skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem very confused, I think you're maybe a little too invested in there being some grand conspiracy behind this
Showing up counts for a lot. Grit is a good, admirable trait which correlates heavily with success.

I don't feel like leveraging grit works in all situations, though? Do others feel differently?

For me, there are times I want to program, show up to program, and then fail to dictate the movement of pixels of light appropriately with my critical thoughts. It's not for a lack of grit. I could sit for hours making attempts to gain headway, but only build in frustration as I become increasingly aware of my failure to drop into flow state.

The brain is a muscle, decision fatigue is real, and your body imposes safeguards on how much you're allowed to crunch it. There are some tasks which do not progress without a sufficiently critical mindset and require rest. You can do other, less mentally demanding tasks, and this will satiate some of your hunger to create, but, just as cleaning the house isn't a suitable replacement for that actually important chore you're procrastinating on, I don't feel that writing a blog post that just says, "I showed up." is sufficient to say you're continuing to progress in your own, personal character development?

Happy to be told I'm being overly cynical here. I think I am and just need more coffee, but curious to hear other's thoughts.
> 1. How does this research help address this problem?

I see it the other way around, this problem makes me doubt that this research will ever actually lead anywhere, supposing it's even as good a result as it first appears.

> 2. What are the sources for your opinion?

It's a fact. And my source is dead tree media. I don't recall all the details, but there are some very finicky parts that go into a state of the art warhead and we have lost the capability to manufacture them. Is this really so surprising? We can't even build new F-22s anymore!
It is less about being tech savy, it is the "tech" the Gen Z is savy at. And that tech has close to nothing to do with the tech they encounter in the workplace. Maybe in the field of social media ads, but even there the backend of social media might be different from the consumer front end.

One problem I have, almost daily which tells me I am getting old, is some people assume they are tech savy because they can handle stuff like MS Teams and Jira or SharePoint, and assume stuff like ERP systems and so on are as easy to understand. And should be as easy to use as social media apps. And simce they either feel they are tech savy, or have serious cases of imposter syndrom because they think everyone expects them to be, refuse to listen to seasoned people. As a result, mistakes are repeated over and over again, e.g. realizing unit-of-measure is important when moving and consuming inventory. Some people seem to prefer to learn the hard way, if so, please do it o your own time, and not that of your employer or co-workers.
20 years ago free speech was still limited by the laws - if you have a site or if you host a site that does something illegal, it'll be taken down. 20 years ago and today. Consequences haven't changed, and I feel like you're glorifying the internet from 20 years ago as some ultimate free place.
I think one of the issues is that Gen Z’s tech devices are more geared towards content consumption. Phones and tablets are great for consuming content, but not so great for producing. A laptop or even better a desktop with a large high resolution monitor is much better suited towards content production which is what businesses actually need.

Previously, this was not as big of a difference as the personal computer of the past was typically a desktop computer. Now the personal computing device is likely to be a phone.

In addition, computers/phones/tablets are more appliance like, in that it is very easy to use and set up and not much reason for the average person to trouble shoot and fix issues. This is great, but can result in the average person treating it more like a black box. I think in the past, if you wanted to get anything done with your computer, you needed to be familiar with the system and troubleshooting (or else have someone in the household who was).
Why does anyone care about alternative "narratives"? Are there any other facts that one might like to introduce? Not alternative facts, things that actually happened.
To say something positive as I focused on negative there, I love the 1password integration. It's by far the least intrusive I've encountered and I really, really want that in another browser (or for min to fix the aforementioned problems, but I feel like they're maybe core to its aesthetic?)
Banning accounts such as this is not at all inconsistent with banning accounts with the stated intent to track or surveil an individual. Accounts such as this are dangerous and no one needs to know his travel plans. The need for privacy does not interfere with anyone's freedom of speech here.
Quantum Computing Will Change Our Lives. But Be Patient, Please
> I see the "Prosecute/Fauci" tweet as a signal

Indeed. I saw it described as "he's raised the Batshit signal"
I had a sudden dawning zooming out that really felt like a psychedelic "insight".
> Any custom framework will always feel wrong and out of place

Pretty sure that's the wrong metric. Users don't care if the interface doesn't look exactly like the rest as long as it's good looking and feels familiar.

As a heavy VSCode user for example, I don't think it feels out of place on a mac for example. The UI is consistent in itself, and the UX is consistent with the global UX of the OS (more so than some native mac apps like Finder for instance).

The main reason I hated Java Swing apps was that they were ugly as hell, not that they didn't feel native.
Yes and no. I'm using rust-analyzer as an example, but I also use other language servers and observe similar UI lags/stutters.

