skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Wyden happens to claim now about the CDA and Section 230 is irrelevant.

Were you alive and on the internet when the CDA (including section 230) was passed?

I was; the public debate over the CDA and justifications for the Section 230 carve-out bear very little resemblance to what Wyden claims now.
What you are saying here is, boys need a dad to show them how to be men like their dads, which were told by their dads how to be men - thus to propagate the exact same models as thousand years ago. Assuming that the men of thousand years ago were "true", of course.
Batman's pushing 90 and he wasn't the first rich vigilante.
Sure, that's what we have right now. And some men choose to tap out because they don't like any of the definitions on offer. It's the men who decide there's no point that the article really has a problem with.
Svelte + Typescript & Tailwind, .NET 7, SQLite.

Why? Mainly because I'm familiar with them, and would be most productive with these.

I'd almost like to reach for Blazor, but if it's at all public-facing, I don't think I can justify using Blazor at this time.
I'm not familiar with all of those but if the ones I am none are revolutionary. They are mostly just a large company using their vast resources to capture market share. Gmail, Android and Chrome aren't revolutionary in the least bit. They are just Google taking over existing segments to sell ads more effectively. Same for maps, perhaps street view was at the least innovative.
good point, and I already have a few videos on youtube. thanks!
svelte, sqlite, postgres, a little bit of dropwizard, Java LTS 17 (maybe kotlin).
No, it looks like this asteroid had a similar trajectory as Earth around the sun, but after the encounter its path will be altered significantly.

"Before encountering Earth, the asteroid’s orbit around the Sun was roughly circular, approximating Earth’s orbit, taking 359 days to complete its orbit about the Sun. After its encounter, the asteroid’s orbit will be more elongated, moving it out to about halfway between Earth’s and Mars’ orbits at its farthest point from the Sun. The asteroid will then complete one orbit every 425 days."
This sounds like, "let people just live however they want to live and it will be okay" the problem with this sentiment is that it is causing exactly what we are seeing, an enormous number of young men just intend to play video games, watch porn, and smoke weed. They contribute nothing to society and get very little in return and we are starting to see the effects of that.

The other side of that is how many people who choose to go that route have unintended effects on others. My own father decided that he want to live his life and reject his traditional role by leaving my mother and going out to party. Now you have six children who ended up without the things a father can provide in their lives.

The problem is that with so much emphasis on the individual we have lost the importance of responsiblity.
tangent: asked ChatGPT to update your code to use for loops and voila:

Backend Choices:

for backend in "Django" "supabase" "rails" "node" "elixir" "phoenix" "fastapi"; do
count=$(curl -s "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052" | grep -i "$backend" | wc -l)
echo "$backend: $count"
done

Frontend Choices:

for frontend in "svelte" "React" "htmx"; do
count=$(curl -s "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052" | grep -i "$frontend" | wc -l)
echo "$frontend: $count"
done
US introduces new sanctions targeting Russia's Wagner mercenary group
In the US, a small percentage of people drive completely insane.
If going 75mph on a highway that is 65mph or 70mph someone will fly past going a 100mph.

Those are the people that get tickets. Otherwise, it is pretty difficult to even get pulled over.

I have only been pulled over twice in my life and not in 20 years. I think police departments have cut back quite a bit on police trying to rack up traffic tickets.

The fine is not the issue. The whole process is a massive waste of your time.
Sure, but I suspect the motivation behind this post is specifically to learn about what people love to work with, not to be convinced about what to use for their own MVP?

At least that's the value I'm getting out of everyone's answers that actually talk about their favourite stack (vs just saying "use what you want" etc)
Wow, I did Nazi that coming.
>Wages are stagnant

The graph you linked shows wages increasing every month, consistently, over the last two years.

It is also not measuring YoY, it’s MoM.
Because of the expertise I have, number of packages i've created for it, and sheer ease of use, I pretty much always do the same thing:

Node.js, express.js, Typescript for the "central command" server that acts as any client's first port-of-call.

Central command fans out to whatever tech is required for the job. Very typical for me is fanning out to various python Flask servers to do ML/image proc/etc. work or connect to GBQ.

PostgreSQL for persistence because it's pretty much the undisputed pereto-optimal solution: solves 80% of problems with 20% of the effort. Does almost everything you need until you get to the big scales, which by then you can afford to just pay the wizards to do the Cassandra, Dynamo, Redis, haskell, etc. magic
And literally any piece of Internet-connected software could start doing nefarious things, whether or not it pings google.com (or non-Western equivalents).

