skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my first rodeo with meta programming in D and I must say I find it rather awesome. I wrote this in less than 24 hours but the serializer is mostly done, deserializer just could do with some more types and then just a few API calls missing.

I really enjoy PocketBase and D and have a private project I want to work on but wanted a way to rapidly model the data using structs between that and the DB schema in my favourite language, D.

Many critique welcome :).
So, people start signing their AI-generated messages. What have we gained?
We are re-learning the lesson Cap'n'Crunch taught the Bell System: don't mix your control traffic with your insecure traffic.
I don't follow this argument. If you are following people whose engagements are triggering for you, surely that is on you? I follow ~300 people on Twitter and I only see content from them, or things they like.

I have no issues unfollowing overly political/negative/complaining people on Twitter (including what they 'like'), and my Twitter feed is full of people doing interesting things in the fields I'm interested in. Yes, sometimes this means you will need to stop following otherwise interesting people if they are net negative -- but I already do that IRL, so I don't see the issue.

I don't have any other social media, so I don't know how their algorithms fare, but Twitter can definitely be curated with little to no effort.
The keyword here is "cracked screens".
I recently watched the movie Black Girl (1966) which discussed the same subject but in colonial France https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Girl_(1966_film)
Slavery is definitely not abolished in the West. It is rife in the UK and Europe.
I do not understand what maids could be doing for 14 to 16 hours per day for 6 days per week. Singapore abodes are small, and surely they have washers/dryers? Are they also serving as cooks, nannies, nurses, and shopping assistants?
Nice games are the ones where rules or some important factors are modifiable.

The way we played Quake was by taking hundreds of user made maps and playing them one by one untill they got stale.

It's completely different way of playing than what modern games do. Basically learning just a handful of maps by heart up to specific timings, sound and few pixel spots.

Basically rigidifying naturally variable parts of the game to make it more boring and repetitive for the sake of creating controlled conditions of competition.
> run in a truly decentralized fashion.

We all know there is absolutely no such thing as "true decentralization" in crypto.

Then I expect this to be repeated for Polygon, Algorand and Flow then. Out of all of those, Polygon is the most centralized chain pumped by VCs out of all them.

I won't be surprised to see another hack and silent emergency upgrade via a centralized multi-sig of devs to fix this VC funded chain [0].

[0] https://polygon.technology/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-t...
A statement like this needs a trustworthy reference.
Could this just be the fact that air is less dense than water so (due to the densities of particulate) sensitivities must be tuned differently?
This is what the project seems to give as their preferred examples, yes. (Though they also seem to think of this in terms of allowed "moves", which I think are heuristically-picked rules of inference? So they're sort of playing with something that's almost but not quite entirely unlike the usual notion of a restricted logic, chosen for computational tractability.) Of course my own view is that the more useful notion, in a general sense, is simply "a proof that's easy enough to find, not just check after the fact", which might not be exactly the same.
> AI will not give us that [...]"

Is that true?
> Third, that AI technologies won't be perfect substitutes for actual human-to-human contact.

I'm not sure this assumption holds true enough: incredible numbers of humans have already substituted vast swaths of direct human-to-human contact with the gigantic text-only condoms provided by the internet. We've already traded in superior quality human contact for inferior quality contact--for the bonus of more specialized content which we probably wouldn't get if we knocked on our neighbors' doors.

This doesn't necessarily invalidate many of the proposals in this article. But what about the dimensions in which AI provides or will eventually provide a superior substitute to human-to-human contact?
I use hammerspoon (https://www.hammerspoon.org/) to run a lot of shortcuts for myself, I find that the lua language whilst a little strange but still more easier to grok than automator/applescript.
> all that gives you is confidence that the message comes from someone authorized by that right/real person.

Which is good enough for many applications, I think. With friends and family, I am pretty confident, that none of them deploy a personal assistant to answer my encrypted messages. As opposed to a messenger where the service provider can inject ads into the messages.

How do I know that a person that I speak to IRL is really saying what they think or even really is who they claim to be if I don't know them well? A rest of uncertainty always remains.
Some people have real problems, like PTSD from wars where real people really die.

Anyone who equates social media to that is being either weak, or unserious, or simply incapable of dealing with life. People need to get a grip.

Remember that anything you feel from a social media interaction is self-inflicted -- it is your own reaction to what you saw.
And used underwear!

http://inventorspot.com/articles/japan_used_panty_vending_ma...
Research universities let you in theory learn from people who are actively working in the field. Would losing that aspect be a significant loss?
That trivialises the destruction of peoples’ lives.

It’s that sort of thought pattern that allows the mob to justify its behaviour.

