skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem with this assertion is that over time "good" code often ends up littered with important conditionals to handle cases that upset the general readability and expressiveness of the initial delivery. Imagine a FinTech working on some kind of trading platform. It seems simple and clear at first, but over time more and more safety mechanisms, edge cases, regulatory obligations, and all kinds of other things need to be added -- and often they need to be added _now_, which means that readability is not the primary concern. I think that's the point of the article; readability is often not the most important thing.

I don't think that suddenly catapults the code into "bad" code, and in fact it's this kind of accumulated wisdom that makes full rewrites so famously expensive. The initial core of the idea might be able to be expressed in a simple and beautiful way, but over time it turns out that almost nothing is truly simple, and complexity accumulates. But it's good complexity, it's important to the business, and it doesn't mean that it's bad code.
By that reasoning, if you don't have a job, so being put in jail won't make you lose your job, you should be jailed longer to make up for the fact that jail harms you less. Likewise if you don't have children.
Of course I have heard the phrase. I am asking if anyone has data to back it up.

edit to add: I am not specifically interested in the middle class, which is ill-defined. I am interested in the overall income of households and how that has changed.
That's where this part kicks in:

"It takes all the lessons from the last decade and a half and distills them into familiar web development patterns."

That includes reactivity and state management—two concepts that weren't adequately covered by the old web.
There are more people than just the "motoring public".
Not knowing Rakim would be fighting talk round my way.

A friend asked me a while ago to give him a list of the top ten (or fifteen) hip hop tracks that are important to me or the development of hip hop. I wasn't sure whether to include Last Poets as one of the first "rap" groups or whether Gil Scott-Heron should be considered the jazz ancestor. However, I then got stuck around the Tribe Called Quest and Busta Rhymes era.

Obviously, "Follow The Leader" was my choice of Rakim track, but I'm having trouble with picking a single Tribe track - should really be the whole of Low End Theory along with a cheat sheet of the significant jazz samples that Q-Tip used.
Turn on show dead, browse https://news.ycombinator.com/newest and take the affirmative community moderation steps of vouching for those that are good.

Archive.is shouldn't ever need to be the primary site. Post a link to the original and then a comment to the archive site if there's the possibility of take down or issues with paywalls.

It is likely that people were using archive.is for trying to avoid posting the original domain and masking the content that it presented.
Is a cookbook literature?
Make it trouble.

I really wish the timing of FxOS was better as well as the marketing. I’d certainly choose it over Android, but we’re now sort of locked into the duopoly with terrible decisions from apps like Signal requiring you have a Android or iOS primary device or no service for you.
Exactly this. It's so fast to spin up classifiers now when it used to take weeks to get something working.

What LLMs are you using?
Having a kid is a major milestone so time perception might be tied to that moment
Get my local DNS info
That's great. Also on a side note regarding performance. Does anyone else use Firefox developer edition as their main browser because they feel that the performance is better than Firefox vanilla itself?

I feel that based on a heuristic measurements (that is probably not reproducible)
I assure you I am correct. The paragraph that proves it is somewhere in a tale of two cities.
One of the most resilient trees on Earth is dying in droves
> Now that the platform is evolving and innovating again, more and more things are moving out of the frameworks and back into the platform. Javascript has massively improved.

A language so good you need to write another language that compiles into that language to make it tolerable.

> Some amazing and complex engineering happens in the frontend space because of the constraints and the need to eek performance out of everywhere you can. You can't just throw more servers at the problem.

I'm not sure about this opinion. Most websites are slow as all get out and require me to download the world to even get working.

> Experiences vary, but I've been on more projects delayed by over-engineering the backend than the frontend.

As a person on the backend I can tell you your definition of "overengineering" is ignoring the fact we have to deal with frontend cowboys all the time. When SEVs happen it's us on trial almost universally. Just the absolutely bonkers states a frontend can accidentally end up in despite good testing is enough to warrant "overengineering" to try to support it.

We had an opportunity to kill javascript and instead we embraced it. We deserve what we get.
The study used a mouse model where amphetamine is used to simulate schizophrenia. Obviously, it's not guaranteed to map to real humans having real schizophrenia.

That doesn't mean it's a useless result, but everyone should remember that research is an accumulation of decades of many little pieces of information. This is another clue, not a "nail in the coffin" of old theories.

The ultimate evaluation of medication is how well it actually performs in studies. If someone can develop a new medication that is more selective for D1 and show that it performs better and/or has fewer side effects then this would be a great result.

