skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, while I 100% agree with the original premise--that Instagram is filled with ads and content farms, with relatively few "real users" to be found--this specific complaint is actually "a you thing": Instagram's feed algorithm ranks content in ways that seems to give the wrong players power (such as by giving more weight to people who merely steal and aggregate content than the ones who produce it), but it isn't entirely incompetent.

I am, thereby, going to claim that, if you are getting nothing but half naked women on Instagram on your feed, it is because you actually "wanted" to see half naked women (...maybe "merely" subconsciously! as, while I am not entirely sure about Instagram, TikTok is apparently tracking implicit watch time more so than explicit actions, and maybe you stop for just a bit longer on such content as it catches your eye).

In contrast to your experience, I recently went through a devastating breakup, and my algorithmic Instagram feed seriously has no half naked women on it: it is, instead, nothing but an intense pile of captioned voices (like, an audio with text, but not video of that person) saying pseudo-motivational quotes about relationships ("if she had wanted to make time, she would have" sort of shit) with inspirational background music overlapped with videos of people "making stuff" (such as carpentry).

It is demoralizing to experience: I go into Instagram for whatever reason, start scrolling by accident, and then a half hour later I am at the bottom of a pit of emotions crying my eyes out while clutching a pillow and I am lucky if I escape even an hour after that :(... but, the algorithm does't care about my mental health: it only knows that if it shows me videos that cluster along these axes I apparently am willing to spend the rest of my life watching ads (which make up about 1/4th of the content on Instagram).
I don't think anyone minds that rust has multiple string types just that they're effectively named the same thing so people new to rust have no clue which does what without looking it up. Furthermore people without c/c++ experience mostly wont even know there is a difference since most languages don't give you that control over strings.

If rust string were str and strvec or strbuf no one would care.
Anyone who is familiar with this type of person immediately knows what Evangelical Atheism means.

Their religion is to eschew yours. They worship, just differently. They see no hypocrisy in being critical of your beliefs, but demand you fall in line with theirs.

Its inside humans to contain something that is commonly satiated with religion. We can fill it with something else, just can't pretend to be a better person for doing so. It's the same flaw.
Can't forsee covid though, nor the war in Ukraine

Without these two things we most likely wouldn't have blackouts
IANAL but I've been a legal assistant for 22 years.

I would find a labor & employment attorney, with the caveat that you want one that traditionally does work for tech labor and not tech employers.

With most legal specialties, you'll find that attorneys often gain experience defending one 'side' of the argument.
>but at some point Facebook may have to be happy with "just"

This isn't a Facebook problem, this is a late stage capitalism problem that risks causing our current economies to collapse to the ground.
Who cares if Trump was right about one or two things? Everything that came out of his mouth was bullshit (in the academic sense of the word [1]). But he said a lot of things, so obviously he’s going to come close to the truth once in a while. These accidents are no cause for celebration.

When you care about truth, bullshit is the opposite of what you celebrate, regardless of whether it’s accidentally true or not.

[1] The difference between bullshit and lies is that the person who lies tries to cover up of fabricate truth, but the bullshitter doesn’t care about the truth-value of the statements that are made.
I have to laugh about all these comments talking about the left and pedophilia, as if conservative religious organizations are not rife with child molestation.
Hey guys, I found the Great Replacement theorist. He's over here. /s

Chill dude. Maybe you forgot America is a "Nation of Immigrants".

It might also be news to you that American corporations are mostly staffed and lead by white Americans! [1]

Let me just grab that citation for you, since I know you're not too keen on searching for these kinds of facts for yourself:

"In the tech sector nationwide, whites are represented at a higher rate in the Executives category (83.3 percent), which typically encompasses the highest level jobs in the organization. This is roughly over 15 percentage points higher than their representation in the Professionals category (68 percent), which includes jobs such as computer programming. However, other groups are represented at significantly lower rates in the Executives category than in the Professionals category; African Americans (2 percent to 5.3 percent), Hispanics (3.1 percent to 5.3 percent), and Asian Americans (10.6 percent to 19.5 percent)."

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/special-report/diversity-high-tech

P.S. - now listen, I understand where you're coming from. My SO complains I listen to too much Fox News. But you gotta be a little bit smarter than that. Do your own research. Sip a little lemonade. And chill out.
you prompt with “rewrite this code, but use React Hooks”
Excellent, indeed, this will happen more and more, completely made up infinite content that seems very real, news site, entire functioning social graphs/networks with believable characters...
> And I am saying that this has a chilling effect on speech.

See, I don’t agree with this. Trump tried to achieve the exact opposite. He and many in the GOP made it clear that they wanted the Hunter story to be kept on the agenda. If Twitter was pushed leftward by the Biden team, they were also pushed rightward by Trump and the GOP who wanted Twitter to do the exact opposite.

The outcome is at best a net zero chilling effect.

