skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - see anyone do something in Excel that could not be achieved in LibreOffice with similar effort.
> Yes, there is no 100% feature parity. But there is feature parity in the things that people actually use.

It's not close to being wholly about the capability of the product itself.

Excel has the incumbency advantage - more people are familiar with it and more people already have it. Switching to LibreOffice therefore often means switching to a tool you don't know as well and then living with interop issues with your co-workers that are still on Excel. For LibreOffice (or any other competitor) to do something with "similar effort", it has to overcome those headwinds.

If you look at the history of spreadsheets, there is a long history of "better" products coming along, but only a few that were good enough to be able to displace the incumbent.

* VisiCalc - The First

* Lotus 1-2-3 - Runs on the PC, has graphics, and a bunch more capacity than VisiCalc

* Excel - GUI support

* Google Sheets (maybe) - Online real-time collaboration, etc.

There were many others along the way, and many of them could make the same claim you're making here about LibreOffice. (Multiplan, Improv, WingZ, Quattro Pro, Framework, etc.....)

Parity is ok, but the goal really has to be 'so much better that it justifies all of the switching costs'....
Are museums celebrating cultural heritage–or clinging to stolen treasure?
> quality of any evidence for Russians claim is nearly 0

Baseless.

> Where's the quality evidence for any of this?

Proof of what? That Russia has the right to protect fellow Russians? Or are doubting the slaughtering part? If it's the latter it's ridiculous, cause even western media (if understated) but wrote about donbas shelling by Ukraine. Read some OSCE reports for example.

> A yes, I forgot, Russia the country without access to the internet or other media. Theres plenty of evidence online and plenty of people have provided lots, Russia doesn't care.

Ah yes, I forgot, the west bans all even slightly pro-russian outlets (in a very democratic way of course), that's why you didn't see any proof of Ukraine military commiting actual war crimes. But hey, I guess the west just doesn't care. They will fuel the conflict and they will "fight till the last Ukrainian".

> The truth, is not propaganda, just because it makes Russia look bad does not mean it's false.

I can call my position "the truth", what makes your "truth" better than my "truth", huh? Oh, yes, it doesn't paint the west in any negative connotation.

> but I can see why it'd be easy to mix them up.

Attaching negative traits to nation that is. It is alike saying "all [nation/race] are criminals", don't you see?

> I am also confused about how not liking Russians would make a nazi, care to explain that train of thought for me?

If you don't see how HATING ENTIRE NATION makes you a nazi, something is seriously with you.

> So the Russians are posting fake news, that makes them look like there castrating a Ukrainian soldier, to their own telegram so that they can achieve what exactly?.

Idk, as the tg admin who posted it (btw, if you believe tg channels you have no right to question my sources, lmao).

I saw Ukrainian blogger post video of him allegedly "eat a corpse of Russian soldier"(which is entirely fake). What was he trying to achieve? I also saw a video of Ukrainian woman "cutting throat of Russian soldier with a sickle" and saying something along the lines of "you are not welcome here", what was she trying to achieve?

I'll tell you what... intimidation. It's psychological warfare. Every side will try post something that is scary to the other. Doesn't matter if it's fake or not.
Why? At what level do you define "local" - country, state, city, neighbourhood, street, literally next door, just my house?
I think it is more than time for industries to start understanding what an operating system should be in their domain. Right now it seems like every automotive player has something cobbled together from a 30 year evolution of software on cars.

But proprietary and closed source OSes? What happened to building secure things on secure foundations? Why not start an open source effort with the industry?
If you're accustomed to non-stick pans like i was, there may be a learning curve using carbon steel (at least there was for me). I bought a nice set several years ago and they ended up in a box in the basement after i failed to season and wash them properly. My father in law recently dug them out, revived them, and gave us some tips. We have been successfully using them ever since! While I still enjoy using the non-stick, I found i was missing out on proper fond all these years.
I would describe it as Intel promoting Intel, possibly trying to disguise it as nationalism.
I tried with a group of friends about 2 years ago, and this rings true with our experience. I think we did eventually get a build working, but there were many build issues, and they were different on different linux distros. Much documentation seemed out of date, especially with respect to the migration to the BSD toolchain (IIRC).
If a municipality truly lost zoning authority, anyone could build anything anywhere they wanted. That isn't the case. One very specific way of bypassing usual zoning codes in certain circumstances is a very different thing, and that specific way has a common name that's broader than just California, even.
> out of touch to claim that you have solutions to problems you know nothing about

