skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I somewhat agree with you but I think it's important to clarify whether you're talking about htmx or the hx-trigger syntax specifically. In the parent comment you say:

> However, I think there's a pretty significant language design problem and htmx's solution is language proliferation. There is a very low "expressivity ceiling" for what can be encoded into html attributes.

And then here you say:

> In the same way that I wouldn't want to manually type a lot of CSS into a style attribute, I wouldn't want to write a small program in an hx-trigger attribute. Something like hx-trigger="input changed delay:500ms, search" is getting rather complicated

I wouldn't write a small program in the hx-trigger syntax either (although, we not only have users who do that, but have contributed to hx-trigger optimizations because they use it so heavily).

Many htmx use cases don't need this at all, some need complexity up to this point, some need far more complexity. It's really up to you to decide at what point you bring in the bigger guns—whether that's hx-trigger, alpineJS, hyperscript, or a React Island.

I agree that hx-trigger is a DSL, and represents the outer limits of htmx's expressivity. My objection is to the argument that htmx's attribute design is an expressivity problem, rather than a well-chosen level of abstraction for the types of problems htmx is best suited to solve (see the sibling comment about Rule of Least Power too).
>We grew quickly and expanded our workforce even faster, increasing by 5x since 2020

Am i reading this right? Once the pandemic hit headcount went 200 -> 1000 -> 830

What is different in the user experience since 2020? I can understand needing an army of SRE's but this feels extremely bloated for a company who was able to run their product on a 200 person crew
Wrong to say there is no affiliation to the Israeli government.
We're funding ethnic cleansing, the US is absolutely on some dystopian empire shit, this is far less egregious.
The main things I see lately are: Apple is creating VR headsets and new chip technology, Microsoft is buying up AI companies and injecting ads/spyware into their operating systems. Also Microsoft is getting big into cloud.

Interesting to see what Wall Street rewards.
I don't think penalizing will work. I think government shouldn't constantly inflate bubbles where companies have way too much investment money so they constantly overhire until the shit hits the fan. It would have been better to slowly more away from the low interest rates over the last decade.
> moving some data from SQL Server to Postgres

I don't have any first-hand experience with Postgres replication to share, just, when moving DB from MSSQL, Babelfish extensions for Postgres (https://babelfishpg.org/) may be of interest.
Watching this "fall of Gnome" with KDE's recent popularity makes me feel strangely vindicated about liking a configurable OS.
If you don’t get any sound, try clicking anywhere on the page. On Safari on macOS I can hover to reveal, but no sound plays until there is a click.
That's not the point I'm making. Obviously it's bad to wrongly convict people.
How is this problem any different than a task/ticket/todo tracker?

I don't see custom built todo trackers as adding value to that workflow. What features are you thinking would require something that any of the 100's of SaaS offerings out there don't do that would be needed?
1. goes a bit deeper than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association

2. Trying to get around the sanctions and then entering a place the US could nab it, yeah.

3. What should they have done with it? The point's not to eliminate the oil, but to discourage evading sanctions, and the seizure already accomplishes that.
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Of course it happens. If you tell people they are going to be fired in 60 days, in the best case they will stop putting in any effort, in the worst case they will actively sabotage others or steal company data and property. Just making them stay at home is always the correct decision.
The ones I think are top class are not really end-user oriented, it's core stuff like the search engine, their JS engine, etc. (IMO) The bloated ones are their webapps that suck up gigabytes and gigabytes of ram and CPU resources (client side) for basic stuff like showing you one couple of pages of emails or playing a video file.
Sea Launch, as mentioned in the article, did this for years.

I remember seeing the fuel tanks being wound in the 9-101 in 2013. More parts were made than used, and the launches were seemingly never publicized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch

It was very weird.
Yes. It is time for laid off seniors to take these exit packages and incubate the next generation. Be ready to draw financing when rates fall in Q3 of 2024.
> Yes, but please keep things in context. We're transitioning away from baseload, but it's a major endeavor and not going to happen over night. I think the HN crowd is a little overzealous in this area. NERC is reporting the potential for energy shortages in many regions in the United States. This was once virtually unheard of.

What do you mean? Do you recall Enron? Also when I was living in Tennessee for a year in the 90s brown outs occurred at least a couple of times and some of my US friends tell me about interrupted power happening quite regularly still. I'd call that energy shortage.
Ok, I put "selects a" back up there.
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I suspect they are slightly slow on purpose - so people don't abuse it for mining or whatever
You don't need the "I think" for Microsoft: while not mentioned directly, the links on "unfair legacy software" points to Microsoft.
Incidentally, the faucet problem is neat! You can solve it with high-school level physics and analytical geometry ("pre-calculus").
And what an opinion too.

