skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
reminds me of the stories of pro ball players who work and train their whole lives to finally get signed, but they're one injury or bad season away from losing the stardom.

I'm the opposite, I have the chops to get mid-grade developer jobs (the leetcode stuff kept me from the "big leagues" of FAANG which I'm fine abstaining from, they would sniff me out very quickly) and live comfortably, but I have next to no motivation to get anything beyond the minimum done. I think ADHD is part of it (but its on me for never getting it diagnosed or treated), and sometimes I feel guilty for "stealing time" from my employer (yet I've never been fired for bad performance, somehow my JIRA tickets always get done-enough to stay afloat). I am passionate about personal projects though, and I love coding. I still get satisfaction from solving bugs, but realistically I'll never be more than a mid-level maintenance coder.
Thanks for posting a good comment based on actually looking at their work! Your comment is about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3cFiJnxUBY - I've since changed the URL above.
I've seen restaurants with great food close because of terrible business sense, and I've also seen a few closings recently of long-standing places where the owners wanted to retire and couldn't find anyone they'd trust that would take over. COVID amplified these effects for a time too.

I'm sure a higher fraction of closing restaurants are mid (or worse), but by raw numbers there are many places legitimately worth memorializing. Associated personal memories are a thing of course, but there are multiple closed spots that I feel were inherently very good and have not properly been replaced in my area.
> Most engineers are honest to a fault

This is not something I'd bet millions of my own or investor's money on. The sooner engineers realize this – that their honesty simply isn't germane to the discussion at hand – the sooner this endless argument ends.

There's plenty of grown-up engineers who get this by the way.
>instead of run a business

Running a business is a gamble, always
There's no LTS in React but the components you wrote 10 years ago still works today in latest React.
(there are some deprecations but very few)
"SpaceX could build there"

They have been doing literally that since 2021.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/01/06/florida-starship-launc...
If you like the stuff on it, it's actually pretty cheap compared to what media used to cost.

I would rather see prices go up than see For All Mankind get cancelled. :)
If your SPA is written in Typescript, you're going to throw away a lot of safety checks moving to htmx.
This is like complaining about the private jets of billionaires. It’s a niche thing which doesn’t have much impact in the grand scheme of things.

But I guess it is a bit ironic for the ones who are trying to “connect with nature” by traveling from Boston to Java.
[Dupe]

Lots of discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38008100
I'm thinking about rebranding SpaceX with Gwynne Shotwell persona - I think she at least spends greater fraction of her time on SpaceX matters than Elon these days.
I think this is still possible.

It took a decade for JQuery to be nearly completely absorbed by browser standards.
A communal bikesharing system for under 10€ per bike
Yeah, I saw it in a bunch of places. It didn't take off as a major controversy in the public consciousness, but that doesn't seem to be because it was hidden away.
Because they don't come with router, state management and other support.

When you start adding them, you will be writing enough glue code that will offset a lot of benefits of web components.
With how much Chrome "Oops"ed Firefox[1] I am fully in the "kick back and eat popcorn" mindset of this fight.

If only Chrome could do the same thing to Edge than people might be clamoring back for Firefox.

That said, Firefox would have the least ability to stop this... if it gets to all out mudslinging the only option that would be "safe" is Safari on MacOS using duckduckgo or something. As any other config someone can and would inject "nudges" to the other.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
They claim to like me and, being that several of them have worked with me at multiple companies over a 15 year span and at least one other has requested I take them with me in the future, I would probably say they appreciate my style.

That said, to respond to another commenter, policy can certainly cause friction with this sort of methodology and I have definitely run into it in the past. But, leaders exist to navigate company politics so their direct reports have more time to deal with the work they do; any friction encountered that is insurmountable points to deeper organizational issues and can (and in my case does) necessitate my moving somewhere that allows me the autonomy to build strong teams and develop high performing teams.
It's always great to hear and learn from other successful entrepreneurs
Just use a variable table and stand 50% of your working time.
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+methane+toxic
Does he even own enough shares to do that if he wanted to? (I genuinely don't know, it isn't clear from his Wikipedia page).

I'm not sure if Google is fixable at this point, though I agree with the sentiment; the financial incentives were always pulling this way, even if Google wasn't itself selling advertising, and even if generative AI wasn't better than spam-content detection AI.
> You could easily do this a different way

Yes, but that you have to make a choice means the design is poor. That's why stuff like React (imo) is a failure: there's a kajillion ways to do the same thing which end up creating dogma and sloppy/inconsistent code (read: bugs). Web Components—as far as I've seen—are making the same mistakes, but even worse, as a standard.

