skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've marginalized "the offering" as a hybrid office/consumer product with a fragmented vision, as shown by their uninspired rebranding/marketing efforts.

Google Cloud could just create their project folders in drive, let drive open the code editors, and let you do all your coding from there, but that team knows how bad the UI is, and this team is excused because they're the "office/consumer" offering. Both are paid to make separate UX, neither trusts the other, and it's categorical, so not even a conflict. Except, then there's the user that is forced to be incompatible members of two categories when they're not.

In an ideal googleverse, you'd login to chrome and it'd have everything. It would be one service, metered by resource consumption, and you'd never have to leave any single window opened for a purpose, to get that "computational" thing done.
No matter how many compromises, how many DoS events / lockouts, or how many other times internet-based password managers royally screw up, it never ceases to amaze me how people continue to trudge back to these sorry services.

"It's so convenient!"
"I don't like having to manually sync between devices with <100% local password manager>!"

Convenience addicts making excuses for their next hit of convenience... no matter how severely convenience harms them.
Probably more ground - but that's not the point. The f-35 is built to be good in all conditions, have long range and carry quite a lot of ordonance, all the while being quite stealthy. It's a do-it-all plane.(80-120M usd)

The f16 is made to stay close to airbases and defend against intrusions. Kinda cheap - relatively.(60 M usd)

The f22 is the peak stealth air superiority fighter. It's made to go anywhere and murder anything. Much, much more expensive. Does not carry that much ordonance.(150M usd)

F18A are made to be do it alls on carriers.(66 M usd)

(I'd love to be corrected if i'm wrong)
Apple don't have it enabled for all regions, even if Breezometer have data there. (E.g.: looks like they have [fairly good] data here [in Israel], but AQI is disabled in Apple Maps)
Of interest to folks looking at this post -- Chris Said has a deeper dive on US air quality metrics and their provenance, https://chris-said.io/2023/06/19/the-air-quality-index-doesn....

The attempt to make things easy to interpret using a nice relative scale ends up in the end make them very opaque to interpret the number itself in any meaningful way.
Retro Bowl is a fun distraction.
>There are disparate actors making separate, uncoordinated decisions.

You sure about that?

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...

Would not completely write out the possibility of collusion, even if non-Ponzi in nature. DoJ has been sniffing around various actors that have been increasingly found to be acting in a cartel-like manner to keep rents high.
Don’t ignore the maverick. It completely fills that niche with the added bonus of not being a death trap.
This is extremely narrowly defined and doesn't really translate to generic "huge risks".

This is really the problem, because you can narrowly define specific situations like "drive around barricade to enter a flooded road" or "go on a deep-sea dive in an uncertified experimental sub built by some cowboys", but the list is basically infinite so it's not really practical to codify all of those situations, except those that occur frequently enough that it's a structural issue (which I presume is the case with this specific law).
This brings to mind php's phpinfo. While often left publicly available, it provided (provides?) information on all loaded configurations.
Car touchscreen UX still feels 15 years behind in a lot of cases.

I was driving in my brand new Subaru the other day when a full screen message pops up that I have a message from the manufacturer and a disabled button that says something like “stop the vehicle to see the message”. I had been navigating with Google maps and CarPlay and this pop up completely obstructed my map.

I pull over to read the message and it’s a bleeping reminder that I need to schedule my maintenance appointment. It so half-baked, totally could’ve been an email.
> Xboxes are nothing more than a user-friendly gaming PC brand

Also, manufacturer- and publisher-friendly, given the heavy restrictions on the platform. It's bad for preservation that the Xbox One hasn't significantly been cracked yet.
Bitwarden still doesn't have as good a multi-account workflow as LastPass does. They finally added multi-account support late last year, that was a full blocker for me, as I need access to both my personal and work vaults on my devices. Now that they have multi-account support, it's better, but they still are significantly worse than the LP approach. If they get multi-account search working as requested here, I might finally switch over:

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/implement-multi-account-se...
Critical thinking isn't about evaluating the claim "humans will set foot on Mars within 30 years" by examining rocketry, physics, space travel, etc. It's about asking questions like "who is telling me this, why would they say this, what other beliefs do they have that might influence this one, what do other people say about this claim?" It's universally applicable but gets more effective the more you know about a given topic.
Give me a blobstore

Isn't this just a file system?
It's fatalistic by nature; then media every once in a while can publish these types of navel gazes. In return, the climber gets attention in life and in death.
Wouldn't that type of response fit in with how LMs work though? That caveman likely learned a lot of things over time, like: large animals can end life more likely than small ones, animals making loud noises are likely more dangerous, sharp teeth/claws are dangerous, or I saw one of those kill another caveman. All of those things tilt the probability of associating that loud cave bear with a high risk of death. That doesn't mean there's some inherit 'truth' that the caveman brain 'knows', it's just a high probability that it's a correct assessment of the input. Every true thing is really just an evaluation of probability in the end.
It's not the one percent that are hurt by an aging population, it's the working people. Because each working person has a greater number of non-working (retired) people to support from what they produce, so they get to keep less themselves.
Most flights are tourism, so there's that. Then even considering a business flight, the vast majority of people are not important enough that they need an internet connection during the flight.

