skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't try to guess the industry trajectory as a whole. But I can speak from personal experience. I've been on teams jump on the single page application bandwagon. React in particular.

It's been 5 years since initiating that investment. Reflecting on it I'm frankly amazed at the amount of technology that we don't need. The standard type of UI we build really hasn't changed but the time code and overall cost continues upward.

Looking back to 2018 we might have been collectively beguiled by the self-perpetuating marketing machine of single page application technology. We've decided unless there's a very clear and specific justification to write a thick client on a web page we're avoiding it going forward.

Tools such as HTMX are perfectly effective substitutes at far lower cost. At least for what we need
I love my car. Not only is it faster and more convenient than public transport, it is highly reliable and not subject to union strikes. All of the maintenance is quick and cheap. There are multiple fuel stations nearby. Traffic jams do suck, but adaptive cruise control makes them suck a lot less.
A brand new Honda Civic comes in at $25k.

https://automobiles.honda.com/civic
I'm by far not a millennial, and not cash-strapped, but I've completely fallen out of love with cars now I live somewhere where there is ubiquitous and cheap 'automated' transport, ie public transport, uber, grab, etc. I use a bike when I want to be 'free' to just wander. A car can never be that anyway, in a city.

I get that a car is the only realistic option in the 'great outdoors', but anywhere even slightly dense, they're a pain to buy, to maintain, to drive, to park. If you want the fun of driving, go to a track. If you want to get around, there are often better options. Car ownership seem like an outdated aspiration, IMHO.
You’re joking but I once took an elderly man from the front entrance of his building to the parking lot in my cab because he couldn’t walk that far with his walker (which wasn’t all that far from the back door) and had to help him get behind the wheel to drive off.

Needless to say I waited a bit for him to clear the neighborhood before driving off.
I still haven't tried Slashem. I've been using unnethack for the past couple years. I'm not sure why I ended up trying it after years of vanilla.
This happened a month ago. The case settled, afaik.
You didn't read the article. It was about a kid still in high school who had access to a car paid for by her parents. She just didn't bother to get a drivers license despite there being every reason to believe that she would have no problem passing the test.

Sure there are those who cannot afford a car, but that isn't what the article is about.
I grew up with cheaper cars and never loved them either. I never really saw the point. My wife's parents collected classic vets and I have one in my garage now. It's cool, but it's work to maintain that I'm not into. I would sell it if it didn't have sentimental value for my wife.

So while I'm sure costs today have pushed people who were on the fence, there are so many other things to spend money on now. And cars are just...boring.
Yup and the human that did that is a liar and gaslighter. Hard to believe they would post what they did, but I guess they can rationalize the behavior is ok because it wasn’t done to a “human”.
The ACK exists and allows management of AWS services. What doesn’t exist is the ECS-specific ACK.
Yes but the difference is that expats in Amsterdam work for companies based in the Netherlands.
They ad to the economy they aren't just here for the weather and cheap housing (nobody comes to the Netherlands for the weather and cheap housing).
Err, what? I never posted that first quote?

And even then, it's perfectly consistent to say that estimating is only OK if it doesn't make you look better than reality.
"Emotional intelligence" is what they put in an Inc article title when the news day is slow. It's something founders and highly-sociable managers stress about, but developers? They're not selling their empathy or soft skills, they're solving an issue. Thousands of construction workers and UPS workers probably also have poor "emotional intelligence", but that doesn't stop them from doing their job effectively. Unless you're particularly sociopathic, there's a good chance your social skills aren't the bottleneck for job performance.

I won't derail the conversation from people who want to take a serious stab at it, but I think so-called "emotional intelligence" is a crock.
Two hires of retro computing enthusiasts and a modest parts budget could keep it running. Maybe 400k/year.
>I don't get the emotional association of freedom that previous generations did.

Previous generations would just go out for a ride, take the car out on Sunday and and enjoy the scenery. We just don't do that anymore, either because we're more concerned about the environmental effects of driving, or that we just have more interesting things to do.

Not to mention, when this idea of "the freedom of a car" came about, even many smaller cities still had decent transit systems, and were denser. A car truly was freedom, because you could choose to walk downtown, or take the car, or go to the next city over because they have a really nice cafe that you like. Nowadays if you want to go anywhere, unless you're lucky enough to live in a dense city with good transit, there's no choice. It's not freedom anymore, it's a sentence.
In my experience, the average British person has no idea how to cook a square healthy meal that is also appetising enough for them to choose it over other easier options. Cooking is taught poorly (if at all) in schools and at home.

This isn't about money. We have 64% of the adult population overweight and obese, 22% at age 5, and 37% at age 10. All those numbers are growing.

The excuse often brought up is that it's "expensive to eat healthy". Absolute bollocks. It's far more expensive to eat ready-meals, order takeaway, and dine out than to buy ingredients and cook.

