skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the sellers benefit from people using credit to purchase goods and services, because more people are willing to pay more when they use credit.

If that were not true, then sellers have long had the option of refusing payment via credit card, or at least offering discounts for debit card.

But they do not, because overall, they earn more money from the higher prices that their customers are willing to pay with credit cards than the cost of the credit card processing fees.
They're not useless? If someone likes A > B and nobody likes B > A then you should give A a second look.
> guessing your current state & figuring out the next one

I look at React from a Backbone lens. In Backbone, you had view with a model that managed a dom element tree. You could render whenever you wanted and exactly when needed.

> functional components...reducing development complications

Hooks and the like just feel like an entirely different programming language. It's impossible to trace what is actually going on. Yet, everyone ends up having to learn all the nuances and rules and know somewhat how they are working under the hood, and then also contort their code to work with hooks too.

React and these big frameworks draw people in because under the hood they are so damn complex that people feel like they could never write something like this themselves. But they don't realize that the code they actually need is extremely simple and something they can easily step-through with their debugger.

> we got directed data flow

We kind of didn't need it though. Think about your SQL database backend. It's a big ball of mutable state, and people get by fine with it. If I have an object, and just listen to changes to it, and re-render, its much easier than having some complicated event-sourcing thing going on.

So much of React's design is chasing this functional-programming purity kind of thing. Contrived examples can be made to look super elegant and clean, but then there are all these edge cases and the realities of interop with a big ball of DOM state. Instead of chasing these kind of concepts, the goal should rather be day-to-day developer experience. Which mostly involves debugging and tracing through code.

> Flow

Ocaml was a terrible choice. Things moved so slowly. No one could contribute. There were just so many usability issues and waiting for things to compile. Just an excuse to use shiny tech. And oh boy did they tell you often about how Ocaml was a great choice for such a project.

...

The peeve I have is the distortion of the ecosystem. For many years to come, no one can stray too far for React to innovate because of the familiarity and risk. Look at projects like Solid, Qwik, etc. It's not Meta's fault but more the community hype machine.
I'm still not sure how buying stock in your own company isn't a Prohibited Transaction.

> [1]Prohibited transactions in a qualified plan

> 4. Any of the following acts between the plan and a disqualified person:

> [1] Disqualified person. You are a disqualified person if you are any of the following.

> 8. An officer, a director (or an individual having powers or responsibilities similar to those of officers or directors), a 10% or more shareholder, or a highly compensated employee (earning 10%-or-more of the yearly wages of an employer) of a person described in (3), (4), (5), or (7).

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p560#en_US_2022_publink1000...
I think for computers we want semiconductors, not superconductors.
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

It's not an insinuation. The submission author literally said: "I'm Jarek, and I've built this tool". It's an undeniable fact that the submitter is self-promoting. There's no mistake.

The submitter's profile also shows irrefutably that the HN account has never been used for anything except self-promotion.

Another problem is that it's not clear the submission is even on topic for Show HN. Is there anything that HN users can try? It just seems to be a "Buy" page. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
None of this is true for me or a few other people I know.

I had a rough childhood. I didn’t get help. I tried, but I have debilitating anxiety and the system expects you to be able to manage getting help even if that’s what you need help with.

The pandemic broke my brain. The amt of complaining every one did about the lockdowns. All people were talking about was a life I was forced to subsist in because I was never given help. Last year I tried weed and it has helped a lot.

I don’t need to say I smoke weed X a day to myself. I’ll just say it to you or anyone else. Sound like a degenerate to who? You? Judgmental people?

I got tired of proving I’m not a “degenerate”. I would get off weed to prove to people around me I don’t need it, but it’s never enough. If you don’t think weed is medication then that’s on you.
And the techniques to produce the material are not too crazy, all within reach of sufficiently dedicated amateurs
I mean we do have a defense pact with South Korea... There are worse places to establish parallel discovery.

Plausible enough for science fiction at least.
> COBOL was at one point advertised as the platform where the CEO can directly type, almost in English, their app, and he never has to pay a programmer anymore. Programmers are obsolete. So... I guess the culture that formed around it, no wonder, wasn't of the brightest people.

