skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree, I am still looking for a Rust position, although I have more than 3 years of experience with it.

And yes, it is very hard.

It seems Rust is in a chicken/egg position: employers avoid it because "there are few developers", developers avoid it because "there are few jobs".

Until recently the majority of Rust jobs were blockchain stuff. Now I see a rise in network infrastructure and security.
when you have a rotten tooth, you can mouthwash and take a couple ibuprofen for a little while until its obvious the actual problem has to be dealt with.

climate change and warming cause problems, but are only symptoms.

the real problem is a willful disconnect from grade school chemistry, and the culture of throwing a problem somewhere else [anywhere as long as its not here]
The UK motor insurance market is one of the most competitive in the world. Aggregators have created a situation where every insurer is looking for the slightest competitive advantage to drive themselves up the comparison table.

I don't have the most up to date figures but in 2022, combined ratio was forecast to be 115% for motor insurance - this means for every £1 in premium, £1.15 was paid out in claims and expenses. There is some income from investments but it's minimal compared to the pre 2008 situation.

Consequentially several insurers have exited the personal lines market as they cannot make money from it - RSA for example. 2022 is forecast to be the worst year for insurers since 2010.

The market does suffer from a cycle of 'hard' and 'soft' markets and there will be an overcorrection in the short term - over a few years, we'll see insurers seeing an opportunity to undercut the market and gain market share and premiums increases will ease.

TLDR - whilst it is painful to see premiums rising so quickly, it is not an industry that is awash with profits.
Ask HN: How to Get Better at Arguing?
I want to get better at rhetoric and argumentation, but I find it hard to find good books/videos/resources to learn it, let alone practice.

I find valuable insights in the Artistothle or Schopenhauer books, which is both fascinating and frustrating, as I'm expecting more modern books to be on the subject.

Another discovery is the books for argumentation for lawyers – seem to be a decent mix of philosophical depth and practicality.

I had hoped to find good books from the debating community, but most recommendations are paper-only from the 80s/90s, or overly focused on competitive debates.

This search for good resources on the fundamentals of argumentation seems to be quite a challenge. Perhaps I can find some good recommendations from the HN community.
That's pretty tragic. Did nobody realise that hardware purchases are infrequent?
Optimization has taken a back-seat now, I'd say. We focus more on developer productivity, and that extra mile optimization isn't deemed necessary if that effort and time can be put toward another project, squeezing out more value from the developer.
180k is a lot but also my guess is that having a trauma team work on you is quite expensive - pretty much no other time in someone’s life is someone going to be getting direct work from so many high-wage professionals.

Note that the family was on the hook for ~4k. That seems to me to be insurance working as expected.
Feel free to step out of the discussion anytime you like. That said, I don't think I'm putting words in your mouth. That was simply an analogy for the kind of arguments I feel you're making.

Ultimately, results are what people care about. "Have they truly mastered x or are they 'mimicking' it?" is a philosophical discussion.

Results are the only means you determine something has one property or another. I'm only assuming I'm speaking to an intelligent human on the other end of this discussion. I'm only assuming you are 'conscious'. I have no idea if these things are 'really' true. If I say, 'you're mimicking my intelligence. You're not really intelligent', what proof could you bring to show otherwise that wouldn't just fall back on results? None.
> such a misrepresentation

Exactly. All the talk about fees misses the point because accepting and securing paper money is also very costly.

And the provocateur's stunt in the article also misses the point, because electronic payments for groceries aren't a dystopian tyranny no matter how loud he screams about it.

And the crypto skeptics are missing the point when they say you can't buy a coffee with bitcoin, because buying coffee is a solved problem, tap to pay with a bank card works just fine.

And the crypto advocates are missing the point when they say that lightning or solana or something else will solve the coffee-buying conundrum because that's not a problem that needs solving.

The real point about cash payments and crypto is whether people should be able to make large person-to-person payments that are not trivially surveilled or controlled.

In a free society, should people have this capability? Or are the dangers of illegal transactions so great that this freedom must be eliminated?

Europe has mostly free and mostly instant SEPA transfers which are one answer. Large payments are easy and cheap, though they are not secret or untraceable. Perhaps that's a reasonable trade-off.

The US payments system is a mess by comparison, where we have no privacy paired with extreme inconvenience. Try to buy a $20,000 car from a private party on a holiday weekend to see how well that works.
I occasionally visit quora off of search results because I kinda got used to parsing out what I wanted, but never knew about this toggle.

