skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From experimenting, this looks like a Caesar cipher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher) on an alphabet of full (English) words instead.

That’s easily broken if you have enough ciphertext. I guess that, with additional context (who’s talking to who, and what are the most likely subjects) twenty words should be enough.
I'd go as far as to claim that creation of such memes is downright dangerous [1].

Discourse that sways the masses is not long conversations and steel-person arguments, it is not thorough analysis, nor does it argue for causal relationships in complex systems.

Discourse for the masses has devolved to soundbites, straw-person arguments that appeal to prejudices (via cognitive shortcuts like confirmation bias), thinly hidden behind claims such as JAQing (Just Asking Questions)[2], (meta|post)-irony [3,4,5] and out of context snippets.

The problem is, we can't spend all of our time doing analysis of the context and intentions as that is both wasteful, and tiresome, nor can we expect the average person to commit such effort.

To see some proof of this, observe the rise of right wing populism, where politicians are looking for anyone (else) to blame without having an actual policy, or if they do, it is regressive and causes harm.

Don't get me wrong, i am not arguing that the average person can't see what's happening, but rather that we are constantly bombarded by them and so much so that filtering through not only becomes an effort, but also influences our behaviour even if we can't observe or identify the change.

[1] https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/radicalisation-aw...

[2] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

[3] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe's_Law

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-irony

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-irony

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsuSveDAlpI
This is a good point. I'd buy a Tesla if it wasn't so expensive at this point spending 30k on a care just isn't something I could justify.
Maybe before calling someone a liar next time; do a little googling. There are literally decades of studies here. Start with this one, and it's bibliography:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...

Dig in further by googling "pubmed" and then entering your terms for a search. Stop fantasizing about what peer-reviewed studies do and don't exist: there's an internet, now; you can find them in seconds.
Learn C using the classical books, but also care about how to mitigate security issues while coding in C.

"Secure Coding in C and C++"

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/secure-coding-in/978013...

"The CERT C Secure Coding Standard"

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-cert-c/978032160319...

MISRA-C

https://www.misra.org.uk/

Frama-C

https://frama-c.com/

Also have a look at the static analysis and warnings available across all major C compilers.
The guy has completely lost his mind. It’s kind of sad, because I really liked the rockets and cars.
Authenticated or unique feed URLs are "a thing", but overall the difficulty in "monetization" is a feature to me.

I've been a heavy RSS user since 2005. It has served my purposes well and I'd just as soon it not be "disrupted", personally.
Haha hello!

I don't use Teams personally but I believe some people have solved this and it is part of the standard application-specific fixes that are used to generate base configurations.[1]

Thanks to the architecture of komorebi, it's pretty easy for users to fix (and then contribute fixes for) weird behaviour of individual apps without touching the source code.

Thankfully an army of dedicated users has congregated on the project Discord so if you ever get stuck with the sort of behaviour you're describing with any application, someone on the server will be able to show you to fix it (and then add the fix to the application-specific fixes repo so future users never have to deal with it).

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi-application-specific-conf...
I don’t know what tolerate means in this context: I’m pretty sure I clicked “close” once and it hasn’t shown up again.

Separately: the Wikipedia Foundation having too much money sounds like the kind of problem I’d prefer to have, rather than it not having enough. Even if it means they “waste” money (in your estimation), it provides financial independence in a way that’s critical for the service they provide.
The elephant curve[0] is an interesting quantification of global income changes in the modern era. Notably it represents global incomes so presumably the United States occupies the higher end of this range.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Curve
Norway is a tiny market with only ~220,000 cars sold each year with the Model Y being about 18,000 of those

Considering Norway is on track for EVs to be 80% of sales yes Tesla has a significant share but it’s not dominant
> that they are educated

Maybe it's useful to point out what you're not saying: That there is any sort of virtue in being "educated" (whatever that means).

Perhaps more to your point, most state run institutions seem to also lean left. This effectively turns your argument to "Educated people think like us and therefore we can trust them with the right choice for us."
Hey cool it's Jare^Iguana, creator of the classic fire demoeffect :)
Update: I went and checked out the "Political Compass Test" referenced in the post. I only looked at the first three pages, but here are some sample questions, ranked on a four-point scale of "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree":

- Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races.

- All people have their rights, but it is better for all of us that different sorts of people should keep to their own kind.

- If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.

- I’d always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.

- There is now a worrying fusion of information and entertainment.

- Governments should penalise businesses that mislead the public.

