skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're happy, then live your life, man. We're all weirdos in our own ways.

The advantage of VC etc. is that if you have objectives for your company that you can accelerate with money, then you can do that faster than if you do it solo. That's useful because the only really irreplaceable resource on the personal scale is time.

But if you feel fulfilled doing your thing then maybe live it. There's hundreds of businesses of this size that can live forever because the TAM isn't high enough. And anyone who attempts venture scale in those will just fail. So this could be a very rational decision.

Enjoy and congrats!
Off-topic but "confusopoly" maybe Scott Adams true contribution to human understanding. IIRR he wrote a comic management book and dropped in a throwaway line and invented the term.
Trafficked people?
Environmentalists or local manufacturers might also think dropping prices are bad ?.

Local firms can compete better if cost of imports are higher .

Similarly less goods will be imported if costs are high , therefore less emissions.
CLT.
Discord itself says this in their welcome messages but they used to be a game development studio that tried to develop an mobile MOBA game called Fates Forever back in 2014. However they found VOIP software to be pretty problematic and pivoted to develop VOIP software for gamers. Now they're a very popular chat client.

https://discord.fandom.com/wiki/Discord#:~:text=Advertisemen....
It didn't do well in the USA because it didn't run C64 software. Plus it changed the ports so you couldn't use C64 devices on them.

Commodore made the C16 and Plus/4 to compete with the Atari 8bit series in the USA and Sinclar in the UK.
there’s nothing boomer about it.

for me algorithms are wrong far more often than human recommendations. it’s not even close.

i go to my local music store or friends and get almost consistently solid recs while youtube’s and spotify’s are just ridiculously bad.

same with movies, books, restaurants, etc… recs from people i know are just better. even better when the people are wonks, e.g., recs from actual film geeks rarely let me down.

and it’s a significant difference. it isn’t even close.

liek 6 months ago i completely switched to solely human recommendations and it’s drastically improved not only what i consume, but it’s been kinda rad to to find those kind of connections again.
> "negotiation_arrangement": "ffs"

Negotiation arrangement: for fuck’s sake
> The article talks about why: it does reduce the consumption of soda pop, but people substitute the sugar intake by consuming other sugary foods. They also travel to neighboring towns without the tax.

It's also entirely inconsistent; in Boulder they tax the normal stuff like coke and sprite but will exempt for San Peligrino but then also tax Oceanspray juice. Personally, I've always thought it was a lot like the pervasive green-washing that takes place there as an additional stream of revenue in already bloated bureaucratic system.

I only ever drank kombucha or Water from the SafewayKingsoopers/WF etc... in town anyhow so it never really affected me; but when I think of just how obtuse it is I start to realize how it's a targeted tax on those with poor diets with no real discernible metric for success, it's merely there to self-perpetuate a bad system as poorer people will continue to eat poorly with less expendable income to buy better products as a result of the tax.

The US is obese, and despite Boulder being the time the most healthiest city in the US most of when I lived there it was still clear to see how the economic divide play out where it's most clearest: grocery stores. And it was clear that it was heavily biased to those with larger wages who could fit in 4-5 day workouts per week and the occasional hike and eating from organic sourced restaurants.

If we had a universal healthcare system I would totally be in favour of this, despite being in the lower income level most of time there (boot-strapping founder) I was still on the 'healthiest' demographic but without a clear actionable plan to a desirable end this is one of those 'road to hell are paved with good intention' scenarios.
Go to you list of cookies and tell me which ones keep me logged in to $service. That's hard! Theybset so many. Sometimes even through other domains.
Very clever, but there is more than one city in the USA and, in fact, the world. Current trend is for people to choose to move from towns and villages - where detached housing is the norm - to cities where apartments are more common.
Can't relate. I've spent a lot of time aggressively tuning my YouTube and TikTok recommendations using the "not interested" button and now 90% of the videos on my homepage are 10/10 bangers.

Try opening YouTube in incognito and watching the first 10 videos. You'll cringe so hard that your body will be twisted up like a pretzel.
I agree with your premise that this should apply to candy and cookies.

I also like your idea of keeping things simple. The hard part, as always, are the edge cases. If the tax is associated directly with sugar in some manner than diet sodas won't be taxed. Another possible albeit silly argument is why not tax sugars in fruit?

Note: Im a software engineer. Not a dietician. I really don't know a detailed difference between artificial sugars and natural sugars or how our bodies process them.
Yes, when it works it is great. But when it does not it is insanely hard to debug.
> I think mass timber is only used in fancy commercial or institutional buildings

Very common in new apartment buildings in Europe and becoming more so.
They're built (more like assembled) faster than concrete or metal
Especially when it comes to fundamental research a lot of work is "useless" until it isn't. This idea of picking winners before people even start at a college is not the way to go.

