skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As mentioned in the article, many companies are posting record profits

It's easy to post record profits when dollars are worth 60 cents.

How much have their margins gone up?

Margins go up and down all the time.
Suddenly the EU’s ruling about AI: “you’ve got to be able to describe how it behaves” becomes a lot more powerful.
It's not sudden, I've hated them since they've existed with only a handful of exceptions such as gmail. Most things on the web would be better without them.
> The platform alone has ~100k of solar on it

I’m unfamiliar with solar panels in this application, but would each panel really be $6,250? That’s >20x premium over panels used for terrestrial application for use on a platform that would have little dynamic load.
1) They are more fragile / have more bugs and don't get tested properly, because it is more work for most "applications"

2) They're slow to start

3) They usually lack a good UX (deeplinks, hijacking links, etc)
Hunter douglas. Takes 12 AA batteries and has lasted two years so far.
Cool as heck. Frama-C is quite tempting, could you share any resources on how you got started w/ it?
yeah but this balloon wasn’t doing sunny day photo flybys, it was up in the stratosphere and couldn’t even be controlled predictably
No one needs SSRs.

- The SEO argument is long dead.

- Client devices are sufficiently performant for anything you throw at it. Yes, even the $100 Chinese Android smartphones that taxi drivers in India use.

- The last argument I've heard is "I don't want to expose a JSON API to the world", but that's false security because scraping a web page is not difficult.
Huge! Congrats team and Colin in particular :)
Surprisingly close. I’ve had plenty of intel apps run faster on an M1 Mac than a recent intel MacBook.
Nope they are tiring.
This feels charmingly naive. The SEC is getting $300 million per year from TV rights to football games. Surely the marginal amount donated by athletes versus non-athletes is not the reason we've ended up with the college sports industrial complex.
Because like all fads with narrow applicability, idiots in big enterprise assume that All New Things Must Become the Only Way.

At $dayjob I regularly see "SPAs + microservices" getting deployed for static content that could have been literally just HTML, CSS, and JPG files.

I've seen a design recently for a trivial app that had two Kubernetes clusters in the architecture diagram. Two!

Not to mention that virtually all SPAs are infected by Node and NPM, directly or indirectly. JavaScript package management seemed "so easy" at first, and has slowly but inevitably morphed in a nightmare.

Minutes of CPU time was insufficient to disentangle the dependency graph of one particular Angular app in the effort to upgrade its packages. If hundreds of billions of machine instructions aren't up to the task, a squishy meat brain definitely isn't either.

Maybe SPAs are a great idea if they are your only product and are truly used to develop web applications that are constantly maintained. For corporate web sites they're idiotic beyond belief.
I think “for many people” is more like “for a minority of people.”

For a few people losing weight is complex. For most people, it’s simple.

Eat less. Move more.

Saying otherwise is a cop out.
Indeed, John Cleese might do a good job of making fun of our government in this instance. He was quite on point with his poke at NFTs, I wouldn't put it past him understanding the nuance in these issues.
> bun's binary is around 90 MB right now

This made me curious, so I checked out bun's repo and it's 217k lines of Zig (ignoring the other languages). Can you share what Zig's build times are like for a project that size?
I did not until now haha!
But now I do.

Someone else mentioned “natural selection” as well
It’s amazing what you can do when everyone is socialized into a consistent set of values from childhood, and raised by parents who were socialized the same way. It’s a marvelous society—coming back from Tokyo to New York City is viscerally upsetting. It’s very sad to see the situation they’re in.
helpful chart for you: https://www.statista.com/chart/12352/price-developments-duri...
You are demonstrating scary level of Moral Confusion.

CIA operates in the National interest, at least hypothetically. Google can operate against national interest to make money, or 'whoever pays most' interest.

The people of USA have granted CIA privileges of secrecy and legal protections explicitly to do ShadyShit. No-one ever gave Google permission to do ShadyShit.

