skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playing around with it made me realize just how much I miss those good old derpy days, and how many great times I had on myspace and then mostly forgot about. It made me a bit emotional even. Thank you!

I don't have that much time atm, but I can't wait to get into the CSS and whatnot <3
What are you thinking of as "ultra-left"? The only actual radicalization I've seen in the last decade has been "ultra-right," militias, normalization of anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiment, hyper-nationalism, normalization of hate speech, hate crimes and hate speech against minorities, etc.

DHS and FBI both call out rising right wing domestic terrorism as one of the top threats to the US. They don't mention "ultra-left" anything.
We might not have read the same article.

> Also, the fact it is written in rust means nothing to me.

I'm one of the authors of Pijul, and the author of that post asked me a few questions when preparing that post, and that is addressed there: https://initialcommit.com/blog/pijul-creator (see "Why did you choose to write Pijul in Rust?").

> It doesn't explain the technical aspects, it doesn't allow me to understand the system

You can have plenty of that there: https://pijul.org/manual/theory.html.

> This was painful to read.

I strongly disagree. Explaining the goals of this project isn't always easy, because both large complex projects and complete beginners can benefit from using a rigorous mathematical modeling. I guess this blog post leans more towards the "beginners" side, whereas the "Theory" page linked above would be more appealing to power users. Both are useful and important, they just appeal to different people.
I think this is largely a factor of PCs getting more powerful and the lag to libre implementations. Trying to build container infrastructure during the pentium 90 days wouldn’t have succeeded.

See “the innovators dilemma” for the process.
Sorry, the title was vague.

More specifically the question is "what were the specific, direct causes of failure?"

"My car broke down" vs. "the alternator went out so my battery died and my car wouldn't start".
Excellent question, and I'll offer you a frustrating answer that splits the difference.

Because McKinsey works in so many areas, it has a huge portfolio of outcomes. There's not a lot of public visibility into what each exact outcome might be. So the firm (and others like it) are able to benefit from this opacity.

To wit: top consulting firms are able to present prospective clients with a recap of their best engagements and wins. Is that representative? Cherry picked? No one ever knows.
I was thinking about this game the other day! Thanks for making this. I used to play this all the time when I was a kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7QMxOgYTI.
Not that much mac only apps that Windows would benefit from.
That's awesome to hear, I hope its going well!

For social habits, the mindset that I'm adopting is that its a necessary factor to perform at a high level. I've observed, especially recently, that my confidence and mood shoots out the roof when I regularly socialize.

I think the approach for me is to treat it like exercising: it won't help me type faster or solve that bug, but it will enhance my mood and confidence which is a huge competitive advantage over the long run.

I'm going to try finding a mastermind group[0] (or just creating one) and literally set time aside in my calendar for socializing. Lets see how that goes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOGLQEN38ZQ
Very nice, just a small suggestion you could add sounds just when you click your mouse and when you select/deselect a tile.
Yeah, and around the same time most 3rd party Twitter clients got shafted (on all platforms).

As for Snapchat, someone at my university made accounts that would repost snaps sent to it and some other stuff. It quickly became a huge thing, and a kind of mini social network of stuff happening on campus. As they used Snapchat APIs directly for this they were quickly banned, though. It took years before Snapchat added similar features, but for me those felt DoA and no one uses them. Sad when innovation is quenched. Instead they went on to make their own app, Gobi or something.
I don’t see how read only helps at all.

Btrfs can dedupe at the block level.
The only thing that gets me out of bed is the day/night cycle bulbs my snake needs. I know I can automate turning off the night light and turning on the day bulb, but if I don't automate then I know she's depending on me when my alarm goes off so I have to physically get up, walk to the other room, and flip a couple switches. On my way back, it's very easy for me to sit down at the counter and eat the sandwich I made the night before for breakfast.
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No worries :).
I worked for BCG for a few years. Like McKinsey, sharp, hard-working people. But often insufficiently experienced to advise on strategy of increasingly complex industries. Moreover, they lack the political and social capital to drive change, which is why so much of the project's success depends on the credibility of the hiring point person and the vision they already had prior to hiring the consulting firm.

The industry is outdated as its "insights" are relatively common knowledge among F500 company executives. This may be why government is hiring them more often. Regardless the industry is on the decline. I wrote about this 7 years ago:

https://www.curiousjuice.com/blog-0/bid/146227/When-not-to-h...
Not a course but a tool/format I use for specs https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference/
Your assumption is that the moderator is fair. This is often not the case.
It eventually made it to the SIG Networking agenda, but it needs people to join the meeting and discuss it. That's the official process for changes now.
> Keeps the user's OS and device drivers up to date, maintains the OS and develops the hardware that it runs on.