When it comes to memory, my point is precisely that we should count the language server in the total and not just the Emacs process. So, when some other IDE is using multiple GB of memory on my Rust project, we have to compare that to my Emacs + rust-analyzer memory usage because both of those processes are providing the features that other-IDE is providing.

However, Emacs is also still kind of laggy when using LSP, even though the actual LSP server lives in another process and communicates mostly asynchronously. My understanding is that there are still bottlenecks in Emacs that make this not truly async. But, even if my LSP server of choice is extremely slow, why should that affect my cursor movement or typing speed in my Emacs buffer? I can see why it would be technically difficult to make it NOT introduce some lag, but it shouldn't in principle.

I haven't used Visual Studio Code, but my understanding is that it is plenty responsive to typing and cursor movement, even while using rust-analyzer.
Another part of the problem is that a good chunk of kids only use phone/tablets/gaming consoles, and have little experience with desktops/laptops. Likely as a result, several university professors have reported issue with gen Z students not understanding what files and folders are: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc...
Used to be for a fresh out of college worker, you just needed to show up to work on the first day, then anything you didn't know you could observe and learn through a mixture of osmosis and inquisition. Now, if you start a remote job, you have to have a baseline set of skills to navigate the corporate structure. Reaching out to the "people team" (read: HR) is unlikely to be all the helpful, and you may end up asking the wrong person, who will now be silently judging you for the rest of your tenure. In person, you make a quick friend over lunch and ask some questions off the cuff.
There is a podcast episode[1] from the "Ist das normal"-podcast, where they also discuss this. Iirc, the consensus was not do prohibit sex work, but to support sex workers to better their situation. Provide education, health services, help them if they want to get out of sex work, that kind of things.

The article ends with

> Men do fucked up things and these men who want to rape you in their daughter’s bed, they don’t care if it’s illegal or not. They will do it either way. But under the Nordic Model, women can call the police or go to a support group afterwards and get free trauma therapy. You can’t get that anywhere where they don’t have the Nordic Model.

If he raped you, that is a crime. Everywhere in the western world. So yes, you should be able to go to the police and get therapy.

[1] https://www.zeit.de/gesundheit/zeit-doctor/2022-10/sexarbeit...
> have very heavy toll on his persona

His supporters are fanatical - none of his previous abhorrent actions have had a heavy toll, so it's unclear why this one should.

He is certainly receiving a large backlash to his recent actions, but I think that's more a case of people (outside of tech) who would've paid little attention to him before being forced to be more fully aware of his existence, than anyone who previously supported him thinking less of him.
It's public information (ADB-S) and the account is exercising its freedom of speech. Elon said on twitter that "My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk" (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456)
But the cheering section does have a floor, just like Trump. It literally doesnt matter his behavior, that cheering section will still sell out.
The difference is that, after you realize that I've gone totally crazy, you can stop federating my moderation.
You need about 20 minutes to explain fusion and why it's exciting.

It's difficult to tell a news story that has more than 15 seconds of complexity.
>I have sent five emails to Mr. Ray. Mr. Ray has never responded, nor has he reached out to me to communicate in any other ways.

Wait ... so who is "Mr. Ray" working for now? IIRC it was called there by SBF in the first place.
A coding fitness app for ambitious nerds
This changes the scale for all monitors for me, it doesn't handle per-monitor scaling.
Developers - how many side projects did you finish in 2022? How is your coding fitness now vs. this time last year? If you're an ambitious dev, you're going to want to read about this webapp I'm building for you.

Set monthly activity goals (e.g 5 GitHub contributions), quarterly learning goals (e.g 1 new technology) and start building great habits. Get emails when you're falling behind with side project ideas, open source repos to look at, and more.

Devs who work on side projects improve faster. This helps avoid procrastination.
Planes constantly broadcast their identification and location data on an open channel - you can get a radio dongle for your computer and track every plane around you for miles.
The Federal Aviation Administration publishes this data openly. So, no.

https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResul...
This. Most younger people I know, only need a real PC to write essays. Which then get automatically stored on some Office365 or Google school cloud.

The part about letters is not fair though, since most people also just learned it by having to write business letters.
I think there's a few things going on, first the alternatives aren't really up and running yet - Mastadon is clunky, Post is still very much in beta, Jack Dorsey is an unbearable asshole, there's a thousand alternatives all spinning up right now, we'll see what happens when they actually launch.

Secondly, there are actually some people leaving, and the people leaving are the people who bring actual interesting discussion to the site - people like John Green for example decided he couldn't tolerate the pedophile slur and has left. That's not a problem in the short term, but those leaders are just that - they're a leading indicator.