However, don't get too excited. The pharmaceutical industry is often 10 steps ahead of public findings like this. A selective D1/D5 antagonist with negligible D2 affinity has already been trialed for schizophrenia without good results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecopipam

Many of the most prescribed schizophrenia medications already have significant D1 affinity, too, so it's not really correct to say that we're "off target"

These findings tend to be very aggravating to computer scientists who are familiar with systems that (mostly) obey clear-cut rules and can examined in extremely fine detail with enough equipment and motivation. Neuroscience is not so simple, but that doesn't mean it's all wrong. Each finding is one more piece of the puzzle.
Optimizing for benchmarks tends to not work all that well for real-world sites. I wouldn't worry about it.
Yes, but that's generally because of a lifetime of poor health habits. Which means that it's a choice.

Don't get me wrong -- aging isn't for the faint of heart, and you are absolutely more likely to have health problems when you're older vs when you're younger.

But how healthy you live in your youth has an enormous affect on the odds of having major health problems when you're older.

As an older person myself, I suffer from several age-related health degradations, but they are relatively minor (as are the ones of nearly everyone my age that I know). And the upside to being older far outweighs those downsides.

Perhaps I'd feel differently if I had a major health issue -- but perhaps not. You can have a major health issue at any age, after all. All in all, being older is such an improvement that even if I did have major health issues, I suspect I'd still prefer to sacrifice my younger years over my older years.

But that's just me. Others likely have different opinions.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. I agree, I myself was waiting for ublock to stop working before I migrated to Firefox but now that I’m hearing it will still mostly work… I just don’t care that much. So they collect all this info on me… as long as I don’t see ads I just don’t care
Well, if it's so clearly a case of check fraud and you have the images, at least report it to the police providing them the images, if you haven't already.

You really should have done that immediately upon hearing it was cashed, definitely upon receiving the check images. Time is not on your side AIUI, and it's already such a small sum.

Fucking paypal.
Where is it maintained? The port is, but the upstream?
> Even among Firefox users, only about 41% have add-ons installed in the first place

This seems like surprisingly low percentage. I wonder whether these stats count people who disable telemetry or install add-ons from their distro's repository.
interesting portfolio,
but for me it's just something like a GPT mockup with clickable questions.

As a user facing your frontend I'm not getting any benefit from LLMs.

The first readable data about you takes more than 8 seconds.
And I cannot ask any question. With this abilities it's like a poor implemented QnA page.

Hope I made my point clear. I'm not a coder and yes I see GH page of your project
IMO they're blaming the wrong group for the issue though. Financial transactions should not cost much more than compute + software they run on. This is one angle where I actually respect a portion of the crypto community -- they've called out some things that were stagnant in the financial sector. Of course it remains to be seen if they can come up with viable alternatives, but agreeing on a problem is a good step forward.
> What happens if we do reach a standoff where the bots become good enough at mimicking human behavior that the only way to tell us apart is unacceptable and illegal behavioral analysis?

Sophisticated bots are already good enough at this that a variety of behavioral-based bot analysis tools exist and are in semi-widespread use. They're not illegal.
I certainly saw the claimed fracturing of music along various demographic lines but I always wondered how true it was.

It certainly felt that way and it was talked about... but people I knew always listened to a variety of music. The running joke on Youtube about something like Wilson Philips "Hold on" was that "Somewhere out there there's <insert unlikely demographic> is rocking out to this song".

I don't doubt there were differences among demographics, but I also wonder how much we as humans look for those lines and exaggerate them. I honestly didn't even know who Taylor Swift was for an embarrassingly long time and I yet enjoyed her songs when I heard them. I wonder if for most of the masses it really doesn't matter, but enthusiasts and marketers are the folks who care / notice the differences that might not ever have been THAT stark.
Interesting for me is that for such common thing:

1. they do not have it yet

2. it is in the news
> I would like to see a deeper analysis of what is found in the soils after the PFAs are broken up to make sure they haven't just changed one dangerous chemical for another one though. If they are being converted into a harmless salt, then great.

I'd like that as well; it was weird that no single mention of the sub-products was made.

I wonder why they weren't able to perform a quick powder X-Ray Diffractometry analysis to verify that the formation of fluorine minerals was occurring.
Never went to business school and am a hardcore nerd. Still like taking notes in ppt because I like how it forces the format of cutting things up into sections for you. Also way easier to add shapes and diagrams than any other word processor. It’s like an all-in-one canvas. It’s not for everyone though and I’m definitely aware of the negative connotations.
You might want a simpler representation (smaller denominator) than that will give you.

An example is converting musical pitch ratios to simple fractions (e.g. as used in just intonation).
Literally yesterday I was writing code to do this. The mediant method works beautifully for this, and it can be optimized further than what's presented in the article.
What podcast (or otherwise) was this?

Was it this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNrTrx42DGQ
Ah, yeah, mechanical things require a lot of energy, unfortunately.

