skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big difference still between "easy" and "easier than it ever has been."

Rather than having a company with gazillions of layers of management tell me what my options are for everything outside of the work that is my direct responsibility, I can choose which things I care about and how much and pull those levers myself, either doing them or hiring them done.
I think this is the key reason why going hybrid native with a lightweight WebView was needed at Notion. If there was a ProseMirror-like standard library for rich text editor available for crossplatform, with:

- Native editor for IOS
- Native editor for Android
- Native editor for Web
- Electron/Native desktop, etc...

These editor can share code via a clean architecture inspired state plugin hyerachy that's swappable (i.e, a shared provider that swap out state and data routing per platform). Then with metro or esbuild you can selectively prune the code branch. The UI can be done in RN-web if lazy or straight up native code. It doesn't matter at this level.

Then, anyone who wanted to clone Notion can consume this component in their RN app. However, this is against Notion interest atm afaik, since Notion must keeps its advantage (make it harder for people to clone Notion). I'd argue it will try to shutdown such an initiative until it found a better way to have an edge on these competitor (or maybe shift to a new market)
In the spirit of the article, how do you start your own community these days? I think it was phpbb that was popular last time I checked (perhaps 15 y ago).
The Sparrow with Four Sexes – IFLScience
Mini brains grown from stem cells developed eye-like features (2021)
>That still hasn't happened.

Chromebooks are at around 10-20% of laptop sales, running Android (based on Linux)
we got so greedy we broke the universe...
You mean this one? https://www.hybridcalisthenics.com/programs

I love how each exercise has a difficulty "slider" so you can choose the one variation that fits your current fitness level. Really good shit!
Some time ago I discovered a health issue with me and it prompted me to spend a lot of time trying to understand how proper nutrition should look like.

I discovered that almost everything I have been taught, told by doctors or red on the internet about proper nutrition is lies. And those likes usually have intelligently sounding papers behind them that are not worth the paper they are printed on. And then repeated ad nauseam by thousands of health "experts" that do not seem to be really concerned about validity of any of it other than their personal life goals.

Like the lies that you should eat breakfast to start your day or multiple meals or that fats are bad for your health or that you should limit intake of salt as much as possible. Or that you have to avoid foods that have cholesterol in them. Or that whole grain bread is healthier than the one made from white flour (it is not). Or that you need to eat fiber to have healthy gut flora or to avoid constipation (I have mercilessly removed all carbs of any kind from my diet for over a month and my gut flora is perfectly ok and there is no constipation).

You know, all that stuff that we have been bombarded with from childhood.

I know all about correlation and causation (actually, I studied theoretical math and have a lot of experience with statistics. I have even given a lecture on logic to first year students once when I was asked to do it by my prof).

Let's just say, there is a lot more ways to make improper than proper inferences from your study. And that saying you know about causation absolutely does not mean the person who did the study actually understands it and took it into account properly. And also that a lot of people start with an opinion or a vested interest to show a particular result and then are trying hard to prove what they already "know".

In the end the problem is that all those people who make those studies are forced to crank out results or perish in their field. Conducting a study very carefully and honestly costs many times more effort than just getting it to a point where somebody will take and publish it.
The practical problem is resource scarcity. We're already destroying our only planet with 7 billion people living only 72 years on average. If we manage to get through the problems we've already created, it'll be a miracle, and it is safe to say that without a lot of other problems besides longevity being solved, there is zero chance that a significantly larger population would make it.

And those problems have to be solved first, we couldn't just say "well, let's multiply the population, then figure out what to do about it later".

I'm also very skeptical that, given an indefinitely extended lifespan, people would suddenly do all of those nice-sounding things you list. More likely they'd just do the exact same things they do now, for longer.

It sort of reminds me of the philosophy around the early internet: imagine if people could get access to all information and communicate with anyone, anywhere. Imagine how smart we'll become, how civilized! That's what we thought would happen, but look at what we actually did: yell at each other and watch porn. My guess is that if we lived forever, we wouldn't suddenly become interesting, enlightened people if we weren't already.
Just a reminder that no one knows what’s going to happen economically. Fred Wilson’s predictions are as valuable as yours or mine.

People guess, people hope, people pump, people with influence try to make it so, and statistically some will be right because when all possible outcomes are predicted then sure someone will have luckily hit the mark.

I have friends who constantly read financial news and are constantly predicting the future and telling me and I keep saying “no one knows”, and my friends keep updating their predictions.

