skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a devops engineer who has recently been tasked with building UIs for our team and our developers, HTMX is a godsend. I create apps that often get steadily worked on for weeks and then only maintenance once and a while after that. I used to write django apps, but recently switched to a go backend with go html templates and htmx. This allows me to push everything in one docker image and avoid the black box nature of big frameworks that I don't have the time to fully understand.

I know this doesn't add to the conversation very well but I just want to throw it out there that htmx is a good replacement for a larger framework that you don't fully understand.

Also shoutout aplineJs for making small JS changes easy.
If AI is good at faking content what stops its use for faking consumtion/engagement. In my mind that’s the next logical step in the internet enshitification.
This is exactly what we’re dealing with right now trying to upgrade TypeScript. We’re stuck on an early version of 4.X because of some dependency triangle I haven’t had time to work out.
That still wouldn't be true for a used Tesla. Most used sales are Model 3 or Y. Both charge really well. Even older used Model S or X are more like 30 minutes than 2 hours, especially if the location is bad and you'd rather get to the next one.
Yes. Flipping the sign of a number can typically be done in one line as `d = -d`. Or if that syntax isn't available in that programming language, then `d = 0 - d` or `d = -1 * d`.

What's wrong with code above is 1) it does a conditional branch (meaning if.. then... else...) which is unneeded. 2) The "then clause" does an absolute value which is a waste of a function call. 3) The "else clause" does `d = d - (2 * d)` which is a waste of a multiplication 4) possibly with an overflow risk and/or floating point estimation risk.

That said, it's admittedly possible that the programming language above, or the number representation in that code above, have some highly atypical needs that we here on HN don't understand.
If it's static HTML you can put it on Github Pages and leave it alone.
> Why use htmx instead of Django templates?

HTMX is meant to be used WITH backend framework templates. The point of HTMX is it allows you to use your backend templating system to return pieces of HTML instead of JSON.

We are using it at our org for our intranet applications and it's been great so far.
There are simple things it would be nice to do without either 1. A server + framework, 2. A full on SPA, 3. Hand writing tedious js.

There is a nice sweet spot for htmx here; whether it can build the required network effect is another story, and not always reflective of the quality of the idea.
Is that a $25 recharging fee, or $25 for the electricity? A full tank of electrons is around $25 equivalent in the UK. (I realise it's cheaper in most of the US.)
I am only saying that there is no such thing as intrinsic value.

Or to put it differently, it is an idea that has little to no predictive power and therefore is of no great value.

There is only one very reliable principle to reason with in that space: supply and demand.

It has been observed to work every time for thousands of years, and therefore very much akin to what physicist like to call a postulate or a law (as in the second law of thermodynamics, yet to be actually proven from other principles, but observed to work every single time in the real world).

Go back to all of the examples you listed above, and dig deep enough, you will see that every single item's vaunted intrinsic value boils down to one thing : there is a demand for these things or the product they put out in the market, therefore they have value.

I repeat : there is no such thing as intrinsic value, there is just supply and demand.

Intrinsic value is a delusion.

And in the case of Bitcoin, there is clearly demand for it. Therefore it has value.

Why there is demand for it is not something you can easily analyze, because you'd have to get inside the brain of every market participant, each of which has followed a different line of reasoning to get to a conclusion about the value of Bitcoin. Some of these will be rational. Some won't. It doesn't matter. Only the aggregate outcome does matter.

You are trying to claim that you don't understand why there is a demand for Bitcoin and you don't because in your world, things have to have "intrinsic value" for there to be demand for it.

a) your premises are clearly incorrect: the current market price for Bitcoin clearly indicates that there is demand for it. Therefore it has value. Therefore the notion of "intrinsic value" is clearly of little practical use.

b) the *reason* why there is demand for it may very well be hard for you to understand based on *your* postulate that things must have "intrinsic value" (no such thing, remember?) for there to be demand for something.

