencies are still scarce).

That said, I think if you conflate the two and try to bring all kinds of decentralization under the cryptocurrency/web3 umbrella, all you'll ever do is cause damage to any real efforts at decentralization.

Most of the internet is built on decentralization to some degree or another. Until cryptocurrency, most of those things did so by taking advantage of a lack of scarcity rather than trying to invent new ways to create haves and have-nots.
I've been using macOS since version 8.5, and lots of things have stayed the same since then and are familiar today. However, there's a lot that's unintuitive for a new user that's maybe there just because of inertia.
Oh man, I worked with a bunch of ex Cisco folks years ago. Capable but there were a lot of folks just looking to hit metrics in the most cynical way and miss the point of the job. That and some surprising other issues.
> Do you think individual US states wouldn't be able to organize like that?

Isn't that what a federal government is?
I was thinking the same thing. We’ve gone so far down the insane rabbit hole that there’s random DEI-motivated genuflecting in a straightforward apology.
Wonder whether this will get rethought when "let us run it ourselves, or we walk..." shows up?
The Economic Relations of the British and German Empires – July 2014 (WW1 Date)
This review is misses for me due to these two quotes:

> I’m using this Macbook almost exclusively with the lid closed, with a USB-C adapter to connect my keyboard/mouse/monitor.

> However, that keyboard doesn’t have the Option (⌥) or Command (⌘) keys like on my Macbook.

The reviewer isn’t using the built in webcam, Touch ID, trackpad, or the Mac keyboard layout! Why even have a Mac with that setup?

Opening the lid solves the webcam issues. Using the trackpad gestures solves the desktop switching issues. Using the Mac keyboard solves the keyboard command issues. And, yeah, get a USB-C dock for those ports (or the latest laptop that added them back).
It has to be. We have to be critical of our favorite news sources, and have to make intentional efforts to see the good in the other side. Otherwise, things will only get worse.

I honestly believe this.
EasyJet from Dublin to Milan is so cheap, as are international flights like KL to Taiwan These are distances that aren’t feasible to drive even if they were on the same landmass.

And as you say europe also has a dense road network. The fuel tax is interesting, definitely, but in my US/EU comparison price delta is often a factor of five or more.
Re: Snapping

I recall visiting a Apple store around 2006 and playing with a store model iMac. I asked why I couldn’t easily maximize windows and manage them. The Apple genius just replied “why would you ever want to do it that way!”

Well, idk? because it is intuitive and works? Sometimes I wish the Apple-heads would get their head out of their asses.

I still bought a Mac Mini and by all accounts I am deeply invested in Apple products.

These days, whenever working on a new Mac system, my first install is usually to install Amethest (https://ianyh.com/amethyst/)
Edited to clarify that I was bringing up negotiation power because I think that is the difference here, not anything about tax preference. And this benefits companies because it locks employees in.
Just as feedback.. The app concept sounds great, I like the site and screenshots - but I'm not able to run it due to it being Windows only. Also, I would be more willing to try it if it was open source.
Give me a break. Bosses can add and subtract, and so can employees. They both know healthcare is getting paid for from the paycheck regardless. And with company plans, bosses may pay less or may pay more. Probably less. Either way, bosses love that employees know quitting their job is going to require switching health insurance plans, which is a dicey process. Bosses like holding that power in the same way they like holding visas over H1B visa holders heads.

And the most obnoxious part of it all is that you knew this.
Not sure if these are similar arguments. These are relatively minor cosmetic issues. Window management and package management on the other hand are essential parts of the operating system.
Unless you consider that its not a zero sum game and that by funding Y there is more capability, expertise, and other general benefits being built.

The wheels of progress are at least turning and carbon is being captured.