skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article makes incredibly poor arguments to support the title. "destroyed the web" is such a massive stretch - I remember pre-javascript internet and I remember pre-css internet, coded my first HTML page in 1995. Even early JS certainly didn't give us a fraction of the capabilities we have today.

There are many problems with javascript development, just as there are different problems with using other languages. But let's not pretend the web would be better without React or other SPA frameworks.
In modern times any street with so much foot traffic is lined with shops to take advantage of all the potential customers. Remember that when walking you have plenty of time to take in the shop window, and taking a quick detour into a shop or pub isn't much effort. Especially if traffic is moving slow anyways. It's not at all comparable to driving past in a car.

I imagine the same reason made it attractive to have shops on one of the main streets into London, even if it happened to be a bridge. And once you are erecting a building for the shop or pub, why not add a couple stories to house the shop owner, workers, or anyone willing to pay rent for living inside the city wall?
If you're interested in that, you might be interested in a weird fact about my home city.

Coventry (also in the UK) was built on a river.

I don't mean near a river.. I literally mean, on a river; the river Sherbourne which you would never know even exists today.

What seems to have happened is that in medival times Coventrians built bridges, then homes on the bridges, then more bridges until eventually the river was sunken and runs underneath the modern day city center.

It's still possible to glimpse the river as it hasn't been entirely covered, but you would have to go looking for it quite intently.

https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/tour/content.php?pg=sherb...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Sherbourne
We don’t even know how to build AGI yet people are pencilling in dates into calendars with confidence as to when it kills us?

There is risk certainly but that just comes across as delusional
The point is that you do not actually want sales that do not compensate for the loss. Imagine the PS5 let you run arbitrary code on the GPU and also happened to be the best value for the money. It would end up in some compute farm, not living rooms, and Sony would pay for the privilege.
Global coal usage reached all time highs last year.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/global...

Seems like not where we want to be 26 years from net zero.
I'll stop living in a megalopolis when I can make a decent living outside the megalopolis. As it stands, friends who moved out of London over Covid are now trying to move back.
Visa and MC only take .1% of the 2.9% you are thinking of. The rest goes to the banks on either side of the transaction (one for the merchant, one for the purchaser).

They are however building more “solutions” to try and capture more of the transaction fees, but most people’s disdain for the payment rails would be better redirected at the banks in this case.
Capital One is acquiring Discover
That's fine, the problem is people acting like it's outrageous to charge $60 for 100+ hour length multi-million dollar projects. Factorio recently increased its price by $5 to $35 in line with inflation and gamers are outraged. How dare they charge more money, it's totally immoral, etc. I don't get why people feel outraged about it.
Beyond the obvious squandering of limited resources, environmental effects, and miseries for small companies with DC needs - I really wonder how the "...Step 4) Profit!" can work out, at scale, for ever-growing DC's. With ever-growing compute power in every rack. There are no teeming masses of consumers still waiting to get on-line. And tech bubbles have this nasty habit of bursting.
> As a population, I believe that college graduates almost certainly score higher on measures of intelligence and conscientiousness than non-grads. I believe that's both true and valid for use in selecting employees.

1) You can believe whatever you want to believe, but that doesn't necessarily make it true.

2) If you're looking for IQ, then why don't you administer IQ tests to job candidates rather than looking at an extremely unreliable proxy for it?

3) You're admitting to using population statistics to evaluate individual job candidates. Do you even realize what you're saying here? That's literally prejudice. By the exact same reasoning, you could discriminate based on race, for example, e.g., Asian vs. white vs. black. The only difference between racial discimination and degree discrimination in this respect is the legality of it. Even if I granted for the sake of argument that your empirical speculation about scores and measures were true, you're just talking about averages, and many individual members of every population will be above average or below average.

> You seem to be imagining some boogeyman where “has degree” is treated as the high-order bit rather than what I’ve been consistently saying (and what I think is relevant to the article under discussion): that it’s closer to a tie-breaker (or low-order bit) and a sensible one in many regards.

It is often used as the "high-order bit". Like I already said a few comments ago, the quote from the article was different from your quote.

But I don't think it's a sensible tie-breaker. You're taking a degree as a "life story" factor, but that's an arbitrary, singular choice of many possible life story factors.

Also, you seemed to change your story a bit in the last comment, talking specifically about a comp sci degree rather than a degree in general, but there's nothing unique about comp sci vs. other degrees to indicate "can follow rules/policies and track towards a long-term goal with success" or to indicate "IQ".
Fasting-mimicking diet causes changes indicating reduced biological age
The reality, when it comes, will not look very much like the hype.

The hype is all about fundraising; even if its second order. The people spewing such nonsense may just be "building reputation" at this point in preparation for financial scams they intend to perpetrate later.
Ahh whoops. Will fix in the morning, thanks.

