skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but because they’re mostly pounded by either 1) various types of zealots, idiots, and assholes who abuse these kind of “best practices” as an argument from authority, or 2) inexperienced programmers who lack the ability to judge the applicability,

The author might go on to make other points that are worth discussing, but lays out his supporting arguments clearly in the opening paragraph. Best practices do not necessarily do harm because they offer bad advice, they do harm because they are advocated for by zealots and the inexperienced.

My first reaction is how unfortunate it is that this particular developer has found himself in the presence of bad engineers and the inexperienced.

But then, the argument is automatically self-defeating. Why is the rest of the article even worth reading, if he states upfront what his arguments are and those arguments are very easy to refute?

It is deeply irrational to judge the merits of an idea based solely on who is advocating for that idea.

My advice to the author is to reflect on the types of positions that he accepts, the ones that have him so put off by the people that he works with that he is openly writing about abandoning what he admits could be sound engineering practice, solely based on who that advice is coming from and how it is being delivered.

Developing software is complicated. It is constant problem solving. When solutions to problems come about, and we abstract those solutions, it is quite easy for individuals to misapply the abstraction to an inappropriate concrete. To drop context and try to retrofit a lousy solution because that solution was appropriate to a slightly different problem. But at the end of the day, these abstractions exist to try and simplify the process. Any time you see a "best practice" or design pattern acting as a complicating force, it is not doing its job. At that point you can either be objective and exercise some professional curiosity in order to try and understand why the solution adopted is inappropriate ... or you can take the lazy way out and just assume that "best practices" are the opinions of zealots and the inexperienced who blindly follow because they don't know any better.
With CRC, you have algebraic guarantees on which kind of errors it detects (and which kind doesn't), while with hash functions collisions are essetially random (unless you have some clever insight on how it works internally). Which one is best, depends on the context.
I don't think the tilde is referring to a shortcut for a home directory here, rather I think it's the first character in the filenames of the backup files he was trying to delete.
I wouldn't buy a used EV because the battery pack is that much closer to needing to be replaced, which effectively totals the vehicle.
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What's the difference between "protect people from themselves" and "take away people's freedom and decide for them anything important"?

IMHO, freedom must contain the freedom to choose "bad", or make mistakes. "Bad" is in quotes because it's only certain to be bad from the perspective of the person considering the problem, you or me in this case. Maybe the people will be well served by "bad" decisions, able to learn from them, or be happy in ignorance, or who knows what else.

I think it's parallel to giving children autonomy. The more you protect them, the more you prevent their growth as a person.
Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming
Hi HN!

My name is Nick and this is my fun side project. Please lay it on me. HN can think of Tips.io as a cracked out Tailwind Playground that has page management and amazing AI integration.

There are a few core ideas:

1) The HTML is the CMS

There are no fields or restrictions. Just hover, click, and start tweaking any HTML. Also, certain elements you click will have special easy edit abilities:

- <img> auto creates an uploader, stock photo picker (or HTML)

- <video> auto creates an uploader, stock video picker (or HTML)

- <svg> auto creates a big icon picker (or HTML)

- <div class="prose"> auto creates a WYSIWYG Editor (or HTML)

2) Slices

Think of these as just individual HTML sections of a page or lil baby single-file components. They are self-contained and isolated so you drag them around easily. The real power comes from reuse across your pages and linking them (aka, one HTML footer updates globally). You can also use "slices" from any other tips.io project for quickly expanding your site with more design options.

3) AI Elements, Not Pages

Another cool concept is you can select any element on an HTML slice an edit that individually vs re-streaming/rebuilding and entire component every time. We support 5 different AI models right now. Some other really intense/cool AI integration is coming soon.

4) Tailwind Everything, No Build Step, & Theming

We have a custom "themer" to make creating Tailwind config files near instant with real-time font trying, color palettes/preset trying, and more. All our Tailwind is automatic and requires zero config instantly. The same Tailwind that magic runs client-side will run server-side so quick no one knows a build step is happening. Tailwind and AI are also a match made in heaven.

Other features:

- Animations
- Zoomable page tree
- Basic Forms (yes on your static site!)
- Analytics
- Redirects, site passwords, and much more.

Tech:

- 100% Cloudflare Workers
- Svelte
- UnoCSS

Some resources:

- Promo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8U2rJJX-rk
- Tutorial & demo video: https://tips.io/tutorial
- Just launch: https://new.tips.io
You didn't read the article nor follow the argument, just jumped in. It's about suffering shrimps, not saving shrimps.
Would love to get away from photogrammetry the day splatting gets good enough
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It's really just a feat of data collection (e.g. rhymezone.com). You just compile all English words and record which ones rhyme with which.

