skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Circle does provide a number of desirable features and its compiler can be built by a single person, then why shouldn't the committee do the same?

Well, there are downsides to taking Circle's approach which I think are worthwhile to mention. Languages are preferable to everyone creating their own custom DSL. They provide a single target that everyone is able to learn, it allows one to work in a much larger body of work without friction.

When I pull down a library or codebase, I want to be able to immediately hit the ground running instead of having to understand every aspect of how the developers have tweaked the language to suit their preferences, and how each of these tweaks interact with each other. You probably shouldn't rely on people making these choices themselves, because you don't want everyone being a language designer -- it invites a combinatorial explosion with conflicting features that don't play nicely with each other. But mostly, it's about maximizing one's ability to pull down and work in foreign codebases without having to learn a new dialect of a language.
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Honestly this has been one of my thoughts with Amazon getting into prescriptions in the first place.

A lot can be said about Amazon and thats valid, but they do put a lot of focus on their customers.

We can argue that them doing this likely means that they will get more business and that will also prop up the rest of their prescription offerings, but that goal ultimately has a benefit to people that need this medication.

If they can apply this to copay cards and anything else that saves people who need these medications (by that I mean just all medications across the board) money but Amazon still gets their money, it would be huge. The system sucks right now.
Internet moderation is even more thankless and maligned than meatspace moderation, so nobody wants to do it. I don't know how to fix the problem, but that's at the heart of it.
> Live somewhere that isn't bike friendly? Do the right thing instead of the easy one and campaign for better infrastructure.

And in the mean time, buy those Teslas, i4s, Mach-Es and Leafs.
‘They’re here at our invitation’: how gulls took over the UK’s cities
It doesnt change that it would be interesting to know why Java was chosen - its definitely not the default for anything anywhere I've worked
Side channels are explicitly forbidden by the rules.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_convention
Yeah, I did precisely the same thing. I'm floored that people have suffered from this "issue" to be honest.
If you're looking for a specific program/app, then this is the way. But what the article is talking about is when sorting by the CPU column (for a high usage app), as everything jumps around quite a bit.
Thank you AI, especially I love the order of those.
I believe you missed the beginning of this thread? We’re specifically discussing pre-built solutions.
the cascade has as many benefits as it has drawbacks, few people like to juggle specificities.

IMHO the only important application of the cascade is in its original purpose: custom user defined stylesheets (today often via browser extension or adblockers), but you can add proper descriptive attributes to your markup for them.
Good one, thanks. Will add tonight.
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Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's just the regular corruption in the country. They also make tofu-dreg style buildings and that has nothing to do with historical preservation
Literally what are you talking about? This discussion is about donating the brains of deceased people.
CEO regrets her firm took on Facebook moderation work after staff ‘traumatised’
And for those that prefer a different editor? Just saying, if a tool then pushes you into another specific tool for maximum efficiency using it, that alone gives me pause.
This. It isn't the Doctors responsibility to know all the prices of things and such, they should know what meds you need for your ailment. I would say it would be good if your doctor found out about something (via a pharmaceutical rep or another patient) to pass that along, but not sure it makes sense for them to necessarily know the ends and outs of the current best coupon.
You can have my downvote. People need transport now, not in some hypothetical ideal future world.

Bikes are dangerous, even in places with good infrastructure.

Bikes are no good for carrying your shopping, or your kids, or taking your partner to dinner, or when the weather is inclement, or if your physical condition doesn’t permit it.

At best they’re an auxiliary option for when circumstances permit. In economics terms they’re not a substitute good for cars.

I love cycling and wish my city had better infrastructure. But let’s keep it real.
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I think we largely agree, so I'll go back to focusing on the tool.

> Isn't that something Tailwind can't do? Tailwind will load every style, every time, right?

Tailwind's only function is:

- Scan codebase

- Generate classes

- Save them in a file with the a .css extension.

Anything else that you want is outside the scope of the tool. It makes no assumptions about what your files are named, where they are, or how it's loaded in the browser. At the end of the day, it's up to the developer to write `<link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/to/my/generated/file.css">`

This is no different or made easier/harder by using Tailwind.
> The researchers chose “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” because they are fans of Pink Floyd

Missed an opportunity to use Brain Damage instead.
A lot of assertions, zero evidence.

