skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to have completely ignored my "Communication is necessary, but not the output". Put another way, meetings are the 'how', not the 'what'. The how is not a deliverable, and so can be changed so long as the 'what' stays the same. You can get input, collaborate, etc, in other ways that are not synchronous.

We've all had that "this meeting could have been an email" experience. Make it an email. Start re-evaluating every meeting; any sort of unidirectional informational meeting can be offloaded onto a doc or recorded presentation just as efficiently. Bidirectional decisional meetings can often be done more effectively by writing up a problem statement, the various options, and a 'due' date for input. Allow people to read over it, comment, propose new suggestions, etc, then at that due date, hold a vote (can be done sync or async). Voila, a decision is reached that allowed for greater amounts of discussion, and was arrived at as democratically or 'loudest voice in the room' (if only a select few people's votes count) as you care to have it, rather than whatever organically happens in your meetings. Etc. In my experience what I'm left with are the meetings where it's the 'personal connection' that matters; these are things like the occasional AMA/Town Hall style meetings, and 1-on-1s. 90% of my pre-COVID meetings turned out not to need to be meetings.
And Bluetooth ...

Pretty annoying that my closed laptop, that's in another room, can drift in and out of being "found" by my bluetooth headset and stop music playing.
There are several hot takes on the accuracy of various numbers (train derailment, for example), but that is not the most striking point of the article. The article is raising alarms about labor shortages and the effect on safety and deliverability of large loads (monster trains). It is another data point to bolster the idea that the US supply chain is under a lot of stress.
shrug I just fast-forward them.
Aren't all lawns decorative?
Uber CEO vows to be ‘hardcore about costs,’ slow down hiring in memo
Compilers are small?
Unfortunately it is now uncertain whether any of this matters 100 years from now. It is expected that sea levels will rise by more than 2 meters, and that dykes will no longer work beyond an extra 2 meter extension, not because they can't be extended but because Dutch soil is too soft and seawater will just go under the dyke. Almere will probably be amongst the first to go. It seems nobody has proposed a solution, but in the mean time life goes on as if it won't happen. You don't see this being factored into plans or housing prices.
Maybe that balances out against the fact that Mac OS has rudimentary window management and users need third party apps to fill that gap while Windows has decent window management built in.
:-)
Is this a gamechanger?
We are the only humans in the universe
Yeah, I have too. Oftentimes for business stakeholders and leadership, that is the case, as it helps justify their existence ("I was so busy!"). Which presents, unfortunately, opportunities for useless devs to glom on; sit in meetings, do no work, collect a paycheck.
I'm pushing 30. I took piano at a very young age and recall being quite happy to do so, though I had to be forced to practice. I voluntarily returned to it in my teens, and again in college. I sometimes wish I had put even more into it.

Conversely, I was forced to do many team sports as a child, despite never having an affinity for them, and even today have no love for them or those memories, and consider most of that to be wasted time. (And again conversely, the physical activities that I chose of my own volition - biking, roller blading, and the like - are things I wish I made more time for in my adult life)

Children, especially teens, aren't just grubs that you have to impose your will onto. They know things that they want, and you should channel them into productive things they actually want to do.
> Another issue is that Los Angeles would issues fines for high water usage, that's not enough when wealthy people can pay the cost, the consequences for wasting water need to be much higher.

Aside from hypocrisy and optics, this isn't really a problem. I don't like it for the same reason I don't like cash bail and other areas where the rich can buy a free pass, but it has a negligible effect on water use. 80% of California's water is used by agriculture and another 10% by other industries, leaving 10% for residential use, of which rich people filling pools and watering lawns is a drop in the bucket. As usual, business has succeeded in externalizing costs, and through effective lobbying and marketing, has managed to convince the public that it's their selfish behavior that is the problem.
Where I live, price per gallon increases significantly if you exceed a monthly quota (which is not free)
There is nothing stopping content producers from hosting their own content on something like S3+CloudFront or the cheaper (than AWS) alternatives.
Ask HN: Can we brainstorm a new chess style?
I've always enjoyed chess but when I was in the office today, a colleague had the NFL draft up on the screen and we started talking about economics and budgets for major league teams. What if there was a style of chess where instead of each team starting with equal pieces, each type of piece was assigned a value (e.g. pawn= 2, queen = 50, rook = 10) and each player gets a set number of points (e.g. 100 total) which they could use to spend on any piece they wanted and everyone of course has a king. So someone could end up starting a game with a queen, 4 rooks, and 5 pawns. I know this is a bit of a silly idea but thought it might be a fun twist on an old game and lend a new dimension to how people optimize their strategies.
I'm sorry to hear your career isn't going well for you, but there are literally a thousand objectively worse jobs.
Preview can photoshop images too, with a bit of effort. Wish it had a smudge/blur tool though.