(Yeah it's labor-intensive, but probably not moreso than, say, writing a dictionary.)
> They're running the kernel on the cloud behind an API, streaming video to the client and billing by the server-minute.

That sounds absolutely horrible though. There is no chance of it being truly free because the servers cost money. You are fully locked-in in that system. It won't work offline. You can't use it for secret projects...

Unless it's intended for companies to run the API on their own servers?
Please share your plan for how to make millions of existing web pages better.
Someone once told me something like, “rules work best when human judgement is used when applying them”.

I think that’s what this article is basically saying. And I agree.
I don’t really have the energy to debate it in detail, but I wanted to let you know that personally I found the article extremely insightful. In fact, I ended up reading two other in-depth articles written on the same site. I can see what he’s pointing at and why the angle is worth writing and reading about.
I can't make great use of a full EV but would love more AWD PHEV options, of which there are currently few and they're mostly very expensive. A PHEV can be my everything-car that runs entirely on electricity for 90% of trips. I assume there's some reason they're not a more widely-supported option, but damn, I wish they were more common.
Combustion engine is a perfected tech, which can easily last 100K+ miles. EVs do have a cooling system for the battery.

EVs also have a battery which can be $20k, and electric motors which are $10k. This really makes them awful on the used market when the warranty runs out. If a used Model 3 needs a battery it is basically scrap.
I'm trying. The problem, as I mentioned, is that I'm squeezed by the end of the working day, so I barely have time to work on my side project
If you have any input forms they will be overrun by bots immediately. At my last job, marketing built a website and didn't tell IT. They had a "contact us" form without any kind of captcha. Took about a month to be completely flooded by bot spam.
Some of these look similar to stuff I've seen in galleries purporting to display good modern art.

There's an asymmetry going on here... I think making bad art at this level is very easy. Most of it looks like things created by children (or young people) who are not very talented or still lack direction and practice. Perspective errors, hiding body parts that are difficult to draw for novices, uninteresting composition,
garish colors... (making things more confusing: each of these "flaws" can be done on purpose by a decent artist, to make a statement).

I wonder what qualifies for inclusion in MOBA. Creating good art is difficult, but creating bad art is trivial.

Or maybe it's bad art that is noteworthy for external reasons, like Ecce Homo?
I look forward to everybody completely missing the resolution to this mystery when it turns out it was something like a Danish sailing boat that got unlucky with their anchor...
>To expand on my previous comment, I'm now on my 9th job in 10 years.

How does this work for you? I feel like by the time you would "ramp up" and actually start to have a good idea of the job you'd be moving on
I spent a lot of time messing with fractal generators as a kid. Lots of fun. For those interested in similar, newer software:

XaoS, realtime fractal generator / viewer: https://github.com/xaos-project/XaoS

Apophysis 7X: https://github.com/xyrus02/apophysis-7x

Chaotica: https://www.chaoticafractals.com
Bhutan's economy is growing, but it still has a nominal GDP per capita of only $3,700. Their youth unemployment rate is 16%, but 24% in urban areas. For all the talk of gross national happiness, it's hard to imagine a young person feeling happy in a poor country with very limited opportunities for upward mobility.

I'm also not sure that mass emigration should be seen as an existential threat. Many developing economies have very successfully leveraged emigration and remittances as an engine of economic growth. If Bhutan can modernise into a more open economy, those young people could start returning home with the skills, experience and capital to do great things.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

https://www.nsb.gov.bt/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2023/1...

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2024/03/11/a-stron...
Right, I don't need to know what they are, I just need to know what "64" means. Is the baseline actually 0? That detail is enough to avoid actually drawing 0 on the axis.
A better word is Disciple, this was the original usage of the term and a description which your group would seem to match. Of course, all of the original disciples considered Jesus to be their Lord and this terminology was used extensively throughout both the new and old testaments. Regardless, your case is more fitting the other thread than this one. That’s about folks who call themselves Christian despite not being particularly interested in Christ. This is about the claim that somehow being a “good guy” makes one Christian. (Or even is Christianity)
> Every physical theory with singularities has has broken down in that regime.

Can you give some examples? Note that GR has not even been tested anywhere close to the regime you are talking about.

> It's not even clear what it would mean for reality to permit singularities.