Getting “cancelled” causes real world harm. Imagine losing your job, being too toxic to find work elsewhere, being unable to pay your mortgage, being unable to keep a roof over your family’s head.
That would be great, but given that people generally expect backreferences to work in their regexes, that's not really an option.
In my mother tongue, Marathi, there is a proverb "Navyaachey naoo divas". Verbatim english translation: "Nine days of the new". It means novelty of new things erode quickly.
I think we're all correct in some sense. The thing is @paulcole is taking "social media" in the strict definition of the term, when most of the people here are talking specifically about a bunch of social media.

Which makes sense to me. Because ask someone on the street to provide the names of 3 social media platforms, they'll in 99% of the cases mention Facebook, Instagram etc ... And none of them knows that a blog post is social media ...
I'm in Iowa, and every car on the road has rust. Due to that.

I spent 2 months in Foster City during the lockdown at a gig, stuck in a hotel room, driving to a large empty building to do firmware porting on a bench.

One morning I walk out fiddling with my keys, went around the back of my truck and saw a pile of pipes behind it. Wha?

It was the pickup truck parked 2 stalls down from me. Burned during the night. Utterly consumed. No rubber on the rims; just naked metal. The seats were just springs. The license plate a melted blob. The engine on the ground. Broken in half, the cab tilted forward at a crazy angle, the bed tilted back.

Sucks to be that guy! I thought. Then turned to my truck. The left side was melted like a Dali painting, the mirror drooping down, the running boards spilling onto the pavement in strings and puddles. The lights were foamed-up weird sculptures sticking out like alien apendages.

Anyway 6 months later all the parts had arrived and it was repaired and I went back out to drive it home. My baby!

So now I drive a truck that's new on the left side, but a rusted Iowa clunker on the right side. Works for me; I get in the left side so I see that.

Still not feeling the love, California.
I feel like the water thing needs explanation
This isn't just saudis. Dubai, Emirates, Egypt ... under the Kafala system, foreign workers gets their passport confiscated by their employers and aren't free to get out of the country. It's slavery, there is no other name for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafala_system

Of course maids get abused, tortured and raped by their employers and the family, and even when they travel to Europe with their employers, they are mistreated the exact same way. But since the Saudis are filthy rich, Europe turns a blind eye...
His Harder Drive paper was amazing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio], most especially the ending that considered a surprisingly common configuration of utterly useless, inefficient mass data storage that solves a problem nobody actually has.
It is fair to say that the prospect of lung cancer in one's 60s or bladder cancer in one's 70s is not going to impress every eighteen-year-old.

They are difficult to quit. My father took a good dozen years to quit, with repeated failed attempts. During one of the big takeover battles of the 1980s, somebody explained the desirability of owning a cigarette manufacturer: you make them for a dime, you sell them for a dollar, and people get addicted to them.
You know the dark web exists right?
It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it
The end of the year is coming, and I have some funds left from my company learning budget. I wanted to give it back to some of the authors that still help me in my developer journey, by buying some of their work online and hopefully contributing to their income, but the following happened:

1. I went to Amazon, since I have a kindle and didn't want to buy physical books. Amazon doesn't have a shopping card for kindle books, so I started buying them one by one. My company uses Spendesk for managing funds, so for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them.
After a few minutes my Amazon account is blocked for suspicious activity, and ALL my kindle library is wiped, and the funds are returned to my company.

2. Not wanting to give up, I go to a different online store, Thalia, to buy the books again. After buying them, I download the files, which are in an .acsm format, and can only be opened on the Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) software. Once opened, an .epub file is downloaded, and even though I can't transfer the files to my kindle on ADE, I download Calibre to transfer them. Once I try opening them on Calibre, I get an error message saying the files are protected by DRM.
Funnily enough, it's possible to remove this DRM protection, but it's also not something completely legal, and makes me question why did I decide to legally buy the e-books in the first place.

After spending hours trying to buy e-books, having my Amazon account blocked, and downloading files that can't be transferred to my Kindle, the only conclusion I come to, is that I'm never buying e-books again.
Seeing how it's a different person that replied to you, I assume he was (poorly) trying to make a joke about how her business plan was to scalp human listings the same way people scalp PS5.
Mostly only IoT devices from Asia. There are a small handful of things coming out of the west on ESP32, but professional users still stay away as they don't have the kind of engineering connections into Wwstern industries that Nordic et al do. That includes sales reps, training, etc etc. The things that matter to large engineering firms aren't really present from Espressif (although I wish them well and the ESP32 is an awesome platform).
I don't even buy electronics from Amazon much anymore. Walmart and Bestbuy will price match, good return policy and most importantly not fear of knockoffs due to how Amazon comingles.

