skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rural people buy Trucks and SUV's not cars.

This is why Ford has exited the Car market except fo the Mustang.

Tesla's "CyberTruck" while popular with the same "blue district" crowd that likes the Model S, was NOT popular with the buyers of F150's or Silverado's

The model Y would be, but is largely out of the price range for people looking for a mid-size SUV, in that price range people want a Full Size SUV.

the model 3 is purely a "City Dwellers" Auto
Hah, should've known I could count on HN to be super pedantic about offhand statements like that...

MySpace was founded in 2003, Facebook in 2004. Yes, there was a brief period where MySpace was more "the place to be" than Facebook, but that was essentially a flash in the pan, given that Facebook has held that crown now for so many people for over a decade.

To expand a bit on what I said in the GP post:

In 2002-4, the early social networks all started to come online. Facebook was the only one of those to survive with any relevance. It has now existed for 18 years, and its relevance among young people is definitely on the wane.

There was nothing like it before that time: Usenet, forums, AOL chatrooms, and BBSes didn't give anywhere near the same kind of connection or experience that Facebook circa 2008 did.

There is no inherent reason that there must be something like it afterward. TikTok isn't really comparable to Facebook; it doesn't lend itself to the same kind of communication or connection. Twitter (which may now be dying) and its decentralized imitator Mastodon may come closest, but they don't encourage the kind of long-form posts that Facebook does, nor do they have the same ability to build out your IRL social network in the digital space that was the hallmark of early Facebook.

There may, at some point, be some new company, service, or protocol that can to some meaningful extent replicate the experience of Facebook in its heyday; or that can, at least, command the attention and interest of as many people...but there's no guarantee that that will be the case, and everyone looking for X, Y, or Z to be "the next Facebook" are begging the question by assuming that there will be.
2006 called and want their headline back ..
I'm curious how comparable some of that data is. Specifically, Audible may pay half what a bookstore does per sale, but are they also charging less than half of what the same bookstore charges. Such that you really need to compare revenue generated for the artists, not just margin per sale.

That said, I am in favor of trying market forces to see what sort of change one can make. I... question anything out of the publishing world, though. If Audible is a good company doing bad things, most publishing houses are likely to be at best described in the same way. And, spotify is a hilariously cursed example to use as a "for the artists" system.
I do not know the details of Apple's agreement with ARM. AIUI they are not public.

But I do know they have a perpetual free RISC-V license like everybody else.
sir, not everything is a scam or a conspiracy. There have been hucksters since the beginning of time.

If you're the type of person who can't stand working in an authoritarian environment as an employee, starting your own business is worth it.
Also default browser elements have been tested and retested. Reimplementing prettier versions is not always better.

some form elements like checkboxes, radios, sliders, cannot have their size or color be controlled via css - they need to be outright replaced.
Apart from ublock filters you can use the Wikiless frontend. An addon like libredirect will redirect to an instance automatically.
They are useless for any politically controversial topic. They definitely have a bias.
C was the first language I learned after messing around with various flavors of BASIC way back in the day. I learned C using Turbo C for DOS and a big book, which is probably an 'obsolete' way of learning in 2023.

Haven't used it professionally in over a decade now, I'd be interested in learning Rust, but don't really have a need to do anything low(ish) level these days.
Developers are also the kind of people who will refuse to pay money for or use proprietary software on principle - regardless of price! I constantly see people on HN suggesting (often highly immature) open-source alternatives to free or reasonably-priced proprietary software for no other reason than the fact that it's open-source.

Just like being an author, it's hard to make a living writing (books : software) unless you're either very skilled+lucky (Brandon Sanderson : Jetbrains) or sell to companies (HR/marketing position at a company : either making B2B software or working for a software company yourself).
If you look up real wages in the USA it's been flat or negative for everyone but the top 4% for 40 years.
As a Tesla owner (but not a Musk fan!) I've definitely noticed a lot more scorn and spite directed towards Teslas and Tesla owners recently.

The average person is already poorly emotionaly/intellectually equipped to resolve "I can dislike Thing A1 but like Thing A2", but with cancel culture mentality so pervasive now, people are expected to hate all Things A_
My own tool which creates a daily digest, easy to setup, just run it: https://github.com/piqoni/matcha

It will generate RSS in markdown which can be read by something like Obsidian. It supports also Terminal mode.
Wow, 2008. I remember that! I think it was the first big run-in between app. developers and Apple's moderation. What's wrong with a vanity app like that? Everything apparently.
Some of the best info and discussions I've stumbled upon were under someone's article in the comments.

