skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like that piece in Fantasia where the apprentice (Mickey) gains the wizard's powers, then loses control as all hell breaks loose. It's a powerful new tool, but there's a time and a place for it, and I believe that the tendency towards LiveView-everywhere should be balanced against pure practicality. I look forward to a future in which the boundaries of the paradigm are more well-understood, and the models of when and how to use these tools are more fleshed-out.

Also, I agree with your heuristics. It is untenable to make a round trip to the server for things that can be done purely on the client side. Alpine.js is great for managing purely client-side stuff IMO (as are LV hooks, although I haven't used them too often), but they don't really mix well, and Alpine seems to have fallen out of favor lately with the Phoenix crowd as the complexity of people's projects starts to reveal the cracks in the paradigm.

To add to your heuristics, the `phx-loading` attribute should be used when possible to notify the user that 1) yes, you made the action, and 2) we're still waiting for a response.
Why have the money taken out of my bank account for a purchase made today when I can pay it without penalty 60 days later and let the money grow in my brokerage account.

Along with the usual answers like cash bank/points/consumer protection, it also decouples spending from "pay day".
The alternate argument is that it is, in fact, collapsing, right now, or immediately about to. If it happens, everyone will be posting that same link and saying, "See, they knew this would happen 22 years ago!"

Collapses are sudden. China went from one-child-per to three-children-per. They're antsy about Hong Kong, Taiwan and the South Sea. They're quietly walking away from democracy. Their government is chummy with Russia's government who is exactly as chummy with North Korea's government. They're bullying Naval Philippines on their own waters.

Things are changing pretty rapidly in China. Up or down is the question right now.
It doesn't take a positive vote to shutdown the government.

It merely takes the lack of one.

This, I believe, is the flaw.
> It might be a very European view to the problem but: Why does the American government does even tolerate this credit card garbage business in the first place ?

TIL: Credit cards are banned in Europe. /s
I think it is targeted to cold weather markets for home heating retrofits that have gas boilers driving radiators.
The cursive hand they taught when I was in elementary school was just ugly as sin and hard to read. Has a name, I forget, it’s the one that’s been standard in most US schools for decades, all linked up loops and curves, hardly a straight line in sight. I read once that it looks a ton better and the strokes are better-motivated if you’re using a nib pen, because lots of the back sides of loops get a thinner line which improves legibility, and the style helps orient the nib the right way as you go, which I hope is the case because otherwise I have no clue why anyone would have ever liked it or selected it to teach children

I’ve seen tons of others that are simpler, closer to print writing, and much easier to read (fewer extra loops and hoops on letters, crap like that) and I wish they’d taught us one of those, if they had to teach us cursive.
I use my 15 year old Panasonic heatpump down to -20 C. Add some wood to the fire on the coldest days. Works great although the «free energy» is really low at those temperatures.
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Someone mentioned fraud protection, to be more explicit: With credit cards, you haven't truly paid until the credit card bill gets paid. So, if you have a dispute, you don't have to pay the disputed amount until the dispute is resolved. With a debit card, you've already paid, and so you're out the money until the dispute is resolved. Now, if the dispute is not resolved in your favor, you may have to pay interest on the credit card.

Related to the above, you don't need to make sure you have the money in your debit card account before buying things. You can just charge it and then make sure you're good to pay later. Example: you don't have the cash handy right now for an emergency car repair. You can still pay the mechanic, and then be able to pay off the car repair over the next two months.

Credit is a tool. Sometimes the tool is good and useful. Sometimes you blow your foot off with it.
Most sadly don't give a discount for not using a credit card. I've only seen my local bagel place do that. Other places say they will charge a credit card transaction fee even if you use a debit card (which still has costs for the merchant but not as much as credit cards)
I agree on your analysis of the sources.

> The first one is just an hidden tax and garbage profits made possible only due to the monopolistic behaviour of credit card companies.

I'm not sure any supposed monopoly is necessary here to explain anything. In fact, there's no monopoly and different competing issuers have different levels of fees and 'rewards'. Eg American Express explicitly has high fees and high rewards, and competes against Visa and Mastercard (and against domestic systems in eg Germany or Japan).

A monopoly (or oligopoly or cartel) argument could perhaps explain why the smallest fees you can find are still 'high' by some arbitrary standard, but it couldn't explain why American Express is a viable competitor.

See https://upgradedpoints.com/credit-cards/us-credit-card-marke... for market shares of the different payment networks in the US.
Why Leading E-Commerce Companies Are Going Composable with Checkout Optimization
Slack’s jarring new design – can you go back to the old one?
Perhaps a no-code UI might let you wire up the conversational memory being suggested here.