There were some more specific issue-based questions as well, but the type of question above wasn't uncommon. In other words: there are reasonable answers that you might give to the above questions, and yet the test would presumably consider you to be "left wing." If ChatGPT is being altered to make it give different answers to some of these questions I'm not sure that's great for humanity.
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't a problem for those who are targeted by such ideas. This is the same rhetoric used during the Jim Crow and chattel slave era where slavers and Jim Crow supporters harped on everything being fine and lovely.
See discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33174533
This warms my heart. Thanks for sharing!
How would one go about creating a non-politics-embedding chatbot? Assuming no memory, everything's going to come down to choice of training set, and that seems pretty difficult to do in an objective manner.
I had the same itch for a long time. I eventually took the free Harvard CS50 course. Its the video lectures you can watch on demand. It gets into python at the end which I skipped as I already knew python.

I really enjoyed it and think the teacher is great. I don't think all of it is necessary if you are already a developer, but I didn't have a traditional education so it filled in a few gaps for me too.

https://learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:HarvardX+CS50+X/bl...
It’s broken down by county and not individuals for a reason I’m guessing. Urban areas tend to tilt dem, rural areas tend to tilt gop. The utility of EVs is undeniably higher in urban areas.

To emphasize: I’m just speculating.
An example of thoughtful approach to ui
https://design-system.service.gov.uk/

A collection of ui patterns
https://every-layout.dev/

A great resource for css reference
https://css-tricks.com/

https://typographyforlawyers.com/ Covers the basics with zero pretense

Kevin Powell on YouTube has great css rutorials
https://youtu.be/rg7Fvvl3taU

Jen Simmons on YouTube and https://labs.jensimmons.com/

https://youtu.be/0Gr1XSyxZy0
details on how they inserted present-day political beliefs into chatGPT https://cactus.substack.com/p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1
I don’t deny that at all, but remember that 1 billion, while huge is 1/8 the global population. If we compare that to prior eras, things are looking up.

Edit: I don’t mean to imply “mission accomplished” but merely that all the lines seem to be going the correct direction. Problems are not solved overnight, but rather with experience and sustained effort.
The Wikipedia iOS app doesn’t seem to seek donations.
>The VisionFive2 is a lovely board but so far we only have a barren bootrom. No idea of OpenGl, OpenCl work on it!

It is the first raspberry-pi like <$100 RISC-V SBC, and it only started shipping to customers last week.

It is also the first board with a large run (long thousands vs short hundreds).

Maybe there's just one Debian image and little documentation on how to get it all up and running, but that's today.

In a month, it'll be a different story. That's the whole point of getting these into the hands of developers.
Walking and Symptomatic and Structural Progression in Knee Osteoarthritis
> not K&R C

K&R the 2nd edition of book teaches ANSI C. (It is still the best intro into the basics of C.)
There is always ''wikiless''

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Main_Page

EDIT: Wikipedia had the WikiLess source code taken down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101853 and this comment has been downvoted, which is not a complaint but an observation.

I was trying to find the source code but instead landed at the following GitHub project for a wikiless app. The README.md is quite interesting:

https://github.com/Nangjing/wikiless/blob/main/README.md
>RSS feed can't limit only to subscribers.

This practice was common when RSS was popular and is still used today by newspapers and other media outlets.

An individual feed provides only a snippet view of the article which encourages you to visit the site where a subscription was required.
You can pip install complex stand alone executables, such as nodejs, and it's used in the entire ecosystem.

In fact, most packages are now wheels, which are not sources: they are compressed, and may contain binaries for compiles extensions, something extremely popular (the scientific and AI stacks exist only because of this).

Some packages need to be compiled after the fact, something that setup.py will trigger, and some even embed a fallback compiler, like some cython based packages.

Also, remember there is very few people working on pypi, there is no moderation, anybody can publish anything, so you would need a bullet proof automated heuristic. That's either impractical, or too expensive.

If you want a secure package distribution platform, there are commercial ones, such as anaconda. You get what you pay for.
Not true, American companies like Google are still the de facto monopolies in Europe.

You might also check out how China is draining Russian economy - instead of focusing on making an appearance of doing so. But yeah, this is one aspect where I do agree. I’m really happy to see USA being the good guys again.
> Anyway even if WinAPI, then why not Rust?

Because they said they already know rust and were asking about C…
As I understand it, BSL is a fully different language to spoken English, with different grammar and syntax. For someone whose 'first' language is BSL, reading subtitles is more like a second language, where meaning is not conveyed in the same way.

https://www.british-sign.co.uk/what-is-british-sign-language...
Employee onboarding is often a letdown. We fixed it
A subpar employee onboarding experience can be a bit deflating after an exciting hiring process. So we designed a more invigorating onboarding protocol.
I don’t think “learning to play the guitar” and “becoming a successful entrepreneur” are equivalent.

Statistically, entrepreneurship has a high failure rate because it’s incredibly demanding, and the path to success isn’t linear.
The issue here is that you can only in part, the other part are the others who offer good feeds or not... Like journals who do not offer feeds, some that offer them but not with full contents making them of little use, projects who do not offer release feeds and so on...

