skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are different segments on Instagram. Perhaps the "lifestyle blogger" or "influencer" has lost it's popularity. However, other audiences are still following different interests on Instagram. There are still thousands of artists (maybe millions) posting their art and illustrations, and still popular on Instagram.
> "renaissance men" that media personalities seem to be attracted to

I believe the word you're looking for is "dilettante".
10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 2-Year Treasury Constant Maturity
OK, but now the difference in how complicated it is to read from the string boils down to this:

1. Read the first chunk of the string length.
2. Is it more than 0?

vs

1. Read the first chunk of the string length.
2. Did we get the whole thing?
3. Is the length more than 0?

That extra step in the variable-length case means checking whether a bit is set in the value you just read.

---

Also, it occurs to me that this whole discussion is talking about how to serialize or deserialize a string, when the original discussion is over how the string should be represented in memory.
I certainly wouldn't assume a linear relationship between talking time and likeability. There has to be a drop-off at some point, since few people like being ambushed by someone who won't let them say a single word. Familiarity also plays a role. It might be somewhat relieving for a new acquaintance to carry a conversation, but wearying for a familiar person to subject you to endless verbal barrages.
I think more to the point, why would someone use this as opposed to a remote-desktop service from an established company like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, ...
When Oracle decides it's time to start making money instead of gathering market share with a loss leader, it's gonna hurt a lot more than the adjustment from Google here.
Left leaning isn’t “the left”. I skimmed the writing. It was about the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party and many Dems believe in liberalism and are within reach of being a moderate. The party leans left socially. No more than that.

TDS was never a real thing amongst the left. It was and is generally a thing amongst liberal Dems and some Repubs. The Lincoln Project is a propaganda PAC attacking TDS and is a great example. It’s by establishment Republicans who have close to the same policies as Trump but want control of the GOP back. A lot of liberal and/or moderate Democrats approve of the Lincoln Project. Too many times have friends been gleeful over their propaganda.

The left did not and is not going to be part of any TDS BS. I consider myself far left and have far more Trump apologetics to say than TDS is overblown.

> the left has had far more saying in what's allowed on social media than the right, so if you have any integrity you'd stand on the side of the right to create some equality/justice

If I may, this is a centrist point of view. Since the left isn’t in the picture, it’s moderates vs the right. How can a call for integrity be to stand with the right when it isn’t binary?

Why not stand with the left? Or even just left leaning American politics like Bernie and the squad. Who are Democratic Socialists. Not even on the left economically. They believe in the Nordic capitalist system. This is one option to stand with and we still haven’t gotten to the left yet. Any one could also stand with the left in these circumstances. Right off the bat we have four options to choose from. With those options, in my humble opinion 99% of the time it takes no integrity to side with the right if youre a left leaning.
The entire innovation of ridesharing was taxi dispatch, with a smartphone. It was only a slight incremental improvement over the existing state-of-the art. More convenient access to "rides" is a bandaid on the mistake of building communities for cars instead of people, with systems that by their very nature concentrate wealth and encourage poverty.

I started driving for the taxi company in 2012 [0]. The company already had a GPS-enabled dispatch system. The whole metropolitan area was split into 2 mile x 2 mile Zones. This was how fare dispatching worked from the drivers' POV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVmm3kECLxw

@WrathOfGnon comments on traditional development. Ex: "The organic way of city growth: mature cities, rather than growing like a cancer out of their bounds and limits, send out colonies to form new ones. Léon Krier illustrated it thus: [...]" - https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1149093724137242624

Most of Phoenix was developed in the post-WWII period. Modern Phoenix is entirely dependent on cars and air conditioning. It's not very human-friendly.

If our dear leaders wanted to deal with the "transportation" problem, they'd start with the economic insecurity of those at the bottom, who are living from week to week. At the end of my taxi driving period (when my roommate was no longer paying their half of rent), I was driving for 2 weeks to make rent, then 2 weeks for the rest of my expenses.

"What an excellent starting line: 'The problem of poverty must, by its very nature, be one of vital importance to any civilized community.'" https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1599036434765451264

If housing was built around "cooperatives", people's best financial option would be living in a compact environment where you don't need a car, rather than moving out into the suburbs & commuting 1 hour to work. But housing is an exercise in wealth concentration, where the only way for most of us to achieve stability is to participate in the lunacy of single-family-home ownership.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32059201 (my earlier comment about deciding driving for "Rideshare" companies didn't make financial sense)
If the number of people in the movement is large enough, governmental intervention becomes ineffectual. For example, the War on Drugs is great for the government. It expands police power, it provides a lot of federal funds to the states, and provides profit to private prisons. These things didn’t stop states from legalizing marijuana, and it will not stop other drugs from being legalized. Beyond that, people just ignore some laws in mass numbers and there’s little for the government to do: every single Phish concert, Floyd concert, Sublime concert, etc
True, but linearity/affine types applied carefully in the context of a managed runtime would look quite different from Rust's borrow checker. The reason why Rust's borrow checker is so infamous is because Rust has to prove everything at compile time. Bringing affine types to a GC language would most likely involve making them opt-in (or only triggered in concurrent situations), while making linearity optional in Rust would undermine its foundations.
Self-written, in Lisp dialect I made myself, based on a ledger entered into a text file (which compiles!).

