skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This wasn't meant for you, but the other guy deleted his question, so here we go.

Instagram is a photo-sharing application at it's core.

So when you share photos, you're sharing your lifestyle. You're advertising. This is especially prevalent down here in Miami. So much so that people oftentimes at clubs don't exchange phone numbers; they exchange Instagrams. The women can see by your Instagram posts what kind of life you live and whether or not they're interested. You can see by their Instagram who and what they are. If you go to it and you're inundated with a ton of booty pics in string bikinis and a little string barely covering her titties, hanging on for dear life, you know she's advertising, "I am a hoe and I do hoe things." If you go to her Instagram and you see a lot of landscape photos, ancient monuments, etc., you know she's advertising, "I like to travel and have a genuine interest in culture."

If you go to a man's Instagram and he's got photos of himself stepping off a private jet, photos of him on a sailboat or a yacht smoking a cigar with a label that clearly reads Arturo Fuente Opus X and holding a glass of amber liquid with a bottle that says Louis XIII on it, photos of himself in a sharp suit leaned up against his Aston Martin DB11, he's advertising, "I am a successful, wealthy man who lives a life of luxury." If you go a man's Instagram and there's pictures of his woodshop, some photos of a new chest of drawers he crafted, a picture of him sitting by the lake with his trusty Labrador retriever lovingly sitting by his side, he's advertising, "I'm a down-to-Earth craftsman who enjoys the serenity of nature."

And then all these people go sliding into one another's DMs, as the cool kids say...

If you don't believe that, start listening to the podcast Blocked and Reported with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal. I've been listening since episode 29. They're on episode 131. They report on Internet ridiculousness and culture-at-large. A shocking amount of stories eventually have the phrase "slid into the DMs" in them.

It's clear to me that Instagram is being used as a dating platform as much as it is a storytelling or photo-sharing platform. And I don't think Meta should do anything about that at all. It's a dating platform on the down-low. I think that might be a good thing.
Oh god, that's the scariest one. Sure to be full of mold!
Can you lead us to this preponderance of evidence that is out there?
Brilliant idea.

Unfortunately, there are knockoffs on Amazon for like 1/2 the price. Still I did not know such a thing existed and now I think I might not be able to live without it.
Gas pipelines across Europe are quite fragmented. I understand Iberian peninsula is as-good-as cut off from the rest of the continent. I can't imagine there is much capacity going from Italy across the Alps.

So if you want to ship gas to an arbitrary location, it's more likely to be LNG.
> We might all be better off if experts understate the uncertainty in their projections when they make their case to policy-makers.

Frustrating, but true. I was recently asked at work to stop adding statements on certainty, to be more concise. I suppose they were in essence delegating the decision of whether something matters to me. That's in some ways a reasonable request, because if I make a nuanced presentation, the audience doesn't have the education/knowledge to evaluate the nuances.
> ... ABEND ...

Sorry, I don't know German.
> I've been survived a few layoffs that work this way.

How many times have you been laid off?!
100/100 on my Firefox, and it's fairly customized with a bunch of extensions and non-default settings to the extent some sites refuse to work normally and I have to either ignore them or open them in an "alternative" "clean" browser.
An unrecognisable improvement: Element’s new design is here
Gumroad is becoming a big one
It obviously doesn't boil down to that. It doesn't seem to me that you actually read and understood what I wrote (either that or you're deliberately mischaracterizing for whatever reason), so it's a bit ironic for you to talk about lazy arguments.
It was a shame Sony never produced a consumer grade minidisc writer for PCs. I always wanted to be as cool as Neo in the original Matrix, sharing warez on minidiscs.
Rewriting software is a massive slog and is prone to all kinds of subtle, possibly very expensive bugs. Especially when the original software has no tests to verify expected behavior in edge cases.
Why don't you expand on this vitriol? This guy regrets his choice and feels he was pressured to make that choice. That a valid human emotion that doesn't make them Q related at all.
It’s incredible really that these guys are talking about using Godot on consoles when it is in such bad shape.