Then most of the Internet bandwidth is used for videos, not for corporate e-mails. So... not just TikTok, but I suppose you can make the effort to get my point.

> That people like you exists on a platform like Hacker News is actually mind blowing.

You mean software professionals who don't believe that technology will save us and that we should produce more connected crap because we can?

I like good technology, not profitable technology.
This is the unfortunate endgame of any system that depends on political promotion instead of 100% merit based advancement. My experience in the corporate world has shown me that a "skillpoint" in self-promotion is worth several more orders of magnitude than a point in actual skill. Perhaps this reflects actual value to companies as company-scale self-promotion seems to be what boards, seed stage investors, and other shareholders value lately more than long term company benefit to society.

Humans have made incredible advancements in our understanding of the universe, yet we still have a starkly incompetent understanding of how to measure who is fit to hold power.
Ask HN: Way to verify level of web dev expertise?
I have read and heard this multiple times and was brought up in various social media sites, forums, and any other form of medium, without any actual answer.

Is there any way to verify the level of expertise that someone might have, let's say in web development, especially nowadays with this fast-pace evolution of technology that we can't keep up?

What should be considered as the entry basis one should have to get hired?
From what you’re saying it doesn’t sound like it would be lucrative. Lotta conjecture and hand waiving here
Destiny 2 has the 20th most concurrent users on Steam right now and had 300k+ concurrent players after the last $30 expansion, its by all rights a very successful game within the live service RPG space.
> China has figured it out so it's clearly possible.

They did not figure it out completely as seen during the disastrous economic policies during covid.

There's only a single developed dictatorship on earth, it's Singapore and it's still a debate if it's possible to achieve the same results outside of a city state.
All these sites make money from tracking, if they back out once the customers would knew they get screwed.

And not all websites have banners
I do not see how one can easily make that claim.

The amount of healthcare, and other services that someone can consume while not being able to work, is massive and has not been automated away. From daily things like cooking, feeding, bathing, etc to healthcare providers providing physical therapy, massages, consultations, to work around the residence like plumbing and electrical and otherwise swinging a hammer.

I do not see automation picking up these tasks in the near future, and the number of man hours demanded for them seem to be getting larger my whole life (more old people, living longer, and more healthcare options).
It sort of worked? I know there's plenty of AAC software available for iPads. iPad has been great for accessibility.
Brazilian here. Now and then we read these foreign articles with impressions about Brazil and feel a bit puzzled as to where and how they derive such conclusions from.

> But in recent decades, the traditional Brazilian diet has begun to change and fracture across class

What? The increase in fast-food consumption may have resulted from the increase of fast-food availability, but, in terms of habits and culture, it's quite the opposite: people are getting more and more aware of the importance of good nutrition for a healthy life. Legislation is going towards the same direction, restricting the offering of unhealthy foods at schools and mandating food industry to print standardized warnings on ultra-processed foods' packages, making it clear what sorts of potentially dangerous ingredients they contain.

Even crap-food chains like McDonalds have painted some of their stores in green and started to advertise some healthier options more ostensibly, just to make sure they don't miss any developing trend.

Other than that, regarding Outback's success, there's no big deal here. The pork ribs and the onion are good. Service is usually very good too, with polite employees and short waiting times. Some stores have longer queues, but that depends a lot on what time you go -- and some people even like to wait in lines, it's an opportunity to build up the hunger and chat with friends and family. It's expensive, but similar dishes are getting increasingly available in other, smaller restaurants, especially after some of the Outback recipes were leaked online 10 years ago.

And I'm not even sure what does it mean to be "the most popular chain" considering that there's a huge number of smaller restaurants which are extremely popular in their respective regions.

