skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re throwing money at a problem and getting no results because of bad administration of funds---this is definitely what we have been doing in education and we should stop. Arguments to give more money to the same people to do the same things are going to go poorly with increasingly large amounts of the broader populace--this may not stop the government from doing it though.

I am not going to pretend to know the details of California school funding. But broadly speaking schools which get less local funding usually get more funding from state and federal sources. And the national average per pupil differences between the poorest and richest school districts are really not that large, but these numbers are very tricky (much more spent in nyc than idaho, etc.). Some anecdotes: recently there was a viral video of a school in Indiana, I think Carmel. Everyone was very impressed by the school facilities and it seemed to confirm the prior that rich kids get more funds. But then it turned out the average spending per pupil at that school is less than half the per pupil spending of DC public schools. Now there may be good reasons DC would spend more (COL etc.), but even adjusting for that the spending wouldn't be that different. Carmel just spends the money better. Anecdote 2: I have taught school in rural areas at schools which are absolutely poor in terms of facilities and everything else. I don't think tripling the spending per student would have done anything at all to change outcomes there...the students could usually not make it through a 40 min lesson without attacking each other or totally disrupting things. No reasonable amount of money would have changed this. It is not that expensive to educate a kid, you just need to feed them and teach them things that have been known for hundreds or thousands of years from old books. What is going wrong, I think, does not have to do with differences in school funding.

I think Obama's legacy is yet to be understood. Something like "the inspirational power of the symbol of a black president" is difficult to measure. The worsening race relations and their societal impacts (and their causes) since he took office is also hard to measure. Im curious what your evidence is to say "it seems very important for inspiring US blacks in general". Inspiring them to do what? And how is this quantified? (I guess by asking people "who is your hero" or something).
The idea that there is an arbitrary split between hotels or other rentals is, well, arbitrary.

This is the same nonsense as NYC's yellow cab vs black car licensing and regulations.

Let people make businesses how they choose.
This is kinda awesome
I want all nations to ditch dollar based trading. It's nothing but indirect tax on the non Americans.

High interest rates is once in a decade thing btw.

America printed 4 trillon dollars since COVID. I am not finding America at fault or anything like that. Everyone puts their interests first after all
Two things can be true. Fallout 3 is poorly optimized for sure. The steam deck’s CPU performance also sucks.

I’ve had this issue with plenty of games.
i think it could work like that for many but most don't have the courage to ask. frankly a company where it doesn't work like that is not a healthy work environment to begin with. (like some examples discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35032286 )
The difference is that a gun is a tool with a single use-case.
I believe it. Even with the take home assignment people lie and cheat.

We had one person who literally hired a team in India to do it for him. Presumably planning to give his work to them later if he was hired.
To contain China, chips shouldn’t be seen as “advanced” or “less advanced”
Exactly. Development absolutely happens in these places, but big capital is only interested in fat margins, thus virtually all of that development has been luxury condos (and in LA suburbs, McMansions).
It did but the game runs surprisingly smooth now on my Geforce 1080, when it used to stutter and frame dip a lot
Author here - Thanks for reading. The $1k/mo is just my "salary" from revenue generated by my indie projects. I had a substantial amount of savings that I lived off of for my first year. Since then, I've supported myself with contract work. I'm also very lucky that my partner is very supportive and has a good job, so at times (such as last year when I was launching my latest SaaS), he picked up our shared expenses.
I think I'd push back a little bit on this. Watching non-technical people try to use apps and websites makes me feel an immense amount of guilt. It's crazy the amount of problems that I ignore because I am so used to them or because I understand the inner workings of things. When a non-technical person sees one of those problems, it's sometimes a show stopper. It wastes a lot of brain cycles for them to figure out what error messages mean, why there's a pop-up explaining some new arcane feature unrelated to their goal, why their form submit didn't go through, etc.

The fact that software is so pervasive definitely speaks for itself, but we still have a very long way to go.
"none of the complex systems I use work at all"

None of them?
As a dev, high performance is velocity, number of bugs and cordial behavior. Additional parameters need to be considered for more senior roles like ownership, cross org influence, mentorship etc. It’s not rocket science.
I...have no sympathy.
It could continue to use the mountain, if it segmented its product into a normal (non-swiss) and luxe (swiss made) version.

It's just not allowed to trade off swiss iconry if it moves manufacturing outside of the cantons. Which I think makes perfect sense.

I've grown quite fond of my off-brand mechanical movement Japanese watch. JR Springs is Seiko in all but name. Toblertwo and Toblerone would have worked fine. People know what they're buying
That Casio calculator watch is still sold—I saw one in Walmart yesterday. I was also admiring a digital Timex Ironman watch that had an "OCCASNS" function, including customizable calendar and time-of-day alerts, which I had never seen before on those watches. It only took me a minute or two to figure out how it worked, even with a segmented LCD and odd contractions to fit the words on the screen.

