skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We presume that what software does is far more important than how.

There's a cost to waiting for a feature to be done your ideal way to your ideal standards - that's the cost of all the people not being able to use it while you add perfection. It's money left on the table but also just efficiency in the world economy that's being delayed.

Programs were not that great in C or C++ in terms of being able to run for a long time. I fought the once-every-2-week crash bug in a C++ program - a single double memory free under certain uncommon conditions. Finding problems like that was very very unproductive.

Cars, to give an example, are often made with space for all the possible optional bits even when that model will never have them - because it's more cost efficient to have a common design among several models than to redesign each one.
Turkey, does send to suicide hotline
The problem is that the wide majority of them were (and still are) conspiracy nuts
My suspicion is that at least some of that revenue is moated by social stigma: that a customer is only partially paying for the service received, and is mostly compensating for impacts to reputation and/or lost income in the future (effectively gating supply and therefore raising price). As such stigmas erode, I suspect we’ll see a reversion to the mean: a small handful of disproportionate successes, and a long-tail of subsistence wages (if not “Walmartification” of sex work). (I’m not taking a stance on whether such stigmas eroding is good or bad.)

While I’m certainly sympathetic to the “sex work is work” perspective, it’s worth considering the full implications: for instance, that there would be nothing stopping sexual services being included in job descriptions for other lines of work (“administrative assistant with benefits”). It’s the thin end of the wedge, to ask how truly “consensual” employment relationships can be, sexual or otherwise, in contexts of power asymmetry.
I have never laughed at a police officer during a traffic stop. I'd assume, as a driver, laughing at an officer is a straight line to a ticket or, at worst, an arrest.
Unregulated everything does lead to 'enshittification' yes. Because when there is no legal framework the only guideline is profit, nothing else.

Some stuff the EU does is really good, like the GDPR, the right to be forgotten, the right to repair (smartphones with replaceable batteries and standard USB connectors). I don't even think it kills innovation. It just makes sure it is aligned with society.

But at the same time they do things like this....
I honestly think a library is the best place for a general public makerspace for 90% of cases. That last 10% encompasses famous ones in specific cities like Noisebridge in SF or c-base in Berlin (all of which can only exist in that city’s culture scene) and also smaller, niche spaces such as Curious Forge, DIY or die (sadly defunct), etc.

My local library system offers a limited “makerspace” program[0] that does some of this stuff within the library, but I think something that should be more integrated is their Library of Things[1] program which allows patrons to take home all sorts of tools and equipment that are just not used very often.

I think more library systems should be granted the freedom and funding by their governing bodies to create a makerspace.

Footnote: The other option I didn’t address was to have schools/universities maintain them, but those are always reserved for student and faculty.

[0]: https://www.saclibrary.org/Education/Tech-Creation/Makerspac...

[1]: https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Specialty-Checkouts/L...
Each country gets one or two commissioners. They are appointed by their respective national governments, subject to approval by the EU Parliament (but rejection is as rare as rocking-horse shit).

Basically, commissioners are usually former senior politicians who can no longer get elected, because they've been disgraced in some way or other. It's a sinecure.

It's almost impossible to dismiss them; the EU Parliament only has the power to dismiss the entire commission. That sounds like a nuclear option that could never be used; but is has been done, exactly once. It was over corruption; the parliament decided that essentially every commissioner was crooked.
De-bloat may be an interesting AI opportunity because the existing software serves as a detailed spec (we have 40 years of evidence that humans won't suddenly start writing debloated code)
That's a perpetual complaint.

The truth is that a lot of conveniences we take for granted have a cost that adds up a lot. A 4K screen has 17 times more pixels than a 800x600 one, and uses 32 bit color. So the raw size of graphics made for a modern display is around 68 times bigger.

Where before a static picture was acceptable now the norm is a high quality, high framerate animation.

Arial Unicode is a 15 MB font, which wouldn't even fit in the memory of most computers that used to run Windows 95.

Spell checking everywhere is taken for granted now.

And so on, and so forth. That stuff adds up. But it makes computers a whole lot more pleasant to use. I don't miss 16 color video modes, or being unable to use two non-English languages at once without extremely annoying workarounds.
I think the underlying issue is that Google strenuously avoids taking responsibility for their services. This kind of thing could be handled quickly by a modest customer service group but they don’t want to set the precedent that they do that sort of thing short of a lawsuit.
I feel the hard fought lessons are learned again and again and people have their own mental model of how things work (and how they should work), so the software industry is really fragmented, repetitively building the same systems again and again, we're not all improving the same system, so reliability and scalability doesn't improve/scale over time whereas improvements to gcc/clang, CPU hardware and Chromium benefit many organisations/applications. Many software system only lives in one company. The cost of targeting Windows, Mac and Linux is high so we have Electron and React Native.

