skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The date on the top of the article is August 10, 2019. Almost a year later, August 4, 2020, the port explosion happened, probably breaking all the glass of the city. Wikipedia:

> The damage from the blast affected over half of Beirut, with the likely cost above US$15 billion and insured losses at around US$3 billion. Approximately ninety percent of the city's hotels were damaged and three hospitals completely destroyed, while two more suffered damage. [...] Windows and other installations of glass across the city were shattered.
There is at least a large supply of new, cheap teachers. It's essentially the only adult profession that high-school and college students know (in the US) besides what their parents do, and you can get into it from a starting point of any major. I'd still say the big issue isn't that society doesn't want to value teachers, but that it's terrible at identifying good ones, so it ends up being a race-to-the-bottom.
It does still exist, and I'd love to try it out, but I'm not throwing down thousands of dollars when it costs significantly less for me to get Visual Studio Pro as a single developer ($30 a month iirc) or you know... $120 for JetBrains IDE's annually (after 3 years) it makes no sense for me to throw down a thousand dollars (per year?) same with you Qt. I'm looking to evaluate your product and prototype and maybe build small projects that need a UI but your pricing scheme is not for people like me at all.

One would likely argue that JetBrains probably isnt a RAD IDE, but Visual Studio definitely is fully capable of RAD editing capabilities, think WinForms.
Loud and Wrong
Is it just pro-rated comp based on time? How do benefits work in the Netherlands?
While that did happen in my home country of Zimbabwe, it’s not the case for the examples that he mentioned. Especially considering that even Lebanon was under a mandate and had far more freedom to rule themselves, which in my opinion came nowhere near actual colonialism.
interesting. that change happened in 1968 [1]

and then there was a subtle catch-up game [2] of legislation and prosecution to figure how to still prosecute nazi concentration camp murderers. And they closed the first legal loophole, statutory limitation for murder was extended to 30y and then completely lifted. and they found the loophole of the remaining loophole: they didn't prosecute Nazis for the motive of racism any more (a personal trait), but for the way of killing, "Heimtücke und wehrloses Opfer" (malice aforethought and defenseless victim)

That's why we still see 90+ year old guys in front of German courts, despite all right wing conservative efforts to get them out of jail free.

[1] https://lexetius.com/StGB/50,3

[2] https://amthauer-rechtsanwaelte.de/die-entwicklung-der-straf...

PS: unfortunately a sizeable number of right wing conservatives escaped prosecution after 1968.
That's just so cool.

And probably very annoying for a lot of people.
Westmoreland's Operation Fracture Jaw got canned by elite circle in politics and the rest is Rambo Hollywood history boomer tears in beers.
Ask HN: Is the tech industry out of ideas?
Potentially inflammatory question, but I'm asking with sincere curiosity. It feels to me that the transformative era of tech is over, and we are now in "maintenance mode," for lack of a better term. The '80s and '90s revolutionized computing, and the web matured into a real platform during the '00s and '10s. The big players grew from one- or two-person projects in literal or proverbial garages into firmly established global juggernauts. (In some cases this began in the '70s.) Whole industries—publishing, entertainment, transportation, retail, communication—were fundamentally changed, and whole new ways of connecting people were developed. New ideas and technologies were sprouting up everywhere, and they were exciting and solved obvious problems. It wasn't all roses of course, and there's much discussion to be had on the externalities, but it was undeniably revolutionary.

Now it seems, to me at least, that the party is more or less over. I'm wondering if anyone else feels this way or if I've simply become jaded and cynical. (I am prone to jadedness and cynicism so this is entirely possible.) Things like "the metaverse" and the bizarrely-named "web3" feel like desperate attempts to keep finding the next big thing in a field that has simply run out of big things to find. I can't identify a single small company working on something that feels like it'll be huge—the next Google, Netflix, or what have you. The spirit of the early days seems impossible to find now.