For snacks, a banana costs £0.15 and fills you up for longer than a £1.00 chocolate bar. But people want the chocolate bar!

I've lived in a city centre apartment block for the last few years. The frequency with which I've seen the people around me having McDonalds, burgers, pizzas, and other oily, salty, high fat, high calorie food delivered shocks me. For some people, it's upwards of 5 times a week!

If you go to a "local" or "express" supermarket, microwavable ready meals and junk food represent most of the aisles, and when you take a glance at the shopper next to you, they are buying mostly junk and inconvenience food.

If you go to a supermarket after school closing time, you'll see tens/hundreds of kids buying energy drinks (despite the age limit), multipacks of chocolates, biscuits, sweets, crisps, 1 litre bottles of pop. Evidently, they have the money for it (from their parents). University students across the country keep fast food and takeaways in business via their student loans and grants.

When people here do cook, it's:-

1) Stir fry
2) Spaghetti Bolognese
3) Pasta and sauce dish
4) Something on toast/jacket potato

Every meal that gets microwaved in my office for lunch is one of these 4 things. Basically just throwing a bunch of stuff in a wok and mixing for 10 minutes.

This is of course all anecdotal, but it's plain as day that it's about personal choice for many people, and not money. Our country has a serious problem with food and alcohol addiction, and an extreme aversion to exercise. Most people would wipe out their life savings/all of their income to eat slop as much as possible, at the detriment to their finances and health.

Every stage of British life, from infanthood, primary and high school, to university and beyond prepare the population for gorging on high energy, salty, oily junk food.

We will easily hit 75% overweight/obesity by the end of the decade.
Thanks. This is probably the most helpful comment.

"Scientific" articles have such click-bait titles. I understand this is an evil necessity in capitalism, but these titles bias everyone...
Meh, a brand new Toyota Corolla Hybrid is $24k including fees.
I’d say that’s more for ideological reasons than the quality of his analysis. He makes his otherwise questionable policy ideas very palatable to the educated techie class.
> Yes, most people are lurkers.

No, most people are not on Reddit.
It's unclear to me what counts as a vehicle in the chart you linked. Does it include boats? Train cars? Airplanes? Sleds? Delivery trucks? Corporations buy a lot of vehicles that wouldn't conflict with the Economist's analysis about private car ownership.
I loved this place, I spent a whole day here once just whimsically coding on all of the boxes that would let me. It felt like all of the stories I had read about the older days of computing truly came to life in front of me. Hell, I forgot the model but there was one that had an older typewriter-like interface that could play chess, I beat it and the museum staff took my picture! It was a magical place, truly sad I can’t visit it anymore.
I don't think they keep them for very long. I know that my organization looked at purchasing Smarsh, which hooks in to the API that providers present so that Smarsh can do it's archiving. IIRC, there was a short time limit (not a whole lot of days) on being able to retrieve the messages from the providers.

Also, if I'm a provider, keeping all those text messages is going to be a more of a liability than a benefit. It's an expense for storage and retrieval. I'm not sure they would really make any money off of maintaining a long history; it would be super rare that this would pay off. Better to just state that "after n days, they are gone, we're done. Archiving is up to you, the customer."
I wish you specified that you mean high functioning autistic people.
Education, health care, and housing are the unholy trinity of faster-inflating categories.
Strongly disagree this should be flagged; it's constructive and thought-provoking. Can't find a vouch button though.

As far as I understand it, these LLMs aren't actually doing anything in between user interactions, right? Paused, waiting for input. So the only way for Bing to have a "thought" is when a user asks it a question. Even if humans are simply statistical next-token prediction mechanisms like GPT, there's a huge difference in that we're constantly generating streams of tokens and observing and responding to them, where these models are dormant until given input from outside. The inner observing loop seems fundamental to consciousness to me.

None of which is to say the thing wouldn't pull the trigger in that scenario - quite the opposite. It would, and it wouldn't even be capable of regretting it. It's already been shown (by the Sydney-revealing prompt injection trick) that it's not capable of following imposed restrictions either, so no way for "three laws" to work either. A purely instinct-driven machine.
IceRaven only allows from this list:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/1620123...

so if you wrote yourself, too bad
You mean some people in a company actually perform below the average of a company?
GitHub Copilot for coding, and ChatGPT for sundry tasks, mostly summarizing and explaining written text. I pay for both of these tools now. ChatGPT seems great in particular for summarizing YouTube videos (I copy and paste a YouTube video transcript) and email newsletters. I also use it alongside reading longform articles to expand on or clarify parts of the article I don't fully understand or want to know more about. You can also ask it follow up questions when using it in this way (e.g. for examples of the concept or thing you don't understand).
As I understand it (I never want notifications so don't have any experience with it), it's only blocking new sites from asking to send notifications. So if you find a site you want notifications from, you can change that back to "Ask" temporarily, allow for that site, and then change back to "Block" for all sites by default.

