skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this person has no idea what they are talking about and is stuck in the kind of denialist rhetoric that seems cute 10 or 15 years ago but is now competely embarrassingly wrong
> automatic memory management enables a bunch of abstractions that the Rust developers gave up on long ago.

These claims should really come with sourcing. Rust devs have been raising the potential for abstraction in Rust since the initial 1.0 release, most recently with GAT's. What's always been quite hard is zero overhead abstraction, which GC languages simply have no equivalent for.
Would opium deaths be then on your hands?
I mean I think the people who predicted they would remain popular for a long time were actually right? They may stop accelerating but they are still as popular as ever.

YouTube is the second visited site in the US and FB is the third - and they've been at the top for over a decade. E-mail is not a social network but has stuck around for 20 years. I've used Reddit since 2010. I've been on Instagram for six years now and probably use it more now than I ever have. Even Snapchat which to me seemed like a fad - is massively popular among teens.

I think it is true there are lots of smaller sites like Vine or Digg or YikYak which peter out but it seems like if you hit the critical mass then you can maintain popularity for decades.
100 companies, heh. Well no wonder investigating takes time.

Just tracking down them all, the board of directors, etc...
> I prefer Netflix, because I’m paying them and they are not just manipulating me to show ads

Sorry to break it to you but Netflix is absolutely manipulating their audience in trying to convince everyone to watch Netflix productions.

When Netflix came into the market they had a unique platform and were burning money to get good content in. Now studios realized there is money in streaming and are squeezing Netflix prices.

Making their own productions means it is all vertical for them, less risk and more profitable.

By the end of it you're stuck watching something, just not exactly what you wanted in the first place.
What about the hundreds of pics of Hunter smoking crack in a bathrobe? What about the emails wherein Hunter describes in some detail his influence peddling operation? "10% for the big guy." Everyone focusing on Hunter's nudes are eliding the real story that Twitter buried. That is, the hard evidence that Biden is corrupt.
The more affluent neighborhoods don’t want public transportation linked to the “inner city” because it brings “those people” in.
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
Right. I think people lost sight of the fact that they joined these sites back when they were fun. They stopped being fun a long time ago, and get more out of you using them than you do.

The one positive out of all this is how many people have decided not to look for an alternative. Nobody asked for mindless scrolling any more than anyone asked to sit in traffic.
I could imagine there's better surfactants than that out there, you sound correct and now i feel my dentist is full of lies
In my German circles, that spot has been covered by whatsapp for a long while now. It never has been instagram or anything else really. For me it went from studivz (long defunct German "facebook" for university students, didn't last long), via facebook (for a short while, and due to lack of alternatives) straight to whatsapp, and has stayed there ever since, with the exception of some photography interested people sharing larger sets of photos on flickr at times, and some dating/sexting happening on snap (but most of that still was/is on whatsapp). Instagram was always understood as a place where you go if you want to see celebs, influencers and the "wannabes".

Granted, I am a bit older, a millennial (as much as it hurts me to admit) and an older one at that, but I regularly take the tram in my city at times when all the teenagers are going to school or coming from school, and you can see a damn lot of whatsapp on all those phone screens, a lot of tiktok, and a good amount of discord.
Uncensored reverse engineered ChatGPT API
I believe in that era you used to be able to sell airline tickets you couldn't use. I think it was just about whomever had the physical ticket.
If 80% or more of your published and "peer reviewed" predictions were non-reproducible crap (as is the case with said soft sciences), then you'd indeed better not say anything about the subject at all.

Just because you're "doing science" and getting some results back, doesn't mean you're doing something accurate or worth over not doing.
Maybe I don't understand what a pretension to cleverness is. I can believe that someone might misquote Seinfeld, or any cultural resource, to appear to lend support to an argument that it doesn't (although why someone would think even an argument actually supported by Seinfeld was made stronger thereby I don't know—the show is famously and intentionally about awful, shallow people). However, to me, a pretension to cleverness involves an attempt to signal some sort of cultural cachet—here, I think of cleverness as being synonymous with a sort of tricky or practical intelligence. Does Seinfeld carry that cachet?

> … in a text where the actual argument was a pelvic taunting.

I don't understand what this means, but I suspect that better understanding it would not make my life any better.
Since January 2021 they've been launching V1.5
> The experience was so miserable that Ms Doleac, who studies crime, has decided never to write another health paper.