Just abandon the idea that intrinsic value is a valuable concept, get back to supply and demand, and the world will start making sense again.
Do I understand correctly that you consider facebook "social infrastructure"?

I really hope the fog will lift one day and you'll see the actual impact of facebook (and others), here's one example https://www.afterbabel.com/p/international-mental-illness-pa...
Nice! I just started using org roam this past month.

Honestly my favorite feature is the ui mode what shows the map all of the notes. Good fun watching that grow.

Got a syncthing setup going and it’s been great
Google ≠ the internet.

This reads more like a rant against Google’s search product.

Yes, Google might go under due to AI (Clayton says, thank you and goodbye) but that doesn’t mean the internet as a whole is doomed.

To be frank, the internet is already awash with dogshit. It’s doing pretty well so far.
Does the lock file render the need to update dependencies obsolete?

Of course not. It just avoids that the build system *automatically* updates X to 1.2.3 and *accidentally* breaks your code. But when it's time to bump the version up a notch, that very fragile equilibrium may suddenly crumble.

Lock files are not a substitute for sane dependency management.
Seems a bit of an over reaction. Never experienced anything like you say since working with typescript after working on multiple billion+ $ SaaS apps. It’s basically the same as any other language.
You're likely going to spend more than $25 to put gasoline in your rental before returning it, and $25 is the approximate cost for a supercharger, so that charge seems very reasonable. You could have just taken the electric car and returned it empty.
The accuracy problems will eventually be solved. The point is to remove you from the decision making process of spending your money and delegate that to the institutions who want your money. Sure, the itinerary looks good, but since you haven't actually planned it yourself you don't know what the tradeoffs are. This is the end-goal of capitalism, extract the most value from people and resources as possible, and launder all of the anti-competitive and scam-adjacent behaviors through "the algorithm!" Just like how the police launder racist policies through statistics and terrible facial recognition or predictive policing software.
Super Developers and Natures Nuances [audio]
I think this could also be called a-vegan’s-guide.
Toilet paper quality is a good metric.

Nice thing is that it’s easy to do pre-employment testing.
Good point, thank you! I added `repr(C)`.
The Firefox people have some nice write-ups about how they want to / wanted to use techniques from games to make Firefox's UI faster.
of course it should have been ported to BoB (Bash on Balls, the modern portable slick web framework)
You can run your taxes in both (or redo last year's in FTU) and compare.

I think the wording on some of the questions it asks you are slightly different, so it may get a bit of a different answer on some things. Would have to compare to the IRS documents itself to see which is "right".
Sounds like you could be having health problems or just depression. You might mention this to your doctor at your next check up. What you describing doesn’t sound like normal aging for someone in their 30s.
You are absolutely correct. This discussion is pointless. When you have a 10k org you cannot allow ad-hoc methods because there are unscrupulous actors: people will sell the job, there will be nepotism, and discrimination.

Hiring at scale with some bar of quality needs industrial processes. That's a real constraint of the system.

Any alpha gets ruthlessly optimized away. Referrals? Now sold for split. GitHub Open Source? Now produced for cash or undifferentiated slop.

People who don't run large orgs don't get this. But also many people who run small orgs don't get this: you don't need to run large org machinery for small orgs. Part of the advantage is agility. Part of the advantage is that everyone is still on the same page and that it's obvious when they're not.

So big orgs have no choice. Small orgs have no need.
The sanest would be to enforce a labelling policy with a user report mechanism and a user opt-out filter.