I literally cannot understand how anyone thought intermixing related questions and answers together is in any way useful or beneficial to their users, especially when the default is set to ON.
Spatial Screen Mirroring to Vision Pro
Like this idea. Now you earn one more user :)

A few minor comments.

1/ Current homepage is a bit overwhelmed to read.

2/ The API cost can be greatly reduced (eventually to zero) by caching results, and some text similarity tricks.

3/ Is this going to be a commercial product ?
> It biases too hard towards city living, especially as we are seeing more and more people move away from cities

Urbanization is progressing.

Suburbia are not sustainable and should not be encouraged. As you just noticed, it takes way more money to service their infrastructure, and they bring in far less tax revenue to pay for it than dense mixed use developments.
Did all the timestamps get reset? Seeing most (all?) comments at about 30min ago
It was a complete rewrite. Angular 1 vs. 2 share nothing besides name and some basic concepts. The actual code and tooling was completely separate.
It makes a fancy HT setup unusable for gaming.
To me Vue is just a maintained version of angular 1
i wonder where that comes from. i don't even have a fraction of the experience you have, yet i seem to be just fine with git. not an expert, but not having any trouble with it either, and also the go-to person for git pretty much anywhere i work. and i do like it!

is it my age? (i learned working with computers in the late 80s.)

the fact that i first had to work with CVS and subversion?

that i was an early adopter? (i was the first to use git at my job at the time, thanks to its good subversion integration)

have i just not seen how much better git could be? (am i happy with git out of lack of experience with better tools?)

or am i just different? (i seem to have no problem with weird programming languages or frameworks either (although there was this one perl job where i did struggle and ultimately had to give up because i had no help))
Subzero became a "status" brand in the US 25 years ago. It's common to find them in US kitchens that are designed to impress rather than to cook in. (Just like Viking ranges.)

Subzero might in fact be a decent-quality fridge--I have no idea because I refuse to pay a status tax on appliances.
The most valuable service banks provide is not just "matchmaking" lenders with borrowers (an exchange of some sort can do that much more cheaply) or even spreading credit risk across a pool of borrowers (again there are other ways to do that which are cheaper), but maturity transformation: depositors can lend money to the bank which is repayable on demand, but the banks' borrowers are given set repayment schedules.
> Truffle is a framework for building languages, that sits on top of Graal.

wtf is Graal? That sounds like a supporting character from Beowulf.
Totally. If they want me to check anything work related on my phone they have to give me one.
> Is $x amount enough to get me by until SS and Medicare. It's scary because as an old man I don't think I'm going to be able to jump back in to a software developer job once I quit.

Yeah, I'm not always sure whether "retirement" is a carrot held in front of us, or really a threat.
Someone get Tim on the line to look into this.
It is really not semantics, because of the amount of control that academies have over the work the teachers do, and because of their freedom to hire and fire teachers.
Which begs the question - what not-yet-in-the-spotlight chemical crap makes this happen? Since ingredients are the same, devices are the same yet they last longer as you mention.

Maybe something about vastly different food quality standards between the sides of the pond.
According to one of the other comments here, the plugin is enabled by default, you just can't get anything out of it until you get a subscription.
This is an amazing project, it tells yet another story how one guy can start a project ended up challenging big companies like Google(Angular) and Meta(React).

While React is adding all those complexity by SSR and server component etc these days, Vuejs separates them wisely, if you need just the original SPA, use vuejs as-is, if you want SSR, add Nuxt.

I am moving back from React to Vuejs after realizing how heavily React is nowadays affected by VC company Vercel, which has its own agenda of SSR-first(Next.js) and make React even further complicated, Vercel hijacked React in my opinion and made it no longer a "neutral" OSS project, so long, thanks for all the fish.

On the same note, Vercel also bought up Svelte and made it SSR first.

If you just need SPA and has no need for SSR, which made frontend even more complex, go with Vuejs.
yup. it's the doors themselves. wr took that to describe the doors on a fridge.
I have both hated and appreciated debian packaging, largely depending on the thing I was trying to package at the time. Things implemented in C/C++ and built with vanilla cmake are feasible. Other things get complicated very quickly.

If you're willing to absorb that complication, then debhelper really will handle any and every situation. It is a hell of an investment, though.
My work workflow use `dpkg-deb`: I just create a "build/DEBIAN" directory, populate it with the control file and any post/pre scripts I need, put everything else in the "build" directory where it goes on the end filesystem and then do "dpkg-deb build ." I put all this into a script and do "fakeroot <SCRIPTNAME>".
Regulations frequently kill competition, either explicitly on purpose, or accidentally. Insurance is otherwise a hyper-competitive business anyway. Super easy to shop rates among many companies, so they all gravitate downward to about the same level, net of small differences in coverage or services, fancy websites, etc.