GR doesn't "permit singularities" in the sense I think you are using that phrase. "Singularity" in GR actually does not mean what I suspect you think it means, that things like spacetime curvature "become infinite". Notice that in my previous post I was careful to use the term "geodesic incompleteness", since that's what "singularity" actually means in the GR literature. And even in particular cases where there are invariants that increase without bound along incomplete geodesics, the limit points, such as r = 0 in Schwarzschild spacetime, are not actually part of the spacetime in GR. All invariants are finite at every point in the actual spacetime.
No, it is the very hard obvious fact that empowering the ignorant (with power over the rest) is a very bad idea.
You're right. It's not that disloyalty necessarily enables better software but that, apparently, loyalty is not a requirement.

It can also be true that the work culture in Japan stymies effective modern software development. I've heard anecdotes to this effect but it doesn't seem like something you could easily measure.
Looking at what's available in Ireland at the moment, in the 20-30k range there's a Nissan, a VW (though it's the ancient e-Up, due to be replaced by the i2 any day now), a BYD, a Fiat, an MG, and an Ora (tragically no longer under the names "Good Cat", or "Funky Cat", presumably because Ora got around to hiring someone who had heard of marketing).

There are a bunch more in this price range due to launch next year.

Cheap-ish electric cars exist, they're just not, generally, suited to US consumer preferences.
I guess I just wouldn't have an open unauthed form and require a CC to use the free-tier. The contact-me form can just be a mailto: link and let the spammers go through the spam filter like everyone else. There are places where captchas is all you can really do but it's not like common use-cases don't have other options.
Yes I agree if the prompt that was used was less strict with regards to verb tense, prepositions and so forth. I wrote this prompt for use for technical writing, which may not fit the style of the author.
Brain drain is not just about money. it is also simply about beeing able to get a life doing what we like with people alike and know how to do while beeing recognized doing it. I left my country for this exact reason, there was a culture of doing the minimum and making sure others can't organize to do great things. And trying to go back you get a lot of opposition, bureaucratic, social (jealousy and resentment is more than palpable in interviews), cultural... It is more like a one-way brain valve.
The article mentions that issue in passing ("I reject the claim that no number of mild bads can add up to be as bad as a single thing that’s very bad, as do many philosophers"), but I don't understand the actual argument behind this assertion.

Personally, I believe that you can't just add up mildly bad things and create a very bad thing. For example, I'd rather get my finger pricked by a needle once a day for the rest of my life than have somebody amputate my legs without anesthesia just once, even though the "cumulative pain" of the former choice might be higher than that of the latter.

Having said that, I also believe that there is sufficient evidence that shrimp suffer greatly when they are killed in the manner described in the article, and that it is worthwhile to prevent that suffering.
I feel folks forget that whatever captchas do (or a large portion of), can be a library without the need for a strange, inaccessible 3rd party service call.
> What you are referring to is capital gains (CEO pay) compared to hourly pay (employee pay), which is a misleading apples to oranges comparison.

I assumed it was the infamous wage vs productivity chart.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

This certainly aligns a lot better with what they're saying than talking about executive pay (though I'm sure that's also part of the problem).
Honestly... It's not that terrible... The comments are really harsh.

I don't understand the need to label it as bad. It's just stupid.

Lots of museums of amateur art exist around the world and don't just shit all over the artists.

Fuck you MOBA.
Ah yes those American imperialists with their cultural touchstones of fire hydrants. Why are they always forcing those fire hydrants into other cultures.
I guess some genres attract worse artists than others. Most in the "Oozing My Religion" and "In The Nood" categories are truly atrocious, while some from "MOBA Zoo" are actually not that bad (including my favourite - more because of the retroactively added title than because of the work itself - "You're a Mule, Dear")...
It only works when the majority of good actors adopt it as a standard. Effectively an agreement to abide by it. Or, as the article notes, it's enforced as a part of policy. In Europe it's being pitched as a method to help assure GDPR compliance. Of course that likely falls apart if what would be good actors don't agree to utilize or adhere to the standard. It probably needs to be picked up as a W3C standard or something to see broad use.
To me, the most notable difference is "confidence" in what happens when leadership change. The next in line is already decided in a monarchy, often already well-known by the time of the official handover.

Dictatorships tend to fall into chaos when leadership changes, and the current leader tends to remove any potential leader replacements to remove threats to their authority.
HEVs and PHEVs are usually no more complicated or burdensome to maintain than an ICE car, as their architecture often eliminates or mitigates some problematic ICE parts. Furthermore, very few new car buyers continue to own a car towards the tail-end slope of the product-failure bathtub curve. The advantage to (P)HEVs over BEVs is not driving performance, but versatility.