As a web standard, Web Components should have been more carefully crafted. There's zero reason the spec couldn't have allowed me to wrap a normal <li> tag in the example above. That it doesn't means, somewhere along the road, a compromise was made that shouldn't have been made.

The problem with all of that is when you introduce new web developers (who start by learning vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), as soon as they get to wanting to build more complex stuff (read: components), they essentially have to "unlearn" much of what they learned.

Why does that matter? Paraphrasing Uncle Bob: because the rate of new developers doubles roughly every five years, that means half the programmers in the world have < 5 years experience. If they're learning bad/inconsistent patterns from day one, that means the quality of the software they build (and God help us, the tools they create later) is on a permanent downward slope.
Wikipedia traces it back to this [1] 2002 paper, which talks about translated documents having an "embedding space" in each language. I guess you could interpret their paper as both English and French being embedded in some larger space, which would make it a valid use of the mathematical term.

From there, people apparently just rolled with it and used the term more broadly, as tends to happen with language.

1: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2002/file/d5e2fbef30a4e...
If nothing else, WSL is part of windows now, so it's trivial to get that set up and hard to argue against most places. You still get stuck with your UI being largely windows, but the guts all being over on linux is enough for me personally.
For the most part, jQuery was absorbed into ES/JavaScript, not HTML.
Your analogy has failed. You assume the increase will come from noise rather than any signal that is being culled.
The article is actually silent on whether the mortality effect was reduced, or whether the study was powerful enough to reliably detect that the mortality effect was reduced in lower-vaccinated communities. It just says the effect "was documented" in those communities, not whether it was exactly as strong.
Apparently, MS didn't learn from its IE antitrust experience in the 90s. The FTC should take action now..

I have Chrome installed on my Windows machine but haven't launched it in months. I also have Edge installed and set as the default browser, but guess what? The other day, I needed to test some work related to web-sev on Chrome, and the moment I clicked its icon in the taskbar, windows showed up a pop-up notification that read something like: "use Edge instead, a fast, secure.. bla bla browser".

Edit: I definitely agree that Google is behaving the same, in a way or another but what pains me in the Microsoft’s case is that I already paid for my Windows license, so I expect some level of freedom unlike using Google for free.
That is not the traditional definition of middle class in the United States.

The traditional American dream was a middle class life: stable career, single income family, house in the suburbs and a nice pension check when you retire.

Fair to point out that that is a bygone era and maybe you do need $6 mill now, but maybe we need a different name than “middle class” to describe it.
Ah Pokemon Go. I haven’t played it in years. I still think the summer of 2016….the summer of Pokemon Go…that was the last sane summer. Ever since that summer ended it feels like the world went crazy. Anyone else feel this way?
First cable tv prices sky rocketed with a lot of ads and cord cutting became a thing. Now streaming services are raising pricing and subscription fatigue has started the cord 2.0 cutting.

I've gone from about 12 subscriptions (Netflix, Crave, Disney+, Apple Tv+, Fubo, Dazn, PrimeVideo, TSN, SportsNet, Funimation, CrunchyRoll, YouTube Premium) down to 6 and thinking of cutting another 3 and only keeping Netflix for kids, Prime (well because of Amazon Prime) and YouTube for me.
Fellow white guy here. Sharing the article might be a signal to this person that you're open to one day talking about race with them (when some kind of race-related situation inevitably comes up) and also that you can poke fun at your own position in society (or at least how many people view our position in society). The fact that you like this article enough to consider sharing it but are hesitating just because of #9 is a yellow flag to me. Obviously I don't know your history or situation but HN is all about honest inquiry and I humbly suggest this might be something worth looking into more.
> no reason to give them a pass

They don't need a pass from privacy/tech enthusiasts. They are fighting over users who are mostly indifferent, and anyone with concerns over Edge and this behavior probably shouldn't use vanilla Chrome unless they have to for work or whatever.

Hence the feeling that my personal distaste for this is pretty much irrelevant.
Yes, but if you go to the Wild Wild Web you'd soon find out that designers don't test their websites anymore with low resolutions and many many of them are unusable as important features are obscured by other elements flowing into them.
IMO, the Marxist definition is a good one. Do you work for your money, or do you get most of your income through the leverage of your capital?