That said this won't happen and platforms will shift from metrics like views to things like number of uploads or "shares" to show "growth".
Public key authentication, with your private keys in your .ssh folder and your public key in the server’s .ssh/authorized_keys file
Sending more (and bigger) hurricanes
I think that depends on the type of business. If the company sells software then they are more likely to consider good developers as an asset, but if the product is something else that just has a software component, or for software jobs unrelated to the product (accounting, etc), then you are just a cost to be reduced, not an asset.
Slightly OT, but used Teslas are dirt cheap these days (relatively) thanks to all the fleet sales. You can find a ~3 year old Model S off lease now for under $30k.
Here is an example, from Leo Laporte's blog:

https://leo.fm/2022/02/isitover/

Click on the "Load comments", you can see that it does request to Mastodon server, in this case, twit.social to fetch the comments. Because most Mastodon servers have CORS allowed to all sites, it's pretty easy to do.
Pretty sure in this scenario they'd have to recall them all anyways, because regulators and the public would not trust hackers to accurately log and report every bolt they messed with.
Exactly why the value dropped was advertiser pullout due to a partisan pressure campaign. Which was not a free campaign in terms of political currency.
I use push to talk on the action button on iPhone on the rare occasions I try to make Siri do something for me. I refuse to say 'Hey Siri' like a twit.
Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program
Yeah, I remember being really excited about this at announcement. It made perfect sense too, as Tesla does really well on Turo!

But the rental companies overshot a bit. They didn't keep their processes and infrastructure up to pace with the number that they brought on.

It isn't shocking that caused some issues.
How did Reagan and Thatcher 'empower' other countries to rise up and compete with the US & Europe? If they passed the right combination of laws, we would've prevented billions of smart, hard-working people from daring to compete with the West? Do you think it's moral to impoverish billions of people to keep the West economically pre-eminent? (Should the US have kept Europe impoverished post-WW2 to prevent the competition?)

I strongly disagree with the idea that the government is a magic God-like wizard, who can bend objective reality and achieve any economic or social outcome by twisting the right knobs here or there. Other countries rose economically to compete with the West and that's not something that the government can magically outlaw, any more than it can pass a law against the tide coming in tomorrow
Writer of the blog post here.
Great point, that's exactly what we did. Setting a "C Group" in docker compose is easily done with the "mem_limit" field.
Yes, that's true. But since HN is famously hosted on a single not-so-powerful server, that would be unlikely to be the employed solution.
best joke heard all day
People don't buy another one for a long time and they go out of business? It's not like planned obsolescence isn't built into so much of what we own and buy today. I guess maybe I don't understand the question?
This is bizarre, so they just didn't open the door to his room for over thirty years? How did they deal with the smell of a decomposing corpse?
Chips are vegan you know. As is most sauce.
For those of you who argue that a device like this is useless I urge you to visit someone with Parkisons, essential tremors, ALS, rheumatoid arthritis, limb injuries etc as well as very low vision and observe the difficulty they have interacting with the vision + multi-touch interface of their phones.
Owning an EV in US is still something of an enthusiasts niche. I have been an owner almost 6 years.

Things that increase the riskiness - unfamiliar area, unfamiliar car, non Tesla, not knowing EVs.

So rental non-Tesla while on a vacation is probably the worst possible scenario.
Damn autocorrect. I’ll fix it
It is striking to me that a vast majority of comments here amount to i.e. "every person for themself" -- or at best i.e. "build relationships with individuals". If you are reading this, step outside your usual mindset. Can you see the individualistic bias in the comments here?

One need not be a pro-union progressive to simply recognize that we would all benefit from considering other alternatives. Hard-nosed libertarian economists who study game theory know it isn't a complete accounting of human interactions. Collaboration and alliances are worth seeking out. It doesn't _have_ to be a race to the bottom where employees all scurry around terrified, meanwhile hoping they claw their way up into management.
Easy there, bloodninja.
Obsidian or logseq.

Saves as markdown and can be processed to other formats.

Also allows writing as you work.

For step by step stuff, I’d lean towards logseq as the UI but sharing a folder inside an obsidian vault folder. Logseq is more at the bullet level which can be more useful in certain cases

Lots of videos on your tube on this setup to allow you to access the best plugins from both systems.
https://archive.is/xGVbP
same. Would love to look at the data set. Very unlikely they will share it because of copyright issues.
>"And now they are dumped back into the toughest tech jobs market in 20 years."

