skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish there was a program to enter hours into Jira (and related tasks of course) and upload them.

We have to use Jira for logging hours at work now because they think that makes us agile. Needless to say the only agile related thing we do is logging hours in Jira so that's a complete joke. Our project management department is full of complete idiots.

But Jira is such a dog to work with. Especially if you only enter stuff for the sake of it. It won't accept "7h33m", no it has to be "7h 33m". For every change you need to refresh all pages before they're picked up. It's ridiculously slow.

A frontend where I could just dump my made-up hours that would then take its time to upload that shit to Jira would really help me to be less stressed.
I read it as statement about mobile units being half compared to built units - so a third of the total? But it's incredibly ambiguous what they mean, I agree - number vs total is a weird bit to focus on if the problem is just an apples/oranges comparison.
From reading the ad, oops, article, it becomes clear it’s not the sustainable agricultural model that’s a problem, but a poorly planned transition before value chains for the different inputs are in place.
Just in time after yesterday's discussions, link to the subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32101342
South Vietnam was so corrupt and badly run that I would expect Vietnam to look much worse upon its legacy. Maybe looking more like Sri Lanka today.
Sorry for replying to self! I said:

> In fact unions can be seen as an adjunct to management.

That's arse-over-tit. My view has long been that management's purpose, in a company that makes stuff, is to remove obstacles from production staff. In that respect, they are servants: rather like clerks, or office managers. Managers are an adjunct to production workers, not the other way round.

I don't mean to disparage either clerks or office managers; most of the ones I've worked with were pure gold. But I've never met a useful project manager; and as you get higher in the monkey tree, you meet people who are more difficult/dangerous, and less helpful.

/me retired, had time to reflect on my career. A bit.

I always liked computers as a teen.

I started work in a Big-5 computer company, and gradually moved to smaller companies. Me and big companies wasn't a good match, on reflection. But I can't see what I could have done differently, at the time. Even in the light of what I've learned since.
Hi-tech Amazon clothing store misses the point of shopping
I used to work with someone who would frequently explode on group video calls, usually with the anger directed at a single victim.

I worked out that if it happened to me, I could use the OSX link conditioner (built in to XCode) to degrade the connection realistically. Coming back after he'd finished his tirade with a 'sorry, my internet capped out, could you repeat that' took a lot of the heat out of the situation.
Anyone know where I can buy a phone flashed with GrapheneOS? The thoughts of messing with my phone’s default OS is daunting and I’m scared of bricking it.
Wow, never knew about this case!

One should never underestimate an opponent!
Could you spell out WASP?
Because you might ship this to users and just having an app for them to click on and open is a lot more user friendly than telling people to type in some localhost URL or open browser tabs with "cryptic" urls.
If anyone very finds themselves hunting around for a method definition like this,

method(:blah_changed?).source_location

is your new best friend.
His step father was an immigrant from Cuba who came to the US at 16 without being able to speak English. His father ran a bike shop.

That's old money?
The one aspect that stands out to me is that it offloads liability for bad triage to the caller.
It takes time. Keep practicing by - re-reading, doing hands-on exercises. There are many fabulous resources shared by our fellow HNers. I think you got what you asked for!

Couple points from me:

Have someone conduct your mock interview, once you think you are ready. Also, don't hesitate from appearing in an interview at a company which you don't plan to join. Another good way to practice and demonstrate your skills.
Please press 1 if you are a danger to yourself or others, Please press 2...
Article explaining how many of these measurements are fake, distorted and how the add in artifical "adjustments" to make the temperature look artificialy higher than it is.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/07/15/net-zero-global-warming-...

>> Professor of Economics Ross McKitrick from the University of Guelph in Ontario noted that the number of weather stations providing data to GHCN plunged in 1990 and again in 2005. This had the effect of increasing the contribution from airports to around 50%.

>> About one half of all land surface temperature measurements used to show global warming and promote the command-and-control Net Zero agenda are taken near or adjacent to airport runways.

>> According to the satellite record, rarely mentioned in the mainstream media, the recent run of global warming started to run out of steam over 20 years ago.

>> McKitrick noted that the cuts reduced the average latitude of source data and removed relatively more cooler, high altitude monitoring sites. GHCN is said to apply correcting adjustments, but after 1990 their magnitude “gets implausibly large”.

>> Chicago’s O’Hare Airport was an orchard field with a measuring thermometer in the late 1800s and retains the ORD code to this day.

