skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EU really needs to re-do the whole Schengen process for citizens of countries like India. Right now, you need to show booked tickets, hotel reservations, Insurance with very specific terms and a detailed itinerary even before you've been granted the visa. And after all that documentation nightmare, you get granted the visa for the exact specific dates you've requested. God forbid your plans change even by a day or two.

By contrast, the Travel Visa to US, while also a painful process, at least grants you multiple entry visa thats valid for 10 years.
Growing up in Chicago as a kid I was always envious of people living in places where it never got “freeze your ass off” cold. They seemed magical. Not needing a heavy coat, being able to go outside in the the winter. I was young and didn’t really know any better. The Chicago summer is nice this time of year but winter can be brutal. I couldn’t fathom the downsides of the summer.

I’ve come to realize that it’s quite different, all the things I enjoyed as a kid, playing outside, riding bikes, backyard sports, etc. are all but impossible in that kind of heat.

I’m not sure which area is better prepared for climate change but reading these articles makes me appreciate where I grew up and remind me, when I’m freezing my ass off, that sometimes the winters aren’t so bad. As my parents used to say, “you can always wear an extra sweater but there’s only so many you can take off.”
> couple weeks
> deeply know that place.

Lol
No one is asking you to come into an office just to boost their landlord's property values. That would be a money losing proposition for the company.
> This is the purpose of capitalism (i.e. acquiring capital).

Took me way too long into my professional career to realize this, and really COVID was a red pill for me. I thought my job was about acquiring status and accomplishments, but no, it's just a tool to acquire appreciating assets (stocks and a house). Keep your costs down, and buy as much as you can or you will end up on the rat race treadmill until you die.
Thank you so so much for those nice words! During the beta period I was totally amazed that quick tab swiping was the absolute #1 most requested feature :)
It’s tough. Finding people who are good, fast, and cheap is difficult in the best of circumstances. When I was broke, I decided to beg developers who liked me & offered to pay them something (say 40/USD per hour in 2010). The catch was I had to wait until they had time, so it took maybe 12 months to get a 1 or 2 months of work done. But it got done & that got my business off the ground.
It may depend on the investment profile of the individual. I’m not 100% invested which means there’s always some cash available at any point.
The wait times for US Tourist Visas for Indians is 1-2 years right now. I have a friend who applied 3 months and her interview date is in January 2025.

I mean, I'm not saying you shouldn't complain about this, but I find it funny that Americans are mad about spending the 30 minutes and $30 to fill out a form. Seems entitled.
In addition to the other link posted, see also this for Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Waitlists are a no-go for 'Show HN' launches

HN likes things that are interesting and generally prefers more details rather than less. You could write a blog post about a really interesting aspect of your product, or of building your product, and share that, or you could share a usable demo of your product.
The problem is they're characterizing it like this is a negative thing, which only makes it further appear as if they don't know WTF they are talking about.

That quick evaporation of your sweat is a feature of the desert, and it's why you won't die in 120+F.

The article is trash
He was one of the instructors at the Centrum workshops in Port Townsend. They get amazing people there.
Illicit antiquities trade isn't the world's 3rd largest: evaluation of a factoid
Alternative title by me: Remote work frees up $800b to be spent more effectively.
This feels like crap-Investment-Bank poker.

I'll raise you a company-wide ticketing system written in COBOL, running on an IBM mainframe.
BTW, there are very good videos on open studios on the Barry Harris approach too. One of the teachers is really into it.
"Remote work risks wiping $800 billion"

No guesses which angle this is coming from.

"Attendance still is 30% lower than what it was before the pandemic and only 37% of people are back at the office every day."

And yet the world has not stopped. In fact everything seems to be going faster than ever.
I believe it. It's also going to lead to much more developed suburbs IMO. When you don't have to travel into a city, it's a much less compelling argument to live in one.

I think we're all going to find out that the inflated costs of living that are regularly discussed on here are more a result of people being forced to move to these cities than NIMBYism that's it has often been attributed too. Some people like the idea of moving for work, but I have to imagine that many would prefer to stay closer to their families. This only gets more pronounced when you have kids, especially young kids.

Every mainstream issue that is talked about from parental leave to child care cost is amplified because so many people have moved away from their own parents for work. My in-laws moved near us when our oldest was 7 years old and the before and after was life changing in how much easier it made everything.

I greatly prefer space and trees to the alternatives.
How much do you think you could get for it on the market? Is that in consideration after your experience this year?
The building i currently live in is a 20+ storey apartment block that was made out of a converted office building built in the 60s. Given the housing prices in [checks notes] cities, it feels like a wave of residentializing is on the horizon.
One simple and relatively cheap way Phoenix could be more survivable would be to build underground.