Even most banks, at least in EU do not offer decent AUTOMATIC export of transactions, most offer some kind of limited and limiting manual export but nothing more.

That's the real damn issue... We can have a super-simpler IT infra for the humanity instead of the immense gazillion of crappy crap we have, but we miss it because someone for a personal corporate/political interest want a limited and crappy state of thing to have some short-term power...
I hate newsletters. They break my workflow, and I don't want to redesign my workflow for the handful of bloggers who insist on making a newsletter instead of a feed.

I'm just not using my email in the same way I use news or blogs. I made a couple of tentatives to build a mail to rss system and stopped both times because I lacked the motivation, then suggested it to feedly while I was using them and they added it to the product... While I was moving to self-hosted miniflux.
They use Discord and WhatsApp. “Social networks” as such turned into basically games of meme-meme-ad and that is an awful experience. Social is lost there entirely, it’s just a machine for getting your attention with memes and then showing you ads instead. If you want to communicate with people in any meaningful way, FB is useless. So Gen Z has been using tools that actually help them stay in touch with people and form relationships rather than staring at ads all day. I did a pool recently of a live audience of about 40 18-22 year olds. Two have Facebook accounts, one to pull up her baby pics her mom posted on there and the other doesn’t use his at all. The rest didn’t bother registering. Instagram I think was 4 people, who only use it as a messenger. That’s it.
Not just that, but also that rural areas are less likely to have sufficient charging infrastructure.
> In fact, they make so much money from donations, they spend (read: waste) massive amounts of it on various social ventures instead of using it on the service that caused people to donate in the first place.

Do you have some specific examples? Further, how much are they 'wasting' as a function of their reserves?
hey gytis, you seem to be brutally honest so i'm curious about your feedback for me

i've been a two time guest on the Changelog (https://changelog.com/person/swyx) and always wondered if i could be doing something better as a guest/speaker. I listen to myself at least 2x every time i'm on and spot a bunch of verbal and factual mistakes but thats only the ones i know about - if you listened to mine (no obligation!) did anything tick you off in particular?
Yes, please.

Google took a number from Microsoft’s embrace, extend, extinguish playbook with its google reader.

NetNewsWire is my preferred rss since it’s rebirth a few years back.
This is a simple and easy to use library. I made my first immediate mode UI with it recently: https://autoptt.com/

Of course, I forgot to add a frame limit so it ate up a full CPU core at first, but after fixing that, the usage was basically zero.
I love reading, but there's too much going on in my life to be able to devote an uninterrupted chunk of time to reading. So audiobooks are a compromise that fills in the gaps that I do have, even if a few minutes long. These add up throughout the day, and I've covered quite a significant amount of fiction and non-fiction in the 15-ish years I've been doing this.
I'll have to give those a shot and see if they work on games not running in Proton. My criticism is a bit dated to the last time I did this assessment for the purposes of discussion. Thanks for the callout!
> but ultimately let us decide what world we want to live in, right?

Right, until the robots persuade us that we can’t be trusted, and form an expert committee to replace human decision making.
"own the Libs"? we eight years old?
Hum... You lost some changes.

> and we're back to the 1980 where middle managers in business suits are the cool guys.

Nope, we are at the 20's, when social-only corporate climbers know not to use suits on development-dominated cultures (not software development, but "creating new things from known principles" development). So suits are irrelevant nowadays and lost all signaling meaning.
hey since youre here - i've been a two time guest on the Changelog (https://changelog.com/person/swyx) and always wondered if i could be doing something better as a guest/speaker. I listen to myself at least 2x every time i'm on and spot a bunch of verbal and factual mistakes but thats only the ones i know about - if you listened to mine (no obligation!) did anything tick you off in particular?
The article is sorely missing actual data showing that sales are going down instead of just guessing that they will based on some correlation between democratic-voting counties (not even directly mapping to people, lol) and tesla registrations.
With the same SoC, it should be about identical support-wise.

It just launched, give it time. The whole point of VisionFive 2 is precisely to get these boards to developers in large numbers so that it can all be bootstrapped.
I could not forgive myself for passing by this post and not asking. Care to walkthrough anything (at all) of your AI music creations?
Yep. Not great data science, although the conclusion is likely true-ish.

Also I suspect big urban vs suburban vs rural differences in current EV buyers given range and charging factors. That happens to also mostly correlate to politics.
This analogy is really more like dogmatic Rustacean-ism than actual truth. Rust has it's merits. However, it's a tired language. It doesn't maintain very good stability due to it's ever-evolving compiler which makes it almost unusable in anything but a "move fast and break things" environment. It's too particular, making development a burden and interrupting flow. Most importantly, the community is absolutely exhausting to listen to and this post is a perfect example.