In summary, no big deal, the article even feels a like bit like advertising.
How do you call this paradox where mortality increases at a hospital because simple cases are diverted to outpatient clinic and only the severe cases are seen at the inpatient facility?
Gadgets and Gizmos That Inspired Adam Smith
I'm kind of amazed something like the steamdb.info site doesn't exist for any mobile game store.
Cadence of Code
My father is 84 with cognitive degeneration. He’s used an iPhone for years but is stuck on an old one with the home button purely because we don’t think he’ll transition to swiping up. His short term memory is shot, learning new behaviors is tough, and his fine motor skills aren’t great. Some of the adaptive settings help, but the home button is so easy.

Could someone not build the case you mention (shock, spill proof, easy hold) with a big speaker in it?
windows mean a lot of office spaces would have empty cores

Just change the code.
I remember TinTin from high school in India in the 1970’s.
Less bad = good?
Yes people are too stupid to make their own choices. The EU should just start coming out with “5 Year Plans”. What could possibly go wrong?

The EU’s regulations must be why there is a thriving tech sector in Europe…
if I'm on a route and a free solo climber passes me my first thought is "he better not fall and land on me"
I'm kind of amazed no one has tried making a games database site for either google play or apple in the same spirit as https://steamdb.info
Car quality is suffering because people treat their cars like junk. Too many people lease. Too many people are driving cars they don't actually own. Too many people see cars as temporary. A growing number see them as "necessary evils" and treat them like a bad habit that we all should kick asap. That attitude means people don't care about their vehicles. Cars are no longer partners that you trust year after year. People once grew attached to their cars. People remembered important life events based on which car they were using at the time. When you don't care about something you aren't going to take pride in it. You aren't going to maintain it yourself. You aren't going to demand proper engineering or design. Cars are now just a commodity, something to be used and tossed aside. Current design reflects that attitude.
Mindustry is an excellent tower defense, Factorio-like game. It's a little tricky to play without a mouse but is very polished. Then there's Shattered Pixel Dungeon, a fun turn-based roguelike RPG. Both are FOSS.
This affects women more because caregiving is a responsibility which falls disproportionately on women.

Though I'm no longer working, being able to shift to remote a few years ago let me move home and care for my parents + kids at the same time. It wasn't about working less, it's about being available in case of emergency and not having to do a commute. My hours worked didn't change at all - if anything, they increased, because I didn't have to rush home from the office as a precaution.

I like to think that remote work is particularly valuable for men because it makes it possible for them to rise above systemic factors and be present and engaged in caregiving in a way which was previously artificially denied them. I like to think the biggest benefit for women isn't that they're able to work remotely to more effectively be caregivers, but that their spouses are able to work remotely so they aren't obliged to be caregivers. I wish that were how it was presented.
CLIP inference in plain C/C++ with no extra dependencies
And I'm sure they would love for you to roll over, too. Come on, man.
And of course another big one is drinks. I don't think people really appreciate what things like soft drinks do to the body. A single 20oz bottle of Coke has 240 calories. If somebody naturally burns 2000 calories a day then having just one bottle of Coke per day would equal out to the equivalent adding 1.5 months of extra 2000 calorie 'feedings' onto your diet. And the zero calorie versions are even worse. All studies are now demonstrating just an endless slew of health related problems driven by sugar substitutes, in general, but especially aspartame [1].

[1] - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/314345#Aspartame-b...
> I do think this is true on some cases others are an mis judging of calories that are being eaten.

I'm sure that is the case, but my point was that I don't even need to pay attention to calories on menus, or anywhere else for that matter.
That's the only developed dictatorship in the world though, nobody knows if it's possible to replicate that outside of a city state
I mean if this is too onerous a regulation, the smartphone makers are free to pull out of the world's third largest market...
It is the same thing. The biggest player (if you include Windows gaming) in the market gets treated differently than the second biggest player.

Many may not like it but it is not about what is fair, but what keeps the market healthy.
Note the physical jog wheel in the upper left (which inspired https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588770 )
> Why store markdown files in Google Drive of all places and not a git repository?

Git diffing doesn't play nice with paragraph-based prose.
Do you use syncthing to sync notes with your phone too? How do you set that up?
That is not what a ponzi scheme is
I still don't get why our cities are populated with full sized cars and not 1-2 person cheap electric cars.
> The only reason there is a need for "economic growth" is for profit. Prove me wrong, please!

How about you try visiting somewhere like North Korea, or some country in Sub-Saharan Africa, the countries which have had the least economic growth, and try to say with a straight face that economic growth doesn't make a difference.

>The statement that an "aging population could be a drag on economic growth" is really saying that capitalism cannot profit off of the elderly and that is a bad thing for stock holders.

