skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the platforms have their own TikTok style mechanism now. YouTube has Shorts, Facebook has its Reels feature which is tightly integrated with Instagram and you need an Instagram account to engage with Reels on Facebook, which is a bit of a growth hacker dark pattern. For now, Reels is not interspersed with ADs which is refreshing, but that could all change.

The whole vertical video craze is a weird one, and one I’ve only recently tried to adjust to. I mean the pace of it is so fast, and I barely have time to process each video before moving to the next one. A whole generation are going to be raised on cheap dopamine hits and will probably suffer mild ADD symptoms because of this.

I want the slow web back where I can chew on long form content and mull over large pieces of text and long winded podcasts, not boiled down snippets of info that prey on my base instincts and giddy 1 minute dopamine fixes.
I don't think it's what people want, per se. I think it's what some metrics say people want. Might be good for "engagement", but bad for retention in the long term. People were on facebook for the features facebook had.
Didn’t they just layoff a bunch of people and let go of their CFO?
This is true in some disciplines, but largely inapplicable in others. A great idea, but I'm not sure it would work outside of physics or chemistry. I mean imagine trying to apply that to medical research. But it's a novel idea, so thanks for sharing.
Try freelancing or consulting?

When you do your passion as an actual 'job' it'll kill you. But do it on your own terms and you can have your cake and eat it too.
That seems an unreasonable size for a gorilla. I would advocate vivisection for science in such a case.
Thanks for the feedback. I did a bit too much tweaking. Consider it fixed!
$300 is a lot for basic classes to get started. Are we talking about Ultimaker 3d printer level of equipment or a CNC machine for tens of thousands?
I see phrases like this "doubles the density of bits stored per unit area versus competing chips, packing in 14.6 gigabits per square millimeter. Its 1-terabit chips are bundled into 2-terabyte packages, each of which is barely more than a centimeter on a side" and I just imagine sending this sentence back to my 12 year old self, sitting in front of my Commodore VIC-20 and imagine how science fiction that would sound.

I mean, it sounds science fiction to me now. Amazing.
Yeah, I thought of something similar in that one of the best ways to keep it safe would be to automatically inject similar yet different emotions and memories into the journal, on the idea that only I would know what I was talking about, then realized memory can be super faulty and the closer it is to being believable, the more I might actually believe the chaff.

I think what you suggest might work better, especially if it's just me, where I may remember the metaphors/inside jokes better, and from the perspective of developing the app, I don't know if that would alleviate the fear I feel for how others will use it.
I think you have the option of saying that you're a former employee, and in that case you only need to validate an address not one tied to a specific domain.

In any case the idea of a company email is a little hard to define from the perspective of a 3rd party that deals with millions of companies; different TLD's, domains, sub domains etc make it very hard to nail down exactly which pattern is the definition of any given companies real email addresses.
Sorry, why is creole being referenced here?

Is this an inside joke/reference I'm not familiar with?

Is it a typo?

Edit: Thank you all for the replies. I am aware of and respectful of the literal definition.

The usage on the comment I responded to strikes me as either antiquated, inaccurate, or a typo.
I think funding lotteries are rarely proposed as straightforward lotteries, there is usually still an evaluation step that filters some 50% of proposals. It’s based on the observation that there is usually consensus about what is a reasonable grant proposal, and very little consensus about what is a great grant proposal.
Both. If you want an introduction to the topic framed objectively, you'll want to start with Linda Berens, David Keirsey, etc. They will use words like those. Linda taught me about this stuff, and my own coach connected me to Keirsey's work. See the upper-right quadrant in the table on this page:

https://lindaberens.com/resources/methodology-articles/tempe...

Groups of people like you find in tech communities, for contrast, are usually found in that lower-left zone.

But also, they are words that I use for my own work because they fit really well and offer a lot of reliable leverage in context. So I am not using these to reference the work of those particular individuals so much as I'm using them because they fit and also because I like them. In fact Linda might tilt her head at my use of rationalist along with stabilizer, until she understands what I mean by that (social bell curve; this is connected to Jungian and post-Jungian theory as well).
The funniest part of all this is it’s not true that Seinfeld ever said that.

1. Read the footnote in the article

2. Read this Reddit post by Jerry Seinfeld https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/comment/ceitfx...

I mean I definitely have increased my own skills over time by being consistent, but this is definitely a fake claim.
Which is better? The United States of Advertising? Or The United States of Attention Capture?

