skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that this article is probably 'objectively good design' in some way, seeing as its written by front-end experts of some sort, but I found the content much tougher to read and digest than a much plainer format. All the different bold colors, graphics, and large/varied font sizes were tougher for me to absorb than something more straightforward (eg https://www.arslonga.email/how-to-connect-zotero-with-obsidi... - just the most recent example I could think of). Anyone else feel the same?
What does it matter being a programmer?

This thing has a statistical safety rate. Which is either worse or better than your average Uber/Lyft/taxi driver.

But if it's better, it's better. And if you'd rather keep getting in vehicles with human drivers then they're statistically more dangerous, well that'll be your choice.
Elon Musk plans to remove headlines from news articles shared on X
Seems like this project got star pumped. More stars than watches, forks, contributors, issues, releases, used bys, discussions, replies, and commits combined.
It definitely doesn't add clarity for me. Paragraphs group sentences about an idea. Breaking sentences into paragraphs implies that you're starting a new thought. If you're not, it just makes the writing choppy, and it reads with extra pauses in my inner monologue that I think most people wouldn't have if they were speaking rather than writing.
We could just retrofit exisiting road infrastructure to be more autonomous car friendly. Standardized signals, sensors, etc
This kind of unsafely cheaping out to minimize BOM prices probably happens with every car manufacturer, but for some reason seems to be more prevalent with US auto makers, which is why I'm waiting on an overseas design brand (even if it's built here) to make a cheap, affordable but I hope reliable and safe electric vehicle.

Still, kudos to Ford for building electric vehicles for their core truck and sports car markets. I wish them well even if I don't trust them enough to buy their product thanks to doing things like this all the way back to the Ford Pinto and most recently with the 2022 Mustang Mach-E.
If music was fungible for any other music and a musician's day had an unlimited supply of hours, this might be a reasonable position.

There was already "enough" recorded music decades ago that someone could fill all their living hours with constant listening and not exhaust it. If that's really all there is to it, I'm sure you'll have no problem committing to never listen to anything after around 1970. If you have any hesitation about that then you might start to see serious shortcomings in this conception of supply.

"there are more people able to make and publish music then ever" also papers over nearly everything that matters about the statement. "There are more people" is the defensible part. There's half an argument we have greater access to affordable digital tools for production than ever -- but I'm not even sure it's half. The constraining factor on music composition, performance/recording, production is always time. Even where the tools themselves save time that's a series of converging terms that stops at a limit because to make good music you have to practice using those tools plus others. A lot.

Set up a system which rewards those people in proportion to the audience they find and those people are both equipped and incentivized to spend more of their time into making not only more but making better, because they aren't required to spend their time doing other things.

Set up a system which says "Oh yeah, we shouldn't reward any of this, people should just do it in their spare time" and sure, some will do it in their spare time. But they'll miss out on the compounding effects of focus and its power laws because they're occupied with whatever other stuff policy+markets have been set up to value instead. And their audience and the rest of the world will miss out on their power law peaks.

Which is why I was too generous with my earlier "never listen to anything after around 1970" thought experiment. Really, don't listen to anything except debut releases before 1970. Some of the debuts are really good, of course, and labors of love (or capital-backed love) as you say. But the post-debut work is what's enabled by the economic feedback.

There will, of course, likely often be survivors to bias ourselves to the status quo with. And perhaps that's good enough for some. Hell, maybe we're even rapidly getting to a point where we don't even need most artists at all, we can simply have software trained on all the work of all the artists that have ever recorded produce music for you, and be done with not only the pesky idea of rewarding musicians whose work we appreciate but having a pesky human being involved in direct production in the first place.
Designing data intensive applications is frequently recommended, but is 6 years old now. I know that doesn’t sound like a lot, but the state of distributed compute is a lot different than it was 6 years ago. Do you feel like it holds up well?

A year of two ago I read Ralph Kimball’s seminal The Data Warehouse Toolkit. While I could see why it’s still often recommended, it was showing its age in many ways (though a fair bit older than DDIA). It felt like a mix of best practices and dated advice, but it was hard to tell for certain what was what.
I for one think most people can absorb more complex messages than "screen time bad".
So what you're saying is that The Three-Body Problem, a pro-space colonisation novel is in fact white supremacist and espouses a Nazi ideology, despite being Chinese and written by an overtly pro-CCP author?

As is Dyson Sphere Program, a game developed by Chinese studio Youthcat Studios?

Okay, enough about China, what about Japan? Legend of Galactic Heroes, Xenosaga, Crest of the Stars, Superdimension Fortress Macross, Space Battleship Yamato, Starship Operators, Bodacious Space Pirates, Star Ocean? White Supremacy seems awfully popular among these non-White creators.
It would be tough to build a business or a startup on top of a low/no code platform.

