skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excluding the microplastics thing, I think that your two latter points are actually both derived from the social media changes.

Life today for almost everyone in the West is better than ever before, but people are exposed to a lot of thought on social media that 1. life is worse now, 2. in your lifetime there will be terrible destruction happening, which contributes to a sense of fatalism and doom.

It is super appealing to the human psyche to think things are worse in [current-time period] than in the past. This is why there is an intuitive appeal to things like "Make America Great Again." Social media only amplifies this effect because people are exposed to things that are maximally appealing to their psyche.
For small sites, I always reach for vanilla rather than a framework. For example, [a super simple QR Code website][1] I made uses less than 100 lines of JS (minus the QR code library of course :)), plus regular HTML and CSS.

Anything larger, however, and using a library just makes things easier: HTML partials and helpers, nesting in Sass, and data flow and component composition in JS frameworks are just easier when a project is large enough.

[1]: https://github.com/romellem/easyqr-codes
FeatureBase is a real-time database built on bitmaps. It is designed primarily for speed and horizontal scalability, and is particularly well-suited for workloads that require many real-time updates, inserts, and deletes on massive datasets.

A binary index is an index that uses a binary search algorithm to find data. Binary indexes are typically used to speed up searches in large data sets.

So, binary indexes are good for online data processing of large amounts of data.

One way to think about a binary index is to consider "features" of data and storage of those feature "bits" in a streamlined storage format, built for ingestion and query performance.
Why do you think they can't execute? What is execution in your mind and why is it out of reach?
I presume it means non profit.
I'm from the US. While there are certainly people that use it, I don't personally know anyone that uses Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram, etc... as their primary method of text communication. Nearly everyone I personally know uses iMessage or SMS, with a smaller subset using Facebook messenger.
I'm part of the 99.5% of non-airbnb investors Arrived is ostensibly trying to expand to. I like the potential of micro-investment, but right now it's not socially tenable for me personally to tell my friends I'm an Airbnb investor.

Airbnb's biggest personal impact for myself and them has not been as a vacation vendor, but as an entity radically transforming our neighborhoods and access to housing. Does Arrived have any standard in terms of community impact?
That article is a very reasonable take on it; it specifically defines FU stops as not-agreed-upon-in-advance slinky stops. It also doesn't mandate any specific style of hiking together (other than to say stay together in dangerous conditions). Applying the lessons from that article to just about any group activity is a great lesson in "how to not be an asshole."

Something that gives the "pro FU stop" side ammunition is less nuanced takes on them, such as "If you ever do a slinky stop, you're an asshole" or "Always have the slowest hiker lead." It then becomes easy for non-assholes to end up sympathizing or siding with the assholes just because the absolutist claims have gone too far.

Assholes also weaponize this to garner sympathy. A statement of "I'm called an asshole just because I do slinky stops" when the actual truth is they have refused to calmly discuss other options for hiking.
Browsers already managed state just fine. We just didn't like the way it looked.
Are you concerned that the proliferation of Airbnb properties and other short-term rentals is contributing to the affordable housing shortage we are seeing across the U.S.? A killer business indeed.
> if you buy with your business it might not apply

That is why I buy them private and then declare the invoice at the company.
Catch me if you can, lol.
Contextually, my `-and this could have led to the team's demise` was an attempt to add a fair qualifier to my statement, but probably missed the mark.

I agree, but given the company, context, and reporting, the only people that would categorically know are Meta insiders, and journalists poking at them...not most casual HN commenters. :)
Well nobody wanted to run out of IPv4 addresses.
Is there some android "port" of winamp? I'm thinking more about the look and feel, and the support for the winamp2 skins
A caveat which covers a whole category is illustrating an elision, not a mistake. We know that we mean finite memory, because of, er. Reality.
If they were a deacon in their church, you wouldn't blink at it.
If you replaced "The Hero's Journey" with the (Japanese-anime) word "Isekai", I get the same feeling here.

"Isekai" is the "Trapped in another world" trope that suddenly became popular for anime/manga in the last 10 years. But the basis of the story has been backwards-applied to Wizard of Oz, a Kid in King Author's Court, and even 90s shows like Digimon, Escaflowne, and .Hack//Sign.

Except "Isekai" as a concept didn't exist until relatively recently, within the past decade or so. There's no way Mark Twain was thinking of that concept when he wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" over a hundred years ago.

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Furthermore, a lot of the tropes associated with the Isekai genre can be applied to plenty of other stories (including the Hero's Journey). Harry Potter, for example, hits overpowered main character, travel to effectively another world hidden amongst people (Hogwarts), magical / fantasy tropes (classical monsters), etc. etc.

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There are however, certain tropes and storytelling devices that are popular amongst people. When you take an "average person" and stick them as the main character, with few defining features... it allows for the reader / watchers to "self-insert" themselves as the protagonist.