Seriously, anyone that has used an AI assistant for coding or content generation understands the huge time saving implications of this tech moving forward. It's an amazing tool, there are so many ways we can save time and energy as is - if most of 24 was spent by people just getting a handle on what AI can do rn, it would still be a good year for AI.
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AI is the culture war, figuratively speaking
Netherlands seems to do a lot of things right, and I know the US isn't making all the right tradeoffs, but lack of safety net is one of the reasons US pay is higher.
>It is physically, philosophically, and technically impossible to verify the authenticity of digital content.

That's the entire point of cryptocurrencies. They do that as well as is possible right now in a distributed network, conceding the point about key theft.

I would argue it's not all-or-nothing. Signing would verify the the majority of content from creators that have not had their keys stolen. Adding currency/value to this equation boosts the quality further and discourages spamming "content based marketing" garbage. The obstacles are usability and behavior changes, and also that any given user can now copy/paste LLM prompt responses, of course.
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Or the many countries allied with the U.S.A. where they could tell local law enforcement to pick you up...that's like all of Europe and North America.
A friend worked at Google. Pretty lazy guy. A few months salary to quit, but 8 months to wind down what he worked on. In truth, one year's pay to do nothing. He, predictably, did nothing.
Of 2017 technically, although it was passed right at the end of the year.

This legislation is colloquially known as the "Trump tax cuts"
"On average 247 Palestinians are being killed & are at risk of being killed each day. Many of them literally blown to pieces. They include 48 mothers each day, 2 every hour. And over 117 children." From the v powerful South Africa ICJ closing statement.

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This is the closest comment I could find to how I experience my burnout. Nothing makes me more anxious than realizing that I fall further behind every day I'm not spending (unbillable) time becoming an expert in all the dev/ops tooling that somehow became indispensable the past 5-10 years. It's funny because I used to LOVE computers as a teenager because I loved setting up and configuring Unix systems. Now, as a developer, the idea of writing configurations instead of code just makes my hair stand on end.
Well, it was 2020. You kind of expect "ah, now we see where humanity's behavior went wrong." Hindsight and all.
So, with your interview process, assuming two people could complete the (very simple) task of doing a simple backend web service, how do you determine who is worth 100k and who is worth 300k?

How can you tell who is going to come up with the innovative solution to a challenging problem and who is just merely competent?
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I keep seeing this complaint but I have never reproduced it locally. VSCode runs at a buttery smooth 120hz on my MBP. What are you doing that causes such poor performance?
The article calls out event-sourcing and materialized views as a solution.

I reread the article twice now, and I don't see a conflicting definition, that would contradict i.e. append-only-log being immutable.

Unless your argument is that the author is in-denial about benefits of immutability, because it can't be achieved in this weirdly strict form you seem to propose?

But maybe I need to reread second paragraph of the article one more time?
So on the one hand Google now accepts that egress fees are outrageous. Great! On the other hand, they're only reducing (removing) the fees when you leave them.

If this move were really about acting in customers' best interests, they would reduce the fees for everyone. Doing this only for departing customers feels performative.
Yikes—you can't attack another user like that, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are. We have to ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Best we can do is diversify it to… more RE!
Ok, this seems bunk basically because they never really provide evidence of "better".

> ... traditiontal gold-standard approaches use human evaluators that score the quality of generated responses, which can be costly. However, since chat AIs are by definition deployed in social environments with humans, one can leverage statistics of users interaction as a meaningful and aligned measure of chat AI engagingness and quality. To assess the ’quality’ of a chat AI, we consider two main proxy functions: the industry standard user retention and the main objective function, user engagement.

Maybe retention and engagement _are_ sufficiently well correlated to human evaluations, but you should probably do both and show that they're strongly correlated before you decide to just drop the human evaluators in favor of your cheap proxy measurements.

And in this field, where there are some known issues with chat LLMs, perhaps it's important to check stuff like:

- Does the model seem "engaging" just b/c the user has to refine their prompt several times before they get a satisfying response?

- Do responses include a lot of hallucinations which might be engaging but not true?

- Do successive responses show decreased consistency or coherence between messages, in a way that might accidentally elicit continued engagement?

