skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that particular type of slippery slope mindset.

What if some next big change doesn't align with the best interest of the community?

You can see some future parallel to Microsoft and the `dotnet watch` debacle[0] where the dotnet team introduced a feature to allow hot reload then some executive neutered it except for Visual Studio because "it wasn't stable yet".

No one will know the true reasons why it was pulled (and then re-released after community outcry), but it left a sour taste in the community. And in the case of Microsoft, I think they have even smaller incentives to pull this kind of stuff (VS is a very tiny, tiny portion of their revenue compared to Azure and Office) whereas Vercel is much more tightly bound to Next.js so it seems inevitable that there will be a point in time when Vercel's interests comes to loggerheads with the community's best interest.

It may seem far-fetched right now, but all you need to do is look at the HTML source for Target.com and Walmart.com and see how a corporation has created tremendous leverage under the guise of OSS. The obvious outcome is to use that leverage at some point in the future to extract capital. The fact that they built something novel instead of embracing an already really good community solution (Vite) smacks of creating leverage in the same way that Apple has been empowered by their walled garden platform ownership.

I trust Evan You far, far more than I do Vercel to make decisions in the interest of the community.

[0] https://dotnetcoretutorials.com/2021/10/23/the-hot-reload-de...
I configurated the systemd services at work to redirect the services' output to syslog.
Digital textbooks frequently come with expiration dates. So you pay almost the same amount as a paper book, only for it to disappear shortly after the semester is over.

Other digital books cost almost the same as the paper edition. And with DRM frequently baked into the book, you can't pass it on to the next person.

That said, I am somewhat addicted to erotica on Kindle because the books that scratch my itches aren't available in dead-tree editions.
Thank for this, that's a good design decision.
>This is just an example from YAML to JSON, but you can convert much more formats into other formats.

>open dev/home-impermanence/tests/impermanence.yml | to json

I can do it with PowerShell:

$os_list = (Get-Content -Path "C:\temp\operating-systems.yml" | ConvertFrom-Yaml)

Set-Content -Path "C:\temp\PowerShell_operating-systems.json" -Value ($os_list | ConvertTo-Json)
Whatever platform does not allow a search like "What did user U publish on day D" has a specific label:

it is substantially the Soviet Pravda.

Imre Lakatos defined totalitarianism in terms of "how distant in the past can I retrieve documents" - the shorter the span of accessible data, the worse. In historical totalitarianism regimes such obstacle was instated to hide possible ideological changes in the regime, to give an appearance of monolithic consistency. In general, if you have a collector and checking history is not a basic feature, than it is nothing but a joke.

(PS: the first post on HN is the 'Y combinator' submission from pg, Paul Graham, on October 9, 2006 - you find this with one URL. This is how it is supposed to be - the distantmost past is as accessible as the recentmost addition.)
> "Public Square" online is a fallacy. A public square is typically thought of where someone grabs the attention of all passerby and is voicing their thoughts. Those thoughts voiced are short lived and can only be broadcast as far as the sound wave will carry them.

That's very true. Maybe a better Twitter could incorporate actual geographical distance. You would have to choose where you are and could only see messages from people that are actually near you. If you move, you see different messages.

Or the distance could be ideological -- or better, theoretical.

Any user would have to choose a place on a "map" / a set of coordinates. A user can move freely at any time, but

- messages can't move and stay where the user was when they were posted

- messages can only be seen when the user is near them.
Being extroverted is absolutely a useful skill for certain things. Extroverts are going to talk to more people, which is going to make them better at networking and self promotion. Those things lead to making more connections, getting business opportunity, getting job opportunities, etc.

I'm not saying that you can't be functional as an introvert, but being extroverted is definitely useful in many situations.
What's even more horrifying is that this is considered a legitimate career; in fact, it's what a lot of kids today want to be, in lieu of pursuing something socially useful.

Let's be clear here: being an influencer literally means you're voluntarily accepting money for lying to people, at scale. You enrich yourself by harming others. You're actively proving you're corrupted and cannot be trusted.

How people making this choice are not shunned by society is beyond me.
The site looks gorgeous, fair play. I've seen from the comments that you're looking for people's envisaged use cases, so here's mine - I have moved about a lot, I'm currently living abroad. In a few months time, everyone will start moving about again.