The number of times I've seen an endless spinner or a button that doesn't work.

Getting people to use (and improve) "your way" of doing things is difficult. (Web frameworks and javascript frameworks)
What ended up being passed wasn't the same treaty, so that's not entirely true.

Complex situations like this can't just be reduced to a yes/no decision. What does a "no" vote even mean? Does it mean that nothing like that treaty can ever be passed? What about something which resembles the original but tries to address the concerns that were raised by the people who voted against it? What about just certain sections?

Simply "yes/no" is a very crude measurement to actually know what people think or what a good solution would look like. I was somewhat in favour of Brexit, but for very different reasons than Farage (basically: "fuck the fuck in or fuck the fuck off", but not this "we want all of the benefits but none of the costs"). This is why parliaments can amend bills and the like. Maybe we should choose people to represent each side so they can debate each other and reach a compromise. Oh, wait...

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I don't know about the French one, but the Dutch one was rife with misinformation and nonsense. You know, like that Brexit one, or the EU-Ukraine association treaty one there was a few years later. Except worse because there was bullshit and nonsense on both sides (the amount of "if you vote no" fear-mongering was pretty ridiculous).

Also, like Brexit when asked many people voted yes/no depending on how much they liked the government, or other factors which had little to do with the actual treaty being proposed.

One can say "a vote is a vote, and you shouldn't police motivations". There is something to be said for that. But on the other hand it's hard to ignore that the vote was made in the context of misinformation, and people didn't actually vote on the asked question.

In general I'm actually hugely in favour of more direct democracy, but every single referendum I've seen up close (in Netherlands and when I was living in the UK) has been nothing short of a clusterfuck, in addition to the more fundamental problems I mentioned. I didn't vote in any of them as I didn't think they were valid tools for good decision-making.
How would a forty-year-old electrician (with data center [IBEW] and private residential experience) segway into a more-technical career? I have a STEM degree, but never ended up working anywhere where college wasn't shunned by hard-working co-workers.

The concept of "make six figures" while "working at home" makes literally zero sense to me, except with an image of a young `1337` coder abusing way-too-much speed performing back-end programming. I would love to provide my technical background to [perhaps project] management, but honestly have no github nor online coding examples to cite.

I can "program" an Arduino, by changing others' code/variables [but make it do things I want] — that's about the limit of my coding abilities. I am done with physically building houses IRL. Thank god I have enough savings to last a decade+, but I need/want to be using my brain to problem-solve [behind a computer screen].
"The Year of the Linux Desktop" won't ever happen... and that's partially because the delta between where Linux is now and the implied perfect Linux that powers TYotLD is now too small to be of marketing interest, just as the original article is complaining about. It can now only be a creeping process because there's no room for a big bang improvement any more.

My family is just casually using Linux now. I didn't even have to "train" them when I switched. The only thing we keep windows around for now is the unbelievably awful Cricut software, which is clearly a ramshackle product barely managing to run in Windows as it is.

I also use it for work, and the only significant delta I've noticed is that Zoom doesn't want to share individual apps in my setup. (Maybe it does in Wayland, I dunno.) It has otherwise been quite a while since I've had to tell someone "No, I can't do that, I'm on Linux."

The marketers for Windows face a problem they will be incapable of perceiving or acknowledging, which is that they are now the primary problem with Windows. Their need to change things just so they can say they changed things, their need to pile another feature on top of the ever-larger tottering stack of backwards compatibility already in place, their need to murder my experience using their product with ads so they can get another $3/year of revenue from me, these things that they did are the primary reason I switched away, am staying away, and am advising people around me to do the same. Eat that seed corn, marketers. Who needs $25 billion/year in revenue anyhow? A pittance, surely.
You can also cut people off, or shunt them onto a pay-as-you-go tariff without installing another meter

It's also another point of failure.

I have a SMETS2 meter, and appreciate the time of day billing and better feed-in metering for my PV, but I'll not be at all surprised if this is hacked one day to cut millions of people off.
> Don't compare the process of going online and filling out a form […]

Going online and filling out a form is exactly how you get a visa for (e.g.) NZ:

* https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/preparing-...
And the thumbnails for each frame, and the section titles.
I've been in software for over 20 years and I've read a new version of this rant every year.
I feel this deeply.

It's important to remember that as developers, we do have a choice. Not about everything, but there's an option to choose the less-sucky alternative.

You don't have to use Node. You can write good, backwards compatible software just fine on the .net or JVM ecosystems and you can know that it will still run without modification in 10 years.

