skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “force installing it for millions,...

Quite the framing. Some of us consider this to be an amazing feature. I have approximately zero hours per day available to manage machine images and 3rd party integration bullshit.

Do any of these antitrust proponents ever consider the value that many small businesses and startups are able to extract by being able to do everything with one simple bundled offering?

I get the argument and the principles of competition, but can we look at the bundling as a feature in and of itself as well? Should we make the IT experience of SMBs worse on purpose to satisfy the ideological curiosities and principles of a select few participants? Could I frame this as big business trying to indirectly oppress small business?
> most people don’t actually do much work at work and that it was all one big game

This much is true. Most people don't do much work at work. The difference between working in the office and working remote is that when you're at the office, your "pretend to work" time is spent discreetly browsing social media on your phone. When you're at home, you can spend it on things more conducive to your health like going to the gym or walking your dog.

I have a hypothesis that the top 10% of performers (could really be as little as 1%) in society are usually very upset by the fact that 90% of people want to do as little work as possible, and those top 10% performers are holding the rest of us hostage via in-office requirements and constant electronic monitoring, but I think since 2020 these people are now losing that battle and the 90% no longer have to pretend to give a shit what the 10% think anymore
Do you have any studies you can point me toward on this?

A quick pubmed search of `("cluster headache" OR "migraine") AND ("dmt" or "dimethyltryptamine"), 14 results, has nothing relevant.

Not all truth is published -- but I frequently see poor claims of using psilocybin ("magic mushrooms") to treat migraine/cluster headache, of which, the clinical effects are potentially dubious [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] in particular which I believe to be an effect driven by the desperation for treatment [6], [7] when nothing else has worked.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22129843/
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33184743/
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35718005/
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16801660/
[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36597700/
[5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36416492/
[6] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28870224/
[7] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30290701/

I get really worried about people suggesting psychoactive drugs with no clinical proof for it :(
US Constitution worship on HN has to be, for me, one of the great disappointments for a community that regards its intelligence so highly.

The constitution is a piece of paper; it’s not internally consistent and not even rational.
> LISP would be a more practical language if it included a trivial option to make that possible.

If you're using SLIME: M-x restart-inferior-lisp
Ask HN: How could a programmer contribute to your industry?
I'd really like to operate at the intersection of software engineering and another field but after programming for 20+ years, mostly as a full stack dev, I believe I lack any useful knowledge of other industries.

I was thinking to spend an hour or two daily over the next few years to delve into a new domain, like chemistry, biology, nanorobotics, etc.

What challenges do you face in your industries that could potentially be alleviated by software? What software solutions do you think are missing? Do you deal with any frustrating, yet essential software? Which fields do you think hold promise?

I'm also keen on understanding the intricacies of your industries. What exactly do you do, discover, or create?
The other comments pretty well address both of those points.

I'd be glad to see more information as regards the conditions which lead to that conclusion
Nice format.

A previous iteration was legalisation vs decriminalization of cannabis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TPaCsQVwA8
I'd argue: no. There's more to life than money and academic achievement, and good parents will convey that to their kids. Nobody needs billions of dollars to be happy. I taught myself programming because I enjoyed it, and now I have a job that I enjoy (that happens to pay really well as well).
HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook. I don't use it for "light" programming, I just use it for anything. I picked this hardware because the display backlight is extremely bright and it can be used outdoors under any conditions.
Is the US still the largest user of energy in the world? How about per capita?

My guess is that it is up there, so why bother pointing the finger elsewhere?
I envy job where you think a database is something fancy and hard to do...
If you are screwed either way, then it's not surprising that people choose the option where they don't have to work hard.
Hello! From your perspective, how does Neon compare with Planetscale's offering? (Beyond the core MySQL vs Postgres differences)

If someone has a bit of experience with both MySQL and Postgres and isn't attached to either, is there a differentiating factor between Neon and Planetscale offerings?

Or are they close enough that it's essentially a MySQL vs Postgres decision?
We are doomed.

But a lot of people have decided, that before the system finally collapses they could be parasites on the system. And it is hard to blame the people for making this rational decision.

Late stage capitalism looks very much like Soviet Union in 80-ties. The economy doesn't make sense, the system is wasteful, no one believes in official propaganda, there are no values that you could follow. But a little guy can at least take it easy and relax a bit.

As the saying goes - They are pretending that they are paying us fair wages, and we are pretending that we are working.
I meant incidentally. As in, the general population gets those diseases almost only because of sugar, while they can get them by other means.
It's not something that I would do (this font is not my style), but I'm not the one who spent hundreds on a font. Maybe it will work out for whoever runs this blog.
Q2 2023 Internet disruption summary
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/watchlist_br... answers in detail
It was a tool of political influence before he killed it and the journalists who would cover and amplify political figures left because it is no longer interesting.

