skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Afraid it's true. The mouse says it's a Logitech M185 and runs on a single AA. The keyboard is a K270 and uses 2 AAAs (I think, I taped the battery door shut since it kept falling off). I got them along with my work laptop when I started my current job five years ago, and I've only had to change them once each.

I think I may have also replaced mouse or keyboard or both a while back, with identical models, so call that two battery changes in five years, if you want to be conservative. Maybe it helps that they're disposable instead of rechargeable.
The exact same book predicted that we'd see hybrids, and traditional automakers would try to sell them, would fail to find the market, and would wind up being wiped out.

As https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/global-ev-sales-2022 says, if you want to find the mass market for electric cars, go to China.

Don't forget. The main driver of this transition in the long run is that batteries still improve at about 7% per year for the same price point, while ICE engines barely budge. The lifetime cost of ownership for electric cars is below ICE right now. And the cost of initial purchase is falling.

As long as the battery tech is there, someone will figure out how to sell it. But it won't be anyone who has dealers whose business model centers on no longer needed maintenance.
But this wasn’t talking about all 67-years but a specific example. Of course the fact that it was mentioned implies that it’s relevant but I think it is because people who didn’t grow up with it tend to struggle a lot more
They need to come with a huge black-bordered warning, then. SSRIs do, in some jurisdictions.
> These news sites should really just stop using Twitter.

It's already happening:

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

TL;DR: NPR and many of its member stations stopped posting to Twitter in April 2023. Traffic to their web site dropped by ~1%.
Bezos-backed Convoy to lay off staff, close operations
Being condescending is also a choice.

Nothing about the GP indicated victimhood, only striving for a better life with real challenges in front of them.
This is the trend everywhere in the Western world. At some point we need to think about what all those countries have in common and start making strategic choices to move away from it (hint: it starts with Reagan, Thatcher and other local equivalents in the 80s)
Vast majority of skilled workers can live in a shoebox in some high CoL area with jobs until they come up with enough for say a 60k Clayton Homes mobile plus land in some podunkville where wiping asses at the one old folks home job will cover utilities and property taxes.

This is pretty much how I managed to afford a house when corona/fed blasted everything to oblivion...
While you're meeting with them, look into the reasons therapists burn out. I'd take tech burn out over some of the horror stories I've heard from therapists. Computers can't stalk you, and for the most part can't "power themselves off" after you've spent a considerable amount of time trying to prevent that.
Exactly. They've been getting away with it for close to 50 years at this point so the pain of getting them to where they should be if the profits had been shared fairly and not routed to investors and the C-Suite is absolutely massive. It would take a good few years (probably a decade) to get there, and a lot of companies that only exist because of that worker exploitation would go under, but overall it would end up being a good thing. If wage growth had kept pace like it should all these years, I'd wager the current property prices would actually make sense.
If you're a dual income/parent household, you have to afford both the house payments and childcare; typical child care costs can be so great that it makes sense for one parent to drop out of the workforce to care for children so you're back at square one with a single income household. At a median income of $57k your options are house XOR children which does a decent job of explaining why we're seeing birth rates plummet.
Yeah. Water could definitely not find a way in through teslas known to be extremely shoddy QA.

Dodge has an issue with the caravan where the rear ac lines and evaporator are completely unprotected. It’s a known bad design in the product that has costed drivers millions. Dodge refuses to acknowledge it to the point that mechanics offer a “rear evaporator delete”, which dodge will also refuse is possible if you ask them.

Does your Occam’s razor wonder why dodge refuses to cover the AC lines?

It’s not like the auto industry as a whole is know for their outstanding honour of warranty, let alone Tesla who’s known for treating customers terribly and having uniquely terrible QA.
Why does the news continue to conflate the network of networks with client-server applications? The Internet has never been better. Today the Internet will instantly connect you to people on a flying a plane in the middle of the ocean, or people that live in the middle of a desert, or in a war zone, or are on a moving train in Australia, or scientists living in Antarctica, etc. Is it just sloppy journalists and editors?
I could be wrong, but I assume tech still pays better than therapy? I assumed OP was going into therapy for personal reasons more than for money.
If you can find out where it says companies are obligated to pay severance or other benefits to employees in the US, I'll eat my hat.

Smart business choices rarely align with choices that I benefit employees.
I've never once taken my car's ambition into account. Now I feel bad
> So we have an unsubstantiated hit piece against yet another prominent Trump supporter

Peter Thiel had his fair share of detractors before Trump.

Disclaimer before discussing the following: I'm not saying Gawker was not trash media. That is orthogonal to Thiel's involvement.

That being said, Gawker never "outed" Thiel. The man's social media profile pictures and galleries were full of him shirtless on gay cruise liners. And whether you agree or not, courts have repeatedly held that billionaires are considered "public figures" by virtue of their "outsized influence and impact on public affairs".

