skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get tired of listening to this kind of thing pretty quickly. There's very little here that's falsifiable or of substance, very little to actually confront in an intellectually rigorous way.

But I'll add this, it's especially uninteresting to hear comparisons between gamedev and webdev. The goals and constraints are totally different.

Of course you're going to see a thousand very similar frameworks and a million similar npm packages, and of course none of them are going to be incredibly optimized or performant in the way a video game would be. That's not the goal. The intent is to ship things quickly and iterate on what you've shipped as necessary, so that you can test the value prop and your assumptions in the real world quickly.

It's completely opposed to how video games are engineered, which are delivered in (if not a shrinkwrapped box) individual major releases that might come once a quarter or even year. Video games have to meet strict 60fps performance targets, they often push the boundaries of the platforms they're built on.

So what's with all the fake shock? Why do we pretend to be surprised that the output and the process is different when the goals are different?

Get real. None of this performative whining from up on some pedestal helps anyone, except those who are so insecure about their engineering ability that they need validation from some imagined authority.
Your appendix is not, in fact, useless
Yes and it makes much more sense to prioritize health insurance over underinsured motorist, especially if you don’t care about your vehicle.
That's not because of card fees but because of taxes. They can underreport their cash income, but can't do that if the bank and card processor are involved.
Quora has never been a good resource. It was always designed to trick users into clicking through from a SERP with snippet content that isn't on the landing page when you arrive. It is the same business model as Pinterest. The amazing thing is that Euro regulators have for years been trying to favor this business model, trying to force Google to rank these types of sites highly under the banner of competition, when what the users really want is for these sites to disappear from search results altogether.
That is correct - double on-line conversion UPSs are usually in the 92-94% efficiency. Mine is almost always at 94% at 60% load. However that is the cost of on-line conversion and is well worth it.
I don't disagree with any of this, however the lack of breadth of knowledge is much more remarkable. Aside from security and hacking, I find Software Engineers lack bare metal and low level fundamentals in electronics and IT. Go ask your Software Engineer friends if they know how to change their IP address or if they know how to replace a PCIe card in a PC without using an online tutorial.
What is the difference between a blob and a file and what is the difference between allocating a blob on remote storage or a file on remote storage?
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Ah just give me typescript, I do not need to learn a new thing for configuration languages and at the end of the day the output is compatible with JSON. Typescript has all the stuff I would want: types, first class json support, an ecosystem of libraries (if you want it, I would probably not for config generation). And the tooling is amazing. Does pkl have LSP, syntax highlighting in every editor, debugger or repl?
This resonates, but I think it's overly pessimistic about the knowledge that software engineers collectively have. Actually there's a lot of deep knowledge and experience, just not enough to counterbalance the massive volume of people and ideas trying to get things done in the space.

To use his example of civil engineering, the reason that's a more solid technical discipline is because the difficulties and consequences are more visible and comprehensible to laymen. People understand it's hard to build the Hoover Dam and the consequences if you fuck up. It's obviously a huge responsibility that is taken seriously, and does not attract dilettantes just looking to get rich. Because projects are expansive, massive and local, there's no scalability principal that favors engineers contribution. The only way to get rich off big construction or civil engineering projects is to run massive companies, because the actual costs are large, and the biggest overall factor in success is good logistics and project management.

Software is just a whole different thing because there is no physical locality or even logical locality. Code is trivial to copy and remix in any form, heterogenous executing machines can interact across the network. Goals are arbitrary and can be understood differently by every participant if they even are understood at all. Yet despite this, software can be deployed and made instantly to billions of people at the push of a button. Zombo.com wasn't lying, you really can do anything you want with software. Impact can range from world changing and unequaled wealth to a life spent toiling in obscurity on imaginary sand castles. It's no wonder software is a mess.
My umbrella policy is ~240/year (either 1M or 2M coverage; can’t quite remember which).

It also scaled fairly linearly.
They're not. I've been getting many million dollar umbrella insurance every year, as well as quotes from different providers each renewal cycle, and they're consistently in the "few hundred bucks" category for a married couple. I'm also not a super attractive insurance customer, so it likely can be cheaper for others.
Drivers are getting worse and insurance companies are often mandated to cover all “good drivers” for some state-defined definition of good.

