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The main reason is that zoning makes it impossible to build them in most places. That has recently changed in CA and the amount of permits submitted for ADUs has increased by multiple magnitudes in the last 5 years (in certain locales, LA being one).

They don’t suck to live in. I would much rather live in an open floor plan. Maybe your needs are different and you need privacy within the common areas of your house, but not everyone has those same needs.

You can’t compare Diablo Canyon to this situation.

Diablo Canyon has a power output of 2,256MW vs 18MW for this tiny dam. This dam is many magnitudes smaller.

The benefit of keeping the minuscule power output vs ecosystem damage and maintenance leans heavily towards removal.

Because "there might be bloat in some companies" is not a very useful, interesting, or enlightening comment. Almost every large company in the world will have some "bloat"

Also, "How does Company X have Y engineers? What do they all do?" Is one of the most common and annoying comments that constantly appear in HN threads.

Burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Someone’s Twitter account is not proof.

Shelter is included in core inflation.

Where in my post does it say that inflation is just fine? The point is that the crazy 15% numbers we are seeing are mostly due to energy prices, which are extremely volatile.

We should strive to get an accurate picture of the current state of affairs, not be overly optimistic or pessimistic.

As the other poster pointed out, that's primarily due to the energy costs and those will most likely come down. For a more accurate look at inflation, you should look at core CPI which excludes energy and food which can be volatile. This number is closer to around 5% in most of Europe.

That's literally how the market is supposed to work and it's not a bad thing. This is not some conspiracy. Companies price test all the time. They will increase the prices until either the consumer won't purchase their product or a competitor comes in and undercuts them. Sometimes the market conditions favor the consumer, sometimes they favor the company.

Seriously, this situation is so rare that it was posted on HN. If this was a common experience, nobody would give a shit.

This posting is obviously fake and anybody that orders this device kinda deserves to be scammed (not really, nobody deserves that, but still... c'mon).

Adding liquidity to the real estate market is actually a good thing.

It's not even doomer, it's just plain wrong and not based in reality whatsoever.

React is a framework though.

The main differentiator between the two is Inversion of Control.

React developers write their code to be called by the React application. You aren't choosing to include React or not (what you would do with a library), your whole frontend application is built within the context of the React environment in which it will run.

> And then if a car even dares to accidentally not see them because they sat in their blind spot they flip a shit

Oh god, that is the most annoying complaint I ever hear. Such a common post on any moto-focused discussion site. Usually involves an idiot on a bike cruising next to a car and then overreacting when the car begins to merge into their lane. Happens all the fucking time if you've ridden for longer than a day. Get over it and get better at anticipating it.

Two rules of riding that have kept me safe for a couple hundred thousand miles of riding:

1. Always assume the cars next to you will merge into your lane.

2. ABP, Always Be Passing. Going at the flow of traffic is dangerous. Going slower than traffic is even more dangerous.

You do realize there are billionares in the food / agriculture business too, right?

The “community” is not a good gauge as to which tech will succeed or fail. Go back to the early HN days and read the comments on the iPhone release posts.

Meta is going for the same exact play as Apple did with smartphones, but with VR.

They understand the downsides of being tied to ad revenue more than anyone else. They want to make money from Oculus Store and headset sales, just like Apple does with App Store and iPhone.

It's an especially stupid thing to point out when that's not the case here, as OP points out. Like, why even mention it then? There is enough negativity/pessimism around, no reason to add to it.

It depends on what you think is important, but there is a lot more happening today in addressing our problems than back in 2013 or 2003, imo.

I think many can agree that climate change is one of the higher priority efforts, and in the last few years, we've seen some major progress.

In the US, renewables make up the vast majority of new generating capacity, by far and solar deployments are growing at a rapid pace. We were still deploying significant amounts of coal plants 10 years ago, nowadays, it's basically zero. [https://www.seia.org/solar-industry-research-data]. China has doubled its solar deployments in the last year.

Wind deployments are accelerating [https://www.iea.org/reports/wind-electricity]

EVs are gaining marketshare at a fast pace, many countries/states are banning ICE sales in the near future. [https://www.virta.global/en/global-electric-vehicle-market]

Cost of lithium batteries has fallen by 89% since 2010 [https://cleanpower.org/facts/clean-energy-storage/]

US passed the IRA which has the potential to really accelerate these changes.

Still not enough of course, but we are seeing significant progress compared to 2013.

React is coming up on 10 years since its release. That world you describe is far from reality nowadays.

Are you suggesting that requiring React experience for a job where you will use React is not a reasonable ask?

> It's like you're saying we should learn about how the immune system works from an interview with an anti-vaxxer.

I think a more relevant comparison is learning how the economy works from a goldbug.

Also, what is it with economics that makes people so susceptible to these contrarian views that have been proven to be bullshit?