Note that that behavior might be different on mobile vs. desktop browsers, but again, I don't really know how to test, sorry.
I love how conveniently on-premise kubernetes is missing. Or self-managed in the cloud.

The whole point of kubernetes is to not think about your servers anymore because they in essence can be replaced at any time. This would only provide absolute vendor lock-in.

Of course you can use any external service there is (like a database) but you should never put all your eggs into one basked and trust only one hoster. The principle remains the same: its just someone elses computer.

Storage and networking are solved in a lot of places at a fraction of the cost and that is really just the beginning., but also the whole point of the exercise: to be able to move your workloads from wherever to wherever
Your link shows an extremely outlier case, which is the absolute cheapest car available (not a representative or average car) compared to the median income (which is different from inflation).

It's easy to look up prices for something average though. A 1990 Toyota Camry was $11,588 MSRP [1]. A 2022 Toyta Camry is $25,395 MSRP [2]. That's a nominal increase of 119%. Meanwhile, the CPI increase from 1990 to 2022 was 124%.

So, a Toyota Camry has decreased slightly in price, in real terms. But it's also a better car, e.g. the 1990 one got you 24 MPG combined, while the 2022 gets you 32 MPG combined. Not to mention a host of other improvements over more than two decades.

So your assertion that cars cost double even after inflation doesn't seem to hold up, at least not for an average representative car, from the data I'm able to pull.

[1] https://www.jdpower.com/cars/1990/toyota/camry/4-door-sedan

[2] https://www.kbb.com/toyota/camry/2022/

[3] https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...

[4] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/6763.shtml

[5] https://www.mariettatoyota.com/2022-toyota-camry-mpg/
The article mentions it:

> Obesity and bad diets can impact sperm count. But the US, a world center of obesity, seems to be doing better than many less obese countries, and countries like China and France that have maintained relatively low rates of obesity and overweight seem heavily affected. If modern diets are the problem, then it has to be something more insidious than obvious you-are-very-fat obesity - unless you want to use the “all regional comparisons are too low sample size for us to care” card.
The molecules in water are more dense than in air. They are talking about density not ratio (PPM)
My issue with the word sanction is that it is not really defined other than "cripiling" so I have no idea what it is actually doing. It also means that the individuals are not directly being punished. I have the same feeling towards Congress when they censure someone. Ooooohh, you've used a big word to say you didn't like something someone did/said. Big whoop. It means nothing. It's not even as scary as being sent to timeout.

Then again, the website told me "Your browser is set to private mode. To continue reading, log in or subscribe." so I was unable to read the full article. Whether I'm in private mode or not is none of their damn business.
The circuit board for a UPS and the board for a motherboard aren't really the same. One is designed for high voltage/high current and conformal coated in epoxy. The later has much tighter tolerances and is optimized for low voltages/high frequencies. And it's probably not conformal coated.
> Is it because of this intense fear of getting a job that was starting to emerge when I was young and seems to have really taken off since?

Something odd, that I haven't seen many folks talk about, is that a lot of jobs are tacitly considered "beneath them" for Gen Z who grow up in middle class or higher affluence families. This is despite the fact that their parents don't think this, but the kids see a lifestyle on social media and an expectation that they have set for themselves that is not realistic and refuse to accept anything less. My own teenager is going through something similar, and it's a huge argument every time we talk about her getting a summer job. The type of work I did (stocking shelves and later running a till at a grocery store) when I was her age appalls her, even though it was by my standards pretty easy since at least I was inside in the air conditioning while working during the summer.

At the same time, hardly anyone in Gen Z would dare utter any statement that might be considered to be classist, because many Gen Zers believe in some chopped up Marxist fantasy, and consider classism one of the deadly sins, saying that those jobs are beneath them and they think they're better than the kids who take those jobs would get them cancelled. But that's exactly what they're thinking. They all want to be YouTubers or influencers, not the person who works the drive through at McDonald's.
The work of a master craftsman using the most basic hand tools is still leagues ahead of any amateur with advanced tools, automation, fancy CNC, and lasers. Mass production is where the tech would favour that amateur. We are surrounded by cheap mass-produced disposable products and are well aware of their low quality. No gourmet chef should be threatened by the efficiency of McDonald's. Fortunately, our software systems are custom artifacts with zero marginal cost of reproduction. AI will make competent programmers more productive and take expert programmers to new levels.

One transformation will come when a single developer can do the work of a team of ten today. Like solo content creators who no longer need large studios to finance and organise massive production teams and expensive equipment, we'll see more independent developers and small teams creating innovative software with some artistic character. Without the drag of management and upfront financing, the threshold for success will be much lower.