Can you give us some examples of bad Community Notes?
I always just went to the menu and changed refresh time, but this will make it easier.
Damn, that is morbid.
Parent comment didn't claim they were new to TW.
The inflation reduction act was the largest piece of climate change policy ever passed in the US. Yes, it could be significantly more extreme, it uses levers of tax breaks and markets rather than regulation, and it was softened considerably by Manchin, but it is absolutely not the case that both parties in the US treat climate change the same.
From the comments on the verge's article: if you hold down the F5 key, it'll increase the refresh speed. Not sure why you'd want the refresh speed higher though...
You're like the person who's struck gold and believes it to be tin foil.

You're being paid like a developer, but spending your days in direct contact with real customers and their real pains? You say it's a fintech, so odds are this is a specific niche of customers, with specific needs, and you get to learn about what they are?

Ask yourself if by "haven't learned much" you mean "coding stuff".

As for the "things are pretty much disorganized" - again, it's a mindset thing.
If stuff is holding back making customers happy, and you find a way to make it better, that's a direct impact on the bottom line. Whether it's through better documentation, or a set of processes, or writing a bunch of scripts...that's what ownership looks like.

And sure, you're not an owner in this company, but assuming you see yourself taking ever more senior roles (with compensation to match), this kind of experience will probably help you more than writing a couple of extra buttons on an app.
It's not more important than canasta.

My grandmother played bridge.

My mother played canasta.

I play Set.

It's just a game.
> trailblaze a new class of apps

I think you misunderstand HTMX. It’s the revival of an old class of apps in a backend agnostic way.
It’s not doing anything new, or anything that warrants a “new class of apps.”
It’s a way to build hypermedia (read: content) focused sites.
Classic sites like shopping catalogs, forums, admin front ends, blogs, etc.

It’s just jquery/liveview/turbolinks, but backend agnostic and without needing you to maintain much (or any) frontend js logic.

Once you need heavy interactivity (think google docs or figma) it stops providing much benefit.
Part-DB: open-source inventory management system for your electronic components
People want and expect pretty and interactive experiences.
I don't think they care how they get there.
I've written some Unity "web" apps by using the port to webgl feature, so I have no deep fondness of html or js. I just need results.
>no such right exists; that would be like the right to rob with impunity

No, it's the same kind of thing as having your records "sealed", to not let a past deed haunt you.

Not even sure what kind of logic jumps one has to make to equate something like this to "robbing with inpunity". For starters the punishment to robbing isn't remembrance of your robbing, it's jail time or fine etc. And, fun fact, the aforementioned "records being sealed" can even be applied to someone who e.g. did a robbery or other crime as a juvenile.

Now, since a "right to be forgotten" does explicitly exist in EU and other jurisdictions, I'm not sure what denying its existance means.

If you mean "there's no such right" as a thing in itself, outside laws and treaties and jurisdictions, then the same is true for any right.

No right exists by itself, as if handed to us by nature, not even the right to not be murdered. All rights are based on people deciding some kind of assurances are good to have and putting them into laws and treaties and such.

And all rights are only granted and protected based on power relationships and agreement, not based on some (non-existent) natural truths existing independenty of them in the cosmos. We might call some "self-evident" and "natural" but those are just fancy words. In actual history almost all of our so-called "self-evident/natural" rights have been unrecognized (even in quite recent history), and societies considered this just fine. In fact in some cases, actually giving the rights would be considered the violation of the natural law.

>of course clever demagogues and rhetoricians can write such things into legislation

Demagogue is someone who "who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument". Rhetorician is a public speaker who is good in persuading people with words. Neither have much to do with such legislation being passed (nor was it the work of some demagogues).

It's simply about the internet making anything somebody does into a permanent record [1], and this being understood as not always necessarily being for the benefit of society.

E.g. what some edgy/troubled teenager wrote on his social media account in his teens shouldn't necessarily be part of his "permanent record" for employers and others to judge them by decades afterwards. And in the past, it wasn't, unless it made the press (and even then, it was easily lost due to it being in print and ephemeral), or was deemed necessary so by the state (e.g. to register as a sex offender). Just because technology now makes it being a permanent record trivial doesn't mean we should be OK with it. We should be masters of technology, not slaves to it.

[1] Doesn't matter if something like that could be accomplished in the past too - what matters is that it's far more prevalent, has several orders of magnitude more scale of the kind of stuff that can be kept, and is easier to achieve, and trivial to search with the advent of the internet. This changes the impact of this to society a lot.
Copyright generally doesn't cover broad plot structure or tropes, especially components that are considered characteristic of a genre (scènes à faire). Where it gets tricky is deciding when a particular arrangement of plot points and tropes is close enough to be infringing. The lines between rip-off, homage, parody, subversion, and (sub)genre (re)invention aren't especially bright or sharp. As with many other things, how much you can get away with seems to heavily depend on industry influence/standing. I don't think too many people other than Mel Brooks could have made Spaceballs happen, for example.
Could you consider releasing it into the open source?

