skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really fun, but to be sufficiently poe-faced for HN, it does maybe highlight some of the issues that cause people to grouse about web apps vs native apps (not that many apps are truly native these days). The set of controls apps use has changed over time and some of the old "power user" controls just aren't there anymore. I think this is maybe part of what people get at when they express a preference for native UI. Classic desktop OS widget toolkits like ComCtl32, Cocoa, Swing, JavaFX, Qt etc were built up over very long periods of time and thus have a lot of very powerful controls and subtle behaviors that helped you be productive.

In contrast, HTML5 has an absolute poverty of UI controls. The web community ended up settling on React + "design systems" to try and patch their way out of this, but because theming and widget toolkits get blended together in this approach the widgets are constantly being reinvented and end up half baked compared to desktop UI frameworks, which separate theming from widget behavior and thus get way more investment in the core feature set.

This shows up in a lot of subtle ways, and a few not so subtle ways. For example there are some controls common in Win95 apps that are conspicuously missing here:

• Virtualized list view with resizable/movable headers. There doesn't seem to be a list view control at all, in fact. The control they call list is actually a menu!

• Yet there's no menu bar, and the menu ("list") doesn't seem to be a real context menu. Right click an item in the tree view and you get the browser context menu, which is useless.

• There's no tree table view.

• The range control doesn't have notches or the ability to see the value you're sliding.

etc. And of course you can forget about all the little features Win95 widgets had like proper keyboard support (try using the up/down arrows in the tree view, it doesn't work).

Now obviously this is just a fun hobby project. It's not meant to be an actual widget toolkit competitive with Windows 95, so the criticism above isn't "real" criticism, it's just a springboard for a bit of technical observation: it's 2023! Why does the web still not have a UI framework competitive with an OS that came out nearly 30 years ago? If you wanted to make a Win95 theme for Qt or JavaFX then it would be quite easy and you would actually be able make apps that were competitive with Win95 apps in terms of UI features. But the React+DOM approach can't manage that because the effort required to flesh out the widgets is split between a thousand design systems. That seems wrong and is part of why web UI feels kinda dumbed down compared to what we once had.
I think both could co-exist, Elon is trying to build a premium paid platform for the "intellectual elites" which is what I feel currently.

And threads are for everyone, the general public.

For now I am good with twitter though.
> I think their intention is to forbid "selling it as a paid service"

That's my interpretation too. It puzzles me as surely companies providing it as a professional service would be far more likely to pay for support for the software.
The Z80 and most of the 47xx logic chips are still manufactured, though. (Small RAM and ROM chips may become a problem, in the near future.)
A rotor ship is a type of ship designed to use the Magnus effect for propulsion
This will essentially kill these platforms. I don't have the data but I can see how a delivery can take, on average, one hour. Between waiting for an order to arrive, accepting it, going to the food place, taking it to the destination, delivering it, etc...

$17 + fees + tips? => $20+ delivery fee.

Unless you are delivering for a well-off family of 5, it makes no sense.
Thank you, this is very helpful, as I need often to do stabilisation excercises. Also your domain choice is excellent, sir!
>I'm from Denmark (which, admittedly, I understand is on the lax side of things as far as Europe goes), but I can't see what would stop you.

Same in Austria, which has a very un-European business-friendly approach to terminations. You can fire anyone anytime without a reason, unless your company is big enough and has a unionized worker's council willing to stand up to terminations and ask for precise reasons (usually factory style jobs).

But no SW companies usually do, so you can get terminated on the spot for no reason, with you taking your notice period as garden leave without the employer having to pay you with severance or any other compensation. It's pretty similar to the US in this regard.
I do wonder exactly what level of corporate malignancy is needed to result in jail sentences. Outside of financial misconduct I can't think of more than a couple (and I'd have to check they actually resulted in custodial sentences).

Union Carbide did I think? I'm off to google it later.

And that Korean Shopping Center that collapsed.
Thanks! I just found later that MuscleWiki also has videos of women (not sure if they have it of all exercises though). I want to add an option to choose the video format in the future :)
Link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475521
Not in fluoride toothpaste, hopefully
Presumably you paid for some of the trash you read, either through buying a book outright, borrowing from your library (taxes), etc?
> You can't entirely rely on it to know a dereference is happening because references (e.g. `int&`) aren't subject to the `->` requirement.

To the extent that this is a problem, it's a problem with references as a language feature in general, not with the arrow syntax.
And I assumed this was a Futurama reference...
maybe we can also provide another option: feed this shared pool of fake data instead.
> Tools are sometimes important, but 80-90% it's about the proficiency of the wielder.

It probably depends on the domain you're working in. In the motion graphics industry, for example, if you're not using the right tools, you just won't be able to compete. Third-party render engines such as Octane offer near-photorealistic rendering straight out of the box. If you're trying to squeeze the same results out of, say, Cinema4D's standard renderer, then you're playing with both hands tied behind your back.