I'm not an expert in the field, but I've had an interest in it since I was a teenager. I've read books, I listen to podcasts, I've watched videos, I read the economist. I have an ok understanding of how things work. But I don't delude myself into thinking that I have anywhere near the required knowledge to actually hold a strong opinion on these matters. Yet, so many of these people are convinced that their opinions made up of fringe ideas from YouTube videos are the definitive truth.

Any complex topic discussed in the public sphere will not be satisfying. Economics is especially bad since everyone, for some reason, thinks they're an expert in the topic and will argue in favor of the last popular idea they heard from their favorite internet economist.

How do you know it’s astroturfing? I see this claim about comments on Reddit all the time. Most of the time it is just fan boys in my experience.

Shit, I’ve been called a troll for X-cause or a corporate shill for company-Y.

If I disagree with this person, they most be a troll.

If this person is defending a COMPANY they must be a shill.

Not saying it doesn’t happen ever, but I think people are a lot worse at identifying that stuff than they think they are.

Swipe down on the home screen and type in the app name.

I think both things can be true. Large entities, no matter private or public, suffer from inefficiency. But, private entities have more control over the allocation of their resources.

With a private enterprise, you have stakeholders at the top that can single-handedly reallocate resources to/away from endeavors as needed. Within government, that can be a lot more difficult as resource allocation is more complex with many more stakeholders and layers of bureaucracy. This is especially true in democracies where changes have to be approved by either the citizens or partisan groups within congress whose goals may be in direct contradiction to the success of your organization.

What are you working on? Without knowing your use-case or what your codebase looks like, I have no idea if the problem is with other devs, or you are just blind to the insanity that is your codebase.

Not saying that latter is the case here, but I've ran into devs maintaining some monstrosity and then complaining about others pushing for off-the-shelf solutions not realizing that nobody wants to spend time learning some bespoke system they created that's not actually as great as they think it is.

The purpose of the more complicated solutions is to build something that will be maintained for a long time where complexity will grow, and usually, require multiple contributors.

I can bang out a basic landing page site in a few hours that will be extremely performant while pulling in zero libraries. But I would never want to maintain that over any extended period of time or added complexity.

I pointed out some changes that are addressed by HEN in a reply to another post, but here are some others that would help.

The funny thing is that HN doesn't even adhere to the basic UX practices that many around here constantly complain about in new design like knowing what is clickable.

Take a look at each story list item on the front page, what do you think is clickable? Everything in the subheading is formatted exactly the same, but not everything is clickable. Same goes for the headings of each comment in a thread. And I think HN's violation of this is especially egregious since the formatting of these things aren't just the same, but they are greyed out. That's a pretty universal sign that something is not clickable. This is 100% confusing to new users.

This one is a bit more difficult to implement without a lot of JS, but one thing that I have run into many times is reading through a comment thread, trying to reply, realizing I'm not logged in, logging in, losing context of where I was, scrolling through the thread trying to find where that comment was, giving up and not commenting.

In addition to that, not remembering which comment threads have been collapsed. Accidentally navigate away? Good look finding your place again, especially if there were many new comments added.

The mobile experience can be summed up as "very precise clicking"

I think the top menu items are also named in a weird manner. Why does comments take you to a list of random comments in chronological order? How is that useful? You would expect that link to take you to your profiles comments, but no, that's the "threads" link. There is a lot of that on HN where things are (imo, purposely) obscure. I get why they would do it, but let's not pretend it's a good experience.

HN caters to the most technically literate community on the internet. They will figure out how to use this site no matter if you had to navigate the site via the terminal (some would probably prefer that "NO JS!"). We've all gotten used to how the site works, we ignore all of its issues because we've adjusted our habits to work around those issues.

And I'm not saying HN has terrible UX (there are actually many things we can learn from it) but it's definitely not the site I reference when I need inspiration for a good experience.

Reddit's redesign sucks not because of new features or modern frameworks, but because they don't care about the web experience and spend all of their effort funneling users into their mobile app.

If the "skins" were just preferential type changes, that would be one thing. But many of the fixes within HN Enhancement Suite are basic UI fixes.

Making links in profiles and text posts clickable. That's like the most basic thing you can do for your users.

Adding the ability to collapse a massive comment thread without having to scroll to the top. Also, indent guides (especially needed for the massive threads around here). Shit, HN didn't even have collapsible comments for the longest time.

Being able to comment inline and not having to navigate to a separate page where you lose context of the surrounding discussion.

Highlighting new comments since you last viewed a thread.

These are all basic things that HES addresses, there are many more I can point out. I'm not trying to insult the admins, I think they do an amazing job of running the site, but let's not pretend HN is some pinnacle of UX design. We are all just very used to it.