• https://imgur.com/D1G9h63 Removed people on either side of the arch.

• https://imgur.com/iZazOgA Removed people above the person's head.

• https://imgur.com/taMCXpC Removed graffiti from below the carving's hand.

P.S. Get with the times HN; even Google Docs supports Markdown now.
In which case, shouldn't we expect any comparison to be against language implementations that have excellent startup time?
Well put, thank you :)
250 gallons a day? Where would someone use that much water? Are they filling their tub 10 times a day?
U.S. Podcast Advertising Revenue Hits $1.4B in 2021
"Launching GetInternet.gov: GetInternet.gov is a simple, easy-to-use website with details on how Americans can sign up for Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and find participating internet providers in their area."

How are people supposed to access the GetInternet.gov website to find out how to sign up for Internet service?
I can sort of see this, in the sense that the style of code I'm writing when I use WASM is similar to the style of code when calling into an FFI.

I think the implications of that code are different, but yeah, I see your point and I think it's fairly reasonable.
They got back up and running, but don't have enough enrollment to keep the doors open. The ransomware attack is just part of the reason - in addition to COVID - but it might have been a major factor in them not getting enrollment to the point where they could survive.
Can you be specific here? Which taxes has Biden raised (not proposed to raise)?
I'd say especially at the airport you wouldn't expect to find posted prices. The prices on everything there, even water, are "if you have to ask you can't afford it. And if you can, I don't want to sell it to you".

They have a captive pool of customers and can squeeze them for as much as they like. What are you gonna do? Leave through security to go join the real market? All before your connecting flight? Shut up and pay $10 for 500ml of water.
And they are no longer cheap!

The pro grade CRT market is crazy! When I got mine, it was essentially a giveaway. Got lucky too. Was a low hour unit that did not live on a primary production path.

That same model is selling for a few hundred bucks!

Workstation monitors are spiking now too, and in my opinion are the way to go. User gets to view a fine pitch tube and the circuits are fast, geometry consistent enough to not be a worry.

It remains possible to get in cheap, but damn! Bet that fades in about a year.
In case you are actually asking a question - most environmental guidelines in today's EU cities are the result of court cases. Both my hometown and the city I currently live in have been found guilty of neglecting air quality multiple times and ordered to take action. And yeah - in a libertarian (actually an-cap) world it wouldn't be a city, but a municipal services corporation with participatory ownership (a la UK Premier League).

But then again I am not really an anarcho-capitalist, but an extremely mild minarchist (imagine Raegan without his naiveness or Thatcher without her inferiority complex). So even this doesn't represent my opinion.
We do this at work with multiple entry points. New engineers sometimes don’t even know it exists until the 6th month when they eventually run into shenanigans.
It sounds like they weren't in a great financial situation to begin with. Definitely a tragedy to have everything down for three months and to find out afterwards that you're not going to have enough money to stick around next year.

I wonder what the ransom was and if they paid it.

Side note: Planet Money had an interesting segment on insurance claims for things like cyber attacks last week, it's worth giving a listen.
One can argue plusses and minuses, but my time at law school was very productive and, despite my winding down my practice for something new, benefits me to this day. Law school is what you make of it.
>Your net worth will be lower next year, and they'll consider that

I was just giving an example to demonstrate how bad their calculator pricing was (280k fees < 250k savings without selling house) if you wanted to make it more realistic I would also take into account that my investments grow too.

>Their goal is to charge you the most you are able to pay, and someone with $250k in savings is able to pay $70k.

Seems pretty bad to me. Wouldn't pay 7k/year for BU, much less 70k.
> On other OSs, this moves the file to the directory shown in the dialog, or does nothing

Apps on Linux (Gnome?) do it too.
Learn a bit about project and product management.
- Product Podcast is a great podcast.
- IF you don't already know, learn about how one would break down a large project into user stories and tasks and setup a project plan.
- Read a book on negotiating - "Getting More" is a good book.

Understanding these give you some tools to allow you to see promote your team's interests outside your team.
I think the only thing missing from the climate change/religion similarity is that climate change has no savior or ultimate authority
He should probably plant the fig tree outside, at this point. (Not sure how that fits in to the analogy.)
We'd be in a much worst situation if the farms didn't produce the food they do. The entire continent would face food shortage, and the world's economy would be hit. Just see what happened when Ukraine's farms got knocked out of the playing field, and scale that up by California's farming supply to North America.
There must be some limit to index funds. If everybody puts all of their investment money into the market blindly, it will eventually raise the price of every stock to the point where some other investment is better.

The S&P P/E is down to around 20, which corresponds roughly to a 3.5% return. That's reasonable for a low-risk investment, but about the limit. A few months ago it was more like 40, and it just stopped being a sensible value investment. (The P/E ratio has flaws as a metric, but it's hard to come up with one that's obviously better for a broad index.)