When VC’s tell you that they predict that seed valuations will be $10M, that’s price anchoring, not prediction.
You haven’t really provided any examples. You talk about Star Citizen, which is a very controversy laden community and that is mostly composed of non-programmers. It is probably the gaming community I would expect to find the most cynicism. Programming is like many things and online communities are formed of many different personalities. Programming is particularly accessible to younger people in ways other engineering fields are not, or at least as readily. There are also many different skills levels of people that participate in programming communities.

But then you talk about using obtuse terminology as a virtue signal of intelligence or something. Have you read historical, literary, or other analysis / commentary texts? Such terminology abounds in those communities, are they immature?

The Internet is just a weird place, which is just a reflection of how people are.
Hmm, I had not thought about it in this way - this is an interesting way of looking at it, to have a VM which allows various languages to I guess compile down to a shared code.

I guess WASM is also then in a way going to help with this?

Never heard of GraalVM, looking at the python example it does not feel hugely ergonomic, to pass in strings / files and specify a language...

Are people using this today?
Or climatologists for that matter.
Sorry, my bad. I misremembered. It's just Docker the thing I read about people having issues with.
US life expectancy is dropping.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...

And if life expectancy for a few elites is increasing, that means it's decreasing even more for the rest of us, given the trends.
I am pretty into investing and for the past two years have been doing it almost solely on the basis of macro principles.

Inflation in the last 6 months in the US, as measured by the Fed’s CPI, has been about 2%. All the higher inflation headlines are simply comparing the CPI 12 months ago to today, but the fact of the matter is ever since June/July CPI’s annualized inflation is already at roughly 4% or lower. The Fed may not raise interest rates more than 0.5% above where they are today. If they stop there, the recession risk is IMO minimal because employment metrics are still very strong.

Almost all journalists do not know or understand this, which is why a lot are hand wringing that rates may need to raise much more from where they are today (to Volcker levels) to combat inflation, because from their perspective we have raised them so much only for inflation to have gone down by a third. What they don’t realize is we are already past the inflection point, and interest rate swaps aren’t pricing in much more increases. At least in the US, IMO the risk of a recession is minimal
There are plenty of proprietary source code leaks, and those are technically "source available" since the source is available, but that is not a recommended practice.
Disagree on a few counts in no particular order.

Climate: Big oil is back as Exxon and Chevron record record profits and plan share buybacks for the next 5 years with their cash firehose. This reflects the reality that just 4% of car production in the US is EV, no matter anyone’s preferences.

Web3 is dead, thank god. Long live blockchain and other exciting cryptographic tech that will create fundamental value.

The VC market I am not part of as an investor or raiser. But now that we are seeing the highest interest rates in most investor’s lifetime, there are many attractive alternatives to startups and startups have become riskier with the cost of borrowing increased. So I predict a wave of failures as private companies aren’t able to raise at their risk level and fail.

I think large tech stocks will go sideways at best, for the next year at least, as the ending of global QE dries up liquidity and that lack of liquidity and high interest rates are reflected in the market overall. PEs of 60 or more are a thing of the past.

I also think that negative net income tech is in for a massive fall because risk is off and strong cash flow is on.

Central banks may not stop raising rates in early 2023 and at the very least QE is over. This is a tectonic global macro shift that is going to result in short and medium term instability and several large organizational and systemic failures around the world in 2023.
LastPass password vaults crackable for $100, alleges 1Password
The 40 people living on that acre demand more local government services (schools, libraries, fire/police protection, etc.) which are paid for with property taxes (in general) than the empty acre does.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ is opening on Airtel and Jio, without any issue. No VPN or DoH set.
You were clear. I was agreeing with you.
Did you have issues getting paid on upwork?
> Wouldn't the only loss be from the re-encoding

Which is pretty dramatic, assuming you don't want absurdly large files.

Where do you see webrips in 2022? Looking on BTN, I only see webrips for public broadcast content that literally nobody cares about. Everything else is decrypted streams (WEB-DL).

The big p2p groups with WV keys are decrypting just about everything, scene groups desperate for a reason to exist after getting utterly outdone by the p2p crowd are releasing webrips of content nobody wants.
Most of the code is here:
https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/tree/main/apps/web

We're in the process of moving components out in to their own package so they can be shared between different clients. https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/tree/main/packages

We use next js but is in the process of migrating the backend code to a node service
Isn’t the biggest research topic in Alzheimer’s the questioning of the amyloid hypothesis?
I wouldn't call it baseless ...
> Then everyone - the sellers, the agents, even the bank - push you to borrow the max allowed and spend it.

You are not forced to spend above your ability to pay. People used to be ok with buying smaller homes, or in less hip neighborhoods. If you can afford a $500k house you can also afford a $350k house. People need to stop making excuses for living above their means.
I think the mass exodus of employees is proving that they were not ending up better off, or at least not nearly to the extent their employers were. That's precisely the point.