There is no logical reason to believe that a candidate has a greater chilling effect than the sitting President and the Senate majority. You have to believe in some sort of a conspiracy to think that this was the case.
I have arguments about exactly that with friends who are otherwise very smart, and though they don't come out and say directly that the truth doesn't matter, they say equivalent things, like, "Well that's your truth, but who's to say it's my truth? We can't know for certain what the truth is, so why should we be able to force our version of the truth on someone else?"
> Lately I've noticed that younger generation doesn't really understand error messages even in the simplest cases

It was ever thus. I suspect what’s happened is that lately you’ve become the older generation.
A little annoyed that no one picked up on the fact that I was riffing on "it gave me a lot of wrong information in an authorative tone".
The issue with "privatisation" (they're not all the same) IMO is that it's usually done by politicians trying to get something for nothing.

Lets say the benefits of privatisation are 10% cheaper widgets or power stations, a politician will aim for 30%. Goodbye future.
In my experience, the biggest source of "random" glitches were the entertainment walkers. Because of a bug, sometimes the dancers would teleport and wonder off outside of the block. Lack of bazaar goods can also be a problem, specially if you have 1x1 houses because those run out of supplies faster than 2x2 houses. For 2x2 houses they need a bazaar visit twice a year, which matches the period in the random walker algorithm. However, for 1x1 houses that might not be enough; I suggest building an extra bazaar to be safe. Religion & water walkers don't spend resources. Education walkers consume papyrus every time they leave their building. If they're out of papyrus they don't go to work.
I can theoretically leave my home with just my smartphone. I can use it to pay fare at the local train station, get directions to restaurants, read the news, pay for food and coffee, and even lock / unlock my apartment.

I do still bring my wallet and keys, because I'd hate to run into a scenario where my phone does get lost, stolen, or damaged, leaving me stranded without a way to get home. But the concept is definitely there, and for someone less paranoid than I, it's definitely possible to live a life of convenience.
Isn't that whataboutism ?
I've been using your app 'flathabits' for over a year (maybe 2) and I love it. You have done right for the users. The intention you put into the app caused me to seek out and start using 'Plain org' as well.

The constructive criticism I have is when I have an 'bad' day or I'm traveling, canceling out each of the daily habits with the 2 step "skip" can be cumbersome. I'd prefer a swipe left or right which would be faster, or maybe 2 buttons (Done,Skip).

As for wider adoption, besides the usability issue above, I use your app because it integrates with my larger org-mode ecosystem (beorg, working copy, emacs) that I sync with my computer. Other comments mention visualization, sync with existing tools, I get that over on the Emacs side so I don't need it in your app.

You've built the great app for a tiny niche market, org-mode users who use iPhone. If you want to expand maybe make the app more intuitive, like others mentioned maybe some visualizations so that the app can stand alone better without org-mode being its primary selling point. I love your app because it is simple, because of the driving principles you put into it, and it syncs with my larger ecosystem.

Your app is great for org-mode people, the issue is that there are not many of us. Please don't undermine your driving principles for a higher download count.
Rage against shitty websites… I can’t even see the article with all the pop ups, jittering on scroll, etc. I’m sure it’s deep, maybe post it on a “dumb” website so we can read it.
In the US industrial & large electric consumers often pay a cheaper $/Kwh price. But they also have additional peak demand surcharges.
France is not alone in this. In a way it seems Europe in general is headed for a challenging winter when it comes to energy supply.

I wonder where this will lead.

I assume that once larger parts of the population start feeling the effects of these energy shortages, some dynamics might change.

At the moment, most do not seem to take much notice or care, not that I blame them. Life can be stressful enough as it is.
If anything can be learnt here it is

A.) that many things cannot be easily foreseen which includes record draughts and the Ukraine conflict.

B.) It makes sense to have a diversified energy mix where no single source is used predominantly.
Reasonableness checks are nearly absent these days. Warning the user "that's a lot of money/a date far in the future/a large quantity.[1] Are you sure?" detracts, I suppose from the UX. Except it really doesn't.

1. "Reasonable" varies according to the particular situation (customer's order history, credit rating, the normal range of quantites for the product, etc.)
Yes they have a job title called “buyer” whose job it is to find goods that the store should sell, including quality and safety (varies by store!).
Whether or not a statement should be interpreted as advocating for violence against a protected class is in the mind of the interpreter.
That's the headline immediately following "Ad-supported pacemakers are now available for people on lower incomes"
Oh boy.

Here:
"- Hence, the Democrats overwhelmingly have more influence on Twitter policy"

No, this does not follow, even a little.
The donations are to politicians, not from politicians.

So you seem to be trying to argue "because some of the employees donate to democrats, all employees therefore accept influence from democrats overwhelmingly". But this is not logical in any way, shape or form.