Somebody has to take higher-risk higher-reward investments in new companies to go IPO and absorb all that spare cash. And hopefully, somebody smart enough to avoid scams getting into the index funds -- that's presumably the SEC's job.
A national water grid would be incredibly expensive for what it provides.

I wonder how feasible it would be to have the federal government get California to relinquish some of its rights to the Colorado River in exchange to help fund desalination plants. Then the Colorado River can go more towards providing water to landlocked states in the southwest that don't have such an option.
Papyrus is the top SNL skit of all time. The next one is Grouch (Sesame street x Joker parody). What would be #3?
I've read somewhere that one major factor is agriculture. Almonds and pistachios require over a gallon of water per nut, or over 1 trillion gallons/year for the former [0] and it seems like that's where at least 10% of california's water supply is going[1]. Along with actively killing bees[3] I struggle to wonder if growing those nuts are even worth it.

[0] https://www.gainesville.com/story/opinion/2021/08/24/douglas...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201203025513/https://fruitgrow...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/07/honeybee...
My point is that when Foone posts are shared here, someone always follows up with The Official Rules for Interacting With Foone. Others neither expect nor get such treatment. What's different about Foone?
I mean, the roman empire, ancient greece and in modern times Britain. Britain is European as much as USA is. Not really common in contemporary Europe.

The article itself notes that it's common practice only in North america, and when it is used outside of USA it's in a different way:

>In the United States, the endowment is often integral to the financial health of educational institutions. Alumni or friends of institutions sometimes contribute capital to the endowment. The use of endowment funding is strong in the United States and Canada but less commonly found outside of North America, with the exceptions of Cambridge and Oxford universities

> Government-provided healthcare also has an income, expenses, and a budget. They don't just spent whatever they want with no planning and no income.

Of course, but there is a big difference in having a regular accountability and starting to think in terms of business. Suddenly intensive treatment beds become "centers of cost", not vital but expensive tools required to save lives.
Wow, really interesting. I love it!
I'm anti-capitalist too, but I think the capitalist argument is that wealth is the incentive to innovate in the marketplace - it doesn't matter whether it's actually useful, but that it motivates hard work. I think this argument is easily debunked by pointing to the comparative innovation of businesses versus state-funded research, or that wealth is created by the work of the employees moreso than the founders, but that's the argument.
I love how the designer seems evil
That was a wonderful talk. Anyone know of similarly great (gaming focused) talks? (Or a playlist containing them.) They're so hard to find.
“Focus is about saying no” Steve Jobs – WWDC ‘97
I agree, Processing/p5.js is great for beginner programming.
The developer posted this at the end of April

Sorry to disappear for almost three years and then reappear in this way. I have so many feelings to share with Listary and especially with you, the users who have always been with Listary for the past few years. [...]

In the future, Listary will continue to focus on keeping files/applications at your fingertips and providing you with an extreme user experience.

A brand-new vision, a brand-new product, and a brand-new journey. A better Listary, hope you will like it again

-- https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7... (which is actually an automated translation of the original Chinese https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary/7237)
Tribal, yet futuristic. Love it!
I think, even without hindsight, that I could have done a better job for the economy than the previous president. Biden? Probably not, he has not done much yet. He also does not have large enough majorities to do anything as any tax increases will probably be blocked by the more conservative members of his party.
Foone's pronouns are they/them.
Netflix tried and failed to build fandom with Tudum
They shut down their own site before I knew it existed. Only after it closed did a google search about a show bring me to this shuttered site.
Can you explicate more about emf sensitivity! Just asking because I have never heard such thing. And, yea caging entire house is probably arduous and costs fortune.
In Ye Olde Dayes, Macs would in fact give you messages like "error 39!" when something went wrong. Only, in those days, there was almost no way to figure out what that meant.
For what it's worth, there's another thread in these comments that point to data supporting that the length of trains is going up (+ ~25%), but derailments have gone down, by more than 25%. So maybe fewer trains derailing, but the ones that do are having bigger negative consequences.
Yes, there is - don’t spend time watching their content.

I hate ads with a passion [1]. I pay for the ad free tier of every streaming service I subscribe to. I find YouTube a wasteland of shitty content.

[1] For some reason tech podcasts ads don’t bother me and many of the ones I listen to have chapter markers for their ads.
They started this process a long time ago. 2018 was when they first started talking about it, locally they did the first pilots about 2019 if memory serves.
I don't know why this was down voted, but I agree, that this tragic shutdown makes it clear that Ransomeware affects the real world.
How does it know what is fore- and background?
I think anyone would hope their doctor had a bit of proficiency in logical thinking! Thinking of medicine in terms of algorithmic logic and datasets goes a long way towards making proper diagnoses and developing competent treatment programs.