Even if it’s a bait and switch, and they spend 100% of the funds on just like, making the engine better, $8m isn’t going to get you to 1/20th of Unity or Unreal. It is an insurmountable niche.
I totally get what he says. If your feed no longer feels like it's your feed, more like some bazar on your phone, than why post anything private?
While I'm sure this is true, at what cost?

These countries do not have freedom. None of their citizens know the value of working to pay for their own healthcare. Not a single Albanian knows the pride of finding the free market value of a medication and paying for it yourself!
Why not use one processor for new customers and continue to use the old processor for existing customers?

It's a little bit more work, but not that much more work, because you can already process with the existing, and you already plan to figure out how to process with the new, but you would need to build context sensitive switching.

As a bonus though, you'd be able to switch things around if one processor is having an outage or if one is better for some customers than the other.
> I think it is a universal experience. That's why you're (presumably) a programmer and not an illustrator.

> Most people naturally choose to focus on things they are relatively good at, instead of keep banging their heads on something they struggle at.

My parents told me I had to get a degree - they had very little appreciation for art, and some appreciation for engineering, but 0 understanding of computers. So I enrolled in CS so they would get off my back. Before college I had written maybe 50 lines of C.

I was never particularly good at CS - I just did OK enough under the pressure of having a clear goal (a degree) and there being no alternative to success (definitely not moving back in with my parents. I would have preferred joining the foreign legion).
Well if that isn't the criteria that's being asserted, then what is? Art has to be generated by a human? Art has to be "original"? Any definition you come up with is going to be wrought with counter-examples unless you make your definition so restrictive as to eliminate much of what typical people would call art, including many examples of fine art in art museums.
I don't think that this is entirely fair to Java programmers. Java's designers decided early on to lean fairly hard on reflection. Not just by giving Java strong reflective capabilities, but by sometimes deliberately choosing not to give Java great facilities for solving problems without using reflection.

When I first came to Java from .NET, I was initially shocked at how heavily it was used in the Java space. (.NET arguably has even more powerful reflection facilities than Java does, but they are typically avoided at all costs.) But it didn't take me very long to realize that many of the C# language features I would have chosen to use instead of reflection simply don't have equivalents in Java. So, I don't think that it's necessarily that Java developers are addicted to this stuff, so much as that they just haven't been given any other choice.
Tell me you don't version your APIs without telling me you don't version your APIs.
For some people the difference is that they're like people who have internal monologue, but they say everything out loud so it's not internal. Others have semi-internal dialogue, where only one 'voice' is spoken out loud, like listening to someone on a phone.

I would say that I have non-linguistic monologue, usually of the logical or conceptual varieties. Or rather it's merely in a different non-word-based language.
SpaceChem used to be on iOS - was nice to play on the iPad, but the maintenance effort was apparently too much to keep it on there and running.

Zachtronics stopping game production is a painful loss.
Apple and Spotify doing podcast subscriptions maybe?
> How do you envision "dealing with Russia through force" going down just curiously?

FYI, they're "dealing with Russia through force" right now. It's just through proxies, and it's going pretty well.
Online aggression has two components:

* Boorish jerks, conspiracy twits, science and logic illiterates, and moralizing hypocrites. People who spend a lot of their in-real-life lives expending everyone else’s patience, tolerance, and benevolence. Good-will vampires. Dissatisfied assholes who make it everyone else’s problem.

* People who have had enough of the former. Their tolerance reserves are fully tapped out. They’re tired of having to re-explain reality to the obstinately uninformed. Tired of turning the other cheek when a stranger is offensive. Angered that their children’s education, health, and safety is being compromised. Fed up with politely “agreeing to disagree” and accepting the harm.

Amd so the two groups fight like cats tied in a burlap sack and beat with a stick.