FTFY.

Where you can have great things such as:

a IS GREATER THAN b

a IS GREATER THAN b AND c OR EQ TO d

MULTIPLY PAY-RATE BY 1.5 GIVING OVERTIME-RATE

\s It's as old as dirt.
Hence the "because it solves a real problem by people deeply familiar with the problem, way more than a programmer would be."
Reminds me of the (absolutely dreadful) series by Tobias Roote where a certain space metal gets alloyed by human blood to produce AI processors a hundred times more powerful.

Realistically, superconducting processors would most likely be much faster, or at least cram more cores on a single die.
If you want a tinfoil hat, consider that the LK-99 news dropped around the time that the US military is being exposed for having RTRPS tech flying around for decades
Is the idea here that there are actually two layers of cement separated by membrane? Or maybe more? Anything that breaks up the monolithic cement blob makes it worse at its primary job.
It took me a minute to get the semantic distinction here.

People directly working for a government intelligence agency, in the sense of drawing a regular salary, receiving benefits like a pension plan, and probably enjoying the protection of some sort of cover (like attache for cultural affairs at the embassy) are "operatives" or "officers."

"Agents" are people in the foreign country whom the officers convince to provide information or services for them.

Aldrich Ames, for example, was an "officer" in the CIA, working for the US, but also an "agent" of the KGB, working for the Soviets.

So, to return to the article, the US government never had a problem hiring drug users as "agents," but would not hire them as "officers."
You mean emailing a for-profit materials science lab somewhere, like it did when it had that task rabbit solve a CAPTCHA for it?
Archive.today is another popular site that doesn't respond to blacklist requests.
There’s Objective-S https://objective.st/Language
Assessing Release of Nanoplastics in Plastic Containers: Effects on Human Health
> legislation doesn't have to be written quite so naively as that

It will be written by think tanks behind lobbyists for industry interests that donate to campaigns.

> the one thing [Congress is] supposed to be doing

. . . is getting reelected. We do not elect them because of competency in law-writing or even in voting for their constituencies' interests. We elect them because they spend lots of money to tell us how monstrous "the other choice" is.
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Also if you’ve got an older laptop brick that might be compatible with the pinecil. Some of the asus ROG ones definitely are. Ended up being the best bang per buck for me
It's not considered alarming to publicly state you believe those guilty of murder should face capital punishment - that is - to be executed by the state. Certainly not a view held by all but it's within the Overton window to state you hold the view.

I believe it should be normalized that we speak about the most egregious, permanent, impossible to reckon with environmental pollution in the same way - that is - it ought to be a crime to pollute in the most serious ways and that crime out to be punished with state executions.
Its almost as if OpenAI used VC resources to artificially boost their products efficacy during early hype and over time we're seeing the product degrade as the company optimizes for efficiency and profitability and removes its subsidies.

Like AirBnB. Or Uber. Etc.
Yeah,

> Experiments have demonstrated that currents in superconducting coils can persist for years without any measurable degradation. Experimental evidence points to a lifetime of at least 100,000 years. Theoretical estimates for the lifetime of a persistent current can exceed the estimated lifetime of the universe, depending on the wire geometry and the temperature. In practice, currents injected in superconducting coils have persisted for more than 27 years (as of August 2022) in superconducting gravimeters.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity)
Premature optimization is more about not home-growing some bespoke fancy data structure before you've even ran the application for example. If it's a bottleneck you can optimize those pieces later. Requirements can also change. Now you've spent a ton of time building something fancy and are less likely to throw it out because you're attached to the big fancy work you put in because we are human.
This incredible scope creep in the customer's responsibilities (not just price, but I somehow have to adjust for a vague sense of the employer-employee relationship, for ethical/ESG considerations, etc. etc.) is just... overwhelming. I shouldn't be responsible for your employment relationship, that is between you, your employer, and the relevant regulatory authority.
You say "indeed" but you don't seem to understand my point: Nobody is asking for a fancy type system. If anything, they're asking for less type system in this specific situation.

But really it's just a matter of which type it uses for the expression, where neither option is fancier than the other.