These are reasons Gawker was never successfully sued by Thiel.

A fundamental concept of our legal system is the right to face your accuser. Thiel and his lawyers manipulated Hogan like a puppet:

* Hogan had already settled with the person who leaked his video (for 1/5000th of the amount he would later claim from Gawker).

* Hogan had reached a tentative settlement with Gawker that would include part ownership of Gawker, and entitlements to profits.

Then along come Thiel, and he offers to pay for lawyers, or use his lawyers (how that's not a conflict, I don't know - what if what Hogan wants conflicts with what Thiel, the person paying the bills, wants, how does your lawyer ethically reconcile that?)

And when they do, damages were upped to ridiculous levels. Financial/economic (note: NOT emotional distress, which was claimed separately) damages of fifty million dollars.

Fun fact: Hogan's net worth in 2007 at his divorce was $30M, and at the time of the video publication, $8M.

I'm not sure how someone whose career earnings were estimated at $15M could claim, with a straight face, that the video being published cost him $50M in purely economic damages... from what? Did networks stop re-running old Wrestlemania episodes as a result? His burgeoning retirement celebrity endorsement income?

And when everything was settled, Thiel's lawyers had Hogan withdraw the one claim that would have allowed Gawker's liability insurance to kick in.

Weird, huh? You're interested in owning a part of a media company, and getting a share of their profits, but "your" lawyers tell you to withdraw a claim, knowing that the only possible outcome of doing so will be immediate insolvency and bankruptcy.

However reprehensible Gawker was in this, there absolutely a wide crevice where there are perfectly valid ethical questions about Thiel's involvement and motivations in this whole debacle.
The example I've given is really the only situation so far where I desired such functionality. I know very little about web stuff and I don't know if there is a term for what I'm looking for, so I can't give you any pointers. Macros and workflows are just similar concepts I know.
It's not really the economy in general. It's just cities. Most major US metro areas have under-built housing compared to demand every decade since the 1970s, and all of it is entirely self-inflicted through zoning and permitting.

The only real hope of progress here is for states to start outright overriding local laws around housing, as California has been increasingly doing.
Casio keyed up after data loss hits customers in 149 countries
That's it! You've all been holding me back too long. I'm going to clown college!
I LOL'd. Let's also remember that every tech company has middle and low wage jobs as well.
You seem to be trying to rebut several things I didn't say.
Our houses do have the most sqft in the world of any large nation (other than maybe Canada).
Geany 2.0 Released
That's the blub paradox in action
> The event happened. There was an explosion at a hospital that killed hundreds of people. This is not in dispute.

Looking at the crater left behind by the missile and the damage radius I find it very hard to believe that hundreds of people died.
Paris, Ontario
It sure is!

I shut down a VC backed startup over a decade ago and yes we did provide severance.
This did not happen. Net neutrality was supported by EVERYONE who was not in government at the time.
Wrong. It's yours the moment you pay for it. And there is a supply chain extending from where it is to your front door that just got easier to compromise.
I'm extrapolating a bit, not having read the post, but this reminds me of the old days when they used polygraphs in hiring. Until that was made illegal in the US because it's basically pseudoscience.
Using all capitalized characters doesn't make your argument any better, bud.
I love how the PRC now gets to dictate our content moderation policies (on a show that’s not even available in China).
RWKV probably has more usage than, say, AI21 Jurassic-2 on this chart
In the whole I don’t mind Objective-C, but when I have to write it these days I definitely get annoyed by having to navigate and maintain header files. It’s more extra overhead than one might realize.

My other complaint with it compared to Swift is how one needs to pull in a bunch of utility libraries to do many things that come stock with Swift.
If it is an extremely rare problem, it is likely not a design or build defect. Why would they have to pay for it?
> Homebuyers needed a $114,000 salary to afford a typical home in September — assuming a 7.2% mortgage rate with 20% down on a median priced home of $412,001 — according to real estate brokerage Redfin Corp.

Interesting. I wonder what it is for Seattle then.

> The median listing home price in Seattle, WA was $829K in September 2023, trending down -2.5% year-over-year. The median listing home price per square foot was $584. The median home sold price was $799.5K.

Says redfin (https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Seattle_WA...).

Seattle median household income is ~115,000 according to Seattle times (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-media...). This means that one of the highest earning cities in the U.S. isn't able to comfortably afford a home, even at median prices. So then I wonder how many people are moving into Seattle with high incomes in order to buy homes and such.

It's also very surprising to me that the median home sold price in Seattle is more than New York City.
Use someone else Software, so I don't have to write it
We are searching for software, maybe SaaS, to collect data from a Device Under Test (DUT) connected to external devices (e.g., waveform generator). The data capture and algorithms is specific to our domain, so that must be written by us.

Tests run on the DUT, and results need to be sent to a database.