You can consider the stick, in this scenario, to be the likes of privateers like Cambridge Analytica, government and corporate media agencies, and other “influencers”. A third component, I suppose: I doubt things would be so bad if deliberate instigation & disinformation were not in play.

You’ll draw your own conclusions about which people/uncles/accounts belong to one or the other group.
Likewise. I didn’t even know it was a slow period.
Isn't the $0 itch.io link placed right next to the steam link in the project homepage? (And it seems it looks even bigger than the steam one)

If you don't want to pay now(for whatever reason) but want to play it. You just do. (And I highly suggest you do it if you haven't)
1. SBT was never fun

2. I don't believe that scala-native was a good idea in the first place, because of all the java-interop boilerplate already present. C/JVM interop design conflicts are very hard to abstract properly. It would've been nice to adopt some WASM-compatible IR instead of MLIR/LLVM lock-in.

3. WASM-first is a very viable AOT+PGO option, it also brings new opportunities for remote exec and some interesting Architectural Approaches like automagic splitting monolith into microservices on the fly by potentialy calculating communications overhead and performing basic discrete optimizations.

So, Scala is still fun, just missing a lot of business oportunitites, it's just that Odersky decided to take another spin of EU Grants acquisition by developing a new lang.

I, personally, don't think that dotty was "good enough" to roll out last year, but overall project traction and cash-flow directions don't look that promising. And I personally choose to call it EU Budget Laundering, because it's really puzzling for me how exactly 60mil Euros grants are not enough to make Dotty stable. If no-one audits than no-one cares about it, or how does laundering and embezzlement work nowadays ?...

From a lang design standpoint, there are three things which make Scala obsolete

1. No proper formal verification - although there are things like stainless (stainless.epfl.ch) and it would've been possible to adopt zero-GC alloc during codegen by adopting CoC similarly to neut (github.com/vekatze/neut)

2. No proper support for protodef and IDL's - nowadays efficient serialization (marshaling) defines software reliability, all these JSON'y/Protobuffy/Flatbuffy thingies really causing some traction, although every single one of them are not something I'd call scalable.

3. Adopting Calculus Of Constructs (CoC) and formal verification alongside bunched-separation logic (like in F-star lang and rust) should be enough to formally prove Mem consuption, amount of IO and the respective computational overheads. Basically it would've worked similarly to CAP: pick either small mem footprint and bandwidth needed - the amount of compute power and the respective latency will be calculated and formally proven.

The exact desings of separation logic for multi-threading apps is a complex subject, but I like what Azalea Raad done with Concurrent Incorrectness Separation Logic (CISL) - it's something that would've allowed rust, for instance, to drop it's boxed types for RAII and a lot of the existing sync primitives (Arc, Barrier, Condvar, PoisonErr etc).

But who am I to talk about that... I never boiled in the Sciency Kettle and Played by the Academic Tribe Rules, spending half of my life just to copy-paste generic paperworks from here and there, filling up the gaps by slaving the Kenya/Nigeria students on forced contract terms, with usual threats, IP Extortion, common worker-contractor misclassification.

Everything professory Academic-related looks so corrupt for me nowadays.
In my experience, what happened is that young people eventually stopped posting personal updates (this was a multi-year process), either because the novelty of it declined or because they entered a life phase change (e.g. leaving college) that made social updates less frequent or less shareable.

In my friend group, this happened around 2018, about a year after we left college and entered the working world. I'd guess something similar happened with many cohorts.
Crash Bandicoot, but that's from the good times. He does regularly die horribly though.
Who is involved in what tends to be very high on the list of important parameters.

To your point, though, you'd of course tailor this to your audience. For example: you might say "marketing" or "the engineering team" instead of "Tom, Dick and Harry".
I skimmed docs for std::atomic, and I believe what you're suggesting is a super-brief version of what was outlined here[0].

If so, thanks!

