skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I dont think this is an idea that can be dismissed trivially as a fallacy.

"Opiates are dangerous and they are anesthetics; therefore ketamine is dangerous because it's an anesthetic" is, literally, a textbook logical fallacy.

If you'd like to argue that ketamine is dangerous based on some other reasoning, go ahead, but that doesn't change the fact that OP's logic is prima facie fallacious.

> Ever met an nmda receptor agonist addict?

I used to work in drug counseling, so, yes.
My college taught us pascal and x86 asm before teaching us C. I think that was perfect because "bookending" it with a high-level language and a low-level one helped put C in perspective nicely. Knowing asm definitely helped to demystify pointers in C, which is usually a stumbling block for novice programmers.
'The "Died Suddenly" Explosion' is thinly veiled anti-vaxxer propaganda. Anytime anyone under the age of 60 dies these anti-vaxxers come out of their shadows and fill social media with their harmful lies blaming vaccines for the deaths.
Ask HN: Why aren't there popular services using data exports of social networks?
When Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other platforms started to offer data exports (even more so on pressure from GDPR) I became excited that there will be great efforts to build upon them, do things with the data that these networks were not incentivised to do. See a timeline where all social media activity is visible at once, see patterns, persons in your life throughout the years, or even migrate to new platforms by importing all your existing messages, content. The data is wast, and easily usable.

Apart from experimental small scripts I couldn't find any projects like the above. Do some legal terms explicitly forbid to use them in this way? Is there really such a disinterest from the dev community to work with this data?

To note: yes, handling such data is a huge privacy risk, but a) these could be offline/self-hosted tools b) if someone trusted the same data to these platforms, why couldn't he entrust them with other more open/transparent/appealing platforms.
I think I'd count those "dormant but not dead" relationships as good friends, myself, provided that we end up seeing each other semi-regularly (say, minimum every couple years or so).
Maybe, but the software we can build can multiply one's human abilities.

One can feed a man a fish, or one can create a robot that finds the sustainable amount of fish to catch, cleans it with no harmful soaps, cooks it to a safely edible form, and serves it on a biodegradable stick.

Can someone make that please? Sounds doable.
Nope. I had plenty of close friends through my mid-20s, but now at 42, after moving away to another state, I still believe we have enough accumulated trust and love that I'd give those people just about about anything, and feel comfortable sharing anything, and I'm reasonably sure they all feel the same way, but we haven't kept in regular contact. I'm not a phone conversation person and never have been, and quit all social media years ago to preserve my sanity. Regular visits aren't feasible because of the distance and the visits I can manage are ones in which I prioritize seeing my family over anyone else.

I don't have any serious complaints. I'm not lonely and people aren't super-important to me. I've got my wife and my cats and that's enough. I have no idea what I'd do today to make new friends that would ever be anywhere near what my old friends were. Those were people I saw day-in and day-out for years since we were in school together, we shared major life events and formative experiences that can't ever be repeated, and spent a level of time together that simply isn't feasible for so many reasons, from having a full-time job to having to prioritize time with my wife to no longer having the capacity and energy to go out and stay up late on any kind of regular basis.

Again, I have no complaints, but I don't see how it's realistic or possible in most cases to ever make friends as an adult that are as close as the friends you make and maintain throughout childhood and teenage years, other than a life partner or partners you actually live with.
my theory:

- incredibly proprietary

- heavily customized for the environments they are running in (and boy howdy are there many)

- COBOL/Fortran/4GL not popular or desirable (for younger developers)
this era had one massive flaw: huge amount of side effects, you would have to guess what would be the impact of checking a radio button in some deep settings without any way to test most of the time.

the best UIs were reactive lazily rendered node-based UIs over non destructive operations, but mostly relegated to pro content creation (movies, music).
opposing proof: Brave does.
Not really. There are good reasons to lose money and there are bad reasons to lose money. This was a bad one.
AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes
Your math assumes he lost 0% on the rest of his savings, while "those storing equity in ultra boring indexes" where storing 100% of their savings there. Is that really a fair accounting, in your opinion?
> It’s usually worse, less document and less tested than the popular alternative.

That's often true, but the situation is not much different to framework stagnation.

"Popular" frontend frameworks I have worked with throughout the years, which are all more or less obsolete now:

Dojo, KnockoutJS, ExtJS, Backbone.JS, AngularJS, Angular 2+, Ionic

Web frontends are replaced every couple of years, often triggered by new feature development using the shiny new framework, and the cost of supporting the old, now unpopular framework.

Focusing on the actual web standards instead of another framework abstraction has long term value. For example, being able to query a DB using SQL is as relevant as it was 30 years ago, despite the numerous ORM/QueryGenerators on top of it.
In the "unsafe" example in Swift can you get to undefined behavior?