So I am basically subsidizing alcoholics and stuff because they can’t price that into the premium in California.
There’s a reason humans and alcohol have a multi-thousand year history.
> datasize3 = 5.mb // megabytes

> duration3 = 5.ms // milliseconds

grumpy sounds
What about DX? Would you say Phoenix is better than Laravel?
What are you doing to help solve this problem?
A lot of Wikipedia entries have become extremely partisan, and kept that way by moderators who are deeply invested in certain narratives. I find it very disappointing that no countermeasures have been taken- afaik Wikipedia still works exactly like 20 years ago, a barebone wiki governed by a lot of obscure, complex and unstructured politics.

Granted, it might be the best possible way for an open-source encyclopedia to work. It is after all an incredible success. It's just pretty bad in some parts.
So, surface gravity about twenty-five percent higher than that of Earth. We're looking at Antares-level of redness for color. Occupies a large portion of the sky. Good candidate for tidal lock, at which point a lot of the habitability issues become debatable.
I’m not sure what their business model is, I assume ads, so I always wonder what good the login wall does and making the UX so horrible. I too only ever get there from a Google search too, much like Wikipedia, but with Wikipedia I’m usually going to make a few clicks once I’m there as the related link exploration is natural. I assume quora could get more clicks out of me if it wasn’t so awful. They’ve instead taught me to never click past the initial Google link, my bounce rate is 100%.

It seems like such a missed opportunity. Even when I compare to my stack exchange usage, I’m not a registered user, I’m only ever consuming information, but I click around and they benefit through ads.
Quora is thriving! It appears on almost every search I do on Google. More than a few years ago. I understand that their quality is terrible but in a economy of focus and SEO they are doing incredible well.

If you publish a well written article and adding all the SEO capabilities that you can, you will almost never appear before Quora.
If you're a fan of trolling you should check out Quora now. There are some real full time professionals.
The former is an accurate reflection of central bank policies in many countries - raise interest rates to keep pay rises (aka wage inflation) down.
I was a super enthusiastic Quora user for a long while. This is the first time I actually took the time to _close_ an account a few months back, because I was so frustrated with the turn this whole thing took.
> Google prefers pages with lots of content

And that’s how Google search will be overtaken by GPT with ease. People want answers, not an ad-driven algorithm’s desire for content that is long enough to support more ads.
Wikimedia is not a platform.

Their sister Wikicities / Wikia / Fandom (also relying on MediaWiki), and now owned by Texas Pacific Group, is however, another example of a platform getting enshittified.
Too bad you have to be in the office 50% of time for that role.
> Incentives are a form of selection and you need to make sure you know what you’re selecting for.

That’s the best insight from the article.

I’m a little disappointed that the leader of one of the world’s most prolific referral programs didn't have more to say about it.
Why are Mr. Pichai’s answers such a nothing sandwich? Layoffs and times of change despite record profits?
That surprises me since I'd expect that you could get really far with hot path optimisation.
There really is no Perl Leader these days.

The language is run by a “steering committee”.

The community has a couple of shining stars such as Mohammad Anwar who runs The Weekly Challenge https://theweeklychallenge.org/
and Gabor Szabo https://perlmaven.com/about

They are also both co-editors of the Perl Weekly https://perlweekly.com/

The Perl Foundation co-ordinates activities such as grants funding development, fundraising, and conference organizing. https://www.perlfoundation.org/

There are also a few senior Perl personalities still around such as brian d. foy who continue to write and update books and blogs.

The post-Larry Wall community seems to be doing ok so far. What is notably missing is more active participation from companies making the most use of Perl such as Craigslist or Duck Duck Go.
True too many diacritics are difficult to use, although I think it was as easy as anything else when handwritten. As technologies progress any script will be written easily, so a nation having a distinct script is part of its identity. Also a mistaken belief is that a scripts glyphs and clusters need to represent the phonetics accurately. Hangeul is possibly the best phonetic script that I can think of other than using IPA which is now used for some African languages.
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With a few exceptions like Rider for dotnet, you can just use IntelliJ with plugins instead of the separate IDEs.
Could you point to some examples of partisan entries?
Can you name a few such places?
Mandating insurance makes sense from the perspective of CYA, though I wonder if the govt could do something to enforce competition. Maybe make public actuarist data, and payout rates and information?
> was utterly surprised how no one ever apparently has thought to create a configuration/templating system that's basically a fancy library on top of Scheme.

There's Clojure's extensible data notation: https://github.com/edn-format/edn
I live somewhere where the government has tried to impose price caps on auto insurance and now I can’t even get insured.

