skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all BS.

"Influencing" is a ponzy scheme. If you can convince people you are trending, you'll trend. If you can convince people you are influencing, you'll influence. Sadly, like all trends, the biggest players are all big fish trying to get in before it dies. This doesn't legitimise it though.

This is just an art project that is trending. They're real photos, with real girls and then the creator will place a flavour (ala thispersondoesnotexist.com) through the use of AI. It's akin to automating your photoshop meme pipeline, but way less creative.

It's marketing all the way down. Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, etc. are all just marketing spirals that occasionally spit out unique content that was made with real hard work. The rest is just cycling through other people's work with faux congrats and advertising for your own "channel".
This is myth. Russian systems are suffering from malware just like others. And probably more, because it's easier for local criminals to target local companies. It might be true for a very tiny fraction of malware, but that's definitely an exception, rather than rule.

Of course if there are state-sponsored hackers (I'm not really aware if those exist, but I allow this possibility), they will target whatever their management points at. And with corruption it's pretty possible that some local business could be targeted as a part of some financial wars.

But majority of hackers are just some guys with some IT knowledge and zero morale. They'll buy some exploits and tools on black markets, duct tape them into something and release in the wild, waiting for profits (or police). They'll rob banks or babushkas, they don't care.
> Similarly, a good optimizer will strip away layers of software abstraction and make what's actually happening more evident.

I can attest to this, I've found it's frequently far more satisfying to debug at -O3 than -O0. At O3, the disassembly really lays bare the invalid assumptions that were relied upon.
You reminded me of a Shrine in Japan they demolish and rebuild every 20 years[0]. I guess they embrace the ephemerality of life.

[0] https://knowledgestew.com/japanese-shrine-rebuilt-every-20-y...
Cash is legitimately harder to launder than some cryptocurrency. It's not about the expense, it's the infrastructure you have to build. Front companies and shell companies to move the money around. The more cash you have to launder the more of these entities you'll need.

The more paper records you generate the more likely you're going to get raided by the FBI, Scotland Yard, etc.
As a former Windows Phone user, The Palm Phone is about as close to that experience as you can get to that experience of a smartphone that generally leaves me alone.

Of course, they only made one version, they botched the marketing by marketing it as a "companion phone" initially, and it was released in 2018, so eventually it won't be an option with modern apps.
My second Linux installation came with Xwindows. IIRC that were like 4 or 5 floppies
48% Covid ICU beds in Alabama: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514837
Tribal police have power over their enrolled members (arrest, jail etc.) some power over outsiders (they can arrest but not hold or sentence people? I think? but maybe they're fighting about this?) and they, like all police forces, can't interfere with Federal agents (though they aren't obligated to enforce federal laws.)
Mailchimp isn't an API to send emails. It's a WYSIWYG email marketing newsletter creator. If you've ever made an email newsletter that looks nice you'll understand how that is very valuable to a lot of companies.

Add in all the usual ops, customer support, business to business client management for bigger accounts, marketing, and so on and its not hard to see how it can need quite a lot of people.
If you're "running as a full node" then your full node is the remote node for a hardware wallet, isn't it?. I'm confused. I've only ever used the CLI which provides separate applications for wallet and node, and I connect the CLI wallet over RPC to my local (full) node. My understanding is the GUI works the same way while only presenting the one interface to the end user. But you should have a monerod running under the hood.
this is totally reasonable and arguably necessary for a platform. High profile users are going to be targeted for reporting much more, and the consequences of a false suspension are more visible for them. Think of it like how you might whitelist people who you trust from auto moderation or rate limits on Reddit or some other site if you trust them because the auto mod makes mistakes or you want to give them more options. Obviously FB and Twitters moderation sucks, but that isn’t related to this directly
finally, there will go down 'apple privacy myth'
Have you tried putting it on a stool?
If you were South Korean, you'd realise how much the marketing sphere of Korea is influenced by passing fads and memes. There's never a single thing that hasn't been picked up by at least one larger person to try run their luck at a new trend.

TV commercial does not make it not BS. There are lots of things in Korea that are utter BS but get a lot of attention, and people are generally fearful of missing out.
Could be maybe also of use for alcohol use disorders where the pancreatic cells are chronically damaged from the metabolites of ethanol.
There's isn't a platonic ideal of social media to argue for/against though. Pandora's box has been opened and we can't unopen it. If Facebook magically disappeared tomorrow, people would still take their phone-computer out of their pockets and send messages, thoughts, pictures, videos to their friends and family. Socializing through multimedia technologies. Where there are platforms that don't have the same problems as Facebook, (but also don't have the same reach as Facebook), what is actually inherent to social media, and what is because it's built on top of late-stage capitalism? Hate speech and radicalization hit an inflection point in the 1940s, hopefully we can avoid the same in the 2040s.
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Rust and Go pull in some stuff from functional programming (first class functions) but are not really designed around functional programming as the way to get things done.

