skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just lack of skill or talent.

Nowadays technology is available almost for everyone. But that doesn't mean that quality increases. To be really good in some craft you need to invest a lot of time. Be specialized in any art department means that you have to work for company. But I can say from my experience, that really talented people don't want to work for companies that create commercial products like entertainment films. But if you want to be independent (freelancer), you need more skills to know and therefore be less specialized. It is a vicious circle.
Is there any evidence that is true? The majority of Americans don't even participate in the stock market outside of a 401k at best.
If it becomes the only thing we talk about, then it will sound like hysteria, and taking action will get lost in the noise.
You could do a binary search on Debian 3 - start upgrading components of the toolchain until it breaks, and then play around with whatever you upgraded.

Likely there's a version of GCC where it works, and one where it doesn't, or the equivalent for a library.

Getting the latest GCC to build on Debian 3 might be an adventure in itself, of course.
Yeah, good point. It will remain a fanciful daydream.
It's not weird, it's telling. Microsoft clearly sees Electron as the future of desktop development.
The climate crisis coalesces wealth inequality, war tension, national resources, economy, and a host of other pressing current issues. It is trivial to find the link to each of these topics.

I mean this respectfully, but there is absolutely no way a nation can 'over-allocate' to the climate crisis. Please provide a precise example or retract your claim.

Edit: I'm getting a lot of down votes for this comment but not a lot of conversation to explain how I have gone wrong here, and I think the request for a precise argument is not unreasonable.

Perhaps one of my critics could enlighten me to my error?
It's not automatically a sensible policy.

You have to decide how much you care about some people who have the right to vote not getting to vote, vs some people managing to vote illegitimately. Which side you come down on will probably depend a lot on how many people you think will be in each group.

The Conservative government is proposing to bring in voter ID in the UK [1]. But there's no evidence at all that voter fraud is a problem here. So this policy effectively disenfranchises millions of people for zero benefit.

But, of course, more Conservative voters have the required forms of ID (passport, driving licence). It will therefore help swing elections the government's way. It is absolutely corrupt.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/04/millions-in...
At your suggestion, I added it to the post. In retrospect, that was a botched attempt. Once I finally got the original code up and running I didn't even realize it was working because the dialect of Forth is so different. It has almost non of the FIG standard forth words.
As a rank amateur in the field but a pro s/w developer, this sounds like describing the world as FSMs rather than fundamental algorithms. How off-course am I?
HD-DVD was released as an add-on to the Xbox 360, external to the internal DVD drive. The internal DVD drive could not play HD-DVD movies.

Sony's PS3 had the bluray player internally, as part of the base spec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_HD_DVD_Player

It looks like it was released just days before the PS3 anyways.

EDIT: We both seem to have posted this bit of information at the same time. Sorry!
I remember reading something somewhere in the 1990s that the entirety of New Orleans was going to be underwater by 2020 and the only way you'd be able to visit Bourbon Street was by boat.
We are nowhere near exaggerating it.

We should be simple executing what was agreed in the Paris Agreement as it reflects our best evaluation of the cost to benefits ratio.

But current policies are aiming at 1.5 degree higher than what we evaluated as the optimal solution.
How did you compile this 14 min after the article was posted?
Nothing is ever guaranteed, policies can change at any time. They could tell you that it will be 100% remote forever, and they could still change the policy in a year.

It sounds like they're just being honest.
Here's a set of C compiler flags that I find especially useful to prevent bugs from occurring:

-Werror=implicit-function-declaration
-Werror=implicit-fallthrough=3
-Werror=maybe-uninitialized
-Werror=missing-field-initializers
-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types
-Werror=int-conversion
-Werror=redundant-decls
-Werror=parentheses
-Wformat-nonliteral
-Wformat-security
-Wformat
-Winit-self
-Wmaybe-uninitialized
-Wold-style-definition
-Wredundant-decls
-Wstrict-prototypes
You can see that stop means to stop by looking at what happens when the light turns read.

