skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you bought a Model Y a week ago, I'm especially sorry. Even people who bought a Model 3 LR when it was discounted in December just got hosed, 7-10K or thereabouts.

Oh well, that's part of what happens when the manufacturer is also the only seller.

Interestingly, when GM did something similar to 2022 Bolt customers, they cut them a check to make them feel better about the slashed price on the 2023 model. Tesla definitely won't do any such thing, of course. Most manufacturers probably wouldn't. It's interesting that GM chose to.

I'm also seeing some regret on the part of Ioniq 5 owners who say they'd have bought a Model Y at this price instead of the I5. It's interesting how many people bought competing EVs just because Tesla was too expensive.
If something makes it to the front of HackerNews it usually isn't worthless clickbait (unless it's about some esoteric niche programming tool)
Lmao wtf
Indeed, 0.1 can be represented exactly in decimal floating point, and can't be represented in binary fixed point. It's just that fractional values are currently almost always represented using binary floating point, so the two get conflated.
> The deal was reported to be valued at $700 million over 20 years, in comparison to the $116 million paid by Staples under its previous 20-year agreement.

Somehow I doubt they will get better offer for resale than that old Staples deal.
chatgpt isn't a search engine, ask it questions about a topic you know about and you'll quickly figure out it's very good at shaping BS into something believable
You're being down-voted, but you're describing exactly how the U.S. handles outbreaks like this. The avian flu egg shortage is a good example [1][2]

I'm not saying those rules are bad, I honestly don't know, but I do wonder how necessary they would be if high concentration livestock operations weren't so prevalent in the U.S.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2022-2023/nearin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza#Culling
So the media should assume bad faith on the part of Republicans in particular, and call out that bad faith as though it were fact? Or is there some objective case that can be made that the Republicans are acting in bad faith that doesn't apply equally as well to Democrats?
It helps that CDBaby was handling a lot of stuff that musicians didn't want to do themselves. They were happy to outsource it. If the alternative were easy, people would already have done it.

That wasn't what CDBaby lost to. They lost to the fact that CDs disappeared. CDBaby had a great business, removing a pain point, and they could genuinely want that pain point to go away entirely.

Such are the best possible businesses, genuinely caring about your customers while having enough moat to avoid being undercut tomorrow. Not all businesses can do that, regardless of the best intentions of management.
> There were times later on when I made most of my income from writing, so I'm sure she was wrong.

Or you were just really bad at everything else you could do.
I've desperately searched for one, but I can't find anything. Stimulus[0] I believe is compatible with CSP, but I've found that it's more work than just writing vanilla JS.

I've heard good things about mithril, but I've never tried it.

[0] https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/
Relevant: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... (maybe Amex developers stopped reading before reaching 31)
It has the sheen of knowledge, but assume these instructions to GPT:

"write a glowing review of product X, assuming you are an Y using it in your line of work as Z"

the output will look better than printf("Template blah %s with %s and %s is really good, check out our website %s, use coupon code %s");

but it's not necessarily better.
Most people cannot tell their ass form their face when it comes to this kind of stuff, so the reviews are completely useless. They will rate the craftman who is the most sympathetic to them as the best and most reliable one, yet he might be the one who uses the cheapest materials and does work in such a way that it looks good at first but has no permanence, or in such a way that if you need to ever do repairs you have to tear everything us because everything is glued/cemented together.
Break? I don't agree.

Change, sure. We've had browserify, parcel, rollup, webpack. Then the next wave hit with snowpack, esbuild, vite, lasso, turbopack etc.

There's a few that have hung around like rollup and webpack, but there's definitely a constant feel of chasing the dragon when it comes to js bundlers/builds, if not JS tooling as a whole.
> It's usually only needed when adding billions of values together and the accumulated truncation errors would be at an unacceptable level.

OTOH, it’s easy to implement, so I have a couple of functions to do it easily, and I got quite a lot of use out of them. It’s probably overkill sometimes, but sometimes it’s useful.
> Searle's Chinese Room is becoming very relevant.

It's been relevant to Philosophy of Mind and Strong AI circles of Computer Science ever since it was published in 1980. I can't recall who, but an academic quipped around 2010 that, paraphrasing, the last 30 years of discussions of Artificial Intelligence has been dominated by arguments trying to prove that Searle's Chinese Room is wrong.
{foo && bar} is just JavaScript.
One of the valid reasons for using BNPL is furniture purchases - I don't want to pay 1000 bucks upfront for shit that might be broken or not delivered on time. Although that depends on sellers integrating BNPL and being fine with it. And still doesn't justify a 46B valuation.
>they wouldn't bother taint their results.

Results are tainted by default. The simplest dating app is a random number generator attached to a list of user IDs. This probably performs badly. (But who knows? Maybe build it and see what happens!)

