skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Borrowing to pay off debt is extremely common. So common, it has a nice sounding name, "refinancing". You can sign up for a new credit card and as part of the process, "transfer" i.e. pay off the balance of any other card.

And the US extending its self imposed credit limit is completely reasonable. In that the alternative, which would be actually defaulting on debt obligations, salaries, and other ways that we have already promised, which be absolutely catastrophic. The US has never defaulted on its debt. There was a politically motivated shutdown that caused a few debt payments to be a few days late, but that's the worst of it. and even that was very damaging to the financial reputation of the US.

People are talking in this thread about how the military is why we are the world reserve currency. But the military is only a part of that. Our stability, predictability, and safety is what makes us a world reserve currency. Our court system is one of the most important parts of that as well.
Great! Will give it a try.
> Still, Jen Burke, a nurse at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, said it has become routine for her and her colleagues working in the cardiac catheterization lab to have their 12-hour shifts extended because of a lack of staff or beds in other parts of the hospital.

I bet if the government mandated triple over time pay for safety critical procedures such as in medicine, the problem would rapidly fix itself.
If you split your scripts into small tasks (i.e. one task per script), and call each one from your GA yaml, you would seem to have the best of both?
How Ricardo Semler Successfully Turned Around SEMCO's Business Upside Down
Heartily agree. I don't visit much anymore as I have a tendency to overuse, but some of the most interesting, real, and oddly respectful, conversations I've had in a long time were on said board.
>Yeah it's exactly like buying Gucci, except if it was dispensed in a slot machine and you had to spin it 100 times to get the clothes you want.

Not sure if you're into buying designer stuff, but that industry is going in a similar-ish direction.

People buy a bunch of undesirable crap just so they can be put on the VIP list and maaaaybe get the opportunity to purchase the actually desirable products at a far below market price.

Not sure if Gucci themselves do this, but I know Rolex and at least one of the big handbag brands (Hermes?) operate this way.
> Some people create good and beneficial products.

and those would shine with a "just the facts ma'am" approach.
Cost.

React will require you to hire a React dev to handle all the complexity.

htmx will be mastered by your "back-end" devs (who actually are web devs) in less than a week.
I'm sorry, but the majority of the change has been inflicted by for-profit outfits who EEE'd the W3C to get what they wanted. None of us asked for a Javascript-dominated Web where you download megabytes of code before you see the first page.

You make it better by separating concerns or finding better ways to do the same thing.

By this point, QUIC and HTTP should fork instead of QUIC insisting on taking over HTTP.

We can make this space better by pushing out complex "web" applications to their own protocol they can fuck up on their own instead of pushing the system requirements of a browser up every year.
I love coins ... Specially the 1$ ones... Apparently that's what they give you for change at Atlanta train stations
I wondered if he was confusing the drama that happened with Seagate buying up Maxtor. A lot of people were upset when that happened because they trusted Seagate a lot more than Maxtor or Western Digital and suddenly the same shitty Maxtor drives many went out of their way to avoid were being sold under the Seagate name leaving people stuck with either buying WD or buying Seagate and probably getting Maxtor anyway. Seagate's quality and reputation took a huge hit.
Maybe. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/climate/sweden-garbage-us...
LOL.

I want my phone to be locked down and curated. This isn't post-purchase rationalization. I have actively chosen the iPhone over and over and over since its introduction, because the alternative is so obviously inferior from a security, privacy, and application selection POV.

Obviously, I am making different choices than you are, but it's a weak argument to dismiss them as "rationalization" in a transparent effort to crown your preferred platform king.
> My lemonade stand doesn’t owe the cinema you decided to open up next to me any money.

Generally, if a private cinema opens up and stays open, it's because they've determined that they profit enough from their direct patronage that it's worthwhile. Since there's already enough incentive in place for this cinema to exist, I don't think it's necessary to get surrounding businesses to fund them. Although in an ideal world, they should get something for indirect improvements to surrounding businesses, but the issue is that there's no way to actually quantify how much benefit you get from it. The current system works well enough in this case.

On the other hand, if you open up a cinema that operates at a loss while propping up surrounding businesses by bringing people in, then your lemonade stand definitely owes them. If you have two competing lemonade stands in the area that only exist because of that cinema and one of them decides to fund the cinema to keep it running, then it increases operational expenses for that one lemonade stand, allowing the other to outcompete. It's a prisoner's dilemma problem. Everyone paying means everyone wins, while if one person doesn't pay, then they win regardless of what everyone else does. Pay your fair share.
It's a different sampler too.
To be fair, 37 Signals (Basecamp) which is behind ruby on rails, changes their front end philosophy with every new major version of rails

And to be fairer, it's generally a pretty good philosophy for greenfield apps at that particular point in time, but if I started an app on rails 4 or 5 there's no way I'm updating my front end every time they change their minds about how front end should work

They believe this now, in 4-5 years it'll be XYZ next thing
Are you really advocating for using frameworks as a glorified #include directive? Frameworks are necessary when the job you're doing is highly abstract and you're not totally picky about the result. They shine at those things, but they are overkill for a static website. Something like Pelican or Hugo would be better suited for that. Shit, you could roll your own SSG in a weekend.
Unless you can do everything cheaper than the market cost, and better than what is on the market, forever, it’s going to become a problem at some point.

