skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've replaced some rotted windowsills. You can patch them up to a point, but it's a losing game. In particular, replace any rotted casing or casing which is splitting at the bottom due to dry rot. You have to keep the water out. Prime new casing pieces six sides and be sure to flash the tops and caulk the verticals against the clapboards.
> Musk has always been a liberal/progressive

He labels himself moderate.
Git actually also has annotate: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-annotate
Yeah, I begrudgingly use Nextdoor to make sure I don’t get put on blast for going on a run or walking my kid to school too close to someone’s driveway, and the unfathomably bad design and functionality of their mobile site has me convinced that they’d be incapable of intentionally implementing dark patterns.
1. I hate Jira, but that isn't the main issue

2. Atlassian has a terrible way of managing feature requests priorities, not unique to them, but they definitely have an impact on many developers, which is why they (deserve and) get the huge shaming

3. I managed to move my company from Bitbucket to GitLab, for many reasons, but the main reason for me was that I simply couldn't manage the settings using their APIs, they have a very weird concept of APIs

4. They send people to fill in tickets and on Uservoice, but rarely do they actually listen to reasonable requests (tickets I still get notifications: Bitbucket user public SSH keys and Archiving projects in Bitbucket)

5. So the issue is not this or that product, it is that Atlassian doesn't have the real end users in mind, just the paying users, the end users can suffer, but not many people will resign over a product used at their company, so nobody really fights the company over it, and thus Atlassian keeps getting paid for terrible products that get new terrible interfaces from time to time

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My trust of Apple is derived from observing how they make money.

Applying the same analysis, I can't say the same for the US Government or my own country's government. Or even the EFF, which (and I realise this is a controversial thing to say) does NOT have any economic incentive to protect my privacy.
I still do today but totally by force of habit. It's just something we always did when growing up.
Of all the places to use market forces, this one is it. Users of the water should bid. The price will round to zero for consumers, but ag will have to make decisions they should have made long ago.
NextDoor continues to spam you even after unsubscribing from everything. Some how every month I get a random new email, and some how another new email subscription is enabled in my account.

Also, advertising on their platform brings almost $0 ROI. The only benefit was a decently ranked back link.
There is not a single respectable startup in existence that will give a random employee options or stock with liquidation preferences. For 99.9% of startups that would involve making a new class of shares for you, which ain’t gonna happen.

Investor is of course completely different for many reasons and I’m not speaking to that. And anyways unless you are leading the round, which you aren’t, you are just getting whatever preferences the lead is getting anyways.
The first point is definitely true - for sure, this can’t be possible for the first year (or even two) of the startup anyway since we need to get a viable product off the ramp and garner enough interest and hopefully revenue. I agree that we can’t compromise on overall productivity.

Which brings me to the next point which is that I do strongly believe that productivity will not take a massive hit overall - as much as managers like to think engineers are like factory workers assembling a toaster, my personal observation has been that we’d get things done when they are needed (within reason) and would subconsciously pad out the time when we can afford to.

A long sabbatical would make me immensely happy and I think more focused when I’m actually working. Importantly if we all prepare for the same full on break that’s scheduled that’s more manageable than individual engineers taking time off at random intervals and having everyone cover for them.

Just still spitballing so for sure all comments are appreciated.
I'm kinda interested in the underlining element from the site. Is that some sort of sentiment analysis tool or is it just a manual "highlight" of the loud parts?
This is a good opportunity for people to learn some basic media literacy and how to deconstruct propaganda.

For the record, I'm o fthe opinion that the evidence for climate change is clear, compelling and undeniable. So don't take this or my previous comment to any kind of denial. Climate change is real. It's just not the primary cause of the problem.

So, what we see with an effort to blame this on climate chang eis an effort at misdirection. Climate change as a political issue tends to follow left vs right divisions. If you're left-leaning, you tend to believe in climate change. If you're right leaning, you tend to be a denier.

Agricultural industries are, by their nature, rural. Rural voters tend to be conservative. So why is a business that leans conservative blaming climate change for the Colorado River problems? Because it blames the issue that many will deny the existence of and for those that don't deny, many will believe there's nothign that can be done.

And on the left, some so want the very real issue of climate change to be taken seriously, they'll latch onto any media coverage that shows the ill-effects of climate change, even when climate change isn't the primary cause. I personally believe this undermines the cause because when people realize it's an unrelated issue it undermines that issue.

So agribusiness blaming this on climate change is smart propaganda because people on both sides will latch onto the narrative (for different reasons).