There is too much risk and lock in what if the platform raises prices, goes out of business, something happens where they lose your data/app.

How well will it scale? What will the costs be at scale?

I can't imagine trusting a platform holding all your cards like that.

There are too many reasons to build on open source and own your own destiny.

Granted sometimes a startup doesn't have a technical founder but there are still lots of decisions to be made and technical decisions for them to be successful.

I just can't see going all in on a no/low code platform of any kind.
You say python is an inspiration, but how is this better than just using opencv from python?
Reminds me that SpaceX has now landed rocket boosters successfully over 200 times. Landing just a single rocket was huge news a few years ago.

The US is launching things into space about 20 times as frequently compared to 10 years ago [1]. Now, most rocket launches don't make mainstream news—I only keep up with things by subscribing to a niche newsletter [2].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-...

[2] https://orbitalindex.com
Sure, that makes sense. Except how is it an "ongoing controversy" that one of the cars hit someone, while being driven by a safety driver? There's providing context, then there's digging for anything that might stick to make them look bad. This, to me, reads as the latter.
We literally had exactly this model on all social media platforms for years and while I certainly remember everyone had that uncle who posted everything he saw on Fox News and exchanges that made for awkward Thanksgiving dinners it wasn’t nearly as toxic as it’s gotten now, especially wrt strangers and bots.
If someone rang me and asked a question like 'am I in favour of throwing vast sums of money towards research and build of nuclear power plants?', it'd be a resounding yes with a strict qualification of 'fusion, not fission'. (Neither word appears in TFA.)

I realise the distinction probably isn't well understood in the general population, but I'm confident a huge part of that is due to every news story conflating the two.
The way we treat screentime these days feels like a strange continuation of the way it was treated for those of us who were kids in the early 2000s even though the world has changed significantly since then.

I remember that back then schools and TV shows were all pushing this idea that all screen time was harmful for kids and to not let them have more than an hour or two a day.

It may have made some more sense than nowadays since CRTs were more common back then and seemed to strain the eyes more, but the lack of differentiation between actually productive screen time and plain old replaceable entertainment caused a ton of friction in my family as I was growing up.

In comparison, with my currently 5 year old niece and 1 year old nephew (more visible in the niece of course), having access to productive screen time has been pretty impressive for her development, with her having learned the alphabet, developed a decent vocabulary, learned addition enough to even reason about numbers for which she hadn't memorized the answer, and even picking up on some multiplication, all before starting school.
Buying airline tickets usually works fine, but I'm going to visit a client in upstate New York and a business class ticket BDA->LAX->SYR was cheaper than BDA->PHL.
I don't disagree that it's morally fine -- after all, the abandonware community wouldn't make the downloads available otherwise -- but it's still not legal.

Home of the Underdogs used to get tons of aggressive cease and desist emails from ESA (then named IDSA), the group representing game publishers legally, and who supposedly are on the "side" of games. So aggressive in fact they sometimes got it wrong (like sending a C&D for a game which was public domain). And who was willing to take a stance and chance it?

Back then the abandonware community was one of two things, I think: people who just wanted to download games (Warez or abandonware was the same to them) and proper members of the community, who'd rather see these games either commercially supported or made public domain. Both HOTU and Abandonia replaced download links whenever someone found a legal way to buy the games.
Doesn’t look like it’s changed much in 20+ years, though I did find this quaint snapshot from 1996 of a team of engineers I presume with the caption “See you in the Spring!”: https://web.archive.org/web/19961220045225/https://www.compu...
Get rid of the red tape and nuclear becomes much cheaper (over time).
If you care about your population surviving, you know that a birth rate below 2 is a serious problem that must be solved.

Allowing your populace to sedate itself with weed/booze/porn/etc. is the opposite of solving this problem.
They're a known quantity of death though. Human drivers are going to drive drunk, sleepy and distracted. We've been at this since 2005 with the DARPA Grand Challenge. it's not half-baked, it's not a "tech bro fantasy", and hope is not a strategy. It was, a decade and eight years ago when the shit barely made it across the finish line (and many did not), but in those 18 years, theres been some development work and some money invested in making it work. In those 18 years, some 180k people have been killed by drunk drivers.

There are growing pains, absolutely, but at 2:15 am, crossing the street next to the bars, which driver with a red light are you going to step out in front of, crossing the street.

I know which one I'd choose.
I worked with Delphi in the beginning of my career, and the only thing I find myself really missing is the runtime type information! It worked really well and sometimes I find myself missing it in other compiled languages.

But I heavily disagree with the author's positivity about Delphi in general.

The UI builder excels on wiring up small utilities, but when you are looking to build applications with more complex UIs, with custom components and/or devices with different screens, the complexity increases exponentially and the UI preview becomes just a small suggestion, I think only in the last release (10.5) in 2022 they addressed this.

