skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it any less tenable to claim "most people don't [do anything] carefully or for comprehension"?

(in a world with ai augmentation, is it better to be an eloi or a morlock? should care and comprehension be taken care of by better tooling? or will there be advantage to being among the few who can spot when the tools hallucinate?)
> “The idea that we can make the planet more habitable on an environmental, on the environmental front by impoverishing poor people, by raising energy prices and food prices, is absolutely, it’s not only absurd logically, but I think it’s tantamount to genocidal,” Peterson says in one YouTube video his channel posted in 2022.

The problem here, as I see it, is that while I am completely with mainstream science on climate change (and all other issues it's qualified to speak on), and I think Jordan Peterson is a ridiculous figure, there is a kernel of truth to criticisms like this – the economic structure of this world means that yeah, poor people probably will bear the brunt of any changes, even if they're necessary, and that's deeply unjust.
Yeah I ordered a few, but filled out the form with "I don't need them before Christmas". But I got a message recently saying they're on their way now!
Agree that React isn’t the problem, I worked on an equally large Angular project that was also a pain, just slightly less of a pain.

React makes it easy to create a big mess.

Because I only spent 3 years in SPA land I feel quite comfortable with only shipping what the browser needs to display what the user wants. Getting JS to render everything always felt a bit odd to me.
Someone has to think of the poor executives in the military industrial complex. The taxes must go to the billions of dollars of infrastructure that is spent annually to support policies like shooting $40M missiles at Iranian drones that cost $100k at most.

https://youtu.be/O3FMV3iugeI?si=PYFqRFssxAeKTPPU
Teach other people what you know. Make a great team. Let them take all the glory. It’s the surest way to be a “10x programmer”.

What does this mean?

Don’t just do: write, share, give others credit, coach, etc
> Another problem is that databases aren't always great at indexing into the middle of blobs and changing them. Sometimes db engines want to copy values if you change them, because they're optimised for lots of tiny values (row column values) and not small numbers of huge values. But apps often want to write into the middle of files or append to them.

Then again, there's no such thing as overwrite on flash storage (just write-once or erase larger chunk), so maybe the next generation of storage for large objects as extents that are write-once is the way forward. Plenty of filesystems have already switched to this model.
So what you are saying is that it is impossible to regulate? After all, if the regulation was successful then the ads would be approved only after careful human oversight. But if regulation is impossible then the actors can do essentially whatever they please, including allowing ads to be auto-approved.
any form of unjust parasitism is basically slavery
There are a couple of things I think are important to point out that does make this not just mad but annoying too.

1. No hospital will leave you (because of decency and federal law) to die if you can't pay. This right here obliterates any justification for private health insurance unless said insurance is mandatory like it is in a country such as Switzerland. When someone like the OP inevitably gets injured and has a $370,000 bill or something they go bankrupt and then society has to pay for it. If OP and others were willing to let themselves and others die on the street outside of a hospital I would be at least a little more sympathetic toward their decision to have or not have health insurance.

2. Health insurance is basically a jobs program in the United States. Health insurers do not provide value or innovate. What they do is became defect state agencies with private profits attached, and then when they decide they aren't paying for something we still end up with the bill anyway (both personally and as a society). My main gripe here is that because of the way we've structured our society, we're basically bankrolling a private industry and protecting its profits for no added value. At least the defense industry actually builds things for us. We could eliminate these insurance companies, their profits, and those jobs, and overnight our healthcare costs would go down and everyone would be insured and the economy would be better off too.
That throwaway line is a bit suspicious to me. Maybe they were lucky enough to be diagnosed right around annual enrollment time; someone diagnosed in February might be in a lot of trouble.
15 minutes is not significant.
In case of divorce women are usually financial and parental winners. That was my point. The book has per-state situation and examples.
It makes perfect sense to you, and me, but unfortunately, in America at least, the upper hand is very much with employers. I could be semi-OK with non-reimbursement for salaried workers if daily travel was factored in, but for those on hourly wages it’s immoral to have commuting expenses (time __and__ money) eat significantly into wages.

We actually deal with this nonsense in our household; my wife is hourly and between the commute, parking, and walking to/from her workplace she loses about 20-25% compared to the time she actually gets paid for. We also spend a lot on gas, and have been putting ridiculous miles on her daily driver. Not to mention physical fatigue and emotional stress; she talks about quitting at least once a week. All for a mediocre wage (I would have said it’s garbage if she was our sole earner - my compensation is about double hers and I WFH).