I do think there are beginners who wrongly emphasize tools over skills, but I also think there are experts who don't realize what an advantage their tools are giving them, and choose instead to pretend that they don't matter, when they do.
Arguably, 8-bit BASIC is type-safe, as well. :-)
> why risk your money on something with almost zero upside and all this downside? Suing the government is not a sign of strength

Can’t say I agree with this logic. (Conclusion fine.) Apple didn’t sue the FBI from a position of weakness [1]. DoorDash et al, understandably, don’t want to be disadvantaged in their grocery business [2]. Reading between the leaves, I think that’s what they’re pushing for. They also don’t want to change the status quo, which is less reasonable, but not a sign of strength or weakness per se.

In any case, most small businesses in America operate on single-digit margins. Almost every restaurant would be wiped out by what, from a tech perspective, is a meaningless change in margins. There is nothing meaningful to conclude simply from the fact DoorDash is challenging the rule.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute

[2] https://doordash.news/get-the-facts/why-were-filing-a-lawsui...
When was it not? Only reason to go on for me is when looking for work. You can see available offers, chat with recruiters, see if anyone you know is working in a potential company, and that's about it.

It's not like I'm going there for entertainment or insights into the nature of the universe.
This is really neat. Barrier to entry is super low. Congrats!

I'd love the same but for meal plans, if you fancy building something else
I don't think it's that deep and never suggested a conspiracy.
Indeed, I'm a Pole and I found it hilarious.

Though given that my country actually did disappear from maps for over a century because of joint neighbor aggression, this is a bit of black humor...
Are you kidding? Sony has a ton of major first party IPs. Uncharted, The Last of US, God of War, Gran Turismo, MLB, Ratchet & Clank are just a few that come to mind.
Thanks a lot!! Yeah, there is still a lot of room for extending this. I don't plan to monetize it at the moment but maybe in the future :)

So far it's just a fun side project which I enjoy working on
I love that it’s a web app
> We've been using PFAS for 80 years now. Are the children of heavily exposed people actually contracting diphtheria or tetanus at measurably higher rates?

Should we wait for that to happen if the risk is obvious?
> The city is just being stupid on this one.

Why? Don't hire delivery drivers of you don't need them.
Probably just needs a ChatGPT code interpreter plugin.
I have found truth in your take recently in my life when previously (majority) I was against such a notion. Out of curiosity, could you expand on what you might be able to describe as magic from your perspective? I understand it is a slippery _thing_ or _suchness_ to describe but I appreciate any attempt. Thanks!
I think it is because Linux users tend to be more familiar with their software than users of other OSes. They chose it and they configured them, sometimes for hours.

Also they may have bent software to their liking and when you change something so important as the way images are rendered, then their particular workflow can go haywire.

I was in the community for less change (wayland, systemd, etc.) however now I tend to agree with you, I don't really care if I can still send emails, watch my DVDs and play some games.
It shouldn't be more complicated than selling alcohol to an adult, really.

Sixt gave me the car I reserved in 3 minutes time, half of which was me walking to the car, no upsale attempts, just a quick driver license check, some instructions regarding EV charging and here's your key sir have a nice day. That's how it should be.

If I were to steal the car, I'd bet they'd have no trouble tracking it down, as the technology involved is trivial nowadays.
Well for one, you'd have to actually pay the employees in Denmark per the contract. They can't just not pay. If they don't pay they'll be declared bankrupt by the workers income insurance(lønmodtagernes garantifond) and the owners will be last in line to get anything. As a counter example see Twitter where employees still haven't received their three month severance.
I think you misread the GP. These "mid and senior devs" are writing documents not documentation. They're not writing comments or wiki pages, they're writing designs docs for new systems, proposals for cross-cutting initiatives, etc. They're taking their knowledge of the domain, its issues, and general wisdom and applying it at a scale larger than a single developer's output.

In theory, this makes perfect sense and is a great way to amplify a more senior developer's impact compared to just coding "the hard stuff." In practice, unfortunately, this leads to a "doc culture" where there's often too much focus on the writing & documents and not enough on the coding & getting shit done.

For example, look at Amazon. Writing is considered a core SDE skill, yet atrocious code (especially from more senior "lifers") and shitty half-solutions are seemingly desirable. Promotion at Amazon is about telling a story of your impact in your promo doc, not about explaining to the powers that be that you're a kick-ass engineer who needs harder problems.
I remember learning some Windows programming as a teen from Charles Petzold Programming Windows and wondering what is that strange hungarian notation.
What you’re describing is psychology, design and possibly art, not magic.

Of course I’m not going to try to define ‘art’ any time soon…
> You don't need to enforce meritocracy

So it's ok if I come to your house and take your stuff because I'm bigger than you?