Technicians should access a frontend UI, that can be customized. An admin panel should be available for admins.

We lack expertise in cloud and web apps, so seeking advice from others who might be expert in this situations. We are currently using a homebrew solution with Django/VueJS + AWS ELB + PostgreSQL database, but we need to migrate out of this.

Does having GraphQL api makes sense? I was looking at hasura, maybe that's good? We only have 2GB of data so if we were to change database or everything database size is not an issue.

We are going to need multi-tenancy going forward on this upgraded project, which was not planned initially.

We basically don't want to write a backend/frontend, but be customizable, maybe we are asking too much? The goal is to not write our own backend/frontend. Only write what is needed to run tests on our DUT and capture data to be sent to the database/api.
Nobody is loudly and publicly expressing malice towards the victims of the arson, they privately, not loudly and publicly, Googled innocuous things that in no way express malice.
It's not going to be anywhere near as big as other responses, but I kind of did at 31: switched from development to maintenance.

I was tired of having to keep redoing the same thing whenever the product owner or designer changed their mind on something, and the tipping point came after they were looking for suggestions for this one visualization clients had a hard time understanding. No one liked my suggestion so we did one of the other ones, then a few months later it came up again as still too confusing and the designer came up with something new - that just so happened to be the same thing I had originally suggested. It's been that version ever since.

Switching to maintenance here meant that we're directly solving problems. Not just "thing is broken, fix it" but also creating simple for-purpose tools, refactoring and upgrading, and largely being able to plan our own work. It's been a great place to use the depth of knowledge built up over the years, though not so great for new devs to build that knowledge in the first place, like we typically would try and use the role for.
Wasn't there this rule on not doing politics here? If someone were to create a site proclaiming "No Tech for Terrorists" would that site be allowed to be discussed here or would it be removed because of the aforementioned rule?
ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
These projects are very cool. Just like PCB prototyping and short run manufacturing has advanced massively in the last 10 years, I hope for custom silicon to do the same!
> Thiel has publicly called on the FBI to investigate Google's ties to the Chinese government.

"Thiel has publicly called on the FBI to investigate a company that several of his compete with, using information he is giving the FBI himself..."
> Enough money will eventually bend any justice system to your will.[b]

Not "any." The US legal (don't call it justice) system happens to be extremely corruptible, in a sort of "de facto" sense, because securing representation in court is extremely expensive, and everything secondary to representation -- depositions, expert witnesses, investigations, etc. -- is also extremely expensive. In the end, virtually all civil cases become wars of financial attrition.

But it's possible to imagine different systems that avoid this sorry outcome.

It's as simple as making trial lawyers, still called "officers of the court," actual employees of the court. Assign them at random to litigants or defendants, just as judges are assigned. What one litigant gets (e.g. should one side request depositions or expert witnesses) the other also gets on an equal basis.

You could pay 'em out of taxpayer dollars, and it would hardly register a blip in civic/state/federal budgets. We'd all benefit from a more even playing field before the law.

But it'll never happen, because legislators are virtually all lawyers, and they rather like the old status quo, which works very well at enriching lawyers.
They did similar stunt pulling a very big rocket engine - https://news.yahoo.com/news/awesome-video-shows-cybertruck-t...
Your comment seems to ignore the main point of the article: that the placebo group did actually have life-changing resolution of their depression symptoms.
Also, in my area, you get to wait 2 months to see your primary care doctor even if you are an established patient. You will most likely either be recovered or dead by the time your appointment arrives (unless you have a chronic illness).
A big part of depression is negative thinking, so it's not too much of a stretch to believe that positive thoughts, like hope, would lessen depression.
Yes, the criterion we apply is "is this substantially the same story", and/or (more or less the same thing) "can this lead to a substantially different discussion" than the previous thread.

This one is substantially the same story, hence it's treated as a dupe, even though of course it's not the same article.
I've had many rough nights when computers "powered themselves off" despite much effort spent trying to prevent it...
Yes. I spent about 10 years doing military Satellite Communications, took a year off after a few years in the sandbox. I then switched to IT. Pivoted from Sysadmin to SRE/DevOps five years later.

Five more years after that and I make 10x what I did 10 years ago and am working towards FIRE. My family lives on <30% of my income, the rest goes to savings and investments. We should reach our FIRE number before I turn 50.

I love the work I do (DevOps with a Security focus), and that year off I took I was miserable. I'll probably never really retire, just be to the point where I can do the work I need to in under four hours per day and travel.
Ha we can trade. I’ve been a private practice therapist for years, am almost 40, and am pivoting into tech. I did CS stuff a lot in high school and early college and find myself missing it a lot. Been doing a lot of hobby projects over the past few years and have even done some contract work. Might even do some school because I would like to converge all my interests at some point instead of just doing code monkey jobs forever.

