skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in situations somewhat like this before, definitely not as extreme, but the same sort of overall feeling. Everything talked about in Slack/Email is super positive and highlights all the great things customers are saying, but the financial results tell a different story.

It definitely is hard to have conversations about what isn't going well, even though it doesn't have to be negative or gloomy. Often the disconnect in results is chalked up to external factors outside of your control, which is sort of depressing because if that is true then you can't do anything about it.

It's like when someone encounters a bug in the stuff they wrote and look every which way they can to blame it on the library, framework, compiler, etc.. - I'd rather have the bug be in code I wrote because then I can fix it easily. You can show someone simple data that shows a strategy isn't working, and then they'll spend a week torturing the data to come up with a contrived counter-explanation.

Ultimately, it is tough because part of doing a startup is remaining positive even in situations where it isn't warranted and there are times where the strategy may not be working out in the short term but needs more time to play out. Being unwilling to ever even entertain the idea that what you're doing isn't working seems like it might be problematic though.
We do something similar only it's posting pictures of ponies to slack.

I also heard of one other company where the tradition was to send an email out to the rest of the company offering to bring in donuts.
I tried to go looking for myself, so I downloaded the AMD64 binary from the Debian page: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/libmshr2019.2

After unpacking the data.tar.xz from the deb archive, I unpacked libmshr.so.2019.2.0.dev0 from the specified path.

Doing this:

readelf -W --demangle=c++ -s libmshr.so.2019.2.0.dev0 | awk ' { if ( length > x ) { x = length; y = $0 } }END{ print y }' > test.txt

gave me a text file that is 101,943 bytes in size. Basically a huge C++ template soup, but still quite a bit short from the 271,800 bytes in the headline.

If you want to see it, I compressed (568 bytes!) and base64 encoded it:

xz test.txt
base64 test.txt.xz

And uploaded it here: https://paste.debian.net/1237184/

Which can be viewed with this one liner:

curl https://paste.debian.net/download/1237184 | base64 -d | xz -d
The fact that it's lasted this long is evidence that it doesn't matter enough to the end user to be worth changing. If it were Hacker News people would be saying "if it isn't broken, don't fix it." And people using Twitter despite its user interface - even putting in the effort to work around it, implies that it isn't really broken.
> 1. Do you use a spreadsheet? Did you build it yourself? Did you buy one that was already done for you?

I use YNAB for budgeting. I like the ability to choose between the mobile app or website depending on what I need to do.

I've been using a spreadsheet for tracking my net worth over time. I copied the template from someone else and just update it on the 1st of every month.

> 2. Do you use an accounting software (Quickbooks, Xero, Zoho, etc.)?

The only software I use is Quicken. I have it download all of my balances for all of my accounts to simplify updating my net worth sheet.

> 3. How do you like your current solution? Is it too complicated? Is it too overkill in terms of features for your needs?

It feels great right now. When I first started creating a budget, I overcomplicated it. It took a while to figure out how to make it simple, but it feels natural and easy to use now.

> 4. What would make it better for you?

I wish there was another piece of software that helped with downloading balances and transactions. Quicken is pretty slow and bloated and pricey. I've tried Personal Capital, but I wasn't comfortable with having my balances stored there. Quicken seemed secure, trusted, and offline-ish enough for me.
Twitter has always required account for posting. The problem is that reading requires now as well.
I don't think the people who moved to the housing projects were typically sleeping on the streets.

I think it was more a case of upgrading to modern sanitation standards etc.

That said, I have no real detailed knowledge, and would be happy to learn how wrong I am about this :)
If corporate culture embraced remote work, this wouldn’t be an issue
It is. But the problem is that the US is about 80-100 years behind Europe in this.

Personal economies are literally built on the idea of driving, it will be painful to solve that, but unfortunately it’s necessary to solve it otherwise you end up losing enormous amounts of your life to traffic and the infrastructure cost grows exponentially.
That's the heart of the problem: proprietary software.

By making your software closed-source, you take responsibility of distribution, and that's a significant cost.

Doing it the Windows way makes it easier for you, sure, but it doesn't make it better. It makes it more difficult and dangerous for your users, which in turn devalues your product.
Enjoyed the post on how you built the blog, really like the theme as well.
These are all great ideas until one of your coworkers does something nefarious and claims they were just putting a silly nickname if they get caught;)
Adding 500,000 new people a year where the majority settle in one or two cities and not building housing matters. Blaming the lack of housing on foreign buyers is misleading.
Timing has to be a tough one to get right. At 150m altitude and the speed of a jet, it's not going to be in your window of sight for very long.
Wow. I wish I'd thought of that. Gosh, that changes everything. /s

As I said in my submission:

I generally just ignore such links/comments,
because I'm here (and elsewhere) to discuss stuff.

