skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People often talk past each other about inflation because many people are concerned solely with the rising costs of the things they need to live, in real terms. Housing, food, healthcare, education, transportation, insurance. It is trivial to look up the real dollar costs of what these things cost decades ago, and what they cost now. It is also very trivial to look up what wages were, in real dollars, and compare the rates of increase between costs and wages. In every category of the things that people actually need to survive, real inflation is massively, massively higher than wage growth. It is obvious nonsense to insist inflation was only 6.4% last year when the people you're trying to convince are well aware of that their grocery bill is 50% higher, their health insurance premiums have doubled, rent has substantively increased and they still owe $60,000 in college debt on tuition that people with part time jobs were paying for a few decades ago. BLS can talk about how the roll of toilet paper that costs $2 this year instead of $1 last year is actually "cheaper" because the value is better due to their hedonic adjustment, but at the end of the day I'm paying twice as much for tp.
Same here. Blazor Server is so awesome. It really allowed us to focus back on the business problems rather than getting some Stockholm syndrome about a library or framework that is actually just in the way and you have to take into account all the time.

It also allows to add real-time functionality in a breeze. Even business applications can profit from that, but you often just skip that because it is not worth the effort.
Something actionable that will probably be useful for the folk here. Try and put together:

- a good summary of Getting Things Done (definitely not the whole book), like: https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/getting-things-done-en

- a Trello template for GTD, or whatever software you use, like: https://blog.trello.com/gtd-getting-things-done-maximizing-p...

- think of the whole thing as a set of interconnected OODA loops of different time scales

GTD and OODA actually go very well together - it explains for example why the easiest way for GTD to fail is to skip the weekly cleanup. You're just left with the daily loop, which is very much not enough. Proper GTD has organized loops up to around one year. It also a great way to force you to think on longer time scales, stuff like "what do I want to do the next 3 months?".
I take your point but I gotta say I trust the authors of the Tree Style Tabs FF extension much more than I trust Microsoft.
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I burned few months evaluating and for trying out some monorepo options, for a cross-platform typescript project. Eventually I picked Nx, the main reason being having single package.json.

Besides, yes, nx comes with a single configuration file for each project, but alongside of it are jest, eslint, babel and app/lib/spec/ide tsconfig configs - that’s a lot!

All of this shouldn’t be visible to the developer. Initially, when trying to find myself in this mess, I thought that the solution lies in autogenerated ide workspaces - for vscode and sublime. But in practice it wasn’t that helpful, because there is always something which is not handled by autogenerate multiroot structure but is needed, so one needs to have multiple windows open anyways.

Hopefully typescript 5.0 is going to help reduce some of this boilerplate with multiple tsconfig base classes, so lib/app/spec/ide tsconfigs will be able to extend from common base, which currently is not possible.

The worst part of Nx is that there is lack of ssr support, so I had to patch nx with patch-package to generate obfuscated css classes in prod, because currently it’s not possible with their webpack executor! Recently they tried to simplify it a little bit, reducing this webpack boilerplate, which introduced few bugs but it's better than not doing anything!

However, saying all of that and as someone mentioned in previous comments, dx is not primarily improved by lack of config boilerplate, but by having semantic structure of the actual code, clearly knowing what depends on what and where one can find it and put it. Right now we are on our own, because there is lack of information on how to structure cross platform codebase properly. I strongly believe it will change though. Best of luck to the people at moon!

Ps. Nx has a nice blog post why they do t use bazel under the hood https://blog.nrwl.io/on-bazel-support-6be3b3ceba29
My first indicator when moving to the region was trying to find any kind of rental housing that allowed my two dogs that were both on “restricted breed lists” despite being very well trained and common breeds. Being asked for a dog resume was a first for me here too.

Another interesting wrinkle was when I needed to do something simple on my car. I went to an AutoZone and asked to borrow the battery tester or maybe it was the OBD2 reader. They could sell me one but couldn’t lend me one because of laws around people working on their own vehicles. I’ve done this in other states and the front desk just nods and points to a cart or hands me a tool. I’ve run into a few car related regulation oddities with service folks which have brought the cost of certain fixes higher than they needed to be.

There are warnings on products due to CA prop 65 that are labeled through the country. You don’t see anything being sold “known to the state of Arizona to cause cancer” for example.

In talking with developers, I’ve heard California is quick to make rules (local and not) around housing that conflict with themselves. I understand that housing is a complex social, logistical and geographical challenge. I don’t have much direct experience in this arena but I believe the people I’ve talked with.

As a pilot flying out of KRHV, I 100% support flying with unleaded fuels and advocated for it in my local flight school where appropriate. Santa Clara County had a hearing regarding the airport mid-pandemic and the proceeding was a bit of a witch hunt. Instead of looking to solve problems, the common thread seemed to be centered around what they legally had power to do to accomplish their goal of closing the airport despite the stated goal of collecting feedback about the issue. They ended up restricting the sale/delivery of 100LL which may have ultimately lead to a plane crashing after being serviced there. The county is now being sued by AOPA.