See Harry Potter who comes from Muggle society, The Connecticut Yankee who represented a modern American from Mark Twain's era, Dorethy from Kansas, or the legion of Isekai protagonists from Kagome (Inuyasha), to Kirito (Sword Art Online). You give the main character a degree of wish fulfillment, including adventure, romance, and overall a positive and uplifting story. And a lot of people will like it. (The notion of "The Outsider" from Westerns and Japanese Samurai films also hits this trope)

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We can see that "The Hero's Journey" in fact follows a lot of similar patterns with "Isekai" itself even. Adventure is thrust upon the protagonist in the form of "The Isekai" moment (the moment where the protagonist is teleported to another world somehow).

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I think "The Hero's Journey" is largely the same. Its a backwards application being applied forwards. A concept created in 1944 that tries to unify stories from centuries or millennia ago, and tries to distill them into a singular "pattern" that works for today's audiences.

No different from "Isekai" these days (though on a shorter timescale: a concept from the past 15 years that very well could be applied to stories from 100 years ago). Now excuse me, I have some trash anime to watch...

EDIT: The trolls will joke that "Saving Private Ryan" is an Isekai. The WW2 front was a very different life, and the "Isekai" moment was getting off the boat and onto the shores of West Europe. They can't go back until they've accomplished their mission, so its an Isekai, trapped in another world.
Wow, that's probably amazing!

I once had an experience that gave me just a hit of what it must be like for cats and dogs. My cat had been hit by a skunk, and of course it was after hours in a rural area so it was the next day before we could get the tomato juice to clean him off. While he was still stinky, he mostly hid under a blanket with just his nose sticking out so he could minimize the smell. But he came out to go to his food/water bowl while I was reading a newspaper in a big chair (pre-internet times).

So I couldn't see him and he was walking silently, but the smell was so strong that I could sense his location in full 3D — it was just a wonderous AHA! moment — "so THIS is what it's like for them - they can literally sense in 3D using smell the way we do with sight and hearing...".

I know it was just a hint, as this was just the gains cranked way up on one smell, whereas they get the full-spectrum richness for everything, but, wow, what a revelation! The person's experience must have been truly mind-blowing!
A whole new breed of SSDs is about to break through
It's weird that you assume "builder" means "programmer." At a healthy software company, most roles are builder roles:

- designer

- product manager

- marketer

- sales

- customer success

Each of these roles delivers something additive. They make the product easier or nicer to use, make it address the market better, or even just make people aware that it exists. Marketers build complex promotional structures to gain users. Salespeople put together actual accounts paying actual money so the product can continue to improve. Customer success helps people use the product, and a good CS team filters high-signal feedback back to the product & engineering orgs.

People in all of these roles (and more) are building the product. If their roles were cut, the product would be worse: uglier, slower, less useful, less used, less purchased, and less successful.

However, there are roles that attract folks who don't want to build. It's smart to get rid of them.
As the byline says, ''Don’t get caught up in sentimentality over Elizabeth’s death. This ridiculous institution needs to go.'' The amount of anglophilia being displayed by the U.S. media seems to surpass by quite a bit the understandably deep and full coverage of the Queen's death by Commonwealth countries' press organizations, ironically. On a personal note, I enjoy articles in which a dictionary must be consulted. This one had me looking a couple of times.

EDIT: I've prepended "Opinion Piece:" to the title.
This final build was released over a month ago. But if you go to https://www.winamp.com/ the download link still points to the RC4.
In a zero-sum game, sure. But assuming we all live in a society, helping the disadvantaged raises the mean level of, er...advantage for all. The advantaged ones get the further benefit of living in a society that's better off as a whole. A rising tide lifts all boats, as they say.

And that's without even getting into the morality of inherent advantage.
> Re-using them is just a matter of copying them over to a new directory.

And you lost me.

Is it possible to write reusable JS/CSS/HTML? Yes but the overhead is very frustrating and you will quickly find yourself building a custom framework to manage everything. Best to start with a framework from the start if you plan on having rich interactions. The speed at which I can move in VueJS is nothing short of amazing and the amount of reuse I get is extremely high, all without me having to manually manage a bunch of files/includes. With 1 TS import I can get all the HTML/CSS/JS for a component and safely use it in another component. At a minimum that would take 3 http calls in "vanillaJS" to fetch the html/css/js that I would need to maintain and update myself. SFC's are a game changer. Sure the browser might eventually support what I need but by that point I have no doubt that VueJS (or similar) will have lept further ahead.

It's the same reason I jumped on the 6to5/babel train early, it let me write my code in ES6 but still deploy to older browsers without waiting on everyone to upgrade.
At least four of the responses to this got the point.