Many people would argue that linguistics is one of those useless studies compared to comp sci, but it shares deep connections to research in logic and by extension type theory (see handbook for logic and languages)
For some context -

>>https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/x6xdk0/the_whole_han...
Dumping money in STEM probably does do something, we're all just biased over the CS portion of things - which yea, is a mess.

But for subjects like Civil, Electrical, sciences like Physics, Biology, I suspect the story is quite different.
Oops, thanks for the catch re: the spaces. Looks like I can't edit the comment anymore though.

That said, I'd say going from a SaaS model where you charge companies or universities $40k/year to access software that they provide free to students/workers is very different from a mobile app that does real-time dispatch / pickup inside a city and you charge the consumer directly. Different customer, different business model, different offering.
Only purpose of this kind of initiative is to cause trouble.. Marketed by the same trolls who spread medical disinfo, climate negationism, Russian propaganda..
At the time of writing this, this "article" is #1 on HN default sort. It's an incredibly short, and fluffy post (self reported as a 3 minute read), with little more substance than an urban dictionary listing. I'm baffled.

On the topic of yak shaving though: I recently felt like I wanted to do more technical writing. The prerequisites of this idea involved building a static site generator and redesigning my website. While building the SSG, I of course imagined all the features that would be expected, a tagging system, JSON output in addition to markdown rendering, custom syntax highlighting for codeblocks etc etc. I had that idea at least 1-2 years ago, and I've only recently written my first post within the past 2 months. I think I enjoy tinkering with build systems much more than writing.
15-20% of what comes from the state? If you are talking about funding, wouldn't that count as the state subsidizing it?
Memory is where you store data
You can but that doesn't send the same message. The point is to tell the companies "We want your service but we believe the price is unreasonable." Cancelling the service fails to achieve that.

Also, this isn't stealing. It's negotiating. Withholding payment until you get what you need is a very common tactic in business. There's no reason why consumers shouldn't be able to use it too.
People are really out here thinking that arts and critical theory haven't advanced human civilization... and that science and technology exist in a cultural vacuum.
Its unfortunate, but almost inevitable. Eric Roberts wrote about CS' latest rise 6 years ago [1]. Looking at its prior "peaks", its always come down to a resource issue - there's simply not enough space for everyone. As a consequence, schools started to do several things: A) Limit enrollment to the better prepared; B) Increase retraining for other STEM instructors/teachers to teach CS; or C) increase enrollment to unmanageable standards (my Intro to AI course has grown in the past 3 years from 45, to 80, to 120 next spring).

Each has their own downfalls - higher enrollment requirements limit lower socioeconomic students, retraining programs cost money and can produce subpar instructors (2 month retraining PD vs a 2 year), and increased teaching loads make becoming an instructor unattractive. It doesn't help that CS PhDs are highly sought after by large tech corporations, pay MUCH more, and with less work (maybe).

We haven't really solved how to teach CS, problem solving is still a difficult thing for humans to learn and we don't really have a better way to teach it. Even if we include all the current "soft skills", at the end of the day problem solving is the trait many companies want.

If history repeats itself, the CS bubble will burst. Not necessarily plummeting, but new students seeking STEM careers will pick programs without as many barriers of entry or low quality instruction. I don't really have a solution to the problem, just acknowledging that the issues the domain will face as enrollment continues to increase.

[1] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/CSCapacity/
I asked what this was a few hours ago and the answer made top HN post. This whole thing is amusing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32746200

Oh well, back to yak having under the bike shed.
There is only one country that invaded a sovereign nation.

No amount of "propaganda" will remove that fact.
Take shaving makes me think of a call stack. The larger the stack, the more you are shaving the yak.
> Never fix a bug and refactor in the same pull request.

We’re kinda going the opposite way: If you find something that should be fixed, then fix it.

This is, of course, meant for small things, like renaming or rewriting expressions to make them more readable. But we have had to make this change, because our experience is this is necessary to avoid code rot.
> I think it would make sense to have hybrid steel-wood buildings

Why? What advantages do you imagine come from not using wood?
> Production use of the software requires a commercial license from Lightbend

I.e. it's not free anymore. That's what the title should say, instead we get an history lesson.
Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, raises $4.6M
So you're suggesting that people eliminate all direct human contact just to avoid a minor respiratory virus with a >99% survival rate? It's sad to see people fall into mental illnesses like germophobia.

https://www.verywellmind.com/diagnosing-a-specific-phobia-26...
Though I believe all these companies still make these products. They have simply expanded into other sectors.
that's more of an historical quirk

perfumes and recipes are not copyrightable either. It's because theses issues have been setteled in court in better times before media got in bed with politicians and lobbied til they got their monopoly
> Perhaps we could create a "stupid eater law" for medicare/medicaid, forcing obese people etc to pay for their own private health insurance

That might be a good idea after we make sure that every single person has equal access to healthy foods and equal ability to afford healthier options. Maybe we could also ban companies from adding HFCS to everything, ban advertising of any unhealthy foods, fine people for not wearing masks or vaccinating their babies, and police what people are allowed to have in their refrigerators so we can punish anyone who has too many unhealthy foods in their home!

