skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reason he is an anomaly is the economics - he walked away from a very high paying job to write about the industry, for what initially had to be a large pay cut and certainly lower future earnings potential. He also has tremendous natural talent for writing with a dry sense of humor.

At this point he's now been writing about the industry longer than he's been in it, and given his prominence and name brand, I am sure he is paid well for it.

Most people at the peak of their professional ascendence, after the gauntlet of the right schools, the right jobs, etc.. are unable to walk away.
A tangential question: For someone looking to start using React Native (targeting both Android and iOS), is Flutter a viable alternative in 2024 ?
The menswear guy spends a ridiculous amount of time just trying to own people in his replies which honestly seems extremely childish.

e.g. I saw someone say "Don't try to go toe to toe with him, he grew up in [snakepit forum with lots of insults]" — these forums are for morons (for which there is time and a place)

I don't see the similarity with Levine.
Would love some sources cited for both your take and the parent's take.
That depends on whether it's table service, or whether you yourself go to the counter to buy your drink. Until very recently, that was the dividing line for tips (except at bars).
No. I’m implying BEZOS overriding his independent editorial board’s position a week before an election is malicious election interference.
No, they have better options than mush and compressed biscuits. They can enjoy Chinese food that is nearly identical to what is available on Earth, with varieties and flavors that may be better than what the vast majority of foreigners have experienced
In SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) an early distinction is made between "declarative" and "imperative" ways of knowing. If you teach the declarative aspect in mathematics you are teaching what I would consider the "language" of mathematics. It is in fact a language and has value on its own. Now, later we can put on the programmer's hat and work with algorithmic aspects (the imperative part). This seems very valuable to me.
No one is giving up anything voluntarily. Do you think workers in the global South are willingly working for meager wages (i.e. giving away most of the wealth they generate) or do you think they are somehow constrained into it?
How is Qt within a GNOME or Xfce environment any more "native" than Qt on Windows or Mac?

You have reduced the definition of "native" to merely compatible with X11/Wayland (that's the only common denominator). Well now, Tk, FLTK, Swing, and even Wine are all native.
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With some of these headlines, I find myself thinking: "Established players with an edge need more fresh small fish to gobble up."

That's not to say there isn't a potentially good path forward, but whatever it is will require some changes to systems (article gives example of employee ownership in companies) instead of just an infusion of participants.

> But these indictments confuse the concept of capitalism with its implementation.

That is true, but it's also something you see on the other side, where positive features of the concept are invoked even when the implementation differs. "If you hold us liable for the damages we caused, you're endangering the economy and hate Capitalism", etc.

There's also the issue of "limited liability" situations, pollution cleanup, and other socialization of losses, but it's a pretty big can of worms to open.
rust is just a good language to use and the ecosystem is growing every month.
It would be a stretch to call Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius science fiction, but like many of Borge's works is packed with references and footnotes.
This is one of these things that sounds perfectly logical -- you want all UI components to look and behave the same across all applications and all websites -- but that is more theoretical than practical.

If you built an app that used just what the browser gives you and nothing more, you're leaving so much functionality on the floor. Having more expressive power often makes things simpler -- using more complex UI controls has allowed me to eliminate whole pages from my application. Users are happier and more productive.

Browser UI implementations can't do one thing that is vital: compete.
Just call it what it is, rent seeking behavior. It's parasitic.
For that matter, styling a select (single) isn't quite the walk in the park it should be.
I've never heard the term "psychological safety", but I've heard the concept by other (better) names for ages. E.g. "open to productive disagreement" and "anti-yes-men", and many others terms that are vaguer but cover communication in general. Actually conforming to these has often been a struggle in most organizations, and picking a worse name won't help.

Laying them out side by side, it seems to me that this is in active conflict with "safe spaces", both in theory (no discomfort) and especially what I often see in practice (no disagreement allowed). To be useful, a safe space needs to be narrowly-scoped.
He didn’t keep the lights on while waiting for new development to take off. He actively lost 40+ billion dollars on horrible acquisitions, and actively stifled internal innovation to ensure existing product lines weren’t threatened.

On the sales side he streamlined Microsoft into a single monolithic sales motion that killed dozens of products before they started because the target customer/market didn’t fit the EA model.

This included Azure that took nearly a decade after his departure to unwind so the sales force could actually sell consumption based products and services.

I honestly can’t think of anything substantially positive he achieved in his tenure other than promoting Satya and Scott G and a handful of others.

All of the contemporary media reports don’t know about the laundry list of near sighted, anti competitive, anti innovation shit he put on the company.
Let's put the trademark transfer and subsequent relicensing part aside, because I think we agree on that.