This is just my personal experience. I would love to hear both from people who feel this way and from people who disagree.
The actual headline is bit more direct - "The Fossil Fuel Industry Will Probably Collapse This Decade"
Second counterpoint, I didn't even notice the logo (I assume you mean the model name), and I think it looks good.

The knob does make it less portable though, definitely.
> I was saying you should always be positive and proactive and personal responsible and make moves in-the-small instead of thinking nothing can be done because the sky is falling.

Please stop with the "just be positive" answer to every mental health problem. We can stay "positive" and "hopeful" all we want, things are obviously getting worse and most of us don't have any real influence over the trend, which is the very thing that naturally causes depression in humans. Forcing oneself to smile won't change any of that.
Japanese people drink far less than westerners though. Those work parties are just one-off and not regular things.
> Maciej announced on twitter that he would be taking the year 2022 off

Err... To just say he said he was "taking the year[...] off" has an entirely different connotation. The tweet says that he decided to step away from Twitter. Those comments don't explain the lack of activity on Pinboard. He in fact specifically mentions getting other things done and links to Pinboard.
One of the most difficult things is to know when it's really good to be humble and when it's really good to assert yourself. None of them work the whole time.
Unfortunately this point of view do get to the extreme. "There's no such thing as a gifted child", for example, and schools for gifted children are downgraded or closed. Paths to early math education are closed, math curriculum downgraded.

Yes, it happens just now in America.
Why is that a problem though? It’s really, really close to what you want. But not close enough. So you don’t buy it. No problem!
This looks very cool and pretty similar to what I was visualizing. I'll have to download it and play around with it for a bit :)
Still no PIN as in the UK and Europe (and maybe most of the rest of the world, though). If you steal a chip card in the USA, you can use it. Not so elsewhere.
Those other things have almost no budget or even have to worry about maintenance beyond the first use (rockets startups are potentially changing that of course).

I think you are overly pessimistic. There has never more a better time in history for a person with an idea to get funding for crazy ideas like this because of capitalism. They just have to make money.

For an idea like this to be worth it and succeed, it has to be cheaper than that person willing to do it manually. High minimum wages and benefits like single payer health insurance will definitely speed this up.
Is this the motivation I need to reboot my https://curabase.com efforts?

Several years ago I wrote my own spiritual successor. It’s called Curabase.

It has been posted on HN before. If there’s enough interest I will renew development efforts on it.

I’ve been looking for a side hustle again
Arrogance is an ego booster which obviously comes with downsides that will likely lead you on the wrong path.
I don't get the new metaverse thing. Is it just Second Life?
I found a fork of it on GitHub for those interested. Here's a link to the first commit which hopefully contains unmodified import of Moolenaar's hg repository: https://github.com/TsukiGva2/unnoficial-zimbu/tree/3ea616b33...
I want context based bookmarks. Bookmarks that appear when I'm on a particular site. Give me that.
That is not what rayiner wrote.
"For relaxing times, make it Suntory time".
The best thing you can do is to get ppl to review it because many won’t buy it without actually feeling it out once, but a good reviewer can give you a pretty good idea
Just get Lazarus.
Cia seems to be a pretty big reason.
Is drew pursuing being a pundit more these days? He always had a certain propensity for commentary, but it was usually about projects, but now seems to be more general commentary. This reads more like a disclaimer of someone who just saw the uproar around Pine64 and said "oh crap, I recommended those. better do some intellectual damage control".

I like you drew, and I pay for your products. I make this post with a sincere face, please do the moves that got you to the dance.
It is broken in many countries including India and China. The issues are the duopoly over global transactions, the monopoly over the transactions, and the dominance of the US dollar in situations where other currencies would be more efficient.
This does not seem to be a difficult problem.

- bank can lend money to pay for the tax - collateral is big enough

- if you cannot pay immediately, state can have share of your property

- ownership could be transferred from the parent to the children before death, so the tax is not that big
Also, sounds similar to Zig, Hare, Odin. All these languages look quite similar.
Doesn't have to be a FAANG to do something impactful. Many of the other Tech 100 companies have things that you can work on at scale that are fulfilling. I work at a semiconductor company on projects that end up in almost everything, and I love what I do.