I haven’t used these but saw a post on them:

https://cobusgreyling.medium.com/flowise-for-langchain-b7c40...

https://cobusgreyling.medium.com/langflow-46563a8af323
> Unity's recent moves to me speak to a fear that they've more-or-less hit their market saturation point, and now they're looking to extract more from the developers who live in their slice of the pie. I fear this will make that slice shrink, which will create more fear, and then the problem spirals.

Man, you just described [enshittification](https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/) to a tee
I work for a multi-billion dollar publicly traded company and I've watched this happen to a new product that our org launched last year. One big customer set the direction early on and got used to us building exactly what they asked for. As we've gained more customers we're having to tell them no more and more often and they're getting less and less happy. We're locked in to a long contract so they're not leaving anytime soon, but it's turning into a constant battle with them.
I'm a techie apple nerd and I've never made a data connection over usb. Just use google photos/icloud drive/air drop to transfer data to my desktop computer
Your house is a lot larger than a fridge. Also, fridges rarely have things like windows in them, and do not usually contain breathing humans who need their air ventilated.
I imagine it would create more opportunities for independents and other types of candidates to run. Instead of having a false choice that nobody really wants, it continually forces the issue until a real choice is available, and denies any false mandate to anyone elected without the real will of the people being polled.

It also changes the cost dynamics of running races to the point where I hope it would reduce cynical political maneuvers drastically. They would cease paying off, and chasing people away from the polls would be detrimental to everyone.

There's the other side, as well. Is it the right of people to _not_ have any representation currently? I think if your district only gets 18% turnout, then the voters are essentially telling you just that.. we'd rather have _no one_ over what's presented here.
What makes you think I'm not into that?
The contention is not about whether or not kids should be taught to write at all, but rather that if it makes sense to insist on putting more emphasis on developing the skill beyond the minimum needed to convey things in a casual setting.

Personally I feel that people who associate poor handwriting with a lack of self respect or a lack of interest in their work are being too judgemental. It isn't really meaningful that their grandfather, who grew up in a time when handwriting was the only option when not seated at a desk, thought clear handwriting was a matter of respect. To put the extent of the fundamental cultural change in perspective, in a class I was teaching earlier today, there was an incident of many students asking others for pens to sign an attendance sheet with because even if they do handwrite their notes, it's with a digital pen. Even I hadn't carried or owned a regular pen in many years, having only about a year ago bought some and decided to keep them in places I might need them so I don't have to go digging in the handful of times a year that I might actually need one.

Then there's the other issue that comes with making anything a matter of respect, where, as a child I had ended up with a somewhat 'custom' writing style that was a mix of both cursive and print due to frequently moving between countries which taught things differently. It was easily legible while still being fast enough to take notes with, but because it wasn't the "respectable" style, I got plenty of grief from teachers at the school even though they too insisted that any assignment of actual value be typed up and the handwriting was only for classroom notes which would end up in the bin at the end of the year anyway.

It's fine if you want to try to encourage your child to improve the quality of their handwriting, but telling them that they need to do it for respect is, in my opinion, an outdated idea on par with the previously common ideas about how being a lefty needed to be 'corrected'. Wanting to teach them to take pride in their work is good too, but, pride in one's work comes from the quality of the work, of which the handwriting is an increasingly miniscule part. A doctor shows pride in their work by providing the most effective care for their patients, not by writing an especially legible note.
First, you really should move away from frequentist statistical testing and use Bayesian statistics instead. It is perfect for such occasions where you want to adjust your beliefs in what UX is best based on empirical data to support your decision. With collecting data you are increasing confidence in your decision rather than trying to meet an arbitrary criterion of a specific p-value.

Second, the “run-in-parallel” approach has a well defined name in experimental design, called a factorial design. The diagram shown is an example of full factorial design in which each level of each factor is combined with each level of all other factors. The advantage of such design is that interactions between factors can be tested as well. If there are good reasons to believe that there are no interactions between the different factors then you could use a partial factorial design that, which has the advantage of having less total combinations of levels while still enabling estimation of effects of individual factors.
Yup. Somebody at MSFT trying to min/max their way towards their next promotion.
I assumed AI
Banning plastic straws is one of the lowest effectiveness and most absurd ideas ever. Plus those paper straws are really bad for your health and the contain "forever chemicals". I'm sorry for the inflammatory comment but anyone who advocates for banning plastic straws in America is wasting time on environmentalism theatre.
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=S23
An economy needs money to be created to ensure full employment. If that money is created as loans to businesses it will result in investment; to the government, in lower taxes; to homeowners, in house price bubbles, but if it is created as consumer credit it will result directly in consumption, which has the greatest social benefit since it is the purpose of an economy to enable consumption.
"people who insist that practices that are normal outside of the US are completely and totally impossible"

This seems to be the culture in the US as a whole.