CIA employees go through background checks, US Gov can fire head of CIA for being a dick. Google hires whoever the fuck they want and US government can't fire head of Google no matter what he does.

If Google is ever found doing 1% of what CIA does legally (and there ain't much!), they need to be in jail real fast.
Yeah but the different is that the drop shipping course is typically marketed in a misleading way that misrepresents how much one stands to gain.
Anything that requires some kind of SEO is a dumb idea for a SPA. If you're making Jira or something, a SPA makes sense. The issue is, the bovine tech herd sees new thing and applies new thing to everything. Everything is React now. Now we have news websites as SPAs, the worst possible use case for a SPA.
I drink whatever the local barista pulls. The value I get from coffee is in the five minute walk and the minor social interaction. We've got an espresso machine at home, but ending up with a physical cup of coffee is the least important part of buying one.

When my mother was younger and coffee was first entering mainstream Australian culture, she claims cafes used to serve instant coffee. When I was younger I used to think this was an abomination, but now I totally understand.
The API is mature but usage is not. I still see cases where companies screwed up state management on at least weekly basis so clearly the SPA-building community is still lagging behind where the server-side world was three decades ago.
What I want is a Reason prop.
$100k of solar? 360w panels are sub-$300 at full retail prices. So that's under $5k of panels (unless you're including batteries in the calculation, but even then, it's maybe $10k).
I think that is the problem with modern dating. There is too much information and too many choices available so that it is easy to reject someone for something that is obviously trivial. In the olden days you would sometimes fall for someone as you got to know them better, even if they had a few flaws that made them seem imperfect. There is a great Russian movie "Moscow does not believe in tears" where the heroine says she will never date a man with dirty shoes. She meets a man with messy shoes.. (spoiler) eventually they fall in love.
Me too. These days most of it fails to read like the old days (90's) but maybe that's just me. It is always fun seeing the pictures of the phones / phonebooths.
The excess labor seeking productive pursuits is a driving force more so than the state of the companies doing the layoffs.
Sorry, but this is false. It entirely depends on your circumstances. Four soccer meets per week and soccer games sixty miles away is not a necessary thing in a child’s life. If they’re into it and you can make it work, that’s great, but this is hardly the only option.

It seems like you have a notion of what a high standard of living is that isn’t actually shared by everyone. I’m looking forward to raising my kid in the city with the absolute minimum amount of car dependency that I can manage.
You want below market value talent,
you will need to hunt.

Every good developer knows what money they can get. If a good dev is working for $50k a year in eastern europe it is because they love the job for some other reason or do not want to work for a foreign company.

If you want cheap and good you need to turn off a filter the mainstream uses.
At least it's better than LION (evoLved sIgn mOmeNtum).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06675
IIRC, Yubikeys support some form of attestation. You could use this to determine whether or not the Yubikey was a genuine one from the Yubico organization.
I just finished Anathem and felt like the first eighty percent needed a story editor to cut that down, and there were alot of places where he slipped and let some modern tone into the narration instead of speaking consistently in character for the narrator.
That's where I thought it was going, but no it is the end of love, not the end of dating or online dating, but the end of love.
Except that it's not just like a normal link. It's a button dressed up as a link. A translinkingbutton, very current in this this time of age, I hop I don't offend any buttons.

What happens if you press shift? or cmd? and in which browsers / OSes? What if you use enter to open links, will it have a tabstop? What about accessibility. You're in essence re-creating the many parts of the webbrowser.

> The hate for single page apps is about bad ones. Which are unfortunate common

That's the same reason people hate php and c++

You can make great things with both..
There is no sudden about it, SPA's are yet another one of the so-called "modern web" cancers of the Internet. They go completely against the protocols and architecture they run on and the only reason why they became so popular to begin with is because of all the hype from the big business, like so much else.

A web application or a website, by its very nature, is a series of small requests. When someone sends all requests in one big lump of a page, they have just defeated this very important architecture. Not to talk about the fact that they break searching on pages and a whole lot of other things.
Money velocity is an important part of inflation as well.