This seems like a brilliant way to keep up with friends that I can't see very often, in a way that seems more genuine than the loop of
"Hey we haven't talked in ages! How are you doing?"
"It's been so long! I'm good, and you?"
"Good :)".
Being able to see what they're thinking and to interact with them from that without having to prompt a deep conversation on a Tuesday afternoon sounds wonderful.

Looking forward to using it more, and seeing where you take it!
> The inscriptions are not a Viking script, but a combination of [runic languages] Elder Futhark and Younger Futhark, which predates when the Vikings would have been traveling

Well there you have it, it's not from when it's claimed. There is a similar out-of-place rock in New Mexico called the Decalogue rock that has the 10-commandments carved into it in old hebrew. The problem is that it uses more modern punctuation and it's more likely the product of some UNM students who were messing around or Spanish settlers at the very least. Nevertheless, people use the rock to claim it's evidence of a lost tribe of Israelites.
Either the parent comment edited or you misquoted. Extroverts are not necessarily good at communication - quality over quantity is often better.
I kinda think of it like exercise. Most of us aren't professional athletes, and much of the time we're tired and lazy and busy. Still, we generally recognize that exercise is good for you, and try to do a little here and there. Sometimes it feels good, sometimes it feels like a chore. And afterward you are often tired. But you do it because it's one of those things that makes you healthier when done regularly, in moderation.

Similarly, you can do extroverted things once in a while without becoming an extrovert entirely. You just have to prioritize and budget for them, picking and choosing the interactions that really matter to you (or your boss or your significant other or whatever) while opting out of other engagements. Nothing wrong with that.

Extroverts have to make the same sacrifices going the other way too. It's not a superset of introversion. It's tiring for them to be alone all day focusing on something, whether it's a codebase or watching TV or whatever. They also have to budget their introvert time because it's not free for them.

As someone who's on the fence between the two, that line can be a bit artificial IMO. Most of us have people and activities we enjoy more than others, and those are less tiring. There are also inevitably chores we don't like, whether it's a business function or in-laws or a boring refractor or whatever. Instead of trying to draw a clear division between "I'm an introvert/extrovert", it's really helped me to learn to budget my energy the same way I budget my finances (which is to say, more aspirational than effective lol, but still). Some activities are more tiring than others, while some are recharging. The key is to know which is which -- for you personally, not by some vague societal construct. Budget and balance accordingly, maybe making a tiring day more bearable by planning something to look forward to later that week.
Of course, apparently only UNIX folks are developers.
I've been trying to teach my young teenage kids about how things work, like, washing machines, cars, etc. One of the things I've learned is that it's a looooot easier to explain 20th century technology than 21st century technology.

Let me give you an example. My father was recently repairing his furnace in his camper, which is still a 20th century technology. He traced the problem to the switch that detects whether or not air is flowing, because furnaces have a safety feature such that if the air isn't flowing, it shuts the furnace off so it doesn't catch on fire. How does this switch work? Does it electronically count revolutions on a fan? Does it have two temperature sensors and then compute whether or not air is flowing by whether their delta is coming down or staying roughly the same temperature? Is it some other magical black box with integrated circuits and sensors and complexity greater than the computer I grew up with?

No. It's really simple. It's a big metal plate that sticks out into the airflow and if the air is moving, closes a switch. Have a look: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dometic-31094-RV-Furnace-Heater-S... You can look at that thing, and as long as you have a basic understanding of electronics, and the basic understanding of physics one gets from simply living in the real world for a few years, you can see how that works.

I'm not saying this is better than what we have now. 21st century technology exists for a reason. Sometimes it is done well, sometimes it is done poorly, sometimes it is misused and abused, it's complicated. That fan switch has some fundamental issues in its design. It's nice that they are also easy to fix, since it's so simple, but I wouldn't guarantee it's the "best" solution. All I'm saying here is that this 20th century technology is easier to understand.

My car is festooned with complicated sensors and not just one black box, but a large number of black boxes with wires hooked in doing I have no idea what. For the most part, those sensors and black boxes have made cars that drive better, last longer, are net cheaper, and generally better, despite some specific complaints we may have about them, e.g., lacking physical controls. But they are certainly harder to understand than a 20th century car.