In your "unsafe" example in Rust, you still don't get undefined behavior.

https://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/myths-and-legends-about...
> preserve your seed words

You've already lost most users. My parents call me weekly because I'm their password manager. They're not the only ones.
did you read the blog post?
Kind of crazy I can't find a single screenshot on the GitHub or docs pages…
Most Twitter users, as best I can tell, aren't actually complaining about what they see. They are complaining about what others see.

In their view, they have the "correct opinions" and have not been biased by any algorithms or moderation. Meanwhile, the people that disagree with them are the ones being duped by algorithms, bad moderation, and bad actors.

That's why there's a huge censorship movement right now in the US. People aren't saying, "protect me from what I want" -- they are saying, "protect others from what they want, but leave me alone." Which is, of course, entirely hypocritical.
The technical infrastructure at Twitter may prove more resilient than the business infrastructure. Payroll, accounting, and sales (ad sales in their case) count as "infrastructure" but not part of the technical setup. With a demoralized skeleton crew and key departments like payroll and HR apparently hollowed out Twitter will fall apart just as surely as it will from purely technical issues.

Arbitrarily firing/laying people off and failing to make payroll triggers regulatory and legal problems in the US, and I imagine even more so in European countries with stronger employment laws.
Ironic, given this post. Hive is bad, because it doesn't let you link to posts from other places on the internet, like ... his own blog?
A build up of un-triage feature requests can be a sign of neglect or of maintainer overload (the later will probably lead to the former eventually), but you can't tell if that is the case just by looking at an issue count.
I don't know why it would be magic to have thread-local storage. Thread-local variables are either static or extern. Thread-local static variables are initialized like normal static variables (initialization on declaration line occurs on first instantiation), but with a separate copy per thread.

N1570, sec. 6.2.4, para. 4: An object whose identifier is declared with the storage-class specifier _Thread_local has thread storage duration. Its lifetime is the entire execution of the thread for which it is created, and its stored value is initialized when the thread is started. There is a distinct object per thread, and use of the declared name in an expression refers to the object associated with the thread evaluating the expression.

N1570, sec. 6.7.9, para. 10: If an object that has static or thread storage duration is not initialized explicitly, then [it is initialized to NULL or 0 as appropriate, including all-bits-zero padding in structs]
> Coinbase has a prop desk?

Maybe [1], possibly not anymore [2].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/coinbase-tested-group-to-specul...

[2] https://news.yahoo.com/coinbase-never-trades-against-custome...
I have two methods to fall asleep after I wake up at night. 1) I close my eyes and focus on tracing an imaginary square with my eyes. I do this over and over. I'm usually out within 5 mins. 2) I focus on my breathing and count 1 for in 2 for out, repeat. I do that and I'm usually asleep within a few minutes. These are just tricks to quiet my mind enough to go to sleep.
So... wait, what's the answer? Did I miss that somewhere?
> at least in the US, there are more trees today than there were 100 years ago.

Perhaps so, but is 100 years the best metric? By 1922 a huge portion of the forests in the states had already been ravaged by harvesting, with most of the old-growth forests gone by the turn of the century.
I have a feeling that it might be a bit more complicated than it looks
> I make my living with .Net/C#/WPF, so great job Microsoft, I feel trapped rather than valued.

I'm in the same boat. Do you get to design your WPF UIs, or are they dictated to you by a UX designer? I hate the UIs I have to develop. I would never use them, but some PM insists they are good design, citing metrics from a broken feedback system that's been gamed to give PMs promotions over honest feedback. The designers don't use the software they are designing, but insist it is good design. Heck they are designing Windows software, using a Mac. Most users are held hostage. I'm convinced if there were actual competition these products would all fail.
:)
C99 for FFI makes sense. It's pretty common to have a C-like function as the entry point for a SIMD kernel. That means it's feasible to build only the implementation as C++, right?
True, but then hardly anything in Britain was mentioned much before then.
I hear you, but there's a middle ground I think.

A bunch of non-breaking quick cuts is of course jarring and could be better, but what you describe with "mistakes and all" is too far down the other end in my mind. I would not want to sit through someone having to backpedal like that.

But to each their own, we all learn differently.
That's not really been my experience. I do agree about needing multiple settings windows opened at once, especially when one is already open and you need to open a seemingly unrelated screen and lose your place.
Fair point, that said, a swipe-era UI is still a wider surface to explore than old era, since anything is actionable and has more inputs than the usual 2 buttons * { click, dblclick } but I guess it doesn't make a difference for a kid.
I think of this as does Twitter / other social media act as a common carrier or not? If twitter just hoses you down with your followed accounts in chronological order then they probably get to be called a common carrier. If not then they are doing some level of curation, choice, publishing and that is "the" algorithm - and yes it might be tweaked to be "better" (good luck defining that) but it always exists.