> Matt tried to put Wordpress.org as a 501(c)(3) but they ran into problems, e.g. it was a lead gen for paid plug-ins that Automattic owned. So Matt has used his and Automattic resources for wordpress.org for a long time. You can read more about this in the WPEngine suit (page 12).

Where in the lawsuit does it mention that "they ran into problems" transferring operation of dot org to the 501(c)(3)? All I see on page 12 is:

> Until recently, Defendants had given the WordPress community the impression that wordpress.org—the repository for the WordPress software and plugins—was owned and controlled by the WordPress Foundation.

Edit: I found it from a link in a different comment:

https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2024/10/28/matt-mullen... (primarily https://x.com/photomatt/status/1840948013360910448)

A more appropriate question perhaps: can a lawyer specialising in US nonprofits corroborate Matt's claim?
Servers make minimum wage in WA, but you weren't a server. I also don't tip if I order at a register.
The same article notes that the newspaper itself and also the people who resigned from the paper over this say it has nothing to do with Gaza and his daughter was involved in none of the conversations about this.

My best guess is that she tried to use a brief spurt of interest in her family to get attention for a cause she was invested in, but since it was a lie no one else backed her up.
This is hindsight bias. Because other people took some of his later initiatives and made them successful, it’s tempting to look back and grant him these as wins.

We should resist that temptation and judge him on the results he delivered. MS was the essential tech company, king of the world, and under his leadership their innovation stalled, they lost in markets where they were leading, the stock stagnated, and huge piles of money were vaporized on acquisitions that were poorly planned or executed.

He tried to buy Yahoo for $44 billion! Only Yahoo’s greater idiocy saved him from that gargantuan mistake. And that was just one of many.
There is nothing called "civilization".
Many power delivery bricks are now gan and you can pull a variety of voltages out of them. Incl 12v on some so options are available if you can solder
It is a matter of perspective. Of all Mac users, no of people wanting to hide their app usage are practically 0 when compared to people downloading free wallpaper app or game that need to be protected from their own actions. For 2nd set an OS monitoring the activity and blocking potential harmful ones is more secure.
Huh, I think that features one of the protagonists from Fast Times at Fairmont High. Set in the early singularity age.
Yes. We have integrated this into our RAG pipeline. Looking for a benchmark which we can try. Have been using this to give feedback to my marketing team on our blog posts.

Also, as I mentioned, now, trying out experiments in the video domain with some pretty cool results. Will post the details this week.

https://x.com/nutanc/status/1849661242027409723
I remember working with Microsoft as a client in 2000-s, it was awesome. We started as a startup, and enrolled in a BizSpark program. It gave us basically free access to Microsoft tools and with very responsive support.

We later transitioned into volume licensing, that also was simple and straightforward. The business side of Microsoft was a streamlined unstoppable train at that point.

The technical side, not so much. Microsoft was still trying to be the only software company in the world, and it was pushing all kinds of WPF, WCF, and other WTFs. So they completely missed hyperscalers and the growing market of Linux-based servers.
He’d be CEO during the early aughts, most places were still cash based
Seattle coffee culture is different than what you may be used to.
Azure may be successful financially, but as someone who has finally used it for the last two years after 15 years of AWS and a little bit of GCP, I can't help but think the world would be a better place if it didn't exist or if some lesser player had that market share.
More like: hope your code doesn't get illegally uploaded to GitHub.
> merely thinking about things can lead to physical changes in the world

Her claims are hardly akin to moving objects through telekinesis. Your brain is part of your nervous system which has massive control over your body. What happens in your brain obvious leads to changes in your body. Beyond the obvious "I think about moving my arm and then my arm moves" there is a ton of hard research to back up the ability of thoughts and moods to influence the autonomic systems of the body. Why are the things Langer is suggesting fundamentally different?

Clearly more evidence is needed to prove many of her specific claims, and many of them may turn out to be noise, but the basic premise hardly seems worth dismissing. Descartes was 400 years ago.
How about this report to spice things up: Blue Origin executives meeting up with Trump the day the endorsement cancellation was announced?

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4954591-trump-meets-bl...
I have experience in all listed categories as well. I hold the inverse opinion. I hold the inverse opinion only for a select few web stacks, and outside of that niche, pull hard back into sharing your opinion. Would love to expand if anyone is interested in the dialogue!
I agree with the technique of divide and conquer, but those links are really hard to see! Bright blue on a dark blue background, oof!
And then maybe don't have your government-dependent aerospace company immediately call up the guy who you obviously just helped: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4954591-trump-meets-bl...
Correct. I did not realise this and am disappointed, having paid a pretty penny for the lifetime license. Reading the github thread, the surreptitious way they changed things is a bit of a dick move.
ctrl+A helped me
You should add another use to it which is exploring live in-memory object graphs of applications. Make some adapter library to allow getting those objects from apps that want to use and then you can fly through the data being processed. For debugging, exploration and education. I'm using a basic version of this idea for debugging: https://github.com/Quiark/overlog
Fair enough, thanks, agree. Good point.
Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report
Have you seen the python standard library? It ain't JavaScript kiddo
This is for a closed system that unfortunately sometimes is supposed to be available outside[1] - a touch screen panel UI for (big[2]) embedded system.

