skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kind of a west coast SV/social/adtech type of startup mentality.

Working east coast in more traditional tech companies this has never really been a thing. It's always been conservative, staying profitable, etc.. It is the older way.

Apple, MS, etc.. were built this way too of course.
ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
I see a burnt-out bulb at least once a week.
In version 0.19, the core team hardcoded a whitelist into the compiler of which projects are allowed to use native code (which happened to basically be the core team's pet projects). This basically crippled the language beyond usability for everyone else. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17842400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16510267

As for a replacement, I'd look towards Haskell. At a language level, it looks really similar to Elm, and it's been having a lot of work done towards being more practical on the Web lately, e.g., GHC 9.6 getting a WASM backend merged.
YCombinator was founded here. Many VCs are here. Google, Facebook, others are headquartered here or Seattle. There's definitely a Bay Area bias.

Regardless, I'm sorry you find it disgusting, and that you drew the inference that I think nobody else matters. I was simply pointing out that not returning to bay area offices is not consequence free.

I have been hiring very capable people in other countries at my startup. It's not just hypothetical to me that people in other regions will be the beneficiaries of this movement.
How will it change the world, Bill?

> The new programs like ChatGPT will make many office jobs more efficient by helping to write invoices or letters.

Yawn.

I’ve been using ChatGPT to fine tune a custom ChatGPT model.
> If you want something mood-altering more than you want the flavor, how's it not?

Ah I think you mean it as a social device, so sure.

> I'm sure some people prefer an alcohol buzz to being a bit high, since they aren't exactly the same thing

Have you ever frequented bars and/or known serious alcoholics? I'm not anti-booze, but that's a whole different world. They may smoke weed too but are completely different people without the booze.
This reminds me of https://github.com/nicklockwood/ShapeScript although that is limited to Apple platforms.
The mind is great at birthing warped antinatural thoughts. Life has so many beatiful facets, if we allow ourselves to see them. Our conscious mind gets to perceive what passed our belief-filters. It's worth trying out new ones. Saying so as a depressed, anti-everything punk radiating hatred turned annoyingly positive optimist, who prefers ugly truths to comforting lies. Got there with a willingness to question my own behaviour, accept criticism (gifts) and taking responsibility for my screwups over two decades.
At those altitudes the combination of a very high closing speed (air is thin) and the short range of the gun creates a real risk of flying into the target you're trying to hit.
So why did you imply he had signed a contract?
Yep. That all saas designs are the same should say enough no? Users want consistency that’s easy on the eye.
If you grind your teeth/clench your jaw during sleep, consider trying a bite guard.

No more headaches for me.

(I got one when I had a couple nasty headaches during a period I didn't drink for a few months. I knew from my dentist I ground my teeth but that was what pushed me over the edge.)
You don’t need a scrum master to use JIRA. In fact, it tends to work better without one.
I'm always gobsmacked at the level of ... jawdropping "Let them eat cake!" self-delusion displayed by some wealthy people.

"This hasn't affected me, so it mustn't affect anyone!"

The grinding day-to-day slogging, through the mud of irrelevant and useless regulatory burden experienced by the "lesser" classes of civilization (and anyone actually trying to run a small business) is just astonishing.

Basically, many people just "stop". They can't navigate it, and know they'll never defeat it. So they just cease to try.
People also need to work within the constraints of the chosen stack. You can make a very good experience in either a SSR and SPA app. But you can't make identical experiences.

Product designers are notoriously bad at working within the constraints of a stack - so when you choose SSR with hotwire or whatever, you definitely need to push back when a product designer hands you a mock up of something that can't be done easily with SSR. Don't create some mess of SSR and JS. Tell the designer to go back and redesign the experience so it meets the constraints of the stack.

So when I hear "the complexity of the app increased" I'm hearing "the designer invented something that doesn't work with our stack" and rather than saying no, the devs just tried to forge ahead with the wrong tools. (Obviously I'm projecting experiences I've had :))
> Because they lacked decency and intellectual humility to acknowledge his email despite benefiting from it.

Or their internal communication was haphazard and not designed to handle this case. I could totally imagine the bug report getting passed informally through a game of telephone and losing the connection to the external reporter (e.g. at some point the report got paraphrased, so the developer who fixed it doesn't know where the report came from, and the person who received the initial report doesn't know if it had merit or if it was fixed).
Yeah, that's a tough spot.
For many folks, Adobe is one of the few companies that's even more distrusted than Microsoft in the software world.
Recent and related:

Covid drug drives viral mutations – and now some want to halt its use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34717514 - Feb 2023 (211 comments)

Also:

Indication of molnupiravir-associated mutations in SARS-CoV-2 sequencing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34554580 - Jan 2023 (16 comments)
The US defense industry will absolutely find a way to make the marginal cost of shooting the laser be $200k or more.
Yeah, I cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like to develop AirBnb without some sort of front end framework. I used to write pure JS and jquery back in the day, and it was super easy to end up with a rat’s nest of spaghetti code. And those apps were several orders of magnitude less complex!
This is a very reasonable explanation for the otherwise mysterious question of why even use an (obvious, provocative) balloon in the first place, when China has perfectly good satellites.