There have been other things along the way but these are a good sampling of what causes this feeling for me personally.
Reading this makes the Apple App Store walled garden not seem so bad after all.

If someone were to add an extention with this manifest, would it even be reviewed, or would it need to be flagged first?
Do you know WHY it hit 100M so quickly?

Because it was covered on the news and social media incessantly. You could get 100M people to follow a taco stand if it got a free month of news coverage which breathlessly covered the ingredients and had literally thousands of Tiktok and Youtube grifters telling you how the chalupas were gonna change everything.
California has a reputation for growing high water use crops in low water areas. California can still provide epics amounts of food for less water usage, it would just be a different mix of products.
If AWS suspends my account I’m fucked.
China is a rising power, but it still lags behind the current dominant power in fundamental research. However, it is rapidly catching up. This is not very different from the situation the U.S. was in around 1900 when it had the largest GDP but lagged behind Britain and Germany in things like Nobel Prizes.
We've deployed multiple applications without issue over extranet. We release our apps usually outside office hours so a dropped connection or two isn't an issue. Just make it clear when there will be maintenance.
It wouldn’t need to be a shitty clone. Maybe it would pay 10% more but be known to have less job security in a downturn.

But also, I didn’t specifically mean 1099 independent contractors, just “contractors”. Meaning, people employed for a fixed contract length of 6 or 12 months and then possibly renewed if business is still good.
Are we really going to listen to a eugenist on virology?
As a Brit that's moved to Australia, having a quick zoom around the street-view for that area was weirdly nostalgic. The greenery, some of the building styles plus the puddles on the road and the cloudy grey skies ... heck even the potholes ... reminds me of some places in Hampshire. There are more wooden houses though.

I also find the concept of the red zone fascinating. Is the streetview outdated? It still shows houses there.

I like the idea of this too, as someone who likes fruit trees and is looking forward to planting some on his own property in the coming years.
"(c)" as an alternative to "©" predates your 1990s book by many decades. It even predates its common usage on computers (1960s or so), because typewriters have existed since the 19th century and "(c)" has been used since that century and the limitations typewriters imposed on typed documents.

No court will ever be confused by it, your copyright will never be invalidated by it.
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And the boiler plate process thinking is the literal opposite of agile.
Often it's license incompatibilities. Even open geodata is often licensed in a way incompatible with OSM. E.g. a typical attribution requirement would require OSM data consumers to include the full list of data sources in the attribution (which is usually just mentioning the OSM contributors). So often there are individual arrangements with the respective bureaus to give the data to OSM under different conditions. For example, the cadastre data here in a southern German state is available under the condition that the attribution happens in the OSM changeset, which is much easier to fulfill (and is being done automatically in editors as soon as you have that imagery as a background layer).

But generally, someone must care enough to ask the data holders to make such an import possible. And I guess for individual trees the interest isn't as high as for roads or building footprints.
unfortunately, there are many, many bots.
Agreed. Statements like those really need a preposition: A “by” or “to” would really help.
Interesting to note that the street view is pre demolition so all the buildings you see are now gone - street view ghosts.
I think we haven't even come close to harnessing the full benefits of

(1) mutable references can't be aliased, and

(2) referential transparency: data behind an immutable pointer never changing no matter how many aliases to it there are.

(The exception being UnsafeCell, of course, which can easily be detected.)

Exciting times ahead for Rust performance!
I've found a direct correlation that the more closely a workplace conformed to the Agile manifesto, the better it was to work in. It absolutely does work in practice, and where it doesn't work I have always found specific, actionable places where they were doing it wrong. At some point you do have to actually spend 5 minutes to try to understand and follow the methodology - I don't think there's any methodology that claims you can ignore everything it tells you, do the oppsite of what it says half the time, and it will still improve your organisation.

(Unfortunately I haven't found any correlation between how much an employer talks about Agile and how closely they actually follow it)
Rewrite it in Rust
Super-Cooperators
I’m having an absolutely awful day. My Dad had to call 911 to get my stepmother the care she needed and everything just went downhill from there.

As rough as my day has been, I have spent a lot of time with your app today. It’s not perfect (of course) but I have had a lot of fun with it today. As dark as today has been, that really means a lot.

You have gotten some really solid feedback today and I can’t disagree with it. But speaking as a user, this product has made my day significantly better. Thanks for putting this out into the world.
> I think it was popular because it was easy to code to.

That's not that unlike it being easy to implement.

> Multi-threaded coding is easy to get wrong, [...]

Yeah, but the better design is async/await and so on, not threading, but that stuff was not very popular in the 80s.