The type system does not need a complete rework to support this.
And gore-tex clothing is a godsend in countries where it rains almost every day like Ireland :)
I don't know who's been telling you that, but no, that is false.

The main cause of headaches in caffeine withdrawal is believed to be the fact that caffeine affects the blood vessels in your brain, and that cutting out caffeine therefore changes blood flow, and your body takes a few days to readjust to that.

Water is irrelevant here. Which is easily demonstrated by the fact that caffeine withdrawal is the same whether you've been drinking large, hydrating American-style coffees, or tiny Italian espressos, or been taking caffeine pills without water at all.
This isn't true at all. We were storing binary files separately via Maven for Java projects for almost 20 years now.

This was done with SVN projects. Keeping the blobs out of your source repos has been the preferred way for a long time.

[Edit] The only folks who seem to want to do this are game developers, and they are generally not people you would want to emulate.
There is a literal canary in the coal mine: People with birds don't use PTFE because if they burn a pan it will kill their birds.
But how does a non-expert determine credibility?
My favourite anecdote is what in F.E.A.R it's the grenade itself which triggers the "grenade!" sequence. Of course it's enemy who is shouting and taking cover but the action itself is triggered by the protagonists's grenade, not by NPC
For now, the design is basic:

User to LLM: "Rate this response to the following prompt on a scale of 1-10, where 1 is a poor response and 10 is a great response: [response]"

LLM rates responses of all other LLMs

All other LLMs do the same

Then we take the average score of each response. The LLMs that produced the top 50% of responses will respond again until one response with the highest score remains.
People can have negative / positive sentiment on my proposal which seems like it tends to be something like a good idea. But, it seems like everyone isn't arguing about the merit of the idea but instead only of their own sentiment of banks instead of whether people need the education or not.

Though, one could assume where an official game from the Library of Congress would only approve a game that would further some kind of narrative but, I don't think it would be a good idea .
Very interesting and relevant! Thank you!
Related:

YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32656463 - September 2022 (157 comments)

Why YKK? The Japanese company behind the world’s best zipper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8655580 - November 2014 - (57 comments)

Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK? (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11602988 - April 2016 (60 comments)
I suppose you are correct, that they as a group are just exercising their right to speech. The difference is that these are no longer individuals, these are organizations of people, and in some cases these organizations are more powerful than the government itself (Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, etc).

I’m not trying to censor this group at all, they are infinitely more powerful than myself. It’s not even possible for an individual to censor an organization like this. They however, could completely destroy my life if I said the wrong thing. They could have me fired, cause me to receive death threats, prevent my employment in entire sectors of the economy, all the usual fun stuff that comes along with being cancelled. Which is extremely effective in stopping people from exercising their right to speech.

I’m not arguing that what they are doing is not technically legal. But my argument is that it is against the spirit of what the first amendment was intended to be. It is de facto censorship.
The "disclaimer" is quite interesting. Starts off with "this is not a Google product" and ends it with the fact that it is indeed their full-time project at Google.

I wish these well-intentioned Googlers realise what they are doing.
Yes. The theory that explains the better understood ones works based on the idea of "cooper pairs", where there are, aiui, entangled pairs of electrons which are in a lower energy state due to how they are entangled, and where in order to get like, bumped around in a way that would produce resistance, they would have to change in energy in a way by an amount that isn't available?

So, very much a quantum mechanical effect.
> As an employee the cost of working from home is GARGANTUAN

You don't have a desk, chair, and wifi at home?

Or a kitchen table or anything?

I mean I guess it's unfair to assume everyone has any kind of office space set up at their homes but I'm kinda shocked you don't already just have a flat surface and a chair.
Vim is a very good editor in the simple task of editing text files of every size.
Wrote master thesis with it
No telemetry in the Rust compiler: metrics without betraying user privacy
I'm hoping for something that isn't made entirely out of a superfund site material, personally.
> Is this a “please” or a requirement?

It is a “please” but is part of a parenthetical attached to “Where there is a choice, use the most permissive license “ which is not a “please”.

So, yeah, if you are dependent on GPL3 dependency, GPLv3 is the most permissive license available, there is no choice.

OTOH, that may be a factor weighed against your submission.
> Seems like I'm rate limited, couldn't add reply for 45 minutes.