Django admin is stagnant mostly because of lack of uptake in support from companies. Everyone makes their own admin solution rather than collaborating.
Russia's ruble has tumbled. What does it mean for the wartime economy?
Foreverywhere Chemicals.
The people who talk about it consider it to be a killer feature. I certainly do. There's considerably less ass pain and fear involved in Django migrations.
Anyone can think of it and invent it independently, but you’d have been put in a cage if you acted on your original thought because someone else paid the protection money earlier
When it comes to reading code, the real question isn't just why—it's about when we do it, what we read, and how we go about it. As programmers, we all know that reading code is valuable, and we often tell ourselves we should do more of it. But let's be real, life happens and we don't always get around to it. One big reason? Time—or the lack of it. Unlike writers who can afford to read day in and day out, our job is to write code.

So, when do we actually read code? Usually, when we need to. It might be diving into an API's documentation or snagging a code snippet from Stack Overflow to fix something. But here's the catch: once we figure it out, we tend to forget it. That's why if you asked me what code I read last week, I'd probably draw a blank.

Sure, we do some reading here and there, but I think we should step up our game. When we solve a problem, we pat ourselves on the back and move on. It worked, right? But here's the thing: we can learn a lot by peeking at how the experts do it. Think of it like reading a book. We don't just skim the words; we dive into the plot, dissect the characters, and think about what makes it tick. Learning from others' code isn't all that different. When I started learning F#, I was blown away by the variety of solutions out there, all doing the same thing in completely different ways. Comparing them with my own attempts taught me a ton.

Bottom line, we should always keep that student mindset. Don't just glance at code—study it. Pick it apart, understand its structure, and figure out why it's built the way it is. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, approaching code with fresh eyes can unlock a world of ideas. So, let's make time for it, even if it's just a little bit. It's an investment in our growth, our skills, and our identity as programmers.
I'm not saying psychiatry helped my wife - it didn't, because she didn't go to a psychiatrist. Eventually she got better, as you say.

I think it's unlikely, however, that symptoms are never psychosomatic. If what we think had no effect on how we feel then the placebo effect wouldn't exist
Does that work?

If I’m an EU citizen accessing a site from outside the EU, don’t I still have the right to be forgotten?
> Makes you wonder how any construction at all is possible in a 3000-year-old city

You build up rather than out
I like tailwind but I only ever used it in a JSX context, if I had to author plain html I would likely never choose it.
I do wonder how much or that discount is due to it being non potable water with no treatment or complex distribution network. Not saying it’s a good idea but comparing canal water for irrigation with fluorinated chlorinated potable water piped directly to your house doesn’t seem reasonable.
You have water at -68.5 C? Most of us call that ice. So I am pretty sure you know what I mean and you’re flirting with the HN rules.
You're missing an aspect. VPN use is a filter. If you're using a VPN, you're drawing attention to yourself.

A TLA that isn't running at least half a dozen VPN companies isn't doing its job, IMO.
[dupe]

More discussion a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37062820
I think we should try to believe things because they are true, not because they reinforce our sense of feeling bad about ourselves for contaminating the environment with industrial processes.
Oh, no, nothing empirical! Musk, the "free speech absolutist" is actually very closed-mouth about actual numbers. Loves to tout metrics that no one can validate, but will not, under any circumstance that I've seen, let anyone do any real research on the metrics. It's all just hearsay based on wire monitoring and patchwork investigations.

The best estimate I've heard is that around 20-30k people really left, based on reported numbers over half a million. That seems about right, to me. 500k said they were going to leave, only 20k actually did.

Of course, why that pushed the site more rightward is likewise speculation. If those numbers are accurate, I'd guess that the people who did leave were the most politically or socially aggrieved, so they would be the exact people to have outsized impact on Community Notes. And given the actual impacts that I've observed, anecdotally, that tracks pretty well with how much further right Twitter got. Not "much" but noticeable to anyone not making excuses for it.
The ceaseless increased economic output of the world has lifted billions out of poverty and allowed us to sustain the current world population.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#/media/File...

Are there consequences? Absolutely!