The whole country is involved In selling shit and themselves 24*7. There is nothing thing else going on.
Yep, rather than focusing on how they are are different in providing value (connecting people) they are chasing attention and ad revenue. It’s sad because that type of person to person social connection is being relegated back to instant messengers which still function more or less like the ones from the 2000s.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2262437

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033433

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6544267
If you want to call people out for passive aggression, well, that’s your choice, I guess. Not what I’d do, but hey, whatever makes you happy.
Chrome on Ubuntu and Android. I doubt this to be browser dependent as the preference should be stored server side.
Whoever invented the idea of software-paywalling already-installed-and-working hardware ought to be locked in a padded cell and forced to listen to the entire Alvin and the Chipmunks discography on repeat for the foreseeable future.
The author is merely a new member of the space and not representative of staff. I’m sure the staff would know better what that number is!
It's the law.
Maybe other people's feeds are different (admittedly I don't do much on it), but almost all I see on instagram are screenshots of twitter, tumblr, reddit, and tiktok videos. Very little content original to the platform.
Easy with Go

https://godocs.io/embed
Article is missing .incbin from file scope inline asm. Much more convenient than a separate .s file.

Probably doesn't work on windows, no measurable compile time cost (unlike massive arrays of comma separated chars).
I’ve been following Bun’s development earnestly for quite a while—not since the start, but long enough to help clear up some stuff.

A thing that’s not clear in the article, or indeed obvious in Bun’s launch material, is that it was originally (or at least as close to its origin as I can trace in personal memory) scoped as a TypeScript/JS/JSX compiler and generally as a bundler. This is where it got its name, as I recall. In any case, as you say it was a greenfield compiler with ESBuild as a reference.

Jarred can correct me if he’s here and I’m wrong (about this or anything), but I believe the runtime scope grew organically out of:

1. Bun’s nascent macro system (which last I checked is novel and quite clever, using JSX as the abstract macro it is). Macros need a runtime to macro anything, after all.

2. Prioritizing development before production, and ecosystem compatibility (e.g. Next.js is frequently used in example benchmarks), again where a runtime is expected.

Of very few nits I’d pick, I think “based on” should very probably be reworded to reflect the inspiration. It’s easy to misinterpret in a software context. The only nits remaining to pick, I’ve already picked them on Twitter and they’re generally about not introducing API inconsistencies for performance wins (and AFAICT that’s always been persuasive).

If Bun’s future is primarily as a runtime rather than a build tool, it’s probably fine that its roots as a transpiler/bundler is left to curious esoteria. Maybe even for the best, because that category of software has such a poor reputation. Even if the cute name references a hopefully not distant future where so much churn and worry about JS build tooling might become an afterthought.
First negative review is hilarious:

>Downloaded it to give it a shot and it ask you for everything! All your private data! Pictures, private messages, etc..

It's an app to move all your data, but you're surprised to see it asks for your data? If you're trying to switch to Google anyway, then they'll have your new data anyhow...
Any company that hires as many engineers and project managers as Google does is inevitably going to have some number of employees who previously worked within the national security or defense apparatus of the United States. No surprise that conspiracy-theory blog sites like MintPress News are going to make mountains out of mole hills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News
Guess it worked for Seinfeld but who is this Brad Isaac who he gave the secret too?
Happy birthday Valgrind. Next year you'll be able to drink in the US!

Being a UK PhD holder, a sentence stood out out to me was a commentary/comparison between UK and US PhDs:
"This was a three year UK PhD, rather than a brutal six-or-more year US PhD."

My cousin has a US PhD and judging from what he tells me. It is a lot more rigorous than UK PhDs.
I think the problem boils down to the same mantra as always: users are not customer, but product.
It’s ok. You missed the several times I pointed out that’s what I’m trying to get at, that it isn’t a solved problem of identification, or even terminology. You almost commented on that as a difficulty. Couldn’t keep from making it negative, but again that’s to be expected.
It is a frustrating problem. Your frustration isn’t unique. There’s not a lot of easy explanations in old books. That would indeed be a comfort. Humans keep seeking it.

Having a change of heart? Or preparing another barb?

I’ll be here. Take your time.
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I use both Grammarly and LT. I wish LT had an option to select the desired tone like Grammarly does. The formal one is occasionally useful but is waaay too formal for regular work-related communications (at least in the US).
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Hey Facebook. Fix the auto scrolling desktop bug first. I've pretty much stopped using Facebook because of this.
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You have a good head on your shoulders - don't over analyze it. Three months on IP work doesn't really matter if you never ship. If you're getting joy from the research, then continue - and maybe think about becoming a patent attorney - but if you want to build, build.