(Hint: You cannot.)
Record your humming. Post it online. Ask the sub-reddit someone mentioned (tipofmytongue). Don't lose it to history. Have managed to recover a few songs from my childhood this way. Like someone else mentioned, it's one of the most satisfying things.
It's open source so...
Interesting. There's only one shown in London. I've certainly seen another near Borough Market - and according to this article from 2007, there were 75 in London back then. https://londonist.com/2007/01/random_graffiti_17
0 and 1 are interesting as integers in the same way that a blank canvas is interesting as a painting. Very foundational, very useful but also very plain.
I get the idea - using the build-in capabilities of html is nice, clean, and simple. But that wasn't viable ten years ago, and it isn't today - and I don't particularly feel that htmx etc. is a better solution than something heavier like react.

My go-to questions with anything like this are: how do things look if I want a dropdown? Multiselect? Datepicker? If we use <input type="date" /> do we get a datepicker across browsers? (Looks like yes.) Is the look/feel/controls consistent across browsers? (No.) Can we style them to get there? (Also no.)

Multiselects are similar - shift/control-clicking to get multiple things is a flat no-go from a UX perspective - but at my last check, this is still how the default elements work, and it can't be changed. Similarly, the look/feel of multiselects (and even selects!) is terrible and largely cannot be changed.

There's a reason third-party components for this kind of thing get built for any new framework. The built-in stuff just doesn't get it done. It's the same reason 90% of my projects still have lodash as a dependency, even though the list of built-in stuff on MDN's Array page grows year by year. It's better than it was 10 years ago for sure - but its still not there.
The "big" projects can do what the hell they want. They can afford to throw a ton of money at a problem.

The small projects are where the people I care about are struggling.
Location: Brisbane, Australia

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Technologies: JavaScript ecosystem (Vue.js, React.js), Node.js, have also done RoR and a few other stacks professionally. I have worked with various dbs (postgres, mysql) and most of the common AWS technologies.

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Email: lachlan@lachlan-miller.me

I have nearly 10 years experience as a full stack engineer across many industries and technologies. I've also been contributing to major OSS projects in the JS ecosystem for the duration of my career (Vue.js, Cypress, Jest, Vite etc). I can work in a highly autonomous fashion and able to debug complex problems across the entire stack.
I built something recently with the same ideas in mind: https://github.com/sethkimmel3/tailgate. It allows people to build generative-AI applications without any of the complication of setting up a backend, and in the simplest cases only requires adding HTML attributes.

I originally learned to code with HTML, CSS, and JS, and I think it's still the easiest way to experience the magic of shipping a working application to others. We should keep encouraging more patterns and tooling that lower the barriers of entry to those just starting out.
This is largely illegal here in the USA too. This article neglects to point out the fact that everyone except for the railway workers are either police, fire fighters, medics, or nurse which are professions that have legal exemptions from laws governing overtime and such.

The rail workers are not pulling 80 hour weeks, the article says they can only work 4.7 hours of overtime in a week, so 44.7 hours a week. Only emergency services and hospital staff are exempt from the laws that protect people from this sort of stuff.
People are busy. They have a million things vying for their attention.

If you want feedback that badly, you need to ask them one at a time for feedback. Go to them, go network with them, have coffee with them, call them, email them directly.
Given the context, it’s always funny to see these things played straight—-to thine own self be true tattoos and the like.
Been doing this with mkws and on https://mkws.sh since day one!
Good time as any to remind folks of the good old rtx space invaders [0]

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/ive-been-invaded-by-ali...
Countries in Europe have been gradually tightening up on corporations avoiding payroll taxes by declaring employees as contractors. In the UK it's known as IR35 working. The EU have recently proposed the platform working directive, aimed straight at this problem.
because numbers have a natural meaning. roughly speaking each integer has as many meanings as its value. so 0 and 1 are just the very beginning.

zero's natural meaning is special, it's the void. sometimes the 'variable' stands in as having this meaning, sometimes the variable is zero.

one is the easiest simplest to grasp. its meaning is "I", ego.

two is duality in the broadest imaginable sense. wars are being fought right now over the precise meaning of 3
I like the idea of vaulting dangerous stuff in a way that requires advanced technology to open. The idea being that if a civilization is advanced enough to open the box, they'll have the tech to detect the hazard, and maybe even mitigate it.
People always seem to forget Reduce Reuse Recycle.

