skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only real competition is for shareholder "investment" and returns.

In the absence of effective external oversight and regulation - clearly a problem across the economy, never mind here - you can guarantee a race to the bottom where only the beans matter.

If the company stops making quality products that usually creates a bonus, because cheap. Lower headcount? Bonus. Union busting? Bonus. Low wages? Bonus. Indifference to worker welfare? Bonus. Cosy revolving door relationship between lawmakers, regulators, and senior management? Mega payout!

The incentives are all aligned towards making payouts for owners bigger, while lowering objective quality of service, worker conditions, and worker pay.

Airbus is less terrible because the EU regulatory regime isn't quite as toothless, and the EU has a very slightly less competitive and exploitative financial culture.

You find the same human-hostile forces right across the economy - from landlords who send rents into an exploding price spiral, to utilities that monopolise infrastructure while investing as little as possible, to pork barrel government spending at inflated prices, to startups whose only real USP is an app and a plan to sidestep existing regulations, to tiny restaurants that expect customers to tip generously, because they're certainly not going to pay waitstaff a living wage.
Most developers don't speak to users
Better software requirements for development teams and their managers, who don’t collaborate directly with end users and business stakeholders, but still need to produce excellent software.
Industrial and commercial users of power almost always get different pricing than residential rates in the US.
> e keep using them because they sorta work a little, which is better than placebos, even if marginally, and we don't really have better tools.

Seems we might have now. Psilocybin and ketamine research is looking very promising
Echoing on "a bad job market is the perfect time to go to school". The bad job market will rebound. Don't fall into the AI destroy jobs narative, it will create more jobs, just different. Others mentions about good US education opening doors to the US job market. That is true and definitely warrants over working in EU just by itself, but the other priceless benefit to a good US education is the network of people to start doing things on your own should you decide that is what you want later.
Do we have a link to the opinion? Is this a conclusion of law, or simply a statement of standing?
Today it’s Boeing.

What if we’re approaching a complexity crisis and practically no one sees it happening?

I make things. I think I can see it.

But what would it look like if we are making systems so complex that it is exceeding the gasp of any one human to understand it, and at the same time exceeding the ability of humans to even explain parts of it effectively to other humans? What would that look like?

I can give you a clue. The headlines would look like “What’s gone wrong at xxxx”.

It’s not The Issue (tm) of course. It’s complexity, it’s the MBA-ification, it’s regulation, it’s corruption, it’s all the things that aren’t going to get better.
The ski season has so far been miserable in terms of snow pack. Last year was a positive fluke, with high snowfall early in the season. Some resorts are seeing half as much snow as last year.
The most sarcastic children's book I've ever read was about ballooning: "Launching, Floating High, and Landing - If Your Pilot Light Doesn't Go Out", by Gary Paulsen (1979).

I stumbled upon it at a thrift store a while back.

Every turn of the 30 or so pages has a full color photo of a balloon being prepped, flown, or landed, accompanied by a short, large-print paragraph full of snark.

The opening:

"Hot air ballooning is using hot air in a bag to go up. Gravity brings you down. Every time. It's so much fun that many people only do it once. They get all the fun they need the first time..."

There's not much info about it on the internet, what little there is points to a newer 1993 reprint called "Hot Air: Launching, Floating High, and Landing".

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14850023W/Full_of_hot_air?ed...

The text is the same, but the pictures are by a different photographer. Maybe I'll figure out how to submit my copy to Open Library this week.
I meant that I stopped reading to check.

I read the entire article.
From the POV of a former Vue 2 user: I just migrated a small-ish project from Vue 2/JavaScript/PHP to Vue 3/TypeScript/serverless after a couple of years of not touching it, and the process was straightforward.

Vue's docs are excellent, and I used GPT-4/Phind/Copilot (I wanted to try different solutions) when I got confused. I chose not to rewrite stuff to use the new Composition API (which is apparently analogous to React hooks) for now. I did change the build system to Vite, which is awesome, and which you can also use with React.