First, as pointed out numerous times, you don't know who the donations are from, and what population at twitter they represent.
For all you know, the entire policy team is republican or whatever and didn't donate at all!

Using the small percent who did donate somewhere as a proxy smear of the entire population of twitter employees is beyond silly.

Second, you have established zero connection between donation and influence of the donatee, because none can exist.

If i donate to say the ACLU, it doesn't mean the ACLU has influence over me.
It may (or may not!) mean we share some views, but that's not the same as them being able to influence me at all.

I donated a bunch to toys to toys for tots and the salvation army this season. By your argument, apparently they have a massive amount of influence on me through some unknown, unproven connection!

Yes, I think it is naive to believe otherwise, and that most of your argument is incredibly biased and naive, so i did call you naive for believing so.

Third, using donations of employees as a proxy metric for who has influence on employees is not backed up by any research, which i explicitly gave you, shows exactly the opposite of what you are claiming, and you just ignored.

"- Thus, when the Biden team expressed concern over a new article, the Twitter team was fast to censor the store on their platform."

Except the evidence shows when anyone expressed concern, they were fast to censor it.

It even says that!

So your whole point here, where it's about some twitter = democrat conspiracy, is nonsense.
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I'm tired of these "anti smart device" articles. Here's the harsh truth: most people don't care or appreciate Netflix/Disney/whatever being built in. Alternatives exist if you're so inclined.
Even if there is no true protection, I look at it that the professional is less likely to make a mistake than myself. If I make a mistake that later requires further review/justification, that is a true loss.
Actually given you probably don’t know Icelandic and it’s a small country that might be really easy to verify.
"My new secret word for praising a group of people and respecting their culture is death"

Nailed it
What a sad shitshow. News used to be a really good app on windows phone.
I'm still not buying the conclusion.

> In most cases, I think it makes more sense to use rems. This preserves the button's proportions, its aesthetics. And it reduces the risk of an overflow, if the button has a particularly long word.

Actually, the most appropriate technique, if you are more concerned with overflow and are ok with resizing the button, is just to set a min-width property and padding property.

This gives a consistent size for short-labelled buttons, and allows longer labels to seamlessly scale while achieving consistent padding.

If you would rather button size never change, then your constraint should take place at the label length, and you should specify a font-size.

In truth, user @jacobp100 is correct; it's best used as meant, which is solely for font-related properties.
When you step onto a plane and the air smells worse than a dirty sock that's been been used to clean up after sex and left to ferment for a month, yet, it's fair to blame the plane.
Sounds grim. Any examples?
While I don't necessarily disagree with the author, my phone now reeks of bengay from just opening this article.

This whole thing just drips "old man yelling at cloud"
Short answer: Lack of investment caused by incompetent politicians, supported by public opinion. Lot of French are anti-nuclear.
What story? The tweets in question that they requested to be deleted are photos of other Binden’s penis that he was keeping on his device?
This could be a very good time to create a startup that can make that command line and:
1. Document its functioning overall ("chatgpt doc")
2. Find bugs / logical flaws ("chatgpt debug")
3. Refactor the code for readability ("chatgpt refactor")
4. Improve its compute/memory performance ("chatgpt speed")
5. Improve the quality of comments ("chatgpt comment")

Or just "chatgpt fix" to do all the above ;)
Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but I can't quite follow what you're saying. I know it's anti-privatization, but I can really make out the rest.

What does this mean
> "After the private have do not profiting from old State made investments leaving anything else falling apart. When they reach a certain level of mess they going out, leaving the State arrange the mess and handle the rage"
The solution to the author's problem is to pay more for a better device. The solution to your problem is to pay the author so the ads aren't needed.
This kind of thing has been going on since the original Quake (and possibly earlier). Gameplay resources - models, textures, maps, sounds, etc - were stored as relatively simple “pak” file archives [0]. You could easily add resources and even overwrite existing ones simply by adding additional pak files to the game directory.

One of the easiest things you can do is simply replace one model for another. There’s a power-up [1] you can get that makes you completely invisible except for your eyes. But just replace “eyes.mdl” with “player.mdl” and invisible players become plain as day [2].

You can do even more with custom models. Add big sticks along each axis to see enemies coming from a mile away. Make the skin glow-in-the-dark fullbright [3] white. Cut holes in the map to see through walls.

Put it all together and you can see what a difference it makes:
- DM3 normal [4]
- DM3 with hacks [5]

0: https://quakewiki.org/wiki/.pak

1: https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/Ring_of_Shadows

2: http://quakeone.com/forum/quake-talk/quake-central/9304-eyes...

3: https://quakewiki.org/wiki/Quake_palette#Colormap

4: https://youtu.be/BPiVVtRRsyk?t=8m57s

5: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hf94PbE-b9I
Maybe from the Enlightenment to the early 20th century. Back then, science was still understood as the pursuit of truth.