Another will be a market for lemons. Employers will have to find ways to establish competence at building high quality, understandable and maintainable systems. AI can already pass Leetcode-style tests so these are clearly not the right measures.

This is my best optimistic take on things. The rest of the time I'm worried the AI is coming for our jobs.
It sounds like you're describing my experience with Seattle's public transit system. As much as I want to love it, driving almost anywhere in the city was faster (even taking into account time to find parking). Not to mention, in my own car I don't have to deal with (other peoples') pee and needles.
The SysV name is also attached to a set of old and strange interprocess communication primitives:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/sysvipc.7.html

Unix has a bigger range of IPC mechanisms than i think most people realise. Everyone knows about internet sockets and pipes. Most people know about shared memory, named pipes, and unix domain stream sockets. But how many people know about unix domain datagram sockets, or POSIX message queues?
> Some frameworks have a hosted CDN option, but I’m similarly uncomfortable accepting that infrastructural dependency. Ideally, I’d just grab the framework files, import them from my JavaScript, and then carry on with my file:// URL.

I mean, you can literally just download the files to a folder on your computer. It's not like it stops working just because it's not hosted on a javascript cdn
This is true. You can really feel by the road surface that you've crossed the border with Belgium or Germany. Netherland isn't just about bikes; it tries to make sure all forms of transport all well-served. Public transport could be better, though.
> Wow. That seems such a sad and limiting way to live your life.

Mostly true in my experience. I used to get away a lot more when I had a car and could just decide to hit the road whenever I wanted than I do now that I either have to rent or plan earlier and buy train tickets. It's purely friction linked by the way. I could still do all the things I did and it would actually cost me less money in the end. I just don't.
True, those things happen but the person I replied to made it sound like the WWW was designed with that purpose in mind
This is pretty cool.

It kinda confirms that it's all just turtles, all the way down.
I agree that it’s hard to represent groups accurately, but I don’t think your “person who knows what they’re talking about” falls reasonably within bounds of anyone’s “anti-car” definition. For one, it’s not actually an anti-car argument, it’s a pro-cycling argument and lots of Americans favor safer cycling without getting anywhere near anti-car. Moreover, every identifiably anti-car community I’m aware of (e.g., r/fuckcars) has a tone that is more akin to your “Americans are evil” example—are there identifiably anti-car communities that embody your former example?
Pretty good summary of what's happened over the past couple months. Will be really interesting to see if new products come out to try and detect AI generated content
Every single one of those "high salary" jabs includes Insurance and Pension contributions and force overtime. That's the equivalent of saying an employee earning $90,000 is actually earning around $200,000 because of UI, Healthcare, and 401k plan spend by an employer.
Sure, you can define it that way, but then you can't claim that it's an instance of gender inequality.
Hrm, I guess I _am_ getting older. Now that I think about it, I have owned a car for about 35 years. When I got the first one, used, it was $500. Insurance was high, but not insane like today (my children do not drive, as I can not afford the insurance). I recall that back then (we had BBSs, FIDOnet and USENET groups) it was still an item that gave you freedom. You needed it to visit people or go to the cafe which was far away.

I think as time progresses, I have truly learned to dislike my car(s). Insurance where I am is out of control (one of the highest in the nation), a new car is so far out of reach it is not funny, and used ones cost far more than the last new car I purchased. I think as others have noted, there may be a number of factors leading to people not wanting them... A few young people I know do not have cars, when asked the reasons are typically money (biggest one) and pure need / desire. I think when we were young it was as symbol of freedom. I think now it is (rightfully so) either a status symbol to some, or a ball and chain that costs money just sitting in your driveway (maintenance, depreciation, insurance).
Anytime it looks like we're going extinct, then we should prioritize finding wtf is happening. People should be freaking a lot more given this is trending to kill us before climate change.
It really is a "the grass is bleaker on the other side" situation. As a public transport person I feel weirdly constrained by the idea that a day's itinerary will inevitably have to see me return to wherever the car is parked, impossible to do spontaneous things like walk a few stops, ride with an acquaintance or something like that that would eventually take me home, but not return to some previous stage. With a car, everything that happens outside the car is inevitably out-and-back. A car person will never miss that little freedom because they don't know it and objectively it's truly not that big an issue. But if you are not used to the pattern of always returning to wherever you parked it can feel surprisingly limiting. Similar things apply in the reverse, to a public transport person it's just natural to mentally map out a city's topology in units of line changes required, but a car person will feel outrageously constrained.
There are plenty of advances in cars that are well worth it. I'm not against "improving materials to make things work better". I'm against adding tech that makes things work worse.
Compare 2^t, where t takes values from [1, 2, 3, 4], with t^2 over the same set of values. The results are closer than you might expect.