By the time layoffs or a mass exodus actually happen, you're competing with 100s of other good devs for the best jobs (not that you won't find some job).
Larger scale? More like local scale. Also sources.
Antarctica used to be a semi-tropical forest. Perhaps we'll all be living there!
IMO, security and accessibility are more objective ends than "responsible innovation" which can be plagued by bias and personal agendas.
A passport is document used by other countries, so that really depends on other countries humoring U.K.

She perhaps didn't need one because other countries didn't insist on it when traveling, not because it is issued in her name.

Also the office of Her Majesty is distinct(and all other titles) from the person the queen herself. Monarchs are quite used to that idea, and that is how they award themselves other titles for example.

Same reason why royal name is assumed on ascension and does not have be birth name or her actual birthday is not when royal birthday is celebrated and myriad other things like that .
From the same school of thought which brought you "What the heck is Kiev?" as though that attitude would win any favors.
Indeed.

The dep injection is fastapi and typer code though, and quite tied to it. So it's worth mentioning that somebody is attempting (quite successfully from the look of it) to create a generic lib of dep injection using annotation named DI, inspired by those libs: https://github.com/adriangb/di
We can simulate a model of the weather. We can simulate (as in completely replicate the software behavior of) a gameboy advanced.

Not going to keep replying as this is not really a point I am going to get convinced of - to be technically turing complete is to show that every thing computable by a turing machine is computable by your construct. This is not possible in a memory constrained system.
This is generally correct; Campbell's not a horrible influence or anything like that, but after it all, it's hard to suggest that he's ever said anything much more than "Good stories involve a protagonist who goes through a tough struggle." That's the only real unifying theme.
https://blogs.umass.edu/natsci397a-eross/the-environmental-a...

We've had 3 birds hit our windows in the 12 years I've owned this home. To combat that, I made sure all the windows had blinds. It hasn't happened since.

My one neighbor's cat kills more than 3 birds per month in the warm seasons. I haven't been able to combat that unfortunately.

But I did build a dry stack retaining wall that has allowed the chipmunk population to have a bit of refuge. They are slowly growing in numbers. We had scores of them until the neighbors moved in next door. Within months they dwindled to less than a dozen. My wife and I used to love to sit at our breakfast table and watch them scurry around the yard and patio. Our neighbor's cat ruined that for us.

I shouldn't have to spend $5k+ to prevent cats from killing chipmunks, but I'm always willing to do whatever I can to improve something rather than just complaining about it.
Ah, I see! That makes a lot of sense, thank you for explaining.

If I understand correctly, that means type-checking python as you described was an open problem before, and this paper effectively proves it will never happen (ideally). They do this by establishing Turing completeness of type-hints, which are the main mechanisms for type-checking.
What happens to my RSUs when my company gets acquired
I don't trust complex models. I've written basic simulations with less than 20 variables to model far simpler phenomena and seen how a slight mistake in just 1 variable can invalidate the entire results in a dramatic way. It doesn't give me much hope for simulations with millions of variables. I suspect that these are completely worthless. It seems like every year, scientists are cherry-picking among thousands of different models for the one which has been right for the last decade or so... They keep changing models every few years and using 'technology has improved and made the old model redundant' as an excuse for doing so as opposed to 'the old model turned out to be wrong this year so we decided to switch to a newer model which has been right.' If they keep creating new models and changing them every few years, they will keep finding new models which have been 'scarily accurate' for the last 10 years or so. They will never run out of such models even if the models were randomly generated.

That said I also wouldn't say that there is no global warming or that humans have no effect on it. I just think humans often overestimate their knowledge and capabilities, especially when there is a financial incentive for doing so.
Sometimes putting blockers in front of people is absolutely what's needed. It's a common tactic for compliance and security - both of which can completely tank your company if not handled correctly. I suspect it's especially true if there are people with the skills to build who claim they are the only ones that are "actually trying to build things." Likely they don't have the right level of understanding of what needs to be built.
Web vitals were created specifically to address the user experience issues often caused by slow JS websites: things jumping around as they are loading, things being unresponsive until some script initializes, etc. Using these metrics for search placement now incentivizes website owners to take them seriously and fix them.
The article is about how the advice is bad and myopic because it pretends like the optimal solution is averaging everyone and ignores that there is actually some subtlety to choosing the right thing to do, not about how it's not-ever-rude to do that.
In Option A above, it seems like things mostly stop at 3 for FB. Public outcry? Falling stock price (as a result of public outcry)? I don't really see that happening very much.
OK 20 years maybe it wasn't worth the cost, but by 2011 it was only thousands of dollars.

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencer#Comparison
Are there any other fallacies you'd like to share with us this morning?
It is stated by the assertion that the poster doesn’t think the manager is stemming tasks pre-fire. This implies they are different people.
If the goal is to stay in business long term, thoughtless 'building' isn't worth much.