Through I don't yet "see it" that C++ has safety primitives that "equal" that of Rust's, I've learnt a lot about C++'s safety features from other folks' replies in this thread. So again, thanks!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=32824168
Why would you watch seven movies from a director you dont enjoy? I can understand giving a director a second chance, but seven?
I'm a little curious how this will work with self hosted OnCall. Will the user need to set up their own push notification accounts for apple and Google, will it used a centralized service from Grafana, will it have a background service that polls the hosted OnCall service, or something else?
IANAL, can you file a complaints to your state attorney general?
When I was in elementary school, I received the Power Glove for Christmas and a classmate received the U-Force.

We became rivals, both trying to convince the rest of the class that ours was the ultimate controller and amazing for giving a competitive advantage in Punch Out!, Rad Racer, and other games.

Secretly we both knew both controllers were completely useless and never worked, but we never dared admit it.
Amazon seems to have taken a different route.

Keep margins low and don’t make too much money in order to starve any potential competitors of capital.

Of course - you still need to grow revenue for this to work - just not profits.
I'm waiting for WhatsApp to start serving me ads...
"Alludo" sounds great, like a Harry Potter/Hogwarts spell. Good choice!
Twitter filing shows Musk slowed deal on WW3 concerns [pdf]
> Maybe it's better to acknowledge these problems before you start instead of beating your head?

What's unacknowledged? They're doing exploratory work. That often involves developing under known and expected limitations to understand the problem space and have something to test with when progress is made towards addressing limitations.
If you are employed you are trading stability for upside.
When you work for yourself and specially if you work on products that are not capital intensive and have insane economies of scale (as in Software) the upside is gigantic.

I'm employed and I regret every minute of it. The only reason why I'm still employed is because I'm the sole provider for my family and haven't been able to take time off because I realized the mistake way way too late in life.
Related question, what are the best Leap Motion uses?
I tend to think that non-profit-maximizing actions of a company are almost entirely due to top-down leadership, so I would give him credit for those actions.
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Cruelty Squad[0] really demonstrated to me what incredible things can be done with Godot, but I think the game is to... how to say this... out there? It has an _extremely_ stylised aesthetic. I have a hard time thinking of any game like it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_Squad
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If you're a light player an T.16000m will work but they all die with hardware issues at some point. The matching TWCS throttle has similar issues. I'm a heavy space sim player and went through 2 T16000Ms and 3 TWCSs before switching fully over to VKB sticks.

VKB sticks last longer (no issues after 2+ years heavy use), are repairable and VKB will sell you parts. Much nicer if you can afford it. Take a look at their youtube channel if you are curious about the repairibility. https://www.youtube.com/c/VKBSim
> It's practically impossible now to go back and figure out how many were _actually_ "killed by COVID" vs "died _with_ COVID".

Have you ever read a death certificate?

They don't even read "killed by COVID19". The direct cause of death is _NEVER_ COVID19.

https://dphhs.mt.gov/vitalrecords/certificationofcovid-19

COVID19 doesn't even play a role until 2 or 3 lines later. Doctors write down "Killed by X" which was caused by "Y" which was caused by "Z". COVID19 is never "X", its always Y, Z, or later.

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Because we have these statistics, we can correlate "X" causes. If "X" is "blunt force trauma to the head", it is unlikely that "Y" or "Z" will be COVID19.

But don't take my word for it. There's plenty of death certificates, and such data has been coallated together.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e2.htm

See Table 2 in this list, as an example. You can see that the immediate cause of death for most COVID19 patients is Pneumonia, unspecified (J18.9), followed by Acute respiratory failure (J96.0).

Which of these ICD codes do you think is being misclassified as a COVID19 death? Please be specific. Any such large scale misclassification would be obviously in the data here.
Well, that seems pretty OK for a layoff mail.