And of course uninsured motorist coverage is a thing, because making something illegal doesn't mean people won't do it.
scope related to security risk. The device and its data are not being compromised by the kid escaping to a browser.
So unfortunate that we allowed TVs to get to this point.
The button is pretty amusing, but The rest of the site does a better job of motivating it.

I've taught a few kids a little bit of programming with things like scratch, but I think this would be infinitely more fun. I could imagine a group of kids who don't think programming is for them having a blast with something like this.
> ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 are both ways of representing a date as a string. Which has little to do with Date as a type.

Tell that to the TOML authors [1].

It's good Pkl has string validation, but what if I don't want a string? What if I want my own literal datetime syntax, like TOML? The grammar for a configuration language could be made flexible enough to accept most anything as a value. In such a design the "string" type itself could be a regex rule defined by a schema.

Keep in mind datetime literals are just an example, the actual number of potential types is unbound.

[1] https://toml.io/en/v1.0.0#offset-date-time
Seems like every time I land on Quora it's just a bunch of people bragging about their IQs while simultaneously lambasting neo Nazis, all while missing the juicy irony of their entire worldview.

I avoid Quora.
I'm comparing it to the Western European and Nordic democracies.
FLTK is still under active development and claims to be adding Wayland support in the next release. Last release was December 2023.

EDE itself though looks like a dead project. I would not expect this to survive the jump to Wayland.
Not only can they ignore such users, they have to.
Cheap phones lack storage space.
Disabling the plugin does not really inconvenience you in any real way besides annoying you with the fact that it’s there
3 weeks lead time sounds inconvenient but not really a big deal?
> These days, questions for TGIF are pre-submitted and voted on. As Google has grown into a leaky behemoth, employees tell me these meetings have come to feel so scripted and benign that they no longer bother attending.

I enjoyed this excerpt from the article.

This is why I never attend all hands meetings anymore. Even at the peak of the layoffs and return to office turmoil, the all hands were held like nothing is happening. Employees show up to get answers, but instead it’s a panel about how awesome a particular leader is and their work on some nonsensical app.

I don’t miss out on anything by not going and get a few hours back every month. Win, win.
I don't have citation, but I concur with the GP, I grew up in the east, and it is far easier to socialize and also form deep friendships because everything is said out in the open and not hidden behind layers of decorum. Here is an example and a demonstration. As an example people are allowed to comment on someone being too heavy or too thin with them present. Here is the demonstration: Now as soon as I gave an example I have made this a controversial topic for the western audience. There is no way to look past the controversy and talk about other things or form bonds based on speech. Only an infinite loop.
dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237567
It is a macro ("syntactic sugar") for JavaScript, not HTML.
Big note on this - Only the top loaders are available in the old-school "ultra-reliable" version that I think many want. Top loaders are more rough on clothes than front loaders. Many reputable repair techs claim that LG makes very solid and reliable front loaders which are more gentle on clothes than the speed queen front loaders.

I was dead set on a speed queen top loader and then my wife started showing me this stuff (specifically detailed tests showing speed queens top loaders being rough on clothes)
This explains why I've never seen behaviour like that. I'm one of seemingly five people running Linux on the desktop, avoiding Windows PCs.
I think stack exchange’s moderators killed that site. Common complaints were how antagonistic they were toward new users. Hard to grow or sustain a user base if you turn out all the new ones.
I’m pretty sure this is the result of a heavy A/B testing culture. Every single idea was probably increasing an important KPI. The page in it’s entirety got destroyed over time.
That opening is what react used to become what it is today. With the 1 -> 2 no upgrade path it forced a rewrite and many left to react and never came back.
Interfaces generally belong with users (2019)
GitHub Copilot must be trained on all those XY answers and can be just as insufferable.
I think the C preprocessor is an interesting example of (2), because the metaprogramming community has converged on an extremely clever paradigm to circumvent the lack of recursion: continuation machines. By defining a linear number of “continuation evaluation” macros, you can generate an exponential number of “recursive” macro expansions, which trivially scales to the point that it could take until the heat death of a universe for an arbitrary program to terminate, but a program can choose to terminate at any time. The Chaos-pp and Order-pp projects are good implementations of this!
>I’m not sure what their business model is

Probably also email harvesting and any associated segmentation they get with your reading history, since it's required to sign up to read anything.
What happens after 100 years?
Just keep in mind that the world, including and especially car and pedestrian safety are much better now than in the past. Still hurts to read about these accidents when they happen though!