Thirdly, and I think this is the most important part, Twitter has become the Elon Musk show. Everyone is still on Twitter, but the only topic of conversation is "what did Elon do today" and that's not a formula for a high engagement lasting and profitable enterprise. People tune in, but they're not there for the reasons they once were.

Finally though is the most important part - which is that Twitter hasn't changed. Revolutionary bluechecks? Got rolled back, now it's back but with no features. Longer posts? Not implemented. Payments? Not implemented. Max Deboosting? Not implemented. Digg was starting to rot for a long time, and reddit was starting to gain traction for a long time, but it was only when Digg finally pushed out a new feature did everyone go "aaaand... we're done". I would suggest that's where we're sitting right now. Everyone is pissed off with Twitter, it's a worse experience with fewer good users, but there's no alternatives and not much has happened yet. But just wait, it doesn't take a look to push people over that cliff, and once they're gone they're never coming back.
Laser ICF is not ever going to be applicable to power generation. NIF is first and foremost a weapons research facility, and the primary reason NIF exists is to investigate plasma in regimes similar to the core of a detonating H-Bomb. The ignition results are nice and might provide some useful new experimental data on the behavior of ignited plasmas, but ultimately this has very little bearing on the future of fusion energy. In order to get useful energy out of laser confinement, we would need to do about 1 shot every second. Currently, the hohlraum (fuel pellet) is made of diamond and gold, machined to sub-picometer precision. Beyond the fact that it takes much, MUCH longer to charge up the systems for a shot, you'd need to find a way to manufacture these extremely expensive pellets en masse, load them into the chamber, fire, capture the energy, and also design your chamber to not fall apart after a few dozen shots from ablation.

You should be getting very excited when any of the magnetic fusion approaches achieve ignition, because unlike ICF they are much more straightforward to scale and capture energy from.
Why does Graphics APIs especially 3D, still remain very much low level? I think 3d graphics is still not as ubiquitous as it could be perhaps due to complex and low level APIs.
On average though, we were. The previous generations were slower to use personal computers, cell phones, gaming systems, and the internet. If you had to sit in front of a PC and install 7 discs from DOS in the mid 90s, or navigate the early web before Google, or cracked some $1200 Adobe software that you couldn't afford, or punted someone from an AOL chat room, you got way more technical education than someone that grows up with sleek touch screen mobile devices that self update over wifi and back up everything to the cloud.
That's a strawman because it assumes a 100% wealth tax could exist in a vaccum and would have no effect on the economic system whatsoever.

A more realistic concern would be that if you set a 100% wealth tax for all wealth exceeding a million dollars, rich people would just structure their wealth so they don't exceed that cap. In most cases that wealth is primarily in companies (i.e. profiting off other people's labor). So if want to place a ceiling cap on "how much money you can have" (figuratively, let's not pretend this is ever about cash on hand) we'd also need better transparency for corporate ownership.

Personally I think a 100% wealth tax as a "maximum amount of money an individual can have" is a red herring and while wealth taxes are certainly a way to skim some of that surplus value siphoned off by people who own companies (speaking as a company owner myself to be clear), it's just a band aid for the underlying problem.

In my opinion the only logical solution is to abolish individual ownership of companies, effectively requiring all corporations to operate as cooperatives. This isn't an "easy answer" as there are clearly a lot of nuances to what the laws would need to specify in order to make this happen, and it's clearly in stark opposition to how company ownership works in most places today, but it's the only way to fix the problem of excessive wealth accumulation, if we view it as a real problem.
Legally, Twitter is not responsible for content posted by third parties because of Section 230.

So Twitter will do what is best for their business.

The problem is that for each of your statements, the truth is always subjective. And a semblance of truth can only be established in a court of law. Otherwise it's just someone or some group's opinion. If there was actual reputation damage, then it must at least involve a false statement, and then fulfil the rest of the legal criteria for defamation as judged by a court.

There could also be a scenario where person C has conspired to have person A and B banned based on false accusations.

Say Twitter had no intervention:

Person C should block users A and B. And they should notify their network that they have blocked these users and recommend that they should also block these users.

A and B still remain on the platform though at the disgust of person C. Person C may file a defamation suit if they want, and Twitter must cooperate with law enforcement.

Person C could also leave the platform.

People could also leave the platform because of what they have seen happen to person C.

And finally, advertisers may leave the platform because of what happened.

Less users + less advertisers = less money. So naturally the platform wants to avoid this. Hence, they must create their own rules to avoid users and advertisers leaving, and find the right balance. The optimum is a set of rules that maximizes long-term revenue.

