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People talk about software "technologies" and it is true, there is some technology underlying them, but its mostly economics.

The nature of software with its multiple abstraction layers means that when the economics is "right" you can pretty much transmogrify anything into anything. E.g., you can setup a JS-based web server as a classic web framework serving good old html and thats not a joke, its reality.

Is web software economics today any different than it was in the past? You bet it is.
It may simply not be worth it. Outside of sheer curiosity, there are two reasons I can think of to leave your own solar system. One is overcoming resource scarcity. But interstellar space is extremely hostile to anything that isn't a cloud of dust and there are no resources available for thousands if not millions of years. If you've developed technology already to overcome the need for resources and are hardened to endure conditions for that span of time, you may overcome the resource limits of your own solar system anyway.

The second reason is to escape the death of your own sun. That takes long enough that far fewer lifeforms would be expected to even face that challenge compared to resource scarcity. If you manage to sustain a high-level civilization that can overcome resource scarcity and conquer the challenges of interstellar travel for the billions of years it takes a star to die, maybe you can simply prevent that death by technological means we could not possibly foresee or understand?

Those are hand-wavy answers, but this is sort of the problem. We're imagining near god-like beings here and asking why they don't behave the way humans have historically behaved with respect to exploring and colonizing remote parts of our own planet. The analogy breaks down at some point and we have no idea what beings capable of that kind of thing would even want to do.

Even our best sci-fi imagines answers that are pulled out of imaginary asses but frankly no less plausible than anything else anyone here will come up with. The builders of the expanse series expanded to a few hundred systems but then simply didn't need to expand any further. They figured out how to stop fusion and star-aging and tapped into energy sources from other universes (then got killed off anyway, but seemingly would not have kept expanding). The monolith aliens of the space odyssey series evolved into a non-material form that was actually here the whole time but we had no means of detecting them.
As a lifelong southerner I find it mildly irritating when folks appropriate y'all. Y'all ain't from around here.
Exactly. Mozilla is a seriously bloated organization. Most of its $500M+ budget goes toward activities that have little to do with Firefox development.

(In another thread a couple of months ago, it was postulated that Firefox development accounts for at most $200M of the budget, and likely much less than that.)

Basically, they are using Firefox search deals and other revenue streams to fund their political and educational campaigns. Not that I disagree with their ideals, but I really wish they left the activism to other orgs like EFF and just focused on making a browser.
Yeah the problem is that the average rat lives for less than four years, which doesn't let them see multiple market cycles. We must selectively breed or biologically engineer longer lived rats or else we will be curve fitting for a single market regime.
Is this a serious question? a RED camera does not have stereovision and has no other way to retain depth information.
My personal solution to this is turn my todo application into my habit app.

The problem (for me) with habit apps, is they always have the same content. ("did you do this thing today?").

But... my todoist is 30% re-occurring habit tasks and 70% fresh tasks (like work tasks, irregular tasks, etc). So I never get bored opening up my task app.
I use it as a repl all the time. IntelliJ can load your projects classpath into too. It’s really awesome.
Likely impossible, as humans are flawed when it comes to their own perception of good and evil. Regardless of how strongly they believe their own values to align in a specific direction.
Well turns out I was wrong about the pattern I saw being distinctive of trans-wing drones, it’s the pattern used by all drones.

The conclusion I draw from that is it’s not a plane. And I didn’t hear a helicopter, so only a few possibilities remain.
There is no such thing as a "free market". Any such "free market" only exists because of government regulation, oversight and enforcement.

People try and carve out an exception for healthcare because of inelastic demand. While I agree individual insurance and tying insurance to employment are terrible models and for-profit healthcare is a terrible idea, I just don't think healthcare is as exceptional free market defenders make it out to be.
And the standard library is including monad-like types too. It has come a long way.
Rails has so much to offer these days, going vanilla really is a viable (and enjoyable) option. Here at Swivel we use the ENTIRE rails stack from Hotwire to Kamal and it is so simple and easy to maintain and deploy. I do think there are use cases where adding a React frontend is good though. But you don't have to, Rails has everything you need so you can focus on creating value for customers instead of plumbing.
And make configs shareable across users.
The problem with X isn't X, it's the devs.

I've heard that about PHP, JS, shell, .Net, VB6 and damn near every framework ever.

But aren't we the devs? We're just in their code saying their baby ugly?

There's gotta be a better way than just blaming noobs.
A sad development is that the current administration is attempting to strangle the curriculum Felleisen et al. have developed over the last 2+ decades in favor of returning to the "old way" of teaching he criticizes in this essay. Their motivation is in large part—though not exclusively; ideological elements also enter into the picture—a consequence of Northeastern recently snapping up various bankrupt colleges worldwide and wanting to homogenize the curriculum across these new satellite campuses. Sadly, this means homogenizing down. Apparently, training faculty in this curriculum is too much for them.
>I could see group 1 and 2 both complain that, for instance, "AI is an untested, trendy/gimmicky idea that they shouldn't be focusing on right now."