Is this the consensus then that is really rough out there right now? I know that big tech has been hit hard the last year but is the outlook equally bad for startups, enterprise etc. as well?
You can disable a lot of Godot's features when building the engine from source [1]. Not sure how much you can save while keeping most of the 2d/3d components, but it should be possible.

[1]: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/contributing/developm...
Financial sentiment has collapsed over the last 50 years? No shit...

Real wages have stagnated or declined. Barriers to entry for good careers have increases. Entire industries have been outsourced, mainly effecting lower skilled workers. Workforce participation is extremely low. Multiple financial crises. A system built on consumerism that is dependent on almost free money not to crumble.

If the system doesn't look like a house of cards, then I don't know what does...
From what I heard, Emacs Slack client is better than the original one.
I read a few, none of which seem to be above some criticism. Which is why I'm inclined to let more qualified people synthesise and summarise it all. You however seem certain that you know better than the consensus which is that there is a small advantage to mask usage. But you haven't demonstrated why. Are you an epidemiologist? Serious question.
You might be if you need to return the car at 100%, the last few percent of battery takes forever to charge due to chemistry. I don't know what Hertz requires, but returning it at 100% is stupid. It's hard on the battery and takes forever. Charging to 80% takes a lot less time and is easier on the battery, so hopefully that's all that Hertz requires.

Edit: a different commenter says you need to return at 75%. That's reasonable.
> the government isn't straight up lying about inflation measurements

Agreed. The government publishes the methodology and the source data the final numbers are based on are generally publicly available. However, the methodology slowly changes with time. And whatever the rationale is (there is always one that sounds good) its effect is always lowering computed inflation numbers. And lower inflation numbers give government ability to keep printing and spending money -- a dream for most officials.

So while I do not think the government is straight up lying, it is slowly twisting the methodology due to seriously misaligned incentives. My 2c.
The server that runs it probably got updated to Windows 10
Its the beginning.
I do hope I'm wrong but I dont think either of us knows the future.
Rented a Polestar 2 multiple times from Hertz in the summer. It included both a home-charging cable and a charging fob.

The Hertz charging fob is quite expensive though, cheaper to signup to something like EnBW, which you can use for almost all charging stations [0].

Supercharger in Germany are almost all open to third-party cars as well, though not as cheap as EnBW.

[0]: https://www.enbw.com/elektromobilitaet/produkte/ladetarife
it appears correct but over-complicated -- it should be a single line of code. the over-complicated solution may have underflow/overflow problems with very large numbers.
This is a very good video on this exact topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bq3SdfzcA4
I’m surprised to hear that people have had some anxiety about charging when renting Teslas from Hertz. My experience was quite the opposite. Just use any supercharger and it bills to Hertz who bills to you. The hotel valet had EV charging and charged the battery up all the way every night. The only confusing part was figuring out what charge level I needed to return the car at (I think it was 75%).

Otherwise it was great and I would love to rent a Tesla from Hertz again.
Sounds like it was your fault for not traveling with your adapter /s
Need to bring back Encarta ;)

Jk. Wikipedia is much larger and better as an encyclopedia.
You’re probably right about this issue. BTC is a bearer asset and is inherently difficult to store right- someone has to know the private key, and that someone could always irreversibly steal the funds (hopefully it’s multiple someones with a multisig). Especially with such a large pot of money all state backed hacker groups are going to be actively hunting for vulnerabilities.
If that device connects to WiFi you've already lost.
Thanks for the answer, that really sounds fascinating.
Less off topic if you buy those used Tesla's from Hertz for $14K: https://electrek.co/2024/01/10/tesla-model-3-hertz-cheap-use...
> you can fill up a car with gas in five minutes.