That's a license fee that you pay once you buy the device. It shouldn't be buying applications for it that fund it. In fact considering how little older phones get supported, it's pretty meaningless to say that it's to keep devices drivers up to date as they aren't ;).

> Maintains the developer tools, compilers, documentation, so that your binary can run on the device's OS.

Again, it's the customer that pay for it once he buy the device.

> A app store offers reliable hosting of the game binaries and provides a versioning and upgrade mechanism on a platform with billions of user accounts.

It doesn't cost 25% to host game binaries. I'm pretty sure Roblox host it all on Windows for example...

By the way, on Android, the license fee isn't for the Android system, it's for the Google Play services specifically. So that 40$ you paid, it's going toward the shop already.
> Any command that evaluates to a valid path will automatically change the current working directory to that path

You can get similar behaviour on Unix shells with options like:

• zsh: `setopt auto_cd`

• bash: `shopt -s autocd`

• tcsh: `set implicitcd`

I think fish has it by default but only for paths prefixed with tilde, ., /, etc.
I'm completely convinced by now that fact-checking is utterly useless, because it is based on a specific worldview that truth is something important.

While I happen to share that worldview, recent populist politicians didn't just ignore that, but managed to turn this idea on its head — and the left still seems to not get it.

There was really no shortage of scandals, proven disinformation or exposing books. But I saw liberals and progressives stumped over the fact that exposing those lies did absolutely zero to change opinion over the populist administrations. No matter the previous results, all those years they still worked with the mindset that just exposing one more lie would suddenly change everyone's mind.

As Einstein said: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

The thing they don't get is that the average Bolsonaro or Trump supporter simply does not _care_ whether their politician lies, if they simply come out of the argument as stronger. It's not logical at all, it's psycho-logical.

Any facts are pretty simple to get off the table if you're brazen, narcisstic and sociopathic enough: Just accuse the other side of doing it before they do, and if they do, double down on it yourself in order to keep the narrative lead.

It doesn't even have to make the slightest sense, it just needs to make small egos feel good and in the know.

"ABC: I'm lying? Look at XYZ, he lied two times and I can prove it! So nasty!"

Suddenly the distinction between ABC lying every day and XYZ a dozen times in their career does not matter anymore to the casual onlooker. All politicians lie, why would fact-checking matter? In fact, probably even the fact-checkers lie!

And if you don't believe me, just remember that "Fake News" was an invention of the left that was rhetorically completely spun around (extremely successfully so) from meaning creating fake news to meaning that all (mainstream) news are fake.

It took nothing more than repetition and massive confidence. As long as you keep people more scared about China, socialism, gun-robbers and making the next paycheck, it's rather easy to control the narrative, no matter the facts.

Fact-checking is a liberal pipe-dream.
Earth faster, closer to black hole in new map of galaxy
If I could id run Microsoft teams for Android on Windows, its so much better than the Windows electron based version.
Just One Thing or Every Single Thing?
Worth mentioning where this is from, SHENZHEN I/O [1], very fun and cosy programming puzzle game. Really beautiful UI and sound design.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/SHENZHEN_IO/
Is there any hope in Pijul of _any_ kind of interoperability with git at all?

Back when there used to be some projects still stuck on svn that I wanted to work on, I was able to use git locally and just kind of "publish" via svn when I was done.

Would anything like that be possible? That'd be the killer thing for me to be able to give Pijul a real try.
Sounds super exciting; thanks for pushing the boundaries on something new and potentially so much better!

Please don’t get discouraged by comments pointing out the current limitations of the platform — it just means that the core ideas are interesting/good enough for people to bother critiquing the ancillary aspects. Good tools & platforms take time to build and polish, so kudos and keep at it.
If you no longer have the ability to read your floppies or CD-ROMs you can find them on archive.org fairly easily. I'd imagine the DOS version would run in DOSBox fairly easily. For the Windows version, wine is reported to work https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio....
That prisons are or should be about justice in the first place seems worthy of skepticism. It seems to me prisons have many possible uses. Rehabilitation is a popular one, as is justice/retribution/revenge/punishment/deterrent (these all seem like different perspectives on the same concept.) These two broad motivations for prisons, rehabilitation or retribution, often dominate discussions about prisons, but what of the simple utility in keeping dangerous people away from those they might want to harm? A prison need not be inherently punishing to achieve this end, nor does it necessarily need to be rehabilitating (though rehabilitation would help keep costs low in the long run.)
Is this viable as a backup/archive format? Would it make sense to e.g. have an incremental backup as a DwarFS file, referring to the base backup in another DwarFS file?
I fell for that too. I was expecting to see tractors with the apple logo.
Try Meditation. It really helps sleep quality.

