skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I got a programming job once because, after interviewing applicants, I said, "Programmers should be capable of being clever, but not relying on it." And I meant it in the Einsteinian sense, after many interviews of duds. It was then gently suggested that perhaps I ought to fill the role.

However, the other form of being clever, the Fight Club "How's the working out for you? -- Being clever?" is shallow and often contagious, in the sense that a clever turn of phrase or a meme might replace rational thought. I'll give an example: whenever someone might suggest that someone else who is mentally ill might be violent, the stock response (I'll give you a bit to think of it) is some variant "Mentally ill people are in more danger of having violence inflicted on them than average people."

It's interesting as a response, it might even be true, but it in no way answers the actual question: is there a statistically larger incidence of violence from the mentally ill as compared to the norm? And then if you press further, you can get something like "The vast majority of people with mental health problems are no more likely to be violent than anyone else," which is yet another clever evasion and still doesn't answer the question.

This is just one example, but a lot of "memetic politics" contain such obscuring cleverness. It's a magic trick, at best, and should be stamped out wherever it appears, as a terrible shim jammed in, separating us just a little bit more from the real world.
I think it's the opposite: lifetimes for well-established social products are getting longer. People left digg for reddit because of a redesign, people stay on Twitter despite an ideologic shift from left to right! Nerds switch platforms over minor perceived slights and switch Linux distributions over license-philosophies or systemd-controversies; normies stay with the herd, with the audience, with the likes and clicks.
Ye is Ill.
Good for the author. Let’s start working on the successor to the “Big Web” and the competitor of the “small web” called the “The Hole”.

#Holesarenotwebs.
Investing in cryptocurrencies via FTX / participating in the get rich quick scheme
Then you are stuck in the USA for the rest of your life. I think the USA is the only country on the entire planet which allows unfettered free speech, every other nation has some legal limits on speech (or expression as we call it in Europe).

For instance, what Kanye said on Infowars would likely land him in jail if he was German, and his talk about the holocaust not being real would get him in trouble with the authorities in a lot of other nations.
Do you agree non consentual intimate images should be taken down?

If so, what Biden's team did is not an issue.
I don't think moderation has changed at all. I'm not in the gore-y scene but I wouldn't be surprised if it has always been on Twitter, just marked as sensitive. Most social media sites have that 'dark reality' content scenes.

Same goes for NSFW stuff, that stuff has been on Twitter long before Musk bought it and it will still be available just marked as sensitive (like it always has). I doubt they will go the Tumblr route and kill a giant part of the userbase.
I wondered that. I thought the bug had been around for a while; I suppose the morning checkin was a failed fix for the pre-existing bug.
It seems like for the first domain on your list (angeiras.com), you’re quite explicitly marketing it to the proprietor of the popular seafood place you mention. But if you say you’re not squatting, I’m sure there’s something I’m missing.
>I say bare numbers can be poison in a sufficiently complicated system

Indeed. It's interesting that the de facto solution to this is to key value pairs, where sometimes the key can be an array (e.g. json, xml, etc), and then one can (kinda) infer units from the key. But even this is insufficient, because inevitably the value is pulled out and it's context is lost.

This is, I think, a(nother) powerful argument for immutable values, and accreting structure losslessly with pointers. Like in Clojure. In general we our runtime should support values that have monotonically increasing amounts of metadata added to them during runtime, for example units, or more paths, such that any user of the value can interrogate that structure and find out what it meant to the last people to read or write the value.
Yup. I’ve still got my account, and if I go to twitter my followed and follower counts have only gone down a little. But I’m no longer actively using the account, and my timeline there has gone quite quiet (and meta; at least for me a lot of the remaining talk on twitter is _about_ twitter).

I’m keeping my account around not because I’m worried about impersonation (can’t imagine why anyone would bother, in my case), but, well, because I’ve had it for 15 years, and am somewhat attached to it, and, you never know, there’s a history of social networks being resold and partially resuscitated after bad acquisitions (see tumblr).
It’s a good thing to remember… just because it comes from a corporate IP doesn’t mean much. It is highly likely most of these edits were done by employees goofing around on Wikipedia while on their employer’s network.

If you broke down comments on HN by IP, I bet the distribution would be highly concentrated to tech companies IP ranges. Assuming that every comment was posted for nefarious reason would be flawed. The truth is much less exciting. It’s just dudes goofing around at work…
Yeah just means you have to rely on linting and your ide to catch those errors. And hopefully the rest of your team does the same thing.

Tho I suppose if it is really important you can put an assert there but I'm not familiar with that wrt typescript, maybe the transpiler would kill that?