My guess is the reason premiums are going up is people are driving worse and repair costs are going up.
On the reverse side of things, trying to find a C++ dev is usually harder than finding people who want to write Rust.
I'm very wary of anything Java-based, having been burned by Java tooling in the past. I work on a few different Android projects and I have to switch between three different JDK versions depending on which I'm working on. What happened to "write once, run anywhere"??

I really like Pkl's comparison page, which includes its weak points as well! https://pkl-lang.org/main/current/introduction/comparison.ht...

Pkl’s native binaries are larger than those of other config languages.

It should be as fast and easy to use and reliable as something like esbuild, so I'd suggest they may want to rewrite it in Go like esbuild. I'm not a Go fan at all, but it clearly does some things really well.
Microsoft Edge comes to mind
What do you mean by awkward?

Humans have always had to care a great deal about fitting in with their peers, so being self-critical about one's interactions may be baked into our species at this point...

"I'm not always awkward, but when I am it's natural"
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Wikipedia is in the business of paying secret writers for content to sway opinions, politically. Of course they have jumped the shark, they’re basically working for agencies.
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MIF (my own image format) accepts an empty file as a valid 0x0 image. It's very efficient :)
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Quora is a good example of how artificial scarcity goes wrong.
If you're not restrictive enough, you can't make a profit.
But if too restrictive, then the business will starve itself.
When it becomes too restrictive/extractive over time you have enshittification.
I don't think it's so much about dismissing criticism as much as it is acknowledging that the incentives of Google and the user are not aligned.
> "Just doing my job", is the excuse of the scoundrel. I do not buy it. If you're complicit with despicable people, you're complicit. End of.

There's a world of difference between human fallibility, and knowingly doing evil as part of one's job. I won't call the bricklayer evil if someone builds a 10-story skyscraper [1] atop his humble garden shed foundation, that ends up collapsing and killing everyone inside.

[1] To make the analogy perfectly clear - the skyscraper is not the software, but the persecution based on assuming the software is infallible.
What would be a platform that is NOT contributor-driven ??
Not unheard of for 10 year olds to drink milky tea when I was growing up.
There absolutely was on day 1, which is the day I tried to enable it and ran into a brick wall because my employer refuses to enable it.
Oh wow, this wasn’t the sort of language I expected to see being built on Truffle, but I’ll be really interested to take a closer look when I’m on a decent net connection.
Super charge your GPTs with universal long-term memory
Why build your own RAG pipeline, just use Papr memory instead to add personalization to your GPTs.

Papr Memory enables GPTs to perform actions like saving, retrieving, updating, and deleting personal memories for end-users. When a conversation begins, the GPT assesses whether to store or recall parts of the dialogue. The initial step involves authenticating the user, so only the authenticated user has access to their memories.
I’m not extremely wealthy so can’t spend 20 pounds on this but I imagine I would agree with the moral argument for limiting wealth. But the details make the whole discussion seem like an absurd waste of intellect.

Please, just name the people who you want to “wealth limit” and explain how you will go about it. Specifically address the obvious problem: wealth gets distributed across families and other groups in such a way as to make it impossible to even count let alone try to limit. If it could be done, it would have been done. Digital currency shouldn’t be the impetus to relearn governance mistakes of the past.

Once you understand the problem is not a should or shouldn’t problem, but a how is it possible to problem you quickly realize the answer is more individual freedom.
Typically health insurance is first in line, but will then try to assign this to the proper insurance company based on who is covering the actual source of the damage. If it's just some health thing, then it stops with the health insurance company. But if it's a car accident (or work related, etc), the health insurance company will go after the car insurance company (or worker's comp, etc) as appropriate. This is fairly standard, but still there might be some arguing and lawyers and whatnot.

The consumer/patient/victim is last in line and doesn't need to be overly involved in these arguments between insurance companies - but it does become a big problem if none of the insurance is enough to pay the bills, and the person who caused the damages doesn't have money either. The victim gets stuck with whatever bill is left. You can sue the at-fault driver, but that's little help if they don't have money. More effective is to plead mercy and negotiate with the hospital. If you owe them $200k, that's more their problem than your, if you don't have it. And they've already gotten maybe (hopefully) $100-300k from insurance anyway, so maybe they'll forgive the rest or setup a payment plan for $50k or whatever. None of this is good! But there really is no good outcome when someone gets smashed with a car.