It's not obvious that "STOP" means to stop either, or a "walking" character means to walk if you don't speak the language or are unfamiliar with cartoons. When you learned the language, you connected the meaning to the word, because you heard it in connection to someone stopping, so now the word stop is a metaphor for that time someone stopped.

This is exactly the same way you assign meaning to any sign, including a stoplight. That's just how semiotics works, all language is metaphorical, no sign can carry meaning without a context.
Do you work for Cohere?
I agree that we should be giving a lot more attention to climate change. I don't think it's the only thing we should be talking about, but we should be regularly asking ourselves if there is more that we can do (and there certainly is).

I highly recommend this video from the wonderful Kurzgesagt science video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw

Climate change is bad and we need to take it seriously, but there is a lot of reason for hope. A lot of trends are pointing in the right direction and we need to support those trends. Climate policy is still in a bad state, in large part because of the gerontocracy, but younger people are entering politics with a different view.
Don't forget Silverlight!
> Nothing matters as much as our bone-headed, mass-suicidal march toward extreme-weather oblivion. Not COVID-19, not the invasion of Ukraine, not even “The Godfather.”

Says a reporter living in Los Angeles, the 49th most expensive city in the world to live in. For a lot of people, what they need to talk about is how they're getting their next meal, how they're going to make rent, or survive a current war.

Maybe go to a war zone or a poor area and try to make the same point with a straight face.
Max amortization in Ireland is years to retirement age, which is pretty much universally at 65. This was a bit of a shock when buying a house, but it does help push the principal/interest split in the right direction. No idea how that works if you need to relocate at 55+. Mortgages can be fixed rate for a few years, but are typically month to month adjustable. If you do opt for a fixed rate, it's generally lower than the adjustable, but there are penalties for selling before the term is up, or refinancing out of it.
> did it work ?

Hah! it was a 3 month DBA contract at an LA legal firm that specialized in converting publicly available data from court cases and data mining the results for various ordinary and/or predatory legal practices...I upgraded the SQL Server databases, fixed the document vector mining, fixed the license compliance issues (this was during the Business Software Alliance predatory compliance era). I didn’t want to continue because I didn’t like the culture, but I did work with the guy I supervised to help him achieve a perm position. I got paid, got my stipend, got my bonus, got my expenses with no delay after my attorney letter. The lying recruiter faded out of sight, I didn’t pay any attention to what happened to her because my pals at the consulting firm put me into a new contract immediately with a higher pay rate.
You don’t share 90% of code between desktop app and web with GTK or Qt. With electron you can share a large chunk.
Yeah you'd have to be an idiot to not know about SOMA's issues. Most of San Francisco is infinitely safer than Paris for example.
> Some practical notes: what's the risk if the company decides to ask that you come in? Do you need a savings buffer while you look for a job? Do you have a visa that requires you be employed?

I would say no risks like these, but mainly the uncertainty would stress me out I think. Also, looking for a job when you have one already is very different from looking for a job when you know your current one will be finished early (if they decide to do hybrid model, then I would just quit or get fired).
A doomsday prophesy, 50 years later
In Australia we don't even need to present ID. Just tell the official your name and address and they cross it off a list. It's hard to believe a system that simple could work but as far as I know there haven't ever been any issues.
I can only speak for myself on this.

Yes, I picked up SwiftUI last year initially because Electron/JS/TypeScript just never felt fun. Yet, I wanted to build out a few desktop/work-related ideas.

Then, after going through the Apple Developer tutorials I noticed how easy and satisfying working with SwiftUI actually is.

So, oddly enough, native macOS with SwiftUI is now one of my go-to for most of what I want to build (that isn't web-first).
A quick look at the author history on latimes, the last column before that: "Column: The Gardiner brothers are TikTok’s lords of the dance".

So how about you first?