But, then again, "woke mind virus"--the cope, it's real.
Hmm, I'll need to make sure that GitHub's Stavros... retires, then.
Gotta cash in the buzz word somehow.
Just got back from 2 separate trips to Europe with an iPhone 14 pro (eSIM only US model). The first trip I landed in Germany, remembered I needed a phone plan when I landed, and got a 1 month unlimited plan on DT using the airport Wi-Fi and was good to go. For the 2nd trip to France I downloaded a short traveler plan eSIM to my phone before leaving and activated when I got off the plane.

In both cases it was easier than dealing with physical SIMs. Also there was no concern about how many slots the phone had, it can even store extra non-active eSIMs on top of having your two active ones.
This take certainly feels like a perspective only someone entrenched in organized religion could put forward. It is far more courageous, progressive, empowering, and inspirational for a victim of abuse to actively identify and oust their abusers than slump into the type of passivity you advocate for here.

There is inherent destructive energy in pinpointing abuse. It’s destructive because these “belief systems” and more general social structures are amazingly, regularly built on top of that abuse. The abuse is a part of it - they go hand-in-hand. It reproduces the power structure of the system. The more people that know, the more the foundational rot is exposed, the more obvious it becomes that the entire thing needs to be torn down.
> Right, you need to create it and clean it up before or after every test, but that's a lot cheaper than having to stub everything related to the db.

Depends on the bringup cost, although templates help there (create a baseline database, then copy it for each test).
This is a great way to make everyone angry.

People asking questions will be angry because the bot okayed the question, why did the mods close it without discussion?

Mods will be angry because why did the bot okay stupid questions?

And it doesn't even go into the meat of the problem - stack overflow is supposed to allow everyone, including its competitors, free access to all the questions and answers.
The questions and answers belong to the users, not to the CEO of stack overflow.

My conspiracy theory is Joel Spolsky saw the writing on the wall long ago:

> The company has been growing, too. Today we are profitable. We have almost 300 amazing employees worldwide and booked $70m in revenue last year. We have talent, advertising, and software products. The SaaS products (Stack Overflow for Teams and Enterprise) are growing at 200% a year. That speaks to the fact that we’ve recruited an incredibly talented team that has produced such fantastic results.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2019/03/28/the-next-ceo-of-st...

I think this hn comment summarizes it best

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36890672

--

> In May I wrote about Stack Overflow's business, which lost $42 million over 6 months and had just laid off 10% of its employees. Since then, the company's fiscal year-end results came out. Despite growing revenue, it lost $84 million over the year ending on March 31, 2023.

Thank god Wikipedia isn’t run like Stack Overflow. As an end user, they have pretty much the same value proposition: user generated answers to my questions. Wikipedia is still doing well, meanwhile it seems SO is constantly being driven off a cliff by bimbos in management.

Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn. SO is an information repository. They need to accept that stop trying to “enhance” it with more crap because they don’t realize their median user is a junior dev who really just needs to serialize a Java object and isn’t going to pay or put up with any LLM-generated nonsense.

SO doesn’t need large language models. What they really need is a better model of what answers are good, what answers are outdated, and what answers should be expanded to include more info (and sometimes, what answers should be slimmed down a bit). Turn the top answer to popular questions into a wiki so that everyone can update it. And then add backlinks for questions which were closed for being “duplicates”. It solves so many problems SO has.

Another thing. This “comments aren’t for extended discussion” nonsense needs to go too. Any question could easily include a Reddit-style discussion tab to facilitate discussion. I’m sure much of it would be at least as valuable as the answers themselves.
It does now: https://github.com/karpathy/llama2.c#metas-llama-2-models
> Rails on the front-end" has been solved

And that's when it's even needed at all, in many cases server side rendering is perfectly fine and serves the user better than a shoddy SPA justified by the only concern of SSR being "obsolete"
Routing information now on Cloudflare Radar
Yes, that is quite literally what is happening...

Rent prices have gone up 17% since 2021, and average household income have stayed the same.

And people are going homeless! Single-person homelessness up 3% since 2020, and chronic homelessness has gone up 16% since 2020. All per HUD.
With the system you propose, the state would positively know that "citizen 24601 is being age verified at ObscenePornForConsentingAdults.com".

The ISP, with SNI implemented, would only be able to tell the state that "a device connected through this physical location accessed a server through Cloudflare".
What it would take is for hard work to actually be rewarded. As is, I know many people who have to work multiple grinding jobs and still barely make ends meet.
Did you mean Peter principle?
Isn't China massively rolling out China and nuclear as well? It feels like their coal usage is bridging, rather than permanent.
Someone had probably paid McKinsey millions of dollars for a sentence like that.
Short answer: they don't. A residential transformer has an input connection to a 'hot' and the neutral line. The neutral connection just isn't as obvious, because it may be to the body of the transformer itself.
Me too. The biggest issue is size. Fonts are cut to be typeset at certain sizes.