Another thing is not drinking caffeine AT ALL. My sleep quality got much better after I stopped drinking coffee. Strangely I can drink as much tea as I want but coffee makes me sleep badly.
despite the opinion of some others here i _loved_ the old 2008 facebook.
it's so sad how it all turned out 12 years later.
Nobody gets enduringly rich being a roulette player.

But it's surprising how lucrative it can be to set yourself up as a Roulette Coach.
Btrfs is default in Fedora 33.
haha, most of users here will be pissed.
I don't think it'll go away, it's still going to be a huge problem. But Trump was definitely a super-spreader.
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Have you seen this: https://www.getambassador.io/docs/latest/topics/install/bare...
Good enough, cheap, source code available wins in the long term. Also worse is better. But even worse was a lot better than DOS.
> No algebraic datatypes

Not sure what you mean there, there's product types with tuples and objects, and sum types as object variants.

> Pattern matching

Eh, I mean it's just sugar over a case statement.

let
num = 5
str = case num
of 1: "One!"
of 2, 3, 5, 7, 11: "This is a prime"
of 13..19: "A teen"
else: "Unknown" # Compile error if all cases arent covered.

As you say there's libraries that let you deconstruct and partially match more complex types if you need that. Being able to create things like pattern matching, async, and novel multithreading runtimes as a library in Nim shows how powerful (and useful) the metaprogramming is.

Enums in Rust are more interesting, but again nothing you can't do with an object variant.
Same here! We're rooting for you!
There's no Instagram app on desktop. I need this for business.
I'm curious-- did you build it as a decentralized/federated/distributed piece of software?
I am currently a college senior hoping to eventually land a job as a backend developer. I would love to hear ways I can improve my portfolio or things I am simply doing wrong. Just trying to get it right.
Why not jump off a bridge? After all, Newton's theory of gravitation is just a theory, and besides Einstein proved it's incomplete. The elite still pretends their disproven theory is truth because they want to control your life. Show the power of positive thinking and faith, make the leap!

But seriously, equating fact-checking with torment is probably not what C. S. Lewis had in mind. It has historically been the case that when opinions and ideology replace facts, it opens the door to tormentors who won't hesitate to hurt you to impose their version of reality.
Would I be simplifying too much to say the cause of failure was, in all cases, "a failure to economically supply demand"?
I agree, I went to myspace to get away from the hive mind and work in my space.
> "taking up something around 30 gigabytes of disk space, and I was unwilling to spend more than 10% of my hard drive"

I imagine these days you have more than 300GB hard disk space, making this all moot?
> There is a way to objectively measure your spiritual superiority

Saying things like this is a good way to indicate that one has not yet reached enlightenment.
The biggest difference today is work ethic, IMO. You worked hard and took failures on the chin. Now you can bitch on social media and feel sorry for yourself.
This problem is far deeper and more complex than the author makes it out to be. I have yet to see a single detailed explanation that actually touches on all the intricacies involved: from blog posts to documentaries, they all are incomplete at best or wrong at worst.

So of course, the proposed solutions are necessarily incomplete, as they're not working from a comprehensive understanding of the problem. I don't know how to solve this. The problem isn't recent, it's at least decades old, if not centuries. As far as I can tell, it boils down to a lack of effort to reconcile the experiences of disparate groups, and the need to contextualize their ideologies within those experiences. This fundamentally means that one person's facts can be another person's fiction, and the line between the two should be tread carefully. For a long time, this problem was sidestepped entirely, as groups simply avoided one another or had minimal contact.The problem was exacerbated in the modern world, and has been brought to its most extreme conclusion through the internet.

Institutional authority today speaks with too much unearned certainty. Those who share that certainty will be appeased, and those who do not will be incensed.

I do not know how to solve this problem. Neither does anyone else, though. That includes the author of this article, who doesn't even understand the problem in the first place.

If there is one takeaway, however, that I would like people to have, it is this: just because someone disagrees with you, or refuses to acknowledge facts of which you are certain, does not mean they are stupid. It is entirely possible it is you who are missing something.

Be uncertain.
It's all about money. I wonder just how much money Android generates for them. I wouldn't be surprised to hear they make more from iOS users.
Someone needs to do the same for YouTube ca. 2007
reasonML / reasonML + bucklescript amount to about 25%, it's been out for 4 years while CAML was out for 30+.