Back in 2008 during the financial crisis, the Fed printed a ton of money and used it to buy crappy mortgages. However, banks were worried about solvency and the Fed was paying interest on reserves the bank kept with them - as a result the "extra" money never made it into the system right away.

It's like trying to light a fire and when it doesn't start pouring more gasoline on it. It will eventually light, but if you've poured a ton of gas on it by then it's going to burn fast.
Seems like this should have been posted as "Show HN"?
Would it surprise to learn that among the worlds nations the US ranks 76th in the number of military personel per capita? North Korea is #1 with 306 military personel per 1000 citizens. The US is 6.3/1000. The US is sandwiched between Namibia (#75) and Belize (#77).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...

Its also #22 in military spending as a percentage of GDP. However the US is #3 in per capita military spending.
That’s fine. Judges in this case are instructed or instruct juries to, assume the missing evidence is maximally damaging for the defendant.
> I have been on first dates with 107 people in the past five years, without securing a long-term love relationship with anyone

Time to take a good look in the mirror, honey.
> sometimes make me want to give up coffee, just to avoid having a common experience with those people.

This is my favourite sentence that I’ve read in weeks.
Was it the same UK government that put Turing into jail?
CBD and CBC Can Kill Head and Neck Cancer Cells
Are there any side effects to LDN? Or just general unusual effects from having it in your body constantly? Is it rough on the liver at all?
Something I have been wishing for: a game where pre-GPS-based navigation is a (possibly, the) major mechanic.
> Are you looking to be delighted by words rather than ideas? Perhaps I'm extrapolating a bit here,

Possibly! Prose style is pretty important to me. On the other hand, that's not something I generally complain about with Stephenson. Even when he misfires, the result is usually entertaining. Being bland is a bigger sin, IMO, and not one he commits often.

I think the two go hand-in-hand for me. Having both is best, but I'll take either.

> but you seem you like your complex language constructs, so to speak?

Hah, my writing style owes to more to me not taking the time to edit that I should. Also ADHD. Probably both.

> English is a second language to me. I wonder if isn't also a factor.

Hm. I don't know! I could see some of the sections being a real slog, though.

> The ideas in Snow Crash where really the most important things.. next to brilliant writing style (the deliverator...).

I love the collection of ideas, it was a fun bit of sci-fi! I just felt like it was missing something to really make it fit together better.

I agree that the writing is a ton of fun in it too, I love the opening bit describing how the Uncle Enzo's Pizza company runs a whole battery of experiments to try and understand why people are so aggressive about late pizza. I think about this stretch and laugh very hard every once in a while: "... [Uncle Enzo's Pizza's researchers] studied their brain waves as they showed them choppy, inexplicable movies of porn queens and late-night car crashes and Sammy Davis, Jr., put them in sweet-smelling, mauve-walled rooms and asked them questions about Ethics so perplexing that even a Jesuit couldn’t respond without committing a venial sin."
Yeah, but he's asserting legal partnership formation occurs when people are engaged in a common enterprise, which is essentially applying the standard of conspiracy to corporate formation. The fact that he's parallel litigating the case on twitter at the same time as in court makes him look pretty cranky.

But who am I to question the 'Creator of Bitcoin. Eternal student and researcher. nChain Chief Scientist. Lawyer, economist, pastor, investor, mathematician, Husband.' You think an octopus is smart, wobbling around on its 8 legs? This guy is good at 9 things.
Banks to ChatGPT: Please Leave Before We Call Security
Sort of. There are a bunch of places in the safe API where you have to care. Off the top of my head:

- Lock poisoning and dealing with locks failing to open because they’re poisoned after some other thread panics.

- The whole scoped thread thing.

- Panics across async calls have a bunch of unintuitive (but reasonable once you think through the constraints!) behaviors.

It all comes down to the same thing: a function call could return or it could panic. Even when writing safe code, you have to know what you’re doing to do in case of panic. Usually that’s just passing the panic upward*, but not always, and those behaviors aren’t well-captured in the type system. Because of that, writing truly panic-free Rust is hard to impossible.