It's not always just for the benefit of the writer, I mean.
There's was a great article on HN on how C is more than a programming language. It is a protocol for most of computing. I would suggest you to look into the actual influence of C on computing and protocols instead of just looking at software.
> This year's global hunger index estimates that close to a billion people 'lack regular access to sufficient calories',

The fact that is a minority rather than majority is a miracle. The last 100 years is the first time in hisotye that the vast majority of people on earth didn't have to regularly worry about starving to death.
The weird nerd defense of Musk’s attack on Twitter is that by owning the libs he expands the Tesla buyer pool to MAGA truckers. Can’t say I’m buying that.

The problem with the whole “owning the libs” approach is the presence of the libs is required. Otherwise the right wing trolls can’t enjoy themselves. If Musk runs off Twitter’s legacy user base, all he has left is a bad copy of Gab.
I was okay 'till I donated and got thoroughly spammed by them after that. Not okay with donating there now.
Yes, but pypi has 4 millions release to check, and the scientific and machine learning wheels are very hard to compile (scipy contains c, fortran and assembly code, and must be compiled to mac, linux and windows).

Providing a build env for that would make it prohibitively complicated and expensive, and basically would mirror github CI.

That's the reason continuum is making money: they sell a python package distribution channel that is checked and locked.
Is this a technology company, or is it a company in another domain which needs a web presence?

If it is the former, yes, a CTO should get equity. If it is the latter (which I suspect it is, because the company became market leader in Country A without a technology leader), what they are looking for is a programer to code up their website - the CTO title is to stroke your ego.

There are other possibilities in the spectrum between these two extremes. Your likelihood of getting equity increases the more technology oriented the company is, because your contribution influences the overall success of the company more.
I think the key thing to keep in mind is that the end user really, really, and I cannot emphasize this enough, absolutely and totally does not care about how much effort something was for a developer.

This guide is from a UX person, they are looking at things from a usability perspective. Developer effort is not a consideration here, and rightfully so.
someone please make a gpt based rss feed summarizer. i use rss but it would be great if gpt could just read all the titles for me and give me a summary.

would be great if you could give it feedback after reading over the feed yourself and highlight areas you think it missed or got right
As is often the case, Matt Levine (writer of Money Stuff) had some fun hypothesising about how this might be actually part of his "plan".

'Tesla Inc. is the main source of Musk’s wealth, and his main goal in life is selling lots of Teslas. He has sold all the Teslas that he can sell to coastal elite liberals, and now he faces the daunting challenge of selling electric cars to social conservatives. Acquiring Twitter and turning it into a right-wing media company with himself as the main character might be bad for, like, Twitter ad sales, but that is small potatoes if it is good for selling Teslas to Republicans. “Our cars are electric, yes, but they are free from the woke mind virus” is perhaps a good pitch.'

I don't think Matt (or myself) put much weight into this being his true reasoning, but it's a fun thought exercise :)
Is that sarcastic?

I really cannot tell.
So much downvoting! Make a case. Why do you all disagree so vehemently? What has you so very very concerned?
I’ve tried KDE, Gnome, Zorin and Elementary. All have their own sets of problems.

I know of Maestral. It uses the public Dropbox API which means any files Dropbox deems ‘grey area’ (think console BIOSes but there is a ton of stuff that gets erroneously flagged) refuse to sync.

I’m not a first time Linux user, and I can somewhat deal with these pain points, but recommending Linux to layman people, especially when telling them “it’ll work smoother and be more bug-free than Windows and macOS” is just setting them up for a world of technical pain.
An item hitting the front page doesn't mean anything like "most people here agree with the premise". Just that they find the content potentially interesting to see, discuss, debate, etc.
Choice of password storage and deployment seems to be an intensely-personal one that seems less attached to absolute security; it's based on how much one is really willing to trust others, how much one wants to hear about security, how exhausted one is hearing about security... and a lot of confusion because, technical-minded or not, there are a more variables than I think any one human can account for.

It's stressful.

I gave up on making recommendations long ago. Because of stuff like this (the latest lastpass breach), I can't in good-faith recommend cloud-based password storage, but because I know most people aren't as willing to invest a ton of time, I also can't in good-faith recommend "keepass database on cloud storage using an innocuous .png keyfile stored elsewhere that you have to wget on every new device".
AES256 is still secure, assuming the encryption key has ~256 bits of entropy (32 random bytes). Assuming your master password is reasonably complex, hopefully the encryption key derived from your password has enough entropy.