Or... maybe we can let doctors and scientists figure out what the best ways to combat the obesity problem are and try to find ways to help people instead of punishing them while in the meantime making sure everyone has access to the care that they need. If we had universal healthcare the costs for your family would the same as everyone else no matter if you or the next person drinks, or smokes, or likes rock climbing, or plays sports, or drives more than x number of miles in a year, or has more than x number of sexual partners, or doesn't exercise at least x number of hours a day and nobody would have to go around spying on everybody to make sure they aren't doing anything that might raise someone else's costs "or else".
Huh. 8 or 9 years ago I visited somebody in a hospital in rural India (maybe 100km from Hubli), and this was definitely not the case. A man was being ejected (after intake!) from the hospital with acute appendicitis because he and his family was unable to pay. There were probably 3 nurses in the hospital and 40 patients over several floors. The degraded ductwork and disgusting window mount aircon looked like legionnaires disease would kill anybody who could afford to stay.

Has a lot changed in the last decade? Is the “good” healthcare just in wealthier areas? Was this just an extreme outlier?

Obviously, this is just one (anec)datapoint.
Desktop link -

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/x6xdk0/the_whole_han...
tl;dr: It's changing from the Apache License, which is FOSS, to the Business Source License, which is neither free nor open source.

Hopefully someone starts a copyleft fork of the last FOSS version of Akka and drives Lightbend out of business with it.
Nah, goodbye to Vancouver Island. And goodbye to you.
How long will it take to rebuild or refurbish every steel manufacturer
The frustrating thing isn't the small problems, in chasing these small problems one might find a big one that isn't as easy to fix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
How did you get YouTube to stop recommending videos you’ve already seen?
I wonder if it plays the delightful chimes you hear when you pull into a station.
The other side I see to this is that if I don’t refactor this code, who will?

I guess that opens the debate to does the code actually need to be refactored? Sometimes not, but I have a very hard time leaving a 2000 line function alone, or a class with many levels of unnecessary inheritance.

What I’ve started to think is that there are people who get things done, and people who refactor.

People who get things done ship code fast. The good ones know when to make trade offs of purity vs practicality. The bad ones write unmaintainable code. They tend to view programming as a job, and code quality as a burden. They may refactor and make unrelated improvements, but it’s uncommon.

People who refactor still get things done, but most of their work have rabbit holes tacked on. They delivered a bug fix, but they also greatly improved the test suite and tooling. They tend to value purity, best practices, and might view programming as a craft/art. The good refactorers make the high value changes that are a net benefit to the team; they might care about cleaning up important parts of the code, improving developer experience, or adding test coverage to critical functions. The bad refactorers rewrite a bunch of code because it wasn’t pure, and the team, customers, and business have no observable effect from it.

I think teams need both kinds of people on it. Too many doers will lead to fast progress at first, but eventually grind to a haunt. I felt this was a HUGE problem at my team in AWS, and a major factor of why I left.

Too many refactorers is equally problematic. Your code will be of great quality, but velocity will be unacceptable for the business.

I personally am a refactorer. probably more of a bad refactorer than good, but it’s something I’m working on.

Maybe this is a rationalization for my behavior so that I believe it’s important, but my time at AWS shipping 3 features a year with a team of 16 says that code quality really does matter.
A ‘doomsday glacier’ the size of Florida is disintegrating faster than thought
People, especially parents, with religious faith do not view it this way. It is not "force" to hand down our faith and inculcate our children with values based on loving God and loving neighbor. Only viewed from the outside does this appear to have some kind of coercivity or violence associated with it. On the contrary, we view this as the most precious gift we can give to a child.

I endured more than my fair share of childhood trauma. Yet, my adoptive parents presented me in church for baptism and the other sacraments. We attended Mass on a regular basis. We were sent to Catholic school and taught to cherish high moral standards for ourselves and our friends. I rejected this all for over 11 years, but I came to see the wisdom and value in such an upbringing. Now I accept the Christian faith voluntarily, with free will; there is no force or coercion or violence involved.
In the particular case of refactoring, I don't think this is a good idea. I can understand that multi-file system reorganization refactorings shouldn't be done with simple changes, but small enough refactorings can easily happen when working on a piece of code.
That is because-

- You have the best mental model about a piece of code and its system the best when you are working on it, not when you read a ticket description of what should happen. This leads to overall better efficiency and less context switching.