Kerning depends on size. The smaller the font is displayed, the more it likely it is used for text were uniform looking kerning depends more on the upper third of a character.

However, this page displays the fonts large, very large, depending on what display you look at it.

So this has to be taken into account for the 'solution'. And furthermore, since the display is large, like a headline or logo, the kerning should consider the whole character, not just the upper part.

Lastly that font size may we'll be against the intend of the typographer who cut the resp. font.

I.e. if the font's internal kerning is used, that would then become an unreliable measure for 'correctness'.
> I would think an alien spacecraft carrying the energy and resources needed for interstellar travel (including the return trip) would be pretty obvious and detectable even by amateur astronomers.

I don't think this is true. If an alien ship landed on the moon, we won't know about it. No equipment or resources put in to monitor something like that. Much less all the other planets, moons, and asteroids in the solar system.
> Republican-leaning and Democratic-leaning counties differ in ways other than political party affiliation, such as racial and ethnic composition, rurality, and educational levels, making it difficult to establish whether the differences in COVID-19 death rates are associated with political party affiliation or other differences in county-level characteristics.

So are they hoping people just read the article title, go "heh!", and not think if there's a valid metric or correlation at play?

> Research before the COVID-19 pandemic has also found evidence of higher death rates in Republican-leaning counties than Democratic-leaning counties.

So they found nothing new?
With lisp you typically develop in source files, versioned with Git. The same as any other language. Source files and live development are not mutually exclusive. SLIME can send code snippets from your file over to the REPL for live development. You have your cake and eat it too.

The REPL (or scratch buffer) is typically used for testing/observing. Not the actual source code development. Although it is possible to never write your source code to a file if you're just playing around with a toy experiment.
And with TDD, aren't you ore likely to write code based on the current tests you have, but not code that covers every situation?

Any time writing code, you (should) aim for the general situation and then test it with whatever edge-cases you think of at the time. The REPL lets you live-test. I know many people who dump their REPL history to a file and turn them into tests.
Remember you can mix FP with other paradigms.

For example, feel free to use mutation if it's limited to the implementation of a small function. The function will still be effectively pure (to callers of the function).

Or when implementing "functional core, imperative shell," Gary Bernhardt says he tends to start with imperative code in the shell, then refactor it into the functional core[1].

[1]: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/34866473
This is exactly what GDP means... take everything multiply by price and sum.
It was the first thing they added to IE after years of letting it rot to put something out against the rising popularity of Firefox.
This is critically important when one step of your analysis takes 10+ minutes to run. You want to be able to explore the output and not worry about rerunning all the calculations like a file/IDE based tool would.

Reactive notebooks are nice but I’ve accidentally reran slow SQL queries because I updated an upstream cell and that’s painful (using Pluto, ObservableHQ, and HexComputing).

In practice I never see or create notebooks that don’t run when you push the run-all button, it’s a well understood and easily avoidable issue. It’s probably a local optimum but I’m happy with them.
Applying AI to Stack Overflow to make the site have more relevant content (e.g. tag outdated, apply version info) would be detrimental to their revenue model. Going through all the content on SO and tagging it with the relevant versions the answer applies to would be immensely helpful to users but would make page views fall off a cliff most likely.

I read something recent that the SO revenue is dropping and was showing signs of this before the recent AI push. In my opinion, this is because video is king with younger people and SO is geared towards people with beginner questions. You can find a huge amount of sw dev instructional content on youtube.
I'd want to restart individual components often, probably not the whole system at once.

Basically, whatever eg Google is doing.
Brings their potential market from $$$$$$$ to just $$.

Transportation is a huge industry compared to just ridehailing (which is perhaps just 1% by value).

And investors care about potential market size.
This article makes a good point to the cost curve of competing, and also demonstrates why monopolies are bad as they build barriers to entry into the market to reduce competition. The only way to defeat something that has cornered a market is to change the landscape of the industry. "Search" isn't really search, it's knowledge fulfillment. We don't need to crawl webpages to find information if the paradigm changed to where websites submitted their sitemap to an aggregator with periodic updates. Then it becomes a knowledge network and search becomes "Lookup" instead. I still believe RSS can take out Search; as long as it is expanded to include consumer products, maps, and the like.
I’ll endorse one - been using Airalo for a few years, works great. I prefer using that app to finding someone at the airport to buy a SIM card from.
I have been using eSIMS's for years while traveling. The Internet is unlocked for my entire family for next to nothing. The prices get less expensive every year as well. IMO.