Despite this, I recommend rotating all passwords (if you don't have the time, prioritize rotating passwords on important accounts / putting MFA on them). For all we know, lastpass might have had a full compromise (i.e. access to unencrypted vaults from malicious source code commits).
Appple iOS design uses these instead of checkboxes and the web followed. Don’t see how they are better - maybe when used without a submit button to imply that the change takes place immediately.
Not exactly your question, but valgrind is an amazing tool. It does execution-time analysis of your code and provides an in-depth report on memory usage. It will find and report memory leaks, use of uninitialized variables, bad memory references, etc. I love programming in C, but there are a lot of ways to corrupt memory, get segfaults, etc. valgrind is a useful and powerful way to guard against many of these kinds of problems. C++ is no better. The way I see it, programming in C is like lying on a bed of nails. Doable if you are very careful. With C++, they put a sheet over the bed of nails.
No, but apparently Musk: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525549535786717184?s=46...
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past (2000)
Agreed. If you own your own detached house it's easy to charge your EV. Get a 240V 50A circuit put in and you can charge basically any EV back up to full in the time period between arriving home in the evening and first heading out the next day.
People developing negative associations with brands because of the behavior of their representatives long pre-dates “cancel culture”.
> stack → (depending on context): server, operating system etc

On that context, "stack" means exactly the set of all those things and a few more. You can't replace it by any one of those things. The alternative is enumerating all of them (that's what people used to do), what is bad (that's why people coined the "stack" term).

> anti pattern → bad design

Hum... Now are you talking about software architecture, UI, UX, communications design? Your replacement is confusing.

> key value store → (almost always) database

It is an specific kind of database, with performance characteristics that are completely different from the relational databases that the "database" word alone implies.
Any experience or opinions on https://baymard.com/ ?
Cities skew towards wealth, population density, and democrats. The republicans who buy teslas are just a lot more likely to live in democratic districts. (Voting preferences aren’t evenly distributed among demographics)

Rural districts are much more likely to be Republican and owning a tesla in such places also makes a lot less sense. Fewer charging locations and a high likelihood of trips that will require more than a full charge.
my living expenses in cancun were $700/month. How bad do you want it?
I don’t think the tech is the interesting part. Most websites I want to read don’t even post the whole article on an RSS feed, and you’re at the mercy of every website offering a feed.

The better solution is a post-RSS smart reader where you can drop links into it and it figures out how to turn the website into a feed and it caches all the content so the origin never needs to be available.

We over cling to RSS the same way we over cling to IRC instead of looking for ways to build on the good parts. Then we’re always stuck reminiscing and over glamorizing a past that wasn’t as good as we remember.
obsidian also added canvas mode, been using it for couple of days and it's pretty cool.
It's 2022, there now are decent EVs that are cheaper than Teslas.
I feel like the data here is way too disconnected from “alienating” and “own the libs”.

Personally I’d argue Musk’s perceived political leanings are likely more about him personally and less about politics / a well thought out point of view…
Even simpler solution: Require cryptographic signatures of the developers of projects along with hash-verified downloads via pip.

The problem is a failure to understand security.
I was under the impression the "teletext" style ones still used teletext encoding, not EIA-608? It's basically just a data steam containing a single page of teletext rather than a whole magazine? AFAIK Sky Digital uses this approach (at least for SD), with a more modern looking decoder, and it certainly has colour support at least[1].

[1] Although DVB can contain a full teletext stream that can be reinserted into the SD analogue VBI by the receiver. Sky boxes supported that so on some channels you could just go to ye olde page 888, although I haven't a clue if any channels still do that (I don't have an old SD Sky setup around to look).
It's not hypocritical at all to support some kickstarters and not others, irrespective of how much money they raise. Sanderson has an established history of delivering books, and people trust him to deliver the promised books. Some random guy without an established reputation is going to encounter much more skepticism.

Reputations matter. It's a fact of being human.
Me too. I don’t read Wikipedia articles and see links to Wikipedia as a sign of cluelessness. I downvote those who cite Wikipedia articles as if they were authoritative. When I was a teacher I would fail any paper that cited Wikipedia.

You can use Wikipedia all you want. But suggesting that there is no choice is ridiculous.
Curious: in which branch of English dialect are parentheses called "brackets"?

This is a clever little hack which I do not want at all, but I admire the author's creativity in coming up with it.
I'm definitely not a doomer (and I find it an asinine position in generally) but it is concerning that people are reporting fewer friends than they did in the past [0] - even as we publicly acknowledge mindfulness, mental health, etc. People imagine social problems as explosive - race wars, food riots following famines, etc. But alienation and loneliness (with the obvious psychological consequences) are far more likely things we'll have to deal with.

0 - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/friendships-less-is-n...
I’d speculate that even if he’s not doing it intentionally, owning the libs will help boost sales of his cyber truck when it launches next year.

The ford f150 is the best selling vehicle of all types in the US, and pickup trucks more often then not are purchased by conservatives.
I laughed, but also The World Bank
>for black and indigenous gaps are not closing at all

This is blatantly incorrect in regards to black Americans. They match all other non-indigenous race groups in term of income distribution and have seen huge leaps in total wealth over the last decade.

Obviously wealth building takes time, but we’re getting there

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/disp...
Does it really matter? An important reason to buy an EV (particularly if they're more expensive than gasoline cars, which is sometimes but not always true) is to combat climate change. Belief and concern about climate change are strongly politically correlated in the US, and he's very specifically unaligning himself from the political group that cares.