Were the benefits or costs greater? Now that's a more interesting question.
Yes. The real world is generally far more complicated than our deeply polarized society increasingly think it is.
The rules haven't changed. They are:

"With respect to the content or other materials you upload through the Site or share with other users or recipients (collectively, “User Content”), you represent and warrant that you own all right, title and interest in and to such User Content, including, without limitation, all copyrights and rights of publicity contained therein. By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed."
This is our ascendant religion, and it’s important to protect it from blasphemy.
I think the message is useful for people who receive or want to give recommendations. The reason I often pick up something is that it was rated highly on some online review, or that somebody told me I should read it under the assumption that it will be as eye-opening to me as it was to them.

> Yes the book is good for you now, because there was a reason you picked it up in the first place.

I disagree. That can be the case, but the assumptions under which it was picked up are often wrong, misleading, or become wrong over time. This article sheds light on those assumptions.

> You don't have to 'experience' or undergo emotional turmoil to understand.

But if I expect an experience and I think the characters are all flat, I'm disappointed. If the book speaks to me, I become more invested. Using recommendations and understanding their subjectivity can prevent you from picking up junk, assuming that's what you want.
Ok. I view "thin" as shades of gray: example a diskless, net-booting Sun is "thinner" than a full blown workstation. Those foundational technologies (like NFS, NIS, X...) made it easier for Sun to build and promote full blown thin clients later on.

To my knowledge, NeXT never supported a diskless config. (Or did they?? Did anyone work with that?)
"It crap, but at least it is generated fast" - cool.

Cars are a bit special in this regard. When a house is built, it's architect will be registered, and punished, if needed. When a car is created, it is created by a brand, like Ford. When there is a recall, you only hear that it's Ford's or Tesla's fault. But at the moment when they see that there is a problem, they will frantically search in change history to see who caused the problem. If you think that this person gets a raise instead of a permanent burger flipping job at a McDonald's, then I got a nice bridge to sell that you might be interested in.
If water is scarce then the price should reflect it. These “outrages” all seem to be about outsized private profit from too-cheap public resources.
Don't forget that you use e.g. the lightning strike ability as a long range attack, yet the avatar you have to interact with tends to aggressively charge directly into close range. I gave up using the lightning ability because I just get hit if I run close enough while awkwardly fumbling around until I find the magic spot to press the A button.

The fact that you can dismiss the sages through a hastily bolted on menu interaction tells you that they knew it was annoying. If it worked well you'd never need to.
This isn't quite a DSL approach though: the features are turned on and off locally, and don't "escape" from that local source. So provided that one knows the features that can be turned on or off they can just read the source code top to bottom without having to trace which feature was accidentally set in a different file.

Also, re:

> You probably shouldn't rely on people making these choices themselves, because you don't want everyone being a language designer

This would be true for any other language, but with C++ one already has to figure out which subset of features to use, which is basically the same type of choice as turning Circle features on or off.
Certainly their mind would be out of them by the end of the process.

If my brain is useful for science (can't see how, but that's hardly my problem!), then have at it. Save the crematorium some gas, even.
Why is there poo on the Moon?
> Reconverting a former customer is cheaper than converting new customers from an advertising perspective

It depends for what? In mobile games for instance you're considered to have burned the user out if they churn from the game's first 5 hours. Hence the Pokemon Go problem - they'd rather have scaled the user base slowly than have a flash in the pan. [1]

I understand in retail or maybe a gym membership, re-conversion may be easier.

1. Im aware Pokemon Go is still a succesful game, but my point is it would have been better to scale slower.
Realistically speaking, with CSS, you don't even need to use one single class inside your HTML. Every element is a child of another, up till <body>. The C in CSS is just that, CASCADING.

I find it ridiculous to attach so many classes to your HTML elements. I think it is obvious Tailwind gained popularity because people just didn't want to learn CSS. And I don't blame them, it took me years and I am still learning new ways to achieve things. In a way, CSS's flexibility is also its beauty: you can achieve the same thing multiple different ways.

You can do A LOT if you know CSS. With tailwind you can do what others have thought of you might need. This is the antithesis of programming. Programming is supposed to help you break the limitations of tools.
> But I'm struggling to understand what we know now that scares us so much.

Fear about health (read: self-preservation) is a basic instinct. That aside, it's not fear of the known, it's fear of the unknown. Again, pretty natural. Unknown and fear go hand in hand.

The sad fact is, we willingly introduced "variables" into the environment without having a clue about the impact any of them might have. Worse, is what happens when they mix in the wild.

Given the track record of Big Chem, there's no reasonable reason to remain calm. Big Chem is a known, and fear is not inappropriate when profits come before all else.
Looks like it's still in beta, judging by the header?
Journalism these days is in comment threads it seems