The question is simply whether there is really a deliberate, focused effort to identify who gets into long-term relationships and to replicate the conditions that lead to such relationships. If dating sites were actually trying to help their customers, they would do this; someone would have worked on it; there would be an internal lore about what was learned from these attempts. The absence of any of this shows that it just isn't a priority, and that's enough.

>Dominating the dating site market is a money printing machine

One problem with modern dating is that people don't have a potential partner's reputation to go on as much as they used to. Relationships formed "through friends" have declined significantly, in tandem with a decline in friendships themselves. But this decline in friendships also poses a problem for any word-of-mouth dating site marketing strategy. People who have lots of friends are probably the least likely to benefit from dating apps, but they're the most likely to hear about the hypothetical "good dating app".

I don't actually know how most of my friends met their partners — even people who I know many other things about. It's in my mind as an awkward question. Furthermore, most long-term relationships in my friend group are older than most dating apps. It would inevitably take years to build a reputation as a dating site that does this, because you don't know if you have a stable relationship until it stands the test of time. But investors generally aren't so patient.
Makes no difference if cooking on earth though
I really wish I had known about that a few years ago.
Exactly. What we’ve done is not lower the quality bar on “excellent”, we’ve actually raised the quality bar on “cheap”.
Technically this steals energy from the binary pair, not the black hole itself, but yes it's a potential power source for a sufficiently advanced civilization.
Those boring canned responses (your sendup is absolutely hilarious by the way) are why I've always enjoyed Kimi Raikkonen's deadpan responses

Interviewer: “The most exciting moment during the race weekend?”

Kimi Raikkonen: “I think so it’s the race start, always.”

Interviewer: “The most boring?”

Kimi Raikkonen: “Now.”
I believe that the term you were looking for was toponymy, avoids the awkwardness of "geography, but off-earth": and join Pluto on the toponymic B-team.
Yes, but jsx is compiled/transpiled/transform, so it is never exposed in the served html. The end-user just sees normal html.
There's absolutely beautiful and durable furniture available, it's just a lot more expensive than Ikea. There's a local place that makes furniture on-demand; as far as I can tell, the quality is great, but we're talking $8–10k for a dining table. That segment of the market still exists and I don't see it going anywhere.

Cheap, mass-produced furniture has taken the bottom of the market but there really is a wide variety available today.
Let's not use "AI" to mean "machines."
Related: In numerical analysis, I found the distinction between forwards and backwards numerical error to be an interesting concept. The forwards error initially seems like the only right kind, but is often impossible to keep small in numerical linear algebra. In particular, Singular Value Decomposition cannot be computed with small forwards error. But the SVD can be computed with small backwards error.

Also: The JSON example is nasty. Should IDs then always be strings?
Love it. I actually use Excel which even power users take for granted to highlight that people really need to understand the underlying system, or the system needs to have guard rails to prevent people from stubbing their toes. Microsoft even had to write a page explaining what might happen [1] with floating point wierdness.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/f...
Twitter was a different shop back then — You could literally jump on a call with Ev et al (and even humans at Google when it came to Android) but while significant decisions were made at the time, it's nothing more than a melancholic blip in tech history.
Strangely enough, I'm working on a new product in this space but it won't touch Twitter's API for sure :)
Recast/Detour crowd navigation running in the browswer
"Typically" isn't good enough though. If you have a hot, summer thunderstorm with no sun but still 100F+ temperatures, someone needs to create that energy for the air conditioners.

So the peaker-gas plant still have to be built, and then run at a lower utilization / less profits, for the community.

Either that, or accept that everyone loses power / not enough AC during those times. I've been to the Philippines, some people can live like that (intermittent utilities: sometimes you have running water / electricity, sometimes you don't) but its not the standard of living USA is used to.
The more esoteric the information I'm asking the more likely it will tell me something that sounds right but all the specifics are wrong.

As a test I asked for the world record speedrun for pokemon yellow, it made up a time associated with a runner who didn't exist yet the time was still rough 20 minute ballpark of what the any% time was in 2021. Bizarre stuff.

I expect it will raise up a lot of writing to low bar of competent but voiceless. Which would actually be an improvement on many SEO spam blogs.
Mental Cryptography and Good Passwords
Anyone seen a poll from Musk on this matter?
I feel the same way. In my experience doing software development consulting, this is the difference between a startup (5-25 people) versus a larger org (75+ people). The bigger orgs are all too happy to saddle you with endless meetings and agile busywork to the point that you're only actually coding about 5 hours a week.

Startups on the other hand don't have time for all the bullshit because they're going to run out of money if they don't actually deliver. It's more stressful, more chaotic, but also more fun.
I’ve seen the market thing play out first hand : my former company was dominant in France ( in a tiny niche market )

But that was bringing just enough to get by. Then we expanded to Italy and Germany with great effort. Each country was a whole new market with different regulations, customer expectations and so on.