Edit: fixed now (might take a few mins for the cache to expire).
Which is how we end up with another framework :)
It definitely is. Pretty amazing what you can still find out about this stuff after all these years, now that we can cross-reference and search data so easily (and that collectors, preservationists, and emulator authors are still coming up with previously unknown findings).
Well, yes, I'd like to do that, but programmers make mistakes and it isn't easy to test.

Also, you can't reasonably remove all undefined behaviour. In C++ you basically can't do file IO without undefined behaviour.
My team has just spent 20 minutes trying to work out if this library is satire.

I love functional programming (use Elixir at work a fair amount), but almost every one of these examples is harder to read than than the equivalent "classic" Python (https://returns.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

Plus, if you're going to write Python then deviating majorly from the normal approaches is going to require maintainers to learn a whole new way of doing things. Given the tools that Python provides, I don't think that's worth it for the benefit. Perhaps for some specific applications?
Games are a luxury, you aren't entitled to them (though in a third world country you probably aren't entitled to basic necessities either)
My point would be that a large percentage of Steam Deck buyers will never even enter desktop mode or do so by accident and leave immediately.
Enough of this strawman one-liner "complexity for the sake of complexity". Unnecessary complexity is introduced because someone once thought it was necessary. It may not be necessary anymore, or (even worse) it might have not even been necessary at the time and the person who introduced it was just wrong. But all complex architectures start because people think it will bring benefits.
Keeping all the RISC machines alive now with WebGPU support! ;-)
Early in my career one of the IT guys told me that one of the people on staff was "a technical magpie". I looked at him with a raised eyebrow and he said "He has to grab every shiny piece of tech that shows up and add it to the pile".

This is where we are.

I can't tell you how many times I have seen projects get done just to pad a PM or developers resume. Just because it was the lastest and greatest hot shit thing to use. No sense of if it would be better, faster, cheaper, useful.

When cloud was the hot new thing the company that I worked with launched a replatform on AWS. It gave us the ability to get through the initial scaling and sizing with ease. We left right away, because even then the costs did not make sense. Now we see folks crying about "exit fees" that were always there. That assumes that your institution even has the gall to own years of pissing away money.

Workman like functionality isnt sexy, it wont be the hot bullet point on your resume, it wont get you your next job, but it is dam effective.
The problem was that the big companies had the good recording studios and the possibility to make records and distribution. This was very expensive.

Today are studios in abundance. And bands that are good are usually good connected and certainly know a good down mix engineer.
Then they can distributed via Bandcamp.

Today it’s much better for artists who want to make music. The big record labels were just gatekeepers.
A lot of this article appears to be based on the belief that the security architecture of iOS and MacOS are identical. This seems ... an unlikely assumption
Xbox modding (and similarly with the Wii) was a huge entry-level introduction to so many computer concepts.
My point would be that a very small percentage of users will ever go through that effort, and the Windows experience is so obviously inferior with its lack of tailored UI that it’s not going to be very attractive.

Valve knows that the lowest friction activity is buying a game in Steam Deck OS and clicking play.
Using the official instructions, it took 4 minutes to scratch download skia and all its deps and build it with ninja. It only had 1235 build actions ... that's like zero.

If this seems like a big lift, people are going to hate building Chromium.
Sorry, I mean the things I'm sorting are themselves lists. Imagine for example:

[ [1,23], [11,1], [11,44], [22,4] ]

I'd consider this list "sorted", as the inner lists are sorted lexicographically. Except, if I gave this list to Javascript and asked it to sort it, it would cast each of the inner lists to strings, which (for example) leads to [11,11] < [1,1], as "[11,11]" < "[1,1]"
To add to vegancap's response, I'm quite confident Labour will raise taxes (they said as much). But what will they do with them? Will they be able to turn the ship around? Or merely increase the tax burden and leave people scrambling to pay the same bills from a smaller net income.

My concern is the latter. Though of course, no way of knowing for sure.
In the US insider trading laws are not based on fairness. They are based on theft, insiders using material non-public information are stealing from other shareholders.

There is no expectation of fairness in US public markets.
There are plenty of ways a site can be built with less complexity. Going to the extreme, write any interactive code in plain old JS and ship it along with your HTML and CSS.

You could use a bundling step if you prefer, its pretty trivial to setup a basic bundler that wraps up multiple JS files. Heck, writing everything in TS and outputting a single file would do the trick.
I’m curious how this happens, did you just see it by browsing HN or was there a spike in traffic that made you search for the thread?
First found this at sadMF.com
> For two years, they used the card routinely, paid if off religiously...sometimes having a monthly spend three times the limit.

While I don't know exactly what's going on in your friend's case, this makes for an unprofitable customer from the credit card company's point of view.