IF both parties were actually better off, people wouldn't leave and stay gone. They might strike out, thinking the grass was greener, but they'd be back in short order.

That they're leaving and staying gone shows that the reality wasn't living up to the theory.
I don't know what that means, but that's on me, not on you. If you want to explain it, feel free, but no obligation.
It's not just online, even in person, programmers display low maturity when it comes to arguments over tech. This used to be less of a thing many years ago, but is more common nowadays.

Some reasons:

- The field skews young. Like it or not, younger people are more obnoxious and doctrinaire than people with more experience.

- It used to be that the field attracted people who loved technology for its own sake and loved creating things (there was not much social cachet or recognition). But now it increasingly attracts people who are much more competitive and feel the need to project confidence to the point of being arrogant (any field that throws off large amounts of money eventually attracts these types). They are drawn to the money, recognition or a religious zeal to 'change the world'.

- Technical decisions such as libraries/languages/frameworks to pick are often the only avenues for self-expression and autonomy that are left in modern companies. Product Managers are often non-technical (still!) and tend to infantilize programmers. Programmers, despite making more money than other functions and providing obvious value and leverage, still have much lower standing in companies.

- Religion has disappeared from most people's lives, and for many, the religious fervor is replaced by fervor of a different kind. This is also why SJWs have proliferated everywhere. People need to believe and act on their beliefs.
>Most people would not be able to procreate - the world would overcrowd.

This isn't quite true. Suppose no one dies. Starting from a population of 10 billion, suppose every person can have one child.

The population after one iteration is 15 billion. If those 5 billion then each have one child, the next iteration's population is 17.5 billion. This converges to 2x the original population. In fact, so long as not everyone has 2 kids, it will converge to a finite value.

(Edit: also, this problem takes places on the timescale of HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of years. The year 2500 is not going to look like today.)

>The really bad people of history could find themselves in permanent long-lasting power (think Putin for a modern example).

In many cases, dictatorships do not end with the dictator's old age. This is true both in the sense that they sometimes die early, and in the sense that they're prone to dynasties. The system of a dictatorship already has agelessness, just not indestructibility.

>I think you can come up with 100 reasons why curing death would be bad.

You can indeed do that, but it's worth keeping the screaming torture of the default in perspective. It's really hard to do worse than aging. I wouldn't want to see my parents wither, suffer, and die. I don't want to die knowing my children would wither, suffer, and die. I don't want you to wither, suffer, and die. I don't want people to have to grieve the loss of their loved ones.

We can just... get rid of the ultrabadness, and have more of the good things. There are new problems that would have to be addressed, but they are addressable! Sometimes, things just aren't that complicated.
Not opening for me
Migrating a large, open-source React application to Next.js and Vercel
/api/foo -> fooApi()

You don't need to test the call to /api/foo, you only need to test the call to fooApi(). It doesn't/shouldn't require a http server to do that. Just call the function directly.

If you want to test that /api/foo exists, that is essentially a different test and only requires a mock version of fooApi(), because you've already tested fooApi() separately above.

The benefit of this approach is that your tests run a lot faster (and easier) not having to spin up an entire http server, just to test the function.

As for the middleware... that is also tested separately from the business logic. You don't want to tie your business logic to the middleware, now do you? That creates a whole dependency chain that is even harder to test.
Well I recently home-made a player piano [1] this will be perfect for it :D
Thanks !

[1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atJ_YsPFDjQ
The GOP isn't always wrong.
Creating a Production-Ready Public API Using Serverless
I started working on a project to solve this exact issue https://github.com/mburst/protomolecule. I haven't spent too much time building out other frameworks, but the first framework is React + Express which fits what you're looking for
I agree with the sentiment of the title but this is a terrible article that doesn't go into any depth and adds nothing to the conversation.

> The decline of Twitter

What evidence is there that Twitter is declining? If anything it seems Twitter usage has increased under Musk.

> (I swear, if I see anyone tweeting out 4,000 characters, that is an immediate block)

How can someone talk about the need to bring back long-form content while simultaneously saying they'd block someone who writes long-form content? Doesn't make any sense to me. I've always thought the Twitter character limit was stupid as it eliminates the ability to write long form content on Twitter, and I'm happy Musk is finally going to eliminate this artificial restriction.

There will always be a place for blogging, but the problem with it is lack of discoverability and conversation (sure you can add a comments section, but most people won't take the time to register for an account on your site just to write a comment on your blog post). Ultimately people write to get read, and social media gets more eyeballs.

