skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you say a bit more about how it works? Who runs the infrastructure to support it? Is it some kind of collaboration between the local banks?
> the people who treat "listening to music" as an activity of its own are getting fewer and fewer.

I used to joke if I made it rich, I'd buy a night club and have my office facing the area where the DJ is doing their magic as I love listening to good mixes when coding and having a work environment which is almost like a recording studio is rare.

I've had access to a lot of hifi components some of it quite high end but not as high end as a pair of floor standing speakers that cost £125k today.I also knew a wizard of an electronics engineer who could get anything working, all of the manufacturers have/had their "problems" so most of it came down to branding and what the press said.
I think that many "software companies" are actually marketing companies that plan to make almost all of their profit from a product that has already been built. They're not necessarily a joke... it's just that software engineering is no longer their main business.
Right, that's a microcost, not a micropayment.

Similarly Amazon charges by the byte of storage on S3, but bills monthly.
I like https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ that and since I'm on linux I can silence anything I want to turn off - it works pretty well.
"The stock market can remain irrational a lot longer than you can remain solvent."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
People who chose JSON for configuration are not to be trusted.
I think I had more or less the same conversation with a coworker recently, I also have 15+ years experience in building software and I think that software is useless and the point to build a project by itself in 5 months is naive, software developers have a value if the thing they’re building serve a purpose, and the purpose needs to be defined through meeting people with the domain

To me this post has junior dev perspective but also the coworker I had the conversation with is in his 40s and I’m starting to think there is some generational thing going on here
Thank you, I've clarified the comment by adding the word "many". It is a generalization, that holds in many but not all cases.
Angular and Spring boot
I already wrote in my comment that at most I can see very motivated writers wanting this device, so your first link is not an answer.

I already wrote in my comment that programming would be impossible unless you literally mean just writing code without actually compiling it and running it and testing it. If you have a stack to take care of, unless you are working with some mind-boggling lightweight stuff, this underpowered hardware would not work, so your second link is not an answer.

Third link is about some genering work that could be done which doesn't really tell me anything, so it's not an answer.
Yeah, it's a strange article. They seem to miss the underlying point that in a business, generally speaking, writing the code is relatively easy. It's working out what problem you're trying to solve and who you're solving it for that is the hard part (an the bit that requires you to spend time talking to other people). Of course you write more code working on your side project, because you know exactly what you want to do with it and there's usually no consequences if it goes wrong.
There is some scope for winged humans, and hypothetically some capacity to exercise it. Nature did not explore this route. The opportunity cost of exploratory settling into a non-preferred niche usually outweighs the benefits of that exploration simply due to the scarcity of available resources to buffer against the opportunity cost.
> The thing that killed the momentum then is the same thing that still kills it - card transaction fees.

Well, the US could follow Europe here if it wanted - in 2015 we've been capping CC fees at 0.3% and debit card fees at 0.2% and at the same time capped per-transaction fees at 5 cents [1], and whoops, suddenly the acceptance of cards in Germany exploded. I can pay the 50ct fee for loos on train stations or 1€ for a soda on a vending machine with cards.

The solution to micropayments are not shitcoins, the solution is to squeeze the rent seekers.

[1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015...
Isn't that for the market to decide? It's not like they're using public funds for R&D, if people want it they'll pay for it and if they don't they won't.
So you do not care at all about infosec, like keyloggers and co planted in shared places by who know who?

Or for the employer the joy of sharing some loans to find some others do not pay and he have to pay on their behalf than loose time in Court hoping there is something to recover?
Calculating Go type sets is harder than you think
I made a projection mapping app for macOS, later expanded to iOS and that eventually got me a job as an iOS developer.

Then in that job, I expanded on another personal project I saw had application in the company, and now I work on that full time with a full team.

Before I was really struggling to get hired, I worked with a somewhat obscure language for an obscure application, noone in the software industry knew anything about it and it was incredibly hard to get interviews. I'd got sick of the whole thing anyway, so just decided to expand some little personal coding experiments into a full app
Wow this is incredible. Can you add geostationary satellites too?
Here are a few personally lived counter-examples:

1. a unicorn where someone implemented a a CI/CD system that none else can work with nor comprehend

2. a public institution where dozens of people work against the clock to replace the software maintained by a few old farts close to retirement

3. a critical financial institution where secrecy and nepotism made anyone with 30+ years of service into a major failure point.

IMO, the bigger the organisation, the more they are shifting from internal risk management to outsourcing all risk. When the risk is handled by third parties via contractual obligations, life get easy for middle management.