Recycle is the last option for a reason, because it's the last and worst case scenario.

We need to use less coffee cups and if possible reuse them. That's the solution.
> Compared to today. Compared to 5 years ago. Compared to 15 years ago.

So your contention is that Ireland hasn't improved since 2018 or 2003? For almost everyone in almost every category, that is not true.

> Citation needed and the "peaceful transition" is laughable as a selling point. Is the bar so low? Lol.

No, the bar is very high as Ireland is one of the top tier countries in the world to live by almost any measure. That was a direct response to your claim of a "lack of political change due to an entrenched political class", which is patently untrue in Ireland.

> It'll be grand land has yet another defender that wants people to not rock the boat and attacks anyone who showcases how backwards thing are.

Ireland is certainly not perfect. I work in the medical field and am constantly frustrated at the medical and social services. However, I've also worked around the world and know that while Ireland is in fact an outlier, it's a positive outlier compared to even the developed world.

> Talk to a real person and not one who has their life easily laid out...

I do, daily, and not only online. The kind of disingenuous negativity you hold is not common.

> Perspective, huh? Shame on your disingenuous response.

The irony is palpable. Luckily those of us working to improve the country aren't discouraged by those on the sidelines offering only empty critiques.
I thought it'd be infinite or something. So it's cool to know it exists and it's not 1, 2 or infinity.
The issue here is "It's complicated"

For example, looking at the mechanical replacement of human strength in the 1800 and 1900s shows people that the human hardship costs where real. The labor wars in the US are a good example of this. The process of mechanization shifted power to the hands of the capitalists, and was only wrestled back with blood.

The real key of the future with AI will be the question of generalization. Multimodal AI does show a reasonable amount of ability on predicting real world events. For example, show a picture of a kid opening a bike and ask what is next in image form, and the AI will return a picture of the kid riding a bike. This ability of reasonable prediction based on sets of 'real world' input is not something that we've had in previous generations of computer systems. Again, if these systems generalize well, rapidly become cheaper, and enable the capitalist class to gain more wealth expect their use to explode at a near exponential rate.

Very few reasonably educated people say "AI will never reach human ability", the only question that is really being asked is when, and in a lot of peoples eyes when has moved much sooner.
So you take your tiny coins and use them to get bigger coins. You buy something and it's 4.53, and you give 5.03 to get 0.50 in change.
> We are one step closer, sure, but the calculator was also a step forward.

Even that isn’t particularly clear, I don’t think. A speculative future AGI probably won’t be a fancy LLM, or at least there’s no particular reason to think it would be.
> Too bad the cups themselves weren’t very good and getting replacement parts was very difficult.

Can you elaborate? I've had my keep cup for 6 years now and the lid/band have held up. The cork band has a bit of a crack in it but I've ordered a replacement one quite easily... https://au.keepcup.com/shop/replacement-part
Adoption on desktop is 100% more related to Steam support, at least in the gaming segment.

Anecdotally, among friends and colleagues, people are only staying with Windows for gaming support.

People generally dislike Windows but are forced to stay their for gaming. As support for Linux improves, they'll be less willing to put up with Windows' BS.
> Frankly, I am not even sure that many Rust programmers could describe what a control flow graph is, let alone that they somehow learn the exact rules and then apply them. People don't learn programming languages that way, just like they don't learn human languages that way. It is largely a practice of building up intuitions and testing them out.

I think a lot of programmers want to be able to understand how the language works in terms of formal rules and predict whether a given piece of code will pass the compiler without guess-and-check. Indeed, it seems like a pervasive complaint about Rust is that it requires too much of this “try things until it compiles” approach, and makes it hard to develop a clear mental model of how the borrow checker works.
Plenty of jobs require your name be published. Imagine the US president deciding he doesn't want anyone to know his name/gender/photo!
That doesn't make any sense. OP is about reports that BBC refuses to make any legal promises and talk only vaguely about cooperating with owners, when it would be so easy for them to simply publicly promise to not prosecute material stole before, say, 1990. Obviously, granting 'an amnesty for stolen episodes' is even easier for fake episodes which were never stolen in the first place... The credibility of the claims is irrelevant.
Tell HN: I can report Facebook's new subscription does not work
Being a very infrequent Facebook user, I logged in after being told a friend was organizing a party through Facebook events. Was greeted with a choice to subscribe or opt-in to ads. Chose to try the subscription (billing starts in March). After trying multiple cards, I was unable to actually subscribe. So much for choice.
Methane SHOULD be easy to capture and it is valuable. mostly as fuel, but still better than putting it into the air.
Not with that attitude. These things move a bit at a time, as factories are built or upgraded and even then only in response to legal obligations or sales pitches. The state of the art in research is basically always ahead of what can be bought, and what can be bought is always ahead of the median that has already been built.
Could you expand on this? Class names in CSS are just as important, if not moreso, than naming variables in typical programming.

Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the dominant ideology is to use semantic class names, e.g. ".sidebar" instead of ".blue_bar" or similar. Essentially, don't describe how something looks with its name.

Even when building JS apps, I use CSS classes semantically with ".selected" ".menubar", etc.

I am interested in reading your philosophy on CSS classes.
And they only take a 30% cut! Practically altruism.
Anyone who majors in physics will have performed lots of experiments in the lab, including this one. The average person may believe what they read in a high school science textbook but their justification rests on the word of others and the general institution of education. Occasionally, we have seen situations where this institution is under attack [1]. Nevertheless, I would not consider something to be knowledge if you only read it in a book. Heck, even experiments can lead people astray [2] as later experiments may contradict earlier ones.

All of this is to say that it is very hard to know anything with a high degree of confidence. The confidence many people have is a false one. However, in the case of LLMs, there is no basis for any confidence whatsoever. The text is the claim and LLMs have no means of independently verifying that claim. All they can do is statistically evaluate the internal consistency of the text, and even that is fraught with difficulty. "A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_evolution_hearings

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model
> Are you able to give a specific example of a problem it helped you solve? Especially one that you were at a complete blocking point...

I think it's worth stepping back here and re-examining the hurdles your setting for your own understanding.

The essential question here is: is ChatGPT useful to people. What you seem to be implying with your question is: I will not use ChatGPT unless it can solve problems with X level of difficulty for me. Why have you set that pre-requisite? Would it not still be useful to you if it simply increased the efficiency of solving simple day-to-day tasks that you're not blocked on?
I'll also add that I run multiple services (pretty much every hosted project listed in the "projects" section of my homepage) on either a NixOS VM or a NixOS dedicated machine these days (I gradually migrated everything from Kubernetes).

Not only is this now way cheaper (which increases profit margins for paid services I run), but it's also significantly more reliable as a one-person developer and de facto SRE.
Our military is not the primary driver of the US dollar being the world reserve currency. It is our stability and predictability. A strong military helps in maintaining those things. But our court system and political system following our laws and executing them faithfully is a very important part of that stability. Which is one of the reasons that our recent less-than-peaceful transfer of presidential power and current serious accusations of a stolen election are so very dangerous and damaging to the US on the world stage.
Check out this channel if you've not seen it before

https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official

Also robert miles, though most of his videos are older at this time

https://www.youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI
At a time when there was a dip in container shipping, I read a quote stating ~$1500 to ship a container from China to US (west coast, probably). With such a container holding ~6000 pair of shoes.

Do the math... Of course shipping costs may have changed, but parents' point stands:

The energy consumption (and labour costs) embodied in many products' fabrication, is much higher than energy consumed to ship 'em around the world. And thus those products will be fabricated where it's cheapest and/or most efficient.
Prison Time vs Potential Short Term Unemployment. If people really thought about it is not a difficult choice. You won't get a paycheck while in prison either.
The great thing is that its open source, so you can add whatever niche APIs you want to it!
Personally I don’t love the $1/2 coins. Bills are better for those of us who only carry a wallet.
Yeah, I know, I replaced my NAS with external SSDs.
I thought Firefall by Watts was a very interesting read.
i wonder what the economic impact was of all those 50 State Quarters books kept in people's closets
We have a different view of "individual ownership".

You probably see smartphones like computers, but I think they're more like game consoles.

I don't complain to Microsoft because I can't install Arch or sideload games on my Xbox.

I'm perfectly fine not being able to install random applications on my phone if in exchange it becomes a harder target for malware and unappealing to thieves.
Very cool! It has the added benefit of being able to manipulate objects in 3d. How does it compare to graphic tablets in terms of accuracy?
latent space author here - its a substack, it should work

let me know if any other issues!
Probably because you're deep specialized in something or have stagnated on a company for a long time ? I cannot imagine knowing everything about what I am working on, that has changed dramatically every 3-4 months even within the same company
> This project was part of my undergraduate thesis for electrical engineering. I

Undergrad! If you didn't get top marks on this there is no justice
Pretty interesting if you work in an industry where you use them to represent every other number.
Top evil computers (2009)
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I locked my credit at all major credit agencies.... Not sure if it helps