Whatsapp is I think a common carrier by any sensible definition - and yet look at the anti-social effects ascribed to it - murders in India, right wing election issues in Brazil.

There is no algorithm controlled by whatsapp on who someone adds to their group and shares pro/anti political messages. There is just the real world social graph being imprinted on the technology

And I think this is the problem - people.

Tech does not mindlessly control us, it simply provides us with our bubbles.

I think I am violently agreeing with tim bray.
You seem to be a lot more saddened than I am that a nice two letter name wasn't successfully squatted for all eternity by a no longer maintained ultra obscure niche language that no one has ever heard of let alone used.

Now perl stealing prolog's file extension on the other hand...
If it's news to you that there are hucksters with Stanford degrees then instead it should be, "hi, welcome to Silicon Valley."
This is the achilles heel of the FJ80 we get in the US with a gas engine.

The official EPA rating on my 1995 is 12MPG city, and 14MPG highway. Real world, I'm more often in the 10-12 MPG range. If you add heavy offroad accessories, expect that to drop further.

The Diesel engine you can get in other parts of the world can get 20+ MPG in the same vehicle.
It's done to renovate or create grazing land too.
Automating API Creation for Machine Learning with Docker
The source of potato blight is from the genetic similarity of the potatoes grown, as potatoes clone themselves when grown from potato seed (small potatoes) rather than "true" potato seeds, from their flowers. They are naturally selected, then naturally cloned en masse.

Lab grown meat will have the same problem assuming the cells have little to no genetic diversity. Even if grown in a sterile environment, they could become susceptible to a blight-like organism (virus, bacteria, fungus, etc) once on grocery store shelves.
Real trees play a role in improving air quality in cities:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211221102744.h...
Hmm, well my "small recent" project, that I got to my own personal MVP standards, is already at 2.6k lines of code; and my long-term project is at 9.4k lines of code -- not counting the little side libraries where I put more generic code I thought might be useful elsewhere. So, I guess you're not too far off.
> I always feel awkward when I reach out to people, as though I’m bothering them somehow, so I tend to avoid doing so.

Sometime around 30 it hit me like a swinging log to my introverted face that the reason I felt that way was because that's how I felt when people reached out to me.

It really shook my perspective to realize that many people like having someone reaching out to them and they are not annoyed by it.
They need factories to reopen.
“Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store”
Launching Renovate AI – virtual renovation and staging using AI for real estate
Happy to kickoff the beta launch of Renovate AI (www.renovateai.app). It a creative AI platform for real estate developers, agents, and interior designers to generate ideas or virtually stage and renovate any room by just uploading the image.

Please try it out yourself. Feedback highly appreciated!
Old people in China tend to be more trusting of the government than young people, in my experience.

People who have lived from before the revolution to today have seen a complete transformation of society. They don't connect the current government with the Cultural Revolution, because the people who took over after the Cultural Revolution (like Deng Xiaoping) had themselves been persecuted during it. They tend to see the history of China during their lifetimes as one with many struggles and hardships, but ultimately of success.

Vaccine hesitancy has much more to do with traditional medical beliefs, which is why Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore have faced the exact same problems with convincing elderly people to get vaccinated (there's also the fact that all these places did a vastly better job than the US or Europe of protecting their populations throughout most of the pandemic, meaning that old people didn't feel the same urgent fear that they might get CoVID any day).
Whoops, this is a bit DIY-ish, but an SDR stick and rtl_433[1] can pick up many remote weather instruments, from simple temperature/humidity sensors to weather stations (and a wide variety of other devices as well).

[1] https://www.triq.org/rtl_433/
Wi does 8 made sense to me the first time I picked up a surface pro or a windows phone.

I cannot think of anything good to say about it in any other context though.
> Musk, meanwhile, has sought to personally call chief executives of some brands that have curbed advertising in order to berate them, according to one senior industry figure, leading others to instead reduce their spend to the bare minimum required so as to avoid further confrontation with the billionaire entrepreneur.

Good thing he fired all the ad sales folks. That's working out well.
1) A "modern" scripting language. Scripting languages up to this point have been characterized by syntactic conveniences at the cost of performance, but modern languages have challenged the validity of that trade-off. In my opinion a new scripting language would be focused on as many development/operational conveniences as possible at the cost of performance. I'm not very familiar with Erlang but I imagine it would strive to be similar, without the goal of enabling massive distributed systems (it would more aim to replace all of a hobbyist's shell scripts, and maybe grow up to be used by devops in small/medium-sized companies). The language would be centered around concurrency and pattern-matching, and take Go (plugins) and sqlite (transparent persistence) for granted.