Computers are the same way. There is a profound sense in which computers today really aren't that different than a Commodore 64, they just run much faster. There are also profound senses in which that is not true; don't overinterpret that. But ultimately these things accept inputs, turn them into numbers, add and subtract them really quickly in complicated ways, then use those numbers to make pictures so we can interpret them. But I can almost explain to my teens how that worked in the 20th century down to the electronics level. My 21st century explanation involves a lot of handwaving, and I'm pretty sure I could spend literally a full work day giving a spontaneous, off-the-cuff presentation of that classic interview question "what happens when you load a page in the web browser" as it is!
I'd like to think this is the final nail in the coffin in dual stock structures, but of course the next great growth company will be built somewhere sometime, and the public markets will be desperate to get a piece and will do whatever it takes to make that happen.
There needs to be some evidence for this. You can’t just claim some religious people want to kill everybody. Link please or this is a blatant lie.
Fun read. We were all really naive about what the web would become at that time.
I actually think we should pay for the things we use. Then we can retire the "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product" excuse that many just automatically throw out to justify data collection.
It is a platform for Windows Developers.
You say you don't care about the Ukraine war topic, but you keep fueling it nonetheless.

I agree it's beside the point. The point is that - except possibly China and a select few others (Singapore, UAE, etc.) - most autocratic countries are not doing well (almost all countries ranked high on the HDI are democracies for example).

You blaming the West for it (regardless of whether that's justified or not), doesn't change that empirical fact.
the one thing the article tap dances around is the fact that Meta as a company has been horribly overvalued for about the past decade. Its managed to avoid its market haircut largely with smoke and mirror efforts like marketplace and a video chat device (not to mention the strategic rebrand as 'meta.') but the billion dollar metaverse at the cusp of a market recession and record inflation was clearly more than investors were ready to pretend was a viable strategy.

people are drawing comparisons to twitter? and im not sure why. Twitter has always been a massive underperformer and basically just serves as a safe harbor for brand engagement. its worst bug is permitting any political discussion whatsoever as thats generally not brand-safe. Musk can work to lock it down a little more to appease major marketing players --which in doing so will accellerate its user exodus-- or he can start charging users for the pleasure of airing their hot takes and reduce the advertising footprint on twitter drastically, but he cannot do both.

Zuck cant do much to staunch the bleeding at Face, er, meta. Methinks its time to do what he should have done a decade ago: sell the shares and do something else if hes capable of it. if not, well, Gates has proven you can recycle your own cash endlessly as the cow chews the cud through an obtuse network of your own charities that serve no greater purpose than to launder money and perpetuate your legacy in a way that cant be cancelled or removed from the public square if youre posthumously outed as a villain.
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I dislike the introvert/extrovert dichotomy, especially in the oversimplified US interpretation that has now become global. I'm for instance gregarious and outgoing with people I like, even if I might have met them very recently. At the same time, I may have an instinctive dislike/mismatch reaction for someone in the first few minutes of meeting them, and then it's a struggle to go through polite conversation (circumstances might force me to hang in there).

The article is a bit short on how "introverts" can improve their interactions, but it would surely help to not label people inside these limited buckets and push everyone to communicate and interact with others better.
TIL, thanks! Takes me back
Can you provide a source for 'They trick people with the “just set this env var” to turn it off'? I'm reading their documentation about telemetry and it says something different, am I missing something?

[0] https://nextjs.org/telemetry
I can see the value. The interesting thing is whether people will notice and follow along. But of course just the act of writing in a setting where people potentially will read it makes you think a little more thoroughly even of "random" thoughts.

I think you should consider making tags case-insensitive. I would just lowercase them all :)
If you have reproducible binaries, then you don't care about the build time, because all builds of the same version will be identical, regardless of when they were made. The simpler solution is to leave the build time out of the binary/package/whatever entirely.
I’d love to see how GPUs fit into this picture; are we getting more transistors on a die but designs are not getting much faster?
True, though I know brand new LIRs (one man operations) that got /32's, so I can't imagine a major enterprise would have trouble getting one with a little bit of documentation.
Oh yes, a Racket to JavaScript compiler is on the same level of “interesting” as the Holocaust. Not sure how I missed it before.
Introversion and extroversion are also not just binary traits in my opinion. Some “introverts” are very extroverted with friends they know well and in intimate settings. They are happy and receive energy from these social interactions whereas big groups may drain them.
I do appreciate the view.

It is still theft however.

Last month I saw a child on the tube leave their weird tablet on the seat as their parent dragged them away.

Should I have kept the tablet? I'd have looked after it better than the child. Before they forgot about it they were mashing it pretty hard. They could break it despite the stupid case on the thing.