Thus you end up with four categories: Those that cannot meet their needs, the poor, those that meet their needs exclusively through wages with no significant capital, the lower-middle class, those that need to work to make ends meet but can offset some of that through the leverage of some amount of capital, a spectrum of the middle to upper-middle class, until you reach the upper class/rich/bourgeois, where their needs can be met exclusively through the leveraging of capital.
I almost stopped watching because the middle episodes (of the first season) were just wheel spinning. But the last 3 episodes surprised me, they really redeemed the season in a big way.
> I’d be afraid to choose a library created by Google

I wouldn't :-) Lit is just a tiny wrapper over native web components to add reactivity to their behaviour; but what is more important, Lit positions itself as a gradually disappearing library, intended to be replaced with native browser apis as they are introduced into the platform (e.g. DOM parts to help with templating, etc.). Compare this ethos to any other library out there.
Don't know that the weather would be any worse than in Boca
Good for you, i am having tough time here in Uk, Ireland though with 13 YOE
Your argument, to me, feels like this one: "Target puts a lot of pro-Target advertising inside Target stores, therefore it's fine that Walmart decided to put a lot of pro-Walmart advertising inside Target stores."
First time I ran into embeddings was with word2vec and could not resist showing that, similar to the "king - man + woman ~ queen", it also the case that "yoda - good + evil ~ vader". It's also cool that the semantic meaning is the same in vector space, regardless of the language.

Embeddings are also super important in retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG), and getting the best "embeddings model" is important to achieve the best RAG performance. At Vectara we recently launched our new Boomerang model that pushes the limit on performance on embedding models, and I hope will spur more innovation and further improvements in this space.

https://vectara.com/introducing-boomerang-vectaras-new-and-i...
No. Rather, it's that many other countries are benefitting the US-led global peace since WW2 such that they can afford to keep unusually small militaries compared to historical norms. Pre-modern states spent way more on defense, and that is what would happen if US dominance weakens and large wars become plausible again.
The important distinction that this is entirely client-side, while Akita requires an agent running server-side.
You don't need Deno if all you're doing is simple utilities for parsing data and making file format converters. The native browser runtime is more than capable on its own—and your users already have it installed; you don't need to bring another vendor's runtime into the equation just to run a JS program—few people are going to have Deno on their computer.

The part of the ecosystem that belongs to Node/Deno branch of the family tree also tends to promote bad practices (while insisting they're good practices), and that's before you get to the part where the runtimes themselves implement quirky/non-standard dialects and APIs. It's not a community that's known for being especially rational or having high standards for intellectual honesty.

If you really want to write stuff that will on most people's computers, target the World Wide Wruntime—write standard JS that the browser won't choke on. You can do it in a way that people are allowed to run it from the command-line if they want but doing so is optional. Here's a 7-part tutorial that explains how: <https://triplescripts.org/example/>
I've found that there is one common root for Social Anxiety: an extreme desire for approval.

When we want others' approval so bad, we become anxious when thinking about losing it. This fear becomes a discouraging spiral.

Fear of what you think --> Running from opportunities & ruin my life --> Regret & feel more discouraged

And so, to combat this, we need encouragement to take even the smallest step to break that. Ultimately, I'm trying to create a success spiral.

Take a small step --> Celebrate / track your win / see growth --> Get encouraged to take a bigger step

Little by little, this rewires us to let go of people's approval, build confidence and live more fulfilling lives.

Nothing is perfect, but sometimes simplicity can lead us to believe that it doesn't address a complex root.
Nile: Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS
Just for curiosity--for insurance purposes they'll do what they're doing now, consider the pool of all people.
Iirc they’re waiting on the fish and wildlife service now and not the FAA. FWS is even more slow.
The beauty of their streaming service is that it's incredibly simple to pause your subscription. We do it all the time. When something shows up that we want to watch, we subscribe with one click. When we finish it, we unsubscribe with one click.
Gish-galloping is a cool word, thanks for introducing that to me. I genuinely had never heard that or would have ever stumbled upon that but for you so props. Its quaint
22 is a big numberin Kabbalah, which extends to the tarot and other occult systems. Probably someone's joke that caught on.
In terms of the hub-spoke issue (this used to pain me when my friend lived 15 mins by car away - but 1.5hrs by train as I had to go into central and all the way back out) - the SuperLoop[1] is in some way aimed to attempt to address that by providing dedicated express bus routes on the outer ring of London.

4 out of 10 of the proposed routes have come online by virtue of renaming previously existing express routes.

[1] https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/buses/superloop
So-called “soft skills” are essential to effective management and hence team cohesion, employee happiness, and lots of other hard to measure metrics which still contribute directly to the bottom line and the team’s ability to deliver. Someone with minimal technical skills and great people skills can still effectively lead strong technical teams. If those skills are not present on a team at all, they will struggle 100% of the time. Nobody may even recognize the struggle if there is no one who can identify these things.
I'm curious if you're using an off-device API to generate these embeddings, and if you're searching on-device?
Thats great to hear. Would be scary if they experienced a full outage.
Good! I've been saying for years now that we are going to need LTA mass transport to deal with climate change.