Edit: also, I remember company cars being a thing not too long ago. I don’t hear about them as much as I used to.
Re: your edit: I think in latency insensitive applications, having standing queues that never empty can be totally fine. We custom manufacture ordered items and have priority queues that process input orders into machine-ready output files. We don't need those queues to ever empty as the fastest delivery times are 3 days and the slowest typical is 14 days. Some of the file-prep software is licensed (so we have economic reasons to keep that part of the farm size constant and no larger than needed); in other cases, we use cheaper compute when available.
Insurance is never a good deal. They are betting you’ll never use more then you pay and you are hedging that the day you really do need it, it’ll be worth it. Anything an insurance company covers out of pocket is purely them hedging that those services will save them money in the long run or they have factored it into the price you pay up front.

So yes, insurance is never worth it... unless it is... and then often it really was worth it all along.
Not to mention, you needed to download and use a special tool to download your Google Play Music songs that you'd paid for before the shutdown, which didn't actually work.
Learning to think in terms of design - and to be able to mentally map the design onto lines of code. Learning to be able to think on both levels, more or less simultaneously.
I have a similar thing, I was a semi-regular BuJoer some years ago but then I noticed that even though I did enjoy the physical action of writing stuff down - I forgot to write things down eventually. The time from idea to finding my notebook and the correct place to write something down was too long.

Now my system is geared towards minimal friction from "crap, I need to remember this" to actually storing it in Obsidian.

Currently I have a Keyboard Maestro macro that activates when I double tap the key on the left side of 1 on my keyboard, which then will activate Obsidian (or start it if needed) and brings it to the front with a QuickAdd dialog where I can write down whatever I was thinking about.

QuickAdd will then append it to an Inbox file with a timestamp. I might take a look at it later or maybe not, but at least it's written down _somewhere_ =)
TL;DR: You don't need medical insurance as long as you have no major medical incidents. Just like you don't need an umbrella as long as it doesn't downpour. What a bad article.
I feel like this "console" vs. "general computer" distinction is something Apple invented for the sake of their legal argument, and people are just accepting it as a thing. There's no reason why you can't have a console that allows sideloading. In fact, I have one: the Playdate. It has an on-device app store, but if I want I can also install any app manually. Most users who have a Playdate will only ever use the app store--they will get a curated set of apps, and every game purchase will have a cut taken by Playdate. It's sticky because it's the most convenient, and it's already on the device. This is the "safe" experience that the average user wants. But if you want to do your own thing and install some other app you found on the internet, you can! You can also run your own apps that you write!
Complains about tight coupling, then goes on to create a dedicated backend to cater the needs for each frontend…
There's the declarative shadow DOM proposal for this but I don't think it's ready yet.
Why not have a Teamspeak/Discord like system where you can hang around all day in various rooms (e.g. virtual bureaus) and do the "office chit chat"?

The meeting model is more like phone calls and, while I adore WFH, not well suited for that.
Strong agree.

Unfortunately, it's really difficult to run HR for any company of significant size, that accounts for individual differences.

My personal management style was about treating each employee as an individual, but I was also fortunate to have a small team of high-performing, mature, dedicated professionals. My technique would not work on many of the teams that I see out there, these days.
'Waddle like a penguin': NHS shows how to walk safely in icy conditions
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They aren't getting a free ride and as a shareholder of many corporations while also not being a billionaire, by increasing taxes on corporations you are increasing taxes on me.

Billionaires and corporations are a misdirection, the actual policy that they will push is to raise taxes on people making upper middle class salaries.
Electric Truck Technology Gaining Momentum Despite Hurdles
This is one of the main reasons I created Linkwarden - an open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages:

GitHub: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

Website: https://linkwarden.app
I would argue that it's not only Google that got worse, the whole web got worse. I wish for a search engine that would exclude any website that is overleaded with ads. The side effect would be better quality content.
> Is this Walmart being cheap

> $15/hr. is nothing now

I think you answered your own question. They are failing to hire cashiers because they aren't willing to pay enough. So yes, they are being cheap.

There is a huge potential market for cashiers. There is no shortage. There is only a shortage for the price that Walmart has decided is worth paying.
You should have kept reading because she then reveals that she used the life event (of becoming pregnant) to enroll in an insurance plan.

I agree, my wife totally intended on a minimal medical intervention based birth. Still went to the hospital, just in case, as we had planned. Turns out that after hours of contractions, the birth was not going to happen (sparing the details) and a section was necessary after all. You simply can’t plan for this ahead of time.
Mini-Canvas-Editor Example
Jesus, will governments ever stop policing what substances you can use?
Loving a corporation happens, but most of what I see on HN is people understanding the tradeoffs that go into what Apple does and agreeing with Apple on those tradeoffs, even if the tradeoff is somewhat focused on making Apple money. If someone just defends Apple and doesn't elaborate it won't get any engagement/upvotes anyways.