The temperature at 12 feet below ground or more really doesn't change much throughout the year.

The reason they don't do that in Phoenix is that they don't need to dig foundations because there isn't any frost rise or fall at the surface. Since that is the case, the extra cost of digging a basement, which is around 3%, cuts into the margins of large home builders enough that it isn't done.

They could also drill into the ground even deeper and use it as a heat sink and pump air through pipes to cool homes. Again this is more costly at construction time, though it would save money for the homeowner and provide protection for the city in gear emergencies, and put less pressure on the power grid.

Finally, every home there should have solar on the roof to offset AC charges, and a passive dew condenser to provide extra water for the house. They don't.
> No, because to do that you have to have deliberately kept money out of investments, waiting for a downturn.

Not wrong about always being fully invested, but an argument for perhaps have some portion (10-20%) being in bonds to (a) reduce volatility which may help with preventing panic when things inevitably (temporarily) downturn, and (b) having some 'dry powder' available for rebalancing (sell high, buy low).

The returns of the S&P 500 was 0% between 2000 and 2010, but if you had ~20% bonds you actually got positive returns:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2010/12/17/the-lost-de...

See also Japan in 1980s: having some component in (even domestic JP) bonds allowed you to rebalance out of a rising market over time.

Waiting for the dip is generally sub-optimal for returns:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...
Yeah, why isn't the headline Remote Work to Save $800B on Office Rent?
Indeed they're not asking ...
How many of those in SF, London, and NY were due to other issues such as company moving out of the city rather than WFH.
I love this, man! Looks great! make me smile! :) I hope you go really far with this!!! :) [like all the way to browser-killer far]

It's got that "je ne sais quoi" of a good product. Some sort of internal coherence and a deja vu type feeling where you feel you've used this before / or it should exist so it seems it already must have.

Well fluffin done!!! :)

BTW - technical question, how did you write it? I'm just getting into iOS dev myself wonder how you made the UI look so good? What lang, framework, etc??
Iirc the last solid stats i have seen are from 2019 when 82% of the public market was owned by institutional long term investors. And i doubt it went down.

Liquidity is high because the market makers role has exploded and they invest a lot to make sure it stay high.
Side note: It'd be nice if there was a paid Discourse alternative that was upvote/downvote style and also really well designed. Discourse is nice but I prefer upvote/downvote, I've seen other reddit clones but I prefer more easy to use UX.
> NO_PERL=YesPlease

git showing off its inner INTERCAL
Chipmonking is an important skill.
Good. Remote work leads to better distribution of wealth (w. r. t. geography). That's almost always a good thing.
This is a public discussion forum, not your living room.
> Maybe you're also wondering, how do I memorize all these flexbox properties? I don't! Chrome dev tools give you a GUI for editing a flexbox[1], isn't that really nice?

This is quite nice indeed. I didn’t know that Chrome dev tools can be used that way.

> Does HelloText inherit from from "Text"? I'd say no. HelloText simply instantiates Text and sets its' text property to "hello world". Though I imagine you would say HelloText inherits from Text and overrides the text property?

Note that is also possible to create a new properties and signals for the Text which can be referenced by the children. Also it is possible to override the default method on how to treat it’s children for instance if you want to implement a CustomRowLayout. The HelloText thus has properties of the Text and the newly defined ones and it is possible to instantiate it at multiple places with different parameters and children. I don’t see why this is not inheritance…

> Perhaps we already agree on that part and it was just a semantics issue about whether QML is actually using composition or inheritance?

In QML composition is when one places children elements within a component and expose relevant properties and signals to the parent. So I disagree on this part. QML in my opinion is OOP done right.
how do you choose what to take? I think he listed every supplement in the aisle
That sounds kind of awesome though.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3570141M/Down_and_out_in_the...
> I’m not 100% invested which means there’s always some cash available at any point.

This is sub-optimal from a returns perspective:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...
I have a list of tools here: https://llm-utils.org/List+of+tools+for+making+a+%22ChatGPT+...

There are indeed quite a few startups that do this.

Note that these are all 'retrieval-augmented generation' tools rather than fine-tuning tools.
It only took about two decades, I remember first hearing about WFH around the turn of the century

Good riddance IMO
Look no further than the American book-industrial complex.

>Virginia Sole-Smith, author of a brave and radical new book...

It's just click bait in literary form. Make "radical" claim to get attention --> sell books.
Since the value was never created by the real estate investors themselves, honestly, who cares. Housing as a speculative asset is bad enough, let alone rewarding somebody trying to get rich off being a cubicle landlord.
AI for identifying social norm violation
What amazes me is that we didn't see a faster cratering in value in office space.