I don't have anything against React, except that it seems very complex and is missing basic (to Vue) functionality, the most notable being Single-File Components (which I'd miss terribly). https://vuejs.org/guide/scaling-up/sfc.html
The idea is to coil the sewage pipe with the cold water pipe before it goes into the water heater. That way the cold water will pick up some of the excess heat from the sewage pipe from the shower and it will cost less to heat overall.
I've built projects using React, Vue, and Svelte in the last year. All 3 are great in their own lane. React is a great starting point for larger teams to add on things to and it does start to be come its own beast within large teams.

For Vue, I think it's in the middle for me, it can be used by teams and can be used by solo devs and it seems to follow some very good practices. This I would take away from React only for the reason that each major version introduces some new concept that flips things on its head and I have feel like each new react project doesn't feel like an older one I worked on 2-3 years ago, and in some cases, not for the better.

Regarding Svelte, I wish I used it more. I built a project [1] that took me almost no time except fiddling around with github actions to get it up and running and it felt so naturally close to html/js when building, I was hardly looking up documentation or tutorials. Adding new features to it felt even more fun.

I've mainly stuck with React because of the large ecosystem but in 2024, it feels like once you find a good starting point with any of these, you should be able to build most apps with it.

Another thing to not shy away from is seeing that most large projects use React as an example, you can use something like ChatGPT to convert a react snippet to a vue or svelte snippet.

1: https://bikes.usmanity.com
>Why can't you click & drag the words to reorder them?
That level of difficulty is part of the game. There is a shuffle button to ease the ideas generation but most likely is was done like that by design.
> However, I also think it's fairly easy to circumvent for a hypothetical leech that just wants to use my code without contributing back any improvements. Namely just put the improvements into a separate proprietary file, and insert stubs in the MPL licensed file calling the proprietary code.

Yeah this is the work around that came to mind when I first read the MPL, and it's what I had in mind when I said it isn't perfect. I'm using it for a current game engine project I'm working on, and will probably use it for any of my other work moving forward, but I definitely think it isn't the end of license history — there is still a lot more improvement that could be made. I was just giving it as an example of what I think the correct direction is, in contrast to the current extremes. I think it's where more work on licenses should go.
Boring. Wish there were something such as malware reverse engineering or other exotics system programming topics.
Oh don't get me started. In Korea, the size of the samgakgimbap has increased in some cases, and the price DECREASED in some cases... but the filling, ugh....!!!! Not only has the amount of filling decreased, but the quality is going down. Some of the tuna mayo ones have basically no mayo in them anymore, the tuna quality has also gone down. If I wanted rice and seaweed I'd buy rice and seaweed...!!!! And this isn't just CU/711/etc, it's everywhere! </rant>
Yes. Boeing customers ask for a lot of things and it's Boeing's legal obligation to only provide them safe airplanes, no matter what they ask for.
Palm oil giants push out smallholders in Guatemala; deforestation risks remain
So you heard from what's basically a glorified blog post in a pay-to-publish journal written by a primary author who works for a university run by the YMCA. Thanks for citing your sources. I also heard that the world is flat.
I read resumes and that "bs" gets one negative point. Another negative point and resume goes to trash bin.
Also don't forget story point Goldilocks.

We don't create 1 point stories, you need to roll this up with another story!
Hey we don't do 13 point stories, you need to break that one up!
8 points? you sure that isn't a 5?
2 points, 3 points.. what's the difference just mark it as a 2.

OK so basically we just have 2s & 5s then? Amazing.
> backwards it is to be anywhere but the cloud

It's almost as if you feel the cloud is something magically different, it's actually just servers on racks owned by someone else.

You can own the same thing if you want and do everything exactly the same.

(See e.g. Oxide)
Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple
'ultimate customer' means the customer using the power, which you are.

