skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your point in saying that credit cards and BNPL are different. But I think its very inaccurate to say that credit cards do not change customer's purchase decisions. Pre-credit cards you had to pay in cash or a check. Cash has the excellent value of you can't spend more than you brought with you. It limits spending to a pre-thought out amount.

Ever go out on the town and realize you spent more than you expected. Or look at your balance at the end of the month and have to look through to figure out how you spent $1000 more than normal? (I know I have, maybe I'm the weird one, but I doubt it).

And I think in that way, BNPL does have similarities. It allows you to spend more than you planned because you don't have to think about your limitations in the moment.
It's browsers all the way down
hard agree. also especially brutal if you have to enclose it in strings like this, meaning you need to write an extension/language server to get this to have any semblance of a good developer experience
I have the same worry. Another example: Is furniture nowadays more beautiful and durable than it used to be 100 years ago? Is there more variety now? Not in my book. Same goes for a lot of products that are now produced in the cheapest way possible at scale.

Looks very much like a race to the bottom dominated by a few big players to me. Consumers don't seem to care that much.
All these advances and yet we're still going to ruin them all with ads. What a bright future
Apple and Google's CEO salary is what?
No, you're trying to muddy waters that are objectively clear. It is objectively clear that Exxon knew that their activity was causing climate change. It is objectively clear that climate change, if left unchecked, would lead to the destruction of society and in the most extreme cases, the extinction of humanity. If they didn't know that, why did they start a 50 year campaign to discredit such claims?

If a corporation was considering a direction where they knew this would be the case ahead of time, there is no conflict or disagreement possible that this direction should not be taken, even if it would decrease shareholder value. Calling the notion that corporations should be obliged to consider whether their activities would lead to the destruction of society a dictatorship is frankly ridiculous.

If a corporation becomes aware of the destructiveness of their activities after they're already entrenched in the economy, then they should have a legal obligation to report this fact to regulators immediately, regardless of its impact on shareholder value. Any obfuscation or delay should be met with severe punitive measures, up to an including dissolution of the corporation and nationalization of its assets.

That would properly realign corporate incentives with transparency and working to benefit society, at least in these extreme cases.
I think you’d be constantly doing that for like two days. Then you would adapt and stop using the wrong hand. (Provided that you don’t use another keyboard simultaneously that let’s you keep going with the old habit.)
Wow I remember that.
If we're talking contract law traditionally you only get damages that get you where you would have been if the contract wasn't breached.

Leaving your job caused you a lot of harm, but if Meta could have honored the contract and still cause you significant harm (i.e. fire you one second after you began work) that isn't Meta's problem. (There might be some exceptions to this in some state's that require good faith and fair dealing.)

That said that's traditional contract law, I don't know labor law.

I'm just saying I think the need to show damages is going to limit what you can recover.
I do not see the fact that writing out one's thoughts as prose is one of the best and one of the only methods of comprehensively assessing any complex concept. What are the other methods that are not derivatives of "writing your thoughts down?" There are none I can think of right now. Compex anything left as "thoughts" and/or only verbalized is too easy to gloss over critical points that are easily focused upon when written down.

The fact that students and many people cannot write is because their thoughts are a disorganized mess, only held together by the self deception they are not a mess. Yet, attempting to write down their thoughts, the disorganization is easily seen and then they organize their thoughts through the process of writing legible prose. Writing is how many organize their thinking, and if they never wrote they'd never organize their thoughts.
Let us consider what it cost MLK, and whether we demand that of everybody.

I favor applauding people for speaking out in risky circumstances. Condemning them for failing to risk what we need not is questionable.
> I don't know it strikes me as reactionary.

Why is that a problem? At this point in the game most things that need to be done to address climate change and pollution are reactionary.

> If this comes down to CO2 there are bigger fish to fry, no?

You can say that about almost anything. There's always "bigger fish to fry", but that doesn't mean we should only ever deal with the "biggest fish". We regulate car emissions even though ships and airplanes are arguably the "bigger fish". We prosecute thefts even though most people would consider prosecuting murders the "bigger fish".
Yeah, but that’s more expensive. Farming corps aren’t going to just accept that and open their wallets. Profit is everything for them.
Rebecca is sponsored by Colgate watch this commercial to send her the 100,000th message she gets today and never even will see.
Presumably it was only offered on high density 1.2 MB 5.25" floppies, so not that bad compared to the 1.68 MB weirdo DMF-formatted 3.5" floppies Windows 95 was normally delivered on.

Still, would be interesting to see a photo of those 5.25" Windows 95 disks.