This is a sensationalist piece of blogspam, probably designed to get picked up by a unscrupulous tabloid and boost the author's engagement metrics.
Building with this stack right now, really enjoying it and more importantly able to move quickly as a solo builder. Supabase/Railway/Neon/Planetscale all good choices for hosted DB.
As the Opening Arguments podcast (one of the two hosts is a lawyer) said: If as a lawyer you do what was asked - just parrot what an AI tells you to parrot, you're going to get sanctioned and possibly disbarred. As a lawyer you are responsible for what you say and argue, and if you argue something that you know to be false, you're in violation of the ethics standards; just about every bar association lists that as sanctionable, or even disbarrable, offense *.

Thus, effectively, the only thing you could do is a watered down concept of the idea: A lawyer that will parrot the ChatGPT answer, but only if said answer is something they would plausibly argue themselves. They'd have to rewrite or disregard anything ChatGPT told them to say that they don't think is solid argument.

They also run a segment where a non-lawyer takes a bar exam. Recently they've also asked the bar exam question to ChatGPT as well. So far ChatGPT got it wrong every time. For example, it doesn't take into account that multiple answers can be correct, in which case you have to pick the most specific answer available. Leading to a somewhat hilarious scenario where ChatGPT picks an answer and then defends its choice in a way that seems to indicate why the answer it picked is obviously the wrong answer.

*) Of course, Alan Dershowitz is now arguing in court that the seditious horse manure he signed his name under and which is now leading to him being sanctioned or possibly disbarred, is not appropriate because he's old and didn't know what he was doing. It's Dershowitz so who knows, but I'm guessing the court is not going to take his argument seriously. In the odd chance that they do, I guess you can just say whatever you want and not be responsible for it, which... would be weird.
"The detoxification of masculinity, progressives say, is a messy and necessary process; sore losers of undeserved privilege don’t merit much sympathy."
What if being a man means to be easy and fun?
> What happened to ownership and respecting the effort it takes to create something?

Ironic taking into consideration that the current generation of AI are more or less copyright laundering for the big corporations. Github Copilot being an extreme example of using GPL projects to generate "proprietary" closed source code. What happened to ownership and respecting the effort it takes to create something?
It'd be interesting to look at how much lithium is required by a fusion reactor compared to the electric cars that reactor could keep supplied with electricity. I suspect the reactors would have a pretty small effect on lithium availability for cars.
I use the exact stack. I even develop on Linux using Rider. :)
Why should it be legal? It spews massive amounts of chemicals and harmful pollution into the atmosphere.

To the order of ~600g of SO2 and ~90 tonnes of CO2 over the average vehicle's lifespan.

It's weird how, as mentioned in other parts of this thread, nobody gives two figs[1] about the atmospheric geoengineering we're all doing with our cars and our natural gas power plants. The Paris accord came and went and we are solidly on the worst-case do-nothing track.

[1] We are, at most, taking steps to consider thinking about taking steps fifteen years from now.
The key is that if you do this, different optimization levels produce different numerical results, and also some problems in the code become unfixable; you can't group computations according to their expected value ranges because the compiler will ungroup them again, incorrectly assuming that FP addition and multiplication are associative. Certainly for some applications it's fine, but a test of whether it's fine would be, for example, that it works just as well with single-precision as double-precision and even 16-bit floats would be fine, for example weights in an NN.
The goalposts are still at "let people exist safely and comfortably outside a car and stop paying for your car use". Your repeated attempts to characterise this as something else don't change it.

> Again you’re pretending the vast majority of people are somehow in areas where public transportation is viable. This is 100% absolutely false.

Citation needed. Also "At least one safe sustainable transport option" isn't "transit only".

Also it's amazing how quickly you went from "there's a bunch of reasons to reduce car dependence but you should dismiss this one" to a gish gallop of reactionary nonsense. Almost like it was a bad faith rhetorical technique to dismiss it.
Via native implemented functions aka NIFs.
Wow, with a name like Lexus Boss it seems like he was born to run a car company.
Do judges know about all prior cases or do they check when they hear one referenced? It feels like this could easily slip through, no?
> Companies like Slack have turned their changelogs into a form of marketing

To a dark place this line of thought will carry us. Changelogs are first and foremost about sharing information effectively. Never lose sight of that.
I've been going back to Flask + htmx for quick MVPs. I'd go for Heroku or Dokku/Piku (self hosted) for super simple deployment.
Hey, the steam webpage states:

> Evidence-based and community certified.

While I'm convinced this kind of stuff can help,I wonder what kind of evidence and certification you can build on that kind of game. I didn't find any documentation on the website.

Care to share more ?
> There's no single cause and no single cure which is why it's so hard.

My neurologist once said to me "any time you see the phrase 'multiple mechanisms of X' in a medical journal, that's code for 'we have no fucking clue'".
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> "Oh no did I leave the oven!?"

Opens app.. "whoops I did, toggle off"

> "Oh I'll have to cook soon"

Opens app.. "start preheating to x degrees, notify when ready"

> "Oh how long do I have left on my roast?

Opens app... "ok cool 30 minutes, I'll continue my workout."