Good move on Doleac's part; her naloxone paper was atrocious.
The 'life-changing' electric suit [video]
This is beyond imagination. It's a glimpse of what is going to become the job of programmers in the next 10 years imho.
Where in Boulder are you finding needles? I'm yet to see one after ~4 years here, but I've mostly stuck around CU campus and Pearl and the surrounding areas. Plenty of discarded vapes everywhere, though.
This is wrong. There is no heroin anymore, only fentanyl. The addicts know what they are getting.
Hey, creator here. I'm a little late to reply as I was getting some sleep.

You're obviously entitled to your opinion about Puter. It's completely fine if you think this is a very terrible idea. I disagree but I guess only time will tell.

But I just wanted to say that it's categorically false that Puter is trying to harvest data and sell it later. It's clearly spelled out in its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. I'm not trying to dupe anyone into anything, just hoping to build a better cloud storage service...
> and then there's left or right as a matter of tribal loyalty and the news cycle of the week.

I don't know what this means. How many people are included in this? Are you on the left or right under this specifications? Is everyone? If someone is defending Hunter Biden and the Dems, are they on the left here? Why would the left be the status quo? What about someone on the left who believes Hunter is not good, nor his family, nor the Dem party^^. How can both of these examples be on the left?

> Taibbi and Greenwald haven't moved right on policy, they're still left of center and arguably to the left of the liberals who criticize them.

> They just love pointing out inconsistencies from people who fight the news cycle battle week-to-week. They're contrarians, not conservatives.

I find this hard to believe. Taibbi didn't need to begin the Twitter thread by writing the left then Dems in parenthesis. No need to muddy the waters by incorrectly using left when he knows what the left means and knows it does not mean the Dems. Meanwhile using that language is sure to stoke up the right.

> They just love pointing out inconsistencies from people who fight the news cycle battle week-to-week. They're contrarians, not conservatives.

There's actual people doing this. That are picking apart both Dem and Repub inconsistencies and showing both establishments are not good. This contrasts Taibbi and Greenwald. Greenwald specifically has clearly been moving more and more to the right. At least publicly. Who knows how much of a grift all of this is. I can always check Fox News (which is just as bad as regularly going on CNN) next week and see Greenwald on again

^^This could be considered being a contrarian.
Yeah, that's the lowest-hanging C pedantry nitpick.

Usually if there's nothing else meaningful that one can say about someone else's project, they will comment on the _t naming... and as anyone with a yota of real-world experience would know it's a complete non-issue outside of a handful top-tier open source projects.

Don't be that guy. Save this comment for when it may actually be relevant.
That is a reasonable assumption, however, many opioid users deliberately use fentanyl.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09553...
Their front page is a sex positive article and an anti-Musk twitter article.

Just because they say something you dislike doesn't make them "right wing".
As I understand, the frontend and backend code run in a development environment but the funds available were stored in a production database.
I went on Instagram for the first time in a few years yesterday. None of my friends post anymore and it’s all ads or sponcon.

Group chats have been slowly growing for the last decade, and now have become completely dominant. I wonder how much of it is fear of cancellation leading to defaulting to private communication.
> I am trying to do this by hanging out in the forums of software products I use, and commenting on topics there. Unfortunately, even that is not a given these days, as many software makers insist on a Discord for tech support and discussion.

Interestingly enough, I often think that USENET was the peak. Despite higher levels of technological sophistication, we seem to have descended into a "great UI, horrible outcomes" world when it comes to online group communications.

All these platforms are reinventions of USENET in various forms. Yes, sure, USENET did have legendary flame wars in some groups. However, for the most part, and particularly in technical domains, it was simple and fantastically useful. I learned a ton through various USENET groups back in the day and even went as far as making several friends, both domestically and internationally.

At this point the genie is out of the bottle. The best we can hope for is that these things get fixed or repaced with some undefined next-generation approach that restores utility and removes one-sided politics from the equation. Easier said than done.
It's their silly "think of the children" filter, which requires an adult to contact the ISP to unlock access to sites which might contain nudity.
I think we're seeing a pendulum swing in some ways. The migration to Mastodon has been really exciting because servers are funded through Patreon, not eyeballs.
Communities are smaller and content is higher quality, without pressuring you to post content you think will get the most likes. It's like an actual social media platform, not what so many others have become.
I've recently seen many good and curious comments "answered in downvotes." Maybe I can't read the room, but why does that happen? Is there a way to phrase statements that challenge others in a way that leads to conversation and not flags/greying out?
Instagram isn't over, but it is becoming passé, which is not a positive sign for an app built around making people look cool.
As a Brit, I'm embarrassed. These politicians are LARPing and haven't learned the most important political lesson of the last 100 years - that restrictions on speech are dangerous.
People said the same thing about Twitter with its original 140 character limit. Just easily-consumable content you can scroll through. I enjoy the artwork I find on there. If I want YouTube links, music videos, news articles, etc I'll hit up Reddit.
I think some drug warriors become harm advocates. If drug users can't overcome their moral failures, before they suffocate on their vomit than be resuscitated with naloxone.
The main reason I took my first management position was after I remembered the pain of refusing a previous offer and getting an awful manager to lead the team.

