skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a number of ways I can prove you wrong here, and I find it pretty endearing that you "know where I'm coming from" but think that things like Matrix and the Fediverse are foreign to me. Zero-knowledge proofs, look at you! It's like Little Einsteins in here.

Here's the gist: I despise centralized services. Apple, Google and Microsoft are some of the most evil companies I can imagine, and their atrocities that they committed against the web will never see trial because nobody cares enough to hold them accountable.

There, happy? I hate the establishment as much as you do.

I would still prefer for any one of those companies to control the web over Solana or Terra.

I love IPFS, Matrix and Mastodon. All wonderful technologies, and much as you said, "truly decentralized". They're excellent examples of federation, and great pieces of software if you consider yourself an internet power-user. However, the average person will never use a single one of those technologies. There's simply no reason for them to use it. Google Drive is easier than Dropbox. Discord is simpler than Matrix. Twitter is faster than setting up Mastodon. Again, all of this incredible technology that you're speaking of has existed for years, and nobody has used it for anything significant. There is no "internet" moment, not even a BBS moment where we can see faint glimmers of light from the future. We got digital apes and a plethora of rug-pull scams, plus hundreds of millions in stolen coins that has yet to be recovered.

You have to be pragmatic about change, otherwise you turn into a Richard Stallman: maybe ideologically correct, but so far-removed from normal human society that you can't be taken seriously. There are several noble people out there working in the field of decentralization, least of which being the people who bicker with people endlessly on forums while also promoting esoteric flavor-of-the-week Blockchains. HN knows good decentralization when they see it, which is why projects like Mastodon and Tor get upvoted, and things like OpenSea and $APE_TOKEN get flagged. There's nothing novel about this technology anymore, "average joe" has spoken and said he's not switching to Mastodon because Kanye doesn't have an account there. It's cool, but has no support even among the people who hate Twitter.

It's fun to nerd-out about cool protocols, but Web3+ is DOA. I don't even know how you're arguing some of this stuff with a straight face when not a single major browser vendor even supports this junk.

PS: Don't try to claim Mastodon, IPFS and Matrix as Web3. Just because they use secure cryptography doesn't make them comparable to the half-baked dreck that is coming out of the Web3 space right now. They're decidedly Web2-based protocols, every single one of them was built on the backbone of traditional networking models.
As a long-time Linux user, I do not understand how everyone still tolerates how Gnome (and Wayland) do things.

Breaking backward compatibility ought to be considered the cardinal sin of open source/free software, and they get away with it too much.
> I have no idea why on earth we still have slotted engineering screws with a cheeky short cylinder on the end to aid initial contact, to hold electrical faceplates onto back boxes.

I would assume that it's because in areas where it's possible for the head of the screw to get "gunked up" with paint or dirt, that a slotted head is easiest to scrape away the material and restore function. You generally don't need any special tools for this -- you can use the screwdriver already in your hand.

I noticed this feature when watching some wooden boatbuilding channels that specifically use slotted head screws in places where the fasteners are recessed in the wood and will be filled and sealed with wood plugs. The slotted screws can be cleaned out later if repairs need to be made.
I think this is a bit of hyperbole. SwiftUI itself does a decent enough job. It's kind of like React without much of the ecosystem.

If you start with SwiftUI and need to integrate sone part of UIkit without really knowing the patterns, it's daunting for a while, but it's kind of an interesting daunting. My biggest issue is in the blurry line between iOS SwiftUI and mac swiftUI capabilities. A lot of examples are written by ios devs, who aren't even thinking about mac discrepancies
yeah I'm kicking myself for not setting up a timelapse camera. it was impressive.
If that makes you weary, you should try explaining engineering to business people!
A condominium is an ownership structure, where each owner owns the exclusive rights to some portion of a building (or set of buildings) and share common ownership in the rest of the condo association. I fail to see how that's even passingly like a timeshare, except that both typically have fees and involve real estate.
Building a Sevenesque Roadster
I think that if there was just one delivery service, they could absolutely make a good business.

Now, I mean, would it be a good business that was used by 80% of the population multiple times per week? No. As you point out, it's intractably expensive. But there's nothing wrong with a business that sells a relatively expensive luxury, and it's not sooo expensive to have a meal delivered that only a tiny fraction of the population would ever use it.
That's because Reddit greatly limits RSS access. It's not Feedly's issue, but Reddit.
Food delivery is practical, mainstream and has been for 40+ years in the West.

It works great "inhouse". They tend to know all their regular customers and area and know exactly how to get there, where to park, which bell to press etc. They will also know if there is bad traffic or an accident closing a major road and adjust wait times and order frequency accordingly.