I mean... putting the food in is only one short step in the very long process of an oven.
This, but with one twist: "... plan through how you could lower your expenses if the hammer falls."

Don't just plan - implement that plan now. You won't be any worse off, and will be much better prepared if the hammer actually falls.

If the hammer does NOT fall, then the money you saved while in this mode is just a nice little problem to have - pay down other debt, save it, etc...

I went through the 2000 .com bust and learned this lesson in time for the 2008 slowdown. It really helped and also allowed me to trim some unwanted expenses long term.
Official? In what sense?
It's way beyond a three body problem though, so it's chaotic even if it's recurrent... even trying to retrodict precise correlations in celestial events 10k years ago is difficult, doing this would be way harder. The only thing I can think of on that scale that's somewhat predictable within meaningful margins is Milankovich cycles. Cool paper though. Thanks for sharing.

(And to note: I can't edit my reply now but I read 'there' as 'these'. Obviously there are other (somewhat) cyclic natural catastrophes especially on shorter timescales.)
I first read that as "to my patients' major disappointment, no" and chuckled :-)
Ehhh it can be a good thing to an extent. Over-indulging yourself with mental health discussion is bad though imo. There's TOO MUCH talk about it nowadays. To the point where people with normal negative thoughts and emotions are diagnosing themselves with severe mental illnesses and running to the doctor for prescription meds.

From personal experience with anxiety it's also not great to continue discussing your issues 24/7 because you get to the point where you're only forcing yourself to stay in that mindset. You need to get out and live at some point or you'll never recover.
The older “Docker without Docker” blogpost linked from there goes into that, it’s one of the best deep dives into containers (and honestly one of the best pieces of technical writing full stop) I’ve come across. https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/
At the start of the big war Fridman went on podcasts as an expert on the conflict and all he did was re-translate russian talking points. He's way worse than hypocrite.

To be fair, he's not alone, a good half of IDW - group supposedly too intelligent and principled for mainstream media - turned out to be neither intelligent, nor principled, when those qualities got tested by real world events instead of social network drama.
I like Svelte Kit for my UI and backend together since most things I'm building don't need a public API. It makes it easy to work full stack.
Supabase for storage, lambda for backend processing (Twilio, mainly). Front end is all hand written js, pages are statically generated in Hugo. cloudFlare Pages to host.

All free, scalability won’t be a problem since it’s a niche app and db r/w work is minimal. I estimate I can support 10k userbase all for free.
The arguments via command line leveraged the UNIX commands making them into high power tools.

Today we are going to meet argparse a library written in Modern C++. This tool not only helps you to create arguments in a professional way, but also to create help in a practical way.
We can certainly run the experiment, just like we can let a kid touch a hot pan on the stove.

Like the kid, the experiment is not to add knowledge to the world. Every adult knows touching a hot pan results in a burn. Just like everyone who understands how current LLMs work knows that it will fail at being a lawyer.

Instead the point of such an experiment is to train the experimenter. The kid learns not to touch pans on the stove.

In this case it’s not fair to metaphorically burn desperate legal defendants so that the leaders and investors in an LLM lawyer company learn their lesson. It’s the same reason we don’t let companies “experiment” with using random substances to treat cancer.
Start over? Nothing lasts forever. No one said the life of a free speech warrior would be an easy one.
Has anyone at an unprofitable company ever been told that they "were NOT on a trajectory to profitability"???

I feel like that the statement that you are on a path to breakeven, means absolutely nothing. And that you should ALWAYS consider yourself to be in a high risk situation if your company is losing money.
I'm simply repeating to you mostly verbatim the article from The New Yorker espousing current progressive views. Forgive me but the radicalization appears to be every which way you look, marginalized men and women, just presenting itself differently.
Removing antennas from electronics isn't too hard, or worst case, physically damaging them or installing faraday cages.

Seems like an interesting cottage industry that could bloom around intentionally stupifying your unwanted smart home.
Basically, Zambia is requesting relief from the IMF so it can pay China.

If the IMF is smart, it will only act in conjunction with the Chinese.
pretty much anything you purchase at a store goes through ibm
> Artists will have to internalize what software developers realized decades ago; creating takes work, and copying is free.

This is very dismissive, the scale is what makes the difference. You can get away with pirating all types of content for personal use.

AI companies are essentially trying to legalize that, but in reverse - taking from small creators to enrich the shareholders of their billion dollar corporations.

If you try to play by these rules and create a million dollar business that distributes various copyrighted content from the internet (e.g. AAA games, movies or music) you'll very quickly realize how much their stance on copyright changes.
I use TOTP on my Paypal account.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cshelp/article/what-is-2-step-veri...
How Technology Giants Die
This kind of conspiratorial thinking is a fib people say to make themselves feel better. "financial results aren't very good" is the leading cause of death of most companies -- you can't just gloss over it as if preventing it isn't the leading root cause.