Gun control? Completely impossible, even tho it's worked well in every first world country on the planet.

Paying employees instead of tipping? Completely impossible, would disincentivise work and the economy would collapse, even tho it works well in every first world country on the planet.

Public healthcare? Completely impossible, even tho it works well in every first world country on the planet.
So the pension funds are suing Fox because Fox got sued and lost the case which was bad for investors - Fox had to pay out a ton of money negatively impacting investment returns.

I don't think this is going anywhere - Caveat Emptor. This lawsuit should be thrown out. As Matt Levine often says: everything is securities fraud[0].

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-25/podcast-m...
I agree with the GP, but I've definitely been staring down the barrel of this paradigm as well.
Funny enough, Europe has indeed banned various degrees of the top items on your list.

Generally Europe more paternalistic and Europeans like it that way. Americans are less so, and like it that way.
Your use case and workflow is exactly why I originally developed django-distill, glad to see it resonates with other developers. Thanks!
I don't wish to waste even a single minute of my life thinking about this.
That might be true (I don't know), but then we are left with another mystery: why do credit card companies spend more effort combating fraud than debit card companies do?

(Also keep in mind that it's often the same companies that do debit and credit cards. For example, I have debit cards in the Mastercard and Visa networks, but no credit cards. I assume most of the fraud prevention efforts benefit my debit cards as well.

Also that relying on a bunch of numbers alone is pretty sketchy. But I am choosing to interpret fraud more widely, than just card number theft. I am pretty sure card number theft is pretty low(er) in parts of the world where people pay with chip-and-pin, and don't use numbered cards.)
I prefer to use ZigBee and not have to trust any corporate tech monster, but my smart home aspirations are pretty limited.
Why do their diagrams include faucets and tubs/showers?

https://www.samsung.com/levant/business/system-air-condition...
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Game devs want fast iterations above everything else, with performance being a close second. c++'s "toolchain" makes those iterations prohibitively impossible, even with decades of workarounds with hot reloading and extravagant methods to keep compilation times down.

If you're a AAA dev you give up a lot of that iteration because performance overtakes you, but there's little reason some indie 2d platformer will want to deal with even 30 second iteration times (which would be blazing quick for a AAA setup). C# is a mature, familiar environment for devs with similar syntax to C++ that can get decent performance as long as you maintain some discipline (for starters, no LINQ)
Yep! The linked notebook includes an example of exactly that (fine-tuning a 7b model to match the syntax of GPT-4 function call responses): https://github.com/OpenPipe/OpenPipe/blob/main/examples/clas...
The only classes of investors in these new LLM-specific analytics companies are the ones that don't know better and the ones that expect a quick exit or some pivot the rest of us aren't privy to.

The only thing LLM specific in analytics right now is tracking the right REST calls. Most ultra-LLM specific analytics are an anti-pattern if anything: if your agent setup is so convoluted you can't hook up a normal tracing library to it, it's a mess.

That's why 99% of them target Langchain specifically, it's so horribly written that adding basic tracing really is a challenge worth solving. But how long can you bank on the tool of the day just being that terrible?
Wow thanks for the reply!
> Credit card companies spend a lot of money protecting their customers from card number theft (which is rampant in all parts of the world)

I only bite half to this argument.

If they really wanted to fight against credit card number theft, they would:

- Enforce pin payment everywhere around the world
- Ban magnetic strip payment once for all
- Enforce two factor authentication system for anything related to online payment.

They do not. Why ?

Because the fraud "real" cost is mainly thrown in the wild on the merchant that have to deal with their goods being sent and their payment being reverted.

It is a liability issue.

I am pretty sure that with a little law that, lets say, enforce Banks to reimburse their customers under 24h00 for a small fee, lets say 10$, in case of fraudulent transaction: This entire system of scam would fade away pretty quickly.
The only thing worse than Apple fanboys is anti-Apple fanboys projecting.

No one is going to claim this. The fact the Pro gets 10Gbit USB 3 _is_ interesting (particularly for anyone using the phone for video), but certainly not revolutionary or genius.
…which is, you know, A15-based.
Anyone know what the Energy, Materials Science, and Security ones were? All other categories I can generally intuit how AI is being used, especially LLMs, but not so those three categories.

Edit: here they are:

Energy:

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/elyos-energy

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/line-build

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/helios-climate-industr...