Overall, it seems sloppy to believe that it's not a waste of humans time to talk to your chatbots, and it's not a waste of time for readers to look at this paper about your chatbots, but it's too expensive for you to actually measure the quality of responses from your chatbots.
Obviously they're preparing for a fight with the US, but that's not news and I don't see how this does anything but give them something roughly Ford-shaped shoot at. It's a prop - there are no planes, no defenses, no escort, no realistic signals/radar/sonar signatures, etc.

So what? They have a big target.
Interesting anecdote. But I don't envy Fenyman. I would rather be like the guys I know you can just sit down and get to work conscientiously without any such intrusive thoughts whatsoever. Those guys have a superpower they don't appreciate.
Am my own isp.... I rarely use a VPN. Fixed ip and all.

Your VPN doesn't protect against squat when it comes to the agencies that might be watching. Hell it doesn't even protect much against marketers fingerprinting your movement around the internet. You leave a plenty big breadcrumb trail that isn't just IPV4.

Honestly VPNs have been a great marketing example of the last 5 years. You all buy something without needing it or knowing why t f you have it. Yes using internet without one is better. Why? It's cheaper for starters.Auth. faster! No relay slowing down your connection!

VPN best use isn't on consumer end. It's on orchestration end as another tool to guarantee you are who you say you are via another layer of auth.
that isnt logical. A tramp bursts into your store and tries to sleep on the floor. Telling him thats not cool isnt classy? Thats not the world we live in in either case.
Well, thank you for telling me that I have understood my life all wrong.

About 10 years ago I weighed 113kg. I decided to really tackle it hard and not give up. Threw out all the sugar at home and went on a weightwatchers diet.

Over a period of 1.5 years I got my weight down to 97kg. It was very hard. It was a constant battle with hunger and feeling like crap. But I made it! I reached my goal and it was awesome!

So I crossed the finish line, right? No more hunger?

Guess again. I was back to 110kg a few years later. Still hungry.

So yes, please do tell me about how the urges will go away.

No, they do not.

It's a chemical reaction somewhere that in my body is happening with different amounts of components than some other people's body's. It's not a thing that I can wish really hard to change.
There are solutions that are carbon-free; wind, enhanced geothermal (if fracking was legal in Europe), and nuclear. Solar electricity imports out of Spain or Morocco seems more feasible that solar situated in northern Europe.
When I read the OP link, #4 is both the eureka moment of your list AND the last item on the list.

There is no #5 and #6. You can't predict what happens next.

The lesson is to let go of your ego and self-imposed, prescriptive ideas of 'importance' and realize that while important things do matter, they also simultaneously often don't matter at all (in the grand scheme of things)

This is a function of time; in the moment, stuff that feels intractable and overwhelming often can be seen in hindsight with enough clarity to realize that what you were feeling at the time and what was objective reality were two completely different things.

Anyways, not trying to get all "The Dude" about it, but in my experience, as long as you continue to show up, and be patient, present and available for opportunities, things you weren't even looking for have a way of finding you and lead to stuff that you could never have forced into existence through sheer willpower alone. If you can find a way to let all the baggage go and reboot to a place of genuine curiosity, you might be surprised where you eventually find yourself.

YMMV of course.

(and no, I'm not preaching "manifestation" / "law of attraction" bullshit -- just advocating for people who hit a wall creatively to consider stepping off the treadmill, releasing the pressure valve, and seeing where they end up)
My own experience with having our (now-lease-returned) Model 3 backs up collision repairs being more expensive. I live a major metro that has a single repair shop certified to work on Tesla vehicles. They have a multi-month wait, and they charge more to repair Tesla vehicles than the equivalent luxury vehicle because they can.

A newer luxury SUV with an MSRP 2x of our Model 3 had a lower collision premium on our car insurance policy.
I'd also love to see their storage and bandwidth bill. They allow users to upload unlimited files with no retention limit, and have now upped the single file limit for Nitro users to 500mb. As a user I'm certainly not complaining, but surely it can't be sustainable
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Hi y'all,

There are quite a few blogging solutions out there. My original blog uses a self hosted version of Ghost on a DigitalOcean droplet for about $5 a month. It has served me well. I am looking to start another personal blog, less focussed on technology. What are the tech stacks you'd use today for a blog?

A few options I have considered:

* Ghost: Known for its simplicity and focus on content creation.
* WordPress: A versatile choice with a vast ecosystem of themes and plugins.
* Jekyll: Great for static sites, often combined with GitHub Pages.
* Running on Vercel: For modern frontend frameworks and Jamstack architecture.