If you think that Mozilla is too dependent on a search engine deal, would it not be wise to hedge against the fact that search itself may be less relevant in the future? Certainly Google, Apple and Microsoft are not ignoring AI as a browser supplement / replacement. But they're all incentivized to do it on their own proprietary systems, whereas Mozilla is incentivized to use local, open source, small models. That's potential differentiation.
This apparently needs to be said a million times:

You could always argue in court that the agency’s interpretation of the statute was not reasonable. The court could always agree with you and establish case law against that interpretation.

It was a two part test:

1. Is the statute clear? If so, defer to statute. Otherwise, go to (2).

2. Is the agency’s interpretation reasonable? If so, defer to agency. Otherwise, the agency's rule is no longer enforceable.

Now, the court is allowed to come up with its own interpretation even in the presence of a reasonable agency interpretation. That is the only change. If the agency's interpretation was unreasonable, then it was already going to get thrown out.

The courts took the authority to throw out interpretations that they themselves (the court!) think are reasonable. Unreasonable interpretations were NEVER protected by Chevron deference.
It doesn't matter if you're a kid, if you're not considering memory usage you were either trained by Google, became a developer through nepotism, or both.
Everything they list in their "recommended actions" section is spot-on.

Calling for algorithm and advertising transparency should not be controversial.
That’s an interesting idea. I would think that trying to do a second split would have significant challenges because the monopoly has already been turned into a duopoly, so now you have to do the work against two rich companies. Looking at the two most famous breakups of monopolies, Standard Oil and AT&T, where each was broken into multiple entities, I would argue that the resulting “children” were still far too powerful. Maybe these monopolies need to be broken into 10+ separate businesses for it to be truly effective.
Making me drive 20 mins to Whole Foods to deliver some items, and wait in a line where there’s one kiosk, has completely turned me off of Amazon.

This is probably by design, but I don’t return a whole lot.
Yes. The point is to not create a situation where Santa brings one kid a PS5 and brings another kid some socks. Because the poor kids then naturally ask, why did Santa choose not to bring me something no? Am i a less good kid?

If big gifts come from parents, then at least kids can understand the dynamics of "my rich friend got rich friend stuff from their rich parents", which is a different sort of unfair but more understandable.
Yinz is literally the only evidence available that that part of PA isn't actually West Virginia.
Fantastic experiences doing this, highly recommend discovering on amazon and shifting to bargain sites to actually purchase
To disagree, local "mom and pops" often don't offer better jobs or benefits, or meaning.

Historically, in the US, these shops and restaurants often depended on underpaid (often children of the owner) labor, offered no benefits, and had no safety net in case of owner or business failure.

On average, today, starting wages at McDonalds, Walmart, or your "local" Amazon warehouse are 25-50% higher than local restaurants and retailers for rural America (which more typically pay minimum wage). And benefits, a local mom and pop is less likely to account for paid sick/vacation days, retirement savings, healthcare coverage, and workplace insurance (in some cases, a disability or workplace injury would make the business unprofitable + less oversight).
The American healthcare system is responding to the incentives that are in place, and those incentives are designed (if not intended) to drive up costs.

Doctors can be sued for malpractice if they miss something, so they're incentivized to provide as much care as possible, regardless of cost.

Hospitals and other healthcare organizations are likewise incentivized to charge as much as they can, since the bills are passed on to insurance companies.

Insurance companies have every incentive to lower the bills they pay. They negotiate volume discounts with healthcare corporations, and the billing system that gets worked out between these large organizations has little connection to the actual cost of healthcare provided to consumers.

For most consumers, insurance coverage is connected to employment, so it's very difficult to shop around. It could mean leaving one job for another, just to get different health coverage.

Inefficiencies abound. We can do better, but there is not a simple solution to this.

You could probably eliminate a lot of these inefficiencies by eschewing any sense of morality or fairness and simply letting more people die. Society isn't quite ready for this level of dystopia, but it's the direction we're headed if we don't change course. Nationalizing the US healthcare system may be the best answer, but it is guaranteed to be enormously complicated, and not guaranteed to improve outcomes.
Doctors wages are not why costs are high
I mean, imagine the savings in cocaine alone!
The original Mac was $17000 in today’s dollars and people said the same thing.
> I don’t understand why all these comments are about who buys or doesn’t buy at Amazon.