The approach to concurrency in the 80s was heavy on context switching because that's what was inherited from the 70s. It feels like the thinking was along the lines of "during the time you're waiting for a response some other process will run, and since we're used to heavy latency, who cares!", but that became less and less tenable. There's a reason all the distributed operating system research of the 80s died except for filesystems -- with filesystems you can consciously avoid hot ping pong by just not accessing shared resources concurrently, while the filesystem itself remains super useful.
Kind of skimmed, but why do you need these enlightened people?
McKinsey likely to lay off nearly 2k employees in biggest job cuts round
Ribir: A declarative, compose-based, cross-platform Rust GUI library[OpenSource]
Ribir is a framework for building modern native/wasm cross-platform user interface applications.
Half SQL statements and half array.sort() methods I assume.
>no one in East Palestine is sick

Gastrointestinal bleeding

https://twitter.com/StatusCoup/status/1626288682326958083

Family including three year old child diagnosed respiratory infections

https://twitter.com/NewsNation/status/1625679079520325633
He's not suggesting that's how it should work, he's saying that's how it does work at most places. It's my experience too.
> that this forum used to be very pro-crypto/coin

Huh? I've been on HN for a long time and I don't remember it ever being pro-crypto. People got excited about BTC and ETH in the old days but HN was one of the few places on the internet where people were always sceptical of the crypto hype.
That sounds exactly like a contractor. "It will be done for $x in y months". Actually it was done for $x * 1.25 in y*2 months.
Maybe CPU bound code where either your data fits on the stack or you can avoid a lot of copying chunks of the heap by expressing your algorithm in terms of in-place mutation?

That is where garbage collected languages seem to be incurring penalties. Not sure what SBCL does specifically. There was this talk last October about efforts at Jane Street to make explicit stack allocations possible in OCaml:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGRn5ZIbEW8
From the article it looks like half AI guessing the solution, half some static algorithm fixing the result to be better. Not sure how it's supposed to really work.
Water rights are generally kind of crazy in all the western states, just look at Colorado's long-time ban on rainwater collection barrels, only slightly relaxed in 2016:

> "Under House Bill 1005, rain barrels can only be installed at single-family households and multi-family households with four or fewer units. A maximum of two rain barrels can be used at each household and the combined storage of the two rain barrels cannot exceed 110 gallons. Rain barrels can only be used to capture rainwater from rooftop downspouts and the captured rainwater must be used to water outdoor lawns, plants and/or gardens on the same property from which the rainwater was captured. Rain barrel water cannot be used for drinking or other indoor water uses."

Even there, look at the clauses - every gallon of water is fought over, it seems:

> "The capture and use of rainwater using rain barrels does not constitute a water right," said Reagan Waskom, director of the Colorado Water Institute, part of CSU’s Office of Engagement. "HB 1005 includes language that could result in the State Engineer curtailing the use of individual rain barrels if a water-right holder can prove that those rain barrels have impacted their ability to receive the water that they are entitled to by virtue of their water right."

As the major reservoirs on the Colorado continue their apparently inevitable decline to dead-pool stage, these pressures will only get more intense, and the long-term trend doesn't seem to be affected that much by periodic atmospheric river injections like this past winter's - see this recent article:

https://www.newsweek.com/lake-mead-dead-pool-hoover-dam-rami...

No worries, recycled urine is an acceptable source of drinking water...
"If this were another cable news outlet like CNN or MSNBC, everyone involved would be fired already, never to work again in the industry."

This is not a defense of Fox News but I strongly doubt that CNN or MSNBC would handle this any better.
I assume it means using ML to choose between multiple algorithms instead of more traditional heuristics.

That or the algorithms use a combination battery and gasoline.
Investigating cognitive neuroscience theories of human intelligence (2022)
It's nothing to do with capitalism, it's all about installing regimes that are pro-US, and allow US enterprises to exploit these countries. Indonesia has a lot of resources, including the Grasberg mine in west Papua, that it leases out to US companies with very little benefit for the local population, instead pocketing millions in bribes. It's also a huge country of 200+ million of huge geopolitical importance.

The US is simply a thug. It has too much firepower for its own good. It's drunk on its ideologies of freedom or democracy or what have you, that it can never recognise its mistakes.
I don't think pure iron would work because it's not soluble - what people use are iron sulfates which are minerals that occur naturally.
Cool, so now can I talk about how my former employer offered me severance only if I signed something not to talk about it because I was about to file a long term disability case and they knew it?
To someone only weakly aware in this area, can you explain what is wrong with the statement? From a cursory view, these protocols indeed seem to normally carry the mentioned payloads.
Is this a good time to bring up T/TCP?

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1644

This memo specifies T/TCP, an experimental TCP extension for
efficient transaction-oriented (request/response) service. This
backwards-compatible extension could fill the gap between the current
connection-oriented TCP and the datagram-based UDP.