The reason you don't pay the price listed on that page is because you are only one customer. You are not the average customer.
Create Portals in Godot with _integrate_forces
That's definitely a cool project, but I'm only interested in interpreting right now. I am sharing programs with clients, as I wrote in another thread. Not interested in producing or linking native code. I already have a binary translation mode, and I could probably expand it to avoid the interpreter loop to save 2ns, but I just don't have a need. Right now, everything is perfect for my use case.

It's cool that you can inline sandboxed functions like that. I'm curious about how you arbitrarily select and call functions though? A string-lookup kind of thing?
You've inspired me to rethink my approach to Anki. I've used it on and off for the last few years, but always fall in the trap of creating cards that were too convoluted. Sounds like I could benefit from some deliberate "laziness".

Did you ever feel like you were answering correctly, on close cards specifically, not because of an improved understanding but because you were associating the correct answer with the prompt/excerpt? Would appreciate any advice on how to avoid this!
The full-mesh is three Mini-PCs where each PC connects to the other two PCs by USB4: unfortunately the image crops out the USB4 cable that links the top PC to the bottom PC which makes it a bit unclear.
> With Supermemo, you paste in a chunk of text (ctrl-n), highlight a word you want to make cloze deletion from, and press alt-x. You can do it multiple times on the same piece of text, and every time you do it, you get a new cloze deletion card in your reviews.

In Anki (on Debian at least) it's Ctrl-Alt-C.
I have £19m to £75m revenue in approx 20 months bootstrapped start-up CTO on my CV.

In the UK market folks aren't particularly receptive to that sort of thing.
Umeboshi onigiri still contain fish broth ingredients? There’s always the plain salted onigiri too

Btw careful with chips in Japan, most varieties have meat extracts in them
Wording and intent of the DMA makes no reference to commissions.

And there is nothing anti-competitive about Apple charging for their developer kit.
If you're only learning for a job, React. Or at least check job postings in your area and see how it looks like. If all of them are React, then why learn Vue?

But I honestly don't think it's that important.
Ask HN: Would taking an iced coffee outside make your hand warmer or colder?
Suppose you take an iced coffee from McDonald's outside where the temperature is 14°F (-10°C).

Would this make your hand holding the iced coffee cup warmer or colder?
It is nostalgic to see it is still painful.

Edit: I say that with love
Not in all theory - Modern Monetary Theory[1] posits that if you control a mint, your money is effectively infinite and cannot be meaningfully increased. As such, some taxation truly does serve only as a money sink (but a necessary one that prevents runaway inflation in the face of government spending, as well as being a vehicle for incentivization).

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/modern-monetary-theory-mmt-4588...
That's a great choice to be able to make.
Sure.. it's yet another image to ascii tool. I submit it though because a short while ago I linked the webapp (which I have now dubbed MAGICBIFF), with explanation of why I made yet another such app along with examples of what it does in a comment on a HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38329736) about another ascii art tool and had a couple of folks reply and ask if the source was available.

Since it runs entirely in the browser, (demo here: https://www.killsignal.net/magicbiff) the source (HTML/CSS/JS) is of course available as it is sent over https when requested and can be seen as plain text via view-source or the Inspector, but it eventually occurred to me that even so, perhaps they wanted to be able to be notified of changes, fork, submit PR, etc.. all the stuff that site like GitHub makes easily available.

Anyway, following through on my commitment to clean it up and adding license so it is clearly "open" and not just "view-source"-able, there it be.
Yeah same. Never understood why people need multiple stores on an iPhone when they could just use Android instead.
I feel the prestige MIT has comes from somewhere, probably engineering prowess and the genius of hacker culture. But in terms of how to think, I'd say any engineering/stem degree from any university touched on that as you see the dividend of that years later.
One of the things I spotted in my casual looking around is this statement: "Therefore, as part of the FDA approval process, Gilead was required to develop an alternative form of the chemical — known as a “prodrug”— that could be taken by mouth." [1]

If Gilead agreed to develop an alternative drug that had fewer adverse side effects in exchange for FDA approval of their preferred (more expensive) drug, then I think the lawsuit has a great deal of merit.