Needless to say, many of those contractual obligations are not worth the paper they are written on. Many organisations survive largely on the good will of the lowest-rank employees.
That's essentially hybrid, it might not sound for the individual workers who choose home or office, but for the company point-of-view that's hybrid works and for all workers means being able to work in both configs...
> The real problem is not the market or the technology, it's that the state wishes to surveil and ultimately exercise veto over all payments in society.

With anything cryptocoin, everyone on the planet can now analyze where my money flows to and from. That's decidedly worse than governments which need court orders to do so.
It's probably not gaining much traction because it interferes with aesthetics. Architects would need to embrace it.
78°F is 25.5°C. That's even cold in the summer.

When I lived with AC I kept it around 27-28°C to be comfortable, that's 81-82°F. Or maybe Texas has high humidity?
You used them when your framework/library documentation or SO told you to, but way less deliberately.
You’re confused - nobody is suggesting writing anything but ‘while (1)’ at the source code level. We’re talking about how the compiler implements that, and how internally it needs to do ‘1 == 1’ for each iteration if it doesn’t optimise at all.

We’re talking compiler implementation and optimisation - not coding aesthetics.
After reading the article and the Hacker News comments, I have to wonder if the approach is wrong.

Instead of using e-ink which does have it's merits but has a very poor refresh rate, why not use an algorithm to adjust typical laptop screens to be more visible in sunlight conditions.

Second thought, smartphones are really on the cutting edge of display technology. If e-ink was viable, wouldn't we be seeing at least some e-ink smartphones?
KOReader is built for kobo e-ink readers but will run on Android and Linux distributions. It supports syncing to Calibre which you could self-host and access over tailscale.

As for webapps, you have einkbro on android, which you could run on linux with Waydroid.
There are plenty of alternatives outside of BTC but lightning works.

In EU there are also free and instant bank transfers.

CC payments can be reversed though (which is a cons in my mind, I don't understand why merchants should lose the money by default in case of a dispute).
I could not identify precisely the cause of low albumin in my mother, but the blood and urine analyses were consistent with normal hepatic and renal functions, i.e. neither aminoacids nor proteins were eliminated by the kidneys and there seemed to be no reason why the liver should not be able to synthesize albumin.

That leaved as the most probable causes either bad digestion of proteins or malabsorbtion of the aminoacids in the intestine, the latter being more probable, due to the nature of her previous medical problems.

So I have just conceived a special diet for her, very rich in diverse protein sources, and I have also given her some digestive aids with enzymes, to cover the case when there would have been some gastric or pancreatic problem in the secretion of digestive enzymes.

The improvements have been very slow, as she was in her eighties and recovering after a severe surgery, but with the very rich in protein diet the albumin levels eventually recovered and after a few months she could go back to a normal diet.

Fortunately this was a temporary condition, due to previous intestinal damage, which slowly healed, and not some permanent problem, for which it might have been difficult to find a cure.

The main difficulties were caused by the various opinions of the consulted doctors, none of which were helpful in finding the common-sense solution, which worked.

When either too little protein enters the body due to defects in the digestive system, or too much protein exits the body, due to defects in the excretory system, there are some chances to alleviate the condition by eating more proteins.

When the defects are in the liver ability of protein synthesis, that is much harder to overcome.
> nobody has yet told me why this product has any real use.

Maybe nobody owes you an answer?
"Tame in me the tempers four, that I may serve thee evermore.
Place in me the values nine, that I may feel thy touch divine."
I just want honest proof of cattle.
Totally pointless article.
Main ingredients of modern life are required to produce the cake as it is now.
But nowhere in history we have seen a faster developments in materials science, where Italy leads the way in bioplastics and many more materials are being born everyday like coated insulating paper. So ofc now we can't but use ammonia cement and steel, and that's about to change. The current population has reached 8 billions because of these materials, sure, but we cannot say "impossible" when we think about the future. It was "impossible" to be efficient remotely in 2020, and we've been, without any sort of preparation. When fossil fuels will be scarce, or climate change will impose drastic laws against people's freedom, it WILL be possible and mandatory to change. We've been to the Moon qnd back in 1969, and there is no way we can say it's "impossible" to find solutions in 2022
Your dismissive tone is almost comical.

I'd personally love to have an e-ink laptop. Currently it's unthinkable for me to be in a beautiful spot in the sunshine while doing some light coding or writing. Seems like this product would make it viable to some extent. I wouldn't expect it to become a daily driver though.

If it were convertible (folding) it would be even better.
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing. We adopted a credit model for our API platform and it's akin to this. I with we were able to do Pay with X as part of that but payments in general are a huge undertaking that requires a lot of upfront network effects. Hence social networks do it really well. Would be interesting to do something Dev centric.
> I would buy this in an instant.

