skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gaming is more active than reading.

It does depend heavily on the game. There are games that involve a lot of farming where I think reading a book problem results in larger brain activity.

Puzzle games like the witness engage the brain much more.
Another good resource: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

Maybe a bit overkill to work through the whole thing, but there is a lot of wisdom in there -- particularly on spaced repetition.
Anecdotal, but I have driven across a majority of US states, from Florida to Alaska (and also, on both the East and West sides of Canada) and haven't noticed any strong correlation between the quality of the roads and how high a states taxes are.
I think the problem is more that-- assuming a comparable price-- they're probably going to skimp out on the "lower level" stuff in a kit with an Arduino. If you have a perfect timer, you don't need to showcase basic resistor-capacitor timer circuits, or pack a huge bag of related components. If you can define any logic function you want in code, there's no need to discuss wiring 74xx gates to each other.
> Instead of striving to be the fastest or smallest or whateverest, we explicitly aim to be the framework with the best vibes.

Except that svelte advertises itself constantly as being faster and with smaller bundle sizes. Which is a good thing. I don't buy that it priortizes 'good vibes' at the cost of those other things. If it's saying it prioritizes 'good vibes' and everything else, then that's pretty meaningless - they might as well say they're good at everything.

Would also help to actually define what 'good vibes' are because I think every tool tries to make DX as nice as possible.

I honestly dislike fluff like this because it conveys nothing and gives fodder for people to ignore practical evidence in favor of biased advertising i.e. someone's going to make a bullet point list about things they dislike, and someone will just point to this and say "nuh uh, you're wrong, they care about being user-friendly, it says so right here".

Since we're talking about front-end frameworks, I still maintain that vue has some of the best documentation. I fell in love with vue 2 because the documentation did a great balancing act between being brief, simple, and somehow dense at the same time. In particular, I remember a page about it's comparisons to other frameworks that in a few paragraphs, gave a history lesson, simplified differences to barebones, explained the practical implications all in a way that put vue in a good light. It was much better than the angular and react docs at the time.
People deal with the cognitive dissonance by calling these optimizations other things, like “architecture”. But at the end of the day, if you’re changing your architecture for any reason other than correctness, then you’re optimizing. And if you’re having a hard time doing it, then you probably waited too long.

“The Last Responsible Moment” is subtle. You have to include user benefit (they may not care yet) versus snowballing consequences of delay, versus having more and better information later on.

One of the things that drew me to CI/CD was the notion that you’re not going to get better at handling your problems by avoiding them. You can’t learn to pick your optimization battles if you never fight them. You won’t learn something I’ve been saying for almost 25 years now and I still haven’t heard come out of anyone else’s mouth: there are code changes that improve readability and performance. Making those changes as refactors is hardly ever premature.
Lots of people don’t balance their responsibilities in the way you are talking about.

For example, soldiers on deployment or travel sales people, or people who work foe international organizations or migrant farmers… all have to leave home for weeks to months in order to earn money.
What makes Vue "insanely" more productive than React ?
>HTML is not the mother language - It's actually pretty terrible for describing dynamic user interfaces.

Compared to... what? XML? QML? XIB?

There's literally nothing better than HTML for UI. Anything else is either buried in a mountain of proprietary nonsense, is platform specific, or is far inferior technically.
That is amazingly low. 5-8% is considered healthy, and the higher it is, the better for renters.
Reminiscent of gyms that say they won’t raise the monthly rate but charge a “rate guarantee fee” every 6 months equal to a few months rate.
Urgh, reminds me of a production error that was caused by a job running on a timer, assuming that some other job would have finished by then. That lead to two obvious questions:

- Why is it on a timer, instead of being triggered when the first job was done?

- Why was that first job taking over an hour to process XML data?

Turns out the second one was accidentally-quadratic, since it was parsing a whole document to process its first record; then re-parsing the whole document to process its second record; etc. and this made it very slow when the XML was reaching several hundred MB.

Unfortunately, the solution we went with was to set the timer to run 20 minutes later...
Haha you think smoking is socially unacceptable in France? By some measures it is more popular than ever.
If you have a sharded DB, each instance can get its own range of ints, which are periodically refreshed.

PlanetScale uses int PKs [0], and they seem to have scaled just fine.

[0]: https://github.com/planetscale/discussion/discussions/366
> Though Texas has no state-level personal income tax, it does levy relatively high consumption and property taxes on residents to make up the difference. Ultimately, it has a higher effective state and local tax rate for a median U.S. household at 12.73% than California's 8.97%, according to a new report from WalletHub.

Obviously there are more than two states, but it’s not so simple.

Plus, someone’s got to pay for everything:

> [California] receives $0.99 in federal expenditures per dollar of taxes paid, which is below the national average return for states of $1.22 per dollar paid, according to its review of a 2015 New York Comptroller study.
I am not a svelte user, but I really like these principles.