Would love to hear if I am missing any great options.
It's very expensive being sick for any extended period of time; I had my first partial glossectomy surgery (removal of a piece of my tongue) in October 2022 (https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/22/i-am-dying-of-squamous-ce...), and there are at least three major components to being sick for a long time: health itself; financial viability; and managing the healthcare team.

I've been lucky with the generosity of friends and strangers regarding the second one due a successful Go Fund Me, but I've also gotten walloped with some gnarly bills, most notably for Signatera blood tests for cancer particles and for genetic testing of the tumor itself. United Healthcare considers those experimental and thus uncovered. But the genetic testing of the tumor is essential because it might lead to targeted treatments.

Legislation has supposedly limited surprise out-of-network bills, but, even with insurance, costs can be very high, and those combined with not being able to work effectively leads to problems.
most non-apple laptops have a slot you can put a wifi card...
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You can grab an Intel BE200 module (EDIT: which may be platform dependent, see below) or similar for about 30 bucks. For latest generation client side Wi-Fi cards Intel has traditionally had the better quality options on the driver side, not to give an illusion the cards and driver are perfect though. The limitation is you can't have a fully integrated system, like a MacBook. If the storage is upgradeable there is a high chance the Wi-Fi is.
One aspect of the spread of LLMs is that we have lost a useful heuristic. Poor spelling and grammar used to be a signal used to quickly filter out worthless posts.

The signal has shifted. For now, theory of mind and social awareness are better indicators. This has a major caveat, however: There are lots of human beings who have serious problems with this. Then again, maybe that's a non-problem.
> In some jurisdictions it is legally required.

Which jurisdiction requires 5 months of salary?
Yes fun joke, but it's literally one plane out of thousands produced and everyone survived. FWIW, the bleed air systems kept working perfectly so they had plenty of pressurized air inside.
Isn't rail shipping far more expensive than, er, ships? Also, good luck getting anything from China to Europe via rail without going through either Iran (the Middle East) or Russia (not exactly on friendly terms with Europe at the moment, to put it lightly).
In what sense is Wikipedia "state/oligarch controlled"?
Are there any wi-fi dongles - or even PCI extensions - for PCs that are worth getting? Everywhere I look, it's usually down to hoping the one that comes with your motherboard is any good, and those aren't easy to upgrade every now and then.
Sorry, I have to call BS on this. I'm hugely familiar with Python and used it for over 10 years, pretty much always on "latest version" instead of pinning. And had issues with incompatible versions less than 5 times. JS? Pretty much every single project, if any apreciable chunk of code gets ignored for a few months its almost guaranteed that it has breaking changes somewhere.
used to be you could swap out mini pci-e wifi modules. Intel makes good ones as well as a number of other manufacturers. They sometimes have connectable antenna that snake around the case.
Kind of a misleading title. It's not next gen processors (you'd expect Zen 5). It's still Zen 4.
Oh yeah because burdening children with the challenges of… using slightly different words… is a real shame.
Billions of people follow your advice!
This is a good heuristic to distinguish people who haven't grown up since middle school and still think stuff like that is humorous
How does it contradict your course? Your comment is missing just as much information as OP’s.
Ran a small software dev shop (~100 staff) inheriting windows. My god, never again... The amount of lost productivity was insane. Soon as went out to start my SaaS company, back to Mac, without a shadow of a doubt. I might actually reboot once every few months on Mac whereas my IT manager at the windows shop suggested as a solution to some problems shutting down everytime people were finished for the day !

The windows shop was non stop hardware, software issues. Laptops (whichever brand) are absolute junk with very short lifespans. Blue screens...
It's with respect to the smell
In addition to more layoffs/less hiring it looks like there are a lot of undesirable side effects of this change, especially for small to medium sized companies. Including moving IP out of the US. What were they thinking?

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-75
I am not an accountant, but there wouldn't be a requirement to keep the employees.

If you spent $100M on developer salaries in FY2022, you'd create an amortization for that over the next 5 years.

And then in FY2023... even if you had fired your entire software department... you'd still get to claim that year's portion of that previously created amortization.
It's not (mainly) Google. It's that SEO won.

Poppycock. SEO was a thing 25 years ago. It's the same now, as it was then, it's merely that Google has vastly reduced efforts to maintain their product.

It's not that SEO won, it's that Google doesn't care.

One way they don't care, is apparent with their ridiculous query aliasing, and spewing pages of random junk before you can even scroll down to actual search results.

Google is a has been, focusing on short term profits. They deserve to go EOL.
Or to skip the co-op system entirely because it doesn't work all that well in practice.