The person that runs the delivery joint can also wait until he knows his/her driver will be making his way back, and only start cooking then, so the next order doesn't get cold waiting for a pickup.

It all goes to shit when you put a tech platform which has absolutely no real interaction with the kitchen and outsource the riders entirely, with virtually no quality control and no local knowledge. Plus they also want to take 30-50% commission for the privilege.

Ubers margins are comically bad. Uber Eats did $13bn of revenue and they made $30m of EBITDA - 0.2%. The credit card networks are probably making 10x the money that Uber on each order. And that EBITDA will be with them pulling out all the stops now they have realised they need to get profitable fast.
By that token, you're not free and clear if there are homeowner association fees or property taxes. Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
I agree with this statement, there is clear delineation between back-end and infra. I imagine because there been significant time to stabalise expections and behavior that the front-end guys haven't had time to develop.
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One of the more entertaining things in my life, is watching others "figure me out."

I'm pretty "out of band" (read: "weird").

I am generally fairly friendly, and open.

Lots of folks perceive that as weakness.

It's actually kind of entertaining, when they find out they got it wrong. Boy, do they get pissed.

Not everyone loves me. I cry myself to sleep over that, every night.

And, to stay on topic, I have no interest in categorizing others. It generally doesn't work well. The whole "You can tell a man by his handshake" thing is hilarious.
I think being honest with yourself - and others by extension is the key. Someone else won't MAKE you happy. And no one really knows they want to marry and have kids with someone they just met on a first date. It's so hypothetical. So be honest with yourself and that will flow into your relations with others.
Counter point:

I just got rejected for a short ride from a cab at the airport in nyc. Dude was very angry I was only going a few miles. Hopped out, ordered a Lyft, got a great ride from a dude with a wife and kids.
> Spreadsheets are often more maintainable, more usable, and more extensible than most software projects.

I would love to see someone successfully bridge the gap between spreadsheets and software. Just some version control and testing would be amazing
> Opt in never works though... tragedy of the commons

That is not the "tragedy of the commons". (Even if Tragedy of the Commons is rubbish)

Make clear why, and people will opt in. If they do not tough luck. Be more attractive next time.

I have experience in exactly this (in a different domain).
Where does this come from? I hear it all the time.

Nearly everything starts out expensive and difficult, then over time, with innovation it becomes cheaper. Coal, oil and gas were the same until all the infrastructure was made, mining technology improved.

What do people who write this same comment over and over want people to do? Nothing?
> Here is Australia in the 1980's

I think it's safe to say he's in Australia.
It's typical "bait and switch" and that's why it simply doesn't work out in the long run...

A company starts a web site and sets pricing on their service at a very low rate, while subsidizing it's financial loss with investment money at a loss. The company gradually increases costs and pricing over time for suppliers, employees, and on users until it finds a sweet spot in hopes that no one will notice, while also protecting itself carefully with PR and legal moves and careful management of overhead costs for operations... Most often the company manages minimal customer support, insurance, lawyers, a web site, marketing teams, and an office of public affairs, and that's the primary focus.

Often times, ownership frequently funnels profit out through selling shares, and though executive pay, until eventually the company succeeds or fails miserably.

These are not commendable business ventures like the press would have you believe, they're time sharing schemes that victimize almost everyone who invests in them, and they undermine vital services that would normally be regulated like the taxi cab industry, which was doing quite well before Uber came in and scorched it to ashes.

Many cities gave ride share companies huge subsidies and concessions to operate, few of which benefits they've passed on to drivers and riders, and surge pricing is about as scandalous and opportunistic as monopolizing a river then selling the water to the villages it used to lead to. I wouldn't be surprised if these companies are also pushing campaigns and lobbies against individual car ownership as well through employees, and brigading in places like reddit, because that only furthers their death grip on monopoly status.

The corporate world is wildly toxic these days, I'm skeptical of everything companies tell me because everyone is opportunistically dictating prices and terms, and they've abandoned customer service and all of the principles the present at orientation behind the scenes.
Sometimes the title does not fit in the HN submission box.
>Food delivery also isn’t very practical in developed country markets without a huge increase in productivity vs labor costs.

But pizza and chinese delivery was a thing in the US long before delivery apps were a thing. Clearly it was practical at some small scale in the US. I don't see any reason why it can't be expanded to other restaurants (eg. by sharing delivery drivers so a restaurant doesn't have to have an entire FTE on payroll).
JavaScript is used for a lot of different things.