I don’t have a better answer than the panicking system. But you do have to care even in safe code, and it is a design weakness.

* I know about panic handlers and abort-on-panic. It doesn’t change the overall point.
> The platform will include an Android container allowing third parties to build Android applications that will be available in an independent app store.

Now that's pretty interesting -- being able to mod your car via APKs!
Calling expansion of the monetary supply and the resulting inflation "bunk" is hilarious.

There are so many examples of inflation driven by monetary policy (Germany in the 1930's, Argentina, Venezuela, Vietnam) that denying the impact of money supply is just burying your head in the sand.
The first two paragraphs are full of red flags and it just gets worse as the article goes on.
Would you pay to rent a car for 5 days if you were only going to drive it for 2 days? You wouldn't, because you care about your own money. Why is it that we pretend like "shareholders" are these mythical beasts that are different than us? I have money in the stock market. You probably do as well. Why does your money suddenly become ok to waste if it's invested in a company?

5 days a week, yes, everyone gets their own desk. You don't want them having their productivity hurt by being crammed in like sardines. But in this case, let's be real. Nobody but the most OCD germophobe is going to have lower productivity because they are sitting in a desk that someone else was in a day before.
For major life decisions, I do. Don't you?

Public policy affects millions of lives. I don't think enumerating 1st order or 2nd order effects is too onerous. And if it is, that's why government officials have assistants and interns.
Those conditions sing exist now.

Who cares what the RBA rate is, let's talk about what mortgagees are paying on loans now.

If the Australian government wanted to take money out of the supply it could, for example, (temporarily?) increase the GST and use that tax revenue to either / both pay back government debt or use it to ... pay public servants more.

This concept that "the RBA only has one tool" is true as far as it goes, but obviously not the only way of tackling the issue.
I've built so many spa's in virtually every popular framework.

I'm over it. Even the simplest SPAs end up being way more effort than they are worth IMO. I'd write thin API layers and it seemed great.

Recently though. I moved to all backend with some jQuery. I render all the views on the backend and if they need to be swapped out I make a simple ajax call to pull the rerendered days and swap the div. It's like 2 lines of code for me.

Everything is so much faster, primarily because JS has so many gotchas. And so many times where you wonder "wait why isn't the data right here? Shouldn't this have blown up".

There is no appreciable difference to the user here but I can work in a backend lang and sparingly use JS and it's a pleasure.
Or you could watch the video where he actually said it, while justifying his identifying as white again, because by previously identifying as black, he accidentally joined a hate group. The story isn't about the poll, it's about Scott Adams.
And yet hardly any SPAs manage to use it
because they're probably involved in making the list in the first place =)
I know the whole “land shouldn’t vote” thing is used to criticize the electoral college, but within the state what exactly are you referring to? I can’t think of any mechanism that wouldn’t be a simple tyranny of the majority but it sounds like you’re implying something more sinister.
I found the one we like: Medaglia d’oro. It sounds fancy but it’s pretty common and minimally more expensive than basic instant coffee.

A couple years ago I tried a taste test of many and we liked that one the best.
It wasn't always defined that way.

Honest effort and intent was at least somewhat common on both sides of paid service at one point.

Honor is a dead concept.
Fuckin A you are not wrong. If I went on 10 dates and couldn’t find someone I would be looking inward.
Like, a shot of amaro would be my assumption of the modal stated bartender preference, and a shot of OGD or VOB would be my guess on the revealed preference. The bottle of beer I sort of doubt.
> should I be more worried that there's something invisibly going wrong there?

I have no experience with those tuners, but, absolutely. There's no way that some heuristics can generalise to every possible distribution you feed in. But if the distribution is "sufficiently" nice (which is your responsibility to ensure) then presumably they will work.
I despise them. I'm convinced that they became "cool" purely for two reasons:

1.) Bosses loved the feeling of superiority they had by having their own office but everyone else is sitting out in the open where they can easily see them all and bother them at a moment's notice.