Got every cent in tax I could get: capital cost allowance on business use of personal car, and such.

Used the output of the software to successfully fight tax-related misreporting from a company I was contracting for. Canada Revenue Agency sided with me, agreeing with my interpretation of how accounting should be done.
I've been taking a stab at this same problem (personal knowledge management) myself and I have to say I am very impressed with your implementation! I look forward to using this. Thanks for sharing!
If your taxes are simple, do it yourself or via a tax prep software.

If your taxes are more complex than you can handle on your own, put in the effort to find a good CPA. Get several recommendations!

Here is a cautionary tale when it comes to paying people to do your taxes: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2022/Nov/do-you-trust-your-tax-...
Humans have been experimenting with the production of rhythmic sounds for aesthetic effect for millennia. Considering the extensive search through possibility space that this represents, I'm skeptical that a machine aided search could discover new local optima with a significantly greater aesthetic effect.
How do you design and maintain an algorithm without human intervention?
I am surprised people expect these apps to remain popular for a long time. The internet has changed so much. I've watched social media apps come and go every few years and I personally think they are all short lived trends with maybe a few exceptions. They capture a young market first, who provide the value (photos, videos, memes) and then older generations start joining after the young market is captured. Then after five to 10 years, they age out, the fad is over. A new app captures the younger generation and the cycle repeats.

Some smaller social media networks have maybe kinda sorta survived more than one generation to some extent but it's debatable. Twitter seems like it has the most staying power so far but the present situation is evolving rapidly.
Rackspace: Ongoing Exchange outage caused by security incident
Yes, the newtype pattern in Rust works very well, say to wrap a string. The somewhat annoying thing is that it is born without any properties so you have to teach it to be comparable, etc from scratch.

The newtype pattern in Go is easier to use, but isn't strict enough - your wrapped string can still appear directly in a string concatenation without a cast. Any wrapped integer can still be used to index a slice! Considering how careful the language is with mixed arithmetic (can't add uint8 to uint16 without casting) this feels like an oversight.
and much less in the way od punishment
Yeah I'm not necessarily trying to endorse that style of writing either, and I think "upper middle class normie journalism" is a pretty good name for it.

But I do notice that HN tends to have a hard time with/disparage writing that doesn't state a clear thesis and move towards it directly. Writing that makes its point "between the lines" or through braiding apparently unrelated thoughts together and expecting the reader to finish the splice are not well received here.

I also think that, like consuming only social media probably atrophies your attention span, reading only "direct" prose atrophies your ability to experience the ride of other styles and receive what they have to give.

And again I don't really intend this as a value judgement. Both styles have their place and there is no moral imperative to enjoy all approaches to writing. But having a limited palate accidentally, being blind to that, and thinking the fault is entirely in anything that lies outside of it is in a very literal sense pathetic. And here I often sense that it is perceived as virtuous distance from foolishness instead.
Are you referring to “Classic” style of prose as it is portrayed in the book “Clear and Simple as the Truth”? If so, good point. But in my opinion, taking your observation into consideration, the piece now falls even flatter if I were to interpret it as an attempt at that style of writing.

If the author stuck to just dissecting only Twitter or Seinfeld or Kierkegaard or Einstein using some supporting of details derived from just one of of those references, or even tied in one extra reference for robustness, that’d be great in my opinion. But this essay reads like it was constructed from a bunch of transcluded notes from an Obsidian vault or a zettelkasten (where reference upon reference can be taking due to bi-directional links between notes).

I can go as far as to say that this is less classic prose, than it is prose in the manner of a Family Guy episode.
Twitter also removed posts at the behest of Trump’s team. But I will say they definitely lean left, which everyone knew.
Only some that are complaining. Most are happy to have propaganda removed.
My ads have gone from mainstream brands to dregs, degens, and grifters. This doesn't seem great, unless Elon's intent is to replace advertising revenue with other sources.
> In this case it's clearly that the left has had far more saying in what's allowed on social media than the right.

How so? In my eyes this is a case for a corrupt businessman that uses political ties for his gains. That’s pretty right wing isn’t it. At the very least there is no critique of capitalism, quite the contrary.
You can write render functions manually in vue too.
> Twitter is Dead!

