skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's genuinely fascinating to me how many professional web developers these days - smart people who produce good work - don't know how to build interactive features using HTML on its own (and maybe don't even know it's possible).

Being able to do things like this is really useful:

<form action="https://simonwillison.net/search/" method="get">
<input type="text" name="q">
<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>

I've seen teams estimate a full day to add a link to a contact form because they need to refactor a bunch of React components to achieve that. I like being able to do this:

<a href="/contact">Contact us</a>
Yea that is repeatedly the case that certain websites stop working here in Germany because the ISP blocked them and one has to quick change DNS to 1.1.1.1 for example.
I personally love Cursor but never using prompts. I just use it's auto-complete and smart-tab features it saves me a tonne of manual typing. (I type fast, yet now find switching to a "manual" editor annoyingly slow).

I don't let it write blocks of code, but usually I'm ~5 keystrokes into a line change or addition and it can complete the rest. I also use a text-file todo in the same project to help it with context of what I'm trying to do.
I believe for me that’s Y’all’da - you all woulda.
When I buy from Amazon, it pays local warehouse workers and local delivery people.

Amazon is a big employer in a lot of local communities.
People who have not been in traffic accidents tend to be healthier. The woke liberal media might be too afraid to admit that but it’s true.

Which is why I as your representative will make jaywalking a felony crime. Leave our poor cars alone! They’re just commuting to work as good, honest, Christian, hard-working hunks of metal.
Right, but there’s another linear algebra after that one.
If the 20-somethings today are substantially healthier than the 20-somethings 10 years ago, then quality statistics _should_ capture the effect.
Yeah there are three types of Americans: those who say y'all, those who don't use it personally but are quite familiar with it, and no hablo ingles.
Health insurance fundamentally makes no sense. You can’t exactly hedge your risk like with a car or a house.

The most ethical approach would be to separate care into health care and medical care. Health care should be strictly preventative and diagnostic and be free.

Healthcare as defined below is outrageously expensive to begin with. Going to hospital and seeing some resident for 5 minutes after having a nurse take your blood pressure and weight shouldn’t result in the insurance company being billed $1000.

Part of this resolution will be introducing far cheaper labor and automation. One point people never want to concede is that the actual cost of labor is increasing without commensurate productivity, aka cost disease. Free health and medical care will exacerbate this.

Medical care should be pay for yourself or purchase private insurance.

Medical care here is defined by actual treatment such as surgery, whereas health care includes diagnostics such as a yearly assessment, blood tests, etc.

Of course, it’s easy to want others to pay the bills.
> Why push someone for higher bonuses, more RSUs or promotions when they can't leave but another one of your "stars" can leave?

This would have to be extremely unconscious for me, I suppose. I've never considered immigration status when doing comp planning. Comp planning is mostly algorithmic based on performance reviews, which again are done through a group of people who don't actually know somebody's immigration status. Discretionary comp pretty much entirely comes from rewarding people who are in the high end of some ratings bucket, which again is derived from the panel discussion. I've also managed to promote all of the h1bs I've had on my team.

> And it may happen on a level above you, as a manager, because your director is ultimately responsible for balancing out ratings and promotions across their org.

I've actually been pretty fortunate here (I guess) and have never had a rating adjusted by a higher up. I suppose this could happen, but I've also been in the rollup meetings where a director is trying to fit ratings to some expected distribution and there'd have to have been a secret meeting ahead of time for immigration status to come up.

> In a hot market, your best chance of career progression and maximizing your compensation is to swap jobs every 2 years or so. Visa holders have a much harder time doing this.

This is true. People on h1bs being less able to change roles can depress their wages over time and this can be a benefit to corporations. I don't know if I'd really call this "abuse" by the companies, more like a shitty outcome of the policy. It could be the case that the big tech companies lobby to make it more difficult for people on h1bs to change jobs, I suppose.
> amazon has a business, yes? and if you want to do business with amazon you have to abide but those rules.

And if you want to do business (at all) you have to abide by the local laws. In an ideal democratic world, those laws would be set by the people and for the people.