Yet the wording makes it sound like it's disappointing "used by only 25%", "maybe the survey was not advertized enough in the Reason community".

Actually, the fact that someone can show up with a transpiler that makes the language curly braces friendly and get 25% market share just like that is just puzzling.
Great that hiring is taking place.

Not so great that Amazon's success comes because many small businesses were forced to shut by government action, and with minimal or no lifeline for many of them.
Ha. As if roads don’t cost society enough.
The Fediverse is creating a space like this. The best case is you hosting your own server and being in control of all moderation.
> most devs in SF doing "cloud" whatever use a Mac, probably around 80%.

They're just victims of group think, advertising, peer pressure or status signalling. Everywhere else in the world, 80% of people doing "cloud" whatever aren't using a Mac.
Shall we talk about the name?
Or does nobody care about the impact of subconscious bias in adoption of dev tools and ai should shut up ? :-)
Don't get anxious. These kinds of studies are almost always overturned by another one within 12-24 months. Weak correlations are not worth worrying about.
Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?
The Mueller investigation indicted 34 people.
I think the issue is that, from a user perspective, the implementation details of the kernel and base OS doesn’t matter. As long as it’s sanely implemented and doesn’t impose onerous limitations, it should just get out of the way. The vendor can implement it however they like, with whatever technologies they like, and as long as it supports featureful applications users shouldn’t need to care.

The reason Unix was so successful was precisely because it was simple and portable a d designed to get out of the way. It was as unremarkable as possible, by design. All the interesting stuff is left to application developers. You want to implement a relational file system, go ahead. You want to develop your own GUI layer, fine. Compared to the other major OSes of the day like VMS, Pick, PrimeOS, etc it’s as unoppinionated as possible. Likewise with C, which is intended to be as low level and paradigmless as they could. Just an abstraction over assembler just as Unix is a thin abstraction over the hardware.
I wouldn’t even consider it. I intentionally run tires larger larger than OEM for safety. If everyone I love is in my car and there is anything I can to help protect them I will.

This is one area where I’ll proudly admit I come before mother nature. As George Carlin famously said the planet will be here long after I’m gone.
I think the 2008ish version of the internet was just a much happier place. Part of why HN feels like a breath of fresh air still
haha, wish I could see the comment you're responding to.
If you capture an object with light from various angles you can "re-light" it in post-processing. Drop it into different scenes and have realistic lighting coming from different angles. https://augmentedperception.github.io/therelightables/
I want to join, but this carries over a lot of the same problems that modern social media has developed - primarily, insight into a heavy portion of my personal data and connections, without any assurance that it won't be monetized in an untoward fashion. It sucks, but it feels like Facebook et al.'s abuse of their position has ruined this kind of centralized social media platform forever. Promises aren't enough; it has to be built into the platform structure. So I'm wary.

Sidenote: boy, do pages load fast, though. No cruft, I love it.
I wrote something similar, but for the purpose of saving material to a personal image board while using a mobile device or browser, using a web service architecture. This means you don't have to use a terminal every time you want to save an image, and several different clients can be used without needing to rewrite the extraction code for each one. It also saves the original tags if the source supports them, which makes everything way more searchable. But this new program has a lot more site support than mine.

We need good wrappers for these kinds of programs for use with mobile devices.

https://github.com/Ruin0x11/szurupull
Try to point out something correct but moderately controversial.

I think I've been modded for:

- trying to get people to hate less on Russians

- on the other hand, in the same forum: trying to tell some over eager people that no, Russians aren't saints and it isn't all NATOs fault.

- pointing out (as an insider that was supposedly one of the victims in a major news story recently) that the "facts" didn't check out at all.
I'm bipolar so I've gone through periods where I sleep 18 hours a day and periods where I sleep 2 hours a night if at all. Caffeine intake doesn't seem to matter. Medication and good mental hygiene helps a lot with this issue.
What about it? Searching for "pijul -vcs" shows images of birds, which is reasonable?
Competition in this context means that the end user is free to select any device from any manufacturer, and can expect his applications to run roughly in the same way and with similar performance on comparable hardware, without repurchasing them, without getting locked to a proprietary application store that takes a pound of flesh from the developers etc.

That would require the operating systems to become a commodity with little to distinguish between them. There is no way any of the OS developers is going to allow that to happen.
Not at the moment, sorry. Despite that, one opinion I can offer is that I think a project like this would benefit from design and implementation in public.