I use Amazon as a primary source for stuff that I know are generic, don't care about knockoffs and want variety. i.e iPad cases, simple furniture
The population density of Sydney is 2037 people per square KM according to Wikipedia, it's not uncommon to get days with a temperature of 35-40 degrees and we aren't dropping like flies either.

I quite like a nice warm day.

Humans live in warmer climates than that and have done since before the invention of air conditioning.

You might feel uncomfortable if you're not used to it but you're not going to die if you stay hydrated
A good manager would have broached the subject with the employee and gently moved them in the direction of adjustment and likely some therapy.

That sort of people pleasing behavior can easily come from a past where asserting even a minor need or boundary was met with abuse from caretakers or peers.

Not saying it's not maladaptive and irritating behavior. It is! But they probably came by it honestly.
Best way would be ebay.

Everyone thinks its museum worthy, yet 99% of those people never paid for museum tickets to see old computers.
word soup to advocate for exploitative work environments
I successfully quit Twitter. I used to be on it ~2 hours a day, now I haven't opened in for almost a year. Unfortunately that habit has been replaced by others and I still have FOMO from not being on Twitter when I see colleagues sharing Twitter links.

It's incredibly hard. The only thing that seems to work for me is to create a system to convince myself that I'm not missing out. For example, set aside a fixed 30 minutes a day, or 2 hours on a weekend, to go through the top links of your favorite social media state to satisfy the craving (I use RSS for that). That way at you can at least stop wasting time becoming distracted at random times during the day. Treat it like a cheat meal.

Another thing that has helped me cut some habits are reviews. After you spend a fixed hour on Twitter, ask yourself: What did I get out of this? Was it worth it? How did I feel before and after? Write it down in your journal. If you read your old entries week after week and they're all saying "I spent an hour on Twitter but I didn't feel like I got anything out of it" it makes it easier to quit.

Still, I can't help but feel that optimized social media feeds are the worst thing that has happened to our society in the last 10 years. Our brains haven't evolved to deal with this. And I don't think people have realized just how bad it is. Sure, we see news that social media is bad every day, but I don't think we as a society have truly understood the full implications. I think it's much worse than most think it is.
> I can't quit because I feel like I'll be out of the loop

The main insight is that FOMO can apply to "a normal life without social media" too ...
8% is still admirable considering the largest trade partner of Vietnam is China whom still has strict zero-COVID policy through the year.
what are you working on if you don't mind me asking?
It is certainly abolished.

There are of course Roma beggar-gangs who have travelled to Sweden and who practise some kind of forced labour system on their members, but this is not something officially permitted and to the degree that this is a phenomenon it is only possible because of the foreignness of these gangs the the difficulty of Swedish policemen to genuinely understand what is going on.

When we have access to experts we try to break these things up and to prosecute.

Furthermore, we are not in any way reliant on these groups, since they are, as I have mentioned, beggar-gangs. They do not offer any service, but beg for money outside supermarkets and on trains.
I still remember the time I played "quincunx" across a triple word score…
Donate books to the library. How many of them do you read more than once? Just send them on to someone else.
Forgot to mention: also the WebGPU spec itself is unfinished.
That's an interesting take! The similarities never occurred to me before, but you're right. Your phone even physically resembles the typical vending machine (the vertically oriented rectangle).
obligatory link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164707
> You just sandbox it like anything else

Spoken like someone who's never been responsible for solving a critical sandbox escaping bug.
It'd be fair to say Tom is an expert runner. He does the Pittsburgh marathon consistently and tends to do it in costume or with props [http://radar.spacebar.org/f/a/weblog/comment/1/1031] to up the difficulty.

ETA: But as he notes in his video, the only thing he really did to be "expert" at running was stick with it for years and lots of trial-and-error.
This symbol was also in the TV show True Detective. Attributing that to this article is kind of ridiculous though.
It's taken me about 4 years to find success (in my opinion, YMMV) in a side project, you rarely hear about the average case.

OnlineOrNot was my 6th project, first to break even.
Doesn’t it seem that if there were an online marketplace or app for slavers we could easily find it, see screenshots etc?

I doubt it exists but subservience — or near slavery — is everywhere.

I see Mexicans working in very subservient conditions with all kinds of legal constraints.

I don’t think we treat our undocumented immigrants better than the Saudis — or anyone else.
Indeed. SPF and DKIM were supposed to reduce spam by ensuring that every sender was verified. Now, we have more spam than ever, and all the senders are verified (on short-lived garbage domains that are not yet on blocklists). The only DKIM failures I ever see are on legitimate mail from badly set-up lists.
Everybody wants to set the bar at FAANG level but not pay a FAANG salary.
In the early oughts in the Boston area, I loved going to SoftPro Books. It was also a way to socialize with techie friends. Unfortunately, the chain shut down in a few years.