That said, I'd love an ESP32 for Zigbee. I bought an H2, but the documentation hasn't been good enough that I could make it work.
Oh, I might have gotten it backwards; writes actually involving reads could make sense.
You guessed it.

But on the other hand. I did save around $1000 a month by not having to pay state taxes…

Tech workers who think unemployment is going to be a savior or even a trickle in their budget if they are unemployed are going to be very disappointed
Say, is there a Firefox extension that will solve captchas for me when i click on them? Don't need auto solving as in never see the captcha, I just don't want to look which of these blurry photos has palm trees and which has hills.
> Instead the mental model should be how does the computer achieve the thing that I am trying and how can I make that happen with the fewest lines of instructions as possible

This is true for performance-critical code which will be written once and never modified or reviewed. For "living" code - code in a system which will be updated and extended as it is operating - it is crucial to at least pay attention to the human-readability of your code, in order to improve the efficiency of the future developers. Both extremes of the "inscrutable optimization" and "prolix verbosity" spectrum are incorrect - the correct midpoint is a judgement call.
So I've tried half a dozen antipsychotics, here are my 2 cents:

The only things those drugs did to me were making me comatose, poop my pants, sleepy, dumb and hungry.

You can't be declared psychotic or paranoid, when the only thing you can do is sleep, drool, poop yourself, and make 3 words sentences, so lazy doctors think these drugs work.

But they don't, there was zero change in my beliefs, fears, anxieties, I was the exact same person, only slower, dumber, and sleepier.

And at some point, when you're exhausted from being a zombie, you end just lying to your doc and pretending everything is fine, even when you believe doctors should always know the truth, because it's the only way to stop yourself from staying a brain dead zombie for life and causing irreversible damage.
I'm sorry, but this is really bad advice. There is a case to be made to make emergency loans, or even donations, for helping with healthcare needs or disasters. But small loans for family and close friends is something that you should absolutely avoid doing due to the high risk of destroying relationships forever.
very similar article by NPR here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37135162
The worst part is they did create a viable business model. They were profitable when they had their IPO. They then pretended that the IPO was just another Series X investment, blew all the money, and went negative on their cashflow.

Hashicorps problem isn't that their business model doesn't work, it's that they are really bad at their jobs. They ignore customer feedback, laid off support people, and then jacked their prices up. It's a self inflicted wound, and instead of trying to fix it they just keep making it worse.
I hear what you’re saying. I think in the abstract it seems like an unnecessary helper function. But in a historical context it makes sense.

About a year before hooks was introduced it was discovered by multiple teams that inline anonymous JSX functions could create big performance issues. This was particularly felt in react native development. The solution back then was to do the whole .bind(this) to your callback methods in your react classes.

Because of this (my guess) is the react team wanted to make it extremely obvious how you could use closure state as opposed to private method callbacks when they went intro hooks, without teams having to worry about taking a performance penalty with inline callbacks. It was not obvious to me (and I’m sure many others) when hooks came out that you could memoize functions before rendering.

Again, I get the redundancy point and maybe at this point it could be deprecated but I think you have to think about where the community was before hooks.
Datasette-write-UI: a Datasette plugin for editing, inserting, and deleting rows
I had only had credit cards linked to PayPal before, never a checking account. There is no option to transfer the balance to a credit card. When I tried adding a checking account it insisted I provide a mobile number, which I did, and it refused to accept, telling me to just "try a different number," lol. This is an actual cell phone number from a US carrier (Mint Mobile).

Yes, in retrospect I should have sent the money to a friend and asked for a Zelle payment in return.
I think it's a good thing that gambling has been legalized and brought out the shadows. But I really wish the advertising rules around it were changed. I would very much like it if the laws were similar to toy advertising in Japan. Ads are allowed, but you are not allowed to show ads for the product during the event.

In Japan you can't show ads for Power Ranger toys during an airing of Power Rangers. Draft King wouldn't be allowed to show commercials during a baseball game and definitely would not be allowed to show you the betting odds in the seventh inning to make sure you bet before the game is over. The betting ads are just so ridiculous and blanket the broadcast that they make it seem like you're weird if you aren't constantly betting on every game.
Given that the title of the book is provocative, I really don't see this the issue here.
I have absolutely no knowledge in mechanical engineering before and I am now really in a youtube-binge about wrench. Not sure it is a good thing that I can get captivated by absolute random topic or a bad thing because how technology just suck up our attention.
Capyloon is an alternative trying to carry the FxOS torch, but its focus on IPFS & things other than telephony make it hard to recommend if you can’t use a phone as a phone.
Are you talking about PCIe fabrics? There was a moment there where I thought a shiny future was ahead of us and then… nothing. Still bitter about that.

Or was this tried another way? I’m hoping that open firmwares create an environment where we can start treating the computer as a network. It’s a slim hope but not entirely insane.
TIL, Pretty cool!