Obviously then if you use the O'Hare Airport past (when it was a grass field) vs present (a tarmac heat sink) temperature readings that you will get a huge increase that is unrelated to the temperature of the climate.
FYI There is a free online Scratch Conference July 21, 2022

https://www.scratchfoundation.org/scratch-conference
> I also think that's why the really huge companies tend to be in heavily regulated environments.

Because the burden of regulation becomes a barrier to new entrants, ass opposed to the entrenched players who adopted them incrementally over the years.

In general I’m a fan of regulation, but I do understand it’s concomitant limitations and downsides.
Ask HN: If you're a good programmer that also means you're good at ____________?
I bought a wireless home internet subscription and a router with WAN failover capabilities because I was tired of 10 minute outages 3 times a week. Great for you if Comcast provides you with premium product. They simply do not here.

I'm not completely unsympathetic to people stuck with DSL since I grew up with dial-up and that's still all my parents can get (apart from wireless), but I'm absolutely entitled to and will continue to bitch about Comcast's service when relevant.
Rusty metal covered in dirt, grease, and oil probably does pretty badly though.
What's the household leverage ratio there in US? That in CN is 72% in 22Q1, and even bigger in big cities.

Edit: CN definition: (household leverage ratio) = (mortgages paid in 22Q1) / (total disposable income in 22Q1)
Yes. Spring for 512/16 or more.
Agree with all.

> I enjoyed it for what it was, a reimagining.

Akin to the various incarnations of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I LOVED the movie. Perfect romantic story.

The radio play, TV series, books, and then movie were all their own thing. And best enjoyed as such.

The critics (of either) would complain if they were being hung with an old rope. They suck all the oxygen out of the room.
Meanwhile, a friend was posting suicide notes on Facebook, and Facebook did nothing about it. She was already in a hospital, but for some reason she had access to her phone for a while.

She also posted a fake death announcement by her mom. Then attempted suicide, and was in ICU for a few days. People were engaging a lot, freaking out.

So yeah, Facebook fails miserably at everything.
Heck, why not go with lab grown sapphire like they oringinally planned to with the Apple Watch.
Have you seen "0118 999 881 999 119 725 3"[1] in IT Crowd?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ
The old money kids don't have to use the open-plan offices, and they usually either get choice roles (not regular SWE work, but GoogleX stuff) or directly put on the management track (since they're almost never coding for more than 2-4 years out of school). They get put in as proteges of high-level people and what they do on a day-to-day basis doesn't matter; it's more like a college major than a career, something to say they did.

You're right that they don't need to work. They do it to legitimize themselves. And, of course, to make sure any genuine opportunities go to their social class and not the rest of us.
I agree with you, and just wanted to add that saying one pays “more” in interest than the original loan value is implicitly ignoring the time value of money, in particular equating 2022 currency with 2052 currency.
> It does have to do with mobility of capital in that many of these "international" competitors are still reliant on American capital and are owned in no small part by American institutional investors.

The Japanese auto industry, like virtually all of postwar Japan, was almost entirely financed by Japan's persistently high domestic savings rate. You don't have to take my word for it, just look at the long and persistently high current account deficit Japan has with the US. Japan is a huge net exporter of capital, not importer, and it has been for 50 years.
In undergrad I worked with this group for a while: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/papers/reduct-chi17/

They took the basic idea of Scratch, then made it into more of a game with levels, each level being a puzzle to (implicitly) teach or test programming concepts. As you progressed it'd introduce new syntax, while slowly "fading" more familiar syntax towards actual JavaScript code (though retaining the block/GUI-based interface).

We did some more work on further iterations but I'm not sure what became of it all.
When I first got into construction a couple decades ago, I was working for a roofing and siding contractor doing a new development. Houses were going up so fast that as soon as we finished one house, the next was one ready for us. My recollection is probably about 12 to 15 weeks start to finish, which is approximately in line with your 100 day number.

Although, if you already have the land, you can potentially buy a mobile home, have it delivered and setup, utilities hooked up, and move in within a week, for a lesser overall price. There are a lot of tradeoffs, though.
reading and understanding law.
I'm really going to miss the behind-the-scenes year-end posts about Candy Japan! I've been reading them for a decade or so? I hope you'll keep blogging and sharing what you're up to, but even if not, thank you for all those fascinating glimpses into the finances and numbers behind a fun product.
This is a very common bug. Lots of software think all gifs are animated - Telegram is a good example. We've all forgotten our history.
"p-FBID" probably means "path FBID" in contrast to query string ones.
Very neat website. I love that it gets you right into it with no presentation homepage.

Regarding the market system: why did you pick a lump price rather than a bidding system?