Bit confused by reducing staff spend while increasing spending on engineering & product. Surely for a software company those are roughly the same thing?
Having both makes perfect sense if you like haproxy for what it's good at but also want a web server.
Without even looking, I'm willing to bet that articles related to sex and gender are heavily politicized despite being scientific topics (well, sex at least, gender is questionable). Likely the same for climate change, racial groups, and thousands of other scientific topics.
> Any former employee is a future potential employee that you can re-recruit when the time comes

Not only that, all former employees are de-facto "background check references" / "evagenlists" / "detractors" of your company. Forever! (well, not exactly forever... but close enough)

I can't recall a single year over the last 10 years where younger engineers, cousins, nephews or friends have asked me about the 2 companies I worked at before.

And boy, have I been candid.

Talked a very good friend of mine from joining Amazon for an offer he got making nearly 3 times much I did. All because of "decency" (or lack thereof) of a company.
How about we focus on zero people in poverty?

You know, focus on raising people up instead of focusing on tearing people down.

A growth mindset is more productive than a scarcity, zero sum mindset.
Twitter shareholders vote in favor of Elon Musk's $44B takeover deal
Why? Twitter will do great in WW3 - can't you imagine all the people live-tweeting the end of the world?
Hi-MD (introduced 2004, ~1 GB capacity when average HD's were running 200-300 GB) was never produced in a data version that I can tell, but even the original stored about 140 MB (in 1992, that was a lot of data in the size of a floppy and a far sturdier package). It wasn't a ton of space, but you didn't have to worry about static, or malicious devices masquerading as HID, and it was certainly good enough that if magneto-optical drives had been continuously developed, we'd be looking at pretty reasonable capacities today.

Yes, much lower capacity per dollar than silicon, but if it were very sturdy (it was) and offered near-infinite rewriteability (it did), it could have had a market.
Not GP but i think they are referring to Russian invasions of Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014, 2022).

Georgia was complicated but from any zoomed out perspective it was clearly a Russian aggression.
And yet, some topics are so widely cited one sidedly that even people skeptical of biases tend to just go along with it anyways. (Gamergate, for example)

https://youtu.be/xs69lv0UGNU
Matt Levine today:

> Surely the highest-variance aspect of the Twitter vs. Musk saga is Zatko’s whistle-blower complaint. If Zatko can make a compelling case that Twitter is horribly bad — that its information security is so bad that it violates the law, that it has fraudulently concealed its problems, etc. — then that is probably Musk’s best argument to get out of the deal: Twitter is doing fraud, it has suffered a material adverse effect, etc. If Zatko is just a run-of-the-mill paranoid security researcher who is aggrieved about being fired and making mountains out of molehills, then his complaint will quickly be kicked out of court and won’t affect the Musk deal. Zatko’s credibility — whether he’s telling the truth, and also whether he is exaggerating or underselling the importance of Twitter’s problems — is a key input into your evaluation of Twitter’s stock value. The more credible he is, the less likely it is that Twitter will get $54.20 per share, and the less Twitter will be worth without Musk’s deal.

> So if you are a hedge fund, or an expert-network firm working on behalf of hedge funds, you obviously want to know how credible he is. You might, for instance, want to talk to some of his old coworkers to get a feel for him. You might offer to pay them a lot of money for a one-hour phone call, because you might have a lot of money riding on the Twitter deal, which means specifically that you have a lot of money riding on your evaluation of Zatko’s credibility.
> If you tried to transmit video using the sixel protocol over ssh, you will experience bandwidth issues and immediately fail.

Even abstracting away your incomplete understanding of how sixels work, have you considered the possibility I may have access to way more bandwidth than you? (and I most likely do)

> This will not work.

Yes it does.

I have written lots of sixel code (I've yet to see any of yours), tried to explain you the failure in your reasoning, yet you still don't believe me, then you deny the reality of my lived sixel experience with... a biased quote?

Whatever. Have it your way. I'm out.
Even more importantly, they are evangelists for other future employees.

I actually went out of my way to make it easy for my employees to quit. If they didn't want to stay, then I sincerely wished them well.

The company limited what I could do, but I did my best, and it seemed to work out.