It may not be exactly what they have in mind, but I think it's the right way to think about the question - they are engineering scenarios which work to their advantage no matter how the US responds. US shoots them down? Play outraged. US leaves them alone? US looks weak.
I agree 100%. Doing everything on the client has its place, but those aren't the type of apps I'm interested in working on. My problem is that for the bulk of web apps out there, a frontend JS framework (I'm sorry I don't have hard data on that but going by experience and the experiences of people I know). The "good fight" I'm referring to is not defaulting to React to build your information app that has very little interactivity. The recent "HTML over the wire" frameworks lean heavily on abstracted away JS to give you a middle ground between SPAs and pure SSR.
How have you thought about pricing? I would have thought a small increase in price would make a big difference to your bottom line given the difference between your revenues and profits.
Hi,
1) This is awesome! Would love to give it a try!
2) I actually just released a AI tool that you can start playing today on figma called magicbrushai

Check it out: https://www.magicbrushai.com/

Would love some feedback .. and congrats to the Galileo team for launching!
A crisis of confidence is just as dangerous as a crisis of results. If users believe Google is losing users they may try other services. Internally it could cause them to make misteps in order to maintain its position that lose marker position, or causes a bleeding of staff. Also stock prices are set based on feelings as much as anything else, and it does appear there is at least some risk that G won't be making as much money in the future.
That's a different issue. There's no reason CPU consumption should be high when you aren't interacting with an application.
> No editor included I see, that tripped me up for a second but it's IMO better than wasting your time on including one [...]

It's using egui for the UI so adding an editor (w. syntax highlighting for the custom language) should be very easy[1].

[1] https://github.com/emilk/egui/blob/530e9f667c0969b09edb68f77...
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From first approximation, there are 2 major questions to initiating a conflict.

1. Will I be able to stay in power? (Related: Will my populace support this war? Will my economy keep functioning?)

2. Will I end the conflict with more power / prestige / resources? (Related: How expensive will the conflict be in blood and treasure?)

Most of the things the West are doing over Ukraine are to make the "Related" answers less palatable. Very few people are calculating enough to climb to power, then risk everything on a gamble with bad odds.

If China gets serious about Kinmen and Matsu, then everyone should start worrying.
Same could happen with paper tags while they are in the process of updating them.

Best solution would be to have a transition period where for x hours it’s at the lower price in the system.
You're thinking of recent Apple. You have to consider the first half of Apple's lifetime too.

Especially in the second half of the 1990s Apple was in very very tough shape due to poor software and uncompetitive hardware. Their fans wouldn't admit it but the company definitely knew what they were up against.

There's pretty much been no point 2000-present where Apple quality has been worse than it was Pre-2000, and their prices have never been more competitive either.
It doesn't matter what the object was, it's that America's adversaries know they can do it without consequences, and what makes them believe this is what matters about this story. That is the irreversible change it signifies, imo.
Literally just released magicbrushai.com today ... would love your take!
Can you elaborate on this? My understanding of the Mauna Kea lasers is that they are used to adjust the mirrors for atmospheric conditions in real time.
Everyone is hungry to find that role (that isn’t their own) that could be replaced (because it is easy, unlike their own) by ChatGPT (because then they get rich and can stop working that difficult role) in the next few years.

Who’s coming for yours?
They shot down a couple of balloons using whatever they had. If balloons were a common target, they'd design something more suitable. Maybe a monkey throwing darts.
That's obviously all context dependent and in any ideation/brainstorming process it's valuable to have a free flow of ideas but there's a necessary filtering process afterwards. David Allen writes in Detail about this in Getting Things Done, specifically in the chapters of the natural planning process.

Now with regards to the backlog, if a team can develop common criteria for high value/high priority tasks and learn to reject low value/low priority tasks than they can more effectively manage their backlog and time.
That's been going on for decades, and supposedly the balloons are nothing new. What's changed is the USA response, in terms of the American general's rhetoric and the coverage and downing of balloons. So there's been a shift on the part of the USA.
> ...we have to tie your user to your email...

No, you don't have to. You want to.

The concept of tying email addresses to user accounts came Google to better track their users. Of course thankfully taken over from everybody in the industry.

Especially when you offer a "free" trial for your software you should not ask your users to pay with their data. Even first before they see what they'll get for in exchange.