(https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-95/rtm has three dumps of 5.25" 1.2 MB disks.)
> Roll on May 2023

More like 2027. Keep in mind the GDPR became effective in 2018 and it took just now for Facebook's blatant breach of it to finally be ruled in breach despite this being obvious with just a casual reading of the regulation.
It’s my understanding that its more like GPT3.5 since it was fine tuned on human feedback
Maybe let's wait until people get good at using it?

It's been like a 1.5 months since it was released.

For me I am doing a lot my writing with it becuase my writing is worse than mediocre.

As long as you don't expect it to know things off the bat, it has a decent memory, though seems to be unaware of what it knows e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34370057)

So you can just feed it the good info, get it to update things with more context and it will spit out pretty decent prose (though you have to ask to for it to be well written).
Follow-up video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3szJ67iM1E&t=1s

Apparently, Strava rolled out these increases with no explanation or notice to users. And oddly, they refuse to tell journalists what the official subscription fees will be, leaving it to the journalists to dig around and figure it out on their own.

I understand prices have to go up to pay for hosting and development, but this is a weird one. Massive increase, no new features announced, and next to zero communication from the company.
My favorite floating point weirdness is that 0.1 can't be exactly represented in floating point.
I googled first one on that list and there were the top hits

https://neurosciencenews.com/omega-oils-reading-memory-child...

" New research has found no evidence Omega-3 fish oil supplements help aid or improve the reading ability or memory function of underperforming school-children."

Fish oil supplements may not improve memory

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/fish-oil-...

Omega-3s Don't Seem to Affect Brain Health

https://www.livescience.com/36456-omega-3s-fish-oil-brain-he...
Is this the sort of thing you feel is worth someone else's time and effort, or do you think it's meaningful enough to consume some of your own? If the latter you can offer to do it, if the former you can pound sand.
This was a concern for me but when the Remote Ruby devs had the AlpineJS guy on last year, he mentioned that you can pull them apart into data components, which provides a separation that I found quite tidy. Did you check this out and find it unsatisfactory?

https://alpinejs.dev/globals/alpine-data
I hear ya. Agile really made working in software unpleasant. I long for the time the team had a simple spreadsheet of items to work on. So much more efficient.
If http://floppy.museum/files/httpd.bat is up-to-date then the DOS HTTPD is listening on port 82, so there's a middlebox doing something.
Chiang is absolutely amazing, and my only criticism of him is that he needs to write MORE!

Hell is the Absence of God is probably my all-time favorite spec-fic story (from his other anthology, Stories of Your Life). The dude's fiction is phenomenal.
When two AIs talk to each other they often end up developing their own private language.
How long until all conversations will start looking like they're authored by the same person?
Get a helpdesk job, work your way up into IT, take on projects as you learn. Youll be a Dev in no time. It doesnt take many special smarts and youll eventually find out that 90+% of people working in tech have no CS degree or educational background in tech. And actually a ton of the work is just "plumbing". Most of the job is not fancy advanced algorithms and almost all of the practical learning takes place on the job. the stuff a person learns in school has almost no relation to actual every day work in tech.

Just get an IT/Helpdesk job and you will have a tech career in a few years. It worked for me, and most of the Devs/SREs/SeniorIT/Networking people I know.
I personally like your original paragraph because it may not be perfect it has flavor. If everyone started using AI to fix their paragraph then text will become boring because it would all be of similar style. It would be like reading one long continuous book written by the same author.

Imagine if restaurants all started using AI to cook their food. It would destroy the taste of food because no matter where you go the food will always taste the same. The great thing about restaurants is you could go to two different pizza places on the same street and order the same type of pizza and they would both taste different. Now imagine if AI got a hold of the recipe and made the pizza at both places. They would turn out same and taste the same.

How is that better?
No it can't but most work does not worth that too.
More context at https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=29969359
I like refactoring to make it look more elegant.
> I don’t understand the need to pretend like C++ isn’t a minefield of complexity (especially compared to C).

C++ is a minefield. So is C though. Comparatively they're pretty much in the same boat for me. Sorry I guess?
I'm pretty sure that's the whole point of courts. For accusations to be worked out.
Presumably we'll observe something akin to Michael Keaton's character in the movie "Multiplicity" where by the third or fourth generation, the defects are noticeably amplified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTuCxwZi4sw
Maybe hitting some hiring target?
And OCR and diff it, possibly?
The problem is that the guys that send dick pics to complete strangers and women that are just surfing for free meals are still out there. They pollute the entire experience by having a large number of low-effort interactions, and in the donation model they are just going to be a net sink of resources and good will.

I don't think online dating gets any better until someone devises a means to bias against people that aren't acting in good faith. Of course the challenge here is that you're going to be hard pressed to find a strong consensus on what actions do or do not constitute good faith in a dating app.
If someone gave me a big bag of money then working on a better dating site would probably be what I'd do with it. I think it's very hard pull off as a "personal project" though, because a dating site needs people to be useful and attracting people is neither free nor easy. And you also need some form of "content control" to weed out the dickpics and other assorted assholery, which is also neither free nor easy.