Yeah, if you spend 4.5 minutes goofing off.
No worry. Most jobs require no skills.
Exactly. But what if you push to the clients master (you actually have authority) before then because you don't know better.
I think that individuals who care about meaningful, non-deceitful content, will have to create their own parallel net in which content can be sanity-checked and fact-checked.

Fast, free, or fact: pick any two. The current internet is fast and free, but is increasingly non-factual. An alternative emphasizing meaningful facts and observations will almost necessarily be slower.

We might even be able to use pressed bleached dead trees as a backup medium.
It's almost as if you wanted to deny that 'meaningful' is something highly subjective and dependent upon the individual traits of a person.
For sure, I thought it was crazy that customer support didn't have access to the Tesla account attached to the vehicle.

This seems like a very basic process that should have been put in place for troubleshooting.
> it's more about lack of investors.

And why would you say, aren't there any large investors?

If the labor market conditions were good (and taxes, and work ethics, and ... the list is very long), the investors would come, even from far away, believe me.

Money can move around the world very fast these days.
Yes, in a free-market democracy we want to blame others for pissing off the wrong powerful people. In this instance, by not allowing the said powerful to dictate company policy lest they threaten to ruin the businesses of those who do business with that company. The pressure campaign was brought by another entity. Though, pressure campaigns always require MSM cooperation.
Over Christmas I flew to another city and rented a car for week. Hertz had great deals on EVs but not so great for ICE so I specifically avoided hertz and went with Avis instead.

I like EVs and have a charger at home for my own car, but maybe due to that I also understand the difficulty of finding a reliable charging situation in a new place. On top of that I was visiting and parking at my parents house, and they don’t have a charger installed.
I consider my probable edge case, driving to the capital for example airport there, 160km+something nearly all of it motorway so slightly worse range if I drive at legal limit. So I would like to get there in one go as being 2 hours early anyway is big time sink. And then when I'm coming back I just want to get to home not stop in middle to charge...

Or I might want to do same with some client or relative there.

Train station is very near, but not that near... And it still means connection to get to actual airport...

And new EVs are pretty expensive, compared already paid car...
People also get fired for "bad" or petty reasons all the time. For example, being "difficult" or not being a "culture fit".
It's not about killing experiments. It's about things that were advertised as the next big thing with fanfare to not be properly maintained and eventually killed even though they had a lot of users. That's the problem.
I don't follow the news closely, so I was not aware that Copilot is based on ChatGPT or that MS had already integrated Copilot with Teams.
Honestly I don't see Google having any killer feature left. The next killer feature is AI to do search, which MS is doing, but Google is failling at so hard they had to fiddle with their own demo.

Why do a web search to hope to get answers to my question, when I can have an AI write me a custom article that actually answers my question?
For FB/Meta the decline is very obvious on the technological side as well. Nothing really works properly on their platform. And I'm not talking about their basic user features - I'm talking about the features that make them money.

Ad setup doesn't work, you are hitting random errors on setting up API calls, basic UX and non-functional pixel setups, some weird limits or even plain unresponsive pages.

Just few days ago, talking to their support about ficitonal ad account limit after hitting 5 ad accoutns, they responded to me randomly with system messages in vietnamese - my acc has never had association with vietnamese.
> what's the problem with a bundler/transpiler

Problem is why do we even need one? All I'm trying to do is for my client code to update a part of the page and not the entire page. Why do I need to even introduce concepts of bundling and transpiling for this pig-headed simple task ?

Further, react has a steep learning curve that a backend person need not be subjected to. And it evolves, so that search-copy-paste phase just never ends.

And then dependencies update. Another comment here details why that is a nightmare.

If you want to feel the pain, search for any react project from 2 years ago on github or even some showhn projects here. Literally none of them even start !

So you see htmx does address a group just like react does. Its a tool and it's great at what it does.
Improvement is tightly coupled with ubiquity. As things get better, they improve in a lot of ways.
Dogs make some of the best clients for paying creative work.