Many people don't agree with those tradeoffs, and that's fine as well.
I agree that's a big part of it.

Although to play devil's advocate a little: There are plenty of great subreddits that I had to find on my own that are thriving. Smaller subreddits, but I suggest that's partly because the people that would be interested in them aren't offered them, so it's a self fulfilling prophecy to some extent.
Woah, HR really is the police force of a corporation isn't it?
This is a reckless opinion piece and it's going to leave some unfortunate soul with a bill that absolutely wrecks their financial situation.

I'm billed $1M annually for my health care (Stage IV Cancer), and yes, I likely could get that dollar amount lowered through different tactics, but for a measly $9k a year (premiums + deductible), I don't have to deal with any of that nonsense. $9k for $1M in health care is a deal.
The Fed study mentioned in the Bloomberg article:
https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
part of reddits failure IMO is the way in which shadow banning is used to encourage groupthink.

Its amazing how over the past 12-13 years Reddit feels like it has changed from random site you could get quite different and often difficult opinions about a matter which would challenge you, to now where you get blocked by users (not because of harassment, but just differing opinions), banned on subreddits (because you just don't agree with an often child like simplification/ narrative), mass organised down voting( which leads to further shadow banning across Reddit).

All these things have turned it into a playground of school bullies, and those who virtue signal seeking karma.

Then again, it could always have been that, and I just grew out of it.
No One's Name Was Changed at Ellis Island
Apple Vision Pro Privacy: Optic ID, Eye Tracking, and EyeSight Protections
That really depends on how you want to use web components. I have used custom elements quite a few times with Astro, mostly leveraging custom elements for life cycle events.

I end up with a `.astro` file that server renders the HTML and adds a script to define the custom element. In the browser its more pike cheap hydration - the custom element doesn't re-render anything up front, it will just grab references to the server rendered DOM nodes and setup event handlers.

I know Lit has an SSR helper, though I haven't used it myself I think its supposed to make server rendering you lit web components much easier.
Hyperbole and language like this is exactly why it's so hard to have this debate in any rational way. The onsite crowd says that all their WFH colleagues are playing video games and doing laundry all day while the WFH crowd says employers are stealing from their employees' children.
Pico-8! There are also zines people have made with straight up "type this in and it'll make a game" like many HN-friends here have gone through with BASIC and other languages.

Seeing how young your kid is they may fall off it but I think pico-8 is immensely accessible to anyone and contains all the tools needed for making a game.
Without insurance, my wife and my medicines would be close to $2000/mo (using services like GoodRX). That is not even considering the every 3 month lab work both my wife and I have to get done for managing our chronic disorders, the 1-2 times a year we get actually sick and need a doctor visit, the vaccines we take yearly due since we both have compromise immune systems, the various flare ups of immune disorders.

We are both self-employed, so we get our health insurance on HealthCare.gov, so if we let payments laps on our health insurance, we are barred from getting new health insurance for the remainder of the year. Health insurance is not just insuring our health, it is also insuring our ability to be insured.

But beyond any of that, our health insurance is a positive return on investment. Our $900/mo = $2500/mo in benefits.

So maybe it is true that you don't NEED health insurance... until you do, and then it is too late.
I think what is meant by "should love" is that it would be natural to, or for our emotions to prompt for affection towards, Apple for its good deeds. but the point is to resist that because Apple is just an emotionless business entity.

It's rather clearly worded and I see no contradiction.
Yes, your story is an isolated and minor anecdote and my story is a massive social ill that I am furious that older people want to overlook and then wonder why younger peoples mental health and productivity is getting constantly worse. So I don't appreciate you bringing up your anecdote as if it has any relevance to what I'm saying.

p.s. I spend most of my working day with headphones on, it is perfectly possible.
True.

Unlike some other things that don't love you back, corporations are actively abusive relationship partners. Whether an employee of or customer of a corporation, you are being misled and taken advantage of. There are benefits, of course, but you must be a willing participant to being misled. My feeling is that this is an unhealthy consequence of the relationship.

Sidenote, I can say with some authority that you are admired for your love of ham radio and fresh air, even though they don't love you back.
> Nobody seems to talk about this, I guess because it's taken for granted?

No, because it has a theoretical limit, same as queues, back pressure, etc.

One cannot simply scale up indefinitely because it is not profitable.
Perhaps if an issue were opened describing the necessary steps to provide a fluent and stable C API, staying consistent with the uniffi approach you're using for the other wrappers, then someone enterprising could pick up the ball and run with it. :)
From my memory working on web indexing at Google roughly 15 years ago, there was a step function for detecting "short clicks" that indicated a page was irrelevant for that query. As long as the user spent above some minimum before returning to Google, increased time on the site didn't indicate higher quality.