We ended up spreading ourself very thin.

In insight, we also made mistakes, but that was not helping that each next 500 deployment was a large, hard to quantify effort.
Another difference is that BNPL doesn't positively (or negatively) affect your credit.[1] I'm not sure how that affects any bubble though.

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/will-a-buy-now-pay-...
Another great thing is combos where you press two or more keys at the same time to produce another key.

So you can have keys like escape, enter, ctrl or similar right on the home-row.
The Twitter app just got an update that makes it easier to switch to the chronological timeline, and it appears to actually stick now. (At least it has so far).

Doesn't avoid the ads though, which are still ubiquitous.
I am not saying they have to be completely up to date, just that they must keep up with many advancements because they can fail these tests.

That said you can read up on all the latest research for a condition because you don’t care about all the other research. Doctors can’t get away with such a limited focus.
Subtitles have never been better idk what you're smoking
Big Pharma Pushes Drugs over Lifestyle for Obese Kids [video][6 Mins]
jobs talking about exactly that with regards to Xerox. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NlBjNmXvqIM
Why stop at C-suite? A bunch of chatGPT agents working together could operate a company fully automated.
Interesting synopsis and confirms something I've always felt: There was never really a plurality of web browsers, there was always one that held an outsized majority vs the rest and drove web development practice. The closest, perhaps, was a brief period before Chrome became dominate and IE was waning fast, where I believe Safari, Firefox, and Chrome held approximately the same market share vs IE, which would be in the 2010-2013 era (peak Webkit was 2012), which I personally regard as one of the most interest times to be both on the web and be a web developer, it was also before Chrome forked Webkit fully IIRC.

FWIW, I know having Chrome / Chromium as the overwhelming majority browser is not great, if for the sheer fact competition keeps everyone "honest" in a way, but they are by far the most "benevolent" from a developer perspective. IE was truly both stagnant and terrible.

EDIT: that's not to say I approve the Chromium dominance, as a daily Firefox user especially, but I would be lying if I said, from a developer perspective, that Chromium hasn't been pretty good so far on balance. They do innovate. They do push new features. They do usually support the latest specs. Though again, I don't approve of it being so dominate, I'd prefer a plurality. Its a shame that Microsoft didn't use Firefox as its base for new Edge
An extremely rare event due to a leader actually stepping down when everyone around him was telling him to stay.

Historians point to this behavior by George Washington as essentially one-of-a-kind in human history.
They're doing the same with anything even semi-related to LGBT issues, political questions, etc. Yet it's from an obviously progressive bias. Kind of getting tired of defending being impartial when so many don't hesitate to push their agenda whenever they get the chance to do so.
I am speaking from experience. A developer once killed the archive and his response about fixing it was something like "Sorry, I don't work until tomorrow morning." So, we had to switch to mirrors so that new servers in ASGs could install packages on top of based images. This was years ago and then we switched to images thanks to HashiCorp's Packer, but we also decided to abandon Ubuntu and switch to Debian.
You totally could, if you were willing to re-solder all of the cut traces. But at that point, you'd be better served by buying a kit to assemble.

Custom firmware, choice of key switches, and choice of keycaps are not going to be available if you apply the hacksaw method to cheapo $5 boards.
Have you spoken to anyone at Steam or GOG or the like and just asked them for a list of Indie games that don't sell? Obviously, one reason they don't sell is that they're bad games, but if you can filter those out, then you've got a pretty decent list of developers that are probably looking for another revenue source.

I like the idea! There's clear value for Indie devs who need a sweetener to get people to play, and there's clear value for gamers that like to try a lot of different games but need to control costs.
I believe that writing on the internet is about to become more public and personal if you want people to follow and trust you. While we have been able to get away with being able to write semi anonymously and still be successful there will now always be a question about whether the words were generated by an AI.

It's kind of like the deal with the More Plates More Dates YouTube Channel, and the Matt Does Fitness guy. Matt has an amazing physique, but because of that people thought he was on steroids. He paid MPMD to randomly drug test him over the course of six months like WADA (world anti-doping agency) to prove he was natural. He had to do this because steroids exist in the world.

Same thing with writing. Using perfect grammar and a more formal sentence structure will probably cause people to think you are a robot. But writing about your life, your hobby projects and what you are doing with them will show people that you are a real person
I wanted to use something light so I tried Preact without build tools. It was awful, nothing worked (like router and store), so I switched to Vue.js - where everything just worked out of the box. Not sure if I was just unlucky in my selection of js files, or what, but I can't recommend Preact from this experience.
I don't mind AI killing off anything and everything, as long it goes hand in hand with producing the means for those whose jobs are killed off to survive and thrive.