Except, if it did not achieve your expectations. Note the article is short on facts, high on marketing verbiage. If I'm not mistaken this is the same blogger, Alex Soto who previously made a lot of claims and when I challenged him on it, rapidly backtracked. Same guy previously claimed that E-Ink was a patent abuser, and another similarly named guy who headed some kickstarter program claimed E-Ink was suppressing his business and that was why he wasn't able to deliver on previous products, but when I asked him to substantiate it, he changed his blog post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245563#26249219
I understand the trade off, and big companies do too. You're going to lose a lot of very talented staff because that is the work environment doesn't suit them. It is a trade off companies make because they are managing risk, and because they have other priorities than having software coded at the fastest possible speed.
There was one in the 1970s regarding McDonalds.
I think what should also be highlighted is not that we necessarily just prefer convenience, it's that we don't value effort and craftsmanship so much anymore because the 'cheap' systems produce 'good enough' products. Suits can be quality enough without being hand tailored. Home order meals are not the cardboard horrors of the past, they're ok enough to outweigh the effort of creating a meal from scratch, etc.

I think it's terribly sad honestly.
I think the major, major downside is the gradual migration to a complete lack of knowledge of how to make things, except for the centralised, large, automated product makers.

We sacrifice our autonomy without realising it, while at the same time losing our ability to even discern and appreciate hand crafted skill and the value it provides.
Because you need to have an (enormous) upfront amount of cash to cover payments to the vendors and then have to deal with fraudsters using your service to test out if stolen cards are actually still good.
Toshiba is short for Tokyo Shibaura Electric.

But really it's short for The To in Tokyo Electiric, And the Shiba in Shibaura Manufacturing, two companies that were fused together.

source: https://gogen.info/company/electrical-manufacturer/toshiba/
As someone who switches between a Freewrite Traveller and an iPad with external keyboard for my creative writing workflows, let me be the first to say that there is an audience for that.

e-ink is for reading and writing, an underpowered laptop will work just fine for that. Heck, AlphaSmart Danas are doing fine for that and they have Dragonball CPUs at 33mhz.

Do not discount how pleasant it is to split the screen into two regions, have an eBook on one and and editor in the other so that you can write and research at the same time. I've used a 10'' Surface Go for a long time, it was a wonderful little machine. Being underpowered made me proactively conscious of what I was doing with it, which led to more focused work. Still, starting at the LCD for extended periods of time was not fun. I'd love to replicate that kind of setup with this new laptop.

The cult of model M has some truth in it. Yes it is a wonderful keyboard, but guess what, there are other good keyboards out there. They might not be Model Ms or unikey (or whatever the new makers of Model M are), but that doesn't mean they are crap.

You seem to be a developer since your comment is very focused on using this for development, which in my opinion is not where it would shine the most. Still, you could totally use an underpowered e-ink laptop as a development machine if you have an internet connection and leverage cloud services for a ton of stuff. A lot of developers are just pushing stuff to CI/CD pipelines anyway.

You're clearly not in the audience for this, but if you just do a bit of research around how much creative writers love their Freewrites, AlphaSmarts (no e-ink unfortunately), Pomeras, and other distraction free devices, you'd see that maybe some people would find this very appealing.
The Dutch childrens magazine Donald Duck included a DIY cardboard 3 bit computer in four editions in 1980. It was powered by a marble and gravity and it included QA cards, like “What shall we eat? followed by three questions (hungry? Want sweet? etc) and then on the back of the cards there were eight answers. You set the switches to left or right, put in the marble at the top and looked up the answer corresponding to the place where the marble appeared.

I was seven years old and at that moment I decided I wanted to become a computer scientist. It determined my life.

http://rene.steetskamp.nl/2015/04/
Lit is a Tool, not the Technology
> Believe me when I tell you that I could have worked on the entire software myself in 5 months

Sure. People always over-estimate their abilities, and under-estimate problem complexity. It's easy to say something like the above when you're already looking at the solution.
Hire better engineers and make the process less stressful by reading code
It's a sad thing that there is so little money in making scientific software; better make some dumb flashy app if you want to retire early.
>Isn't that for the market to decide?

I couldn't care less about the market. I am personally not in the slightest convinced by this product and I specifically asked other people to please tell me why they would want it. I just really dislike bullshit products (not projects) that lead nowhere and brain drain the open source world.
This guy also wrote a hater’s take on open-source a few months back: https://liou28335.medium.com/why-i-dislike-open-source-acbc2...

Something tells me he’s gunning for that Medium paycheck.
What's cooking on Sourcehut? May 2022
Or you could just stop thinking about it. Especially because your subscription + refund would cost you exactly the same. You may want to set a cap on searches to 20$ per month.