Sometimes I don't understand how something like that end up on HN...
PC games stopped being CPU cycle-bound long ago in mid-late 90's.

The most issues you would have it's for high 486-Pentium I-II era games (specially the multimedia ones) which lots of them were speed bound, but for sure these games will be interpreted by ScummVM one day or another (Macromedia Director engine).
The absolute worst to me is team scheduled events that go past 5. Like if you want team mandated bonding, plan for it in the sprint, schedule time for it, and make it a part of the work day. If I'm expected to stay to 6 or 7 or 8 to hangout with co workers AND were going to have to work harder the next day to make up for that lost time then you are actually hurting the team, not helping.
As somebody who despises SF and thinks crime is out of control in most US cities, this move by Kraken feels a bit absurd and over the top. Can it really be that bad?
Pretty cool app, congrats on launching and building a userbase.

Re: Electron comments: don't take those comments on Electron personally, it is just a means to an end. Personally I avoid Electron because the JS ecosystem makes me sad every time I touch it. But that's just me. :)
I'm pretty sure Microsoft embraced Chromium for Edge because they are going to make some big bets on Electron-style development.
This is called hijacking the back button and it's an extremely irritating practice.
While some of those were hard misses, maybe were indeed possible scenarios if nothing had been done. Since the 60s governments world wide have enacted progressively stricter regulations for industry emissions, industrial waste treatment, car emissions, appliance efficiency, CFC use, car fuel chemistry, etc etc. We would be in a much, much worse state if nothing had been done. And yet some of those are happening now. Permanent snowy mountains are now bare; insects are dying at alarming rates; yearly record temperatures, both harsher summers and harsher winters.

It's not news that newspapers use sensational headlines to sell more.
sounds like something a rich person would say
> This system doesn't feel good especially because they are allowed to "just take the one they want".

You actually have the obligation to take at least two of them. I'm not sure how strongly this is enforced, but most people take a few of them.
To paraphrase: "Panic about what we are telling you to panic about". I'll pass, thank you.

This is not climate denialism. I am not going to panic at the whim of a newspaper editor.
This website seems relevant: https://poopscoop.io/

(A real-time map of sidewalk poop in SF)
How many rich people take out a mortgage?
This product looks great. I think their instincts are correct, that an app constantly open needs to be performant or else even regular users will grow to resent it and use it less than they might’ve.

The comment about the difficulty of hiring is an interesting one. I haven’t come across a helpful, beautiful and interactive resource to teach those paradigms, as you find created for any language/framework combo used for web development. There also aren’t many huge desktop teams outside of Apple, Microsoft, AgileBits, etc., so it’s hard for someone to find a starter role where it’s okay to contribute minimally as they learn. Lots more lone wolf or tiny team programming where any kind of apprentice would just be a drag.
Right? I remember years ago when I lived in SF, body parts turned up in suitcases outside of Twitter's offices. Why is this a surprise that cities are dangerous places?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/29/san-francisco...

edit: I'm sorry everyone is taking my statement to mean that all cities are places where out of control crime happens (which I think is making a presumption about crime in SF). If you believe your city is a safe place or safer than SF great. But that doesn't make your city not a place where plenty of danger is to be found.
I understood “safe” means nobody from management is watching, and “real” means cult-mode is switched off.
I kinda wish the arrow keys defaulted to moving the highlighted portion and you had to hold shift to move them.
SF seems pretty insane these days. It makes NYC (even post covid) look like Disneyland.
> Bringing ID (government issued, with photo and basic life details)

Are you sure about this? I remember from past if election commission member knew you they could identify you even without any ID card or even if 2 other people could identify you it was sufficient to confirm your identity without any ID card. Was this option cancelled?
LOL there's a fun one. What's next, writing a new arbitrary definition so that pinching people for not wearing green on St Patricks day is also censorship?

There are reasons the formal definition of censorship focuses on the actions of the state. One of them is that decisions about which speech to carry or amplify (and which to not) in the context of private means are themselves rights of speech.