2.) Fresh out of college grads would see them and get this feeling of a cool, buzzing, hypersocial hive that made them feel all good inside.
Because you aren't defining the word, "war".

The invasion in 2014 was generally limited to Crimea. After that, Russia held its ground, allowing some level of peace and stability.

The current war, that includes active invasion of the entire country, started in 2022. The conflict began much earlier, but semantically, "war" is generally inferred to mean the current conflict specifically.
That's not just a guy's name? Was I confusing him with Robert Scoble the whole time?

…Robert Scoble was accused of sexual assault and later converted to Islam?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scoble

I'm learning so much from Wikipedia today.
I think you misunderstand what an SPA is. It also sends a series of requests as you navigate the website. It doesn't break search because everything is rendered to HTML.
> and wouldn't they be wearing gloves anyway?

Pro-tip, Android phones can usually take a photo by double-pressing power and then using volume up or down as shutter button. Works without unlocking, easy to do with gloves on or in the dark.
He also says in the video "I used to identify as black because I want to be on the winning team" and "If you're white, just stay away from black people"
> A web application or a website, by its very nature, is a series of small requests. When someone sends all requests in one big lump of a page, they have just defeated this very important architecture.

This whole take is just bizarre. Literally none of this matters to users except to the extent that it affects performance. While I would agree that many/most SPAs are implemented extremely poorly and inefficiently for reasons relating to what you're talking about it, and that that poorness spans both technical faults and UX problems, it's a very myopic view to complain that the foremost function of the web should be to rigidly adhere to a particular set of architectural patterns that are in flux and often outdated by modern standards.
Just a slightly high ferritin measure. The concern was that I was already a very frequent donor (platelets, which you can donate more often), and if I stopped it could potentially be really bad.

But it was nothing. Just a slightly off scale number, unusual but not dangerous.
I’ve never heard of this guy before, but it sounds like he had an amazing life and invented his own solutions to life’s obstacles. Makes me laugh to think of the minor inconveniences I’ve allowed to dissuade me from pursuing something.

These were inconveniences that already had solutions available, no inventions required!
Whenever this “SSR vs SPA” question comes up, I feel like it’s the wrong question to ask, because neither is ideal.

Server rendered or static sites make sense in some specific use cases (e.g docs, blogs), but even for those classic use cases they’re not ideal (e.g full page reloads every time).

On the other hand, SPAs make sense in some specific use cases (e.g Gmail) but even for those classic use cases they’re not ideal (e.g first render takes time).

I think we always need both server and client rendering, regardless of the use case, and the question we need to ask is how can we achieve this in an ergonomic way.

There’s some progress being made there (e.g Next.js) but I feel like it’s not quite there yet.
What's their point? That they should not be open source? Or should not be allowed to ever launch a paid product? Or be forced to add a pricing page that...goes nowhere?
jQuery codebases are great at 2 LOC and complete nightmares at 2M LOC.
Imagine if this was reversed and mobile apps suddenly started switching to SSR. Instead of downloading the app once and making lightweight JSON requests (analogous to what SPAs are doing), they froze for seconds while the next page is rendered on the server while losing all of the local state that you had typed in. Sure would be a lot of hate for that when they have been working fine for a decade. You'd probably argue, that it sounds like that is just a bad implementation of SSR. Not all SSR is like that surely?

This is how silly this weekly SPA vs SSR debate is.
I remember reading Robert Manry's Tinkerbelle[1] as a child, and ever since have had something of a fascination with the idea of sailing solo; although at my now-fairly-advanced age I accept that I'm going to keep my ambitions severely in check.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkerbelle
U-2 isn't just some random plane. They wear essentially space suits. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a30362885...
It’s slow. Why make a user make multiple round trips to fetch the page’s data versus serving it online?

Spinners stink.
> Literally none of this matters to users

Users prefer the hypertext model to opaque blobs.