Most go programming I've seen is like python where you are slinging around maps that are getting modified all over the place. Very antithetical to functional programming.
AI seems to be used as a buzzword here, I think this is just a (well-done) 3d model, seeing that they're created by an art studio: http://locusanimation.com/
IMO with Go. Yes, it eschews object-oriented programming. Yet, funnily enough, whenever I use Go, I am noticing that I can work fine with it when thinking about it in an object-oriented way. Structs + methods were all the features I used in object-oriented programming anyway.
Or you could use a service that lets you do whatever with the data for free, for example the Norwegian Meteorological Institute`s API. It powers Yr.no which is used worldwide. https://api.met.no/
I don’t know anything about influencers but why would people want to follow (more than for fun) someone that is AI generated? I mean an INFLUENCEr would be someone I aspire to be like. So if i follow a marathon athlete I’d like to be like her, do the same exercises etc. that would be impossible to mimic with a virtual marathon runner.

Replace marathon with ‘coding’ or whatever hobby you have, and I’m sure you’ll find it weird as well
You can't really blame management when even one this page there are plenty of non-management people calling for Mozilla having other revenue sources.
In the uk we don’t have this law and manufacturers don’t have a monopoly - We have a system of dealerships, so I think you can have a system without careful regulation?
This is a "sponsored" article. It's literally just an advertisement.

The contents are a big jargony mess, which isn't a huge surprise.
I have an algebra book on my shelf* that puts function arguments on the left, as in (x)f instead of the usual f(x). It is definitely more “natural”, as functions compose in the normal reading direction. But even so, it is increadibly hard to read, because the break with the usual convention is so radical. Needless to say, it didn’t catch on.

* In my office, but I am at home. Don’t remember the author; sorry. But it was written back in the ‘60s, I think.
Click the Force button (Darth Vader icon, bottom right) to make things stop bouncing around.
> Humans often give coherent _rationalizations_ of their actions, which is slightly different than an explanation.

At least those rationalizations are logically plausible as explanations; they very well could be (usually) the actual explanation.

What's now called AI cannot, AIUI, convincingly come up with any "explanation" of its reasoning, simply because it hasn't done any actual reasoning.

I don't know if most fans or current "AI" really can't see the difference, or are just pretending. (If they really can't, one can't help wonder if they are themselves current "AIs"...)
I really loved having the red notification light for when a message was received on my BB. Having to click a button on my iPhone in order to check whether I have a notification or not is quite jarring, and time consuming.

And like everyone else here I really miss having a proper keyboard. That thing was great.
That's way too optimistic. K-pop idols are already entirely superficial and 90% fake. This doesn't stop people putting them on pedestals for things that are totally constructed.
The developers.
Can tribes create embassies? This sounds like a great boon to tribal economies: Buy land, turn into embassy (sovereign land), lease building to Tesla for dealership, profit.
If the consumer device breaks, the owner typically consumes a new one.

If the pro device breaks, the pro typically consumes a competitor's product. If the mil device breaks, the mil typically won't order 85,000 of them.

It is in the company's interest to ensure that the consumer device breaks.
How long before someone gets surgery to look like her?
> I'm not a money laundering expert.

Then why are you regurgitating this uninformed vomit passing as currency expertise? You clearly don't understand how money laundering works with paper cash, and you think the only thing that matters is "cost".
My wife is currently facing a fine because she had some extra income in 2020 that the local IRS don't understand. Not that it's illegal, shady or remotely fraudulent: they just don't understand how could she earn some small money (around $500) doing X when she mainly does Y.

The "solution" they deem as legal is to create a whole new bussiness dedicated to do X, or refuse to do it. And to my eyes X and Y are related (like doing a security audit to a web and building a web), but IRS don't think so.
I was attempting, perhaps poorly, to ask the authors if they measured the performance degradation or not with this change. That way we would have the data you are asking _me_, for some reason, to provide. The onus is not on me to do their work for them and prove to everyone on HN that, yes, I have seen massive performance issues when people "port" C code to C++ (in many many projects over many many years throughout my professional career). If the authors choose not to answer or to care at all (if they even see my post) that is perfectly acceptable as well. I'm just interested in the facts so all of us can better choose whether this decision was a good one or not!
I find Ripple and Stellar useful too. I'm not looking at their philosophy or ideology, but I've used both of them to transfer funds quickly. For that, I find them useful. In general, I'm in favor of cryptocurrencies that allow for quick transfers.