My only suggestion is to build them out of cellular swarm robots.
Using Microsoft's operating system.
My comment was in regards to what the FTC appointed child psychologists will inevitably suggest: that particular ad content is "bad". It will change absolutely nothing.
Well yeah, that's still under "browser standards."
Bookmarklets are great in mobile browsers. This is handy if you want to avoid writing an extension for a simple script.

I often use a bookmarklet I wrote to remove the extra content from online recipes: https://github.com/kevlened/foodmarklet

It’s based on https://github.com/poundifdef/plainoldrecipe, but it works entirely in the client.
> No issues when downloading Firefox or Brave. I tried it on Edge/Win11.

Did you file a bug report with MS?
Tesla is not going anywhere. They are a driver assist technology. I don't even understand how you can put them in the same bucket.

They don't have the hardware to compete with Waymo and Cruise.

But sure, it is a good narrative for the stock to go to the moon.
this comment section is a goldmine :)

Thanks for sharing this, I suspect this is going to be super useful for my work
Agree, ioctls are a good replacement of /proc for exposing simple, structured information to/from the kernel.

It is still not perfect for all use cases though, especially because it forces you to operate in a _polling_ fashion.

Programs like top/iotop/htop are a good example (also, who is not guilty of abusing one liners a-la `watch -n1 cat /proc/meminfo`?). Instead of polling /proc or ioctls, you would really like to register on events, and get notifications pushed.

Netlink is well suited for these kinds of scenarios, though mostly to get notified of network interface changes last I checked.
Protected wetlands are the best places to put launch sites, just look at cape canaveral / KSC, the wildlife is doing great there
> any character is easily representable

Representation is one thing, but for the user, presentation matters; the user in the article wouldn't have been happy if the bank had stored the diacritics but still communicated without them. I'll bet that 99% of systems that happily handle a Russian or Korean name will store a Mongolian name correctly but utterly fail at printing it.
Now listen. You can try camping on land which is owned by someone, and which is otherwise completely uninhabited. People do that all the time for various reasons without any issue.

But that is technically trespassing, and could get you shot or arrested. So you know, if you're going to do that, make sure you assess that risk carefully.
ReactAgent: LLM Agent for React Coding
They have to follow the rules no matter what. Which they do.
Here is one of the few I use:

Rotate images 90° clockwise:

javascript:(()=>{var imgs = document.getElementsByTagName("img");for (var img of imgs){img.setAttribute("style","transform:rotate(90deg);");}})();
Thanks! This seems to support the general thought I put up. You have to substitute sitting time with exercise. The article talked about people that would sit for 10-12 hours a day, and how if they sat that long, adding exercise did not help. My assertion is that added exercise has to reduce the time sitting.

I'm actually struggling to imagine sitting 12 hours a day and also getting real exercise in. Unless they don't count walking around the house to eat and such, that is a crap load of sitting.
WSL is great but it does nothing against the invasive advertising, political messages, clickbait articles in the start menu, and surveillance - some of the main pain points of Win10/11.
> This is obviously not foolproof, but it seems like a substantial bulwark against obvious confounders.

I mean...they had controls? That's good. But otherwise, there's no way you can tell from what is written. Even if the controls are perfect (which I don't grant without more detail), the implementation of the controls can still allow for confounding.

> they were comparing children who were eligible for the vaccine and those who weren't, and that couldn't have been easily confounded

You can trivially get confounding based on that. Just pick the kids who are healthier, and call them "eligible". Or pick the ones who are older (which they did, as you note), and voila...infinite time bias! Kids who make it to age N are more likely to survive to age N+1 than kids who make it to age N-1 (I mostly disregarded the between-group differences based on age, for this exact reason. It's too easily confounded.)

More commonly, bias of this form sneaks into a study. Particularly in a place like sub-saharan Africa, the set of people who are even willing to engage with you, mysterious doctor-magician, are of a fundamentally different nature than the ones you never see. They probably do all sorts of things that make them a little bit healthier, on average.

It's hard to correct for that, and it's a real problem when the primary metric is "community survey of all-cause mortality". For example: are the community surveyors also magical stranger doctor-magicians, or are they just regular people? It matters.
We don't need to celebrate the large businesses, the reward for that is money.
You either write HTML in JavaScript or write JavaScript in HTML. Personally, I would rather write everything in JavaScript/TypeScript than sprinkle syntactic sugar over HTML.
I also really enjoyed Slow Horses.
Open Source LLMs, Fine-Tunes and Rag Based Vector Store APIs
Sounds like yet another interesting survival challenge.
Snorlax is not mythical. Not real Pokémon fans.
FYI, Akita was just bought by Postman: https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/announcing-akita-ha...