(I settled on a classic analogue Timex with a leather strap. Can't beat them, really.)
This is important safety information locked behind a paywall.

Stop posting paywalled content. Your posts are just free advertising for a paid service.
My claim is not that "no software has any part that works", my claim is that "all software has some part that is buggy" which seems trivially demonstrably true in my life. I have unfortunately nothing to offer but anecdotes, but I go by my day and almost every moment something fails. I open jira tons of errors. I open an Android app, tons of issues. I open LinkedIn in browser, sometimes text box doesn't work. I open facebook, it has gazillions of weird problem that pop up every moment.

In fact, I'll go against the wind a little more. A sibling comment in this chain claimed when software has bugs, it's resolved quickly. Wow, I cannot disagree more. I know bugs in tons of software I use that's been there for years, since I started using it. In fact, my principle is the exact opposite, if a software has a bug, unless you yourself fix it [1] chances are that bug won't be fixed.

[1] if open source
Where to find more stories like this?
Until the moment you do anything weird or unexpected, then it goes haywire

As someone who hates "average" and "normal", this is a big problem, particularly when the goalposts on that have moved to pretty much anything that anyone wants to do beyond elementary-school education-level difficulty

The ease-of-use assholes that have ruined software can kindly go eat a dick
> The UX is fine, the universe just built a better idiot

That is a disgustingly arrogant viewpoint to have as a dev/designer, and one of the reasons why most software is stagnant shit.

It's what leads to atrocities like HN's current CSS XD
Hopefully local businesses weren't shouldered out by Walmart. Good news for local stores.
> what happened in the 70s

Do you mean the early 1970s when the US moved off the gold standard and there was a massive oil shock?

Or the late 1970s when inflation made an attempt for a runaway spiral?

> get lower and things resume as normal

The last few years (2008-present) have been anything but “normal”.

The Fed has been full throttle on the lowest interest rate for years and Quantitative Easing / asset purchase programs. Stocks and VCs have been juiced with cheap money causing massive distortions in many markets.

Normal would involve checking and savings accounts paying a non-trivial interest rate. It would involve actual due diligence in VC, not rubber stamping FOMO. Your “normal” probably needs some recalibration.
Meanwhile in third world countries, people are selling their kid’s organs: https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/from-organ-trade-to-sedat...

If only there was a way for people to emigrate to opportunity.
I think intrinsic to that deal-breaker is the underlying problem. Memory management in a parallel environment is a tough nut to crack. Leaning on the JVM punts on the issue.

There's no reason JavaScript couldn't transparently implement parallel map/filter/etc. Other than the fact it is really hard to do. On the other hand a lot of the things JavaScript engines do today are also really hard, so maybe one day it'll happen.
Thanks for this, super insightful perspective
I had a chademo fast charging station clamp on my car and refuse to let go, along with not actually doing any charging. They tried resetting the charger but nothing worked. It eventually timed out and gave up after 12 hours or so. No harm done to the car but quite annoying.
> The myth that spinach is a good source of iron has its origin in a decimal point error in the 1890s.

I think this persists well into the 2000s.
But that is why I dislike frameworks.

Whenever something is no longer simple, it is more work to customize them than it would have been to write something yourself, with judicious use of more specific libraries as opportunistically effective. That seems to present itself rather quickly every time I decide to test out a new framework.
When this happened in SF with Walgreens people said that the stores that were closed were actually under performing to begin even without theft factored in, and that theft was used as an excuse to cover it up. Is it a similar situation here?
> Have you personally already purchased your first home? Without family assistance, it would be absolutely brutal and untenable for my children to enter into in this domain at present.

I haven't, but I'm not a DINK, and have never broken six figures.

The right credit union will make a home loan with no money down, which might help your kids and their spouses. I'm currently paying $3k/month for rent. Zillow says that this could afford a $350,965 home with a 30-year 6.833% fixed rate, including 1.2% taxes at $351/month and $800/year in homeowner's insurance at $67/month, and mortgage insurance at $287/month. Not possible in this area, but possible elsewhere.
I wish they would give numbers. What is the current amount of shrinkage in dollars and how does that compare vs historical. After Walgreens[0] confessed to over-stating the problem, I would like to see more data. Especially since Target has also seen large spending declines as it has been dealing with excess inventory and consumer spending changes (necessities vs luxuries).