Because that's what meritocracy does - it gives more resources to people who fit an arbitary definition of merit.
Agree.

Nor is their a guarantee that its even a viable market at scale.

Apple is too big to serve niches (see how they let some product lines wilt like Mac Pro, Apple TV hardware) and needs to sell 10s of millions of units in the near term.
Also a good question, but mine still stands. Do we get an significant amount of this directly from water?
How does that compare with spending your time going out and picking up your food or taking your family to a restaurant? That has to be a minimum of 30-45 minutes of time spent traveling plus car or transit expenses. It might be more, but is it a lot more?
The link to Slack in this post by "developer advocate" Jay Clifford is a rabbit hole worth diving into a bit: https://community.influxdata.com/t/getting-weird-results-fro...

Find your way into that Slack workspace via https://www.influxdata.com/blog/introducing-our-new-influxda... and you'll discover some interesting things:

* That the only reason being given in that thread for the shutdown is "The region did not get enough usage or growth to make it economically viable to operate, so it became necessary for InfluxData to discontinue service in those regions.". i.e. there's no regulatory issue here like other answers speculated - just pure cost-cutting.

* That on July 5th, a couple of hours before they started shutting everything down (based on the shutdown timeline at https://status.influxdata.com/), that same "Developer Advocate" announced that they were suspending their live "office hours" sessions for July.

* Multiple people are asking for help after finding that they can't connect and getting ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the way of support from the company. It's literally falling to _other users_ to tell them that all their data is gone.

* One person chiming in, Matthew Allen, DID have a colleague who saw the notification email, but notes that...

- it was a pain for him to migrate has data to a different region due to InfluxDB Cloud's rate limiting, but that he did it anyway

- ... but that the documented migration process doesn't seem to have worked properly anyway (given that some of his data points have ended up as nulls)

- plus on top of all of THAT, even after doing everything he was supposed to do, he still can't log into influx cloud after the migration because when he logs in he gets automatically redirected to the no-longer-existing cluster and hits an error screen

What a clusterfuck. Shame on everyone from Influx who had a hand in this - the CTO Paul Dix who's turned up here on Hacker News to blame his customers for Influx's negligence, Jay Clifford the Developer Advocate for a spectacular failure of developer advocacy, and anyone else on the team who was close to this and didn't push for brownouts, blog posts, a mention in the newsletter, retention of data for some window after the final shutdown date, or any of the other obvious measures that could've made this less of a catastrophe. The multiple people noting that they were able to receive the company's newsletter but did not receive the notification that it was about to delete all their data tell me everything I need to know about this company and its priorities. I will never willingly do business with them again (although we used them at a startup I worked at once) and will advocate against any time I hear a colleague suggest using them.
One time somebody actually drunk LinkedIn a whole bunch of shit on their coworkers, that was pretty funny. The post was obviously deleted afterwards.
Since you provide a zoological metaphor, let me offer an alternative. Category theory is much more like Goethe's work on the /Urpflanze/ (primeval plant). Linné had developed a way of systematically naming species of plants, but Goethe was not satisfied by this approach.

Goethe wanted to find an underlying pattern common to all plants which would explain how plants grow and develop. Something like a "universal grammar" (to draw an anachronistic parallel to Chomsky) of plants. Goethe called this his "morphological" method and wrote about it in "On the metamorphosis of plants".

One caveat: this paints a slightly too esoteric picture of category theory. Goethe was very idiosyncratic as a scientist, whereas category theory, far from being esoteric, is a common language for all of modern mathematics.
> I can see how a delivery can take, on average, one hour

In New York?

> will essentially kill these platforms

It will curtail them. They will need to trim their driver network, which will reduce the number of drivers and increase delivery times. Restaurants and consumers outside high-density areas no longer make sense to cater to. Dropping restaurants who don’t meet minimums will also, likely, be necessary. In summary, this is entirely solved with densification—food delivery in New York predates these platforms.
For me it's Pelican and cloudflare pages. I've got a GitHub action that rebuilds the site whenever I commit changes. Completely free. Super fast. Pelican is easy to theme and my site is one of the fastest out there.

Now if only I ever felt like writing anything. It's been five years.
The fitness industry runs on the idea that you need a hundred variation of exercises to get fit. The truth is, you don’t need really more than a dozen. There are the five or six boring core lifts that everyone knows, and then maybe a handful of accessory exercises to hit some specific areas, and that’s it.

By doing the same exercises over and over, you build adaption (muscle growth) which forces you to increase weight or reps to raise difficulty over time. Eventually you get very strong muscles and are moving a good amount of mass.

By doing too many variants, you just waste time and never truly “adapt” to movements.
Can't say I've ever heard the name in the UK, but also Evernote itself might as well have faded into total obscurity a long time ago.
Maybe the directors at your particular company can code. But a lot of them really don't. They don't understand the technical aspects of the problem and this results in bad decisions.