You literally ask me to pay the price first before I see the product
I really hope you can train this on your company’s design system
ARM is a CPU architecture; honestly it should have nothing to do with GPUs. In practice, GPUs on ARM have served as hardware DRM. Want to update your cool Linux SBC? Haha, better hope the OEM wants to also, otherwise you're screwed. Want to develop a custom OS for your smartphone? Haha, "NO"!
Protocol is to visually identify the target. In the case of an airliner, they try to make visual contact with the pilots if they don’t respond by radio. There are visual verification methods commercial pilots are trained on.

And airliners have transponders and flight plans. If a civilian plane stopped talking to ATC, the Air Force is likely already involved.

Additionally, we’re not on a high-alert war footing like during the Cold War. As far as I know, we don’t have hostile military aircraft routinely flying with transponders off on our coasts.

Even if we did, I’m pretty sure the larger military radar systems that would be used to track this stuff can read transponders and separate out which plane is which.
They lost me at "playing games on the mobile is so convenient".
That’s almost surely how it is done. It is how we do it and it works well. We are just unsure it needs all that complexity; it seems generating ‘educated guesses’ works much better. Probably a combination will be a winner.
One factor is that I think Medium, at one point, lent a certain gravitas (in the minds of some) to people publishing there. It was more like a magazine article or a book than a personal blog. I'd cross-post there if my company wanted to link to content I had written independently.

Was never true of course.

At some point, I stopped bothering.
Obvious, provocative.... and unsteerable.
If it was not a drone, and "not a balloon", what could it be?

Assuming this was a drone, the "car-sized", "unmanned", "not a balloon", "not maneuverable" (!?), the operating altitude (40k feet / 13 km), and use of AIM9X (IR/heat seeking) should narrow down the possible drones.

Also, one thing I pondered: why F22 instead of F35 to shoot it down? Maybe a question of availability. But, at least publically the F35 operating ceiling is lower than F22, so I was thinking whether the object was in reality higher than the publically known F35 operating ceiling.
Maybe it was a balloon but Kirby is being curmudgeonly and thinks it should be called an "Unmanned Buoyant Aircraft (UBA)" or something like that. These national security types love wordy terms and acronyms. Maybe he thinks calling a balloon a balloon makes it sound too trivial or something.
No guarantee but it is a good predictor on a long timeframe.
We will not know until the DoD provide the public report on this information. Everyone is speculating so I would wait for the official report.
> more addicting

I think it's clear(from research) that problematic social media use (defined as preoccupation and compulsion to excessively engage in social media platforms despite negative consequences) is bad for you mental health, but calling it an addiction feels like a stretch. It also isn't clear that it's much worse than staring at reality tv all day. I also seems like rates of problematic use among adolescents is in the low single digits basically everywhere that people use social media. Given the prevalence of social media use, it's not all that catastrophic that some 4% of users are over doing it. Americans at least seem to be more likely to drink excessively than have problematic relationships with social media.
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> working with SQL is nicer than Pandas

Really? I prefer working with dataframe apis. You get a nice sql-like paradigm plus all the control structures of the runtime.
Isn't the point of GMO technology that you can use it to accomplish this "in the lab" rather than in the field?
Hi,
Jumping in because I just shipped today: https://www.magicbrushai.com/
Would love feedback and you can try it today for free :D
This stuff boggles the mind. Make a way to get around that's easier, realize it's too easy and causing problems, so then hobble it ineffectively— thus creating frustration but also retaining the danger. All the while watching ads about 300 hp luxury work trucks and "sport" vehicles. What a bizarre slice of modern life.
I don't know if it helps, but what I've done when turning down promotions is to be sure they know that I'm pleased and honored by the offer and value it. And that the reason I'm turning it down is because I feel I can provide the greatest value to the company in the position I'm currently in.

All of which is true, and phrases things so they know you're not turning your nose up at anything and that you have the company's best interests in your mind.
Had never heard of the Rendlesham Forest incident - what a rabbit hole. Thank you for sharing.
Exactly this. Medium was great at what it did, but having raised $160M+ in funding and being valued at several billion dollars they simply could not continue to be a simply blogging platform while also making enough money to keep investors happy. And all their bets to become profitable just ended up alienating their users and writers.
We spend more on Healthcare and education per capital than almost any other country. Don't let people bullshit you on the amount spent. Now results on dollars spent is a different question with a different answer.
Hey!
Kinda thought the same. I shipped literally today something somewhat similar:
https://www.magicbrushai.com/
It probably isn't, but generally their ToS says you're not allowed to be in the US when you sign up, and they don't operate in the US. So you'd have to go sue them in the jurisdiction of whatever island nation they're operating in (or get the authorities there to care).

Additionally, if you're within the majority of people who deposit money and lose it all you're not going to even know this unless you do some active research about the casino.
Standard reply to debt rhetoric: US debt service costs measured against the economy are not particularly high historically: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYOIGDA188S

The 80's were much, much worse. If we were ever going to go bankrupt, it was in the early Clinton administration due to the Reagan/Bush spending boom. We got through just fine. Those bonds were all paid off decades ago.