I've done the occasional type checking in that way in similar languages, it is kind of self documenting too. 90% of the time duck typing is what you want.
If it makes you feel any better, it's not the hat's fault.
To be clear... this study is ONLY about an initial TWELVE MINUTES of conversation with a STRANGER.

And so the idea that "the more you talk, the more someone will like you" should be extrapolated to e.g. an entire two-hour first date, or to existing relationships at home or at work or with friends, would obviously be nonsense.

It certainly is an interesting finding, and easy to understand in retrospect -- people can decide to like you and find you more interesting if they've heard you speak for 8.4 minutes as opposed to 3.6 minutes.

But I wouldn't take this as any kind of generalized advice about "how much to talk in conversations", as the title suggests. The title is, frankly, a horrifying example of taking a small interesting finding and falsely suggesting it's much more broadly applicable.
Recommend great Django projects
Would you recommend a python/django project (or projects) which you consider as a great example of coding style, project structure, good practices etc?

I am asking in particular django projects, not just python or other python web frameworks.
Mentioning the other persons name is also a trick to remember it, perhaps that’s why they repeat it.
I have been shocked on multiple occasions to see how difficult teams make it to do basic CRUD apps.

Go lang is suggested rather than Rust, but the standard way of using Go is lower-level and less productive (unless you care about performance) than the Rails of 10 years ago (and I am not a fan of Rails).

Haskell can be a great option here- all the high level benefits of Rust and more in a language with a GC and plenty of good frameworks and libraries for CRUD. Unfortunately its one of the only languages that has a greater learning curve than Rust.
Excommunicated for not following the orthodoxy!
(Non-confrontationally): What is the problem then? Because I see those same qualities among my people as well.
Only if you look at it in a vacuum. Given that most of Silicon Valley (esp. Twitter moderators) supported democrats, bringing in Musk mostly balances the equation rather tilting it from neutral to the right.

I also find it interesting that freedom of speech has seemingly become a right-wing talking point.
Figures.

It recently passed the mom test. My 70-something mom signing up for something is a strong signal it has peaked.
Visual servoing and 'eye-in-hand' are not really groundbreaking in robotics, is there some novel/inventive aspect that Sparrow brings?

Or is it just taking existing tech and applying it in a real warehouse.
Ask HN: Can ChatGPT replace Google?
Hi,

I would like to hear your arguments about this.
> more the design of how to make or useful and how to use it

Yeah 100%. Emacs is almost 50 years old and still very popular. You can't beat it on programming power. Personally, I am not an emacs person (I'm even more notion than obsidian), so I understand your selective, design first approach to this.

> take inspiration from Obsidian Dataview, LogSeq

IMO

1. Obsidian Dataview should have been editable by design (not to say batch-editable)

2. Obsidian creators should have leveraged their dynalist (outlining) heritage into their newer product.

Your project is still young of course (I like it so far !) but some features are better kept in mind from the start. I hope you will take the best of both world (= see my "block level querying" remark in previous post)

Good luck!
Peak hackernews comment and sentiment.

There's also a neat changelog
https://puter.com/app/changelog
If you use one of those smaller paid email providers you can still interact with people who use Gmail. If you tried to create a small Instagram competitor it's unlikely that Facebook would ever agree to federate with you.
> If you CAN use a language with automatic garbage collection for your project, do that. Always.

Instruction unclear. App is now made in Haskell.
Do you have any examples? I can't think of any off the top of my head when it comes to consumer goods.

Even cars, I would trust the Japanese companies more. Computers aren't made here. TVs aren't. Furniture isn't (except maybe the fancy real wood kind?)

What's higher up the value chain? Planes? Spacecraft?
Kill this with fire..
Not enormously, and it's a very tough moving target. Catch a Chinese manufacturer claiming to be "made in the USA" and they'll disappear and reopen as a new name the next day.
The problem of congestion is addressed most efficiently through road use taxes that affect all drivers - not just ride sharing services. If cities want to encourage transit use, they must make driving a car more costly and using transit relatively less costly.
Interesting. Here is some background: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-a...

I guess “by default” means if both client and server have the required hardware support and there aren’t too many concurrent sessions.
There's "left" (or right) as a set of policy preferences or philosophies, and then there's left or right as a matter of tribal loyalty and the news cycle of the week.

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.
Are you talking about bookkeeping or tax preparation? We run about a $5M annual revenue business with multiple employees, thousands of charges, tons of 1099s, and we pay $3k/yr for bookkeeping and $800 for business tax prep, $400 for person tax prep.
More and more people are getting captured by their echo chambers, and as we get older it's almost impossible to get out for some reason. Case in point Elon, who like Trump seems now to be completely addicted to the dopamine hits from his most devoted fans' tweet replies. They are steering him further and further off the rails.
The article is paywalled, but this suggests to me we go further in harm-reduction. The problem is specifically opioid overdoses, so we should have more supervised-injection sites.
This is actually one of the nice features about OCaml that comes in handy when you have a function that takes two arguments of the same type but don't necessarily need to make a whole new type for each of them. They are called Labelled Arguments [0] and when you call the function, the label has to be the same. I've found that using it can clean up code because it ensures that variables share the name across the codebase as well as making sure arguments don't get mixed up.