The interview process was fine compared to the horror stories I've heard. I had 1 long interview with the manager, then 6 short (30 min) interviews back-to-back with the team over the course of an afternoon. A couple of technical questions but nothing rediculous. They hired me based on credentials, so the tests were ceremonial if anything. It was more about discovering whether I would get on socially with the team.
Pushover is a one time purchase and works perfectly. I'm sure you can add more features that make it worthwhile but at this point I don't see why I would use this instead of pushover.
You've still got to take that and make it do what you want.

I also find oneAPI kind of ugly although it was a while since I really dug into it.
This is a great analogy and captures what I meant very clearly! It would be awesome to pinpoint two pieces of code and ask for the execution flow visualizer for that path :)
To a point - it isn't like this doesn't happen without regulation though. Folks get over it.
Related discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32494659
In Firefox, bookmark manager in a tab: chrome://browser/content/places/places.xhtml

"You can encounter issues when you want to create a new folder, moving a bookmark to another folder may not work as well."
In that case, shouldn't we never give vaccine to people with poor immunity system or with immunocompromised condition, and rather just let them be or even die? If this is true (even though difficult to actually implement in the society due to humane consideration), what happens to the vaccines of viruses like HIV? The patients already have weak immune system.
I would assume that in this context, the cost of goods is not measured in the operating expense. Notice the keyword 'operating cost'. It is common to have the COGS vs OpEx separated in the financial balance sheet.
That definition of humbleness seems more about sticking to your values and being transparent.
...for the enterprise. Which is okay, there's plenty of mixed quality software for that sector. It's just that Delphi used to be a lot more oriented towards beginner to small-business developers.

And note that this happened before the web pillow-smothered decent desktop UIs. If it was all about a reduced audience for desktop-based applications and then supporting that, I would understand it more.

I haven't been following Delphi itself, but the parent company also manages ExtJS, which is aimed/priced similarly, yet with support/quality that doesn't justify this.

Weird that outside of the BCPL or ML families, it's Ada that seems to be the one with the most momentum these days.
London isn’t a technology hub and that they put made in london to imitate Apple made in California, is pretentious to the nth degree, and that’s exactly how I see the english. they don’t make shit, and what little they do design comes with fireworks and their national gd anthem. And nobody bring up ARM, because the ARM of today was designed in Japan, not the uk
Find a company that makes a product that appeals to you.
Air Force Tests Long-Range, Nuclear-Capable Missile Amid Global Tensions
Ask HN: Database or filesystem for logging user actions?
Which do you prefer and why? I am not talking about application logging, only actions users perform, say on a web application, when for example the user logs in, signs up, etc.
For solid state machines I think nearby humans would crash first!
and it's bad :D
Is rust interoperable with C and ASM? I would think it'd have to be. Some of those things (all of them?) are considerations the system designer needs to worry about regardless.

It seems like you should be able to still use most of the stuff provided by the toolchain in a similar fashion. That said, trying to do a native implementation by porting the code, or just using a C/ASM bootloader could prove tricky for newcomers.

Bootloaders are often black boxes. It could be flashing something written in COBAL, and it would be none the wiser. It seems like rust would need to provide a mechanism for entry pointing. I don't know how to handle memory mapping and linker scripting in rust.

I'm not disagreeing that it could be a huge barrier, but theoretically it doesn't have to be that much, or at least most of it is stuff you'll often be dealing with anyway.
When a Junior developer doesn't capitalize their SQL it makes my eye twitch, and it's not that I personally care, it's just that I'm so used to seeing it as a standard, and my brain wants to go with standards always.
People finding bugs - it's a super flexible tool so lots of edge case bugs. Helping people set up their requests (e.g. no-coders who don't totally understand APIs or DF). Then boring stuff like billing queries/refunds etc.

