skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author claimed early on, and very clearly that this was a fun exercise of thought and engineering rather than saying “Look this is how Twitter should be run”. After all this is Hacker News. Such exercises, and engaging other hackers to pick something out of there is how we progress(and get our tickles). So, may be instead think about how one could tackle the advertising/indexing needs in a similar fashion(could it be done in just another server? 5 more servers?)..
I'm not sure how freaking out about it is going to help. I am all for removing plastics as much as possible, so the motivation to do that should help the other. In the meantime there are definite, known bad things that I can freak out about health-wise.
Ex-Twitter VP Mike Davidson Joins Microsoft to Lead Web Experiences
Software Security During Modern Code Review: The Developer’s Perspective
PE shops get paid based on their assets under management (AUM).

If they write down their investments, their AUM drops, and with that the fees they charge.
/r/unixporn is where i3-gaps was born, as a matter of fact.

There's a small footnote to this, but I think it's true enough to say it like that.
"Why aren't parents getting kids to drink more"
The article suggests it's Xorg server too, not just XWayland. Can anyone confirm?
I'm skeptical of your 30% number. Their reports seem to indicate current enrollment of 51608 compared to a peak of 53627, down 4%. That doesn't seem out of line with demographic processes.
This looks amazing, congratulations!
Windows XP has round borders, there is no way it can tile without gaps.
Espressif has compilers you can download. GCC may work fine, but I’d use their compilers.
If it fits with your tech stack, definitely worth evaluating.
Development on VB.NET was never as fast as it was on VB6.
My city outright banned single-use grocery bags. I was already in the habit of bringing re-usable bags, but every so often I'll have forgotten to grab bags or I'm stopping in on my way home from something else so I don't have them on me. Before the plastic bag ban, I'd just grab a "single-use" bag, and then use it as a trash bag for my kitchen or bathroom. Since the ban I regularly buy kitchen trash bags, I have about a dozen re-usable bags stuffed in the back of a closet, and half the stuff I buy at the grocery store still comes wrapped in a layer or two of excess plastic. For me, net loss. For the city? Probably a minor win in terms of plastic usage and street trash, and a significant loss in terms of people's willingness to ban other forms of single use plastic.
did you write that click-baity article title, or link to the wrong place?
They will just argue that the parents should not give children phones, which is actually something I agree with.

We need coordinated parenting on when to give children these devices.
lol... But I definitely see it... they offer solar at 50-70% higher price and justification is "We provide better service than Tesla"

I have talked to 3-5 different representative at costco and directly.. not sure how they are still in business
That database is going to need to be clustered as well for resiliency.

Sounds like you already have quite a number of different containers already.
he is on record saying you can't really explain magnetism to a child ;)

https://youtu.be/MO0r930Sn_8
Also gratifying to ponder what makes a yoga ball fly upwards that high just from someone falling off. Never seen anything like that.
Clearly you are not familiar with corporate IT and "security" compliance.
From my experience the technical part is easy. The real problem is how to sell it to enterprise.
Out of sheer curiosity, what kind of setup do you use today? I did briefly try i3-gaps myself but ultimately never daily drove it. (nowadays I run Sway, but with no gaps.)
just bend your knees? Ring sets are usually adjustable so ive never had issues before, but yeah i had to bend by knees of course.
...by default.

It's still available as a setting in `xorg.conf`, or on the command line.
What happens when your unencrypted laptop gets stolen or lost?

Go read the Cloud Security Alliance’s CAIQ questionnaire. There’s much more to serving enterprise than just your code quality and cloud platform. You need to operate the business in a safe way.
>They were terrible....

If these kids want to really push the envelope of crappy digital imagery, they should get themselves an early Apple QuickTake. Now that was a dire camera. A mighty 640x480 resolution and colour rendering that made poeple look like they were made of clay.

I wonder whatever happened to the company that made them? Probably went bankrupt, soon after inflicting that monstrosity on an unsuspecting world.
I didn't even notice that bit (maybe GPT is a flat-earther?).

Something GPT discourse has been demonstrating to me is that I'm not usually a very careful reader. I apparently skim a lot. Or maybe I skim GPT outputs because I'm biased in my expectations already?
Google or GPT?

Either way I don't know. Might be the same, but that might be an unwarranted anthropomorphisation.
As an avid user of the same camera, I share this recommendation. While my iPhone sure is able of capturing some moments pretty well, the Ricoh is still way more capable and ergonomic. It is built by people who understand how do design that follows the need of their users and seems to be less concerned with bigger-is-better-marketing-number-games.
Basically any parameter can be controlled with the same hand that holds the camera (I really tried it, shooting a moving target with pretty dynamic lighting while riding my bike [1]). I think that phones are lacking the haptic feedback is prohibitive to building muscle memory.