Then again, there are eleven whole sentences before I wrote that. Who wants to read a tome like that, so I guess it's unsurprising you didn't make it that far. I guess I need to work on my concision, eh?
Very sexy setup for that era. As a kid I went to a computer faire near my hometown in the relative middle of nowhere and not only did I get to check out a Video Toaster, there were two guys there with an Onyx. As an SGI obsessed dork, I almost fell over. If I recall they used it primarily for architectural visualization. It was running a scene with trees that were two intersecting rectangles with texture and transparency maps. It’s hard to convey how cool this was at the time. Plus, that machine was in the $100,000 dollar range in 1995 dollars. Fun times. I’m bummed that over there years I lost the very slick printed material SGI sent me on their machines because I called up an asked.
Exactly. Corporations are buying houses because rents are high. Rents are not high because corporations are buying houses.

Rents are high because there are not enough houses on the rental market, because not enough houses are built.
> incrementally building and testing libraries.

Like Make?
> Occam's razor says that tooling, or developers, just aren't great at shaking unreferenced content from production builds.

The Cutting Room Floor[0] is an empirical proof of this assertion.

[0] https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor
IBM misclassified mainframe sales to enrich executives
I agree it is car culture... but I feel that too often people treat it similar to self-driving-car predictions.

Sure, we have a good option for a significant majority of the time. But those many edge cases are non-trivial to resolve so a large majority of people will keep their cars for simple practicality sake.
WSL2 has eliminated the need to use linux for me. Its got usb passthrough, graphical app support (with windows 11), as well as super clean VSCode integration.

If you are into ML, the Nvidia drivers also support running from WSL2, so you don't even need to touch windows for that.

The only reason to run Linux is because its free, and you get more customization of the base OS. I run i3wm under Mint on my laptop for example.
I actually want the opposite. Reddit has the forced login thing now, I don't want it to show up in results at all.
When characters really stand out from the background, isn’t that more an issue of the lighting in the scene than the CGI?

I mean this isn’t really “CGI“, is it? I guess maybe the backgrounds are computer generated. But it just seems like unsuccessful compositing.
http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgidepot/index.html Contact him if you're interested, nice to talk to!
Should be called transpiler instead?
The really interesting thing will be to survey those same people in 10 years to see if the numbers go down.

Your teenage years are naturally a time to "figure out who you are". The widespread acceptance and promotion of LGBT adds an extra variable that teenagers need to "figure out" for themselves.
ooops, I already replied to losvedir directly, but for everyone else on macOS I recommend TripMode: https://tripmode.ch/

It's far far simpler than little snitch. It's intended purpose is for managing low-data connections, but I leave it on all the time and use it as per-app network permission manager. The data usage tracking is also nice. By default all new apps lack network access. Takes a little bit of work to manage, and sometimes you get unexpected issues, but it's well worth it. Amazing seeing all the network activity trying to come from apps that really don't need the network at all. Like a terminal... (though for a deeper analysis I'll bust our Charles proxy with TLS interception)
Thank you - that is very insightful.

I was going to say, there is still a lot of land both outside and inside the “Shield”.
Ah, so good to know this stuff. I don't know where it's explained for newcomers. Thanks a lot.
Old Enough: the Japanese TV show that abandons toddlers on public transport
That gets you a better shell, which is great.

Unfortunately it still leaves you with a terrible terminal emulator. IDK if you can use MSYS2 with "Windows Terminal", though. I haven't bothered to try.
I've been watching it a while and I agree that the last 2 years are all interest rate driven.

But before that, and after the rates rise again, we will still see incredibly expensive home prices compared to the salaries of Canadians. There are lots of possible factors that make up this "floor price", all throughout this thread.

In the end I think it's just that Toronto is _the_ large city of Canada, and there aren't many others to choose from, AND in my experience Canadians won't relocate as readily as Americans do. So the demand to live in Toronto is VERY high. I don't see this changing.
Thank you. It's the wee hours here and frankly I just didn't have the energy to do it myself.
The Outer Wilds is on my list but I don't currently have Windows or Playstation so am kind of stuck. I'm tempted to get one of the systems just to broaden my options a bit.
>the obvious strategy is to make apps as hard to use as possible.

And this is exactly what they're doing. They as in facebook and twitter.
My reaction to pushy "sign up to view" is nearly always of revulsion and mentally pledging to never ever sign up. I'm obviously not alone here.
What about something like https://vscode.dev/

It runs a lighweight copy of vscode entirely in the browser.

It looks like the emacs keybinding extension is available for use.
> For (quicker) in-place metadata updates?