A few notes for improvement: the “My projects” page feels empty at first: it could use a call-to-action with a quick explainer and a button. The “Go home” button has an odd wording; maybe “Main page”? Clicking on the logo to go to the main page is a classic, but not everyone is used to it; adding a link from the hamburger menu could be good. The website pricing and the way to settle are a bit unclear.
You might be a great and ethical person whose cynicism about the behavior of others grew from experience, but "the vast majority of ANY app developer around here on HN will have been to integrate every ad supported SDK in their apps" is just making up a statistic and getting angry about it.
I really like the idea of a mirror to easily change your gaze to a longer distance!
I'm not sure how these lines work. I wonder how they balance public safety against the disincentive of involuntary commitment and the stigmas attached to it. I imagine if you feel there is a risk you will have your rights taken away (including the ability to end your life), you are less likely to seek help.
> I think all that is fine if you know what you're getting but I suspect a lot of people don't realize what they're actually buying.

They realize. They can't afford anything else.

From the article:

> Almost as soon as trailers appeared, they began to be used for year-round living rather than camping trips, typically by traveling salesman or other itinerant workers. In the 1920s and 30s it was estimated that between 10 and 25% of trailers were used for year-round accommodation. And as unemployment soared and housing starts collapsed during the Great Depression, trailer living became more common. By 1937, it was estimated that 50% of new trailers were purchased as permanent shelter.

The "van life" trend should have been a huge warning sign...
Thanks-- yes I was aware, but they do have a poor reputation. After years of dongles, we're going for the MBP 16" with the M1 Pro. Which of course is what Apple wants anyway.
I would suggest that answers to this question require that you qualify what you mean by "good" programmer. There are, IMO, many functional definitions. And depending on which you are using, will yield different secondary skills.
Interesting, and congrats on launching!

On the one hand it sounds nice for me to be able to sell a side project and have finality. But also I've never had the patience to actually advertise/monetize them, so the valuation a pre-revenue service would get is too low for me to accept the sunk-cost fallacy. I suppose that's the small-project catch 22
I am indeed bitter (def: anger and disappointment at being treated unfairly; resentment) about people using their credentials rather than real merits of their work to attempt to get a leg up when advertising their work. I covered my dissatisfaction about that in my post.

Distill.pub for example, despite being written by people who worked at OpenAI and (also funded by) Google Brain, makes nearly no mention of either. They've managed to successfully accomplish their goal (creating resources to help people improve their intuition about machine learning) without resorting to those tactics.
Only from a different cultural context, there isn’t an objective idea about what’s correct here. The idea that horses should be privileged because they are historically important is itself interesting. Particularly in terms of how historically they were widely eaten. I also think there is a bit of retconning going on where our views of the animals now are assumed of our ancestors. For example I’m British and horses are generally not eaten but this it’d be ahistorical for me to claim that this was true even in the relatively recent past.

Also the idea that cowboys are uniquely horse based when vast swathes of the world was also using horses ubiquitously at the same time!
I'm pretty proud to say that many contributors to the D programming language have found it to be a path to a well-paying job. Many employers look to our contributors for people to hire. Anyone can contribute - all we care about is the quality of the code contributed.
The world that twitter never made
This article appears to have a picture of the house in question:

https://ggwash.org/view/74166/dc-preservation-hprb-denies-fr...

As someone who has lived nearby, I can say that this house is not rare nor remarkable in that area. It's technically a piece of American history but there are thousands of equally historic homes within walking distance. The author was using a bit of poetic license to add some flourish to the article.
Press one for english. Presione dos para español.
>It’s literally calling the man “selfish” for refusing to allow others to profit from his work.

If the object was to prevent others —— i.e. the syndicates who helped him develop the comic strip and helped to promote and distribute it —— from profiting from his work, why wouldn't you call this selfish?

Bill Watterson chose to syndicate "Calvin & Hobbes," that is, he chose to sell it, so he fully engaged in capitalism. He just didn't want to profit (or let others profit) from it in other ways, e.g. selling plushy toys etc. But he profited enough from newspaper syndication and book publishing to retire at 35.
I thought you all just had one number for everything! 0118 999 881 999 119 7253

https://youtu.be/ab8GtuPdrUQ
nah. ML is not the future of everything. in fact I believe that as things are going to evolve ML as we see it today is going to be only a tiny fraction of what is going to be used
Now I want to go back and read all my old Calvin and Hobbes books again!

Speaking to the depth of the comic strip, one of my favorite themes was the philosophical discussions about the nature of reality and meaning of life while they were barreling down a huge hill in the sled or wagon :)
If you lie to your kids, don't be surprised when they find out and are angry at you.
I think the emphasis was just too short. I think they're saying manufactured homes were 50% of Single Family Homes. Of all housing constructed some is Single Family Homes, a free standing detached residential building. This is distinct from attached residential housing like duplexes, condos, and apartments.