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/05/walgreens-may-have-overstate...
No sympathy for whom? This is going to negatively impact the purchasing power of a lot of low/middle class shoppers.
This headline (note it was originally published by the conservative rag National Review) is misleading. The executive quote from Walmart alluded to theft as a contributing factor, but the actual cause was underwhelming financial performance. I’ve been to one of those Walmarts. It was a dump, even before the pandemic. I also can’t think of many people in Portland that shop at Walmart— many better options.
Actually I remember Norvig saying that they found no such thing - scoring higher in interview panels did not correlate with performance on a job. The only positive correlation they found was gpa
> I think people get hemmed up talking about what FP is

You've defined purely functional programming, which seems to be the increasingly common meaning of FP. The original definitions only explicitly refer to constructing programs by combining functions:

A History of Lisp http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf

> LISP is characterized by [...] composition of functions as a tool for forming more complex functions.

Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/359576.359579

> informal description of a class of simple applicative programming systems called functional programming (FP) systems, in which "programs" are simply functions without variables.

However, Backus defines his functional programming system mathematically, which could reasonably be construed as referentially transparent.
Note that all 3 of the first sentences of the article say this exactly in slightly different ways.

> “While our underlying business is strong, these specific stores haven’t performed as well as we hoped.”
Will software like SolidWorks ever work well on it? What are the main things holding that back?
The Matasano Cryptopals challenges, however, live on here: https://cryptopals.com/

Worth checking out if you want to have a bit of fun with cryptography.
Then they will argue that the examination method is outdated
Show HN: Crypto payment gateway with recurring billing
We have built a non-custodial solution that helps merchants to accept recurring payments. Easy to integrate and smooth UX (no need to leave merchant website). Feedback is much appreciated
Its not held as actual cash https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/companycash.asp

http://www.ahead-education.eu/why-apple-sits-on-so-much-cash...
see e.g. DETR https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12872
For sure they are lumping in a bunch of closings together that are not necessarily related. The original link mentioned other closings Walmart announced in February and most of those are due to Walmart giving up on a specific format that they were testing. But, by lumping in some of these types of closings they can blame "criminals" for their own financial failing
Wouldn't that be bad if they were closed due to crime? The local stores would be robbed too?
So... Someone at the Federal Reserve didn't set up their zoom meeting correctly and an opportunistic prankster entered stage right and made them all embarrassed. This is barely a story other than where it happened. They should be happy it wasn't worse. And maybe bring on a few more interns to help with the setup.
This framing is terribly paternalistic. If a person is taking a drug, they themselves are who is possessing and using it. They aren't some mere passive subject for doctors to be acting on. Furthermore, they shouldn't be forced to convince some doctor-bureaucrat they have some specific medical condition, or even a "medical condition" at all, to be allowed the treatment they'd like to try.
The stability of the 3D feature was greatly improved on the New Nintendo 3DS, which added eye-tracking using the front-facing camera so that you could tilt and turn it and you wouldn't see a double image. I've never personally heard of anyone ever getting a headache from it, and it would be a bit silly not to use it because it doubles the screen resolution and makes everything much sharper.
Is it so different from SaaS software that locks you out when your credit card renewal fails? (To be clear I'm not a fan of either).
> In a similar vein, Nike and Cracker Barrel locations closed in 2022 with companies citing similar reasons.

… Cracker Barrel?
Neither are erasing womanhood. That's like saying gay marriage is erasing hetero marriage.
A lot of the software you interact with on a daily basis is made to be robust at least from a system point of view. Firmwares are tested because if they fail horribly the product will get returned or cause real damage. Communication protocols are designed to be fault tolerant. Critical infrastructures operate far from their peak capacity and are doubled. There are buffers everywhere limiting the impact of a brittle piece.

People seldom realise how much engineering is necessary to make the modern world tick and that goes for software too.
Was the whole process <= 1 hour, the total amount of live coding was <= 1 hour, or any session of live coding was <= 1 hour?

All the interviews at Google are 45 minutes, and when I interviewed only 2 had coding, so there was realistically 70-80 minutes of coding that day. I did maybe 15 minutes in a phone screen on an earlier date. Even if you did only 60 minutes for the whole process, you really aren't that far off from a typical FAANG.
Context:

“It is at a crisis level,” explained Jeremy Girard of the Oregon Retail Crime Association. Girard estimates some of the hardest hit stores in the Portland-area are losing between $1 million to $5 million annually to theft. Retailers across the city have been forced to hire private security guards, lock down valuable items, change store layout, reduce hours or simply close their doors.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/shoplifters-...
I'm literally just learning about this being untrue at this very moment. I was actually looking at adding foods that were high in iron to my diet recently and was very confused at what the nutrition data I found for spinach indicated.
Unlikely. Winco is by far the cheapest grocery store chain in the area, and no Walmart is far from a Winco. In other areas, this would absolutely be true but in Portland the impact is likely to negligible if at all. I’d honestly assume, like the others have said poor performance is the reason for closing not theft.
AirBnB got me an apartment for awhile in a top-3 US city because I had horrible credit and bad rental history. I don't have such issues in the cities with pretty weak tenant protections, but in places like NYC strong tenant protections make landlords nervous to rent to anyone who may take awhile to get rid of, so people end up relying on AirBnB etc.