But this is propaganda.
Secondhand stores in Tokyo are definitely better for old tech. I suppose in the US, either collectors keep it in their bigger houses, or else everything gets damaged in transit or isn’t worth selling long distance.

In Tokyo you can sell it back when you’re done, and that’s easier than trying to keep it in your apartment.
Uses https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-privacypass-protocol-04.h... I believe
IMHO Consciousness is a pattern in space-time, with the ability to represent itself. I don't find a strong argument to the contrary here.
JIRA might be OK if the organization on the receiving end of the JIRA queue is OK. JIRA can be no better than that organization.
Its strange to me that people aren't talking about glasses or goggles rather than bulky uncomfortable headsets. There is a big difference between a bulky headset where you can't see or do anything else and a normal pair of hands-free glasses.

When it gets to the point of comfortable, unobtrusive and affordable AR/VR/MR glasses with good hand and head tracking built in, that will be a really different experience than the current standard. Maybe throw in a couple of small convient cameras that can just plug in and adhesive to the wall for external tracking.

And with the high speed Wifi available now, or the possibility of connecting to a smart phone (maybe in a pocket or some type of necklace-like carrier), I don't think you need a lot of compute in those devices.

So imagine you just put these glasses on and get 6 virtual wide screen monitors, turn to the right and its your favorite virtual coffee shop, with people inside with fairly realistic recreations from the capture and expression and eye tracking being done by the external cameras. There is 3d positional audio as well.

Imagine with a small camera on the desk, or built into the glasses, doing finger tracking on virtual keyboards. Suppose someone makes a little 'clicky' membrane that provides a bit of tactile feedback regardless of where you press on it.

Now I only need my smart phone and a pair of glasses. I don't need a monitor or a keyboard. Once people realize that every virtual keyboard can easily be 100% customized for any application, physical keyboards may become passé.

When you have good eye and expression tracking, realistic avatars enabled by high-performance AI models, 3d positional audio, realistic environments.. then there really isn't that much difference from being there in person. And there are a huge number of advantages such as convenience and time saving, being able to instantly "travel" to a popular hangout spot even if you are 400 miles away from your friends, etc.

Pretty much everything you can do now in VR, but make it more comfortable and remove some of the friction points, better integration between applications and with the real world, somewhat more realistic, etc.

Suppose automation and robotics continue to improve. Maybe artificial muscles like https://www.artimusrobotics.com/ are widely deployed, enabling high strength-to-weight ratio mobility and much more dexterous, faster, and more general-purpose robots.

In 20 years people may look back and be amazed at how much time and energy we wasted driving around to do everything in person, and how everyone restricted the majority of their "in-person" interactions to small localities.
And when Venmo bans you for using it in the "wrong country" as has happened to friends of mine? Or when PayPal freezes your account because you're "suspicious"? or Robinhood stops you buying a stock because it's hurting their friends?

You may be ok with companies messing with your life because they can, many of us are not. Especially non US citizens where we face a lot more financial discrimination.
> you were creating it from a network that somebody had used for a lot of IG account creation

I'm so tired of people insisting on using IP addresses for things that aren't packet routing.
Free markets can't "work" to solve these kinds of coordination problems unless NP=P, because taking information into account is an NP-hard problem.
FWIW, it is showing up as only $59.99 (!) at that link for me. Amazing!
The juxtaposition between “Conservatives make the same argument” and “Your in group is in power” seems to imply that you think liberals are in power. I can assure you that they are not, at least not in the US. They are currently in power in name only, and structurally even that will be an unlikely outcome for the foreseeable future.

> Society needs to learn how to tolerate differing opinions.

Would you care to expand on those?
Proper UI/UX design is tremendously difficult, which is why software engineers should never attempt it in a user-facing product. When it comes to on-screen text, you must choose your words very carefully, because someone out there will read them the wrong way.

Example: in the 90s, Windows, arguably one of the easiest commercial operating systems and certainly the most familiar, used to routinely frighten its users by falsely accusing them of crimes.

"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."

If you're wondering why software UX these days is a colorful, foam-padded Barney-esque hellscape of smiling Alegria people and error messages of the form "Oopsie, we made a boo-boo :(", this is why.
Can confirm this also works on Safari. Thanks for the tip!
Any books to recommend? Even better if audiobooks
I used to have a Newton, I tried developing for it in college. It was terrible but I learned so much from it. It was one of those things where everybody had to tell you how dumb you were to have it or use it. I had a similar experience with smart watches and believe it or not the first generation Samsung Note. I remember someone telling me I was ridiculous to have such a "big phone".