I agree that there are too many articles about relatively few incidents, but that's what people want to read about apparently, so that's what the news people give us.
The trick is to introduce Rust wherever you're at, assuming it's a good fit for the task. This may be harder to do if you don't have enough influence.
Software can be simple too. I haven't needed anything more from my email client, photo editing, word processor or file manager apps for close to a decade.

As far as I'm concerned these tools are feature complete and can be used without subscriptions that phone home constantly.
It's the hope that kills you
Can't believe that none of these designers thought that one might want to use a kitchen appliance with gloves on before slapping capacitive touch on everything...
Wikipedia is great for non political, non-controversial topics, such as sciences. I wouldn't trust it on active politicians or other figures of public interest.

One major problem is that you need to submit references to back up any claim. PR companies can easily buy an article in a fringe news site and them modify Wikipedia with a reference to that article. It is almost impossible to roll back.

I once tried to update a company page to state they were going through redundancies. I was personally affected by this, and had internal emails to back this up. However, lacking a public reference it was rolled back.
Kinda ironic that you call this "racism against white" by subtly saying that non economically profitable neighbourhoods are non white.

Those proposed changes are not racist, they are simply and blindly anti-poor.
It depends if you have to drive to get them or if you are living in a country where almost nothing is open past a certain hour or on sunday.
> A persistently visible ad for a paid service you don't want, in a paid product you paid for? That alone is a justifiable reason for the outrage.

I get that it feels icky but if you're going to get this outraged about every company that includes an upsell in a paid product you're going to die young. It's hard to think of a paid product without some kind of upsell.

My work MacBook Pro nags me to sign up to Apple Music. My home PC wants me to upgrade my OneDrive account. Google Photos thinks I should buy more storage. The Economist's paid podcast feed wants me to take a subscription to the magazine.
Go live in Texas and see how that has worked out with their power grid.
- debhelper: 1997-present

- dh: 2008-present

Building something on top of dh at this point, like dh was built on debhelper, does not seem to justify your rant. But what do I know?
Try any Spanish speaking country.
jQuery still works great
It’s a component with very, very high leverage. If you improve glibc then you’ve improved millions of other programs. So I would think all options are on the table.
It comes back with the next update
Depends on what state you are in but probably car insurance rates are worse. In Mississippi 1 in 3 drivers are uninsured. Uninsured rate for health in that state is 1 in 6.
The obvious Monty Python sketch comes to mind: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
Now that tax rates are lower again compared to the "90%" rates, is the same saying not true for today compared to that time period?

So, surely, you will agree the people who live the easiest and highest quality lives are people today, and lowering tax is actually fully indicative of increasing life expectancy and quality of life.

Be consistent.
This is the lead up to them exiting the state like in Florida (and California for other types of insurance). I believe state farm and allstate have already exited california, but I may be wrong.

Three weeks delay is just the most visible thing, they are basically pulling out all the stops to try to avoid covering as many people as possible.

But even 3 weeks delay in driving a vehicle you just purchased is considerable.
About $1900/year, for two ICE vehicles (no liens), 300k/500k liability (per person/per incident maximums). Maxed out deductibles for Collison/Comprehensive on both. I just added a $1,000,000 umbrella policy at $500 a year though it would be nice to double the coverage there.

I use Geico and they give a breakdown of the cost per vehicle. My full size pickup is double the cost of my wife's mid-size SUV, which I cannot argue against.
Both seem to have worked at/with Dynamicland previously, though not mentioned on this site.

https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/

https://cwervo.com/projects/dynamicland-experiments/
Buy appliances at costco, max out the extended warranty. You get 5 or 6 years of warranty. Some devices will last 20 years, others will fail multiple times under warranty, and eventually be replaced as a lemon, under warranty. It gets you out of the bathtub curve and you don't have to have a part time job repairing appliances.
Never used Bazel in my life, so while I can appreciate your passion, I guess I don't share your perspective. Generally the pattern I've seen has been providing a skylark interface to allow folks to define rules or configurations, which are then consumed through by whatever service via starlark-rust or similar implementations.
Best Buy always has a low-end unit for rental property. They usually last for a good long time.

I have a 30-year-old fridge that I would seriously consider getting repaired if it ever stopped working before I would buy a replacement.
If we can push Ubuntu out of the pole position, then I think we can solidify Alpine as the next great Linux distribution. I am all for simpler packaging.

I do fear, though, that Debian packaging has absorbed some necessary complexity that Alpine packaging has not --- if only because Debian has been around so much longer.