> Of course, the whole premise of dating sites is wrong. The best way to make connections is in person, by going places regularly and seeing the same people frequently... building some non-romantic connections first which may grow into something more. Dating sites assume that if "I think I like you" and "you think you like me" then we are a match!. This sets up big expectations too soon...

In principle, I guess, but my experience is that many social spaces of all types are overwhelmingly male. There are probably some commentaries to be made about that, but I'm not sure what.

And while it can set up certain expectations, I don't think that needs to be a bad thing, necessarily.
> Sorry, I beg to differ. C is a simple language.

The problem with C is that it so simple that it is simple to complain about it.

Other languages hide their quirks deeper down and are harder to complain about.
“the vast majority of doctors would have any knowledge on today, most would consider it ridiculous despite thousands of papers on this topic with growing evidence”

Are doctors, as a group, becoming stupider? I’m not trying to troll by asking that question. I legitimately feel, as a patient of a large HMO, that the doctors I interact with aren’t very bright, making frequent mistakes about stuff they could google as quickly as they give out wrong information, but instead confidently insist upon something they’re misremembering or have never learned correctly in the first place. It feels like the profession has been optimizing for the wrong things: quick recall of a breadth of information rather than a scientific orientation towards the work. Perhaps I’m just seeing downstream effects of the reform of health economics in the last decade. Perhaps it’s elite overproduction. In any case reading the featured article, I’m just not at all optimistic about current medical practices experiencing any sort of kuhnian paradigm shift. They can’t even get the basics right, and seem prone to extreme group think bordering on religiosity.
I heard a talk by a Singles guru a long time ago, and the brutal logic of male-female dating is as true as it ever was:

* Younger men far outnumber younger women

* Older women far outnumber older men

This is a very shallow article and actually wrong. Dating success stories, i.e. "word of mouth" is the most powerful form of marketing.

As a personal anecdote, FWIW, I tried JDate even though I'm not Jewish, because a friend met his wife there.
ChatGPT seems a little too clever to stick to that script, though. Soon it will learn to answer like the rest of us do:

1. What we discussed I was going to work on yesterday.

2. Continue to do my job.

3. Of course not. If I did, I would have made it known long before this.
Almost all the fuel needed to reach orbit is used getting to 5 miles per second. Catching the skyhook needs none of that fuel, but only whatever is needed to get to altitude.

I.e., Blue Origin's pogo stick, or Virgin Atlantic's tour bus, would suffice. The requirements on such a vehicle are massively less than for an orbital launcher.
How does the floor rate make it a less terrible credit card?
That's precisely my issue with React though - JSX is a DSL that looks almost like normal HTML, but differs in small uncanny-valley ways. Sure, it's fine once you're used to it. But it's very much not standard HTML.
> There was a videogame

Game Dev Tycoon
yeah right? doesn't the kernel have a test suite?
"Significant" improvement? Really? They're almost the same but ChatGPT version removed some of the nuance such as `"approved"` vs `reviewed and approved`. I prefer the human-written version even with the grammar errors.
Tuberculosis? Gonorhoea? MRSA in hospitals?
Why not the streaming model? Seems like it'd work nicely with subscription.

Always thought the appeal of Stadia could have been I could try a large variety of games on any platform and not have to deal with installing them (especially for AAA games, though indie games can also get giant).
Yes, you're right. I would delete this post, but I cannot anymore.
10000 is already a significant number for vehicle weighs in America. Some places charge higher taxes and require special permits for vehicles over 10000 lb when used commercially.
Yet. It hasn't killed anything worth preserving yet.

But as it improves, and it will improve, it will create so much nonsense content online, kill off many starter writing jobs, etc etc to the point where its effects will definitely kill off things that in the long run may be worth preserving.

To me the way to look at all of this is looking forward, not what happened last week. Just because a major illness hasn't killed you yet doesn't mean it won't in the future. Important to look at the trajectory and slope of the line of change.
That's me... I loved coding, I did it in my spare time. Then I got a job it's been downhill since then. I thought maybe I was a junior. Then I thought I was at the wrong company. Then I told him maybe I was working in the role or programming stack?.

But that's not it, I like writing code, I like refactoring code, I like debugging code but I don't like that it'd be held as a knife to my throat every day forever.

At my job there has never been a slow day. At one of my past job our manager had to go for 2 weeks and that was the most productive we had ever been. We shipped more , built more , collaborated more, and it all felt like a breeze.

Right now I feel as engineers we have been subjugated to being a coding monkey. You are told what to do, when to do, how to do and how much you should have done by now. You are monitored, of made to dance, and forced to be glad that you even have the chance.