I feel very different than you, but I am sincerely glad you have clarity and that you better understand what YOU are looking for :) having said that, we'll likely end up happily working on different things in different pastures
Overusing sarcasm is a method of expressing displeasure or discontent without actively pushing away those around you. You’re not actively insulting them, you’re “just joking,” but simultaneously expressing negative feelings. As a pointed remark, it can be hellishly funny. Used as the crux of a sense of humor, it is pretty clearly a scream for help, even if the speaker doesn’t know it yet.
The twist is that all the stuff dramatized in this article is bog standard analytical chemistry process + technique, including the solid phase extraction.

All this stuff is in consumable kits and turnkey machines, which yes do require expertise and care to use properly but there's nothing weird about it. Samples are always a mixture of too much crap you don't want and which interfere with each others' detection. Etc. It's all part of the job.

Also Fourteen hours is about the length of the practical lab exam portion of my undergrad analytical chemistry course, spread over a few days of course.

Of course this was in the nineties and maybe SPE was novel - all the other chromatography and spectroscopy was more or less established though

It's basically the same as the articles you see where curl, nmap, dd are breathlessly described as novel hacking tools. Still copaganda I guess
Rubbing vaseline along the base above the feet seemed to do the trick for my beds the once or twice they got bedbugs.
In 2017 I was about to get a small 2 bedroom in Brooklyn with for $1550. I was one block from a subway station and 3 stops from Manhattan.

It was an older apartment with newly renovated kitchen and bathroom, albeit small.
The brokers fee was something like $3000(thought this was ridiculous).

At the time I also found a similarly priced apartment but at last minute for some reason it was pulled the broker said.

I don't think any amount of searching can find such deals now.
Yes, there are. I made a deliberate decision about 10 years ago to only read good novels just because I'd read so many terrible ones! But I'm hoping my question will lead to some good narrative game recommendations.
I mean, the entire dotnet is available, you can do anything in PS though obviously that is not always the smart call.

It has been very useful to me to use as a REPL on my own C# libraries, I can instantiate and use types from these libraries and interface with the file system and network on an ad hoc basis.
You're moving the goalpost.

That conversation started when you explained that you'd rather use something you know than let some corporation manage you biometric data.

But it's simply not true that some corporation is managing your biometric. That's why I replied that those systems are designed so that the biometric data don't leave the device. They are only needed locally.

Yes, I shouldn't have used the word "never" because the system is probably not perfect and may be hacked. But this is true as well of using an offline password manager that you unlock using something you know (key loggers, etc.).

To conclude, I agree that biometrics on phones are probably not 100% safe, like most things in life, and computing.
It's a really common problem with language learners. They'll spend so much time deciding what is the "right" language, what are the "best" resources, and how to plan out their study to learn as quickly as possible. And they learn so much less than the people who just get started.

There's nothing wrong with a little bit of "learning to learn," but you have to be on guard against using it to do the hard work.
Keep on fighting the good fight.

I'll keep on eating their money from below with pierat-sy. Saved money on music, shows, and programs means harm to the fucks at the top.
If you have centipedes in your house then de facto you have other bugs. They’re strictly carnivores.

So as cool and helpful as they are, their continued existence indicates you have other problems as well.

Best to consider them like Sully in the movie Commando: “I like you. I’m gonna kill you last.”
James Burke, 35 years ago:

https://youtu.be/451xJqNGFqU?si=4tIN4qTvXMu_651Y&t=6080
For someone who’s not a Windows developer this situation is incredibly confusing. I have no idea what is the correct way to make a modern Windows application.

It seems like everything made after 1995 is a deprecated abandonware, and whatever UI they’re building next is going to be dead before they finish implementing it.
As the other reply said, you don't broadcast your metal car keys to the world every time you use them.

But, also, there's a reason cars have been using microchipped keys for the last 25+ years.

There are ways to transmit information securely that prevent replay and other attacks. (See: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, TLS, etc.) If car manufacturers weren't lazy and cheap, they could solve this problem, but they don't really care. They get money when you buy the car, then if you're car gets stolen, they get more money when you buy a replacement. Not solving the issue is in their favor.
Awk is cool. It's a full-fledged programming language that's there in anything remotely unix-flavored, but I mostly see it used in one-liners to grab bits of text from piped stdout.

But you can use awk as a general-purpose scripting language [1], in many ways it's nicer than bash for this purpose. I wonder why you don't see more awk scripts in the wild. I suppose perl came along and tried to combine the good features of shell, awk, and sed into one language, and then people decided perl was bad and moved on from that.