- I think that the principles of "leave things better than you first found them" and "with every not-so-minor change, one should think about how would you architect the system the best way possible at this current time" great principles.

- I find that "Refactoring sprints" never really work great. They tend to be inefficient and rarely prioritized tasks by the management. As developers we have responsibility over code and make sure that its in the best state possible as an implicit description of our profession.

Even though it pays to be focused, I think there is merit in the exploration of code-base as it helps figure out new ideas and avenues of improvement.
1) Julia will be my primary programming language for the foreseeable future. However, I am invested in a large CL project that has been on hiatus for a couple years, that will be starting back up soon. I will however only be working on that during our monthly meetings. I don't see new projects being developed in CL, though.

2) The Vim plugins only support SLIME, not Sly, which offers many more features I simply can't live without, such as stickers. Additionally, indentation in Vim cannot be made dynamic. That is, for every macro you write, you are forced to edit a flat file that describes the proper indentation rules. I have a couple thousand lines of my Vim configuration dedicated to working in CL, and it still isn't good enough, compared to the experience in Emacs. And yes, there are countless bugs that don't exist in Emacs/Sly.

3) Yes, I read that post and some others. Bugs like the AbstractArray usage are programmer errors, nothing to do with the language. Julia is 1-indexed by default, but with libraries such as OffsetArrays.jl and CircularArrays.jl an AbstractArray can be indexed at 0. I shrugged most of this post off, because I don't see them as correctness bugs in the language proper. As for the TTFX (time to first plot/execution) as noted in the other article, that is a problem that is actively being worked on currently by Tim Holy, and it's not really an issue if you build your own image anyway, only when you are compiling the code each time you start up your fresh image.
I'm mostly interested why the USA suddenly becomes pro-worker when it comes to this expensive and inefficient healthcare system they have. I swear you could be talking to the most hardline GOP guy who wouldn't spit on a trade unionist if they were on fire ... but if you mention, say, single-payer healthcare they'll start weeping for the all the workers in hospitals' billing departments and in health insurance companies who will lose their jobs.

I mean I don't want anyone suffering either (one would hope you'd have adequate social safety net to take care of these people until they find another job) but it's such a bizarre exemption to carve out
More cynicism is warranted here. "Platform companies" like Google and Apple love it when users fail to understand how their devices work, because they get locked-in to the plaftorms. This is the successful end result of a long campaign of deliberate miseducation of users.
> But for subjects like Civil, Electrical, sciences like Physics, Biology, I suspect the story is quite different.

I can speak to Biology; most undergrads are left with little opportunity as most roles require a graduate degree to do anything meaningful when the economy is actually favorable, and often seek roles outside of their field when it's not. As a undergrad that was lucky enough to enter the field in the wake of the GFC long enough to just pay off my student debt I've met so many biologists/biochemists who either couldn't find anything in their field, or simply gave up trying and sought the highest paid and somewhat stable role they could get 'that required a degree.' It's quite clear that the system has failed, and the system is designed to onboard more STEM grads as it sounds as their are ever-growing holders of degrees chasing so n amount of open roles.

Tech in unique in that it is one of those few Industries where the barrier of entry is rather low, but the attrition and competence level vets for viable candidates almost entirely on it's own--the gatekeeping interview process is still an unnecessary hurdle.

Personally, for all the controversy Eric Weinstein has made directly and indirectly of his own actions, the concept of Embedded Growth Obligations was incredibly well researched and consistent with what we have seen as outlined since 2005 and then solidified itself in the financial collapse of 2008 [0]:

> Embedded Growth Obligations are the way in which institutions plan their future predicated on legacies of growth. And since the period between the end of World War II in 1945 and the early 70s had such an unusually beautiful growth regime, many of our institutions became predicated upon low-variance technology-led, stable, broadly distributed growth. Now, this is a world we have not seen in an organic way since the early 1970s, and yet, because it was embedded in our institutions, what we have is a world in which the expectation is still present in the form of an embedded growth obligation. That is, the pension plans, the corporate ladders, are all still built very much around a world that has long since vanished.

We have effectively become a Growth Cargo Cult. That is, once upon a time, planes used to land in the Pacific, let's say, during World War II, and Indigenous people looked at the air strips and the behavior of the air traffic controllers, and they've been mimicking those behaviors in the years since as ritual, but the planes no longer land. Well, in large measure, our institutions are built for a world in which growth doesn't happen in the same way anymore.

0: https://theportal.wiki/wiki/Embedded_Growth_Obligations