If you build 50 duplexes and 50 SFHs you've got 150 residences. If 50% of the SFHs are manufactured homes then you've got 25 manufactured homes out of 150. If the article is correct there's erroneous claims that manufactured homes are 60% of new "houses" which with my made up numbers would mean there's 90 manufactured homes out of our 150.
30 years are pretty common, but paying for some property that never came out of the blueprint (and seemingly never will) does sound a bit odd..
Yeah but that's for a whole neighborhood, they gaun economy of scale.

It entirely different to build one house, in 10 acres 2 hours outside of a major city.

It's like building a hot rod vs. A production car.
I'm sorry, aren't the balance of accounts the key component of the ledger? So wouldn't fraudulently changing account data would pretty much be the definition of altering the ledger? What kind of thing to you would constitute "changing the ledger"?
M2 MacBook Air Thermal Throttling
I have it memorized for emergencies.
There’s technically a market, but they experience insane amounts of depreciation. If they’re sold with land, most of the value is in the land.
Just have the application start the browser like daemons used to 20 years ago.

Nowadays they can even send the PWA manifest to hide the browser appearance.
You can try posting now from your official email, it will work just fine :)
Yes, all of the above. Sorry for the unclear language.

At the time, I recall it being very distracting when the team was focused on shipping well-tested code. We had a world class devops guy, but we all ran into these build issues frequently enough that it was a regular complaint at retrospectives no matter what tooling we were using at the time or who was using it. It was not long after this that I read Daniel Greenfeld's book on Django that introduced the notion of "vanilla django" and that resonated with me, precisely because our rails tooling was decidedly not vanilla. My take now is that rails can have the same problems with regard to being "off the rails" WRT the aforementioned DSL's and such. I don't think the root cause is ruby as much as there are pockets of rails that are far from what DHH describes.
What “lost”? They’re both Top 10 most used languages with tens of thousands of open positions currently available for someone competent in either.

Python’s the more frequently used of the two industry-wide, but it seems like they both won, just with different crowds.
(1) it reduces non-emergency load on emergency dispatch (or, if you don't route immediately to emergency dispatch, delay in emergencies reaching emergency dispatch.)

(2) Emergency dispatch may automatically dispatch police/fire/EMS. That may be counterproductive to (and discourage calls for) some other events that a ready access number is desired for.
There are, or used to be a few decades ago when I last checked, some surprisingly well built factory homes. They're not all mobile home quality.

Concerning quality, my sister bought a tract home in WA state a few years ago and the quality was comparable to a mobile home. The appliances were as cheap as possible, cabinets were poor quality, and even the home placement on the non-rectangular lot was very odd. The back fence was about 2' from her rear door, despite having a huge side yard to the right and left.
I'm not a horseperson, I'd still say 'riding'. Didn't know about 'barns' though, not in that context anyway: I used to/would like to think I still play ice hockey; some call the rinks (or rather the buildings housing them) 'barns' too.
Great ideas here... thank you!
I covered my dissatisfaction about that in my post.

A Show HN is not really the place to vent that dissatisfaction, though, at least not in that form. Take a look at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
If you think that's bad, every structure in Berkeley over 40 years old is automatically considered a historic resource, requiring the approval of the landmarks preservation commission to change or demolish.
It's a cultural thing that most Americans simply don't identify with or think about history prior to British/American colonization. There are still people living in medieval-era houses in the US and ruins that make Rome look young, but they don't occupy anyone's mindspace when it comes to how they think of age.
This is what happens when you try to do the "9 women can have a baby in one month" equivalent to farming.
There probably is a IVR (Interactive Voice Response) menu for emergency services somewhere, but it seems a bit too surreal for me.
One can definitely figure out which kids were coming from troubled homes. Teachers often notice outlier behaviours and report them to higher ups to get help for these children.

The effect of having loving parents completely dominates whether you breastfeed or bottle or formula.
Resnick and co were very structured and evidence lead with the graphical design; nothing in the visual language is accidental. The structure of the language is also very carefully designed in conjunction with the graphical mechanisms.
> Wegman's has introduced a self-scan app that you can use to tally up your total as you shop, and just scan a code at the self-checkout register with your phone on the way out to pay.

Kroger did that here a few years ago. They pushed it hard. Got very little uptake. It's still an option, but they aren't shoving it in your face when you walk in. There are just a handful of scanners on a rack by the entrance, and I've never seen anyone using them.