But yeah, don't buy a Prius Prime for the track. But it'll work great for going to the grocery store for a very wide variety of lifestyles and living situations.
Cop didn't do everything right. A cop who does everything right leaves the force.
With all due respect to the considerable thought and effort you put into this, the ergonomics of this approach are hideous. Why would I ever care about the styling elements when I'm just trying to do some exploratory data analysis. This is exactly why things like Jupyter notebooks excel. Regardless kudos to your curiosity and implementing alternate ideas.
The Higham book does work toward error analysis of matrix multiplies, it would be useful to see how that’s done.

In the case of autodiff, you do presumably know the exact computations that are done, there just might be so many of them that it’s infeasible to work it out analytically.

It depends on your requirements, so I’m not sure if this suggestion will work for you, but one strategy to consider would be to build the error bound computation as a function into your math operations. It’s relatively much easier to compute error bounds than it is to write an expression for them or to prove them. That strategy won’t give you conservative bounds and if your input is non-deterministic, the answer will vary on every run. But you could sample your error bounds enough times to have some confidence in the statistical answer.

I’m assuming in both paragraphs above that you have control over the autodiff implementation and can modify it. If that’s not true, if it’s not yours and not open source, then the only alternative is to ask the maintainer.

IIRC this is what the PBR book does, it weaves an error bound function into the base class of a math operation and then you can query the error from a parse tree of different math ops, or something like that.
Lol they charged the indended swatting victim but not the police officer.
> striving for a better life

the problem here is that you're directly equating earning more money with a "better life"

once you have enough to have your needs met, then earning multiples times that doesn't make your life better; at that point, "better life" is much more impacted by other factors than money
It is regular absurd.
The key here is that harm to competition _is_ harm to the consumer in the sense that you spend more for less.
>threaten national security through technology dependence and harm American auto manufacturing jobs. Safety and environmental standards may also be lower.

Protectionism based tax and economic policy causes the exact same outcomes but far enough in the future and far enough away that the people who implemented it will be retired and/or dead and the people who voted for those people to do it will have had time to spin some counter narrative about it being an honest mistake, everyone thinking it was a good idea at the time, etc, etc.
Ha, can I ask who the involved prof/s was/were?

I spent some time at your Uni in the early 90s. From what I remember there wasn't a whiff of Lisp on the curriculum.
I have found that people who are considering buying a new car and immediately rule out EV's mostly do so out of confusion and misunderstanding.

My father for instance wouldn't get one because he will drive to the beach a couple times each summer, and does not want to have to deal with waiting while charging. However, he is also the type who stops for rests while driving. But he, being old and stubborn, didn't want to hear it.
This is an interesting project—love the idea of learning by building! A few questions for clarity and discussion:

1) Target Audience: Since Dumbo isn't aiming to compete with Laravel or Slim, who do you see as the ideal user for this framework? Hobbyists, small-scale production apps, or perhaps developers exploring modern PHP paradigms?

2) Distinguishing Features: You mentioned drawing inspiration from Hono.dev—how does Dumbo bring Hono's strengths into the PHP world? Are there specific design patterns or DX (developer experience) improvements that set it apart from existing lightweight frameworks like Slim?

3) Learning Resource Vision: As you see Dumbo also as a learning tool, do you plan to include guided examples or documentation for PHP developers looking to understand the modern ecosystem better?

PHP is definitely in an interesting place right now; excited to see what Dumbo evolves into!
Subsistence farming, while possibly not counted in GDP, is an explanation why people don't starve to death. It's not really an argument that the country is doing "better than it seems", unless your baseline is famine.
I'd assumed PHEVs would include regenerative braking. Do they not?
I think folks forget that we can add many of the safeguards a captchas provide as part of whatever "form serving app" is needed without torturing our visitors to prove they can count bicycles.
Also asking things about US traffic signs or markings in countries with different looking traffic signs
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Open Shell has been a first install for me since Windows 7.
I hope the other lesson was the good email verification hygiene of making the user take an affirmative action and click a "verify email" button rather then send it unsolicited.

You essentially had an open public unauthed form that would send an email to any address you typed in it. Surely that alone raises some eyebrows.
Is it really marketing in general? I can agree with some of it, but for me the existence of the term "low hanging fruit" to describe some statements says otherwise...
I routinely have problems with closeup images. To this day I don't know how much of the object I should be selecting? Also what is a traffic light? Is the pole part of it or not? Motorcycles seem to be hard too.

Once it showed me a picture of steps nothing but steps. I think I marked like 15 boxes.
Yeah, this never happens here. Even if it did happen once a decade, it wouldn't be a valid reason to worry about once a week, and it wouldn't be a single anonymous person calling in a tip that someone is threatening to shoot hostages.