There is no rush.

> Fairness in the context of business goes beyond just an initial transaction.

Well, sure. The world certainly isn't static. What is fair can change over time. And to be sure, one can negotiate at every turn to stay on top of that, but that's not terribly efficient for long-term engagements, so workers usually seek a long-standing agreement and renegotiate only as needed, like the Louis Vuitton workers did as discussed earlier.

Indeed, the workers we like to subcategorize as contractors often try to renegotiate at every turn, seeking opportunities in trying to stay current with what is fair. While it can be beneficial, the growth in what is fair has to exceed what is given up to navigate the inefficiencies, which often doesn't happen. We'd all be contractors if it was always a better deal. Usually the worker is better off when the agreement is long-standing.

> For many people in these situations, they may not have the luxury of multiple options or the bargaining power to negotiate for fair wages.

While this doesn't make sense, what I think you are trying to say is that some people are not worth as much as other people and that those people worth less will not be able to negotiate terms as favourable as someone worth more? If so, certainly. Everyone is different. Similarly, I expect your greed, as you call it, prevents you from paying Ferrari prices for a Chevy Trax as well.

After all, the whole reason for attaching a price to something is to deal with scarcity. The cost is supposed to scare you away. The higher the cost, the more scared you should be of using up the resource. But if someone has nothing else to do with their life, why would you want to be scared of them? Are they not best utilized to the betterment of themselves and humanity as a whole, not tossed aside out of fear?

On the flip side, you should be terribly afraid of hiring someone like a doctor to sew handbags. You want to see that they are tossed aside so that they can work as a doctor instead. They and all the rest of humanity is better off when you toss them aside. This is why they must carry a much scarier price.
For one, compare https://jepsen.io/analyses/postgresql-12.3 and https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6 - similar vintages, entirely different levels of reliability.

From a migration perspective, the presence of JSONB fields in Postgres, and much of the modern tooling around them, mean that you can even put a highly nested document structure directly into Postgres and have a clear migration path without rewriting code.

(Do note however that Postgres' JSONB overrides the key order of objects to have canonical object identity - it thus avoids pitfall #1 in https://devblog.me/wtf-mongo but legacy code may rely on that behavior.)

MongoDB was great when it worked; I've still never experienced as fluid a workflow as Meteor enabled, where either a client update or a batch process could update a document in MongoDB and it would immediately propagate to every other interested client. RIP - while there's an active community, the Meteor team went on to do Apollo GraphQL, whose real-time support is a shadow of that original developer experience.

That said, on that same project, I can say anecdotally that I was bitten hard by some of the disaster recovery and divergent-oplog issues mentioned in the meme-y https://aphyr.com/posts/284-jepsen-mongodb - granted, the software has improved significantly since then. But I'm of the opinion that a company developing database products can only shift its internal culture so much; such a "cowboy" mentality, one that led to releasing a database product with these glossed-over problems and unreliable defaults, never truly goes away.

Rewrites always require a cost-benefit analysis. Modern MongoDB (you are running a modern version, right?) may have addressed enough concerns that it's the right decision to stick with. But even for document database needs, there's no reason not to use Postgres for green-field projects.
> This technology is great.

Not yet it's not. There's a world of difference between using samples of concrete "about the size of a button" and scaling up to something the size of the foundation of a house.

And that just gets it to "buildable". To get to "ubiquitous" it also has to be cheap.
Thank you for following up. Is there a way to DM you? The URL I'm having problems with archiving is sort of sensitive.
When I was younger, I'd have about a shot an hour or so, and simply drink water or soda in between (4 drinks over the night). I'd meet with a group of people pretty regularly for Karaoke night at a local bar. Doing so, I could pretty much go the night without getting drunk (6'1", 280# at the time). In my own experience, when it's social activity, you generally won't be shunned for not drinking as long as you are participating, and aren't talking down to those that are.
I think there are some people in this thread which started soldering before soldering irons with temperature control were the norm. It makes a huge difference indeed, but now practically all have it and they are cheap.

And since I didn't see it mentioned I recommend starting with leaded solder (and good ventilation always).
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