I believe it was owned by an ex-Lotus employee named Rick Treitman. If someone knows him, he might have some insights into the business.
> culture will co-evolve on a much faster timescale. Cultures that prioritize family, community, regular face-to-face human interaction, strong social support networks, and especially those that have a built-in system for helping young people find spouses, will do better than those that don't.

Maybe I'm wrong, but is there any western culture that values these things?

Maybe east US? Texans etc.

I think countries that are accepting eastern migrants will fare better, since eastern culture typically value these things more, thats in addition to solving the aging solution problem, something westerners are not willing to do(having kids, enough kids).
Why do we need a "network lab"? Is networking too difficult to easily get right these days?
The first thing I recommend is to think hard about the other parts of your life.
These are the questions I always ask myself to check where my restlessness is coming from:

- Do I fill fulfilment in my life outside work?
- Am I satisfied with my activities before I start working and after I'm done?
- Do I strive to do any specific thing while at work?

If I get three positive answers, I shift those questions to be work-related:

- Do I fill fulfilment in my work life?
- Am I satisfied with my work at the end of the day?
- Am I eager to work on something the next day? (I don't want to think about work when I get home, so I try not to think about it).

This is just a tool to see if I'm not satisfied with the current state of my life, and I'm looking for the easiest change I can make to make it more fun. I've changed cities, jobs and fields of education a lot of times just because I wasn't satisfied with the current state of my life and wanted to change anything at any cost. Those questions help me think more clearly if it's the city I am in, the job I'm currently doing, or if anything I'm studying at the moment is making my life miserable. Most of the time, it's just me going with the flow and not taking hold of my time properly.
The next step is wondering if you trust yourself staying true to those intentions. I think it's safe to assume that most people who are bad examples never intended to and still believe they are the good guys. We are amazing at deluding ourselves.
How would we know if it would train the “same” model as ChatGPT ?
Name one where the system is not contingent on immediate family helping immediate family, or to be more precise, one which is not explained by Hamilton's Law.

There is no individual selection either, by the way, that's another commmon misconception. You don't push out copies of yourself. There is only the selection of individual genes.
Spanish is one of the easiest to learn based on the US State Dept’s scale used for training personnel. German is one category more difficult.

https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/

Norwegian I believe is easiest because it follows English sentence structure closely. Knowing German and English makes Dutch easy to read but not pronounce.
Whoops. After many people praising Musk cutting tons of workforce and it still running...
What percentage of Twitters engineers were cut / left, does anyone know?
Only an anal person would care. You’re good.
No it doesn't, just because you find something hard to believe doesn't mean you can't check on it yourself. This isn't a journal peer review and citations are not required.

I don't even think this is what they were talking about but there are over one million prisoners in the US and prisoners can be forced to work without pay. The constitution doesn't consider that slavery but the rest of the world certainly can.
Invite only to write, open to read. But the main trick is tracking the invite tree - if the person that invited you gets banned, you get banned too (or need to appeal to have your “branch” of the invite tree adopted by someone else).
I've found perhaps the biggest obstacle to working on my side project is something like lacking vision. If I have an idea, it's never hard to implement. Usually it works, sometimes it doesn't but at least shit gets done. The larger the project has gotten, the more planning it needs, and that's I've historically struggled with. Sometimes I don't quite know what to do next, so I sort of fuss with the code and don't really make meaningful changes. Always gets me in a bit of a funk.

I don't think it's so much about motivation as having a structure to your work that allows you to get shit done. I think motivation follows hard work and seeing results, it rarely precedes it. Attention from the press or social media or stuff like that can also briefly be motivating, but it wanes very quickly and is not very reliable.

It's helped to make notes of my ideas as they come. I have literally a wall of post-its that say something like "LSH", or "middle platonism is processed weirdly", or "34 bit URL ids" or "refactor query variants ASAP". It's not prioritized like a backlog, but just a jumble of ideas I've had about what to do next while working on something. It's been pretty helpful to essentially have a work pool to pull tasks from.

My project naturally has 2 month "iterations" because that's how often I do a new crawl and load crawl data, which permits breaking changes in the underlying data structure. So I'll just pull improvements from my wall and try to distribute the work evenly so it progresses in a meaningful sense.
What kind of details have you found go not be mapped correctly? It seems a bit difficult to go from running around go looking at a map and seeing what doesn't match.

I like editing OSM after walking around and area but maybe I'll try running!
Weird, its almost like nobody wants to pay $1600 for desktop GPU. Why would Nvidia lower the price of $1200 4080 when its chip has only half the area of $700 3080, that would make no fiscal sense.
DDR4 Initialization and Calibration (2019)