* Real-time, graphics-intensive applications (d3, three.JS, etc.)
* Chrome extensions/PWAs
* Server-side code (NestJS, Express, etc.)
* Server-client-side-hybrid code (SSR)
* Single page apps (React, Svelte)
* Documentation or static site generation (Gatsby, etc.)
* Query language (Mongo)

Further you have a lot of personalities you're supporting:

* Frontend devs
* Backend devs
* The complexity-embracing folks (React)
* The complexity-hiding folks (Svelte)
* Marketing teams who don't really want to be coding (Squarespace, jQuery, Alpine)

Even with all that, some tooling is going to be better at doing what it needs to than others. The tooling is all still very young, because we never settled on one right way to do it, probably because the package system in JS is so bananas. The bundlers/minifiers/packagers/transpilers all need to compete and come together still, it hasn't happened yet.
If putting on a wedding ring attracts guys who want to get married, I'd be pretty surprised. Or kind of curious about why a guy who wants to get married would be going after a married woman! On the other hand, if it leads to friendship without the pressure, why not?
Modesty is an underappreciated aspect of running a successful company. The endless pursuit of growth is usually a byproduct of ego or at the behest of some intangible idea of "creating shareholder value."

Just fucking create a killer product and work on refining that product to the best of your abilities. If you get bored, start a new company. You don't have to grow every company into the next Apple.
It probably is the way the author set stuff up.

For myself, I spend many hours, polishing my courses.

This one is a bit dated, but you can see what I mean: https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY/ITCB-master
> The study recommended abolishing life without parole and limiting all life sentences to 20 years, except where a person remains a public safety risk after serving time.

Are there any examples of prisoners who have served 20 years or more of a life sentence but wouldn't currently be considered a public safety risk?
Fascinating.

You can have an iron deficiency, even if your hemoglobin levels are normal, because iron does more than just carry oxygen in red blood cells: It's a cofactor for many enzymes.

I'm curious if there's a third variable at play here; something preventing the iron from being accessible (since our bodies normally break down ferritin to access the iron), especially when hemoglobin levels are otherwise normal.

I suspect there might be.
For many people, reducing or cutting dairy and meat consumption is a non-starter. There are many cultural and personal reasons for this.

I think if your plan to reduce problematic gasses in the atmosphere is to encourage mass dietary change, I don't think that's a realistic plan. Hence, next idea please.
> It eventually pissed off free users enough that they switch to other paid alternatives. That's pretty sad honestly.

Yes but not for Feedly, for those users.
cheaper than climate change
You can still get the premium cars if you pay extra for it. But most people (including me) just opt for the cheapest option.
I'm still looking for something that notifies me when someone else posts or comments. Twitter followees for HN. I used to have an app that did that, 10 years ago.
And ironically I think that's where they may end up long term.
> best method of communication for anything complex

I disagree. Email is a terrible medium for collaborative editing/creation of a document (whether source code or human language).
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Beginners may try to optimize some things, but by fact of their newness, don't even understand the extent to which they can optimize.

Think of the futility of ex-FAANG engineers who try to implement similar technology (e.g., reproducible and declarative build systems) at a 10-person startup.
Distributed workplaces bring their own problems. Are you supposed to also uproot and move every time you get a new job?
This would only be true if public fast charging stations were the only way to charge EVs, but that's not the case. Most EV owners charge at home or work most of the time. (As a Tesla owner myself, only 2.34% of my total mileage has been from Superchargers.)
Their explicit mentioning of Australia makes me thing they're in Australia.
That makes a lot of sense. First, it follows the theory of just being friends without the pressure of something long-term. Having time to get to know someone. Also, the number of choices does make things harder.
Which ... they do.

Just use an app. It's great.
The Gold Coast and Queensland are in Australia, so you're 100% on the money. You see Surf Life Saving raffles for gorgeous homes and cars all the time. I imagine the laws in our country (I'm also in Australia, though not Australian) mean the advertised prizes have to be winnable.
And that's what I do. I just find it too bad because it's interface is really not bad, and it's fairly capable at what it does.

To me, I don't care really, but in 2022, photography is still an underserved segment in the open source software world. I feel like they can have their opinion, but then allow others to have a UI element to turn it on if they so choose.

There's a lot of high quality gear floating around ebay for fairly cheap compared to when they were new.
Timeshares are very similar but the difference is that you typically only get a week or two to stay there - it's jointly owned by others.

That obviously has a big impact on resell value - so much to the point that some timeshare owners can't give it away let alone sell it, because no one wants to be beholden to the maintenance fees.
Yes but then the ceo can't walk off with a gazillion dollars
It seems you’re right because all the major companies in the space are running at huge losses and not just due to an intentional choice to scale rapidly. But it also seems very surprising this is true.

Uber gets away with charging one side of the market 30% of food prices and charging the other side of the market a delivery fee, a service fee and a tip. This typically comes out to 50% of food costs if you use an average tip.
"When we use a blockchain, people's risk of losing money is reduced?" Um, no.