It's hard to impossible to properly guide OS outside the browser regarding what keyboard we want at different points in time unless we end up also implementing custom keyboard plus some way to talk with it from JS. Previously we used a Chromium extension that could bypass some of the issues because it had privileged access and thus could send "secure" events.

EDIT: For some extra context - for reasons of ease of use, we want the keyboard of appropriate type (numeric, qwerty, other specialized layouts) to show in position related to actual input field, not take entire lower part of the screen like typical on-screen keyboards. For dealing with possible edge cases or otherwise making it more accessible, we also provide for the keyboard to be draggable by user.

[1] Sometimes it's accessed externally instead of in-person, for various reasons this means we have both the ability to open the web interface and use VNC.

[2] By big I mean we have a complete PC running Linux there, with intel CPU/GPU and an SSD
> Personally find it extremely easy to detect scams. You also don't need a degree or much more than a HS degree to check sources, this was taught to most of us in high school.

If by "check a source" you mean look it up and read it, sure. But that tells you relatively little; you can verify that a claim appears in that source but actually weighing the validity of that source requires a lot more specialized expertise.

That you think a highschool course can teach all you need to reliably detect bullshit makes me think you're a lot more credulous than you seem to think.

The rest of your post is more or less about the heuristics you use in lieu of being a subject matter expert. And those heuristics are known to influencers and are routinely gamed. For instance, you're impressed that this influencer criticizes supplement companies. People peddling bullshit routinely trash talk their own or adjacent fields in order to gain trust, this is a textbook tactic. Used car salesmen trash talk used car salesmen, to make themselves seem candid and honest. Textbooks about sales and persuasion teach this tactic. Supplement peddlers trash talk homeopathy, homeopaths trash talk chiropractors, etc. Of course people who aren't peddling bullshit will trash talk bullshit too, everybody else does too so it's a very unreliable heuristic.
I don't see what difference it makes whether you use some component built into the browser or some component built on top of the browser.

This article already starts out with how many ways you can screw up this built in browser feature. I bet you didn't even notice that the article examples were slightly broken. The "fix" shows the error when you press submit but doesn't highlight the field in red like if you backspaced it to empty. This is something my validation code does automatically and correctly.
>AMA

You find 4-5 real people that need a Wordpress site every month? Where do you find these people?
Previously (17 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41960811
Scott Guthrie is the one who drove Azure.

Dated 2013, a year before Nadella became CEO:

https://www.change.org/p/the-microsoft-board-of-directors-as...
> My handwriting is pretty bad

i know it might sound dumb, but have you tried playing with a fountain pen?

The feedback is way different from a ballpoint pen and it also depends on paper and the kind of ink. It makes writing way less "predictable" and a bit more enjoyable.

a cheap one (5-15$) with a medium nib might be a good start... some people move on to collect fountain pens, but i do most on my (on paper) writing with a ~20$ Pelikan Jazz.
Rails has 12 core developers + 5 committers.

https://rubyonrails.org/community
Two small anecdotes about Ballmer from my internship there:

At an intern event an intern asked some question along the lines of "What's one quality of a competitor you wish Microsoft had?" They were clearly asking about cultural qualities but Ballmer's response was "I'd take Google's search engine because that thing prints money". Then he did this super exaggerated gesture and noise imitating a money machine printing money.

At the time that was a super disappointing answer to me because as an intern within the Bing division I really felt like there was this culture of "Bing is better and it's not our fault Google is beating us". To see Ballmer not use the question as an opportunity to talk about ways Microsoft could improve felt like seeing the source of that cultural problem.

The other was from an intern event with Phil Spencer. Phil Spencer at the time was the head of Xbox's Games Division, but not yet the head of Xbox. Spencer said he was in Ballmer's office one day and Ballmer asked him "Why don't you just make the games that sell?"
They don't want people using it while plugged in. They care more about how that would look antiquated than they do about convenience.
any chance of this supporting wikilinks and back references?
>additionally the total investment about doubles in roughly 5 years

According to data at FRED (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS), the median US home price has gone from $320k to $420k in the past 5 years (an increase of around 30%).