That's the hardest part of coming up with a good one. In some case, expecially when applying to early stage startups, a quick research could definitively help you to identify their biggest source of pains. However for people early in their career is far from be something easy.
"incapable of even a modicum of good governance"? really? You can't point to a single way in which these local communities govern better than the State of California? Thats laughable - at best.
i think the 95% is not accurate. if you read the linked report many cities are in various stages of approval, but it appears a few are quite far along
*scrub my cast iron skillet a little harder*
Did you copy and paste the answer that ChatGPT gives you?
Reminded me of https://sqlfordevs.com/

I've been following it for the last couple of months now and love the format! You get an email with a summary of the tip and link to the website (not that often, so it's not annoying).
I’d like to live where I grew up though.
Frankly, I think zoning and HOA restrictions on what you can do with land you purchased, and own, has gotten too far. Remember, the buyers own this land. And everybody agrees you shouldn't turn it into a sewage dump - but why is it any of your darned business if I want to build a deck? I'm not an idiot, I bought the land, I own the home, stop treating me like one.
On my Macbook Pro I can go smoothly all the way to black using the Display widget on the top right.
Typical rates are $5-7k/month. So your assessment is definitely within range.
Results are final means they’re too insecure to admit fallibility
Yes. It's more expensive because of several issues that happen to obese people that don't happen to healthy weight people. Specifically dramatically increased inflammation of pretty much their entire body due to decomposing fat cells.

And those higher costs get socialized through insurance and taxes.
There are always false positives. Many years ago I was incorrectly VAC banned in one game.
Yes, on large scale and by state sponsored hostile actors with the goal to destabilize our society as a whole. A very difficult time is ahead for us.
The "standard model" for hiring is an elimination process, which is not in the best interest of the qualified job seeker, or frequently the employer which is struggling to find talent.

There are numerous ways to bypass this.

I've frequently been hired on the strength of a demo, sometimes a demo that got the attention of recruiters, other times a demo I could talk about in applications and interviews. There was that time I built an AI-powered "application tracking system" to manage my job search and the first employer I interviewed with (an AI startup) thought it was so great that I got the job.

Another approach to interviewing is to approach it like you were selling consulting work. You might try, for instance, pretending you already have the job, ask probing questions about the problems facing the company that they want you to help with and try to help them with their problems right in the interview.

There is the issue of timing. I've had job searches that lasted three days. I've had others that took nine months. There was one case where I had won people inside an academic organization to my side but it took them about six months to get the funding for me.

If other approaches to getting job are working for you then you might not want to do the ones that take more time, but I think everybody should have a good demo.

I'll say this person's course changed the way I think about getting a job:

https://job-interview-answers.com/job-interview-tips/about-b...
This is generally true. Patiently documenting steps as well as logging any corrective and preventive actions (something that I learnt when studying for ISO 9001) is prudent.
> What's the difference between "environmentally sound" and the onerous environmental review that Bay Area construction projects had to go through?

Its all (with narrow exemptions) California construction projects, not most Bay Area prohects, and there is no difference; this sentence is referring to the fact that Builder’s Remedy projects are not exempt from CEQA.
I like this approach and is one reason I’m cynical about organizations that run these types of events where the staff have no practical knowledge. There’s an industry of consultants who run challenges and hackathons and I’ve been surprised when organizations spend $100k on consultants to give our $1k in prizes or something.

The fact that this challenge doesn’t have a decision maker who knows that GitHub can host as well as template sites and differentiate between the two is a good sign of incompetence.

It’s so cool that kids are doing these challenges and I wish they didn’t have to get cynical and review the challenge before participating. One thing I look for is who is on the review committee or board. If it’s people with good backgrounds, that’s a good sign. If it’s faceless or people with no background in the topic, then I advise avoiding.
* Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
> This is Intel promoting nationalism, imo.

IMO, this is Intel using nationalism to promote Intel. They want the money, they don't want the competition, they're happy to use whatever means to gin up support.
My favorite site re: end of the world/universe is the old timer http://exitmundi.nl
What gives you the right to decide what your neighbors do with their land? Would it be "democratic and moral" if I got a group of friends together who decided that your house was too big and forced you to downsize?
States are unitary governments so they're not "seizing" anything. They already have the authority to override counties and municipalities.
> That's what regular devs do, they don't even bother writing articles or commenting on HN :-)

I'll take the bait, and roll up several of my comments into one.

First, the support contract costs from the commercial vendors can make sense. It's one of the most expensive parts of software. We joke about fixing relatives' printers, but it's not false. Support costs introduce a counter-balance.

Second, a message to everyone looking into or using QuickLisp, it uses http instead of https: https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-client/issues/167

You can patch your version to fix this. I'd also recommend adding firewall rules to deny in case your patches roll back. And any other mitigation. Or stricter policies, such as not using it, if it makes sense for your organization.