I don't know which thing will work out and which won't, but people telling you why they won't or will never use it is not that meaningful to me. I have seen too many things in my life that people say they will never use become quite common. I have always had my best successes on new technologies so I am always rooting for people trying to create new hardware.

FWIW I love my Quest 2 and use it every day. Your mileage will vary.
We will still have all legally mandated vacations available for sure (which is definitely limited in the US but still). I don’t see any other way around it. But I assume we will only have the legally mandated minimums in this regard. One possibility I am thinking is If the position they’re applying for allows them to work when most of the company is off (extremely productive IC or product manager for example) then they could flexibly take the sabbatical whenever.

As for matching schedules, children already have summers off, sure the spouses might not have the time off but doesn’t mean this can hurt? It’s only on top of standard vacation time.
I think you are saying that:

Mitutoyo are the best.

When you’ve visited professional shops they use Mitutoyo tools.

When you’ve visited hobbyist shops they are always using substandard (non Mitutoyo) tools.

Did I parse you correctly?
Yes. One of the big reasons that housing is (currently) more affordable in Texas compared to California is that Texas has relatively high property taxes and California has much lower property taxes, especially for Proposition 13 homes.

That may not last long if the Texas GOP continues to emulate California housing policies by seeking to repeal property taxes; if they do that they will soon start to also imitate the California-style housing crisis.
A few reactions:

Although you can just turn off notifications at the app level, this is annoying because it means you can't won't get notifications for emergency/safety notices, people messaging you directly, etc.

The number of relevant agencies will vary by your location, and in my 10 years on ND I have only received an agency notification once or twice. However, I think agencies were only introduced a few years ago, so things could be different in the future.

If you don't want to be bothered, use the website on your phone, not the app. And set up an email filter for anything from Nextdoor. If I need to communicate in real-time with anyone (to arrange pickup details for a for-sale item), I tell them to text me instead of DM.

On a related note, you can change your news feed preference among three settings. But if you choose something other than their desired algorithm, it informs you that this preference will be set for the next X days (45 or 90, I forget). I have never seen a preference that tells you up front that it will respect your wishes for some number of weeks before reverting to the default. Insane.
I find that the Wirecutter is awesome for things I will never go into stupendous depth for on my own — like spatulas. For anything more serious than that, it has increasingly been on the decline for years.
Just maybe we need a big infrastructure project to push water around the country from where it’s not needed to where it is? Throw in some desal.

People here love pointing at agriculture. Messing with farmers only has so much appeal. The US built dams and the highway system in times that were objectively worse than today. The vast majority of US GDP relies on that highway system and would have no alternative without it. Trains can’t make up for it alone.
Different incentives. If a company fails, employees would be disappointed but can go get another job pretty easy. For investors they lose a lot of money. Employees have less to gain+lose.

A collective of employees is not going to make better decisions than management. And if there are some who would, then they should be moved into management.

I only see the impact a union could have on improving morale and staff retention and therefore productivity if management/owners didn’t value it enough. These are things management are measuring and factoring in to their decisions. If management/owners are this bad then there isn’t much hope for the company.

And without a union management could simply provide autonomy to have the same effect. If Union force needs to be used to get mgmt to do the right thing for maximizing profits, it’s not really worth it.
I will likely be downvoted but I agree with the author. Not only for app icons but anywhere.

For example, if I am searching a programming language documentation site I do not need to see a political banner.

There is a time and place for political discussion and expression. It is not on my phone screen or sites meant to get things done.
Tender offers will only happen when somebody wants to buy stock, which means they think the stock price is lower than it will be in the future, which means they expect the company to grow or keep growing.

The companies where liquidation preferences are going to screw you are not going to be having tender offers, because by definition nobody wants to buy the stock! If they did want to buy the stock at above the current price then liquidation preferences aren’t coming into play.

(Note: I’m sure there are examples where a company did have a tender offer at some decent price before falling off a cliff and having a bad exit where the common stock was wiped out… but that is not common at all)
> so much "climate activism" seems to only exist to exist, and not to solve anything. I mean, all I want to see is a threat model and a list of realistic policies.

The problem is Twitter, not the activists. Real organizations and professionals in the industry write the kinds of analysis you're asking for all the time. You literally only need to Google something climate-change related and it's all you will see.

They include realistic scenarios with sensitivity analyses, and they enormous troves of data that you can download yourself if you want to see where it came from.

The problem isn't that this information is missing, it's that you're looking in the wrong place (and seemingly spending not even 10 seconds of effort to find it).