This person is purposely avoiding the facts in something like Web 3 Is Going Great[0] in order to shill for crypto.

[0] https://web3isgoinggeeat.com
As the article explains several times: Self. Centering. For manufacturing, it's a non-trivial property.

For manual work, also as the article said multiple times, yes roberson and torx are fine, even better.
>They tend to know all their regular customers and area and know exactly how to get there

>They will also know if there is bad traffic or an accident closing a major road and adjust wait times and order frequency accordingly.

irrelevant in the age of GPS navigation with live traffic (ie. google maps)

>where to park, which bell to press etc.

while I don't doubt delivery drivers accrue such knowledge over time, I doubt that the turnover is low enough for this to actually make a difference. It's certainly not enough to make such a service unviable.

>The person that runs the delivery joint can also wait until he knows his/her driver will be making his way back, and only start cooking then, so the next order doesn't get cold waiting for a pickup.

This doesn't seem very hard to do. Restaurants can let the delivery platform know how long each dish to prepare, and the delivery platform can tell them ahead of time when to prepare the food (after factoring in driver availability and distance).
A few startups have tried to bring the reactivity of spreadsheets to notebook-style development -- Hex for python and Observable for JS.
This might be Wayland's killer app. I usually say the only reason I'd ever use wayland is when Mint makes it default.

Otherwise, it's cool and all, but it's not a complete spec by itself since it leaves stuff like screen recording to implementations.

When distros are confident enough to say their implementation is ready, I'll accept it, till then, it doesn't seem to have any real big new features besides the secure isolation.
> Food delivery also isn’t very practical in developed country markets without a huge increase in productivity vs labor costs

What on earth are you talking about. Pizza and Chinese restaurants have been profitably delivering food for decades.

The UberEats model in particular may be unprofitable, but there are absolutely profitable models that have existed for far longer than I’ve been alive.
It's something that might trip people up, but due to West/East Germany split and Interflug going under after unification, Berlin airports are peripheral - leaves in flight graph, not hubs except for low cost airlines. Lufthansa continues to use Munich and Frankfurt as hubs.
Automated background checks are deciding who's fit for a home
Uber crushed themselves in food.

As a customer, I would get the wrong food about half the time in NYC even pre-pandemic. I complained and got a refund the first couple of times but then they stopped refunding me when it kept happening. Clearly thought I was fraudulently trying to get meals for free. Thing is, I’ve been a customer since the black car only days. Been Uber VIP for my high rating as a customer. Problem wasn’t with me. If they can’t get quality control done with their restaurants then they don’t deserve my money. I’d rather go direct. I’ve never had a problem go unresolved going direct. In fact, I’ll often use Uber to find a restaurant near me and then call them direct to order to avoid their lousy customer service.
Of course you've never gotten a phone call from McDonald's, but EVERYONE has gotten a scam phone call.
There are thousands of people serving life sentences for non-violent crime [1]. I can't be sure any of them has served two decades already but it seems likely.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/report/living-death-life-without-parole...
It sounds like they're raking in a lot from this, so you'd kinda think they'd be best off actually giving away a car like, once every 5 years. To literally never give out the thing they're advertising seems like playing with fire. (The actual supposed big prize—after you jump through a lot of other hoops—is $100k, but same deal.)
Maybe COVID broke the habit for restaurants and/or coffee shops? It certainly gave a lot of people time to think about where they were career-wise and how and whether they wanted to work. It really messed up child care which I think is still a problem - keeping primarily women home tending to kids rather than working. Couple this with boomer retirement and there's a whole lot of missing workers.

And if the service industry habits don't return, that'll keep cash on the sidelines and workers out of the restaurants and shops. Retail was getting whacked vs. on-line shopping pre-COVID and it's only gotten worse, so that's another transfer of workers into other industries. Maybe the car-based startups (Uber, food delivery) will have cashflow issues to free up some workers, but it hasn't happened yet. And there's worse things that Amazon warehouses I guess (such as airport staff and screeners)?

Hope things get better re: travel next year.
He also mentions Queensland
Customer Intelligence
I'd like them to automatically delete all the data they have on me, and then never collect any more.
Russias Super EMP Weapons Explained [video]
I like how you said using containers, similar to how CI servers tend to be configured.
I found a book I've been looking for, but it was only an image scan pdf.

I OCR'ed it, and I'm slowly fixing the errors and converting to epub.

Tedious, but interesting.
> Food delivery... works great "inhouse".

but

> Plus they also want to take 30-50% commission for the privilege.

If food delivery works great in house then why do restaurants pay Uber so much? I'd wager employing drivers is impractical for a lot of restaurants.