To put it in simple terms, compare two situations: in one you're working to support just yourself and your father, in the second you're working to support both your parents and two grandparents. Obviously in the second one your standard of living is going to be worse, and as a society that's what it likes when the ratio of working to non-working people decreases.
I think the title here is polarizing gender politics, but it is backed up with data. More women work from home vs men due to child care.
And you shouldn’t change the passwords if you aren’t migrating?
> because who's looking at their air quality map from two different countries

People that travel. Are you serious?
Unless their backups get stolen (again)
> Do you have to be on drugs?

It helps. ;-)

IMO here are some of the more "accessible" Pink Floyd songs:

Money from Dark Side of the Moon

Wish You Were Here (title track)

Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 (AKA We don't need no education) and Hey You from The Wall
Sounds like enshittification comes for cars.

It’s a death spiral too. Cars get less reliable -> people lease and don’t care about cars -> cars get less reliable.
People always bring up the s5 and leave out the part that is only water proof if the cover is over the ports and if you make absolutely sure that the battery cover is on correctly.
A software engineer turning Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse story into a musical
The past week has been super weird. My local weather station kept predicting rain every day and it barely rained at all. This week, once again, they say thunderstorms every day. We'll see how it goes.
The book “The Non-Designers Design Book” is very good. This is where the acronym CRAP comes from, which is Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity.
I have no clue who the target audience is for this article...

The "advice" ranges from saying no to coffee to saying no to your boss. Then the advice on "checking my calendar"...uh if I'm your boss, I would have checked your calendar already and see where you have timeslots.

Article seems like the author asked ChatGPT for ways to say no and then added their examples to shoehorn to one article.
I had a short stint in academia, and it is much easier to say no even in worst company compared to average professor. The problem is not even that the people are bad but in the setting itself, it is that there is no clear data to see the direction in which to put effort in acedemia and in IT jobs at least you could argue with clearer points for why something can't be done in some way, or why developing something would interfere with some other thing.

When two people are arguing with just opinions, the senior person assumes their choice is valid. At least for me, this was frustrating as I felt my opinions are not given any respect.
I've been involved in switching users in a corporate environment from one password manager to another.

You want to irritate non-technical people? Tell them that they need to use a password manager.

You want to irritate even technical people? Tell them that the password manager you had to force them to use is going to be replaced by a new one, and _they_ have to do the export/import steps -- despite the fact that their boss is breathing down their neck for four projects that are late, half of which they have no control over.

I'm glad I don't have to worry about the Lastpass breach, but I can absolutely commiserate with anyone who has to care about password managers for other people.
What else is there?

The Phantom is more male orientated. Asterix was kinda comical. Marvel and DC to be frank are garbage with no coherent story line. Disney have proven that.

Since Tintin was syndicated in newspapers that might be an entry point. But it's huge world wide, it had to be translated from French to English so the system to translate was already set-up. The Tintin store in Singapore is cool.

The full set, minus Tintin in the Congo which has to be bought separately, is on Amazon etc - https://www.amazon.com/Tintin-Paperback-Boxed-Set-titles/dp/...
I was told in my last job that apparently the tech department was really sensitive because they didn't like being screamed at, for the rest of the company it was totally normal. I honestly don't get it, how can anyone do reasonable work in an environment where getting screamed at because the boss had a bad day is normal.
Why does that site keep flailing around when you try to to scroll?
The problem is that “bad” money eventually accumulates to undermine the political system. We see this now with dark money in US politics.

“Bad” money works to circumvent society altogether and is not interesting in participating in a societally-driven dialogue about what’s ethical and what’s not. If it did, there would be no dark money or influencing-peddling in the system.
You might have to dig for it - I didn’t know this feature was available before this post. You need to click on the map button then toggle the air quality layer.

Seems to cover most of the US, Canada, Mexico. Western Europe is largely present but is missing a handful of countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Portugal, and Iceland). Also covers most of Japan and South Korea and small localized portions of India and China.
> A ponzi scheme is fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors.

If you’re going to copy/paste a dictionary definition, you should probably cite the dictionary you are using (Oxford, it looks like).

I think the correct term here is “speculative bubble”, but there are deep similarities between a speculative bubble and a Ponzi scheme. The similarities run deep enough that I do not think it is worth fighting over the difference between a Ponzi scheme and a speculative bubble. In both a speculative bubble and a Ponzi scheme, early investors are paid out with funds taken from later investors, for an asset which does not have enough utility to justify those payouts.

In a Ponzi scheme, it’s one person or entity running it, and in a speculative bubble, it’s just “the market”. But the market is just a bunch of people. And I don’t think the bad faith component of Ponzi schemes should be considered a necessary component.
And if you had the rubber cover secured tightly covering the ports…
Author seems to have missed "ghosting" .. perhaps it lacks the grace and style.