So, I guess good for you that you happen to have done so much better than the median, but your results are atypical at best, and misleading at worst.
No, a thousand times no. That thinking has rightfully been placed in the waste bin of history. How about we deal with systemic inequality and raise the standard of living for everyone, so folks don't grow up in desperate situations, and families and communities have enough resources to take care of themselves
> Servers make minimum wage in WA, but you weren't a server. I also don't tip if I order at a register.

And I assume you do not expect any non-required service from those transactions. Which is understandable, yet different from:

>> We'd even have it ready for him before he showed up so he never had to wait!

If this additional service were provided during your patronage, would that warrant a tip even though interaction was at a register?
Very rarely do the people working full time on a framework/tool also use that framework/tool in a non-toy setting. They aren't working two full time jobs after all.
I learn a lot of stuff of my own but I have to admit for almost everything in hind sight I probably would of been better off doing it the proper way. There is no better setting than a classroom, that meets regularly, with an experienced professional who takes the art of teaching seriously showing you how to do something and being surrounded by other beginners and watching their mistakes.
Forester’s longer fiction is well worth it too. It’s been years since I read Howard’s End and Leonard Bast still haunts me.
They can be even more reliable. And they definitely _are_ expensive.

> Major car components like doors or front axles are assembled in parallel

And doors (and tailgates) are the biggest body component that is _sometimes_ assembled independently. Then workers manually route cables through the body.

Pre-routing cables inside panels that can then just be welded together can save a lot of labor.
Not a lawyer, but that’s how I understand it. In the Citizens United case the Supreme Court has given corporations free speech rights. Included in that right is the right to state an opinion. And when you develop an algorithm that promotes content you’re implicitly saying is “better” or “more relevant” or however the algorithm ranks it, that’s you providing an opinion via that algorithm.
two_dimensional_scrollables is a first-party package by the Flutter team that implements table views and tree views:
https://pub.dev/packages/two_dimensional_scrollables
Now I feel bad.
Last modified a year ago - is it still maintained?
My window manager had the “before” behavior, but I complained it was defective and they gave it to me free. Not sure how much it would have cost beforehand, but I can’t complain after a 100% discount, right?
Mr. Bezos has told others involved with The Post that he is interested in expanding The Post’s audience among conservatives, according to a person familiar with the matter. He has appointed Mr. Lewis — a chief executive who previously worked at the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal — and has informed Mr. Lewis that he wants more conservative writers on the opinion section, the person said. -- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/business/media/washington-post-presidential-endorsement.html

He is making a serious play to capture an audience from the other half of the country. There is no way to do that without losing a painful share of his current reach.
I did not meant to start a pissing contest, I thought the biggest idea was that Flutter isn't 35yo and because of it, it's more likely to drastically change, and in a fast way too.
First-come-first-serve is overrated and unfair when it comes to online platforms. They devolve to a lottery that is won by whoever gets their request into the server first. Lotteries that are intended to be such are a fair and equitable way to distribute the right to purchase tickets at below-market rates. It gives you a built-in waitlist too: if you can’t go, tickets are refunded and distributed to the next potential buyer until an actual buyer is found.
Popular time for voting vs posting are not the same
Starter motor, power steering, heated seats, powerful headlights, power-hungry onboard computers.

They _all_ benefit from 48V.
If you're writing for an audience outside of India you might want to explain what ₹9 lakh equates to, as both the value of ₹1 and the magnitude of the lakh are probably unfamiliar.

(Apparently that's 9x10^5 INR, or in the neighborhood of 10,000€ or $10,000. If you're curious about this system of naming and writing numbers used in India and other countries in the region, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#Use_of... will get you started)
I'm pretty sure that everyone who reads him for his knowledge would agree that the research (even if from his own past writings), formatting, illustration of his many threads take him much more time than the one-up replies.

They're also pretty easy to ignore (unless you somehow feel offended by them), and mainly appear on people's feeds because of how retweeted they are.
I listened to this series as an audiobook and I enjoyed it a lot. I prefer reading to listening but this one worked really well and has a great narrator. It's a good series too, simple fun with decent jokes and a well paced plot.
There’s a reason it’s heavily underused. So many frameworks and libraries provide robust, style-able validation capabilities, some with very sophisticated and extendable functionality. Don’t torture yourself if you don’t have to.
Default UI configuration in LibreCalc is such that until recently it always resulted in enraged searching of the MS Office support status in Wine.

Funnily enough recently I found out the UI style switch and lo and behold, when you switch from default to emulating Excel 2007 ribbon, the critical "cell data type" button is front and center just like it was in every version of excel since 1997 that I have used.
Most "passive income" schemes are really just front loading all of the work. Producing way more than you consume in return, and then collecting the benefit later.