I just tested this, and it takes about ~140ms for ffmpeg to faststart/remux one song-length .m4a file (M1 Air, internal storage).
The common denominator here is lack of competition. Utilities are regulated monopolies. No competition means no incentive to improve or provide better services at lower cost.
You wouldn't tell a recovering alcoholic to try to drink alcohol again but "drink less this time".
Same here -- I'm eagerly awaiting them having a dedicated server offering

In the meantime have you looked at leaseweb?

https://www.leaseweb.com/dedicated-servers#US

I'm planning on running nimbus web services[0] there and there are a few other smaller providers I have earmarked depending on how brave you are:

https://www.defendhosting.com/usa-unmanaged-servers/

https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/dedicated-servers/

https://greenserver.io

[0]: https://nimbusws.com
In addition to thinking that banks should be smart and act in their own self interest of not lending money to people who can’t pay it back, there are government mandated stress tests for qualifying for mortgages at higher interest rates.

While rates are historically low and a return to the rates of the 80’s would cause a lot of defaults, I think the market has tuned itself for maximum extraction of labour from those buying houses. You will pay as much as you can afford out of the income of your career to live in a desirable place.

There are many undesirable places with cheap land, few jobs near by, no amenities, schools, restaurants, etc. so everyone pays as much as they can afford because it is worth it.

But they are only allowed to afford what they can pay off with a 30 year amortization and meeting the stress test.

I’m considering moving to the Yukon.
I forgot to add. I have another spreadsheet to help with portfolio rebalancing. I'm sticking with three funds plus cash, and divide up the percentages so it's roughly 50% us stocks, 30% intl. stocks, and 15% bonds, and 5% cash. The spreadsheet helps me figure out the dollar amounts for each of those.
You are going to need a very specific citation for that because, if he did, no one working in physics today has heard of it.
Going after large enterprise sales is a well known trap, and it's just so easy for a startup to spin its wheels for months, and eventually years, and realize that all the efforts got nowhere. The first 1B+ seller is precisely the hardest: Even when you are a relatively well known company, you'll still see reticence in bids if they know you are going to be their biggest costumer by volume.

The companies I know that succeeded with that strategy either have great starting relationships with insiders in their first sales, and had contracts signed before committing to a big staff, or got into said companies when they were small: If one of your customers turns into a rocket ship and you are tied to their revenue stream, their growth is your enterprise-sized company.

Enterprise sales might not even be all that profitable when it's all said and done: How many other companies are going to try to bid on their business? With their large size, how good is their leverage to squeeze down the profits of the winning bid.

You might have a relatively unique product, the right connections, and end up being Palantir, but it's a very narrow road with steep cliffs everywhere.
Place ads for their brand that links to a negative review about them?
When the internet has been so comercialized that in order to gain credible information you have to go to a place where you KINDA trust people dont have ulterior motives.

Who would give a damn about socialist censorship when you have a better alternative: a capitalist internet?
> So why isn't this a standard feature of every shopping cart program, including the cheap ones?

I agree. It makes absolutely zero sense that an isolated feature constitutes the foundation of an entire company, much less a 400 people company.

I clearly don't understand VC logic.
Hm can you give an example of that? Are they wondering if the features they care about are deployed?

The linear version numbers could have an advantage in that regard. If you want to know if CL 12345 is deployed, and you know the current deployment is running as of CL 12350, then it should be in there. Conversely if it's less than that number, it's definitely not in there.

git hashes also have good properties but I'm wondering how non-technical employees use them. Do they know how to dig through the git history?
I think it's evidence that network effect are powerful, more than anything. I'm on twitter because that's where everybody else is.
> I switched to Mac OS X around 2004 because it was just massively better in terms of quality of life for the user.

I find it really hard to take these comments seriously with the incredibly obvious flaws you run into in the first few minutes of basic operation using MacOS.

In MacOS:

- Clicking the maximize button (the green circle) for any application won't maximize the app consistently. Sometimes an app will grow slightly, sometimes it will only grow vertically, sometimes an app will shrink slightly, sometimes an app will maximize and sometimes an app will go full screen hiding the top window bar.

- There are no keyboard shortcuts for moving or resizing windows around.

- If you have an app/file selected in Finder (MacOS' Explorer), pressing Enter will rename the file. To open the file you must instead press Cmd + Down.

These are basic operations. These are the kind of issues you'd expect from a hobby homegrown OS, not a serious product.
Sure if someone wants it bad enough, they’ll jump through all the hoops. I feel that while deterrents aren’t full proof, they do their job of limiting the overall amount of undesired behavior.
Been considering a switch from Gnome to Kubuntu (coincident with an uplevel to 20.04) based on trust in reports here on HN that recent KDE is much improved. Would you second that praise?
PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel – Bitcoin Keynote – Bitcoin 2022 Conference
At a mile a second I think the chances of that are somewhat limited unless you already happen to be in the flight path.
> Lyme disease, which is now suspected to be transmitted sexually and maybe across the placenta (speculative though that is).