This is not what the author was saying. The subtitle of "The slow goodbye to Twitter" is "I'm emotionally detaching myself from social media". It wasn't an article about the future of Twitter, it was an article about the future of the author. "On your death bed, will you wish you had tweeted more? Not me."
I’m seeing a lot more nazi-era antisemitic memes
Musk invested $44bn just to discover that advertisers are reluctant to associate with a blatantly biased hellscape.
EU is the same
Some men see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were and say, why not?
Oh cool. So you basically lie about the runtime structure of the type, which works out fine during type checking at compilation.
I talk with a few too many people who take the "let other people talk about themselves" rule as gospel. While it's nice to be given the spotlight, the point of a conversation is that it's an exchange, not a soliloquy. Conversations with people who listen a lot and don't give a lot back start to feel a bit uncomfortable as well.
I'm imagining that someone who understands how this stuff works will eventually make a system similar to ChatGPT but also give it the ability to interact with a programming environment and work towards a working program iteratively.

But its really going to be something when it also "understands" whats happening on screen, such as the input fields, buttons, etc., rather than just text.

Is there a community like a Discord or reddit or something that is specifically tracking AI programs that write programs for you? I feel like it is now important for me to take advantage of these tools in order to stay relevant as a programmer. Or at least, the stuff that comes out in the next few years.
wow, this is gorgeous. I've had similar ideas, but the execution here is just phenomenal.
Maybe I don't know. But we've self-selected into a forum where the main activity is the discussion of writing so I would expect us to be more practiced and open-minded about it than average.
Being able to get around doesn't matter - what matters is whether it's inconvenient enough to make the propaganda business unprofitable.
Well then you probably can't set foot anywhere much. If you were thinking of the USA, remember that people have been extra-judicially killed by the state for being "communist", only 2 or 3 decades ago.
Except that Elon just threw his friend Kanye off Twitter for sharing an idea.
I see, your description to GPT does not match the problem statement.

> It just says to use the value from the first element, but it’s unclear if it’s before or after that first element is replaced by the first operation.

Is the following python code unclear to you?

a = 0
b = 1
a, b = b, a

or alternatively:

a = [1,2,3,4,5]
a[0:3] = a[1:3] + [a[0]]

There's nothing in the statement that indicates the assignments should be done one element at a time (if so, the order of the assignments would need to be specified). It's an atomic operation that circularly shifts the values in the array in the range l...r
All product already have this labeled.
> No other type in C behaves like this,

Malloc does this.
And yet, here we are commenting on an Atlantic article and not an Instagram post.
> how to grok the often arcane error messages from the compiler

This, to me, is a bizarro opinion. Compared to c++, rustc's error messages are (by and large) incredibly helpful and clear, oftentimes showing how the code should have been written.
Saluting in Solidarity
Blockbench – A low-poly 3D model editor
WASM is involved because webapps would be a primary usecase for it. A way to deploy your webapp with more performance and less effort at obfuscation. If webapps aren't first class citizens, the effort to port buts of your native and webapp together to make a WASM based PWA has a lower ROI.

A quick search show plenty of articles talking about the limitations of webapps on iOS. Here is one, it is a year old, but then most WASM project repos I look at haven't had a commit in that long...

https://hub.tigrenpwa.com/pwa-on-ios/

I'm not attacking anyone's choices. I don't particularly love the idea of all these blackbox WebApps and the more stuff we let theough the sandbox the bigger the attack surface. Once again Apple's motive to retain complete control aligns with the motive to keep devices secure. I don't like native apps either for the most part, black boxes with even more attack surface. If webapps with less attack surface displace native apps with more, I mostly call that a win.

I write embedded numeric heavy code in c++/cuda and rust, so it is at best peripheral to my day job, meaning I don't have the expertise or motivation to have a strong opinion. I'm engaging in the conversation primarily to learn.
Tiktok is short addictive videos from randos.

Youtube is long addictive videos.

Instagram and facebook is still primarily focused on content from people you know, though they are also trying to copy some of TikTok’s randos content via the Reels feature.

At the end of the day they just want to get attention by giving content, whether using friends or essentially crowdsourcing.

I prefer Netflix, because I’m paying them and they are not just manipulating me to show ads.
I'm a heavy reader/average writer on Twitter, and I've never seen anything like that. It could be your followers that retweet/like things like that
Of course it is gonna be a shitshow. It’s still happening! Everybody has a vested interest in making those pages reflect their version of reality. And the non-cynic part of me says that is fine and to be expected. In the fog of war there is no true, objective reality yet. It takes a good long while for humanity to settle down and cooler heads can then piece together an accurate view of events.

There is plenty of good content on Wikipedia… you just won’t find it for highly potent current events unfolding right this instant.
I don't think it's a fiasco. I think Reels are better than TikTok.
Anker’s EUFY product, which markets itself as a home security service not requiring cloud connectivity, uploads facial recognition and other data to their cloud

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/eufys-no-clouds-came...