Does this explain the entire 5× difference? Probably not. But:

> Are republicans truly not buying as many electric cars?

Very, very probably yes.
Some News About the 4th Edition of Physically Based Rendering
Not that I really disagree with you but you could have said that more civilly.
Matt Levine is great. I spent half a decade in HFT and he was one of the few writers who was actually good to read.
Not dead at all, its now a (conceptual) rocket ship

No ISA/architecture licensing fees, no restrictions on what you can do with it - you can build an open source core or you could sell your design to others. ARM/x86 doest have this, its all locked up behind lawyers.
Yes but the problem here is the obfuscation of the malware code loading. No need to trigger it in the setup.py process, as long as you have it in the lib, you can always put a call in a .pth somewhere and run your malware as soon as any python is executed.
The average person does not care about twitter, and even if they do, there's still a half half split on whether they'd disagree or not with Elon. The entire thing is almost completely confined to a certain, extremely online slice of the internet.
It's not exactly tolerated by Wikipedia community, see this discusssion:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost...
A main issue with learning C is getting the architecture right (header and source files), and figuring out the tooling for compiling and debugging and building (gcc and gdb and make/cmake for example). I like C in a Nutshell 2nd ed (Prinz/Crawford) 2016 as a reference for any questions about that:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/c-in-a/9781491924174/

As far as code examples, I find there's a lot of simple C graphics programs using the SDL2 library discussed on Youtube. Also simple ncurses programs are worth looking at. For example here's a video on making a tic-tac-toe game with pure C linked to github source code, just a few files:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCVMkKgs3uQ

https://github.com/tsoding/profun/tree/master/procedural

For practice, CodeWars has a lot of nice simple C challenges to work on.
>Isn't your source of RSS feeds the curation?

Like I said, RSS is about you curating your feed. Using RSS, you don't see headlines from anything you didn't choose to see.

>in the end it's not as if you were just being force-fed solely stuff you had no interest in

That's trivially true. That said, if the choice, regarding seeing shit I'm not interested in/calculated ragebait/for-profit spam/etc, is between seeing it "never" and seeing it "sometimes, when someone else wants me to see it", the choice seems obvious.

>it doesn't seem like a solution to filter bubbles

I don't think it is either; that said, I still think it's better. Part of the conceptual transition from "personal newspaper" to "filter bubble" was the increasing prevalence of calculated ragebait/for-profit spam/etc on aggregators -- the pressures present in aggregators, and the inevitable comment sections, help shape content to be more ragey or spammy, to get that all-important engagement. That shaping happens everywhere on the aggregator -- here on HN, for instance, dang goes around silencing non-HNish comments with impunity and without appeals. This isn't a bad thing, but it is a shaping of the aggregator's content by shaping the aggregator's culture. If one spends all one's time on an aggregator, consuming that shaped culture, one's perspective can easily start to skew. With a "personal newspaper", one is more aware of the artificiality -- it's not a site itself, it's just the sum total of the RSS feeds of blogs X, Y, and Z. A "filter bubble"'s ostensibly organic culture, and ostensibly broader curation, helps one convince oneself that it's a community with justified beliefs.

RSS doesn't really afford that kind of escalation. If HN were dang's blog, the pressure he exerts would only affect the comments section of that blog. Sure, audience pressure can help make an RSS'd source more extreme, but if that pressure happens it's got to be occurring on the site's own commenting infrastructure, which means local moderation can sort it out. At a minimum, there's no chance of the contamination hopping RSS feed sources (at least, via RSS itself).
Man, you'd think the big story would be the infiltration and associated censorship of Twitter via the three letter agencies of the government. That seems interesting, doesn't it? When the FBI is guiding Twitter's content policy at some point the defense that this "isn't a first Amendment issue because it's a private corporation blah blah" starts to fall apart.

Instead the narrative is about how all of Musk's businesses will fail because of his changes at Twitter and how angry liberals are about it.

Are liberals really that upset because the new CEO made the world's tiniest baby step toward free speech?

I suspect that the FBI has its paws in all the major media organizations as well--and that this isn't really troubling to them, because they are all pretty much on the same page, in propaganda terms. But Twitter is one big comment section and it's a tougher nut.
Maybe the average person doesn’t want to be struck by a car running a half-baked FSD?

I’ve seen a lot more about this lately - & from people like Dan Luu, so, far from hysterical.

It’s also invalid to think, “since people cancelled A1 recently, it must be illogical to have built up a new-found dislike of A2.” Plenty of independent reasons to hate A2! Correlation and causation, y’know?
No, that is indeed not what I am saying.
I think you might not understand the reason for the fundraising pushback.

I can try to summarize if you like, but it's probably explained elsewhere in this story's comments.
Who are being hypocritical? Are you sure it's not different people having different opinions?