[1] https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/federal-court-rejects-drugma...
Ask HN: What are the effective ways to improve communication skills?
Although there are many books and courses available, simply reading books does not lead to dramatic improvements. What methods are truly effective?
libvirt, virt-manager, et al are all perfectly suitable tools for an average member of the HN audience, or someone playing with a home lab, or any number of other technically proficient users - but those people are not the people who are buying vmware's products.

And virt-manager comes across from their docs as a bit on the basic side, proxmox and ovirt look a bit more polished - but again, companies are often wary of running their entire infrastructure on something where there isn't someone they can blame if it goes wrong - it's more about managing the risk than anything else.

I would absolutely love it if these sorts of companies used and relied on open source technologies more, but it's unlikely that they would pay for the staff with the relevant skills to manage it all, or pay enough to retain those staff that get trained up internally. (And I'm somewhat hopeful that this broadcom/vmware mess will cause more resources to flow into open source projects, or spark new developments in this space - cloud isn't always the answer to everything).
The problem is that with how these companies are set up, if the humans are doing the work well they're basically doing it in spite of the company. Left to their own judgement, vanishingly few humans are going to (leave a package that's actively leaking oil paint; have a local terminal that can never be reached; leave packages down by the road instead of delivering them; falsely mark packages as delivered and then do it surreptitiously the next day). But the systems that command them highly incentivize such behavior in the name of never-ending "optimization" (aka corporate looting).
Do you make the same choice on Windows?
As others have noted, it depends on what you’re looking for. But it kind of sounds like you’re starting something new / anticipating hiring more developers. If this is the case, I’d suggest getting really honest about your needs and whether they point to a front-end framework at all. Recognize the significant cost the SPA architecture imposes. It’s worthwhile at times. But more often than not, in my experience, it’s a wholly unnecessary expense.

Check out some alternative non-SPA style frameworks like htmx, or Hotwire. You could save yourself a lot of work if these tools are sufficient for your app’s needs.
The "Declownification" of medical diagnoses has continued for a long time. I met a medical historian giving a tour of the apothecary shop in Colonial Williamsburg who described how "consumption" was a clown car of tuberculosis, lung cancer, black lung (from mining), and a host of other lung ailments.

Over time each was identified as something unique, given a more precise name and treatment methods and eventually nobody is diagnosed with "consumption" anymore.
hey boing, how does that DEI signaling taste now ?
Was there ever an answer about why the one AoA sensor failed, on each of those planes? Even though there was only one per plane, it was basically new.
The only NICs I see in that price range are old Mellanox cards.

Intel NICs are 5-10x that price. I'm not sure why, but my suspicion is that it has to do with driver support and/or interoperability.
I see your point and will also continue to use Apple's one except for a few apps such as emulators and a couple of others that Apple banned.
It depends on why you need to learn a framework.

If this is for your own projects, especially since you have some past experience with Vue 2, stick to Vue. It's simpler, the documentation is excellent, the community is great, and I found it to be more stable, fun and productive than React.

If the intent is to find a job, learn React. Even though if you have experience with a framework, you can easily pick up another one later.
Ignorance? I doubt it. There's a variety of reasons to wash at least some items in very hot water. Killing dust mites for people with allergies sounds like a good reason. Getting rid of faecal contaminants sounds like another good reason. It does way more than making clothes "marginally cleaner".
> My initial choice of Vue was based on its ease of use for beginners

Yes, that is no longer true. It is as complicated as it gets. Moreover, they killed a whole ecosystem while making the transition from 2 to 3. Go with React, I regret not doing that myself.
Thank you very much. Indeed this is the technically correct flow, which was not so important for the explanation of the issue. I understand I should have mentioned it though to make it more clear. Much appreciated!
There's also another OSI approved "zero" license called MIT-0

https://opensource.org/license/mit-0/
lol, spoken like a mouthpiece for Chinese or Russia dictatorship brainwashing media. These are democratic allies that have allied against invading dictatorships.