The big idea in 20th century science, philosophy of science, and mathematics was that the truth is fundamentally unreachable. We got quantum mechanics as the foundation of reality. We got the idea that experiments can only rule out explanations but not establish the truth. We got used to probabilistic estimates based on data. We got all those uncomfortable results about the incompleteness and undecidability of formal systems.

Science became a social construct. We got evidence instead of facts; we got explanations, predictions, and interpretations instead of the truth. Science became a system of best practices for building and updating consensus based on empirical evidence.
No, it does not. A post-truth era may be one in which truth & falsity are not absolute & the only choices. Relativity brings about the realization that two people can witness the same event, obtain different measurements (usual example is in "empty" space where both start at the same velocity & distance to the event location, but one is in an accelerating reference frame relative to the other leading to different photon counts & "time" passage) & both be correct.
I brain farted. Obviously I meant prokaryotic cells, as the later context makes clear. Edit window has elapsed. Thanks for the correction.
Sure, obviously this has nothing to do with a 40-year anti-nuclear policy.
Only 5% of french electricity comes from gas and of these 5% only 20% come from Russia
I want the data to get there automatically while keeping data privacy and ownership.
It does have a spec now. It is called orgdown or so.
Yes, people believe it. A scary large amount of people.
Idealism, or ideals?

Perhaps it is just me, but I view idealism as a state of mind and ideals as what one values. It would be truly sad to sacrifice the former, yet the latter can evolve to reflect the truth.
When I needed a US contract reviewing I found someone via Priori and was happy with the service I got. Could be worth a look if you don’t have any personal recommendations. I’d be happy to share the details of the person I used if you like but it was just a fairly simple one off contract review so don’t take it as a proper recommendation!
I won't answer for op, but that's a big offense you seem to have taken. All those questions but you aren't actually asking anything.

It's possible that they are trying to communicate something you are demonstrating as a practice?
Private or public, nuclear does not like short-term management. And there has been too much of it lately, mostly because politics.
True, most of these are pretty readable by a lay person, but there may be clauses and phrases in there with distinct legal meaning (e.g. "work for hire") that you might miss if you just review it yourself.

Though I'm not saying you need a lawyer. I've signed plenty of these agreements and never hired a lawyer. Just know you're taking a risk in doing so.
Thank you. It seems that no other option except strands can explain both space and particles. It appears that a smallest length and a smallest area cannot arise in any other way.
US formally ends shady case against Meng Wanzhou
MAU doesn't mean much if they are losing users in primary markets and new users are from places where the ads don't pay.
I use it as a catch all term for people who "are into" Critical Social Justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynical_Theories).
More like fire-performance: it looks dangerous, and it does require some finesse, but it's really satisfying when you get in the flow, and burns are both less frequent and less serious than you might imagine as an onlooker.
And there’s no use relevant/usable alternative on the horizon. Except a few utopian (or shall I say purist) ones.

I guess one reason could be - even if someone wants to give it a shot they pretty much know that one of these behemoths will copy and drive them out, or buy them out but for that they need to have audience which is locked in vast corporate silos.
Then why the need for so much censorship like we have seen with Twitter?
I tried to solve Day 3 of Advent of Code earlier and ChatGPT fell over completely - it sounded like it knew what it was doing but couldn't get the right solution. Day 1 was solved immediately though. I think the only thing that gives me hope programming isn't dying is that the best spec of a problem is the program so someone will still have to do requirements engineering etc, but maybe it'll move into systems engineering over traditional software development.

Anyone know how we, as tech workers, can keep on top of this so we're not useless in 5 years time?
On top of the peak production issue, there is also a fuel reserve issue

As half of the the nuclear power plants are down, they have to rely on gas.
And gas has become difficult to import.

France feels both the liberalisation of the electricity production :
Private operators promised to produce cheaper and cleaner power back in the 2000s. But they didn't. Virtually all of them used a scheme (the Arenh system) to get public electricity in bulk, sold to them at a loss and at a fixed price, so that they could compete with the public company on retail prices.
Then the government was still in their privatization bubble, lobbies told them everything was fine, and they began to stop to maintain and to phase out public nuclear power plants.

And now we no longer have electricity.

The backup would be electricity made with natural gas. But you need to save that natural gas now. Russia froze the export of natural gas. And other companies know that gas is in short supply, so prices skyrocket.

So yeah, we have to turn everything off at night.
Investment in what? The plant is still running, no? Do they need more plants, repairs to existing, or upgrades to existing? How do I dig further?
Windows 12 Concept Video
I'd seen that article before, but I don't think I read the entire thing, and just now I noticed the trick about the CSS variables for approximate rem values, but in px. That's such a great idea!
*Simbari people, pre-Sexual Revolution practices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbari_people#Traditional_pra...

(not an easy read - discretion advised)
Isaac Asimov -> Isamov :)