2) A 2D game engine. I might just be plagued by an abundance of non-obvious choices, but I'm baffled that I can't confidently draw pixels to the screen in 2022. If I were to start developing a 2D indie game at gunpoint I would probably choose Gamemaker or dare I say Unity, but I would much prefer something like the Processing/p5.js API (but with better performance/portability).
Or buy 1d3 dice: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1d3+dice

Edit: apparently for some 1d3 designs it is difficult to roll them fairly: as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33778669
Yes, healthcare demand is inelastic. Dental care is actually not inelastic. A huge percentage pass it up.

Where the absurdity of healthcare costs come from, in the US, from my experience as a provider there and in Australia, is the huge information assymetry (ie most people cannot doctor themselves - this is true everywhere) along with, in the US, the need to practice hugely defensive medicine and a drive to add in and bill for as many things as possible. The country is totally fucked (on a healthcare basis at least) because the construction of so many perverse incentives has driven the whole mode of behaviour out of whack
It's not just a publishing medium. You can use it privately as well. Social media is blurring those lines. People broadcast their messages daily to their own audience, whether it's family, group of friends, or the world. Eventually voice calls will just be another feature, and I guess providers will make a deal with the various apps like discord, whatsapp, etc., at that point these companies are effectively deciding what information people can consume.
If you want to experience a pepper rush with minimal topical pain and maximum enjoyment, buy/grow some fresh Carolina reapers and let them soak in a bottle of vodka or tequila for a couple of days. You can actually taste the pepper beyond the heat and still get a nice endorphin rush when you take a shot of it. It's also great for spicy margaritas
Apple: where it's totally fine to build products with what amounts to slave labor, and aiding the CCP in censorship is totally cool too, but Twitter is far too dangerous to be allowed on the app store because a meanie is in charge of it.
> You won't be able to if you look solely at the output.

i think this is the scenario in question, if someone is lying about the source of an image

> There are ways to check audit and verify the process by which said output was produced. They are also gamable but the cost of gaming them is not insignificant.

this is interesting to know about. do you have some zero knowledge proof arrangement in mind here?
AWS Announces Digital Sovereignty Pledge
The charitable interpretation would be the on-topic one.

> > > FDA: First-generation cultured meat is not illegal.
> > I’m excited to taste mammoth!
> This technology is still too young for that.
This might have become true mostly after 1987 to 1990, when the IBM managers began to regret the former openness of IBM, (wrongly) believing that it might have contributed to their diminishing share in the computer market, and they have made various, mostly failed, attempts to replace more open products with proprietary products, like the IBM PS/2.

At least before 1980, during the IBM System/360 and IBM System/370 generations, abundant documentation about any aspect of any IBM product was available, much more detailed than any modern documentation.

Moreover, for many of the programs provided by IBM with the hardware, the source code was available, even if they were not open-source in the modern sense, because the users were not encouraged to modify and redistribute them, even if such activities happened sometimes, e.g. within the IBM SHARE user group.

When the IBM PC was introduced in 1981, this policy of providing exhaustive documentation was still active, which is why the IBM PCs were delivered with a ton of manuals, including descriptions of the hardware interfaces and the complete listing of the source code for the BIOS firmware.
How DeSo Is Decentralizing the Blue Check Mark: Twitter Lessons
Written by DeSo Founder Nader Al-Naji
Yeah, neither is "software" with a definite purpose, more like platforms.

However, platforms is what benefit humanity the most, the same way they benefit all the top technology companies (they are all "platforms" first)

Suppose you look at the environment (nature) as a platform.
You will never ask: For what purpose? Of course, Life is the purpose.

The right question is: should it be privatised ?
Well, in the case of the environment, you know what a Yes for an answer has brought us…
Yes. The author is blaming vaccines no matter how much he/she is trying to put layers of misdirection on top of it.
The main issue with SwiftUI is not its syntax, but how Apple refuses to actually adopt it. Apple pretends that SwiftUI is the "default" for the development of iOS apps, but then refuses to adopt basic features within their APIs (like in MapKit[0] for example, where it's literally impossible to build an interface with anything complicated without moving over to UIKit). For SwiftUI to actually be usable by the majority of iOS developers, Apple needs to start taking it seriously.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkit/
Chicken costs could be lowered a lot for example, since you can use them as pest control for your garden, compost from their waste, etc
Not German, but I've stopped and I increasingly get angry when people cross at red lights on busy (from the pedestrian side) streets that don't have lots of car traffic. This is because I see it almost daily: someone looks, makes the determination that there's no car close and it's safe for them to cross. Then, 3 distracted people DON'T look and just see the person who started to cross, and start crossing themselves thinking it must be green or safe. And then a chain of people jaywalking WITHOUT looking starts and at some point a car approaches and it's no longer safe to cross.

So I've stopped jaywalking when somewhere where others could distractedly follow me, and I give angry glances at people who do. Sure, it's not my responsability to make sure others aren't distracted, but since I am aware of how people really are and I can avoid causing issues by just following the established signals, knowing I'm not responsible is not going to make me feel much better if someone gets run over following me.