Though I do not think I'm very good at managing myself. Though I might be an OK leader.
A carrot works better than a stick every time. If publuc transit is faster from source to destination, some people will flock to it. If faster and cheaper, many will flock to it. Incentivizing people with time, money and/or experience is far more effective than punitive measures.
This idea is why I wanted to see the code created by GPT at each step during this conversation for this post...
Surely what you say is as important as how much you talk. I suppose you can assign someone literally to just fill up a certain percentage of a conversation with words (though I wouldn't trust someone accurately to gauge whether they were speaking, say, 30% of the time or 40% of the time), but you can't assign someone to have something to say a given percentage of the time.
Not if you get a phone with enough local storage for your photos and then download them to your computer. The 5 GB of free cloud storage are a joke anyway.
Not always, but sometimes, the problem with people who want to manage is that they want to direct work. They like that power dynamic. I find the best managers kind of hate telling people want to do, but will if and when they have to.
In Caesar III, your "blocks" were organized by how far the laborers walked. For example, the houses a Bath Worker walked by determined which houses had access to a bath. If the worker took a left at a fork, all the houses to the left would have access to the bath, but none of the houses to the right would have a bath.

This led to the strategy of minimizing forks and maximizing the worker loops to create "blocks", where workers reliably provided needed services (marketplace for food/pottery, furniture. Bath houses. Doctors. Prefects/police+firefighter units, religious services, entertainment, etc. etc.0.

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Pharaoh / Cleopatra, the next game in this series, made this more explicit. With "roadblocks", any worker who "determines services" would make a U-turn upon touching a blocker. This allows you to explicitly make blocks (by preventing workers from taking the wrong fork in a road).

So I guess what I'm saying is... the "height" of the gameplay was found in Pharaoh / Cleopatra, rather than Caesar III. Impressions Games did a great job with Caesar III, but those last few additions in Pharaoh / Cleopatra really makes the designing of blocks / housing areas much easier and more consistent.

> While Julius does not implement any gameplay changes, a fork of Julius named Augustus is implementing many long-wanted gameplay changes, such as roadblocks.

Ah, that's somewhat exciting. At least another open source project is backporting the roadblock to Caesar III's engine. Which of course breaks compatibility... but it'd be a better game IMO.
When the percentage of ads (sponsored posts/stories) is higher than the content you want to see, it becomes a pain to actually use the app, and you slowly use it less and less until you stop using it alltogether.
Oh, that's how Sparrow works. The end effector is 7 vacuum cups arranged in a filled hexagon, each individually retractable. So they can use one for a small object, three or five for a linear object, and all seven for a big object. That's novel. It's also a simple mechanism that can probably run for a long time without problems. It's limited to things you can grab with vacuum, of course.

Amazon used to have a "robot picking challenge". Here's the MIT team's video from 2017.[1] That's able to deal with a more confused input bin. They had both a vacuum picker and a gripper. The gripper looks too fragile for a production environment.

Unstructured bin picking remains a very hard problem. I first saw a demo in the early 1980s, where a robot at a Detroit automation show was picking Magic Markers from a bin to give to visitors. Improvement since then is far less than you'd expect. Here's a reasonably good demo from 2019.[2]

As I point out occasionally, we're still having trouble getting to squirrel-level AI.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fG7zwGfIkI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxd5-ZD9XcQ
> something small but noticeable—like wearing a fedora—that immediately turns you off forever.

There seems to be a thing that some people hate "fedoras". I think it's to do with the "Fedora guy" meme. The hat Jerry Messing appears in is not a fedora; it's a trilby.

A trilby is a hat with a quite narrow brim, and stiffened; it's often woven and patterned. It can be made of just about anything (such as leather). You can't really mess with the brim; it's flipped up at the back and down at the front, and it stays that way.

A fedora is a soft felt hat with a wide brim. The hats worn by both the cops and the robbers in 30's gangster movies are all fedoras. Felt hats are not woven; they're felted, and that means they have to be made of wool or fur (I guess a panama fedora is an exception, but then I think a panama fedora is just a panama hat that is the same shape as a real fedora).

Where I come from, a trilby is associated with racecourse bookies and the criminal fraternity, as well as tacky seaside "kiss-me-quick" hats, made of something like cardboard. Fedoras, on the contrary, are stylish.