Now, obviously they want to get paid, but for them the ideal customer is one who maxes out the card and then makes the minimum payment every month, thus incurring an interest charge, or better still, makes the minimum payment, but late, thus incurring a late fee on top of the interest.

Customers who pay off the card every month don't provide any interest to the credit card company.
I'd argue that this article could be read more like "start as a monolith, and then move towards microservices when sensible", except the penny hasn't fully dropped for the author that the sensible time for their organisation is right now.

The company appears dogmatically locked into their idling python code, their SQL making unpredictable commits, and their SQL framework making it difficult to make schema migrations.

This is a financial services company describing data-integrity bugs in their production platforms.
I understand that's your opinion, but could you show me some badly designed user research results to make this conversation more data driven?
> Even if a woman doesn't have a child, they're often still time constrained by other obligations to family.

How is that the would-be investors problem? Can we say the industry is rife with misogyny like the author is implying here?
fighting to sustain a monopoly

it indicates to me a lack of ideas about the future

reacting rather than preparing
How can Rust be so fast in the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks?
Only problem is humans constantly fail to take, or purposefully avoid, responsibility.
Research without ability to create better models and products don't mean much. If the research is so good we should see somethings coming out of it.
It looks like they are several years into a migration to bazel and support both a bazel and gn based build. Bazel is usually faster. It's possible the gn based build builds everything in the repo including all tests, but the bazel one is more targeted, building less things

https://skia.org/docs/dev/contrib/bazel/
Liberal socialism now As the crisis of democracy deepens
Glad you like it! I've loved creating it over the last four years.

Awesome! Where did you see it? One of the articles hit the front page of reddit late last year, so that was cool.
Sumerian Creation Myth
This graph puts things in perspective

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electricity_generation_in...

From a geo-politics point of view, it seems preferable for China to be reliant on coal vs natural oil/gas. Oil/gas would bring it in conflict for energy resources with the west. Coal they can source domestically (and from Australia)
It's pretty good investment advice. I don't think it was meant to be general life advice.
> shared ownership... you have to accept owning only a share and paying rent forever.

I don't think that's true. I have friends who did shared ownership, and pretty universally you can ratchet up how much you own after the first year (assuming you can get the mortgage for it). So just, like, buy the rest and you won't pay rent.
Actually a good historical perspective, going back to Locke.
Most CRUD software is little more than the simple processes you describe. At least intrinsically. And if it isn't, it started off being that.
> a £60K household income (two adults, no kids) still makes you better off than 88% of the population

That is before taxes and redistribution though. People without income or with _de minimis_ income would get their housing cost paid (which costs £20k-£30k per year in London, i.e. 25-40k of pre-tax salary), their council tax bill paid, their TV licence fee waived, prescription and dentistry fees waived, childcare subsidised, and would get £400 of spending money per person on top for bills, food etc.

Which is why people on zero income in London can afford to have 2-3 kids, but two people on £50k combined income cannot.
My main complaint is not that games cost this much money, but rather about digital distribution. Especially with console games, it used to be such that you could buy pre-owned cartridges/discs and sell yours. It was really cheap to you, and technically the game developers also got their asking price for each copy they sold. You were also able to swap games with friends who had the same type of console.

With digital distribution, you still pay the full price, but your copy is "single-use" in essence. You're never getting any of that money back. And, the only way to buy games digitally is "new" for that full price.
What part of ALL as in "blocking all ads" does Google not understand?

We do not care about allowing "better ads", just the allowing "NO ads".
In most states, lawn is the biggest crop.
I've been (mostly lurking) on Hacker News for about a decade, so I visit pretty often. I only caught it this time because of a traffic spike notification.
???

A big empty road with cars and no people doesn’t seem very inviting to me.
'Alien life form' can exist on other planets. At a very simplified take, oceans can have tiny things, just like water in our cup. Point is life outside earth can exist.

However I do not accept Aliens that have visited us or hiding. To keep something like this under wraps to this very day is extremely unlikely!

This is coming from someone who has seen a 'UFO' but it does not mean its Alien from another planet. The LIKELY example is advanced and/or hidden tech. I can only assume.

Aliens, as portrayed with big eyes in their hovercrafts, etc... go in the same category as loch ness monster, bigfoot, fairies, god, and the darn flying spaghetti monster!
You aren't looking for a job.

You're looking for a lifestyle business.

They are great. You will get time in the garden, that's awesome.

Vacation someplace with no phones? Out of the question. Weekend in a 3rd world country with character and food and sketchy internet. Not gonna happen.

You want to optimize for free time in the garden by all means you can do it, but you loose out in other places, you pick up other work (taxes, systems etc).

Edit: Down vote away, I live this life now, my tomatoes are delicious and I make yogurt too!
China is adding more renewable capacity than anyone else in the world, dwarfing what's being done in the US and Europe, so much so that forecast is now that their emissions may well peak within the next few years, between 2026 and 2030.