And the AI bots? I hope there aren't people herding them who don't want to, that's how you get unloving brats and a crappy world.
> You can also regulate things you know, like not having your entire daily sugar requirement in a single can of soda

This will never happen in the US. I wouldn't mind, by anyone who votes for this would be dead in the water politically.
The trick is to be very tired. Then it feels like teleportation.
That's funny, because over here in Europe private labels who use simple, unenticing packaging are aimed at price conscious consumers, while premium buyers want 'sophisticated' packaging. Maybe we are at a different part of the cycle?
> The teachers role never should be adversarial.

This is, very often, the root of so many problems that I've seen.
Media Temple is moving to GoDaddy
And you're going to want to install a newer version of Powershell on the Windows machines because most do not ship with a version (e.g. 7) comparable to the MacOS/Linux versions.
Yes, there are idiots on both sides, but that's like Trump trying to equate racists with non-racists by saying there are good people on both sides.

It's only one side of the political spectrum that as a significant portion of people who think a Kenedy will return from the dead, that you can cure covid by 'putting the light inside', that 5G causes covid, etc etc etc.

The amount of ignorance isn't equally distributed at all, and it's silly to try and claim otherwise.
debs have always been fine with me.
I see what you're saying.

For me: dash of oil, medium-low heat, and a lid.

You don't even have to clean the cast iron because the eggs don't stick.
M1 MBP down to 3.5hr battery life when writing code
What do you think of Hired.com? It may not be perfect but seems to solve a few of these issues.

All of these problems exist because we are human, so I’m not sure how it’s become dehumanized.
Better to use Unity
Unity multiplayer implementations have been very awful indeed. But UE4 netcode was pretty decent for local small room (under 16 people, whole scene loaded at once) scenarios out of the box.
Doh missed that, reading is hard!
If a U-2 can fly higher than these balloons, why did an expensive F-22 have to fire an expensive missile to blow it out of the sky? Wouldn't it make more sense to outfit a U-2 with something that can shoot a small hole in the balloon to make it descend a bit more gently? Easier to track where it lands, less damage to the equipment, presumably a lot cheaper, and a lot less international attention to the fact that the US shot a balloon out of the sky.

Unless the spectacle was the entire point, of course.
NASA's “evolved structures” reduce weight – and waiting
What a GD visionary.
One of those options gets the inspector front row seats at a Lakers game.
it cuts both ways... it's also anti-democratic to leave zoning decisions up to a small pool of the top earners (i.e., land owners) who consistently make decisions that prevent other people from living there and participating

there's a balance to be struck, and at the moment it seems the scale has been heavily tilted towards wealthy home-owners deciding what their neighbors can do on their own property
Remember Google's do no evil? Many people naively believed it for long time after it was obviously clear for a decade that they had abandoned it long time ago.
Landing AI
Try unexpected keyboard https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/juloo.keyboard2/
Related tangent:
Excalidraw is a first-class Obsidian integration; notes in your drawings and/or drawings in your notes, it's very powerful.
The way I read this article is kind of an inversion of your comment. I don’t expect jackpots from AI manipulating you or me, but with the right preparation it can introduce a change via a human influencer, especially a junior or outsider politician.

Let’s take the wealthy in your comment. Their interests tend to be defending the status quo. America has a pattern of attacking the status quo when “new sources of information” emerge.

So, what I took from the article is that us, average people, should be skeptical about influencers and personalities parroting those actors immediately after hearing them. Especially data-free explanations inlining positions that reinforce the status quo.
-- complicated - patriarchal - more intense than many cultures - its common to hear a Korean man say - the woman needs to be in her place - or - i own my wife as i own my car --

https://www.koreasociety.org/images/pdf/KoreanStudies/Monogr...

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_South_Korea

https://asiasociety.org/education/womens-role-contemporary-k...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-korean-women-hit-ba...
> Because in the context I was talking about this "they have it so easy" complaint is usually presented as a bad thing that the younger generation has it "easy".

For the older generations, they do see it as a bad thing that society didn't make them whole on past transgressions. Taking the concept of "generational trauma" seriously is only a thing of the last 20-30 years.
Housing is an infrastructure resource. It delivers a wide range of collective economic and social benefits which are often stunted by the current zoning laws.
Yes I agree the people who cannot stand anything besides detached density controlled development should move to less productive and jobs rich regions of the country.
It's not so much I'm shouting "think harder people", more lamenting that I think it's too late. The shouting should have been done about 30 years ago.

I'm cynical, but I don't really see a path forward for the US when half the population is so resistant to truth.

But absolutely, I agree with should be improving education and changing things so not every single thing should have to be analyzed to make a decision.
Why would you work at a startup in an economic downturn?
https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/juloo.keyboard2/
I agree, but I think it's less effort to cook eggs in a cast iron.

Just add a dash of oil and cook on medium low-heat with a lid.