You don't have to write single page webpages. Old-fashioned HTML that completely reloads the page on each click works just fine and is probably lower latency at this point.

You don't have to write desktop apps using Chromium. Getting started with a UI framework is a little more work but the quality is worth it.

The decision isn't always yours. But when it is, opt out of the suck.
My memory form my time living in Japan is that they do not have a consistent shade of blue/green that their traffic lights conform to. You will see completely different colors depending on the location, and even see different colors within the same location. Some areas are more blue and some areas are more green.
> In my experience it seems a good deal of bloat has to do with resiliency. Most desktop applications don't completely crash the entire system when they contain a memory access bug. They just crash. That doesn't come for free.

This is provided by hardware and basically free. Besides, computers aren't slow because of kernel bloat. Linux, OSX and Windows have serious issues but all major software problems are in user space.
You are underestimating the effort/size spent on the last 5% of a project.
> I have a Python program I run every day, it takes 1.5 seconds. I spent six hours re-writing it in rust, now it takes 0.06 seconds. That efficiency improvement means I'll make my time back in 41 years, 24 days :-)

The key here is "I run every day" - if you're only saving CPU for yourself once a day then, well, fine. But if the improvement is about something that runs millions of times a day, or is run once a day by a million people, then that's something completely different!
If they're roughly the same size and in the same order as the round lights today, people with poor visual acuity would still see more or less what they see currently.
Actually, no. I spent most of my time in France, Italy, Spain and the UK. I insist: most upper-middle class (and above) voters are stuck in what I can only qualify as a "govern me harder, daddy" mindset.
This year my fruit trees went crazy and I ended up using this site a lot. They worked well!
Can you help the grandparent and link some analysis?

I'm not finding anything to support this claim. VAT absolutely performs worse in many environments [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax#VAT-free_cou...
But they eventually need to sell some assets to repay the loan, right? They'll pay tax when they sell them.
You're 100% right. Ever since watching the Jonathan Blow talk on the end of the world I have started paying attention to it and it's amazing how many absolutely shitty software experiences we just accept on the daily.

I understand all the points about financial costs and opportunity costs and pragmatism and the rest, and I partially agree with it, but it's hard not to sometimes feel like we've accepted living in a half built world.
Yeah, this effectively becomes an "are you like me?" cultural test, which is just overflowing with implicit bias.
This is a peculiar marketing strategy.

This 'news' has been pushed about every month in the last ~6 months, and even before in 2021 there have been similar 'stories'.

But there is no battery. But they are near.

Here is one from 2021 : https://www.motortrend.com/news/toyota-battery-bev-hev-solid...

Enter the rabbit hole : https://hn.algolia.com/?q=toyota+battery
Great video & channel BTW.
Would you take an in-person job that's not in a big city?
Very fair point, food supply chain are brittle! We saw that recently.

Of course the debate over the need for industrial meat farming is ongoing, and it involves complex trade-offs between efficiency, ethics, and environmental sustainability.

The latter is the kicker for me. I do care that we're building horror slaughterhouses for animals. But honestly not that much. I could live with that. What irks me it that it does not seems sustainable on the long run.

On a personal level I don't eat much meat. Like a handful of time a month? Mostly when I'm out. I don't buy meat when grocery shopping.
And when I do eat meat I either :

- kill the beat myself and then skin it. That happen less than once a year so it's anecdotal.

- Or it's hippie dippie meat raised close to where I live. You know, "pasture", "grass-fed" and all that shit.

I do use milk that is probably produce in detrimental ways to the cows and the environment. Maybe a gallon/month? To cook. I would love a better plug for milk.

I produce my own eggs, I'm blessed by a large yard and their is no city code. I think I could raise pigs nobody would care?

But that's just me.
At least I'm kinda opt-out of industrial meat? Still standing! But agreed: I'm a rich guy in a rich country, with too much time on my hands.

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To your point:

I can't find any data on the percentage of industrial meat in the US diet, compared to "hippie-dippie" meat. It's probably a staggering 90 to 10%. But I would love to find that data.
So, agreed. It looks scary to mess with that.

That being said:
I do think the way we were growing meat until ww2 is a decent way to do it. And that having less meat around would be just fine.
I get my protein from mostly plants. Yes it takes place to grow that too. But pigs, beef and chicken needs similar plants to be feed as well.

But correct. I can't prove that, it's anecdotal. And I know nothing about those subject for real :)

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> If you think you have a more humane technique that will produce meat just as efficiently, by all means, open a farm and use it.