This is simply a user perspective. My "crypto perspective" isn't too happy about Ripple, but I can't deny that I enjoy using it for quick transfers.
While I find antivax schoolboard patchy-blond-hairdye rage moms to be boring and dull, I’m quite happy for social media platforms to work like that and show you content you want from actual people posting that content. And I don’t think either the “Facebook and Twitter shows you a pure bubble” or “Facebook intentionally elevates internet rage and arguments to mine engagement” are exactly true, partially as they’re contradictory. If you want to see posts you disagree with, which many absolutely do (a significant number of top Reddit subs are r/screenshotsofpeopleidontlikebeingidiotslmao) you see it, and if you don’t you don’t, and if you just want random unmoderated unfiltered content you can have that too.
What no framework ?? :p
Lol just kidding, super well done :)
WTF if you were South Korean? I was born in South Korea and lived here for 35 years.

I am saying creators are probably not lying when they project $800k yearly revenue. Yes, you can earn $800k in South Korea entirely by fads, but that was not the question.
I think the shooting and motion feels good, it wouldn't sustain a full game (or even a full episode) but for the two maps it has it feels nice as a game.
You can live on top of the borehole though, no issues. It's not like the area has to be cordoned off forever.
In some cases I've found it impossible to use .map() - especially when needing to use "self" and dealing with lifetimes of data borrowed from "self". I really wish Rust had proper disjoint capture for private methods in these instances.
The car dealers are free to sell other cars? Or dashboard bobbleheads, perhaps?
You also have to focus on the correct performance issues and personally I've never seen writing functional js/ts being the issue.
While I'm sure there are some with a local police force, they are all overseen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police.
The clips are why I bothered to finish watching it. Its interesting it just isn't true...

I am British so no complaints about archival footage
Couldn’t agree more.

Have been using Jekyll for years for all manner of sites and the most beautiful feature is that I’ve barely changed anything.

Even when I did recently update a few sites to new versions (mainly just because I was making some changes and figured why not) nothing broke.
Those exists because the language is popular, they weren't created to market the language before it was popular.
I don't think it is "to aspire to be like them", more of a "to aspire to be close to them". The same story for celebrities. You just want good things to those you spend time cherishing. It has nothing to do with whether you think it's real, fake, obtainable or not. BTS aren't popular because people want to be like them, they're popular because people want to be with them.
Great resource thanks for sharing. Lots of the useful titles and resources :)
Notification light is a feature that exists on a lot of android phones still, it's one feature I wouldn't want to lose.
Wow, I remember this happening! That is truly funny to me that it was because of a security researcher accidentally triggering this massive bug.

Great write up, and kudos to apple for not suing him but paying out the bug bounties.
Let us know how it goes. Our limbic system is more accurate than our perception abilities.

The issue with email is partly a slight inconvenience. Unless you input large content, the UX time overhead is significant enough to prefer IM. EMails has not been designed for frequent back and forth on the same thread even if occasional. From there you loose most people. Email hasn't changed much, from the time we barely had Internet connections, the burden to find a connected client was enough to forgive the UX issue.

Enter email address, autocomplete, type text, click send is enough a deterent for most of us to favor a chat window, type and press enter. And scroll up to see what was communicated prior. Got an image or audio? Drop it in, press enter. You can even record a quick audio message and boom, sent. Email client and protocol simply don't support that. At best you get addons which aren't necessarily supported on the other side.

Openness is the solution, but email protocol doesn't have what is needed for current needs of communication. Corporates building these tools now have the network effect, keeping the crowd in their walled gardens.
Remind me what we’re fighting for again? In 2021.
Interesting essay.

My impression is that no claim in this essay is backed by an empirical study anywhere, (except that polarization drives engagement, I've seen a few studies about that I think). Would be glad to take pointers.

Something to note about the "uniformity" encouraged by tools such as Grammarly is that, these tools start to decrease the quality of writing mostly when used by experienced writers. Those who speak English as a second language and use Grammarly usually swear by it. Here's an in-depth, well-researched article about the consequences of AI in writing from the New Yorker, in which Paul Lambert, who oversees "Smart Compose" for Gmail stated:

> “our most passionate group are the E.S.L. users. And there are more people who use English as a second language than as a first language.” These users don’t want to go beyond grammar yet—they’re still learning it.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/can-a-machine-...
That’s a strong assertion. Can you elaborate, to back it up?
Looks interesting enough to put it on my "to evaluate/play-around" pile.

I'd be interested to know what the author thinks about RON[0], it's not quite the same but also has some nice properties and wants to be a replacement for JSON (yes this is more one for XML or JSON, but still).

Sometimes I wonder if all those formats would never have got invented if JSON had just allowed comments and trailing commas in the first place.
While there's JSON5[1] now, it just has not the same level of native (ecosystem) support as JSON has.