I don't think blogging will ever be more than a niche thing due to this lack of discoverability. Solve the discoverability aspect, and you've basically reinvented web 2.0 social media
I think the research topic is to determine whether amyloid is a cause or symptom of the disease. It seems to me the test would be useful in either instance?
>But in this case the Fed is quite clearly aiming to orchestrate a spike in the unemployment rate

While this might be technically true in the sense that they're trying to fight inflation by tightening monetary policy, and that has the effect of slowing economic activity and driving up unemployment, I dislike the framing because it implies that the fed wants to high unemployment as some sort of end goal, as if they have some sort of diabolical agenda to oppress workers or whatever.
> an essential mechanism

It's not essential though, is the point.

We can do better than the sloppy process of evolution.
> I don't think I said any of those.

You didn't, and you didn't leave the impression of having done so; it's just me poking to understand.

> like who is in charge of performance reviews for who

These are the kinds of things I'm trying to challenge: Are performance reviews useful? Would performance reviews actually be more useful in some other structure than a classic hierarchy?

In other words, I'm not convinced beyond all reasonable doubt that the classic hierarchy is the optimal structure for the limited, but useful purpose you describe it having. Obviously the standard thinking is that it is.

> It is not sufficient in the slightest to describe how a company makes decisions, yet too many people treat it as if it is all you need to know.

Completely agreed.
> in-orbit inference engines on satellites, so processing on vast gobs of data can happen without beaming the reams of data down.

It’s a good idea, and I bet folks like Cloudflare that already operate Edge Compute platforms will have a head-start here.
For me it was this:

> Normal purposeful speech makes different opinions closer, while speech under the feedback of the like button makes similar opinions even closer and different opinions further apart.

But there is another aspect to the complexities here.

Years ago, I started thinking of the LIKE/UPVOTE button as an "increase visibility" button.

I don't upvote just because I like it (humor perhaps being an exception).

Often, I'm not upvoting just the comments I like: I'm upvoting the whole containing _thread_, including the conflicting views if they seem to have been made in good faith.

Because when good quality discourse takes place, I want the whole instance to be seen.

In these cases, the intended audience of my upvotes is most immediately the algorithm (in a way), rather than human viewers.

Sometimes I've found myself wishing my upvotes could be made invisible to humans since I know many of them will interpret my upvote differently than intended. There is no nuance.

It gets me wondering how feedback mechanisms might be diversified to add nuance back into these systems (while still moderating complexity).

Emoticons (as on Slack) do add nuance, but every emoticon pack I've seen lacks nuance most in neutral and critical responses.

Of course, no technology we have now can compare with verbal discourse for nuance. But you and I are more likely to be able to influence feedback features on social media than to succeed in eliminating them.
I doubt that’s what happened at the Star Citizen sub-reddit … Also, this is interesting but there are just a lot of young people in programming forums being a bit immature. If you go to CppCon or GDC or some other tech conference, you don’t get the same discourse as in forums.
Running can also be very high impact on joints and if a person hasn't moved around much for quite some time might be asking them to do more than they are ready for.
Is there no way to create a layer above the two runtimes which made it feel as though they are running on the same process?

> having a way to share access to functions and data

This is spot on, what I would like to achieve - to share data across the two languages by throwing variables around and the same with ops/functions on that data.

Under the hood, they could be running 100% separately but the code base would feel as though they are not.
Ehhh… loans are of course an important part of the books, as is profit, but I would hold that profit/loan payments is an obscure and unhelpful metric that a competent analyst is unlikely to utilize.
+1 for Ekel-Alfred
For example, it fully ignores the large transfer of money from the federal government to government employees in Blue eastern seaboard states. The fed is a huge employer in many blue states. See also other methodological criticisms in this thread (e.g., its criteria for dependency is just wrong -- should be absolute Fed dollars spend per capita, but is instead percentage of spend). It also ignores the benefits to higher fed tax-paying states of having the lower-paying states in the union, which are not captured solely in tax flows.
This app got me out of my fitness rut from remote work and I’m now training for a half Ironman. Highly highly recommend it!
Honest question here, do you think Twitter will be around in 2-5 years?
Do you do just regular push ups? They quickly become too easy to provide load, and target very few muscles (low pecks and triceps mainly), so some variety is likely needed. I add dips, diver-bomber and tyson push ups.

The same is probably for pull ups, you can add chin ups at least on every other day.
1. Maybe, but I’m sure there’s more that I want to do in life than what I listed out in about 10 minutes

2. My point isn’t that they should experience those things, it’s that there’s so much to experience.

3. What’s the point of anything?

4. When I think of the relationships in my life that went too long or too short, the ones that went on for too long I don’t feel too bad about. The ones that went too short are a completely different class - I feel far more regret and sadness.
It dropped over the past 2 years due to COVID. In general it's on an upward trend.