I do a ton of work with exposure and response prevention for ocd. Also work with autism, more generalized anxiety issues, mood disorders, lgbt issues. Have history with pediatric patients, dissociative and homeless populations. Let me know if you have questions. I’m east coast, northeast specifically, but I’ve been doing this work for well over a decade now and would be happy to help guide if I can
Started my career as an embedded software engineer in telecom.
Around age 30, left and went traveling for a few months. Came back, fell into a software dev role in fin tech. I stayed in the financial realm, and made significantly more money than had I stayed in telecom. This industry tends to be counter-cyclical to the job market, so there are other benefits.
This is fake news. Laptops don't support CXL.
Remember the Verizon zombie cookie?

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/verizons-zombie-cookies-will-f...
Yes, using native SVG is a feature not a bug. As is using native text nodes. Converting to paths is a postprocessing step and not difficult to do.

The hard part is making a WYSIWYG editor, which both Figma and Penpot accomplish beautifully. The freedoms described in their marketing material may not be for you, but they are not indicative of poor quality.

Quality is an expression of priorities. I find this kind of rant frustrating because it's missing the forest for the trees.
> People think they're punching up so mocking a gay man who just got outted for retribution as a CHS informant on global news doesn't register to them.

What on earth has Thiel's sexuality got to do with this?

And the whole trope about Gawker "outting" Thiel has to stop:

1. Don't want to be "outed" as gay? Perhaps don't fill your social media with pictures of you partying on gay cruises.

2. Whether you agree or not, billionaires are considered public figures by the courts, because of their "outsize influence on public opinion and politics".
Cows are mammals, but mammals are not cows.
TC, not PH
People have been complaining on HN that "houses are too expensive to buy" almost since it started 15 years ago. Yet 65% of Americans currently own their own homes. This is not as high as the peak in 2005 of 69%, but higher than the low in 2016 of 63% [1]. And IIRC, home ownership rates are near historical highs. Home ownership rate was almost always below 50% before ww2 and rarely exceeded 65% until the housing bubble of 2000-2010 [2].

The simple fact, as unpalatable as it may be, is that buying a home is always "expensive". In the US anyway, the price seems to be set by people's income. That is, their ability to pay. What does change is the size and quality of the homes.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

[2] https://www.getrichslowly.org/homeownership/
What inconsistencies are you referring to? I don't think I've had any desyncs or inconsistencies in the Fitness app.
TIL no one else sells electric vehicles?
fair, and if you work at a startup you should be ready for it to evaporate overnight

another point, though, is the c-suite probably had more information as to how precarious the situation had gotten that the rest of the employees might not
The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh (2001)
Probably because they're the hardest working people in the company and deserve it more /s.
Of course, you have to consider the incentives for builders when it comes to house sizes. A lot of cities have lot size requirements or setback requirements that make it pointless to build smaller houses because the lot has to be a certain minimum size anyway.

This is also why rowhouses are so expensive: people like them, but in most US cities nobody is allowed to build new ones.
I think there's an easy solution to this, would love to know if I'm off track: postfix `catch` optionally captures the last value in the return tuple.

Instead of

value, err := foo();
if err != nil {
// handle err
};

you get

value := foo() catch err {
// handle err
}
Indeed. There should be no need for bandwidth "allocation" because fiber would provide enough for high-bandwidth tasks (video and games) and low-bandwidth tasks (sending emails) at the same time, for everyone. If large ISPs hadn't been purposefully committing subsidy fraud instead of building fiber, they wouldn't have to rely on lies about network scarcity. (For bonus info, see another comment I wrote [1].)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37949298
Vectorpea: Online Tool for Vector Graphics
The COO was fired as the CEO of Expedia after a very short and disastrous run after Dara left to go run Uber.
It helps to also look before 1965. Right about 1970 or so was a very low point in the ratio of income to home price. It was higher before then, and since. If you look at the early 1970s as abnormal, then 4x is a pretty good estimate of the long term average. It's higher now, and was higher in 2008, but it's correctable.
In a late-stage capitalism world, where the climate is collapsing, and homes are unaffordable, where does hope come from?
Highest amount of money is not necessarily the most optimal thing.
I think you can just roughly double the salary there.

i.e. to afford a home roughly twice the price of the median in that analysis, it would take ~$230k salary to afford a home in Seattle.

My wife and I combined make about that, and that seems about right. Though, IMO the debt-to-income ratios that they consider "normal" for these types of analyses leave one further extended than I'd like to be. (Childcare isn't cheap!)
I can't tell if this is meant to be defending FOSS or condemning it.
His revenge campaign against Gawker was frankly, a travesty against justice, if you ask me (see my other comments on this thread).
I'm not sure where you're reading anger. the question was written in such a way that indicates that your cohort doesn't use the feature. I was merely indicating that it is foolish to look at your cohort and extrapolate to the rest of the population unless you've got outside data.