Good luck!
That's exactly why I decided to take the makerspace I started and move across the country. I bought a 220,000 sqft building with high hopes of never ever running into the kinds of problems I was having renting. Then the pandemic hit, and the city officials decided to play stupid games, and 2 1/2 years later I still can't turn the power on, the waterjet is still packed away, almost everything else has been stolen, and I'm in the middle of a lawsuit to try to actually use the building I bought.
Anyone know why I would get some "random" addresses if I run `nslookup hashbang.com`, but if I run `nslookup hashbang.com.` I get localhost?
Google also has a rather curious funding history [0] that very neatly fits with such hires.

[0] https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
Where do you see that they're a 501(c)(3) non-profit? I don't see that on their site; given the services they offer for sale, I would have expected them to be a B-corp or something similar.

Either way: 501(c)(3) status exempts a nonprofit from Federal income tax, but not necessarily state taxes. I don't know enough about California taxes to say whether or not that matters for them, but it's plausible that they'd have tax obligations from accepting securities.

Edit: Based on this search[1][2], there's a Benefit Corporation, not a 501(c)(3).

[1]: https://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Details.aspx?result=...

[2]: https://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Details.aspx?result=...
In my obviously biased opinion, very specialised, but sometimes exactly what you needed (I have used this in anger maybe 2-3 times in my career since then, which is why I wrote the C version):

https://github.com/tialaramex/leakdice (or https://github.com/tialaramex/leakdice-rust)

Leakdice implements some of Raymond Chen's "The poor man’s way of identifying memory leaks" for you. On Linux at least.

https://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20050815_224...

All leakdice does is: You pick a running process which you own, leakdice picks a random heap page belonging to that process and shows you that page as hex + ASCII.

The Raymond Chen article explains why you might ever want to do this.
My goal is to do nothing. I don't have trouble with procrastination.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostelecom
Interesting. Do most Russians believe this? Are they concerned at all about the mass atrocities committed by Russian in Ukraine?
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Facebook is dying, but not because of TikTok.

Facebook is dying because they stopped being Facebook. If they gave what's left of their userbase what they actually wanted (chronological feed, seeing friends posts, not seeing spam, more ways to interact (bring back pets, gifts, superpokes etc)) they'd do ok.

It doesn't help that their core code is a steaming pile of bloated dung that doesn't seem to be tested by anyone.
Every PM I have met pivoted from a technical or front line role. External hires for PMs without direct prior experience are probably lottery-esque happenings.
Cosmopolitan Libc allows you to build programs that run on six operating systems (Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD). I ported Python 2.7.18 and 3.6.14 to build on Cosmopolitan Libc because I wanted to have the same Python executable and my scripts with me everywhere :) I've updated the blog post for context.

The flask demo is unnaturally slow because my old computer is slow (running python tests in the background). plus I was using `_dummy_thread` Python3.6's pure-python threads implementation.
> That is the kind of thinking that we need to change. Instead, NIH should have considered selecting a subset of investigators and applying a cap to them, and then compared results a decade into the future with those that were left to accumulate more traditional funding.

If you are one of the researchers who is in the experimental group with lifetime capped funding (or at least a decade of capped funding, until the study is up), your career is going to be really impacted, isn't it?

I can't believe the OP suggested this with a straight face, it's obvious why it wouldn't fly, and why NIH was considering only doing it universally, to at least treat all researchers equally, right?

But yes, I understand the argument for how an experimental approach would help us determine the best funding models... although it's not really clear to me how this experiment works. Even assuming that we know how to measure which group did "better" after 10 years... wait, what are you expecting to see in the comparison between the research-capped group vs not in determining if it worked? I don't actually underestand this experiment.

Anyway, regardless, it's not a mystery why it's not going to happen, right? Experimenting with researchers careers.
I recently download the Facebook app to sell something in the marketplace. It has become so bloated and un-user friendly, I question why anyone would use it on a daily basis. The new feeds is a bunch of irrelevant posts I don’t care about. I guess it was bound to happen when you hire thousands of workers to work on one app. It’s been optimized into a deformed monster.
and the collected data should be always available
I just looked it up and it’s really cool! Unfortunately it’s US-only. Are there any guides on how to DIY one of those?
Re: this, interested readers could check out In-Q-Tel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel).
If you read the comments, you'd have seen the analogy to Apple repairing a laptop with slightly better parts and then deciding multiple years later to software-nerf it. I don't know about you, but I'd be livid - in both cases.
The main reason for Valgrind would be if you're working with a binary that you can't recompile to add the ASAN instrumentation.
Except I don't agree with their definition. Google's ability to "choose how things work" comes from their investment in the web as a platform for things like GSuite, Google Meet and more. Plenty of other companies have the ability to speak up, but none of the big players (Apple, Microsoft) do because it would sabotage their market position. So, Google is the only one left making significant changes, aside from open source contributors/committees.