I want my warm, sunny hill where I can discuss philosophy if I so choose with some bread wine, after which I'll play old arcade games and then work on a classic car, after which I'll make love to my wife.

Can you ask chatGPT if it can arrange for that, please?

* wakes up *
These threads always have lots of people jumping on doctors and their decisions/callousness/lack-of-reason/missing up-to-date-into/etc.etc.etc. My wife is a physician (OBGYN) at a major city hospital that primarily serves a very poor population. I'd like to share her schedule, and see if you think what kind of care you could perform under these circumstances, or how up-to-date you could stay in field:

Monday - Friday

- Wake up at 4:30 AM
- Get to hospital by 5AM to start rounding on patients
- Sometimes work inpatient all day sometimes clinic thrown in, but usually not done working until 7 PM, without even a 15 min break or a chance to eat a meal (15 hour day)
- Come home and do about an hour of notes, 16 hour work day
- At least once per week, wake up in the middle of the night to deliver a patient who asked for that kind of continuity of care. 24 hour work day

Saturday:
- Wake up around 5am to be in by 6am to start the day
- Work inpatient, usually without time for a 15min break for food, until 10AM SUNDAY (28-30 hours shift)

Repeat 49 weeks/year (days of 24/hr shift can vary and she usually gets one weekend off/month). Her average time at the hospital last year was 96 hours/week. She is not a resident.

How much confidence do you have that you'd be able to stay up-to-date in your field, or make recommendations that aren't ultra-standard, with this kind of schedule?
Now that is truly a scary thing. What is worse than a scrum master, a bitter ex journalist scrum master.
(Did you ever work in Houston, and does your first name start with M?)
> Yes, I know the information isn't always 100% accurate.

It's not even 25% accurate when you start asking anything other than "what is a lion" and "what is 2+2"
Also have to consider the kicking of the ladder away. Nobody gets to excellent without passing through the lower stages. Hard to stay motivated if it'll be 5 years just to see if maybe you have something a computer can't offer.

Not impossible, but definitely a raising of the bar.
Hmm, I often feel lots of important details or edge cases are only discovered when you start programming. It's a reason waterfall was abandoned. Planning, prototyping and then making a more informed decision is my goto approach, instead of planning forever.

Actually, I often feel the architects that think they've "fully solved the problem" are full of themselves, and just not smart enough to realize all the things they've not yet thought about.
Ask HN: How would you refactor a big project in 2023?
Our site gets about 2-3 mio. visitors each month.

The current code base is PHP with Symfony 3/4, an Admin based on an open source project that is not really going anywhere and Doctrine as the ORM.

During a refactor that started in 2018 it was over-engineered with 10-20 micro services, Kubernetes etc.

Besides the problem that it takes us very long to put simple things to production as we need to touch 3-8 micro services it is also hard to find good developers for our current stack.

Also, we want to be more independent of developers to add a simple field to the database and have it shown up on the frontend. The research of CMS feels like Bachelor theses.

What would your favorite stack be to start a new project in 2023 where you know that you will have hundreds of thousands of visitors guaranteed per day?
From Europe. Genuinely never used anything other than the card provided by the bank. But there are some nefarious companies which require a SEPA mandate for recurring deductions and make it hard to cancel. I also have my reservations about always using a card directly linked to my bank account but so far so good.
the Dark Forest is an absolute masterpiece, from someone that has read a lot of classic sci-fi.
Sadly. It would have been perfect for me, I wrote an SPA and some smaller widgets with Vue, would have loved to use petite Vue elsewhere.
Tumblr is still chronological i believe, with ads injected in to the timeline of course.
You might enjoy “How Tracy Austin Broke my Heart”[0] by David Foster Wallace. He reads her (young tennis phenom) autobiography and it’s filled with this type of language.

He wonders if, in order to be a top tier athlete, they almost have to think this way. Simple, repeatable mantras drilled into their conscious and subconscious. Too much thinking would throw them off.

[0]: https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.edu/dist/7/59784/fil...
I use Google restricted to these sites, or, in HN's case, just the HN Algolia.
Nexus was already a Mercedes phone. We started when there wasn't even a physical device on the market.
What's being discussed is some sort of literature exam.

I'm not familiar with this exam but if I said "Flowers represent fertility (because they are pollinated)" and a classmate says "Flowers represent gravity (since they fall)" it shouldn't really be evaluated for accuracy, just how well we made our argument since we're not really discussing facts.
Heh while this sort of thing can work and is often hilarious, I think it can kind of backfire since this now fills the context with discussion about AI that the AI is more likely to bring up again in spite of the fact that it's been told not to and claimed that it wouldn't.

I'd take the approach of a doctor talking to the actual Gepetto who's just taken a blow to the head and has bad amnesia and hallucinations/delusions.