On any given day in any capital city, perhaps 50% of office desks sit empty.

Yet I can't buy an office building for cents on the dollar.

Normally when supply far exceeds demand like this, companies owning those assets can't pay their bills, the building is sold, there are no buyers, auction prices crash, the crashing prices cause more companies to go underwater, those buildings are sold too, and there is a big wipeout of all leveraged property owners. Rent and purchase prices prices for office buildings fall 70%, encouraging other uses of the buildings (retail, residential, industrial), and they end up full again.

But for some reason that isn't happening. 3 years later, and still more office desks are empty than full in most capital cities.
It should remember the scroll position, and the content of <input> and <textarea> tags.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing. Here’s a tiny little feature idea I’ve always wanted: when a link opens a new tab, the back button should close the tab and take you back where you were!

Congratulations on launching!
YoshiP director/producer of FFXIV from Square Enix said the same thing.

"3. Learn to listen and adapt. A complaint is worth twice a compliment. The silent always leave first. If citizens are complaining, it means they still care."
Intercom is the company behind the billboards.
Costs will be appended to the workers. I hope we all realize someday how working from home applies further wear & tear to our amenities and homes compared to the office's. Think toilets, sinks, fridges, chairs, doors, floors, etc.

I fully advocate for WFH regardless and to even supplement with an option like DeskPass for those that want to take a break from home. But a portion of those former office costs should go to the workers.
A call center worker’s battle with A.I.
I do this regularly. It takes a second for the code to update from the file system as you switch windows, and it takes me very little time to save that second back with my vim chops. If intellij's vim emulation actually worked reliably and quickly I would just switch, but it doesn't. :-/
> On the hiring side, it seems to be harder than ever to get qualified candidates. We’ve given up even trying to tech screen and hire based on “attitude”

I’m curious what your interview process is like.
Aren’t we for reducing inequality and spreading the wealth?

The concentration of these massive amounts of wealth in Silicon Valley and NYC is the driver of a whole lot of pathologies from the high cost of housing to homelessness to gentrification of historical neighborhoods to the hollowing out of large portions of the United States.

Remote work has a chance to spread some of the wealth throughout the country and across different neighborhoods.

This wiping out of $800B from already wealth-concentrated areas is a good thing.
I’m sure there are plenty of people who are currently in a situation where charging an EV would be problematic. I’m also certain that more charging infrastructure will continue to be built it over time. There should be fewer and fewer people with this problem as time goes by.
If a company wants someone to come back to the office, it isn't for their landlord's property value.

If they have lots of free space they can sublease it out, it doesn't make any sense to force people in to an office just to burn money and miss out on revenue.
Yes, you can check my other comment nearby at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36835497 , which I was composing while you were composing yours.

In short,

> all those senses ("horn thrust and paw slam", "domesticated vs savage") are backformations. We adopted them because they made sense.

But now, about

> ridiculous folklore etymology someone made up (no offense, and apparently my guess is not right either)

It does not work that way. An etymology as an history of a term will produce a chronicle, not yet a meaning: in 1709 somebody started to use "bearskin" out of the proverb, etc. But there is not just that: there is the meaning of terms that we recognize during that development - "horn thrust and paw slam", "domesticated vs savage", as I wrote nearby. So, what I wrote in the original is the meaning that came after the origin - what is intended (or part of what is intended). In fact, "bear" (in market speculation) comes from "bearskin", but where did they take the "bull" from (image that was construed to have a bear as a counterpart)? There you have to reason about the terms and construct a working image.

There is no need to call it "ridiculous": it is normal sense attribution for jargon creation.

Edit:

in fact, for a study of the origin you can also consult Investopedia, "Where Did the Bull and Bear Market Get Their Names?", at https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/bull-bear-market-na...

where you will find foremostly the images of their ways of attack. Then the origin, the "bearskin jobber", and the need to have a counterpart. Then it noted, importantly, that bets on bull and bear fights were very popular in the past centuries - which can be another origin of using those animals for a bet.
This could be a good reference: https://minimal.gallery/
A more significant issue, in my experience, is that a lot of useful nonstandard APIs simply do not exist on the BSDs, under any name - or worse, exist with unstable names, so you have to #ifdef your source code to make it work with more than one release. There is no equivalent to Linux's "we do not break userland".

FreeBSD is generally assumed to be the least painful, but I usually don't even bother with that these days. If someone cares they can do the work.
That number for ICE sales seems suprisingly low. Are they using the second hand price?