If you disagree, I look forward to you sending me your address and letting me put signs of my choice up on your lawn. After all as a principled defender of speech, you wouldn't want to "suppress" what I have to say by not giving me the privilege of putting whatever words I choose there.

The funny thing, though, is that even by your altered definition, what the ancestor comments are talking about here still isn't censorship -- even assuming that there's some basis on which to assume systematic click-to-read-more-ificitaion of "right of center" ideas other than "some dude on the internet feels like it might be true", it's not even that Twitter is taking the words down and making the ideas unavailable, it's that they're somewhat less convenient to actually read and you have to put extra clicks in. This has all the "suppression" of a downvote, a mechanism I'd wager you've recently used.

But hey. If you value discourse so little as to equate both "have to make extra clicks to read someone's hot take on some sites/apps (freedom to choose other sites/apps still quite intact)" and "face imprisonment for expression of certain ideas" under the umbrella of censorship, the good news is that free speech rights let you do that.
Not where I live, there are walkways, sidewalks, cycleways and parks everywhere and the suburb is on a grid pattern so there are alternative routes to everywhere not to mention little traffic (no main highways).

Nevertheless, the busiest time for traffic is school start and finish times when mothers clog the streets for many blocks around local schools. There's a school at the far end of my street and about a quarter hour before the end of the school day the street is blocked with cars.

It's madness, I feel really sorry for those kids and I think myself very lucky for the freedom I had as a kid in that I could roam anywhere and do anything I wanted without helicopter parents hovering over me everywhere I went.
I don’t have hard data on this; however, I believe that cash buyers are minority, maybe even significant minority. It would be awesome if someone could share concrete numbers on this.
Nice! I like the clean and clear style. I think you are presenting yourself in a great way.
Show HN: Only 6 – an Ivy Lee Method app
All you have to do is shut down a DMV in a poor neighborhood - and viola - you just have indirectly reduced the number of people without photo IDs.
Most DRM ridded games were cracked.
Lovely game!

I wonder if it might be a nicer UX if you could choose for the Shift key to be needed to slide circles around rather than to move the selection. In my mind, conceptually, arrow keys are for moving the selection, and tessellating objects "requires more work" so I'd expect Shift to be needed for that - not vice-versa.
Had to have a Voodoo to stay competitive in QuakeWorld by seeing people hiding in the water. The peasants with software rendering had opaque water textures. My Voodoo card eventually developed a texture-memory corruption bug that would result in brightly-colored speckles appearing on Quake's dingy industrial textures, turning it into more of a Candyland world. Good times.
Should be "Swinger parties and cuckoldry in Silicon Valley" to be more accurate.
SO lets apply logic to your statement. How can applying more resources to climate change be a misallocation of resources?

Lookat this way, when jobs that are less efficient and re-structured to be more efficient the tendency is that we have job losses. Those can and will be offset by the re-allocation of resources towards green energy in the form of brand new jobs and career opportunities.

We can either fear the unknown or want to explore it.
Also https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/based-god
Yeah, mentioned it earlier, but added a note to this thread too.
Just consider a remote first mentality in everything you do. That means doing synchronous things asynchronously where it makes sense. It is the most flexible from the hybrid perspective. Accommodating both is an uphill battle. DHH books, Atwood/Spolsky blogs, and a few management / communication books will go a long way.

Every team will work differently in a remote fashion, so I would actually say the books will give you ideas, but just talk to your peers to see how they want to ideally work.
I picked one of these arbitrarily, “Manhattan underwater by 2015”, and couldn’t find any evidence of the LA Times ever having claimed that, but I did find that people have been claiming, incorrectly, that the ABC (Australia) said that.

So unless you post sources for these, people should assume you are a troll.
> I’m curious why young, fresh out of college grads [...] make it their employers responsibility to foster friendships?

Personally, I've never heard anyone explicitly say it's their employer's responsibility.