I used to optimise things excessively (eg. when grocery shopping, phone spending pay as you go) - then I stopped when I realised it's not worth the effort compared to what I make in a day.
Finding out what needs doing - through meetings, documentation and so on - is very much a part of software development unless there is only one developer and he is also the only stake holder.

This isn't even necessarily inefficient, because productively doing work that isn't needed isn't helping anyone either.
This does not look like disagreement to me, but rather a distinct perspective of the same thing (was it the issue, or the symptom?).

Getting hit with a shitty undocumented or doomed to fail project is part of the problem/risk being managed or not: on some occasion, it can kill the team/project/company, on some other, it can be managed more or less successfully, but still in a way that is _not regular_ against the baseline.

When you get a project handled by a larger team of people apparently doing "not much", 1/2/3 of these leaving will not change the baseline of the project they were working on (or if it does, then comes the pressure to reorganize again to avoid that disruption).

It's "a bit" similar to the 40% lazy ants thing (https://boingboing.net/2017/09/12/living-larders.html).
I'm still rocking my 20yr old Onkyo amp. Maybe they're out of business because lots of people are still using their old equipment happily? Anecdotes, huh.
You missed out the difficult part of distribution. This isn't exactly easy or cheap. Ask Walmart or any other retailer. Even the direct-to-consumer ones have to spend a lot on distribution.
The former allegedly injects himself with young people blood so him.
Don't confuse money supply growth and inflation. (Unless you're a monetarist, of course, but their doctrine has been quite convincingly refuted over the last decade and a half.) Inflation is change in the price of real goods.

BTC experiences 1.7% money supply growth p.a. until the next halving, and it had deflation on the way up to $60k. BTC had 100% inflation since then, obviously, way worse than fiat.

Fiat had massive money supply growth since the GFC, but virtually no inflation until now (which can be explained by supply chain problems due to COVID, war, and too loose fiscal policy (Biden's stimulus arguably too large, after Obama's was too small)).
That's irrelevant then. It's significantly easier to return to your home country knowing that you could always go back to Germany etc without too much hassle.

For non-EU citizens/permanent residence holders (which is actually not as simple to acquire as it sounds) it's a far more difficult decision that it is for EU citizens.

In the extreme case of the United States, if you leave the US for more than 6 months as a green card holder without acquiring a re-entry permit (which is good for only up to 2 years. There's no way to leave the US for more than 2 years as a green card holder and to be able to return with any certainty)

And even worse, virtually all illegals in the US are inadmissible for 10 years after they leave the US, so there's no path to legal status for them at all. And if they have illegally re-entered after deportation, they are banned for life.
It could also be a simple user error- there’s been stories on HN on how people racked up massive bills for example because CI was running continuously etc.
I know this is a hot take, but Google isn't literally evil. If there's a future when the entire world becomes a work-free utopia, they're not going to stop it just to make sure they can send children to coal mines while twirling their moustaches.

The fact that Google supports major open-source projects today is a good indicator that they're perfectly capable of participating in widely beneficial projects that only benefit them indirectly.
It's basically the platform to build platforms like these (and some of them already run on it).

K8S offers the same primitives and more, with progressive complexity as you need it. You can deploy a single container with a 1-line command or an entire PaaS subsystem. It's also more portable than any single platform and you can run it on a few VPS instances or your own bare metal. I've also found it far more reliable than all these PaaS services that have their own issues with no visibility.

K8S experience is also more valuable and useful in future projects and there are plenty of nice DX tooling to make deploys easy if that's the blocker.
Yep. I think the author fails to understand that coding is only a small part of the process of writing production software.
While I was a googler I got very frustrated while trying to help a friend regain their old YouTube account that they knew the password, email, and phone number associated but because they did not still have access to that phone number the automated system didn't let them log in with the password the system confirmed was correct. Absolutely no traction gained despite trying multiple different avenues to get help.
Evaluating Compulsory Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates
The delivery of the message is a rant. It’s blunt and negative. But the content is something that many polite, loyal workers will tell you after a beer or two (so to speak).

You are mentioning perspective and priorities. But from what I know these are exactly the problem. The more people you have that are disconnected from production and use, the more BS work tends to get generated. Not only because of increased bureaucracy and overhead, but also because decisions get made by disjointed actors and are often based on buzzwords or company politics.
> 7/10 would not recommend

Why no recommendation? Seemed like a positive overall experience.
Solana transactions cost thousands of a cent and settle in 30ms.

Which, incidentally, is why it's the blockchain with the second highest number of users. Basically free and instant transactions enables seamless integration with the web.