Same thing with auto mechanics (that actually involves computers these days, BTW) and even hairdressers could find some efficiency in optimizing their processes, which is another skill coding provides.
The first thing to point out is that some like to hijack the water shortage as being related to climate change. It isn't. It's based simply on inaccurate projections of how much water would flow in and increased usage. That's it.

What I find infuriating is:

1. Water rights for agriculture are a particular problem. As if we don't subsidize agriculture enough (eg [1]);

2. There really should be more water restrictions and there should've been for years already; and (this is the big one)

3. We're making consumers (further) subsidize agriculture by funding and paying for expensive desalinated water.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-10-10/colorad...
> I can't see any good reason to let any individual claim ownership over more than a billion dollars of assets—even $100M is pushing it. Can you?

I'm in general disagreeing with major points in the article, but it's too large topic to have a full discussion here. The idea is that billionaires can better focus resources on things they seem important than governments.
But is it at YouTube scale? I just tried it, I can click 10 years old videos with ~10 views and it starts playing after 3 seconds. How does that work? How can you have ever video ever uploaded on hot storage? What kind of storage are they using? Flash is probably too expensive, even if it has higher density than spinning disks by today. So was that video on a spinning disk? Then it also didn't seem to have been some spun down disk, because it should have taken more than three seconds then. It just boggles my mind that every video ever uploaded to YouTube is ready to be accessed instantly. You think anything that hasn't been accessed in a few years should be tugged away on some tape somewhere and needs a minute or two to start playing
California topped off all of their reservoirs in 2019. These systems of dams are designed to sustain california for five years, according to local farmers that i’ve talked to. However the water supply is being diverted into the ocean now because of insane environmental laws.

A farmer in california pays more for water than labor, taxes or anything else.
If you only use React as a library for the VDOM, there's barely anything to learn, though. Even if nobody had heard of it previously, people would get up to speed in no time. That's how I started using it, keep my application as it is but just use React as the DOM diffing engine and delete tons of DOM manipulation code from the repo.

The "React as a framework" thing came later, which I personally think is a misstep. I'm not into frameworks in general.
You're right in that it is a less immediately needed or important skill for most things. It comes down to whether you want to outsource the job or not. If you can change your own oil, you don't have to outsource it to a mechanic. Knowing how to do stitches saves you an ER trip. Hair is a weird one because I'd imagine it's hard to cut your own hair. The programming version of this would be writing a script that gets comps for listing real estate, and a realtor becomes less valuable. Spending a bit of time to really learn bash can get much more value out of using a computer. The window of problems to solve that don't already have a solution readily available is shrinking, but not gone. A personal example for me, I couldn't find a ballistic computer that was free and did what I wanted, so I wrote it myself. I've also written scripts that scrape ebay links when me and friends couldn't get the new xbox. These things don't move the needle very much in terms of quality of life on their own, but as an aggregate, I am grateful I took the time to learn how to really use my computer. You are right though, in pointing out that they aren't as important as cooking and literacy. I would only add that the importance on knowing programming is trending up with time.
Agreed Papyrus is top 3, I might quibble over the grouch because I think either the crime scene skit or the coroner skit might take 2 and 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo6CyNNC60M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjS8cA2Jfzc
You get more benefits from the first dollars put into SS than the last as far as I understand.
Yeah wow, I always cringe whenever I hear people unashamedly talking about "degrowth" in poor countries because hey they like it anyways! I mean they are alive so it can't be too bad? As if there's no reason why those subsistence farmers do everything they can to either get themselves out of that situation if they get the chance or at least sacrifice everything to make sure their kids don't have to live the same life. They should've just read about the virtues of minimalist living online and like, reconnect with nature bro.

This is one of the reason why i just can't get into most modern western environmentalist movements , it actually gets uncomfortable how they fetishise misery and stagnation knowing damn well that they themselves won't ever have to experience any major deprivation. Because let's be honest, even if western countries make concessions of course they will never sacrifice more than comforts/superfluous things. abject poverty farming for thee, and at the very very worse "degrowing" a few percentage of GDP for me.
Wouldn't you not fit the audience requested in the OP? If you're down 10% then you're the opposite of "exposed heavily in tech stocks."
I’m actually reading these comments specifically for mentions of alternatives. I thought it was done in good taste.
I really hope my generation can kill off the concept of a "lawn". Growing a mono-cultured weed in a desert just so that you can have a Saturday morning chore is utterly baffling to me.
So rather than being upset a few years later when your cloud functionality isn't working you... don't use it in the first place? I guess that's a viable choice if you weren't planning to use the cloud features to begin with, but the OP seems to be using the cloud features, and is upset that he's losing access to them.