[1] Random excerpt from NetBSD's source code
https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/sys/dev/eisa/devlis...
Vue is a unified ecosystem of tools written by the same authors and designed to work with one another. React gives you way more rope to hang yourself. Good luck figuring out what the routing and state management flavor of the minute is.
Ah. I was curious about the Rust-style function returns (just having the name of the variable on the last line without a "return" statement or keyword), but knowing that the language is written in Rust answers my question of why that design decision was made ;)
There is a decline compared to the brief time period between the invention of compulsory education and the invention of TV.
Agree. I read more than ever, but it is extremely rare that a topic warrants hundreds of pages. The book form factor is dictated by what the market accepts and will pay for. It is rarely the best form for the material which would likely benefit from editing for length and addition of full color illustration.
This definitely screws over all the town olden times philosophers too.
> I don't plan to add network functionality to this (even though you totally can), so no clone or push.

You can also git clone from a repository in a different directory in the same computer. And push to.
The AI part is the sentiment analysis of the chat message text and pictures. They're using statistics on the resulting aggregate data. This seems pretty reasonable to me. ML is roughly a gazillion times better than traditional NLP techniques for sentiment analysis. If you're doing sentiment analysis without ML in 2024 then you need to stop and reevaluate what you're doing.

If you simply wanted to complain that they're using "AI" to describe something that uses ML, please tell me so I can move along. Nothing interesting there to discuss.
I'm not a big fan of HTML itself, but I do think svelte is right to focus on it for specifying UI.

That's because HTML is the native language for describing UI in the browser.

No matter what you use to specify UI, you have to understand how it translates to HTML to use it in the browser (and how HTML translates back, for debugging). The further your UI specification language deviates from HTML the harder that it.

Of course, there are plenty of people using various frameworks that don't really understand HTML or how the code they write translates to it. But they end up with crappy web sites and bugs they don't know how to fix and various other compromises and frustrations.
Do not use amazon, do not buy books from amazon, do not use AWS, do not get their certs, do not work in places that use AWS, do not watch prime, do not use their opensource tech.
Now it's "fix it with AI". (And pay lip service to green tech.)
> But since my company is fully remote and distributed, the downside to hiring in LatAm and Eastern Europe has been significantly reduced.

The WFH zealots keep downvoting any comments about this, but the offshoring of tech employment and massive layoffs were the predictable, and predicted, consequences of the massive push for WFH.

Either agglomeration effects exist and people work much better when they were physically collocated, or they don’t exist and companies incorrectly believed their employees worked much better when they were collocated (to the point that most companies were willing to relocate someone from Minnesota to SF and pay them an additional $100k than they would need to otherwise), the net effect is the same.

By insisting on WFH you’ve given companies absolutely no reason to continue paying 5-10x what they could pay the same person if they were living in a low CoL area.

The irony, of course, is that the WFH zealots understood this. Heck, many of them said this was an advantage of WFH as it would bring more jobs to mid tier cities in the U.S. etc.

Of course, being zealots, they wouldn’t take the argument to its logical conclusion, which was why would a company ever move a job from SF to Sioux Falls and shave off 20% when they could move into Buenos Aires and shave off 80-90% of the cost instead.

The icing on the cake, however, is that people outside the US are far more likely to be working from the office and wanting to work from the office. So not only are they cheaper for companies, they also benefit from the real benefits or the perceived benefits of the agglomeration that had companies paying their employees so much more than they needed to in the first place.
There’s no implication in her statement that she did it. Her statement is neutral on that. You’re reading more into it than is there.
How is that ironic? It's primary use in humans is versus parasites. It's a godsend against scabies...

(Which I had at the beginning of the pandemic, my doctor casually mentioning "it also has known anti-viral properties")
As a Buffalo/Niagara Falls native, I really thought this was going to be some new tourist attraction that surely will save the city this time.
Did you read the rest of the comment?

How do you solve the problem of condo owners not maintaining a property and letting problems fester for a couple decades after which they might be dead or move out?
It's fine to be an investment. It can climb in value. But it doesn't need to be such a need to force the liquidity. Your example of "under utilized asset" and downsizing must then translate down to some metric of square-footage per resident. How exactly to you propose to regulate the housing market with this in mind, in a reasonable manner. Because, to me I think of the 2 sides. Growing households and shrinking ones. On the shrinking side, we want the government enforcing laws requiring homes get sold as each child moves out to adult hood? Then again as each spouse dies? On the growing family side, they get to move into a bigger house only as each child is born? This is just insane right?

I personally do not think 10 years is that long in housing. Sure a lot can change in housing over that time but at any given moment, If I'm in need of housing and supply doesn't exist, I can build a custom home in less than 2 years. I can buy in a development basically immediately. This might not be a global truth but it's the state of things in Texas specifically, and has been for a long time. Affordability is the limiting factor, not time.