> Data from Edmunds shows the average price of a used car purchase in December at $29,533, down nearly $1,600 from the record high of $31,095 reached in April 2022.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/16/business/used-car-prices/...

> The average selling price for a new non-luxury car in December was a record $45,578, up almost $1,000 over November. The average selling price of a new pickup was even greater, at over $59,000, and was even higher if we look at Ford's best-selling F-series. In December, Ford sold more than 75,000 F-series trucks at an average sales price of $66,451, KBB reports.

> New luxury cars reversed this trend a bit, with prices dropping by $216 from November to December, when the average sales price of a new luxury vehicle was $66,660, with many selling below MSRP. But looking at the year as a whole, strong luxury vehicle sales are responsible for much of the average sales price increases seen last year.

> Electric vehicles remain expensive, with an average sale price of $61,448. However, EV prices actually fell by almost $3,600 between November and December 2022. This was in large part due to heavy discounts offered by Tesla—which accounts for 65 percent of US EV sales—as it tried but failed to meet growth targets.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/the-average-new-car-pri...
You don't think it's optional to tip someone who pours and hands you a cup of juice at the checkout counter? Thanks for subsidizing the rest of us then I guess..
Everyone keeps calling them offices, but I used to work in them and they felt a lot more like code factories to me. Good riddance.
True, but at least those lines (you'd hope) will represent some json going over http, whereas with these legacy systems the lines could be more or less anything!
> There is nothing that every IT person _needs_ to know about OpenBSD.

I absolutely agree. Such clickbait headlines are often strange. For a more macabre example, consider the headline "10 [things] you can't live without". This means that if you don't own these ten things, you will die.
Not an expert but I've read it's not easy to add all the necessary plumbing to provide showers and toilets if you redistribute office space into apartments.

A lot of times office buildings will have one large bathroom per floor.
I use these opportunities to stretch my "No" muscles. Is it uncomfortable? Of course. But flexing the non-permissive "No" muscles helps you say "No" when it's really important.
I don't know what this is supposed to mean. Do you think a company is asking someone to come in to the office because they're worried about their landlord's property values?
It's like the lead up to the mortgage crisis, except the reluctance to price the asset at its true value is plain for everyone to see.
Germany, IT superpower by 2030. /s
I have to wonder how many competent software engineers there are in eastern Europe that aren’t already employed at companies there.
What did they learn from you giving them reheated crap over and over until they ate it? I'm not entirely sure they learned anything other than their parents have to control what food they eat... It doesn't impart the neccessary nutritional knowledge for successfully eating healthy when you're older, and it creates an adversarial relationship between your kid that involves food. From my experience that's just one of the many first steps to creating a child with disordered eating habits.

The people I know that do this "no negotiation" method, their kids sneak snacks from friends, neighbors, school, and wherever they can get them. They also have no idea what is good just that they are forced to eat certain foods they don't like. They constantly are on alert about whether their parent is around to by ask if it's okay to eat whatever snack/food because they don't know, or are trained that only their parents can know, what is good for them and what isn't.

Basically it has the opposite affect from my observation of creating adults with good nutritional understanding. Involving your kids in food preparation, giving them agency over what they have for dinner (like having them pick the meal and food prep once a week), and educating them on where food comes from, nutrition in general, and just food overall will get you further than any sort of dictatorial bullcrap where you slam a plate down and say, "eat it cause that's all you get."

I just don't understand the thought process that goes into that sort of parenting. Would you like it if someone did that to you? Would it help you understand why one food is healthier than another? From my perspective it isn't teaching them anything other then "my parents know best." Which doesn't help them understand why they are eating something or what is healthy or unhealthy. It also churns out a bunch of emotions around food that don't necessarily exist beforehand. Those weird emotional attachments to food is a major factor in a lot of disordered eating habits...
i live in a more northen country, but still writing a small blog helped me too to get my first IT job. a friend gave me the tip for me to show i had recent relevant,activities for a job. its a really good tip. even if no one reads it you can put it on your resume just as a proof of your words. best tip i ever had. happy it helped you in this way and thanks for sharing!
What if the leaders of the company, or company itself, is invested in similar properties?
Honestly I agree. I'd like to make buttons arrangement easier, but also something like an assistant that could come up with your ideal toolbar and menu. Plenty of work to do, but so much fun!
> Simply put away a little every month in an automated fashion and things will generally be okay

The perpetually growing economy on which this strategy and associated worldview are based is not a safe assumption
I forced myself to learn it as a junior dev. Was it tough? Sure. But my point is that if it's too daunting and frustrating—software development holds nothing but pain for you.