Also, people tend to react differently to a point-and-shoot camera than to a phone camera or a DSLR in my experience. That is because it feels less likely that the pictures end up on social media I’ve been told on request.

[1] https://44hz.de/assets/img/generated/R0001096-2-1200-9e3a59a...
>HN is full of smart people who (wrongly I think) assume that because they have the self-control and discipline to either avoid drugs or to use them relatively safely that the rest of the population does too. This does not seem true in my experience. I forget the exact stats but roughly 1 in 20 Americans is an alcoholic, and that's with a drug that humans have been consuming for thousands of years and that has established social rituals around consumption. It seems likely to me that increasing access to and decreasing stigma of highly addictive drugs like opioids or amphetamines will lead to substantial increases in addiction rates.

IMHO, that's a little reductive. The primary issue isn't use/abuse of such substances. Rather, it's the criminalization of use/abuse that's the biggest problem.

I say that because putting someone in jail because they have a problem with substance abuse doesn't make any sense. I'd add that providing comprehensive treatment for those who have such issues would be less than half the cost of interdiction, enforcement and incarceration.

What's more, both the substance abuse and legal issues/incarceration limits the economic potential of those who have resolved their issues due to stigmatization of those with criminal records.

I'll go even farther and say that drug prohibition (as we saw with the 18th Amendment[0]) creates black markets, and since there are no legal avenues to address disputes, and begets violence on a wide scale, further depressing economic output and social cohesion.

I don't disagree that substance abuse brings misery to many -- but penalizing those who use such substances without them negatively impacting their lives with legal issues and potential violence seems way too extreme.

If we invested USD$10-15 billion a year (as compared with ~USD$50 billion on "drug enforcement") into the resources required to provide treatment for anyone who wants/needs it, and legalize/regulate all "drugs", will save money, increase economic output and improve social cohesion.

It's a win/win/win if you ask me.
Starlink satellite trains: Is this the future of the night sky?
Genuinely asking, why do you think Twitter needs 24 million vcpus to run?

This is not apples to apples but Whatsapp is a product that entirely ran on 16 servers at the time of acquisition (1.5 billion users). It really begs the question why Twitter uses so much compute if there are companies that have operated significantly more efficiently. Twitter was unprofitable during acquisition and spent around half their revenue on compute, maybe some of these features were not really necessary (but were just burning money)?
Well this may be the first time that's ever happened :)

Betteridge antiexamples are always welcome. I once tried to joke that Mr. Betteridge had "retired" and promptly got corrected about his employment status (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10393754).
What is it that you're suggesting? That school attendance is a cause of suicide? That can't be... because if so then it's a miracle for all of us who made it before hand that we survived such a dangerous place and built the modern world and all.

Understand that any time you leave your house you run the risk of having a bad day. So for kids, who regularly leave their house for school, it makes sense that the primary factor leading to a "bad day" for a kid would occur in or around campus. And I can totally believe there's a causal link between when someone chooses to commit suicide and the kind of day they were having.

I'm just not sure what you're suggesting. Are we all just supposed to stay home? That's not workable. You have to face the world.

Also you take a chance every time you get in your car to go anywhere. Doesn't mean we should avoid automobiles.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic... Just trying to understand the angle you're after with this stat.
Thanks! Good tips :)
Intel Discontinues Development of Open-Source HAXM Software
This article claims 27% of the adult male population were addicts in 1906 (5% of total population): https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s10571-007-9225-2.

They don't specifically mention work output but I find it hard to believe that opium addicts were particularly productive in most jobs. I don't think China was very industrialized at the time so I doubt what we would today conceptualize as a "worker" was a substantial fraction of the population at that time.
It's a good day to reflect on code recently pushed, or a PR submitted, to retrace the lines and marvel at it (in one's head, on the commute home, or underneath a watery drone).

If programming itself isn't art, the cognition of its product surely is. Art in a gallery asks to be observed again, studied again, brought to the context of each discovered age, again.
Whether the declines in valuation turn out to be permanent or temporary doesn't matter, institutional investors are incentivized not to recognize them in the short run.
In terms of adoption by pre-existing large players in the industry, Rust is already ahead of where Ruby was at its hype peak. It's just not quite as shiny because that code is not running some web app that is immediately demo-able, but some boring OS infrastructure stuff.

Given the money already invested into internal tooling and infrastructure specifically for Rust, I just don't see those large companies suddenly dropping it. Regardless of how good the language itself is, the sunk cost alone makes it hard to turn ship. And the language is good, so it'll use that time to entrench itself further.
I think I'm pretty careful to say that this is a simplified version of Twitter. Of the features you list:

- spam detection: I agree this is a reasonably core feature and a good point. I think you could fit something here but you'd have to architect your entire spam detection approach around being able to fit, which is a pretty tricky constraint and probably would make it perform worse than a less constrained solution. Similar to ML timelines.