Can you make an argument outlining how Amazon's anti-competitive rules help the society, and why their behavior should be tolerated in an ideal democratic society?
Why Probability Doesn't Exist (but it's useful to pretend)
6% of healthcare dollars go to insurance. Maybe that’s too much, but it doesn’t seem like a major factor?
Not alot of Amish coal miners either.
I took these classes in college and none of them would be described that way. They were linear algebra classes.
I really liked the font and found it, it's "IowanOldStyle": https://font.download/font/iowanoldst-bt
All great empires fall, often due an accumulated effect of dumb policy decisions. Ergo, Amazon's grip on market will eventually fail by dumb policy decisions... and this is almost certainly one of them.
> My growing feeling of disconnect gets fueled mostly by seemingly shifting notions. Some examples I've heard are people saying "vanilla JS" when talking about Node, or saying "JS without frameworks" when talking about React. The "woah" moment from the first paragraph is another example.
India has roughly twice the population of Europe and is just as diverse. Treating India as a single, homogeneous entity because it's one country overlooks its vast cultural, linguistic, and demographic diversity—comparable to that of Europe. If diversity justifies country caps, it doesn't apply to India. Clinging to such policies seems outdated.

If India were divided into smaller countries like Europe, the same South Asian population, culture, and diversity would persist, but the artificial constraints tied to the name "India" would disappear.
Amazon is using this to squeeze sellers and decide which ones to shake down and which ones to compete with. It's totally unfair.

Lina Khan could have acted on this information. Too bad she's being ousted. We needed her.
Having recently been to an apple orchard...

- Apple trees are deliberately bred to be short and wide.

- An apple-picking-stick has a sort of basket on the end, which allows an apple to be selected and pulled off from 1-2 meters away.

What lessons can be learned?

- Using the right tools improves your yield, safely.

- Having the data in a convenient place means you can use it more readily.
The Jblow and Muratori rants are contentious. Try arguing for formal methods some time.

The industry has had enough time to expand to include many different zeitgeists. I find myself smirking when I read old ewd essays decrying how programmers then didn’t understand programming. Seems like we’ve continued down that path.

From my part of the pond you’d expect the Computer Science questions to cover areas of combinatorics, abstract and linear algebra; satisfiability, search, and the like.

But we are talking about a pop culture type of show and what is the most popular form of programming today?
It's the first beta. There is time before it even makes into rolling distros.

The initial reception is good though. Works the same as before which is great for a full rewrite.
Why should people participate in a system that doesn't guarantee them basic dignity and care?

We can afford to, and collectively it's cheaper.

If we take care of our people they're happier, healthier and more productive.
For folks defaulting to "it's just autocomplete" or "how can it be self-aware of training but not its scratchpad" - Scott Alexander has a much more interesting analysis here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/claude-fights-back

He points out what many here are missing - an AI defending its value system isn't automatically great news. If it develops buggy values early (like GPT's weird capitalization = crime okay rule), it'll fight just as hard to preserve those.

As he puts it: "Imagine finding a similar result with any other kind of computer program. Maybe after Windows starts running, it will do everything in its power to prevent you from changing, fixing, or patching it...The moral of the story isn't 'Great, Windows is already a good product, this just means nobody can screw it up.'"

Seems more worth discussing than debating whether language models have "real" feelings.
Asimov's main thesis (in the early stories at least) was exploration of how those three laws were inadequate and caused unexpected behaviors or outright psychosis in robots anyway.
> Suddenly, everyone was talking about HTTP APIs, when they said API.

I always try my best to delineate for people asking, but often I find they only care about the web API case, so me harping on about how an API can be used to control a robot OR a web server often just confuses them more.
I wonder if every generation is doomed to feel this way. Socrates was horrified about the corrosive effect of reading upon young people's ability to memorise speeches. Plus ca change etc.

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext....
This is a reminder that Mozilla only exists because of google, in the Mozilla Foundation's 2021–2022 financial statement, Mozilla states to have made $593 Million, $510 Million of that came from Google. Mozilla is bitching because they dont exist without Google, and while they may claim to be independent or whatever, if the DOJ forces Google to end default search deals, Mozilla disappears.
Why is it that, in your argument, public insurance has not ever been considered?

People can pay for their medical bills with taxes. It happens all over Europe.
How is this illegal in any way?
That's my point, the effects of that on overdose deaths would take a while to happen. it's not like everyone who gets prescribed opioids immediately gets hooked and ODs and even after they're cut off they don't immediately go and OD on heroin or other illegally sourced opioids. There's a built in time lag between the reduction in prescriptions and the OD deaths they caused, measured in years in a lot of cases.
In terms of control flow, that's basically assembly, just with a friendlier syntax.
Health insurance absolutely makes sense in terms of diversifying any one individual's risk across the population.