The component system is clunky, and very prone to breaking. In my entire time working with it I never once had a completely functional development environment, because components installation never had the same result. To work in some parts of the project i had to just ignore the IDE and edit the text files directly.
Also, Delphi updates required reinstalling everything, and solving the many problems that would arise, and then all dev environments would have to be reconfigured (and troubleshooted) manually.

Talking about editing, the IDE's performance is not very good, and the Intellisense is not asynchronous, the suggestions and error checking took their time to load, and the IDE becomes unresponsive while it processes, and sometimes windows would just kill the application because it was not responding. I had to turn it all off to be able to work. Oh.. And the bugs, the IDE had bugs just everywhere!

The above exposes a problem in the language itself, it did not have good asynchronous behavior, and I never understood it completely, the only way to make sure you would not block the main thread in some way was to spawn a new process to run background stuff.

The standard components are outdated, the WebView they used was Internet Explorer's one until the 10.4 release, in 2021, they just recently started to adopt WinUI, so you were stuck with 00's user experience, their JSON parser was not very standard (it didn't support the number type, for instance). And when I searched community components to implement things I usually found only something very outdated and unmaintained, or just didn't find anything.

I think essentially it had some quite good ideas in the beginning, but this is the important fact, it "had". Delphi stopped improving on itself, and is just trying to convince the same community of people who fell in love with it when it was still good and dedicated their entire careers to it that they are cool now, adding things that sound cool, while nothing important really improves.
If you sideload an extension, you can achieve your 0 third-party silent autoupdate goal without compromising on any functionality
(though this misfeature should be a per extension toggle at the browser level)
I used to sing hymns in church backwards under my breath. I'm not fast, but I can talk backwards too if it's just word by word. Thinking of and saying an entire sentence back to front is significantly harder.
Why isn't the spent nuclear fuel used to conductively pre-heat the water going to the turbine? Then less energy would be required to convert it to steam, making the whole plant more efficient.
For babies research has shown that screen time is undifferentiated. Babies learn from watching real humans talk. Not from a screen. And screens mean that caregivers use fewer words as well.

For older kids there is a lot of nuance. But in the first 12 months the evidence is pretty clear.
Can’t speak for Waymo, but took a Cruise starting in the Tenderloin the other evening. Most people complain about these cars obstructing traffic in some type of way, but not much discussion about rider experience. First, these cars are susceptible to harassment by malicious pedestrians (someone walking around and bumping the car), halting operation. Second, surprisingly, the cars do not always stop for pickup at the specified location (they can get stuck before making a final turn due to an obstruction and still be obstructed when attempting to depart). This doesn’t deter me from using these cars, but some things the service should consider and riders should be aware of when picking routes.
Maybe the part you're missing is that we are talking about Tinder from the response to the OP, downwards. We are not fuzzily talking about 'many of these apps'.
I was a Firefox user since Phoenix/Firebird and only recently switched to Brave for performance (although I think I'm going back, given the recent performance gains).

I have also been using uBlock Origin heavily since the start.

I'm not sure I fully understand the purpose of this. If this is a Manifest V3 thing, I thought Mozilla wasn't adopting it ... so why would uBlock need to adopt it on Firefox?

I'm clearly missing something.
Visit the OP site and click “ What is the Norwood scale”. That is perfectly objective.
Archived: https://archive.is/FQgo2
In harmony with Silicon Valley, a nearby university, and a popular fruit-named computer company, Palo Alto cultivates an arrogance and narcissism that I would not describe as "underwhelming".

So I'm completely unsurprised that Il Fornaio's pitch would resonate with Jobs and that he would quote it verbatim.

Be that as it may, a number of cool things - and successful companies - have in fact come out of Palo Alto. And you can meet some interesting people there. I believe you can still catch Pac-4 football games there as well.

Il Fornaio and Palo Alto might also have been better in 1990, when Jobs quoted his pitch.
I think no spare tire is a bigger deal. Some cars have a specific space for them, so you can add them, but newer designs (tesla) do not.

Runflats are a sort-of-workaround.
What sort of interactive screen time do you think a 6-month old does?
Rather Ridiculous Than Criminal: How Not to Be Disgusting in Renaissance Italy
The problem with that comparison is that it's a political one, not an economic one - France's nuclear power has been largely publicly owned, whereas Germany's has been largely private, and what's more Merkel's energy policy 20 years ago took the Greens plan of "shut down nuclear and replace it all with renewables" and took out half of the renewables forcing the country to backfill with coal/gas. So the carbon intensity was a failure of politics.