I have no illusions about the likelihood it'll ever see use, but I've always thought T/TCP was cool and fun.
> We’ll see if this just ends up being an economic indicator that big companies that can afford high bill rate consultants have less money to spend.

https://www.yardeni.com/pub/sp500margin.pdf

The profit margins (S&P500) have dropped from their possibly all-time highs to what they were back in 2017/18 (the previous highs).
There’s also the argument that you could live off of one salary and downsize / live frugally (two-income trap), but things are more expensive (e.g. the world is more safe now, but that also makes it more expensive).
That’s not my recollection. Here’s an example from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5532255

Also I remember people complaining about wash trading since forever.

Edit: I remember people posting literal ponzis a decade ago. Like sites titled “Bitcoin Ponzi” or similar. Or Satoshi Dice—can’t remember if that was posted here.
But they give you an estimate for cost and time, and are reasonably close to it. I.e. it doesn’t cost 3x the estimate!

They could probably do it more accurately but it would lose them bids, so they knowingly low-ball it. You shouldn’t have that problem inside a company doing software.
I am a big fan of the Agile Manifesto, but Agile has evolved to be something completely different.

It became a rigid process where people debate the definition of story points rather than getting shit done.
>If people want congressional term limits, they'll vote in representatives that promise to enact them.

This presupposes both that the system is representative of the will of the people and that people act rationally in their own self-interest, both of which are provably false. For example, 88% of Americans think Marijuana should be legal federally, both medical and recreational marijuana. Overwhelming majorities have held this view for years. Did they vote in representatives that promised to enact them? And this is on an issue where 88% of Americans agree. Rarely will you get such widespread agreement by Americans on any issue.

This isn't to say that people actually want term limits, that's an entirely separate debate, only that the fact that term limits haven't been implemented is no barometer for that.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/11/22/americans-o...
Makes sense only if you assume building software is like building a house. Imagine getting an author to tell you when the novel they are writing will be finished?

Or this: imagine seeking an estimate on when a house will be built, trimmed, painted, furnished, decorated, and filled with every item needed practically and for comfort by the homeowner.

It’s a living process that requires continuous reassessment of priorities and scope, and in fact never finishes when you consider the life of the home.
It takes two clicks to install an extension. There's no differentiating people who know or don't know what they're doing with two clicks.
Agreed.

Note that ALL of these can be summed up in one phrase that I tell my teams often…

TIGHTEN

YOUR

FEEDBACK

LOOP

This is literally the key to life (besides 42) and everything. Want a better relationship with your partner, pet, friends, boss, code, family then tighten the loop.
A few months ago I tried moonrepo and couldn't get it to work. IIRC, it tries to bring its own nodejs and has no option for using the system provided one - this breaks entirely in NixOS as Nix's nodejs is patched for the lack of FHS.
Amen! Well-said! I grew up in the Dreamcast homebrew scene, and am a pretty accomplished developer academically and professionally, and it all started on the Dreamcast when I was 13. lol.
Regarding the tungsten rods from god (RFG), your specified 20x1 round would be about 24,000lbs. That means that you could put two shots up per Falcon 9 launch with hardly anything left to spare for anything non-tungsten (guidance, fuel). Just using launch capacity we can see that unless Starlink, and basically all of SpaceX, is a giant maskirovka, then the US hasn't fielded any such weapon in meaningful amounts.[0]

The RFG sats would need to be LEO or some polar orbit to have some chance of not immediately being outed (a bigass GEO/GSO parked over Moscow would draw notice). Additionally LEO sats deorbit after a human-relevant-while so your rods from god would need to have and EOL plan or some way to do on orbit maintenance because if they deorbit from either EOL or guidance failure then they wouldn't burn up on the way down and could be catastrophic. Then let's also consider the risk that such a weapon draws an ASAT attack either wittingly or unwittingly from Russia or China. Now we have a cloud of tungsten flechettes in orbit.

As much as I'd love to see some awesome space weapons, at the moment there's no way they're fielded and a big reason for that is that they'd basically be more of a liability than a capability at the moment.

Also the ballistic missiles in question don't use (only) GPS for guidance, they also use inertial and celestial navigation which is pretty spoof-proof when you're aiming at a city.

[0] also since we can track and even see starlink sats, we can be confident that none of those flights were used for RFGs, so that further reduces the hypothetical upper bound of the rounds in orbit.
I've used both and responsiveness to touch at all times is very important to me which iphone does a better job at.

I hate how they abuse this iMessage situation though.
Wxactly where did I say that they had no power? I was speaking about an individuals perception of their value being greater than it actually is, especially if the point of contention is not a point of contention for other waiting candidates that can do their job.

However, to your point—even a union has convince an employer why WFH is in the employer’s best interest to get the benefit.