But I suppose there isn't away to run these transient services as boot because they are definition gone after they have stopped?
What was he up to ? When did it become known?
The average American kid in the 90s never had a chance to go either, but knowing that Disneyland is a real place changes your perspective or relationship with the content. It feels more real and more permanent. Knowing that millions of people are going and have gone to a real place where the characters "live" sets them apart.

That's my take anyway. It would be interesting to know the % of kids in the US that have been to a Disney park at various points in time. My wild guess is that the number has always been well under 10%.
1 - Correction: writing late, typo - BASIC should have been property of the US tax payers.

2 - It was still pretty novel back then, but "borrowing" computer time w/o paying for it is (and was) theft of services. Like sneaking into a movie theater without paying. It wasn't their hardware to use, it was a critical part of a commercial endeavor. They didn't have permission in advance to use it. They didn't murder someone, but they were a couple of spoilt brats who figured they could get rich by ripping people off. They ripped off SCP (next point) and they screwed over IBM & Digital Equipment Corp. with the OS/2 gaslighting & NT intellectual property theft (case settled out of court).

3 - Gates wired up the deal with IBM then "bought" 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products knowing very well it was going to be worth millions since people were waiting for IBM to release a PC at the time. SCP made less than a million dollars and had it drawn out in court (from that same article - "Microsoft paid SCP US$925,000 and reclaimed its license for DOS"). He saw an opportunity to play middle man and then shanked SCP.
That was a fun read. I found item 6 interesting, "Separate functional and non-functional changes". Because that's obviously the sensible and useful thing to do. But at the last job, whitespace, reformatting and simple refactoring changes were strongly discouraged unless they were part of another functional change. There was a written policy about it.

Refactoring changes and such didn't have an approved Jira ticket, and you needed a ticket for every PR (even proposed PRs to show an idea). If you created a Jira ticket for the code improvement task, it would nearly always be set to lowest priority ("never" in practice) and the Jira ticket approval committee would rarely approve it for work in the next sprint unless it was accompanied by compelling business case backed by an enthusastic champion. A PM would never assign them, except as an onboarding practice task for someone new. You could self-assign them but you'd be taking a risk by working on something lowest priority.

In practice this meant people squeezed whitespace, simple refactorings and other improvements by comingling them into feature and bugfix changes. (Larger refactorings such as internal API and architectural changes, which that code sorely needed for ridiculously-bug-prone reasons and ridiculously-slow-development reasons, rarely got done at all.)
You can also think of "the brain" as a collection of 10-20 separate organs, rather than one super complex one.
This is a false story about the '70s. Movies aren't reality.
Those developers are immature.

JS was always here to stay. Wether you like it or not. Come with solutions instead of leaving it to someone else, or worse complaining.

JS was always super exciting, with a few lines you could build entire applications.
Some places might require all that but a lot don't need in-person, id card. And there's also sms verification services that charge you a few cents per verification, and they use "real" numbers.
If you want to make a documentary, I would like to know why your documentary will be better than what is already available, such as Not Just Bikes, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, or any other prior art.
1. I use firefox in Windows, Linux, and Android. I am NOT suffering.

2. Most people aren't actively choosing their web browser. For example, my wife uses the Samsung web browser on her phone because that is the default.

3. Most people think Google is the internet, can't distinguish between the browser and the google webpage, etc.

4. A dwindling marketshare percentage does not directly imply old userspe are moving from Firefox to another browser, it could imply that new users don't know/use firefox
> a local wikipedia dump

There exists (at least) a project to train and query an LLM on local documents: privateGPT - https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT

It should provide links to the the source with the relevant content, to check the exact text:

> You'll need to wait 20-30 seconds (depending on your machine) while the LLM model consumes the prompt and prepares the answer. Once done, it will print the answer and the 4 sources it used as context from your documents

You will have noticed, in that first sentence, that it may not be practical, especially on an Orange Pi.
Hawaii wildfires: did scientists expect Maui to burn?
Climate-Safe California Rapid Decarbonization Campaign [pdf]
see also

https://theclimatecenter.org/climate-safe-california/
Disney and Taylor Swift have another thing in common:

They have built a substantial portion of the worth from forming very close emotional bonds with girls from a young age.

There are a millions of women who have not just grown up with Disney princesses, but grew up with a very emotional bond to them.

Shrek may be good, but nobody wants to be Shrek and Fiona, the way girls want to be Ariel, Belle, and Elsa.
That depends if you contribution is conforming with google's strategy / vision. Very likely google is going to be hostile to the future contribution to re-enable extension manifest v2.
> Is the Apple password manager available on non-Apple devices?

As of last month or so, it is now available on Windows as well.