The logical connection is as follows: Bezos decided to optimize everything to its limits, including human behavior, to the very limits of law. To literally track every movement of employees and abusing the power the company holds over them. This is an ongoing process that we are all painfully aware of. Because of that, there is a growing negative feeling towards them that causes people not to give them their money. That's why instead of unions we are talking about boycotting Amazon.
> Over 20 years working in health insurance

Always the same, Woe is me type posts. Look at me look at me. Its all too common. "I was horrified for 25 years of getting paid I couldn't stay quiet anymore listen to my story..."
Yup. Medicaid isn’t great. Better to pay poor people to have private insurance. Just my own experience though.
AirTags get updates regularly, so they'd probably get power-cycled sooner than that.
If it is not collusion, it is corruption.

But it is still hard for me to believe that these companies are all okay with robbing each other, just because the margins make sense somewhere else down the line.
This is so retarded it must be satire
The point was illustrative, adding layers of bureaucracy isn’t free. Spreading costs for catastrophic issues is a valid use of insurance but the’ve inserted themselves into routine care thus raising costs. Getting a few stitches after a moderate injury is a fairly minor medical procedure, but get medical billing involved and the manpower for billing can dwarf the cost of medical care.

PS: Several studies have shown preventive screening in aggregate doesn’t significantly reduce total healthcare costs. It tends to uncover enough additional issues to offset the savings from treating things early.
We can add this to my meth fueled cyberneticly outfitted cutlass chimpanzees
Nerdy, and sweet. I needed something positive this morning.
Legally liable is one thing, arguing with a bank another.
Yeah, all we need is a bunch of smarter rats!8-(
In said circles you can use the bigger plural, "all y'all".

And yes, this is a real expression that is used in parts of the US, not pure comedy.
I'll take it. My resume probably doesn't match your qualifications, but hey I'm sure you guys are willing to train people up where they're deficient, right? For that kind of pay, I'd never leave - surely me being a drag on productivity for 6 months while I come up to speed is an acceptable trade, right?
Most-watched Kotlin conference talks of 2024
You might already be referencing this, but linking it anyway: Cory Doctorow's "I, Rowboat", where Asimov's Laws are a religion which some AIs adopt voluntarily to give their existence meaning.

https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocke...

(I could also make a case for truthfulness being prioritized over harm.)
In usb-a cables you can actually see the pins themselves missing looking into the connector from the outside; in usb-c not so much (or at least i could not really see anything there). I could never figure out how to determine a no-data usb-c cable, though I have only even seen one anyway.

The problem with stiffness etc is that there is already a lot of variability on usb-c cables, though there could definitely be something there that I just did not notice.
I’m not sure why the general sentiment here is that Amazon workers do not deserve a living wage and should be replaced with robots.

All the best to the union, I sincerely hope they meet your demands.
Because it's for group greetings and not addressing individuals. e.g. My female friend from Long Island uses it to address her friends in group settings but never has referred to her wife as "guy" and neither has anyone I ever knew growing up in NY.
Or for the comment's theoretical "too lazy or unskilled to disable the sound" stalker, wrap the airtag in a sock and stick it in a tupperware container.

"Put the airtag in a box" is not really an exclusive invention here.
Yes this works for all CLIs but there’s a caveat: yakari requires a TOML configuration file that defines the menu for that CLI. For instance, here’s the definition of the git menu [1].

Gooey is much more automated but limited to Python because it requires adding a decorator to the CLI code.

In other words, yakari is just a command runner with a nice — but apparently confusing — UI.

[1] https://github.com/vlandeiro/yakari-menus/blob/main/git.toml
If you want physician salaries to be lower, you need to lower the cost of becoming one. It's really as simple as that.

People like to make comparisons to physician salaries in other countries but ignore the fact that the education is significantly cheaper or even free in those countries.

Additionally, the US forces newly minted medical school graduates into a forced regime of working for 3-10 years at minimum wage to get qualified as a doctor (ie medical residency). During that time, their debt balloons from $300K+ to $500K+ because many residents can't afford anything more than minimum payments.

And if that wasn't bad enough, there are increasingly gap years built into the system to make you more competitive. This could be a Masters (and more debt) or practical experience after undergrad to get into medical school. There is an increasing need for a "research year" after medical school to get into competitive specialties.

So you might be 38 years old and have spent 20 years studying post-high school by the time you are earning those big bucks and you have to recoupe maybe $700k+ in debt.

There are negative societal outcomes for a high cost of education. Just like there are for housing. Yet people want to gatekeep both for some reason.
If you want to see if America is getting healthier, look at any large insurance firm's actuaries on current rates of mortality. They are predicting fairly unusual patterns suggesting American's are becoming unnaturally sick and dying at a higher rate than before 2020.
These kind of articles are just trying to undermine the new adminstration's attempts to correct for this.
Sounds nice, except so far I have only one Logitech device that works with the bolt receiver, which is the MX Master 3s.

I also have an MX vertical which uses the unifying receiver.
Then I also have a pro x superlight, which has yet another receiver. I believe they call that one lightspeed or something.