I probably work 30-40 hours a week total.
> Agile/Scrummy Agile/FrAgile/Enterprise Fragile shoved firmly down my throat

The really frustrating thing is that what's now called "Agile" devolved from "Extreme Programming" (XP) which was as appropriate as it was poorly named. I first heard of it sometime around '99 or so, long after I had put up with my share of frustrations around the expectation that every programming task could be predicted ahead of time on the spot (and that every prediction was a few hours). XP, on the other hand, was a reasonable pushback against mismanagement: say what you want and then get out of the way and give them time to make incremental progress toward that goal. There were no estimates or deadlines in XP. There weren't any in the agile manifesto, either.

However, what's now Orwellianly called "Agile" as "tell me right now on the spot how long it's going to take to deliver this vaguely defined piece of functionality so I can 'negotiate' it down to when I need it by"... which is exactly what XP and the agile manifesto were trying to explain was impossible.
Thank you, I am a huge Teenage Engineering fan so that is a big complement!

Perhaps a larger board or separate numpad could come down the line if there is enough interest.
Yes, please! Looks great.
I think the rotary knob is cool, despite not having a use for it myself at the moment (I could probably think of one). Is it possible to just reduce the height? Maybe make the knob interchangeable?
Thought I recognised the name of the original poster and physicsguy apparently has a history of shitposting to derail discussions that are even just tangentially related to Julia [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30905561

Frankly, I expect better on Hacker News and it is not like it is difficult to come up with real and interesting issues that can be discussed rather than utter rubbish knee-jerking (like say the redefinition of structs that is already ongoing in this very submission).
This seems like somewhat of a rights mess. They may or may night have movie* and TV** rights. They obviously don't have the book plubishing rights (though I imagine they could make printed derivative works e.g. comic books). The value of Tolkien's work seems to entirely be in the media works that people like. Now this may sounds silly or obvious, but what I mean is: I can't imagine people buying generic merchandise like they do with Star Wars. People will buy Star Wars toys for their children even when a movie isn't released that year; People will buy paper party plates, napkins, paper cups, party balloons, etc. with Darth Vader's face on them; People will buy Star Wars themed chess sets and monopoly games. I have a hard time imagining people doing that year around, even when there isn't a movie or television series people like to tie into.

* Sounds like there is a dispute between Zaentz/Embracer and Warner Bros. about who currently controls the movie rights. I believe the agreement was that Zaentz sublicensed the Movie rights to Warner and they revert after a certain period of time if no more movies come out. Zaentz bought the movie rights from Tolkien himself.

** When Zaentz bought the Movie and TV rights, the TV rights were based on a certain number of episodes. I can't remember which way it goes but Amazon should be in the clear based on if they make more/fewer episdoes than what Zaentz right's specified. I think Zaentz's rights are also limited to LotR and The Hobbit while I believe Amazon also licensed Silmarillion from the Tolkien Estate. Considering the press release states Zaentz has a financial interest in The Rings of Power, I imagine Amazon just paid them off to not cause legal trouble.
I would assume that "as a kid", when malware was written in Delphi, those weren't really options.

(And VS of that era was rather meh...)
I'm selfhosting a wallabag server, which lets me access my bookmarks on all my devices, without the need for another 3rd party service.
Probably not what you're looking for, but I started looking into private bookmark sharing and this is what I ended up with. It's a pretty ok solution.
This is a beautiful post of self-actualization. So wholesome that one major thing in their life can change their perspective over six years.
The Halloween Problem
Making Room for Women's Thinking
Airtable don't have billing for the marketplace so I handle everything, have a direct relationship with customers and pay no cut to Airtable.
Exodus 20:3 (KJV) "thou shalt have no other gods before me". As a Christian I'm forbidden form holding any belief that isn't directly in the bible and not a provable fact. It is amazing how many people claim to believe the bible, but then add a ton of beliefs on top of it that are not from the bible.
I feel like they were salivating when Christopher was on his death bed. He was the best custodian the fandom could have ever asked for.
Never heard about Airtable, why would anybody use it since there's Excel?
He's played the comical part of slick startup investor "Freak Masterstroke" in the new mst3k series:

https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Freak_Masterstroke

"Where's my second-screen experience!"
It is true, and you are both more likely to get sick and more likely to die from fresh vegetables than from steak.