Steve Jobs: "focus is about saying no"

Mark Zuckerberg: "move fast and breaks things"

Facebook is the world's least-trusted, most-reviled brand. They earned it by building garbage.
The actual study can be read at https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03777-z.pdf.

Methodology is given towards the end of the paper. In particular: "Variants [...] were compared with a normal dataset [...] created with sequencing data from seven young, healthy individuals."
GNUnet messenger-CLI 0.1.0 released
> I suppose it's all relative.

No, it's not relative. "This game has been optimized for the explicit purpose of "engagement"/addiction"" is a statement that can be factually known to be true or false.

> but come one, it's free-to-play. Of course it's trying to keep people hooked.

That's an appeal to emotion without a logical argument behind it. The logical argument is that the survival of free-to-play games depends on the microtransaction revenue being higher than the cost to run the game. You know what directly contributes to the cost of running the game? People using the servers. Unlike social media platforms that monetize through time spent = ad impressions, free-to-play games do not want to maximize the amount of time spent playing the game, they want to maximize the amount of cosmetics that people buy, which is very different, and is not obviously connected with playtime in any research I'm aware of.

> I also know multiple people who had to cope with Dota addictions ruining their relationships and lives

...which happened to me! But, as someone who is struggling with an HN addicition: something can be addicting without being purposefully designed to be that way - addictive traits do not imply that something was designed to be addictive.
BTW. I resolved the anchor issue. Was so fixated on longer-horizon points that I didn't even register how much of a quick win it would be to drop the anchors and thus keep some "guardrails" in place. Thanks for that.
Alexa was only the 32nd most popular name in the US for girls. A little over 6k babies were named Alexa in the US prior to the speaker's launch.

The "Alexa stop" thing, is it a real or invented harm?

My name happens to match the lead character of Karate Kid and I constantly asked to do the crane pose when I was 7. Doesn't seem to have traumatized me.
A toggle switch would be very nice for night time reading.
Western lifestyles differ markedly from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and these differences in diet and activity level are often implicated in the global obesity pandemic. However, few physiological data for hunter-gatherer populations are available to test these models of obesity. In this study, we used the doubly-labeled water method to measure total daily energy expenditure (kCal/day) in Hadza hunter-gatherers to test whether foragers expend more energy each day than their Western counterparts. As expected, physical activity level, PAL, was greater among Hadza foragers than among Westerners. Nonetheless, average daily energy expenditure of traditional Hadza foragers was no different than that of Westerners after controlling for body size.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Supposedly Apple is dropping a headset in the next year. Should be interesting to see what people think of the industry after that.
Sure, CLOS was the first that comes to mind.

Shen has a 'static' type system which embeds a predicate calculus, thus being trivially Turing-complete, and not by accident.
> Isn’t receiving hundreds of millions a year a sustainable business?

Right, but the argument goes that the only reason Google pays Mozilla so much is to prop up the competition. Google may have calculated that it would be preferable to pay the hundreds of millions, rather than have Firefox die just leaving Chrome/Safari.

Thus, it's not really a sustainable business, but rather being the lucky benefactor of some scheme. Their value is only in being 'the other guy', not in actually creating a valuable product for consumers. I wouldn't call that a sustainable business.
I mean for instance comparing an App written in a native framework with an Electron App or even a Web App. It's likely more snappy and more secure.
yes, this is the obvious explanation and i dont get why public discussion can't make any progress but insists on throwing out the same "i dont think my mom wants to live inside minecraft yet" weak take every chance it gets.

edit: it coincided with fb reporting saturated user numbers
Page 50: "A compromise between assemblers and high-level languages, C helps programmers avoid the idiosyncrasies of particular machines".

Interesting. I thought C appeared as a (very) high level language back in 1983, when development on microcomputers was still mostly done in assembly. This article was published August 1983 and Turbo Pascal v1.0 was only released in November, so I'm not sure what high level languages were available on microcomputers back then, besides BASIC.
Microsoft is the one to complain to, not Winamp.
I would argue that that's not self-evident at all.
Example: Do you think that high performing equestrian athletes generally come from wealthy backgrounds because horses are an expensive hobby, or because being born into wealth provides you an innate ability to ride horses?
Not true. They'll be able to walk into some high paying job. Just maybe not the one they wanted the most, because some other Meta dev got it.
I'll be honest I've never really considered the various drawbacks and benefits against other solutions. It's just something I occasionally run into in a legacy context where I need to integrate to get unblocked.

I think not having used it to any real extent I've not run into the parts people hate. I just get an automatically generated client library that can be treated like normal method calls, more or less.

But I've also not had the opportunity to work with OpenAPI stuff so I'm not sure what the current state of the art there looks like