[0]: https://ocaml.org/docs/labels
But this is Fraser Nelson, editor of the Spectator, writing in the Telegraph - both publications have been the absolute cheerleaders of the Conservative administration’s descent into an idiocracy. Reap what you sow, Fraser, you dolt.
At 1Mhz you could tell certain things, like looping or crashed by looking at the front panel of my Altair 8800.
Pretty amazing stuff. I used this prompt to have ChatGPT write me a coin flip game in python that flips a coin x amount of times and displays the result: "create a game in python to flip a coin x amount of times and show the results when done"
It came back with python code that ran perfectly when saved into a .py file without having to make any changes.
My only superpower is knowing what fad is going to make a stack of cash and riding it. The only thing I've actually honestly believed in and honed recently was Go programming.
Conversation & social matters are so variable and vibe based that I think trying to get grip on something like 'likability' via a metric like 'contributions ratio' seems absurd.
I'd probably go with Rails, but Elixir would work out ok for a lot of use cases. Either one seems a significantly better fit than Rust.
Why do they expect it to be so expensive? ("It is definitely not cheap to make one of these. We are currently estimating the cost at between $2k - $4k.")

With 4769 components on the board, that would suggest a cost per component of over 40 cents. Looking at JLCPCB prices for SMD assembly and components, I would have expected an order of magnitude less.
The study mentioned makes no effort to show causation.

And the correlation can very easily be backwards. In fact,
its more likely backwards.

Counties which are facing an increasing barrage of opioids and all the issues related to it, especially spread of disease and an increase in deaths due to unsafe use are almost certainly
more likely to create safe needle exchanges.

For the economist to write this article as if causation is established, and further to moralize is insane.

Especially since the Economist famously doesn’t provide bylines so this becomes the official view of the magazine as opposed to a specific editor’s.

And finally, even if the causation is correct, all it indicates is that needle exchange programs need to also provide drug testing capabilities so the presence of fentanyl can easily be identified.
Was gonna say the same thing. I try to repeat the person’s name quite a bit so it can get drilled into my head…
GPT3 won today’s advent of code, in only 10s
For political reasons he needs it to be more than a very popular private service. He needs it to be an essential public utility.
unlike most digital apps The Atlantic has been around for almost 170 years. Based on that fact alone I'd give it a good shot to outlive not one but the next five to ten successors of IG.
Love Uber and Lyft. The main annoying thing is their drivers picking up and dropping off passengers in the middle of the street. But of course I still own a car. I want to travel on the weekends. I cannot take a Lyft to drive an hour to the beach or sometimes longer to go hiking etc. (Not to mention other things like a bike rack etc). Also with young kids that need a car seat it's much worse.
I worked mostly for international companies. And most of them are good. People are good. Leadership are good. The percentage of "good" is high. You can find the "good" everywhere.

So the problem is you can't fix the issue in Vietnam.
I think the key to a massively successful new social network will be a fallback API of just email/text.

Why not let your shiny new social network UI parse any dumb input into a fancy thread format? Zero adoption friction. Federation baked in.

Example: You run a mastodon-like service that can receive email. When it gets an email, it publishes a twirt with the contents. Truncates as needed.

If it's a new email address, spin up new user with email username.
No password needed, cause it came from the email address you own.

Conversely, in the fancy interface, you can @soandso@gmail.com and it will email them for you. Doesn't matter if they've "joined twartordon." So it has a dumb-simple user growth model baked in.

I've been promoting this idea for years in the man-yells-at-clouds format, but folks don't seem to get why it's so powerful...
This reminds me of a related article discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32482523

The Three Trends:

1. Medium: text -> images -> video -> 3D graphics -> VR

2. AI: time -> rank -> recommend -> generate

3. UI: click -> scroll -> tap -> swipe -> autoplay

TikTok is at the video/recommend/swipe stage.
Do exchanges even require an exchange? Here in Boulder city funded groups will just give junkies needles for free. And then you end up with needles littered all over the place. At least with an exchange junkies would keep their needles if they can manage. A few years ago 4 year old was pricked multiple times by a used needle that they found in a park.
Yeah there’s still plenty of solutions here within the current system.
It is an option if you have the kind of money to build and maintain the infrastructure to make it work and keep it working.