The primary contaminant in steak is E. coli. You are more likely to consume E. coli from a salad than from a steak.
You can't pay to shuffle the organic results.

As for how much you pay for a click on any specific keyword, it isn't fixed and depends on two main things. I am simplifying here.

1. How related (google thinks) your page and ad copy is to the intent behind the keyword. More related = (generally) lower cpc

2. The reserve price that google sets for that keyword.

It used to be a second price auction in that you'd only ever pay 1p above the second highest bidder. It has now changed in that there is a reserve price for each keyword based on your page, ad copy and google's valuation of that keyword. This reserve price can be lowered or raised depending on how good and related Google thinks your page and ads are. It can fluctuate lots depending on your input but if google's valuation is high you'll never get it to pennies per click.

Insurance for injury claims for example will always be more than £10 per click no matter how good your page or ad copy is. Google just knows that those conversions are worth tons so people WILL pay high cpcs for them.

So in the Ford Chevy example, Ford's page is much more related to someone searching for Ford, Google knows the intent is likely to find a ford page so ford would pay FAR less than Chevy.

Chevy's page likely isn't matching the intent that google assumes the user has so their reserve price and hence final cost per click would be much higher.

Competitor bidding on google search is expensive.

Brand protection - bidding on your own brand terms - is (in my 7 years experience doing this) always incredibly cheap, 1 or 2 pence per click.
Yeah, I'm referring to the late XP / early Vista era.
What? Can you elaborate on the hair dying and color enforcement?
Keyboard looks great but no insert-delete-home-end cluster means an instant no from me in any keyboard, how do you people move without those keys? I've cringed enough in my life seeing people pressing the arrow keys and waiting 5-20 seconds while the cursor traverse an entire phrase/paragraph.
I don’t personally like ortholinear boards, I think they only solve half of the problem. Columnar stagger is the way to go, no more claw hand pose.
My aunt used fasting to reduce the effects of her Chemo when she had breast cancer. She swears by it.
There were many more important reasons than just the de-nazification:

- Companies and specialists moved to the West (before 1961) because many saw the writing on the wall (living under the Soviet yoke vs living a comfortable life in the 'free West'). As a result, Bavaria and Saxony essentially switched places in terms of industrialization.

- The East had to endure crushing war reparations, the Russians dismantled and moved entire factories to the Soviet Union, while the West was rebuilt through the Marshall plan.

- Despite all that, up until around the mid-60's the East German industry was actually still somewhat competitive, and many people still believed in 'the system'. The apathy and economic downturn mostly set in during the early 70's.

Under the hood, the East German authorities were well aware that they couldn't just get rid of all nazi sympathizers, there would simply be no population left to build a country on after all. So essentially if you were not an obvious war criminal, and pinky sweared that you saw the light and had converted into a good communist, the authorities didn't have much of a choice than forget about the past. It basically became a game of "don't ask, don't tell".
Like its the graphics quality that's the holdup here.

The only problem VR has even purported to solve (since the 1990s!) is that of gullible investors with too much money.

How're they doing with the eye fatigue problems? The nausea? How much money has gone into haptic with how much result? Can we even suspend a human so they can walk without moving?

Even the cynical takes from the media are about irrelevancies: the hard problems are intractably bound up in users made of meat and not much is being done to address those problems because the money is easier elsewhere.

I wonder how many researchers have been encouraged to find other work because their research only showed how hard the problems were. The "VR industry" is all about meaningless re-assurances that the problems aren't really problems and will be solved by somebody, somewhen.