The idea of a phone number is antiquated and I suspect we'll see accelerated movement with a digital identity that you can attach to a stored value to get data for competitive rates.
There is no monopoly, see MegaBus, FlixBus, OurBus, many others, not to mention specific city to city routes. For example, I used to live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN area and there are specific shuttle busses to go to Rochester, MN to go to the Mayo Clinic.

Also, remember the US is huge. The bus usage in a country like Costa Rica (the closest non-US country I have experience with) is very high, but you can go the length of the country in a day. That wouldn't even get you part way across the US, so depending on where you're going it's not even comparable.
I’ll endorse Airalo, they’re amazing. I use them religiously for temp eSIMs while traveling. Would never go back to physical sims.
I owned a Pixelbook Go and it was good but it died after getting only slightly damp, wrecked the keyboard somehow. I can't imagine getting one today since at the same price point you can get the much much faster HP Dragonfly Pro. The only real drawback is the 14" HP is bigger and heavier than the 12" Pixelbooks.
Stop saying that you should never use fill-justified text on the web
>If it's as easy for the origin to do this as it is for the adversary to tap a RNG then what was the point? If it's harder for the origin to figure out my token isn't legit than it was for me to generate one, how is the origin better off?

Because it's less computational intense than serving responses and/or trying to fingerprint malicious actors. It also tells you with near certainty that the request is malicious and future requests from that IP can be blocked.
It's not even true: burning wood is worse than burning coal.
Engine blocks too. If you go to a scrap yard though you’ll be pretty amazed at all of the stuff they’ve got collected and sorted. Metal recycling (compared to, say, electronics recycling or plastic recycling) has a very clear economic model and financial incentives. If you’re demolishing a building or scrapping old machinery it will cost significantly less to recycle the metal (because you get paid decently by the pound) than to take it to a landfill (where you pay by the pound instead).
Brazilian here: you are probably misremembering it, or there was some other kind of deduction happening in your payslip.

And I say this with confidence, because Brazilian tax brackets work progressively, and have worked like that since always, just like every other sane country out there.
As a fan of Dub Syndicate, I didn't know they collaborated, thanks for this info.

Before seeing her live, I hadn't know a lot about her besides "Nothing Compares 2 U" and of course the SNL controversy... realizing much later she had sung Bob Marley's "War" while wearing red, gold, and green.

Just now thinking about her performance of "Vampire" that night is giving me goosebumps. She was a real one.
Which is better, Rust or Go in 2023?
Sounds like you should... open an issue.
telescope.nvim: Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All Lua, All the Time
Simple: don't allow unaligned jumps. Google's NaCl already figured out how to do that ages ago. (Eg you could only allow jumps after a bit-masking operation. Details depends on architecture.)

But yes, unless you solve the halting problem, anything that bans all bad programs will also have false positives. It's the same with type systems in programming languages.
Dolt is working in this space, and I think there is a lot of potential:

https://www.dolthub.com/

One use case I've not heard anyone talk about is modeling/optimization. In my previous role we were managing a bunch of data that all fit nicely in databases (e.g. market prices, timeseries data from facilities, optimization model structure) but had no good tools to summarize "what changed from last week" when the optimization models would spit out something unusual.
I was going to disagree with you, until I re-read and noticed the word "intrinsic".

I would say that language popularity is highly correlated with the actual usefulness of the language. But "actual usefulness" covers far more than the "intrinsic qualities" of the language. It also covers the scope and quality of the standard libraries, the third-party libraries, the available tools like compilers, IDEs, and debuggers (which may be third-party), available documentation and training, and people available to hire who know the language. Of those items I listed, the only parts that could be considered "intrinsic" are the standard libraries and the tooling that comes with the language by default.
> always about breaking up families and jailing minorities and leftists

Possible, but unlikely. It's a shameful legacy that disproportionately affected minorities, but it's unlikely the original Nixon war on drugs was a direct assault on hippies and Blacks. More likely, Nixon was simply terrified of drugs [0] and overreacted and this bad policy was extended by future presidents for decades. The canard about targeting specific demographics originates with John Ehrlichman in a 2016 Harper's story [1]. Ehrichman had a real grudge for doing jail time for Watergate. Nixon's own drug czar, Jerome Jaffe, is somewhat of a pioneer in non-retributive, therapeutic treatments [2].

[0] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/intervie...

[1] https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

[2] https://mashable.com/article/nixon-war-on-drugs#uqUHc3dQzuqZ
You can find a huge amount of sw dev instructional content on youtube.

Yes, because it is harder to copy/paste, and set up as your own page.

Bit what a way to learn! 10 minute video vs 10 seconds of reading.