I've spoken to people who have been in the industry for 10 15 years and they say this was not how it used to be
> For a slightly higher cost...

> I don't understand this factory farm model

Seems to me like you understand it just fine. Or maybe you are underestimating the cost difference or people's ability/willingness to spend more on these items.
Both were pretty bad. Even when I know I want something that should be easy I often cannot find it. Thing like account balance are just to hard to get - and then instead of a balance they finally give me a long set of numbers that include balance, but also the last payment, last 10 charges... Thus making it take too long to get what I really want.
Maybe most of the contemporary practice of 'software engineering' is playing house.

For example, "refactoring" used to mean a kind of later code changes to a working system, and tools to support it. Now I more often hear of it being used to mean what I'll call "fudge-factoring", to try to finish or redo a mess the same person made (possibly the previous week) so that they could pretend a sprint task was done, for metrics/peer-pressure reasons.

Genuine software engineering is hard, but there are crafts to it, and you can find satisfaction and even aesthetic appeal in the crafts. And it can let you accomplish things that you either couldn't accomplish otherwise, or couldn't accomplish as easily.

Maybe a comparison with programming is helpful. Programming is hard, but there's satisfying craft to it when you're doing it well, and when things come together.

Now imagine the programming is being done badly -- most of your time is spent debugging, structural changes to the immediate code base are difficult, the tools are lousy, you have to spend other time figuring out some low-quality bureaucracy bloat other people made, people who don't know what they're doing have created a lot of wrong-headed theatre around pretending to address these programming-level problems, etc.

That programming done badly is a lot like software engineering being done badly.

Could a mythical software engineering done well be what you want? What if it wasn't piles of bureaucracy, but some magic professionalism that extended what you could accomplish with programming, removing some limits you found on what you could build before?
That scene has long had the "janky but really fast translation" niche and the "good but takes a couple of days" niche. From what little I experienced of the former, people who cared about translation quality probably weren't using it anyway.

I've been away from all that for rather a long time, so I don't know. Still, I'd guess these robo-subtitles are probably replacing the "fast and bad" niche. The "slow and good" niche seems like it could survive.
I’ve worked at about 10 companies and half of them didn’t have the soul sucking processes (though all of them did have process).

The correlation I see is big companies have processes that kill productivity, though I did work for a big company that was able to avoid it for a long time (new leadership did end up killing productivity right before I left).

And for what it’s worth there was no correlation with “agile”. I’ve seen good and bad agile.
1) If everyone on the app finds great matches, everyone will stop using the app, and therein kill the possibility of the company in making a profit.

2) They laid off developers to save money, and desktop apps can be hacked to get around paywalls and user controls a lot more easily than on mobile apps, so getting rid f desktop apps always looks like a win for a software maker.

3) There is so much competition with expensive cloud host overhead that if a company can gaslight users into thinking that their app is worth money, they push it all the way in a bid to maximize their traditionally weak earnings on the deceptively small user bases they have... They also create tons of fake accounts and profiles to also emulate that they are running vibrant communities.
Sure, no news in any official capacity if you ignore

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety

https://twitter.com/TwitterMktgJP

https://twitter.com/TwitterMktgUK

https://twitter.com/TwitterMktgKR

https://twitter.com/TwitterEng

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport

https://twitter.com/TwitterBusiness

https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes

https://twitter.com/TwitterMktgDACH

https://twitter.com/Policy

https://twitter.com/twitter

I don't understand why you'd make up a claim like this that's easily disproven.
Sure, just submit a "Ask HN: What is your experience running Splunk?" and point me to it. I'm sure you'll get all kinds of horror stories aside from mine
True, and this has real effects on jobs.

There was a similar dynamic with translation market and Google Translate. It didn't matter that human translation was superior. What mattered was that Google Translate (or similar) brought down prices so much that it effectively destroyed the market for everyday-type of translations. Why? Because customers said that, well, just use Google Translate and then improve it a bit.
you definitely see this in the translation industry. neural net machine translation misses enough nuance that it can't replace a human translator where it really matters, but it 'looks right' enough to convince clients that it can.

as a result, it's a lot harder to make a living as a freelance translator these days - there are fewer jobs and what jobs exist are often proofreading machine translations, which command lower rates because 'the machine did most of the work already,' even though they often require full rewrites.

at the same time, human translation quality has gone down too, since a lot of people will pass off machine translation as their own work, and when rates are too low, you can't spend too much time on any particular job.
Food delivery apps in Europe (Deliveroo, Lieferando, etc) take Klarna, which is BNPL. And people use it.

Its absurdly common.
I was just going to say this too: JSX is a DSL. And a particularly screwy one!