I never spend more than five seconds cleaning because the eggs never stick.
Perhaps you should re-read the article, where it shows that >90% of the local communities failed to create zoning plans that comply with state law. That's their fault - they had literally years to prepare, for a >30 year old law, and failed. The latest events are the consequences of their own ineptitude. They thought they could just get away with not zoning for new construction of any significance, which is basically a protection racket.
The idea that a local government can seize land-use decision-making power from the landowner is anti-democratic and grossly immoral.
Cordura is a brand name for a way of texturing nylon thread. Nylon is not made from PFAS.

Cordura often has a coating on the back to make it waterproof, usually polyurethane that is sprayed on—also not PFAS.

It may have a DWR treatment on the outside, which makes water bead up and run off. Many DWR treatments are made from, or break down into, PFAS. DWR coatings are far more common on clothes than backpacks, though.

You can test by spraying water on the fabric. If it immediately forms round little drops that roll off, like it can’t “touch” the fabric, you’ve got a DWR treatment. If the water sits flat or starts to soak in a bit, you don’t.
And none of those use cases require contacts or location permission.

You could argue that a general-purpose planner might, but that's not what Emacs is, nor do I believe that it supports parsing contacts in the format provided by the Android APIs.
I sympathize but it's not people born in the Bay Area who are driving up demand. If there had not been an influx of people from other areas (including other areas of Calif) there would not be such housing crunch --and likely there would have been a pop. reduction without an influx. What's the fertility rate per woman in the Bay Area, I'm pretty sure it's below the 2.1 figure to sustain a pop.

The local native population without an influx would not be in such dire housing situation.

Yes, the area is very attractive and is a magnet but without that influx the population would have plateaued.
"Literally anywhere else" is going to be facing the same challenges and questions. SF is not the only city with a housing shortage. Why should SF be specially interested in preserving high rents and driving away the children of its residents?
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Going to extremes never works like ONLY bug fixes or address tech debt for X time. Or only shipping features even if the foundation is shit.

The best option is to accept software is soft and malleable.

If it prints money but it’s some legacy code that smells like shit and has bugs, just write a new clean interface on top and build to it. Over time you’ll end up replacing the underlying system while shipping new features and fixing bugs as they pop up. Oh and the money keeps printing.

It it doesn’t print money and the code is shit, the project should just be scrapped. Who cares.

If people constantly keep building shit code and never improve, just quit because that company probably sucks.

Be extreme by being practical.
Oh that a really interesting distro. I have never heard of Clear Linux.

That's the beauty of having so many Linux distros. There is pretty much always a distro for your use case.
Is there any source on this? There’s an other commenter saying non-stick cookware is actually safe unless you use metal on it or use it on high temperature. I don’t know what to believe anymore.
Globally enforceable? How exactly?
All the Phenol results are about the (2000s) US opioid epidemic (except one which is about Phenol free cigarettes in the 1960s...). I can't find a Phenol Crisis pre WW1.

The general history of Phenol makes no mention of Bayer either. The only application was by Lister as an antiseptic.
I can see how it comes across that way, but to clarify my message, I wasn't implying I can't go anywhere else, I was implying that the delivery software they use for the grocery store they bought (which was already using better software) has gotten worse and we are "forced" to use their shitty software to shop at a grocery store we like. And they haven't improved it because they know that we will just put up with it so we can buy food from that grocery store.
You are misparsing the sentence: it is:

(
20% low-income or
100% middle-income
) and environmentally sound

Not:

20% low-income or
(
100% middle-income and
environmentally sound
)
Yup, you're a natural born cop
I think it's funny that Intel is invoking nationalism when in the last 2 years they have announced hundreds of billions in offshore expansions all over the world (Malaysia, Germany, Israel, Ireland). I might support prioritizing them, if they prioritized America, but they don't seem to be.
Isn't that how the US government is designed to work? When a lower authority fails to meet it's mandate, it's escalated up the chain. That's certainly how the courts work.

The local government has been deemed a failure. They have repeatedly been told they need to fix zoning, and each time the local government fails differently. Now their authority has been revoked.

This is very reminiscent of the political distracting and gerrymandering cases currently in flight.
Essentials of Compilation: Building a compiler targeting x86 in Python/Racket [pdf]
To be fair, within living memory the restrictions went as far as to say what ethnicities could buy the house. The march of progress is slow.
I tend to agree. Maybe I am getting old but I feel a lot of new technology is mainly used for manipulating us instead of helping us. This is especially noticeable when it comes to information retrieval. I think things like ChatGPT are fantastic if used the right way. The world could be come much more productive with less repetitive work if the benefits got shared by all. But in reality I suspect the benefits will go to only a few and the rest will only see negative effects.
Gym after lunch? :)