I think it's kind of ironic, really - there are three arguments against nuclear (safety, cost, and political feasibility), and political feasibility is by far the biggest problem - safety is overblown (in no small part because right now we're using coal/gas which is toxic AF), cost is a genuine issue but frankly irrelevant if nuclear will genuinely speed up decarbonization (climate change is hella expensive), so the big problem with nuclear is that it's so easy to scuttle at any point with fearmongering, so if it delays renewables it could be literally worse than useless due to politics.
I worked at a specialty database software vendor for almost 4yrs, albiet I worked on ML connectors. I recall some of the hardest challenges as figuring out each cloud vendor's poorly documented and rapidly changing/breaking marketplace launch mechanisms (usually built atop k8s using their own flavor (eks, aks, gke, etc)).
It’s much better than that.
big oil astroturfed a campaign against nuclear in the 70s. It was framed as hippies warning nuclear would mean certain death for everyone.

that perception stuck
If you’re going to quote C please note that you should be using single quotes: ‘C’
>> This strategy has been used by other countries as well. <<

which "other countries" are you talking about? This practice is illegal under China's 2001 WTO access protocol, which prohibits any subsidy contingent upon "... or on the use of domestic over imported goods." I don't know any country that openly discriminated and excluded the use of foreign competitors' EV batteries -- especially in a market where as much as 40% of the EV inital purchase cost is subsidized.

It wasn't just the EV subsidies though. From 2015-2019, there was a slew of anticompetitive, discriminatory NEV policies that were blatantly illegal to eliminate competition and help domestic weakling, CATL/BYD. (see the EU's WTO complaint WT/DS549 filed in Jun 2018).

>> Those who protest such subsidies are usually the incumbent, who would like to see no subsidies so that they can easily crush startup competitors.<<

Biden/Mancine's IRA enacted last year in 2022 is partly modeled on this to counter China's unfairly gained market dominance. Quite interesting that China threatened action against ‘Discriminatory’ US EV Tax Break[1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-22/china-thr...
I ride a motorcycle. I'll trust a machine to check its mirrors. I won't trust a person. I'll ride ten miles and see twenty people on their phones, holding a cup of coffee, turning around to look at their kids, whatever. I get cut off by people who don't look both ways. I get cut off by people who do look both ways and think they will be out of my way before I get close to them. I get cut off by people making turns that aren't in a lane that allows turns.

I'm not afraid of self driving cars because I know that even if they're not perfect, they will still be far better than the overwhelming majority of drivers on the road.
Aren’t most sales teams separate from customer success? Can you expand on this insight?
uBlock origin is probably the best project to be created in the last decade. The amount of websites that are unusable with ads is crazy.
I would argue that while Unix the technology is helpful, Unix the idea is now actively harmful.

The Unix idea just doesn’t scale well or have the necessary security.

It seems we are more and more going to an idea that is even older than Unix - the mainframe.

From fault tolerance to distributed computing to security to memory channels our modern architectures are more resembling mainframes than Unix and that is good.

Everything is a file is a very, very leaky abstraction. There are all sorts of issues with latency, cost, atomicity, security, persistence.

I feel at this point, that this constant looking back to Unix “purity” is holding us back and closing our mind to new solutions.
Unfortunately, GOG seems to have mostly given up on Linux and often doesn't provide available Linux builds (I think there may have been one main employee who pushed for better Linux support who left years ago). There is at least one "Proton without Steam" build that I haven't tried:

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom

Personally, I've been using Windows fully offline with GOG games, although I'd like to some day try putting together a Linux based offline game console (or maybe NetBSD based if Wine is sufficient).
https://archive.is/uBkyU
So they can make a local copy of all AP stories before training the AI. The AI is a derivative work and it’s unclear if it’s distinct enough to be a problem or not. Finally, some of what ChatGPT is going to spit out is going to very closely resemble AP stories which may itself be a problem.

This stuff is a legal minefield, as a for profit company building their core product it’s very difficult to argue each of these is fair use etc. Though I am sure that argument will be made, it’s risky when dealing with companies whose businesses model centers around IP.
Being drunk on a bike is probably even more dangerous than drunk driving a car. Unfortunately, one doesn't need a license to use public roads with a bicycle.
Beavers.
I found out recently that apparently tesla allows you to log in through your tesla account and read the service manuals for free.

They used to suck, requiring extremely expensive subscriptions to do this.

Now, they allow owners to have access to the manuals, but I don't think this lets third parties see them for free.

also I believe the software to access your car is not free, and they restrict access to your car just like apple restricts access to your own phone.
Votgle 3 has been running for almost a month. It started construction August 26, 2009 and is finishing $17B over budget so far, total about $30B. It bankrupted "Westinghouse Electric Company".

Compared to the forever/oil wars it seems like a pretty good deal, to be honest.

If we had not invaded Iraq we could have built 30 Votgles. USA has spent 2-3 votgles on Ukraine so far since the war began.
CDC and WHO monitoring new Covid variant with large number of mutations
> That won't stop until the tax payer agrees to insulate investors from any losses.

What does this mean? Are corporate structures (corporations, LLCs, etc.) insufficient as liability shields?