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/29/eufy-camera-cloud-uploa...
> the Model Y is ahead with 3,063 units, followed by the ID.4 (903), Enyaq (629) and Model 3 (602). Also well placed are the Polestar 2 (343) and the Volvo C40 (338) – with the electric version of the Volvo XC40 adding another 239 new registrations. The BMX iX establishes itself with 296 units ahead of models such as the Hyundai Ioniq 5 (262), Audi Q4 e-tron (250) and VW ID.5 (237).

It looks like 80% of cars were made in China. Tesla, Volvo, Polestar.

https://www.electrive.com/2022/10/04/bevs-reach-77-market-sh...
> He says he wanted to show that a Chinese company, his company, was able to produce a similar car. And therefore he decided to build a “Chinese Benz”.

And then it turns out what he actually does is buy another Chinese car based on an Audi 100, and replace the body panels while keeping the drivetrain, suspension, and interior. As far as I can tell, that proves absolutely nothing. Am I missing something?
Would be fun to watch this hardware alongside a sorting algorithm visualization like this: https://www.sortvisualizer.com/quicksort/
All in all, C is still not expressive enough for even such a basic data structure as strings.
Save game compatibilty is impressive and maybe an "unnecessary" feature. Any reason that this was possible, was the save game format documented or just reverse engineered?
As a Vietnamese, i'm ashamed by being a Vietnamese. Here're some reasons:

- Lack of culture: People hate each other in different regions.

- Lack of trust: Noone trust each others (besides only a few close friends)

- Lack of education: Students learn by heart to get over college. Then they switch career path just for some money.

- Lack of morality: People will do all kinds of thing without thinking about the cause and effects.

And many more.

No hope, because the root of issues will never be solved.
It seems?
Yeah, I can attest to that. I've went from barely using Instagram to spending a lot of time on it.
> I don't get how someone could think making a CRUD app in Rust could ever be a good idea (beyond hobby projects).

Me either, and I've said that before on HN. There is, however, a Rust lobby for CRUD apps. Those are the people who are pushing hard for "async". "Async" has its uses, but you don't really need it unless the load on your server has many thousands of concurrent connections, most of which are waiting. The OP here points out that his load is nowhere near that high. Python or node.js would work. Maybe even PHP.

If you need to write CRUD apps with high performance, use Go. That's what it's for. The libraries for what you need probably not only exist, but are running in production on warehouse-sized server farms.

I've been writing a metaverse client in Rust for two years, and I'm about 35,000 lines of safe Rust in. Separate threads are rendering, processing incoming messages from the network, updating the world state, fetching assets, and moving objects that are in motion, all in parallel. There's a lot of heavy machinery. Rust is good for this sort of highly concurrent problem. There have been no bugs in my code that required a debugger. (An early version of the rendering library I use, which is unsafe, caused trouble requiring using a debugger back in 2020. Took about 20 minutes to find the problem.) Rust is the right tool for the job for this sort of thing. I'd need a sizable team to do this in C++, and far more debugging.

As the original poster points out, and as some game devs have mentioned, the safety issues do slow development. You can paint yourself into a corner, where no easy fix will satisfy the ownership rules. It can take a week of rewriting to get out of that. Sometimes longer. Anything where an object needs a connection to its parent is unwieldy in Rust. You can do it, but soundness requires you do it through forward reference counted pointers and backwards weak pointers.
Actually a lot of things are made in the US, it tends to be higher up on the value chain. Even starting with assembled is better than nothing, but I’m also interested in various other allied countries as well. You might be surprised when you explicitly look for this that often there are options other than China.
Parent said they were joking about that example. Not every STEM PhD is math heavy. CS itself is big field with subareas that may or may not require fluency in topics such as optimization (e.g. HCI, Databases). ML/DL is optimization heavy, no? So the point is valid I think.
Your post specifically mentioned nude photos. You did say "of Trump's kids", admittedly. But I don't see how that merits a difference here.

What is the news story regarding photos of Hunter Biden? That he's naked like the rest of us under his clothes?
Great, now you have money but your life was disrupted during what most call a global recession and with thousands of highly skilled engineers also out there trying to find a job.

While you’re caring for a newborn or desperately trying to remain in the country.

During thanksgiving.

So how exactly does giving someone money not make this a shitty and heartless thing to do? You know, what some might call “inhumane”?

Once again, throwing cash at the problem doesn’t fix it. Getting money might be nice, but it doesn’t magically fix the lack of a job.
At least the Android version has external USB-C port that could fit an adapter. The specs say only that you can charge through it, it would be nice to know if it's really limited to charging or fully functional.
FWIW (not much) - I've never used IG or read The Atlantic.

There is simply far too much stuff on the Internet that's not memberwalled or paywalled.
People writing unit tests for internal tools? A lot of companies don't even having tests for production code.