But, since you are asking, you almost certainly have that kind of money. And I am talking about kinds of money rather than amounts of money because while it takes a particular amount of money, relationships, experience and knowledge also play roles...basically, the easiest way to do what you want to do is to ask your banker to set it up for you (again your banker not your bank).

At the high level bit, this smells a bit like a way to excuse failure. I mean business is hard enough and you could do everything the easy way and still probably fail one or more times.[1] And making it harder from the outset...taking a dependency on finding someone you don't know with vague qualities and availability allows assignment of causality to that person when things go south...they're the face of the business afterall.

Finally, there's a fundamental problem with what you are looking for. Your plan places trust in someone you don't know well who is comfortable with ongoing deceit and will take credit for things they didn't do and will play second fiddle to your lead...and they aren't your banker.

Good luck.

[1]: you could also do everything the easy way and the right way and still fail just because of insufficient luck.
> wow, that sounds dangerous and an active security risk to any company or individual who did not consent to it and counter intuitive to really anything meaningful at all.

I assume you're speaking about read.ai (not the rest of my comment)? For what it's worth, the bot starts every conversation with a pop up "are you willing to record this conversation" if you or any party selects no or type "opt out" in the chat at any time it'll leave. You can also set it to only show up when invited.

Conversations are often recorded in the space I'm in (for note taking purposes). So it's fairly convenient. There's A LOT of apps that record meetings for you. Zoom even has this as an option built into their application.
I don't think it's a "git gut" kind of response. There are some engineers who keep repeating "oh X is so hard, I've never tried myself or even looked at it, but I've heard that it's hard". X could be anything.

If you are a software engineer and not a code monkey in a web shop, you should have no problem at least trying to expand your knowledge. I worked with people who're afraid of changing a line in k8s manifest file even after you tell them what and where.

There are some languages that look alien to the typical engineer and hard to understand without at least a minor prior knowledge, but Rust isn't one of them.
I'm surprised HN isn't flagging and downvoting the comments supporting the content, since it remains misinformation (if not downright disinformation).

The comments discussing process (was this appropriate moderation?) are much more in line with my experience in the community.
The research paper (PDF link):

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Quinn-Hirschi/publicati...
Ha! I’ve actually downloaded the episode months ago, but I’ve completely forgotten about it until now. I’ll give it a listen, Darknet Diaries is always a quality show…
For example, https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks
No, fentanyl kills drug users.
Malloc is not a type. If you meant to say realloc, a good point and it's indeed a bad interface for the exact reason but still it's not a type.
No way, The Economist, a right wing publication, is against non-carceral drug policy. Who could have predicted that.
I'd love to have an excuse to write something with it, but it'd need to be the right excuse - something low level requiring some speed.
Look at how many times that program appears when you paste your question into Google.

The language model was trained on it.
The old 'Plebs are needed' from Caesar II still burnt into my brain.

The amount of detail and information thrown into the game and the manual.
Helping the drug users get off the drugs could reduce plenty of harm, I reckon, but when that fails why is the alternative helping them stay on?
Ah, gotcha. Though, I'm not sure impersonating someone else falls under free speech, right? I mean, if Weird Al did some parody songs and marketed them as the original artists, he'd get sued...unless he made it clear it was parody. Right?

I bet you'd get banned for impersonating anyone on twitter, not just Musk. Or was that not happening?
Twitter was being used as a tool to censor one side of the conversation and amplify another. You don't realize how controlled the US population is. Much of what is considered mainstream right now was injected into our society, it was not some grassroots movement.
https://archive.ph/fzBoE
I recall one of these transcription bots recently sending out an email summary to everyone on the invite and creeping everyone out. Don’t remember if this was the specific one or not.
Paywall bypass:

https://archive.ph/fzBoE
Huh, I’m currently in the opposite boat. The cost of ride-sharing a few times a month is so much cheaper than the total cost of owning a car. Like hell it’s less than just the insurance.
Mwamko
It's not that simple. Computer graphics are (currently) displayed on a flat 2D plane at some single distance from the eyeball. Typical vision defects affect different distances differently. Think "reading glasses" vs "driving glasses".

Also, the game might be simulating an experience from a character's point of view, and expect the player to be wearing glasses to correct their personal vision defects (to the extent possible).
I thought it was CP level censorship.
Well, my account has quit bleeding follows and my tweets "feel" as though they have more reach, although that may just be more conservatives returning to the platform.
In my eyes, TikTok is a social entertainment app where simple user-generated content is created with the purpose to provide enjoyment. It's not focused on the needs of other users, but entirely about one's own needs. Hence, I call this new version of social Eigensocial.
>Any examples of what exactly has changed?

It's not cool anymore to be in it. In fact it's cool to your aspirational peers to say you dislike it now.