Here are the first five Google results for "climate change scenario":

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_scenario (includes citations for further reading)

- https://climatescenarios.org/primer/ (explains what they are, includes citations, and overlays multiple climate models onto the same graph so you can see the differences)

- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/5-pos... (summarizes the IPCC report, which is exactly what you're describing)

- https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/sres-en.pdf (an actual ICC report
There isn’t any assumption of malintent. I’m not sure where you’d draw that conclusion from.
> The market is speaking, and it's away from trust in govt and eff and into trust in Apple with correspondingly insane profit margins to apple as trust is substituted.

That's not how the market works. Consumers don't like, choose to funnel donations away from the EFF/taxes away from the government to Apple on the basis of "trust" in terms of all of this specific debate on privacy and the walled garden.
re: "bucket list" well I've learned something interesting today. I was solidly in the latter camp.
"Mission Accomplished!" Yes, they all get blamed for things not under their control.
I appreciate the depth of gamer’s nexus, but their videos are like watching someone read an Anandtech breakdown.
I am 100% sure there is no way you can actually be 100% sure about that.
Social recovery wallets are a much better solution than some website which may or may not have customer support giving me access to my data again.

Look at the amount of threads on HN of people pleading about how google banned them and they can't get through to a human to get their data back. Is that the future you want everywhere? You think having to talk to your parents + friends to recover your data is worse than that?
Quote: "Windows does not have a kill command..."

Yes, she does. It's called "taskkill"
Software optimization is never going to be solved.

Ultimately, software developers will ALWAYS stress the hardware to the limit. With labor saving software tools or else with performance hogging GUIs.

Simply put, devices need to keep up with the latest and greatest.
Modern captchas have gotten really annoying, too. You used to be able to just effortlessly type characters from a distorted image in 5 seconds, but now proving that you're an actual real human is so much work I'm tempted to automate it.
Ah, thanks, that does make more sense!
Advising is one method for advancing the (or helping the client to advance their) business. Unless you are hired specifically for an advisor role, it's not your job per se but a tool. Though I agree, it's a very important one. Something I keep trying to convince basically everyone around me to use whether they are contractors/entrepreneurs or employees. (And not just developers.)

Yes, sometimes clients don't listen. That may even be the default for a new relationship. But as a first attempt you should, I think, try to convince them. I'm definitely against the "I told them, they didn't listen, but after all, it's their decision/their problem" approach. But sometimes even that doesn't work. In those cases I think one should lay out the options (including the one the client wants to go with), enumerate all the pros and cons of each, make a suggestion again ("based on this I would go with....") but then let the client make the final call. Just be sure that they really understand the compromises and then evaluate the consequences when it's time. That can work wonders.

After being "right" a few times ("well, it turns out that you were right and we should have done this instead of that") they will listen by default. Better yet, pick up and learn the thought process. Now I quoted right, because it's not even necessarily true: just because their approach failed (or seems to have failed) doesn't mean that yours would have worked better ;). But, of course, since you are the professional, it's more likely and the lesson really is just that.
this is like henry ford's "whatever color you want"

its unlocked, but all the new proprietary VR apps are not going to be backwards compatible with it.

(not to drag it too much, I hope to be working on the open source side of the metaverse, but I think OP has a point about forward compatibility, there's very little reason to throw down good money for another headset with a limited lifespan, we're still in that early adoption / fast trash phase)
Is this configured as Cloudflare being a MITM of email?
Don't forget about the huge amount of paid reviews now too!
That’s actually why email is centralized now. Gmail’s good spam filtering works because it can see what’s going to every account.

Some email providers (Hey in the US) don’t accept emails from other senders without prior authorization from the user. IIRC Chinese providers won’t accept any of yours unless you have a contract with them.
In the US, I remember when the "wide-mouth can" gimmick became popular; nearly all the soda and beer brands adopted it at exactly the same time, because there's really only one supplier of aluminum-can-tops. I would expect that's true about the braille thing in Japan too.
If you eat a buffet and only have one plate, you don't get to complain and ask for a refund.

> keep charging them until they notice months or years later is indeed exploitative.

When is it the customer's fault for not cancelling? You're working very hard to avoid responsibility for the business contract you entered into.

> they stop experiencing marginal costs for me.

Which are a small part of the overall cost structure. So what?

> Nobody went out and bought another server just because I signed up

Absolutely they do. The business is managing its finances under the assumption of subscribers and LTV, and making investments accordingly based on those assumptions and forecasts.

> they're just exploiting me

For charging you for something you signed up for but were too lazy to manage properly?

> just get my money in without regard for whether I was going to get anything out of it

There you go passing the buck again. It's your responsibility to use the thing you signed up for.

> People who take money without providing value are at best economic parasites

You mean the money you're giving them as part of consensual business agreement?