I've had someone who drives expensive cars tell me to change a simple line based streaming text format to XML to "make networking more unified across the company projects". He suggested to add a 120 KLOC XML library that does memory allocations right and left to our <10K line embedded project with soft real time requirements.

To set the level of experience, that same person claimed in the same meeting that UDP wouldn't lose packets on a local connection. And when I didn't obey he played a power game.

The better a product is factored, the more all aspects of development are interdependent. Creating isolated work packages leads to a badly factored product with lots of duplication, creating bloat and bugs and preventing important features and optimizations. That's why sometimes, small teams of really smart hard working guys can be extremely productive in comparison.

That said, team size can be increased, while smartness and hard workingness of the team can generally not be increased, and a lot of tasks can also just be grinded through, or they need to be grinded through because there is no realistic way to avoid it.
Constitution is nothing but paper. What stops the government from just ignoring it? Happened in my country. Supreme court started censoring people despite the fact it's unconstitutional. Police follows their orders so whatever they write on documents is law. A literal judiciary dictatorship was silently installed and nobody even acknowledged it.

This is why you should never allow them to disarm you. At the end of the day, it all comes down to the threat of deadly force. The government should be in a state of permanent existential dread, its power always threatened by the population.
All unmoderated social networks are either dorky or abusive. Dorky is actually the best case scenario.

Hacker News is dorky/abusive, too. Have you noticed?

When strangers interact with each other, that’s what happens.
Adverse impact of polyphasic sleep patterns in humans (2021)
I'd much rather use the Harrods terminal at Stansted Airport to get around, so much less hassle, if you can afford it.
> [...] RISC-V [...] has nothing original or new, but it just follows a 40-years old established practice.

That is a very precise description of RISC-V as a whole.

RISC-V very deliberately does not try to break new ground technically, but consolidates the best of not only the 40 years of RISC history (and avoiding the things that turned out to be outright mistakes, or just not necessary), but even you could say the last 60 years with ideas taken from enduring designs such as IBM System/360 and Cray-1.

Being able to prove that every feature in RISC-V is either so old and so common as to be unpatentable, or else that it was patented and the patent has expired, is an essential part of RISC-V's protection against the Intel/AMD and Arm duopoly (and others). As is every company that joins RISC-V International certifying as part of joining that they do not have any IP claims against the ISA.

> while very useful and actually mandatory for any CPU with a high core count

And yet somehow A53 and A57 didn't have it!!!

The very first RISC-V chips for public sale -- the FE310 in December 2016, and the FU540 in early 2018 -- both have the AMO instructions. The former despite being a single core microcontroller with only SRAM and no external memory bus, where CLI/SEI will do the job.
We're definitely thinking of anything that could help. It's also common that funded companies appear more serious and long-term oriented, which can help. (It goes along with what is written in the article, as the "successful unicorn raises money" while it might no be the case, but the reality vs what people believe is often different).
Since, for us, it wouldn't be because we aren't profitable and desperately need money, having VC money could help, or not ... :D
It should be disbarrable to knowingly write unenforceable EULA's.
Sorry, what does apple have to do with this conversation?
veritasium has a video exactly about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA
Show HN: Paul Graham Essays, but in Audio
Paul Graham Essays, now in audio in a podcast series.

Full episode of last essay and more:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NodnpVFh51xjE6XxiJcLE?si=4028...

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981
Right, and even this is desirable because on the coasts you have impossible to build within, extremely expensive cities, surrounded by lots of under built land.

The suburbs act as a relief valve for city housing costs.

Otherwise we see a continue out-migration from urban coast blue states, to less urban, cheaper red states.

For example, I have friends/family who have/do teach at HCOL city K-12 schools. Starting pay is horrendous like $40k in some areas, and tops out in the $70K range. They aren't buying a $1M-2M apartment with transit options for their commute. It's fun when they are 24 and living with a roommate splitting a dumpy rental. By their 30s they are left with basically 3 choices - quit teaching, marry someone with a higher paying job, or moving further & further out.
TBF, you can also select several muscle groups. But yes, consulting a specialist is definitely better...
A very welcome change. It's gonna be helpful for the case where the database proxy (CloudSQL) and the main container got terminated out of order.

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/connect-kubernete...
Hmm. I can believe this happens, but definitely not all VC investors take board seats. In fact I'm not aware of this having happened at any of the 5 startups I've worked for in my career, despite having at least partial knowledge of who made up the board of 3 of them (for at least 1 of whom I know the entire board membership and can say with certainty there were no VC plants on it).

Would be interested in stats on how normal this is or information about VCs' policies on it.
I'm not sure about 'dorky' or even what that really means, but the 'toxic positivity' from there can be really draining and fills me with dread that this is now what you are expected to be like.