Source? Lyme disease is from ticks.
I’m sure Putin can cover it out if his own pocket with all the money he’s been siphoning. Time to repo his assets
Better at making my arm hairs stick up.
I don't recall. I do remember that the build script included a format conversion.
Yes!

I've seen a few startups that seemed to overengineer things (or build custom solutions rather than use something off the shelf) in expectation of massive growth.

I also thought it might have been due to resume driven development and the need to keep engineers engaged so they didn't leave.

I've also seen successful startups with a monolithic rails or PHP application that ran on heroku with next to zero custom architecture components.
Exploring the future potential of generic GraphQL error codes
Good point, I am always surprise when well funded startups hire former big-tech engineers, rather than experienced startup engineers.
"Most Fortran code is FORTRAN 77"

Just curious, how do you know that? I would have thought many establishments would have moved on by now. That said, I've a few of my personal programs that still run on IV - no need to change them as they still work fine (but then they're not running under the auspices of some institution where updating has relevance).

I suppose a more relevant question would be what is the breakdown type of institution still using 77 - educational, research, government, commercial etc. (I know airline bookings and traffic systems used a lot of 77 until recently). I note from another poster CERN is using 95.

I'd reckon legacy systems would be more likely to be found in govt. and commercial and updated more likely in research. (I'd expect there'd be a large disparity between the different types of institutions.)
How bad are the bidding wars ie how much over listed price do houses tend to sell for?
It looks fine, what am I supposed to notice?
>GTK3 had custom CSS supported alongside custom stylesheets.

Which again nobody actually relied on because it broke everything. I didn't make this up, this is exactly why things changed in GTK4. You can still do that in GTK4 by the way, and it's still just as bad an idea as it was before and it will stop the app from looking native. I have also built applications that way and I don't recommend it.

But I don't actually understand your aversion to having a platform theme if you care about having "native apps". That's the whole point of a native app, it's supposed to use the platform theme and follow the platform HIG, and that means no custom stylesheets. There's no other definition of a native app that I'm aware of. I see constant criticism on Hacker News towards web apps and Electron apps specifically because they don't use a native platform theme and instead every app has a custom stylesheet because that's what you do when you make web apps.
>> All the market efficiency in the world won't stop the continual increase in prices from bad zoning and missing middle housing.

I disagree. Depending on the jurisdiction (in the US), part of the issue is the 10% net loss you end up with. 5-6% on the agent fee(s), another 1% on "mansion tax", in NYS/NYC there is a 1% and 1% transfer tax and 1/2% mortgage tax. Different jurisdictions are less (or more). Throw in more for the lawyer and you're down 10% on the sale. The sales agent fee seem fair for tough markets but even 1% sales agent fees seem preposterous given the market. If the house flips in 1 day, how is that worth 5 or 6%? These days people are negotiating that down to 4% but even that is preposterous given the market.

The problem with the extra 5 or 6% agent fees is: that people dont want to buy/sell as much, because you're effectively losing 20-30% of your 20% down equity on the sale (you'll lose more on the buy with the the 1-2% Title Insurance.) Effectively, you're losing half your 20% down equity.

Of course then...even if sellers want to sell, they dont because they need to bypass the frictional hurdles. Because if you sell and host half your 20% down equity, how the heck do you buy the next home?
That other problems exist is not a valid reason to prevent fixing something if that fix actually helps in some way

That scarcity exists is the whole reason we're focusing on foreign buyers in 2022. And blind-bidding in 2021. And investors in 2019. And money-laundering in 2018. And Chinese money in 2017. All of these things should be addressed, but every one of them has provided political cover for the real reason that housing is so expensive in popular cities, which is scarcity.

None of these things will matter one whit to housing affordability. "Helps in some way" is fine as long as we understand that it has nothing to do with high housing prices. "Helps in some way" is fine as long as we measure our claims and admit that this is about basic fairness and respect for the law. "Helps in some way" is alright except that "helps in some way" has been sold for the last 6 years, politically, as, "this is the reason you can't buy a home! Surely it has nothing to do with NIMBYism and our suburbs! Please don't ask me, as your elected representative, to take on suburban voters and start talking about housing equity as it relates to affordability!"

Every one of these things should be dealt with. Canada should probably have anti-racketeering laws. Real-estate boards should have less power and should be compelled to publicize their sales data. Etc, etc, ...

Just quit the bullsh*t about this being about addressing housing affordability.