- ad relevance: Not a core feature if your costs are low enough. But see the ML estimates for how much throughput A100s have at dot producting ML embeddings.

- web previews: I'd do this by making it the client's responsibility. You'd lose trustworthiness though so users with hacked clients could make troll web previews, they can already do that for a site they control, but not a general site.

- blocks/mutes: Not a concern for the main timeline other than when using ML, when looking at replies will need to fetch blocks/mutes and filter. Whether this costs too much depends on how frequently people look at replies.

I'm fully aware that real Twitter has bajillions of features that I don't investigate, and you couldn't fit all of them on one machine. Many of them make up such a small fraction of load that you could still fit them. Others do indeed pose challenges, but ones similar to features I'd already discussed.
What's the point of this? Just use an int.

typedef struct { int val; } meters_t;
Ooooooh I have a burning hate for this system (the dislike is rational, the burning part is not entirely rational but justified). Way back in high school my AP history teacher not only taught us this (cool, that's part of his job) and checked that we were able to do it (reasonable), he required us to submit notes in this exact format, for every reading, all year, which he graded. After I determined that my comprehension and retention rate went down as a result of having to constantly interrupt my reading to follow the format, I stopped doing them and he got big mad that I was still doing great on all his tests using my own strategies. With a >90% test average he still gave me a C– in the class and tried to pressure me to cancel my AP exam and take a partial refund for it. I got a 4. (For the non-US folks: that's a 4 on a 5-point scale and generally means it will count for university credit, as indeed it did for me.)

When I visited on a schoolday the next year, he saw me in the hallway and had the tremendous arrogance to ask me to pop into his class and tell them how much the notes helped. I was too unconfident at that point to do more than politely decline to do so, but modern me probably would have accepted the offer and then told the class exactly what I thought of them....

If they work for you, great! But no system is perfect for everyone. Assess what works for you, jettison the stuff that's wasting your time.

ETA: This episode did teach me something very important, which was that as a teacher, when I'm teaching techniques if I think it's important enough I can require students to learn the technique and assess whether they are able to do it, but then I let them decide whether to use it in general or find something better.
I think you are on to something. It isn't unprecedented -- they did the same thing with 'recycling' -- using a political and media campaign to convince people that plastics weren't bad because they could be recycled, then getting legislation passed to require recycling by households. It is absolutely villainous.
The cops and everyone involved are heroes. Do not question the professionals. Trust the science.
If they were a startup like you suggest then it's possible they were running on AWS credits.

You can get up to $100k and it's a big reason many startups go in that direction.

Also $20k is nothing when you factor in developer time etc.
It's a reasonable default, but if one has gone to the trouble of setting up a NAS and scripts, might as well tick that box.
This is exactly what I was thinking after reading the article.

Projects develop new products but are expensive to undertake. The enterprise products that resukt from these projects are largely profitable though deployment and maintenance efforts.
Social media addiction is an important thing to address, but a school district filing lawsuits against social media companies just seems like the worst possible way to address it.

This is an organization whose entire purpose is educating kids. If they want to address social media addiction, why on earth would they not start by educating kids about it?
It is a BoE system design. How is it off by 100x?
I use gaps in XMonad and I find they help to make screen borders (or shading in case I use a compositor) more visible to quickly move my eye to the active window.
If there are people who like gaps, it's not useless. It has value for them.
As it says in TFA:

> So to this day whenever a client connects, the first byte it sends is a literal "l" or "B" to inform the server of the client's byte order. Where the byte order doesn't match the X server's byte order, the client is a "swapped client" in X server terminology

So it's wherever the client doesn't match the server, which ever way around that is.
Not necessarily true. In my company the rule is: 10 offshore devs/testers get nothing done => hire 20, if that that doesn't work, hire 50. The actual work could probably be done by 2 or 3 competent people.
"Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't", yes?
Python: Sort function breaks in the presence of nan
Even if suicides were a thousand times more common, I think the advantages of an educated population would still favor keeping schools open.

Of course if practical measures can be taken today which suppress the suicide rate while still compelling kids to receive educations, I support those measures. But to do away with compulsory schooling to suppress the suicide rate is throwing the baby out with the bath water. With TikTok, there is no baby. It's all bath water.
No, I'm quite clear about what standing means, thank you. They're predicating their standing on this being a violation of a nuisance statute. I didn't say they don't have standing under that statute, just that the statute is unconstitutionally vague.
Isn't that what an OPA sorta kinda does.
There are a LOT of people in this thread with similar thoughts, it seems!