So now I have 3 separate adapters for 3 devices, all of which theoretically support pairing multiple devices (I think the lightspeed only does 3 though).
> Realizing this was what made me quit Prime years ago

I quit Prime after Amazon replaced "two-day shipping" with "it'll get there when it gets there".
This reminds me. Back in the day, HTC made a 3D enabled phone with a 3D screen and camera.

I would love to see that attempted today again with how much progress we've made in terms of screen resolution and camera quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Evo_3D
After moving away from Texas, y'all was the one obvious thing that would give me up. I don't have a Texas drawl unless I'm really tired or putting on airs. Howdy was another one, but used much less frequently.

Another word from Texas that drives me crazy is "heighth". I don't know why people add the h at the end when they say it, but nobody spells it that way.
That was my first thought. Create an import or manufacturing entity. That entity then sells the product to the retail entity for a markup. It's the retail entity that has the relationship with Amazon and can then show the invoice from the import/manufacturing entity.
Python programmers be like:

from __past__ import JavaProgrammer

/usr/bin/python: error: line 0: not a chance
Ask HN: Why does consciousness suffer given it can be in bliss all day
Your consciousness has this property of being able to render any image, sound, feeling, emotion etc. But for some reason most of the contents of consciousness seems to be a lot of pain and fear for a lot of people. Why can't the life form couple with consciousness in a form where it's all bliss all day? Why do a mapping where there is a lot of pain, anxiety etc? Especially given a lot of reaction to events is all Physiological.
That's very true, and I'd love to see some actual documentation on how they get to pace numbers.

I'm in the same boat with regard to 5K/10K pace, but I reckon it's probably not a huge issue in the long run. While plans specify those times, I think it's more about shorthand for effort zone where 5K is "this hard" and 10K is "a little bit less hard".

VO2 max improvement is a good point, though, and I'd probably agree. If I had a hazard a guess, Garmin would say that their training productivity tracker/race estimated are the preferred way of presenting that data. as an aside, I think VO2max has sorta been coopted as a "fitness number" when it actually represents a very specific thing that may or may not be emblematic of actual performance in the majority of cases. It is nice to have a a single value to look at that can sum up whether what you've been doing lately is productive, though.

That could just be me coming from the world of cycling where watts are king and there's far less variability. In my mind, all these running stats are mushy, but that might not actually be the case.
No voting method meets every criterion but two of my favourites are

- Schulze Method [0]

- Ranked Pairs [1]

The Schulze method allows for a simple ranked choice ballot, and satisfies more criteria than other RCV methods. Downside is that it is hecking complicated so it can feel like an opaque process. With distrustful electors it's a no go imo.

The Ranked Pairs method satisfies a similar number of criteria as Schulze, and meets a weaker version of later-no-harm. It's also a very intuitive method. The main downside is that the ballots become impossibly long, scaling quadratically with the number of candidates.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_pairs
> [5 complaints about autocomplete]

Maybe it's just me, but why would you want too have autocomplete for CC forms enabled? Personally, on these very rare consciously chosen occasions where I decide to give my CC number to another entity, I prefer to copy it from my banking site and never save it anywhere, neither locally nor in a cloud.
I've also found that not having some optimization mindset from the get go limits your product to achieve only a local maxima of performance in the end. It might not even be a good local maxima.

It's best to have at least some optimization considerations from the start. I'm saying some because too much is a problem.
Xeno Grant – Grants for Autonomous Agents
This guy replaces his garage door opener every 2 years...
It sounds more like someone is taking advantage of people, using nominative idealism to do so.
You can always find the imposter when you see ya'll written. Some people just don't understand contractions.
The Navy medical corps that deployed with the Marines in Korea deliberately used pure (not denatured) ethyl alcohol because they knew if they put stuff in it the soldiers would drink it anyway. Better not to poison them.
No I can post now. You mean are people okay with it? I think so. Is it okay with the rules? Well it’s sort of related, but this is significantly distinct.

You sound worried about taking up all the spots, but it’s not like that. I have a huge amount of creative work.

If you feel troubled by this, email hn@news.ycombinator.com and talk it out with them. Thanks for your concern for community but try to be more welcoming, for even better times! Haha :)
It looks all these rants are from people who need "Hello World" equivalent of web and are angry that there are tools for more complex use cases. I am primarily a backend developer with couple of decades of experience, who is now working on his own startup. I have built a simple HTML/JS site as our launch page. But I would kick out anyone who'll suggest that we should use plain HTML/JS instead of a frontend framework for our main app.

A form submission is not just a post submit. You have to do client+server error handling, dynamically show/hide/add fields, show char count, handle intermittent state and still more. All of these are possible with JS but is faster and more reliable with a purpose-built library. Same goes for a draggable dashboard, filters for search results...