They're also very functional. They shed rain like an umbrella, without dumping it down your neck. The only thing wrong with them is that they make a good aerofoil - you have to "hold onto your hats" if it's windy.
Before, the checkmark was mostly held by people who work hard against my interests and the interests of my people.
Are you saying you are unable to compete in an open market? All of the Big Tech companies make a lot if their money internationally. Why shouldn’t they recruit worldwide?

And holding up China and Japan as exemplars of economic development is not the winning argument you think it is…
how did that work out in the end?
I’m seeing many reports from left and right sources back in April that specially stated that he is a self described free speech absolutist.
Did you reply to the wrong comment?

My prior comment doesn't seem downvoted.
This bug could easily happen in a typed language though.

function deduct(int cents) { ... }

int dollars = ...
deduct(dollars);

You need something like (Apps) Hungarian notation [1] as a minimum - or even better, subtypes of primitives like in Go to represent units in a typesafe way.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
This is not good for my anxiety disorder. Sadly not joking.
stochastic screening in printing (as opposed to halftoning) samples constrained random color points from a real/actual image

the uses of stochastic i've seen 'in the wild' have nothing to do with 2/3 of that definition
Author is in what some would call an NYC cool kid media bubble, and you know, those cool kids aren't using it anymore, which means no on who matters does (2billion active dorks notwithstanding)
Perhaps they aren't good, but they aren't that bad either. Probably better than I'd manage...
IMO, transit also needs to be clean, reliable, and crime-free if you want to actually see it utilized. Otherwise you are just pushing poor people to an unsafe and inferior transit option that adds other challenges and issues. Like being constantly late for a job when your unreliable transit system leaves them stranded regularly.
Horrifying pull quote:

"Simply lowering the risks of getting sick—and the costs of paraphernalia, as Flaco from the Bronx articulated—could also incentivise drug use."
Not in the US, where Twitter is located.
They were on the ISO Extended Pascal, which hardly mattered because by then, USCD Pascal and Object Pascal already had taken over the world of Pascal dialects, both of which had better ways to deal with strings.

https://www.iso.org/standard/18237.html

Additionally, Modula-2 was already available in 1978, sorting out all the issues of original Pascal, with all the features needed for a safe systems programming language in the late 70's.
This stuff feels revolutionary, and I say that as someone that has watched the progress even the last few months and said to myself that it won't radically change the software industry. I think I was wrong.

Also, as they say, maintenance is where the true cost of software lies. Has to anyone asked ChatGPT to refactor existing horrible code? It's fascinating to think about what happens to refactoring existing code if the AI doesn't care if it gets laid off, and can refactor again (if the new code fails) within seconds rather than days.

And, what happens when rewrite from scratch takes seconds instead of months. Joel's law of never rewrite from scratch might completely fall away.

This feels really game changing. If anyone can come in and just pitch ideas to AI with zero barriers for cost analysis, it's going to open the doors for software to eat every tiny segment that has not already been devoured.
I only read tweets from (self) currated lists of science / institutional Twitter accounts that provided great content or ideas (random examples: ESA, Ken Sheriff, Brian Krebs, Blender etc).

The fundamental change was switching over to the "latest" feed instead of "top".

This skips all the inflamatory and political drama-lama stuff that is (almost) never relevant in the long term (and if it is, it will be reported elsewhere in long form).

In fact whenever I feel "enganged" by Twitter it's usually because they, once again, switched my timeline mode back.

I wish there was a way to get a "topical feed" that allows me to discover without the obvious attempts to inject unreleated content (in particular anything from the mind of Elon Musk)
That’s interesting. I had no idea that was the case.

That being said, a needle exchange program could always require the testing of fentanyl and if fentanyl is found decline service.

So the people who apparently want fentanyl and are encouraged by the needle exchange programs would not have them as an incentive anyways.
Well there's the way you see it, and then there's reality.

It has always been widely publicized and is crystal clear in the TOS that with Gemini Earn you are not making secured or insured loans, and that Gemini isn't the borrower. Contrast that with something like IBKR's stock yield enhancement program, where IBKR is the borrower, and they absorb risk that the stock doesn't get returned.
Sunk cost at the same time as electric & water lines were trenched, while the road was built, paid for by the initial developers of the areas (and added to the cost of homes).
For this house, that happened somewhere in the early 90s. Digging it all open again is what would cost a lot.

Yes, if there's new development somewhere, they could probably get fiber in pretty cheap, if the developers though that was worth it. That doesn't help anyone else much.
I believe that's why it's important that an American organization is suing them in American courts. Of course, there is a chance you become a target of Mossad, but if they do away with too many American citizen they risk the US voters getting pissed and withdrawing support that's vital for Israel's continued existence.