It's not purely a bunch of tourists or whatever taking up this housing and driving out the locals.
Assuming you want a zero-vm runtime, life will be much simpler with a borrow checker than without.

The learning curve is a fixed tax for a recurrent return.
Thanks for sharing, although unfortunately when visiting the link above the author has left an unfriendly message -

"HACKER NEWS - A DDoS made of finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers"

Suppose will have to try again another time.
They still have Walmart.com
The words you choose within an app are an essential part of its user experience
Advising someone "you should clear your browser history after going on 4chan, pornhub, or hacker news" isn't exactly "thought policing", nor did it mean to sound like I was yelling.

It's just a little informational thing. Like, evidently parts of the rest of the internet have realized how bad 4chan and hacker news are, as we can see by the referrer-detection stuff. I'm not telling you to stop visiting such bad websites, just telling you that you may want to cover your tracks if you intend to fit into polite (internet) society.
How many stories are there about retail theft vs. employer wage theft?
The Best of 'Protocol'
You know I've been wondering this an awful lot myself and have thought about discrimination WITHOUT the qualifier and I find it enlightening because if you use the qualifier you just answer a question with a question - what is "unjust" or "unwarranted"

People look at me funny when I use the term broadly and society is unapologetically extremely discriminatory against people who are "stupid" to the point that people will get outraged if a smart person doesn't get what they DESERVE, say admission into an elite university, when they are so far above the unwashed masses. Take the Asian student taking his case about discrimination to the Supreme Court about not getting into school with a GPA over 5, is that his school SHOULD have essentially discriminated in his favour due to his grades, and SHOULDN'T have discriminated against him due to his race. Grade based discrimination is legitimate, race based discrimination is not.

"Anti-discrimination" is more like "Anti-unwarranted-discrimination" or "anti-unjust-discrimination", people are generally supportive of discrimination, just so long as it isn't unjustified. Racial discrimination is terrible for race relations, gender discrimination is bad for gender equality, discrimination against different nationalities causes wars, discrimination against transgender people reduces mental health, so this is BAD discrimination. Discrimination by grades means more people end up productive members of society so this is GOOD discrimination. Also discriminating against those who discriminate inappropriately is very important, so as to ensure everybody is discriminating in the correct manner.
Jeesh. It's not that hard to setup a Zoom meeting to avoid this sort of thing. I recently had to setup 13 separate Zoom rooms all with 10 breakout rooms with these restrictions to avoid this soft of thing.
The link agrees:

> The belief that spinach is a good source of iron, although falsified 30 years ago by Hamblin in a British Medical Journal article, is still widespread among my colleagues, all of whom have, at minimum, a master’s degree in health sciences.

1981 + 30 = 2011.
Find out the go-to spot for scratches.
After the “Musk made everyone view his tweets” hoax two weeks ago I’m disinclined to believe articles about why Twitter is bad published by traditional news outlets that compete with Twitter, and are threatened by the direct access to journalists and other sources that Twitter provides.
Well that's the point though isn't it? A good test might technically have a time limit, but time won't be the limiting factor for most people, so nobody will think extra time is some "unfair" advantage.
The “fact” that the different parts of the tongue taste different things was due to bad data viz and mistranslation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_map
(Maybe you were joking.)
I can't disagree with you about that. The article here is about a misconfigured zoom meeting, which is shockingly easy to do. And if you've ever seen technical people struggling with Jira, you'll know it's not just an issue for non-technical users.

But I think it is a different quality of the software. Contrary to other people in these comments, I think we make software that actually does work in the vast majority of cases. "Working" isn't really the same as high performance, feature rich, or intuitive software, though.
You obviously can't ship regular groceries through traditional carriers, and grocery delivery relies on local stores being able to fulfill.

Even if they kept the stores open as a form of a delivery and pickup hub, it's still disadvantages low income individuals or families that do not use technology heavily enough to be able to use the app, or the delivery fees/tip structure could make the cost prohibitive for low income folks.
I'd joke about offering five bucks for it, but I wouldn't want to be tainted by association.
Two things you must keep in mind with Tailwind that are key to its success, they are:

1. It gives you bunch of sane defaults around colours and spacing. If you consistently use Tailwinds classes then you'll get a nice grid and (usually) complimentary colours.

2. You're using a a framework or view library that supports reusable components. For React, this is obvious. For Phoenix, you use LiveView components or the Phoenix "static" components.

Tailwind only really works when you apply its classes to components, then reuse the components (or more tersely: "Reusable styles via reusable components")