So, the real optimum is ranking for one or more popular searches (regardless of relevance), looking vaguely interesting, and just confusing enough that it takes a couple of seconds to realize this isn't the page you wanted. Either that, or being exactly what someone wants for one of the popular searches.

Though, things may have changed, and my memory definitely has faded.

Also, plenty of SEOs may have misunderstood short clicks as a quality signal, so even if maximizing time on site doesn't help, I wouldn't be surprised if SEOs still recommend it.
I guess if 90k was the max you could pay, it might not make sense. After all, you are paying more than 90k over 3 years. You could just save the money and have savings if you didn't get ill. I bet it could be a lot higher than that though.
Beyond the risk of medical bankruptcy in the US, lack of health insurance can prevent you from getting some lifesaving treatments.

If you are uninsured, for instance, you stand almost no chance of getting an organ transplant. There are not enough organs for too many people, the operation is very expensive, and lifetime support medication is also expensive.

In my experience, transplant centers won't even start the evaluation without proof of insurance.

While it might be possible to get insurance after diagnosis for people like the OP who choose not to have insurance, that isn't always feasible. Sudden organ failure, while rare, certainly happens. And should it happen, it is hardly the best time to be scrambling to find insurance.

Yes, the system is screwed up. But it is the system (in the US).
This is what Microsoft will always lack: taste and style. Every once in a while they accidentally (-or not) come up with something that is decent but it doesn’t last, next version is atrocious in some way or another.

- Im sure there’s talented professional behind anything that is good and the accident is their decisions surviving the corporate gauntlet of enshitification or expnanding the scope of the project such that it becomes an unpleasant mess, probably obnoxious too.
If I look at the 3.5g bags I'm familiar with, I can't imagine smoking so much in one go. That would almost require the use of those novelty oversized RAW cones.
both things can be true at the same time! For an hobbyist you get to write less js. For a company you get faster apps. Its a win win situation
I agree with this to an extent. Our kiddos are old enough to be in school. But if someone is home sick, I have to take the day off because it’s hard to get anything done.

A reply to you mentioned noise-canceling headphones. That doesn’t work for me, because the kids want to engage and play with the parents when they’re at home. It’s not just a matter of noise.

That said! I still agree with OP’s sentiment. I find that I’m much more relaxed without having to worry about the commute. More time to help the kids get ready and just enjoy the moment. More time to walk them to school.

Before, I would be a ball of stress trying to get people out the door in the morning so I could catch one of only two buses that could take me across the bay to work.

Same thing in the evenings. More time to pick them up, walk home, take serendipitous side adventures and help foster their curiosity. I love it.
Remember borrowing "crampons" from Norwegian friends when visiting Tromso last year just for walking around town...
But I don't want to solve that problem. I don't want to have a parasocial relationship with the author of every blogpost that I read.
> we conclude that improved early life environmental influences over ensuing decades likely explain these results

Before iodisation of salt, many people in my area were literally "cretins".

Are parts of the US, in cutting school lunch programs, threatening hospital staff, etc., selflessly creating the conditions for a natural experiment in whether or not these effects reverse after suffering unfavourable early life environmental influences?
Doesn’t this basically conclude with “don’t let immigrants drive at all”?

If you can’t parse the difference between “collision ahead” and “use yah blinkah”, then you shouldn’t be driving at all.

“Immigrants” are not uniquely unable to parse these things.
No, load shedding and back pressure present you trade-offs to deal with an overloaded system.

Queues don't. Queues just present you problems. If you take an overloaded system and add a queue, every single feature either gets worse or doesn't get any better.

And people like to deny this, and pretend that queues will help. They absolutely help with a lot of things but they do nothing but harm in front of an overloaded system.
"Eat children!" vs "Eat, children!". Punctuation saves lives.

Edit to add:
Personally, I think it would be hilarious if grammar comes back in terms of a "Survival 101 in the face of AI" course.
My son turned 18 this week, and his condition is similar, with additional physical limitations (severe CP via PVL)

Parenting him has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but there have also been moments of joy.

Hang in there, take care of yourself, and get as much help as you can. Being a carer is a huge job.

I wrote a little here:
https://x.com/dnf/status/1746775939961528693?s=20
I really would highly recommend Infiniti's AWD options.

I took my G37x to just shy of 300,000 miles with no major issues, and it wouldn’t get stuck until the snow was above its bumpers.
Someone brought up recently that the UK used tunnels to house military infrastructure during WWII, specifically they converted some tube stations and other things to military command centres, and some of those centres still operate.

https://twitter.com/Alonso_GD/status/1747929379869540802

In the Israeli media, there is rumours from families of hostages that some hostages are dying from poison gases being pumped into the tunnels:

https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-782544