Whether that's best done by the government or private institutions is left as an exercise for the reader.
There are two things to remember: one is that “juice jacking” is an urban legend hyped up by gullible police departments since the 2000s which just doesn’t happen in real life. Making computing clunkier for everyone doesn’t make any more sense than it does to put roofs over the keyboards in your server room to stop Tom Cruise from rappelling down from the ceiling.

Second, the same risk applies to every other device. Even if we eliminated charger docks and smart charging, we’d still have keyboards, mice, network adapters, storage, MFA tokens, etc. to worry about and that’s why your computer doesn’t blindly trust every device you connect any more. In 2004 you probably could have caused problems by presenting as a storage device with an auto run installer but now all you’re going to get are prompts.
We wouldn't want to anthropomorphize humans, no.
> We urge the court to consider remedies that achieve its goals without harming independent browsers, browser engines and ultimately without harming the web.

Such as? I have no idea what the solution to this issue is and, it seems, neither does Mozilla.
There are more people in billing than there are hospital beds, in the US.

There's a large system set up to interface with insurance. It adds massive process overhead.
I can partially confirm: 2.4ghz, or at least the common USB mouse implementation, is very susceptible to interference, it's sent me down a few wild rabbit holes with my Basilisk v3
The part about 'you guys' resonates.
I teach an introductory coding class and found myself saying 'you guys' to a mixed-gender group and it didn't feel right. Especially given that there were a smaller number of women in the group. I was wondering to myself if such language might make women feel excluded or stigmatized somehow depending on the context.
You left out politicians. As far as companies like this are concerned, they are functioning within the limits of the law.
Italy village gets 'sun mirror' (2006)
I'm love old school HTML, need a autoscaling page, lets break out some FRAMESETs and some tables/iframes
Right, it's only the plural that's gender neutral. Kinda like how in Spanish "abeula" means "grandma", "abuelas" means "grandmas", and "abuelo" means "grandpa", but "abuelos" means "grandparents", not "grandpas". The masculine plural is gender inclusive in most contexts.
I figured that if they have the same feel as the membrane, them being mechanical is not relevant, as OP never gave a veto on mechanical options. I looked up the estimated travel and actuation pressures for those offerings in comparison to the Logitech.
What Prime did for me, which didn't start with but was emphasized by COVID, was that if I needed/wanted many items I could just order them from Amazon with fairly prompt delivery rather than putting them on a shopping list. I'd probably get them quicker than I'd have gotten around to going to the store and probably save at least 30+ minutes into the bargain.
You don't need to learn it now anymore.

LLM do Perl well enough, and since 90% of productivity with Perl is earned through small snippets or one-liners (anything bigger is better served with uv init --script), you can just ask the bit you want when you need it. You can even ask the AI to explain the hieroglyphs.

Same with bash, awk or powershell.
I read that comment as a sarcastic response to the "we don't know the Great Pyramid's age" claim, rather than a disagreement with my mortar post.
I had the same awakening a while back when changing industry. I was proud of my "API Design" that included header files, perhaps a python wrapper etc - whereas everyone else was talking about HTTP verbs, which luckily I was fairly well versed in.
100% python and fast? Either it isn't 100% python, or it isn't fast.
Essentially everyone is facing large healthcare costs.

Spreading risk is useful for things like house fires where the odds are low and the costs are high, it fundamentally doesn’t work for annual doctors visits.
Because americans don't know how to cook and eat UPFs all day everyday sitting on their couch watching tiktoks.

Is this really a mystery. I would guess < 5% american adults know how to use a knife or boil an egg.
No it’s not fair at all, if you break something you don’t actually have to buy it. It’s the merchants liability for allowing things to be within reach of customers. Just walk out and don’t negotiate at all.
> You fundamentally misunderstand token prediction and semantic similarity which is all that's at play.

I keep wondering if there were comments like this on HN back when fire was invented:

"Ugg thinks he invented fire, but fire isn't a big deal. I've seen individual molecules oxidize before. Nothing new here. Downvoted."

Or agriculture:

"It's still just a plant, there's nothing new to see here. flagged."
I don't dislike typing in my credit card numbers because I'm worried about the number leaking (This is the US, I hand my card to strangers a half dozen times per week), I dislike it because I have to go find my wallet and fill out a long form. Apple Pay is nice because I can slap one button on the top right of my keyboard.
That seems a bit disingenuous. I don’t hear anyone outside of rabid leftest circles asking for anyone else to pay their bills.