No chance in hell China and Russia wins here, against such a formidable alliance. They will merely slowly fade away in the global economy, into obscurity.
Worked perfectly in the HN Summary channel on Telegram, which uses GPT to summarize all submissions as they're posted!

https://imgur.com/a/VchiUPy

EDIT: actually I don't think this was the intended result, but something is definitely up. Fun!
Why wouldn’t you call it as you see it? When you have lost your job and are no longer seeking that employment you can afford to become a bit more honest. Fearing that someone likely under qualified for their job might be offended by the mere mention of such sounds like a first world problem.
Comparison of Linux Distributions
If it's your first framework, it doesn't matter which one because you have to learn how to learn first. If it isn't, learn both and I would add Svelte and Angular.
Harvard develops a solid state battery that charges in minutes
I love Aves, I switched to it from simple gallery https://github.com/deckerst/aves
The chemists are already here, the Knuths and such - it's just being ignored or isn't directly "relevant" yet.

It's like building buildings without "building science" - which, surprisingly, we have actually been doing in many ways to the current date.

There aren't really formal schools of "be a carpenter and build a house" - it's all very master/apprentice even if it is not formally so everywhere. And since things like "energy usage" of the building didn't really matter until recently, many buildings just kept being built the way they always have.

Now things like "can we keep this building comfortable at much less energy usage with some additional up-front costs" are coming to the forefront, and how buildings are built is slowly changing.

Compared to that, software is very in its infancy, because the real only bottom line items are "does it mostly work" and "did it not cost infinity dollars more than it made".
Well, at least we'll have plenty of ammunition to locally target ice cover if we go down the icehouse branch of the Ghil-Sellers model.

(Which found in the 70s that the positive ice-albedo feedback was strong enough to plunge the model Earth into a global pole-to-pole ice age if solar output dropped by 6%. It was briefly a big scare.)

Figure 3 in the paper is particularly excellent.
Note that the fork Fossify Gallery is already available on F-Droid.
The rest of the apps aren't yet.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.gallery/

Thanks to this debacle, I'll actually be trying it out.

What I have used out of Simple Mobile Tools is the Dialer.
It allowed me to make my old phone usable for calls again.
The phone,
which runs an outdated release of LineageOS and doesn't receive updates,
developed a problem.
The screen would turn off when dialing or on a call.
This prevented one from even hanging up.
I experimentally installed Simple Dialer
to see if the dialer app was the cause.
(Because Simple Dialer was on F-Droid,
and I had heard about Simple Mobile Tools.)
It didn't help on its own.
Then I went through the settings and saw one that disabled the proximity sensor during calls.
I tried turning on the setting,
and that did it.

This apparently used to be an option in the AOSP phone app: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/80227/phone....
Simple Dialer has been forked as https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Phone.
You definitely get the idea that the activities of large firms are political and not driven by competition but I don’t think “too big to fail” required the public to think the banks were doing a good job in 2008. There was general agreement that the banks themselves caused the 2008 financial crisis. The bailouts happened because the bankers who would have lost their fortunes were powerful enough to order the elected officials to bail them out anyway.
The "Power On" newsletter linked as a source in the article doesn't actually seem to contain anything about the topic it's said to discuss?
BgGPT, the first open LLM for the Bulgarian language
> Fixing bugs in code it writes itself is very different to diagnosing (i.e. identifying, not fixing) bugs in my own code.

yeah, we run the random number generator again and hopefully this time less buggy code pops out
That's the whole plan. They basically only want to retain the fortune 500 customers and wing them dry. Anybody that can migrate away will do so, but the rest will be taken to the cleaners.