> Sounds great.

Now you're grossly missing the point. The problem isn't the status quo, it's the system. Tearing down Standard Oil will leave a power vacuum, and adequate incentive from suppliers and processors will just make another monopoly. If your goal is to get rid of those companies, that's a pretty counterintuitive way to do it.

Personally, I think our world needs to start taking digital standards more seriously, like ISO but taken to the next level. We let ourselves get in these positions because we don't force these companies to provide interoperability or data ownership. Capitalism can work in the tech sector at this scale, but we need better regulation and more strict rules around proprietary interfaces. At least, that's the accelerationist mindset; we can languish in technological fiefdom for as long as we'd like, I'm sure FAANG doesn't mind.
This can actually be solved by writing out to assembly and using an assembler to make the .o file to link in. That can deal with huge files with constant memory.
Is it taking over the same space though? I use Facebook because it's the only place I can see the schedules at my gym, or the menus as many local restaurants despite them not having updated their Facebook page in two years. As far as I know Tiktok doesn't really try to compete against these things.
Yeah, this is ridiculous.

I had the exact same situation with, weirdly enough, InstantPot.

My device had a clear warranty-covered issue during the warranty period.

The model I had had been discontinued (and I suspect because of supply chain issues they didn’t have any in stock stateside anyways).

They sent me the new upgraded model as a replacement which was at least twice as expensive.

I would be mad as hell if a few years in now, if they had the ability, they would decide to degrade it to the older model.
With work-from-home reducing the demand for office space, would not we expect rent for such spaces to go down ?
I'm not sure about realism, and it's WW2 instead of premodern, but the board game Race to the Rhine is basically all about logistics.
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Probably has more to do with Google trying to sell government services.

It's yawn inducing but a more realistic interpretation.
I pray that someday an original-Facebook social media site returns. I'd really like to keep in touch with friends and family over large distances. I'm even willing to put up with ads in the sidebar, or at this point in my life donate to a site that provides such a valuable service.

But I won't use or even condone a product that actively manipulates its users via dark patterns. Such a blatant disrespect for personal choice and autonomy. No thought about the consequences on democratic systems, or radicalization of folks exposed, or mental health... just greed, money, and growth above all else.

There is a very special place in hell for people who talk in the movie theatre. And Mark Z.
I'd assume they're referencing it being something like a pidgin language.
When your build scripts require the power of a full-blown programming language, I do have to wonder what catastrophe lead to such complications! I'm sure there's a reason for it and all, but it's just not something I will deal with unless I am being paid (handsomely) to do so.
Okay but Ferrari can't remotely turn that Ferrari into a Camry.
Thank you! I tried to search first, but I think sometimes HN search is broken.
Wow... I assume this happened in the US? And then we are going to see articles, that manufacturing is dying in the US and there are no qualified or interested people and how it needs to change asap.

Can you share more from your experience?
My understanding (which I’m sympathetic but not married to) is because Deno’s module system, along with those of the web APIs it embraces, provide a sufficient abstraction layer for `npm` (the client, not the business) to be built on. Various approximations of this are good enough that people are using Node and Deno almost interchangeably. The extent to which they don’t work mostly boil down to packages expecting a fully complete Node environment or a fully complete browser environment.
Ha! Just yesterday, I was talking to a colleague in the humanities about the relative pleasures of working in a field where there were practically no grants to be sought.
I have been a user of the Language Tool API as we're building (experimenting with?) a language learning app [1] and grammar correction is a key component. I really want to love it, and I'm so appreciative of the open source version that has allowed us to get going, but it's just so... limited. I haven't really dug into the code, but I gather that it is very rules based and that seems destined to fail because so much of language is context sensitive.

For example, it really can't determine in German if you're using the correct case or not for a particular verb. Or it can't really tell if you're using the right prepositions.

Ultimately, we ended up building a grammar engine just for language learners using transformers [2] + a version of errant [3] we ported to be multilingual. It's not perfect, but after a couple weeks of development was more helpful than LT.

1. https://squidgies.app

2. e.g. this paper from Grammarly https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12592, but there are a bazillion others

3. https://github.com/chrisjbryant/errant
HackerLab is a for-profit corporation. The CTO expressed regret for not having explored that path a long time ago[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32227718
The $5K+ CNC. Good equipment for sure. But they even had lathe courses with $100-$200 classes to get started, tacked onto the regular membership, and you'd have to show for the scheduled class times (that only happened every 1-2 weeks).

Onboarding new people seems like it needs the most attention imo.
APE stands for Actually Portable Executable, an executable file that can run on the major platforms unmodified (windows/linux/mac/etc.)