Introducing Temple Grandin! She did it so much better than I could ever do. I'm a software guy, I can barely keep up with a food garden :)

Grandin produced lot of work geared toward exactly that,from within the industrial meat complex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin
She deserve some recognition. She proved that you can be less of a dick to your meat and actually have better yield

Her work is not theoretical, she consulted for Hormel, Cargill and Tyson. Those 3 might represent like, idk, 80% of meat production in the US? They were happy to adopt her recommendation.

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But the above is animal welfare. Again, I would be OK with immense suffering of tons of animals. ( really) I guess I'm not an emphat!

What I'm not ok in my personal book, is the risk that those concentration bring us. For our health, germ-wise, land-use wise, and all that jazz! It seems wise to tame it down. Eat more lentils, chickpeas and soy. That's all I'm saying.
I was expecting to read about some strange quantum properties that allows for this violation. Instead what I got was a moronic headline that is totally untrue, because adding "apparently" is difficult and not as sensational. Is there any wonder why people reject science? It's because of these idiots in science journalism. They need to go back to writing puffy human interest stories instead of trying to apply some emotional story arc to scientifically interesting things they clearly don't understand.
I work technical support at a startup where we have a self-service Uploader for some data imports. Can't count how many hours and emails I spent going back and forth to tell people how to turn auto conversion to scientific notation off. Long overdue feature/setting for them to release.
Hell, it can give you a finished image
Wait till you find out what they call a blonde person in Croatia :-)
To be clear I wasn't talking at all about buy-side. I was talking about big broker-dealers. They are all MTM as far as I know.

My point was that finance in and on itself doesn't depend on a concept of unrealized gains. It's perfectly possible to devise a system of taxation that just says you have to mark to market and then pay tax on that. There would for sure be complications around how you get valuations for illiquid investments etc.
I hope she dies for this. Countries should compete, not collude to steal all the property from their citizens.
> I wonder if your former friend has the same kind of personality that just as well would have deluded themselves into thinking they have some amazing insights into horse racing or sports.

I would not be surprised. The arrogance and self-righteousness in his character had gotten pretty out of control.
When the majority of a country votes against the EU constitution in a public referendum, "conspiracy nut" is a very tough sell.
> At least Sonoma has the excuse that a lot of that flab is for giant 4k drone footage of vapid countryside masquerading as active backgrounds. Although, let's be honest, the reality is that it's Tim Cook's punishment to users who didn't shell out the cash for that extra, hugely overpriced SSD option. Don't believe us? Try to remove them.

Well, that's a dumb and misinformed argument. Only the one out of the box is included with macOS - the rest are download on demand.

> Look at Windows 11's sluggish take-up, largely because it's Windows 10 demanding you buy it a new computer.

Actually, it's been widely reported that Windows 11 take-up is widely exceeding Microsoft's projections.
Yes, though landlords at least in theory perform some useful maintenance-type work, which puts them above software patent owners. I hope he did something else notable in his life, otherwise "guy who invented a way to get paid for getting in the way of people doing useful work" certainly isn't the world's finest epitaph.
I've been using Rancher Desktop for a while on my mac and it works just as well as Docker desktop
Unibody and body on frame have different pros and cons. Most people buying a truck want a unibody. The F150 lightening is only available in the crew cab version - you can get cars with as much cargo space. If you are actually hauling heavy things, or towing a trailer then a frame is strong and better able to handle that. However if you are only hauling people with some light luggage then a unibody is plenty strong and betters resists twisting forces making for a nicer ride.
Now that the RPi 5 exposes a PCIe interface, I have a feeling we're going to see a lot more folks adopting it as a NAS.
They pay 2% on their wealth.
There is no clicking/hum that distinguishes those 2 states? If that's the case, you should probably check with council to have those nearby lights changed into disability-friendly setup. You may be surprised how effective it may be, maybe council has some part of the budget allocated to this so they will give it higher priority (or not, but at least try, you can help other people too)
Are you aware of any innovation or successful startups that came out of the EU in the last 5 years? How can you regulate a field you have no players in?
Reminder that rpi refuses to specially sell to educators, the supposed target and whole purpose of their mission. Those that need them can't get it because the purchasing processes in orgs means they're out of stock before it can be bought.
LinkedIn Issues Warning to Site Shaming Pro-Palestinian Sentiment
Toyota has been going hard on this story, no surprise since they dug a grave of irrelevance by anchoring themselves to hydrogen for decades. Even when it was clear EVs were the future and interest in hydrogen was barely registering.

Also no surprise that they have nothing to show except a "just wait 5 years!".
https://archive.ph/ShZwr
The general line against the EU constitution was "this is not a representative democracy". That core truth hasn't changed.
The new commission will be elected by either the same current coalition or far-right authoritarian parties...