The truth is that companies could afford a lot more less ROI positive resource investments, and yes that even extended to hiring. Now that companies are in a situation far rougher than anything we've seen in the past 15 years (end of zero interest rate policy and cheap funding), companies are scrambling to cut costs and maximize ROI on their existing costs, so that they don't die. They have to, now.
Aside from mainframes other IBM products I've seen used in industry include the Watson AI, Aspera, and LSF.
I used to think I hated Docker, but I think what I actually hate is using Docker locally (building/rebuilding/cache-busting images, spinning containers up and down, the extra memory usage on macOS, etc etc). I don't need all that for development, I just want to run my dang code

But I've been really enjoying it as a way of just telling a PaaS "hey here's the compiler/runtime my code needs to run", and then mostly not having to worry about it from there. It means these services don't have to have a single list of blessed languages, while pretty much keeping the same PaaS user experience, which is great
i love how you have to be smart enough to s/hacknewsusername/username to email this person
A project I started about a year ago is PHP/Symfony/MySQL/React. It'll run on any modern lamp server so I've put it on a shared host I already had running for another customer.

I'm going to deploy it on aws fargate sometime in the next 6 months or so, that should get me to scale.

The database I'm going to migrate to a single tiny ec2 instance until I need more resources, then it'll probably go to RDS or PlanetScale.
We know that subpoenaing [possibly] no-show cops is what the model will do because that is what the CEO says the model did in the run up to this particular case.

Someone with an 80 IQ and an elementary school grasp of English is going to get absolutely dragged by the system with or without a "robot lawyer" if they insist on fighting without competent representation, but they'd probably still stand a better chance of getting off a fine on a technicality if they weren't paying a VC-backed startup to write a letter make sure the cops turned up to testify against them.

They'd also be more likely to not get absolutely dragged if they listened to a human that told them not to bother than a signup flow that encouraged them to purchase further legal representation to pursue the case.
Presumably some number of companies arrived at that answer and thus won't do layoffs, while others dispute the data or think that they're in the minority of companies where layoffs are good.
Casual reminder that the endgame of the GPL was to make software copyright unenforceable.
Wow… Russia AND China… that’s like the axis of evil, dude!
Type hints in python also work great with vscode (and probably other IDEs) as it can offer better autocomplete suggestions for things like function parameters.
I agree its probably benign, but its really hard to trust companies these days to do the right thing. Consumers are basically being treated as sheep to be sheared.
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This is really cool. Is the Rails server production ready? I was always under the impression you had to run it with Uvicorn or similar, although I haven't been following Rails development recently.
Most machines I've seen from HP, Lenovo and Dell be they laptops or desktops have had some problem with build quality, crashing, drivers, USB hubs (sometimes plugging in too many devices cause other devices to get dropped), etc. These don't really seem to get in the way of getting work done.
Haha - yes, this is really just a language problem.

Visibility for pilots is a precise measurement, not a classification. "Can I see" is a different question than "how many miles can I see", and even still "how many feet can I see down this runway."

These measurements dictate different flight rules, for example which approach I can take into a given airport.

Take this plate for example: https://flightaware.com/resources/airport/CHA/IAP/VOR+RWY+33... - There are two approaches you can take, categorized in the bottom, that use this plate. One is circling, the other is straight in. Your aircraft category (approach speed ranges) dictates the visibility requirements; in this case, a small Cessna needs a statute mile of visibility to execute either of these approaches.

However, a larger airplane - an airliner, for example, needs different visibility for the circling versus the straight in. How different? In this case, half a mile for category C (1 3/4 vs 2 1/4).

What if visibility is less than a mile?

Then you need to do something like this approach instead: https://flightaware.com/resources/airport/CHA/IAP/ILS+OR+LOC...
Never confused about lock or unlock - Signal is trying to see how many users they have, who will flock to them as "the" secure msg app - they will quickly see a majority of their users drop, we all have more NOT using signal than are

So everyone using 2 apps, losing texts, confused about splitting up permissions, apps confused/not allowing for split SMS delivery (as experienced all over reddit) - they have caused a mess in the name of purity and you reap what you sow, an app nobody uses because they have 3 contacts on signal and 100 on xyz replacement
I've thought about getting into this... The stuff they work on is so incredible to me.

Here's a quote from their Pillar product page:

> Up to a 95% Reduction in Latency: The roundtrip latency on NYSE Pillar order entry sessions via Pillar matching engines has been reduced from ~592μs to ~32μs for FIX and from ~96μs to ~26μs for Binary, getting client orders into the market much faster. With a 92% improvement in the 99th percentile latency results, clients can also have more confidence in improved performance consistency regardless of market conditions.

Reading stuff like this makes my current work feel stupid by comparison.