Now person A and B can still talk, and they can still do everything that person C accused them of, but just not on that platform. They might go to another social media platform to continue exactly the same behavior.

So you have to ask yourself, what is the difference between this happening on one platform vs the other?

If it's causing real harm, surely it will cause real harm if done on another platform too.
Or even 2022.
Why is https://twitter.com/PutinJet still up?
People exposed to the same media get very different opinions about how saturated coverage is.

If you listen to an FM radio station for instance, you can easily get frustrated that they seem to play the same Doobie Brothers song every time you are in your car.

I read a book about programming for radio and how a large number of listeners listen to just a little bit here and there. If you want to expose the whole audience to a new song you have to play it a stupendous number of times, enough that a person who is listening all the time (me in high school) hears the song 50 times and is thoroughly sick of it by the time 95% of listeners have heard it.

I used to watch CNBC a lot and felt there were days when there was a lot of good news and the market went up or a lot of bad news and the market went down. I developed a "financial sentiment index" based on a few 1000 articles a day from Yahoo Finance and found not only that averaging sentiment from financial news with a generic commercial sentiment analysis tool was not at all predictive or retrodictive of major market indices, but that my impression of CNBC was certainly illusory. On TV you are going to see maybe 20 stories that get heavy rotation in a day and if these were independently sampled the exact choice of which 20 stories you run is going to determine the average sentiment more than changes in sentiment across the universe.

The moral is that your judgement of what is getting covered too much or too little is not based on enough information to be significant.
Price equilibrium is a foundational free market concept. It technically can't exist in a non-free market.
The chair doesn’t change just because the occupant is a physicist.

The reason is because they’re spherical frictionless scientists.
I think it would be easier to list all of the significant commitments Elon has not turned face (or at least tried to turn face) on.

I can't think of one, can you?
It's been covered

But it's also the FIFA world cup nowadays, with Morocco over performing compared to expectancies

Christmas will be in a few days

Inflation and energy crisis and winter are settling in

So it's covered, but there is a limited bandwidth when is comes to news atm.
Possibly the wrong place/person to ask, but is there a resource on how to mcguyver calculation from a graphics card.
How often has she mentioned the elections were stolen again?
If you like speculative science and technology, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_ion_fusion
That is a very bad analogy. Guns are not illegal, what people do with them might be. What these developers made had no lawful use. A better analogy would be if some engineers in a gun factory were making chemical weapons.
[Me not ever having a Twitter account]: I'm doing my part!
Is there a decent immediate mode GUI for Rust? Think ImGui, I know of eGui but unsure how workable it actually is in reality.
There is an alternative justification in the right to privacy. Such accounts are indeed reckless with no corresponding need to know. No one's free speech rights are being suppressed here.
No, this is publicly available information. Flight tracks are not private
Death threats are not covered by free speech, but the location of a jet is not a death threat. I don't think you'll find any legal precedent that says doxing isn't protected speech. Doxing is a bit of forum etiquette and is not considered taboo under other norms.

It's also incorrect to say the jet's location tells you where Elon is. I have a friend who's ridden that jet. My friend isn't Elon, but worked for him
If you're going to make a claim like "Hacker News X", can you please provide some evidence for this in the form of links to HN comments?
>I sincerely doubt they would be using public ADS-B ported to a Twitter account to track you around.

Why not, when it's convenient? It's probably not impossible to get a Stinger missile or similar from one of the current war theaters or black markets.
I may be misunderstanding, but I read your comment as implying that chatGPT has eliminated these differentiators.

If that’s the case, why?
I enjoy learning things and helping people. Most of what I do fits into one of those two categories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Musk'... seems like a good start. The rabbit hole itself certainly goes far deeper than anyone could traverse in a few hours.
Only maybe cause you work in tech (i assume). A lot of people don't know how these content moderation decisions go down. A mix of public rules, subjective parsing of their language, and external pressure. The last one being the one naive people might not really know about.

I think it should be more open and less subjective frankly, especially if the external pressure comes from a government official, which means it should be interpreted in many cases as a threat.

Edit: I think this is kind of the "smoking gun" of the files (8-12): https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064

Basically if you give outside actors direct lines to make grievances on content on your platform, you give them special powers to censor content, at the very least boosting the spam/toxic classifiers for stuff they object to. People were not aware of this mechanism.
Oh, it won't be 'mandatory'. It'll just require 26 hours of effort in a day to not engage or you'll need to put up with substantial weakness on the job and personal relationship (friendship and romantic) markets.