That's quite a feat.
In an infinite universe it's infinitely probable there are other more advanced civilisations.
Now they've stopped supporting PWAs in Europe - dark times for web indeed...
So, if you find a doctor for example, in their 40s/50s, and you give them an experiment (with all the statistical parameters) and you ask them to test/reject the null hypothesis, you think they'll be able to do so?

Degrees say "you ARE X", they, by extension, might INFER that you KNOW the Skills X, Y, Z that are part of the study plan. But that's not granted. Having a degree doesn't mean you have the skills. You might have forgotten, you might have cheated, etc.

Thesting for the skill in particular is the only way.
Must destroy Tommy Tallarico /s
The play store is banned in China. So sideloading/alternate app stores are the main way most users install apps there.

Their china-based engineers might not even consider it important to support the play store.

As a non-US citizen, I frequently see how US based engineering teams just don't understand local markets/customs. This is just being on the other side of that.
Most hits today are produced by Spotify. Actually they are record company. And they also have a really shitty contract. That at the end the revenue stream, for the artist is coming back to Spotify anyway.

It’s easy.
1. Search talent on TikTok.
2. Let them sign shitty contract.
3. Produce them.
4. Market them on Spotify.

5 . Win win. Win win for Spotify not the artist.
When I read it years ago the most surprising to me was density of 40MB IDE drive. ST-157A sold all the way to 1992 was barely more sophisticated than a DD floppy disk. ~10000 bpi while DD floppy is ~9000. Heads are narrower and there is more tracks per surface, 650 vs 135 TPI, and rigid magnetic surface lets it spin faster, thats it.
> You're admitting to using population statistics to evaluate individual job candidates.

I am, in effect, using the membership among the population of college degree holders as a tie-breaker.

If you choose to judge that as indistinguishable from, or equivalent to, discrimination based on race, we have a point of disagreement that isn't likely to be resolved.
That sounds about right. It is hard to make all information public asap (with all the regulation), so I would assume it would be hard to get rid of the wiggle room between when an insider can place a bet and the information actually becomes public

Matt Levine's most recent article touches on insider trading pros and cons (in relation to sports betting) and is, as usual, a great read - https://archive.is/jJ25g
When has a decision that’s bad for the decision maker ever been popular?

We see it in the C-suite; we see it with engineers.

I think the travesty of so-called “principal engineers” and “engineering leaders” is their adamant refusal to make doing the Right Thing (TM) sexy.

Your employees are monkeys: act like it.
That certainly helps and gives a vivid image. The only tricky thing to figure out is how to "unplug."
Reminds me of the Free Energy principle a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle
Believe it or not, yes. The UK has cheaper housing than Ireland, and comparable or greater salaries (depending on industry of course). Even moreso comparing Dublin and London. Both are expensive, but in Dublin even if you earn loads there are physically not enough houses. In London there is
If the argument is that in reality the security architecture of iOS is much much worse than MacOS, I'd be interested to hear the details of that rationale...
Why are ALL your comments about Russia ?

Are you here for hacker news, or for spreading propaganda because you're on a payroll ?
It's particularly silly given their cash horde that they are not investing. Speaks to a highly conservative corporate culture almost to the level of stockpiling canned food and shotguns.
I recall our progression was chipmod, drivemod, softmod- really didn’t use the softmod much because we had so many chipmodded devices, but we didn’t do much online then.

Soft modding the Wii was much more common.
for people who don't bother clicking through, it's about the time that the UK government did nuclear weapons testing in the middle of Australia and didn't bother cleaning it up, or, like, warning people they were going to do it:

> The extremely limited resources devoted to finding and warning people (one experienced native patrol officer, Walter MacDougall was responsible for covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometres by car)
Yeah that's true, I just worry that things could escalate quickly once there is any exchange of nuclear weapons. It would certainly be destabilizing to a great extent.

My concern is that it would possibly snowball and draw in other actors.
> I think this will in fact not make the author feel better,

It might, actually. From the intro paragraph: "Both taught me about choosing unfair fights and playing by your own rules…"
I'm don't know of any events in South East Asia - although I wouldn't be surprised if there were some. Japan, China, South Korea, and India all have stonelifting cultures, so it wouldn't be odd to see it elsewhere in Asia.
It does matter, no renewables are compensating coal plants especially in a growing economy like China.

China's results are already pretty poor, they have the same amount of emissions per capita as France when excluding exports but pretty far from the development level though.

Usually developing country emit less because it's easier when you have a large portion of the population which isn't very rich.

What's explaining the bad results of China is the unsustainable middle class powered by those coal plants.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39432843
Walmart is buying Vizio for $2.3B
Do you mean what lifts should you train, or what numbers you should hit?