[0]: https://github.com/ron-rs/ron

[1]: https://json5.org/
GNU Taler is (for Europeans at least) the most promising system, because it is controllable (at least on the merchant side).

The users themself are anonymous, just like when using cash!

That is a good system because it enables governments to still being able to tax businesses and control illegal activities. Such system will also gain more acceptance among the common folks.

https://taler.net/en/index.html
I’m unfamiliar with this publication. Is this article automatically generated? The simple, nunber-oriented language sans analysis, interspersed with random opinion sentences reminds me of AI-written sports game summary blurbs.
Thanks, that's reassuring. I really like Matrix and don't want it to collapse because of lack of a vision.
> The blame for YouTube’s copyright system is largely not YouTube, lest we forget the parties that actually benefit from it.

It’s entirely YouTubes fault. Their business model is automated moderation and it’s constantly proven faulty. Yet they haven’t made a decent support system around it.

Their automated systems is the primary reason why we would never consider using Google Cloud, even though parts of it would enable us of building apps that we can’t with Azure or AWS. Their support is just horrible though. When something goes wrong with our office365 or azure setup we can call Seattle (I’m not sure where exactly Microsoft is located, sorry) and they will give us hourly updates until it’s fixed. With Google the support we get, even as an enterprise organisation with 10.000 employees is the same you get, an automated process that likely won’t solve your issue until it gathers enough publicity to make a real human at Google notice.

The automated bans and takedowns work for YouTube because it’s content creators and it’s viewers are it’s products and not it’s customers, but I’m looking forward to when the EU puts their foot down on it.

> EU wants to legally mandate the mechanism of Content ID, just another nail in the coffin for the open web really.

The EU is slowly moving to making platforms responsible for their content and how they treat their users. I don’t see it as the end of the open web, however, because the web isn’t open now and haven’t been for quite some time as this channel getting wrongly banned shows you.

Google is an evil advertising company and the sooner they get broken down the better.
Your definitions are pretty much orthogonal. I would consider Haskell functional and mostly declarative.
Oh, I'm sure you guys will have this one figured out soon. :D

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
I agree with the positive comments in this thread. I too was a C++ hater, and I by no means understand it as well as C, but recompiling a small (~15KLOCs) project today with a C++ compiler caught a few issues.

And on another project, it was great to be able to use std::map instead of rolling my own equivalent. The only thing that scares me is exceptions.
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Was going to agree, they seem completely corrupt and on the take.

My theory is that all the police state and surveillance stuff they carry on with is primarily to keep exploiting the country without disruption.
If only there was some way to collect money from car sales & use it to maintain local youth programs. Or better yet: A percentage of every transaction. We could call it "sales tax." ;)
While I agree with you, I think, in general, it’s functional patterns that people are after but not necessarily pure functional programming which I’d argue often times still is weird and counterintuitive (at least to people who have started with imperative paradigms in a procedural or object oriented language).

JavaScript isn’t a functional language, neither are Rust nor Go (and Go in general is probably one that the least bets on functional patterns all around), they all just provide constructs from functional languages like mapping arrays.
I do dislike YouTube for this. However, it’s a compromise they made to offer __pretty much all music, copyrighted or not, for free, to everyone, at any time__. That’s valuable!

The arrangement is, essentially, yes, they have agreements with all of those bodies to give them the ad revenue in exchange for leaving the videos up
I'm using Jekyll (Ruby) in a docker container to manage the documentation of a Django project (Python). No need to deal with gems. Only docker pull and docker run. Most of the other developers don't know anything about Ruby.

https://hub.docker.com/r/jekyll/jekyll/
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No, I am claiming that the narrative of ever-marching progress (of which vegetarianism is a often participant) is just a narrative and not a serious prediction based on analysis and data.

You can see a similar thing with religion. The progress narrative says we will outgrow these supposedly outdated myths, while the actual data indicates that religion is growing, largely due to birth rates.
It's a shining example of international harmony, where even supposed "rogue states" like North Korea and Cuba have signed up to life + 50 years.
This is not the case, it measures the time between two points in the code at runtime and prints that[1].

[1] https://github.com/kprotty/zap/blob/blog/benchmarks/rust/ray...
I believe in a version of this, what i believe to be the obvious version. And that's that reincarnation happens continually, because we don't have singular souls but rather a great many that act in concert. Through interactions with all the people we have ever had, we are influenced, and their souls (composed of all the people they have been influenced by) flows into ours... And then we, in turn, upload ourselves to others in a continual process. Who we are is distributed across many people. This leads to a karmic concern for the future (where our future souls will be in misery or bliss).
Don't amphetamines have a negative effect on the cardiovascular system?