Be very very very cautious any time someone comes at you with this kind of hyperbole about federal debt. They're selling you something.
I agree with dctoedt.

This is nothing.
> He does, but he omits a lot of important considerations that make heat pumps impractical for normal Americans.

Some form of this comment always comes up in these heat pump threads, and I never understand the idea that heat pumps are some elite affectation that doesn't make sense for anyone else. Many millions of Americans live in parts of country where it gets warm enough in the summer to justify central air conditioning and chilly enough in the winter that you need heat but the heating source doesn't need to handle super low temps on a regular basis.

A heat pump is literally one of the simplest ways to address the year round climate control needs for those people since it's a single system that handles both heating and cooling with only marginally more complexity than the air conditioner you'd want anyways. Throw in electric backup heat, which is probably the simplest backup and keeps the system all-electric, and you have a system able to handle a pretty broad range of temperatures all year. As heat pump technology gets better, the applicable temperature range gets colder and colder and makes heat pumps practical for a wider range of "normal Americans".

This isn't just theoretical. Heat pumps account for 17% of heating systems in the US, which isn't huge, but over 40% in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama and a significant percentage in many other states as well. Obviously there are cases where heat pumps are at least currently impractical given the construction, climate, etc, but dismissing them as some effete toy seems a bit silly.

Edit: Interestingly, most states seem to have a significantly higher percentage of homes with electricity as their primary heating fuel than they do homes with heat pumps, suggesting a lot of homes with things like electric baseboard heating. While not all of those homes necessarily have central AC, using Georgia as an example, 85% of homes have central AC and 53% use electricity as their main heating fuel, while only 29% have heat pumps. That suggests quite a few homes with central AC that use electric baseboard or similar. Heat pumps for those homes seem like they'd be very practical.
I dont see anything crazy there

> Minihan said in the memo that because both Taiwan and the U.S. will have presidential elections in 2024, the U.S. will be “distracted,” and Chinese President Xi Jinping will have an opportunity to move on Taiwan.
What are UAPs?
With a heat pump, you -need- an alternative source of heat - since some days when it's particularly cold

Modern heat pumps redirect some heat to prevent the coils from freezing. What you wrote is common FUD pushed by the oil & gas companies.

That said, you'd be a fool to live in an area with life-threateningly low temperatures and not have a backup heat source.
I'm pretty sure they'd head towards the US too, but I'm not exactly sure of the prevailing winds.
Yup. I think a better question that everyone should be asking, is -- how is Wikipedia succeeding SO IMPRESSIVELY in light of all the other failures we see and can we apply this model to other "websites, which at their essence, do nothing more than allow people to share information."
I would like QGIS to have a REPL with autocompletion.

Where do people with QGIS knowledge hang out (especially devs)?
Like "lets use firebase"?
Pringles cans have never been observed to move in ways that violate Newton's laws
This sounds like terribly "old-fashioned" thinking... at the same time, not everything new is good. I'm afraid you're right though. Seems short form is destroying attention spans across the board. I even notice it in myself.
TypeScript won. I was watching this video by Evan Czaplicki the creator [0], and what struck me was that back then, Evan was absolutely right. He was right that in the high level, we needed a typed JS, but he was wrong in the lower level details, at least in terms of market share. TypeScript won precisely because it doesn't start off as intimidating for JS users, while others like Reason and Elm died off, but ironically TS is way more complex than either of the others in its type system.

Another factor for this is that Syntax Matters™. When Gleam (language on the Erland runtime, cousin of Elixir) started out, it had a Haskell-like syntax, but this was found to be a barrier for adoption, so when the creator changed it to be more C and Rust-like, the adoption rate picked up significantly [1]. In the same vein, perhaps Elm was just too esoteric for those coming from JS. I strongly believe the reason Rust became so popular is that it's an ML in C clothing, rather than being a pure ML like OCaml. With curly braces and all, it's more accessible and then people start learning about the more functional features like maps, folds, and so on.

Elm also had quite a rocky history with the BDFL not allowing other people to use the features the compiler maintainers could use, such as escape hatches, which are documented in other parts of HN. This article [2] is a particularly good overview of why some people left.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYk8CKH7OhE

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902462#22903210

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447
There's a lot of noise made by those whose ox is going to get gored by getting serious about the climate. There's no scientific debate other than in the size of the debacle. (For example, methane hydrate--it's not included in the IPCC reports at all because our estimates are still too wide. Note that on the high end it's *worse* than the high end estimates for the effects of CO2--and they will add. Earth has seen that kind of temperature before--most of the rocks laid down at that time don't have fossils.)