One reasonable remedy would be to increase the required liability coverage to $1M or more - enough to cover the amount of damage one can do in an automobile. Of course then only the people who care about these laws will have it. We'll still have an uninsured motorist problem. Now that I think about it, maybe they should make proof of car insurance required for registration. Why don't we do this already? Registration is much easier to enforce (there's a sticker on your plate in the US).
"Vue.js: JavaScript MVVM made simple (2014)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7169288
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Despite the seemingly affordability a lot of drivers are uninsured. In California its 1 in 5 and in Mississippi its 1 in 3 drivers that are uninsured. Its likely they try and flee the scene over staying to offer to pay with money they don’t have. Hit and run drivers successfully get away 9/10 times. You might only carry liability insurance at which point you pay for your own repair.
Didn't said CFO just quit though? :)
The article explains that insurance /coverage/ in the US tends to be inadequate, which has nothing to do with the pricing of insurance. My first reaction to the title was surprise that insurance companies would be willing to price the risk too cheaply
Profit caps incentivize bigger costs and bigger payouts
The class vs className breaks every css style.
>after a week

where I live the groceries are in the next town over and most people I know go once a week. At the end of the week you have improvised casserole to get rid of anything that is on the verge of funkiness. Always keep some amount of frozen and shelf stable in reserve as well.

I also do canning out of my garden and that stuff will last for ages.
Read Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. You'll realize that anti-social behavior is quite old.

It could be that some people evolve to be anti-social so that society can progress, because such people typically spend more time on intellectual endeavors like inventing programming languages. I say typically because the underground man spent all his brain power to fuel his existential crisis instead of working for the advancement of the human race.

But some highly productive aren't anti-social. Take Jeff Bezos for example, who is incredibly charismatic but still invented the best online shopping experience in the world. Compare him to Elon Musk, who I can't listen to for more than 30 seconds because of how awkward he is. Sometimes I think he's trolling us by pretending to be awkward.

I believe anti-social behavior can and should be treated.
In the US we had Bed, Bath and Beyond which was famous for it's ubiquitous 20% off coupons. I'm not sure if their failure had anything to do with the coupons, but many people, myself included, only went there with the specific intention of using that coupon. They were bought by Overstock and all the stores were shut down.
I've thought about this a little bit and wonder if the result CJK readers have ended up with is the result of a few interesting historic quirks.

Assuming that homophones are simply going to exist in the languages, there's probably other alternatives. For example, in the case of modern Korean readers, the Hanja can supposedly used to help clarify the meaning of a homophone where context doesn't provide clarity. But in practice, most Korean readers don't use Hanja enough to remember more than a small percentage of what they learn in school, so they work in effect as an index into a lookup table, where they look the Hanja up in a dictionary, find the definition written in Hangul, and use that to determine the meaning.

Support Japanese was reformed to entirely use one or both Kana in the way that modern Koreans use mostly Hangul. Then Kanji would be used to help determine meaning in the same way. As most people wouldn't encounter Kanji with enough frequency and distribution to remember the bulk of them, only the most common would be remembered. These are unlikely to be the difficult to discern homophones as contextual clues would clarify. So the Kanji would again also end up as indexes for looking up standardized definitions. In modern Japanese, this doesn't happen because Kanji is still used with enough frequency and variety that most people sustain some level of memory about the system. The question is how well do they remember it? [1][2][3][4][5]

1 - https://youtu.be/sJNxPRBvRQg
2 - https://youtu.be/IARguDQIGVs
3 - https://youtu.be/cpAnrVYMJho
4 - https://youtu.be/PhtOewdIxII
5 - https://youtu.be/-E6vHCT0wpw

So for non-Sino CJK languages, instead of spending so much time in education learning what amounts to a very complex lookup table indexing scheme, why not just standardize the definitions and use the numbers of the definitions as post-fixes to ambiguous homophones with Chinese origins?
I liked the idea. A good start to a promising app. It does need some features to make it useful and some other improvement ts on UX. People have listed others, but I would like a filter or search at least for starters. Also, progressive disclosure on the news details.

On the cost side, you could try Gemini Pro, currently free with usage limitations. But since the content is saved, it should be fine.

How are you sourcing news and deciding what news to keep? Search engine or some kind of feedback? Would like more details here.
I'm not totally sold on rust as a language but I have to admit the tooling and ecosystem is really nice. I'm noticing that I'm increasingly using more stuff built with it.

I'm also not sold on zig either for many of the same reasons. I prefer my low level languages to be smaller like c. I think that might be true for languages higher level languages too. I just don't like to have to down a lot of documentation on hundreds of different features and concepts behind them.