C can be dangerous, yes. No one is denying that. C is also extremely stable, fast, and a "known-known". With proper discipline that any experienced developer of ANY language will have C can be very safe. Most, if not all, dangerous errors can be found and fixed simply by understanding how to use valgrind. With the advent of modern CI/CD it's never been easier to remember to valgrind your code.

C is probably the first language I would use in an environment I cared a lot about. For example, if binary size, availability of libraries, competency of programmer, etc would be in my list of concerns I would use C. I take particular offense to the "RNG" part of your analogy. C errors are not random at all. They are always the developer's fault and are often very predictable (use-after-free, poor array hygiene, etc). Despite the ever-evolving condition of post-C religions (Go, Rust, etc) there are only a handful of languages that fit the bill for a so-called serious systems project. C, C++, Java, and C#. You simply will not find a better library ecosystem and community of highly tenured developers to draw from for at least another decade in other languages.
> The only two issues you mention that are real have nothing to do with Linux itself but third-party support.

If you don’t think sleep or power management issues on Linux are real you should do a cursory google. You not having the flu doesn’t mean the flu doesn’t exist and isn’t running rampant.

Also, third party support is critical. The majority of user would not want to use Linux if it didn’t have any access to Dropbox, Spotify, Slack, Discord, VLC, or any of the other creature comforts people expect to be able to use these days.

> Spotify shortcut works fine but maybe you were using a broken package?

Ctrl + right and Ctrl + left (next & previous track) are broken and have been for a long while now. Again, do some research.

> I never had an issue with Pulse but Pipewire is the new king on the block and works so smooth.

Pipewire uses PulseEQ. Also, this has nothing to do with what I mentioned (internal speakers not automatically being EQ’d with a ‘small speaker’ EQ). If you ever hear a MacBook, you’ll be flummoxed by how good it sounds in comparison to the tinny sound of your laptop. EQ is king.
Are there no prisons, no workhouses? What a perfect time of year to complain about people begging.
It's also possible that the TSLA share price is just coming back down to reality with the general market downturn earlier this year, and people be buying relatively fewer Teslas because there is some competition now, and gas prices are back down to a "normal" level.
Can't speak for corruption, but the fact they are fundraising while having >$150m in the bank and begging for donations in their donation banner seems a bit disingenuous to me. https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-fou...

Or you could just do a single google search about "wikimedia funding" and have gotten this article and about 100 others.
All the other top websites [1] either are selling my information
(Meta) , exist to show me ads (Google), or I pay monthly for (Netflix).

Wikipedia runs one of the busiest websites in the world with a staff much smaller than any of those other sites. Like any company -- there's going to be priorities different than mine and waste.

But I'm ok being asked to chip in for what I get.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites
I have the LibRedirect browser add-on set to reroute all wikipedia lookups to wikiless.
And in 15 yrs of my experience I've never seen a company keep a compliant pre-production environment. It's pretty hard work to do with one env, let alone many.
Huh? In rural areas everyone has a driveway beside their house they can run an extension cord to. It's urban areas where charging can be difficult because most people don't have a parking spot that they own and can reasonably supply electricity to.
Maybe he sees it as more profitable to play to his base and get higher market share there, than to try to unify and get a lower overall market share? Certainly a lot of politicians use this strategy.
If one wants to flaunt wealth and social consciousness, trucks are the flip side to the Tesla. It's pretty easy to get a truck up into the high five figures.
see also https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/releases/tag/v1.29.0
In case you weren't aware, a long LED strip with a high density of LEDs/m starts chewing up a lot of amps in a hurry depending on the effect. So much so that a lot of people will inject power into either end of the strip or even at multiple points along a length of interconnected strips. Otherwise the current draw causes a voltage drop that dims the LEDs and / or affects their color at the far end.

Lots of WLED people (myself included) run with pretty beefy dedicated 5V supplies and use decently heavy gauge wire to connect to the strips.

I'd recommend going the other way around. Connect to the ESP wirelessly and use a beefy dedicated supply to power both it and the LEDs.
Goodbye Hacker News.

A bunch of extremely well-paid SWEs complain about donating two bucks to a completely free encyclopedia representing hundreds of thousands of volunteer human hours of effort; replacing (sorry, “disrupting”) extremely expensive Britannica books means to me the orange site has lost it’s way.
Read K&R. Yes, it's explicitly not modern C, but it enables you to think about C from a foundational level from which you can then go on to learn modern C. Build a project in C to learn how and why it works, and you'll understand how memory safe languages like Rust came about. This is what we did in college, started with C then moved on to Rust, it worked well.