I hope you'd suggest give it back to them (don't worry I did - and am still bragging about it to strangers weeks later apparently).

The underlying ethics is the same imo. You shouldn't take stuff from others no matter how they are treating their stuff. It's theirs.
Is SVGO Worth It?
It was, with tiers for users, devs, etc. It lacked users, but it also was born in an environment where Twitter wasn't yet "awful" by most people's definition, let alone owned by someone with mixed popularity. If app.net launched today, it may be a different story.
No. Financial services don't have fees.
Censorship by the company not the government
I recognized this as a career-limiting factor too, and took some steps to rectify the situation. My solution was to study the largely unwritten rules of social interaction as I would any other topic, then fake it. That can be draining, as the article alludes to, especially when you don't have time to recover. However, I did notice that I had been really rubbing others the wrong way with the regular faux pas and general awkwardness, so fixing that made others not actively dislike being in my presence.

Later on, I shifted my strategy to closing the gap even more by mutating my personality to a degree I wouldn't have previously thought possible (upping openness and agreeableness in the OCEAN model). That really changed things a lot, though probably isn't possible for some people (it was only a partial success in my case). That solved part of the energy-draining aspect of social interaction, since I now had wiring that made social interaction more natural.

Thankfully, the bar is lower in tech. You can have what would be a disastrous personality for a lawyer or CEO, but still find yourself as the most socially capable guy in the room on a tech team.
My thinking is that categorization is a dead horse. Here is a problem: take a car and a truck. Now slowly, bit by bit, morph the car into the truck. At what point is the car a truck? Or is it ever a truck? I, personally, personally cannot see this as a problem that can be solved. Maybe you are better.

My conclusion is that composition is a better method. Has a. And composition by capability is even better. Not great, but better. I was part of several efforts by standards groups to come up with SNMP standards for storage devices. What is a disk? And it has a controller right. Wait. Now the controller is in the disk. Wait now there are RAID systems. Wait...

Trying to build a system of composable tags for functionality seems like it might have a chance. Can it store something? Can it retrieve it. Does it have a retrieval time? Etc.

Another annoying problem is the categories for Craiglist. Where do cooking pots and pans go. For sale. A locality. Household items. Really? Nothing under cooking or even kitchen? I'm not saying this is wrong, I'm just thinking about how do I go about finding stuff other than just "search title".
Yes, of course. But humans are territorial and possessive, and it aggravates us when someone “steals” our ideas. The iterative and derivative nature of those ideas notwithstanding.
How to deal with Extreme Physical Pain (2020)
App.net went braindead in 2014 and finally died in 2017. 2014 was a long time ago in internet terms. Just look at Mastodon: people are always declaring it dead, but the project's official instances alone are bigger than App.net at peak and it's funded on Patreon subscriptions. Mastodon's part of the fediverse ranges from 750k to 1m active monthly users using this model before adding in comparable and compatible stuff like Pleroma and Misskey. There's been a shift in people's willingness to pay for services that doesn't start or stop with social media.

Edit to add: App.net also had the problem of needing to justify $3m in funding. It "failed" because its model couldn't do that quick enough to make investors happy. A normal platform with slow but steady growth that depends on subscriptions doesn't have that problem as long as the bills are paid and enough people are happy with it to maintain growth. Mastodon proves it can be done, still running and growing a half decade after the entire SV media declared it dead because they didn't understand how self-funded platforms work. Others can learn from and build on it.
Strange. I think Facebook is bad because they've turned a decent, useful product into a cash-generation machine... to the detriment of the original product. So much so that many have decided that it's not worth dealing with the cash-generating cancer to access the compromised functionality of the core product.

Zuck is in a unique position where he has full control over Facebook. He could declare today that Facebook doesn't need to generate this much profit, add an option for a chronological news feed, and turn down the ads to "KTLO" level from the current "fund the metaverse, maximum profit" levels.

I loathe Zuck because he refuses to do anything like this, despite the obvious social ills of Facebook. Maybe corporate yesmen have something to do with his choice, but it seems more likely to me that Zuck has decided to keep Facebook a cancerous mess all on his own.
Maybe the detection could stay, but the decision making (= acting on gathered intelligence) should absolutely be not outsourced to dumb robots. In this particular case, the context of the e-mails between the father and the doctor would immediately indicate that the photo was legit.
it's absurd because pretty
much every particle of the cat is measured and thus decohered by other particles in the cat
> Change someone else's avatar

This is hilarious