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orbio-earth

Materials: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/osium-ai

Security:

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kobalt-labs

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/corgea

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/remy-security
Image decoding is complex
You are making an assumption on megabytes-large JS bundles. Also, how well do lean and mean pages load when you lose internet connection?
its very useful for a roadshow, yes.

and everything else in life that helped you get in a position to be able to drop everything and go on a roadshow.
Ergonomics is probably the wrong word to use but the magic mouse isn't a comfortable shape for most people. Less subjectively though it's sensor and tracking are terrible compared to modern sensors. All of this can be ignored for most typical work uses I suppose but what can't be ignored is the insanity of placing the charging port on the bottom of the mouse so you cant use it while charging.
I fail to understand your point. What kind of feature do you to be excited to see in a product that is 16 years old?

Do you think the and thing when you buy a new dishwasher, a couch, a chair? That it’s mediocre?

Smartphones are not the future anymore, there’s people starting university soon that always had one, and never lived in a world without the iPhone.

Also, besides arguably the first few iPhones, Apple never distinguished itself from the competition with the technology it uses, but by the quality of its offering, which is why bending phones or poorly designed antennas are more important for them than having the newest tech available half a second after being commercially viable - that’s what Android OEMs do to differentiate.

I know that for me, personally, having a new iPhone with USB-C is a must have feature, which is why I have my iPhone 11 still chumming along.
He spent twenty years in a prison. I imagine it was a habit left over from then. A slightly detrimental one, but obviously not one that set him back too much.
Seems more extensively applied. e.g. If cleaning the bathroom is worthwhile then it is worth doing it badly. As opposed not at all. I'm sure someone loves cleaning bathrooms but that isn't the point.

Counterpoint to the the inner voice saying: It's not worth doing because it won't be great.

Woody Allen: "Showing up is 80 percent of life."
I traded a 6mo notice for removal of non compete, figured it was a good trade for both parties. This is a CxO position. I know they are mostly unenforceable but the next company might not want to even get involved if it were in my current contract.
Well for one it won't be heading upstream anytime soon, so they could have really picked any language they wanted. Rust definitely wasn't a bad choice but they did actively choose it because they wanted to.
Didn't read through the entire thread but anyone that has experienced startups will have seen that the stack is decided by the tech co-founder/ first engineer. This is because they are often still the only engineer. And they will decide on a language they already know - a language that is not popular among startups is a language not popular among engineers that join early stage startups. I could imagine that many enterprise developers using Java or dotnet have relatively comfortable jobs and tend to not relocate.

There is then the point where a startup may need to "step up" to a more large-scale language, for example when Twitter started incorporating Scala. But succeeding enough to reach this point is a small subset of startups, many probably not even called startup anymore, so any language at this stage may not "feel popular" when limiting to startups.
Google is surprisingly shit today, actively pushing current events over historic ones despite search filters (weirdly reminiscent of LLM attention issues and biases to recency).

I’ll see if I can find the primary ones, they are from the archives after the Soviet collapse.

Secondary reading:

Adrian Chen, “The Agency,” New York Times Magazine, June 2, 2015, and Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss, The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money, New York:

https://tnsr.org/2022/09/whats-old-is-new-again-cold-war-les...

Institute of Modern Russia and The Interpreter, 2014.

https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/c...
Years ago, I asked data scientist (with a PhD) whether his jupyter notebooks were only on his laptop or whether they were backed up on a server. He said they were on a server.

I wanted to make sure whatever server that was had regular backups, so I asked for the server name.

He looked at the URL bar and gave me the server's IP address: 127.0.0.1
People will judge you on no matter what. That is normal. They don't know you after all.

You likely do that too — when someone approaches you on the street you very quickly and intuitively judge their whole being to know whether you need to be on the guard or whether you decide you can have a chat with them.

Now unless the rest of the persons appearance gives you other clues totally broken shoes are in my experience a bad sign, most of the time.

Of course that is shallow knowledge of a person, and you can't truly judge someone as a person by the clothes they are wearing — but unless you want to get to know everybody you meet deeply before deciding they are not worth your time, clothes can be a fast (but low quality) proxy.

That also means your appearance is a fast and low quality proxy based on which others decide whether to talk to you and how they should go into a conversation with you.

Thst isn't normative btw., so it doesn't mean you need to wear boring suits all day. You could line two punks up next to each other and have one looking interesting and worth talking to, and the other shady in a bad way.
Seems to be kept fairly updated

https://github.com/makelinux/linux_kernel_map

https://github.com/makelinux/makelinux.github.io
Credit card debt driving families to suicide is super exaggerated. America makes it relatively easy to get rid of credit card debt through bankruptcy. And even after bankruptcy it's possible to get credit cards again after a few years. And after seven years it's completely off your credit report.