I think the property taxes in Texas make sense if RE grows at rate of inflation. For a long time, we had affordable housing and now that's not necessarily the case. So the rules/laws need to change to protect people from getting priced out due to taxes is all. It's an issue that didn't bother anyone before because they were assuming their raise in income would cover the raise in taxes. But wages don't increase 10% annually like our taxes do (whole other topic LOL!) so they get put in a hole. Anyone coming into the market now knows the prices, it's all available information, and they can decided if they want to move here or not. It could all be a bubble that pops and corrects one day, but not until inbound population growth slows down.
I think books are still the best way for a single mind to communicate complex ideas. Movies and games are teamwork, many ideas from several people (for better and worse).

Maybe generative AI will get to the point where a single author can create a comic, movie or game with similar depths as that of books but it hasn't yet.
I work with a Principle of Maximum Power guy. He’s insufferable. Too smart to browbeat into behaving, and too old to chalk it up to youthful exuberance or lack of experience. He’s made big chunks of the project comfortable for him and miserable for everyone else, so of course he’ll never leave, and people who know they deserve better do.
In a past life, I was the make-ready electrician for a top local broker. I had to quit this life for a multitude of reasons, primarily that of feeling parasitic to a parasitic industry.

What ever happened to the class action suit against 3% fees... did that ever go anywhere [2023 recollection]?
There is objective data to either support or refute this claim. Look at immigration flows from LATAM the the US and compare it with the reverse. Then do the same with eastern Europe.
Anything non-k-sortable in a B[+,-]tree will cause a ton of page splits. This is a more noticeable performance impact in RDBMS with a clustered index (MySQL's InnoDB, MS SQL Server) [0], but it also impacts Postgres [1] in multiple [2] ways.

[0]: https://www.percona.com/blog/uuids-are-popular-but-bad-for-p...

[1]: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/unexpected-downsides-...

[2]: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/on-the-impact-of-full-pa...
It depends on how anecdotal. A grainy surveillance camera, or colleagues saying she did it, or the photos had appeared somewhere then yes.
They wouldn't be harassed. They would simply feel estranged, because there's a comprehension barrier between the people here and the people who've made sexual identity their raison d'être.
I had a bunch of hornets once. Great, because there were no flies mosquitos anywhere near the house all summer. Unfortunately, the moved out, the hornets, next summer...
It's indeed not the absolute first, but it's the 'first' among those that are still in use today and whose compatibility wasn't dropped (you can't run 16 bits software on 64 bits windows without a third party tool).

For better or worse, win32 is still relevant today, and many latter UI layers were wrappers over it (MFC, WTL, WinForms, WxWidgets, SWT [...])

win32 is by far the most enduring set of GUI APIs out there.
XML was/is great. It was the issue with people abusing the shit out of CDATA and comments to do meta programming inside the XML and making it an absolute nightmare.

I believe it was an additional reason why comments were excluded from the JSON spec. I can't find the exact quote but Crockford's comment about excluding them for parser directive reasoning is pretty bang on considering usage of JSON primarily as an interchange format (and evidence of a good decision based on it's staying power).

https://web.archive.org/web/20190112173904/https://plus.goog...
Super Bowl 2024: How to watch the Chiefs vs. 49ers
Since you mentioned Florida, the roads go from good to bad as soon as you cross the border into Alabama, which is a really interesting experience on the interstate. But yes, the roads are bad in Deep South states, although the taxes aren’t really that low either (just people don’t make much money to get much out of them).
India's Quiet Push to Steal More of China's iPhone Business
It's still ambiguous. There are (at least) two possible interpretations, which means it isn't the same concept. Same for "creepy", it is used to refer to quite different things.
I was assuming something was broken or had made a very poor choice of device. He clarified he was reading the wrong column, so it’s not quite as bad.

The technology isn’t advancing fast enough to make upgrading every 10 years necessary. You could buy units in 2000 with a significantly higher COP than he was implying.
No accounting for taste, I suppose. Writing JSX is a nightmare to me. It's like we've forgotten 20 years worth of hard-earned knowledge about the value of separation of concerns.
But smoking is banned in certain places punishable by fines. So, why not publicly scrolling while walking down the street? You can't drive while distracted (ignoring the fact every dumbass does it), so why not make distracted walking punishable?
> few things are cli only

wdym? As far as I see, it's either CLI or Terraform. GCP SDK is complete garbage, at least for Python compared to AWS boto3. I have personally made web UI for AWS CLI man pages as a fun project and can index everything myself if needed. Googling works fine. If you are not happy with it then ChatGPT is to the rescue. I honestly do not see any problem at all.
Svelte to me is how objective progress in building the web looks like, much like React was just much better than Angular 10 years ago, Svelte just makes sense.
2024, the year where we need help finding out how to watch one the biggest sporting event.
Mentioned in another thread, but the existence of tools like Figma is a side effect of WYSIWYG GUI building becoming so difficult.
Being a Fast, Cogent Writer Is Useful
Why does their website have a photo of the iOS App Library feature?
Yes, but that's what banks and mortgages are for already.