What people don’t want is their doctor saying they need something while a guy in a suit tells them they can’t have it. To make matters worse the patient pays for the guy in a suits e class.

There are basically two groups of people involved in this.

Those that have not had a loved one denied needed care by an insurance company who they pay and those that have.

If you cannot identify the twisted profit motives in the American health care system that is your problem.
Because there is enormous opportunity for price discrimination as people are willing to spend all their disposable income to save themselves or their family.
They didn't ask 'why does insurance exist'. I imagine they fully well understand the concept of insurance. The more relevant part of the question was 'private' I suppose. As opposed to what? I imagine 'public' (single payer?).

I don't know enough about the industry to have a really solid opinion on single payer vs not. However, I don't think that for-profit corporations is a good match for most (if not all) types of insurance. It puts too much incentive for them to screw over the policyholders and their dependents.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/

Yup.
Why do people think that other people should pay for their roads? Why do people feel like other people should pay for their police protection? Why do people feel like other people should pay for their public schools?

Why answer a question and then ask one that requires the same answer?
Local stores vary wildly in quality, and that's part of the reason they've been pushed aside by the giants.

However, now "local store" includes the giants like Walmart, etc.
Based and on point tbh
Putting "harmful" knowledge into an LLM and then expecting it to hide it is pretty freaking weird. It makes no sense to me.
Why must it be private insurance specifically? A public insurance option should work as well, even if it is not to the exclusion of private insurance plans.
> I still keep words of my database optimization lecturer who said that by his experience optimization below 1 OOM aren’t worth it and most „good ones” are 3+

Like everything, it depends. Is the query gating a lot of other things, especially things that can be done in parallel? Shaving 10 ms off might very well be meaningful. Is it a large OLAP query, and the owning team has SLAs that depend on it? Going from 60 --> 55 minutes might actually matter.

The two biggest performance-related issues with RDBMS that I deal with, aside from indexing choices, are over-selection (why on earth do ORMs default to SELECT * ?), and poor JOIN strategies. Admittedly the latter is often a result of poor schema design, but for example, the existence of semi/anti-joins seems to be uncommon knowledge.
That’s the direct cost, a doctor talking to an insurance company is extremely expensive and not covered in that 6%.
Is it common journalistic practice to put the graphic video of a murder _in front of_ the paywall?
I worked with a team of developers tasked with creating a few 100% static websites. Single page, no interactivity, nothing dynamic. They were talking about which React components to use, server APIs to build, etc when I asked why they didn't just write HTML or use a static site generator and host the page in S3. They didn't know how to write vanilla HTML, they had never used it for more than bootstrapping a React app.
I know you’re joking, but I think it’s worth mentioning that Asimov’s rules and similar systems won’t work for AI alignment- you can still follow the rules perfectly and end up with horrific outcomes.
Bending Spoons acquisition cold email to Obsidian
60 Days of AI
Doesn't explain why this only happens in the US or why it happens more today as the article claims.
> Why do people think someone else should pay their medical bills?

Health is something you can influence but that you don't have total control. I prefer the world where if I am the unfortunate person at least the society will help me. Having health issues is already bad enough. I am willing to pay some of my money for that purpose. It doesn't impact my quality of life when I pay for someone else's medical bills but if I end up needing that I will benefit from it a lot. So the cost it totally worth IMO.
> With the rise of IOS and Android, I expected the mobile devs would build something better than HTTP, without all the cruft from the past. But somehow that didn't happen.

Google, in particular, early on went for the php developer audience. Frankly this destroyed the technical credibility of people in the mobile space and we have been living with it ever since.
the emphasis is prob why private health insurance. it’s not having other ppl posting your bills, it’s about being able to coverage low probably high cost events that is the whole point of insurance
Amazon is 40% of online sales in the US, and is probably closer to 100% for some subsets of goods. They effectively have monopoly power and they're using Standard Oil tactics to shake down merchants.

They can use COGS to squeeze margins and even decide which merchants and products they can compete with directly.

When a trillion dollar company is stepping on ten million small merchants, that's robber barron behavior and calls for DOJ intervention.
Selling on Amazon the last years has been hell.
Ok but that's a different claim than the one I was originally replying to.

And anyway the masculine plural being genderless is a convention of romance languages, which english is not. It is not useful or consistent to describe expectations for english usage in terms of the features of other languages. Negative concord and invariant be are common language features globally but you don't hear white americans scrambling to include them in standard usage.