But if my employer occasionally offers me the option to leave the office early and go drinking at their expense, while getting paid? Nobody's going to oppose having the option.
Yep. A few simple things that can help, shelf browse the library self help section, make a point to go leave the house - a simple invented errand, look for opportunities to make someone else's day a tiny bit brighter. In terms of the latter, smile at someone, let someone go ahead of you in line/in traffic, help an elder carry groceries, it doesn't have to be huge, write a word of encouragement to someone you don't know and will never meet - hang in there markus_zhang!.. Leaving now, have an errand to run...
I think any action by one party has become a polarising issue for the other party, there hardly seems to be any exception on either side. The reason I think the dems “some people have no ID” argument is disingenuous is that it is democratic states that made ID checks mandatory as part of vaccine mandates to access all sort of facilities. No concern about racial or social discrimination then.
I am skeptical that the claims made are accurate. I am sure that there is crime in San Francisco, however, SF is a large city, and it doesn't add up to me that a large company would completely move out of an entire city over the issue of crime.

It sounds like a clumsy PR play tbh.
It'd actually be pretty funny to include a picture of it in the "full-on psychedelic hellscapes" section and see if anybody notices.
"Waste-to-energy prevents proper recycling"

Trouble is proper [Plastic] recycling is expensive and rarely done - in UK governmnet pays by the ton for recycling, which mostly consists of companies that pay another poorer country to take our trash, where it is usually not properly disposed of, and it ends up burnt or in the ocean.

Internatuonal trash trade should really be illegal - it is fundamentally uncontrollable, full of fraud and corruption.

I would rather we manage the trash here imperfectly, wherether that's landfilling or burning. At here we can have a handle on it.

Edit - spesified plastic
Hey HN! In 2020, I stumbled across a productivity method called the "Ivy Lee method" [1], and found it made me much more productive. Basically, you write down 6 tasks you need to do throughout the day, then focus solely on them. I was so impressed that I ended up writing an android app to help me follow it, which I've been using for about a year. I've spruced it up a bit, and launched it today as "Only 6".

There's a free version [2] (ad-supported), and a paid version [3].

I built it with React Native, ClojureScript, and Re-Frame. It's currently closed source, but if you'd like to see the source code just drop a comment here and I'll consider making it open source. It's Android-only at the moment, but if anyone would like to team up on an iOS version please drop me a message :)

Any comments or feedback are much appreciated!

[1] https://jamesclear.com/ivy-lee
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.only6
[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.only6.prem...
One can simultaneously celebrate the personal resilience and drive that can allow something remarkable like that to happen, while still bemoaning the forces that would abuse that resilience.
Why would you listen to a realtor about financing? Rather, why would the realtor be pushing financing terms? Shouldn’t you be able to find a bank or credit union with typical 15/30 year fixed rates?
> The lesson should be buy whatever the hell people want, just stop buying people until you need them. They're the expensive bit.

Absolutely. We were frugal, but not to the point of self-sabotage. Our biggest expense was payroll, followed by the Cadence/Synopsys EDA software licenses.

So, for example, no catered lunches or breakfasts, but if there was a customer or investor dinner, it would be expensed.

We had good health insurance, but we didn't have gym memberships or (gasp!) an onsite gym.

The workstations were powerful, but we shaved costs by buying "gamer rigs" instead of the more expensive "engineer workstations". We bought prosumer equipment (Netgear) instead of enterprise equipment (Cisco).

If someone needed, say, a Wacom tablet to accommodate a wrist injury, we made that happen.

We had a well-stocked lab, but some of the electrostatic benches we got at a good price secondhand.

Our office was near the train station to accommodate the engineers who commuted from the city, but it wasn't expensive space (all glass & chrome); it was a "B" office. We shared a bathroom with the other tenants. It was a little run-down, but it was clean.

We didn't have offices or cubes, just desks, and the CEO & President sat next to each other in the big room we all shared.