Can we all get together somehow?
In case anyone else has no idea what a 'celeriac' is:

> Celeriac (Apium graveolens var. rapaceum), also called celery root, knob celery, and turnip-rooted celery (although it is not a close relative of the turnip), is a variety of celery cultivated for its edible stem or hypocotyl, and shoots. Celeriac is like a root vegetable except it has a bulbous hypocotyl with many small roots attached.
Ant Group Says Its Founder, Jack Ma, Will Relinquish Control
This will make some people sad, but I'm on Mac these days.

I was using i3 until the very end though, and I do dearly miss proper window management. My shortcut setup now is an absolute mess. I technically did run i3-gaps because of some features, but not gaps. This was mostly because I actually mostly used a one window per workspace approach, and if more, then a tabbed layout, so no need for gaps there.
> You have misaligned expectations

Which expectations would those be and how are they misaligned? I have no allusions about what using Apple products entail. That doesn't mean I can't want things.

But my comment was more about the state of AI than anything.
Not the parent. My understanding is metal rebar is the cheapest. You need a lot of rebar in modern concrete construction.
A very underrated take. Consider how the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%E2%80%93manageria... gets a very privileged treatment by the media and what this says about our society.

There should be no sinecures if we strive for fairness.
The male sperm issue isn’t from environmental issues, it’s psychological/societal. When you repeatedly tell men that their natural state is “toxic masculinity” you’ll of course drive down sperm counts through depression and self hatred.
And I'm sure you can point to the statute that violates. I'll wait.
You seem to be conforming to a particular set of norms yourself very well.
It sounds like there are a lot of people, in this thread and elsewhere, pushing for something similar. If only there were a way to unite all this effort under one umbrella...
That’s fair, you clearly know more about beer than me. I mostly just drink them. I don’t care for most lagers but a good one on a summer day is nice. I was just trying to make the point that you don’t have to choose Budweiser over craft beer to get a lager. It’s clear to me now that you already know that.
> there is only one writer

And what happens if that writer goes down. Then the service just stops.

> buzzword-filled

I love how your buzzwords e.g. read replicas are okay but everyone else's are bad.
It's important we understand what's going on for the future of the species, but the research is political suicide.
EDIT: Comments from the maintainers have painted a completely different picture while I wrote this so none of this applies here but I'm leaving it up as a general view on maintainership.

Very strange, makes me want to avoid i3 altogether. It's not like it requires a lot of code to support configurable, optional gaps.

Probably the rationale is something asinine like "I don't like gaps, gaps are dumb" or "buhu I don't like the completely negligible overhead"

I actively avoid projects whose maintainers are MDFLs rather than BDFLs.
I think you've got it right - they're trying to address a serious problem that is absolutely worth addressing, but doing it with this kind of a lawsuit is indeed silly. Even if they win, it's not going to do anything meaningful to address the underlying causes of social media addiction in kids. As an institution that has access to these kids for ~7 hours a day, they ought to be able to come up with a more productive approach.
I just realized I've been using this magnificent piece of software for 7 years.

Stealing some tray icons (volume, clipboard, KTeaTime, network), I built the setup I'll probably use for another 7!

Thanks to everyone involved! Tiling WMs rule!
I much prefer taking photos with my digital camera. The only thing where phone cameras have the edge is with the automatic GPS tagging. My inner nerd really likes to know the exact location where my photos were taken. The more so, the older they are.

Unfortunately, very few digital cameras have GPS tagging built itn. They nearly all require pairing with your smartphone to 'attach' GPS data via Bluetooth when you take a shot. But most of the time, I forget to activate this before going out with the camera.
We see piece work or commissions, sure. But who claims that these allocate to the
(e.g.) sales person their marginal product as deduced by rigorous exploration of the whole space of possible techniques?
Well, I then did a google image search (which is much better than it's traditional search) and it came up with things that did look like that one I had in my hand.

But I do get where you're coming from, ChatGPT is way too confident when it's wrong!
Thank you for not wasting a single valuable second backing your belief up with evidence.
Author here. I was surprised to see my post on here while scrolling!

My point about those examples is less that ChatGPT got it wrong, but that it's impossible to know really when it does, because it seems so confident and you only get the one result. To be fair, this is a problem with webpages, but you at least get multiple choices.

> Comes off as a company that sells search solutions looking for reasons this tech won't replace it.

I can see why you'd say that, but that wasn't the goal. I originally wrote this as my own POV for my own blog. I really do think there's a UX problem in this (and, as I mentioned, I am a big fan of recent LLMs).

> [What] about the scalability of search?

You're right, the NN aren't as performant as lexical search. They're getting a lot better though. (We're actually working on this at the moment.) LLMs, though, have a ways to go, so it's hard to use them right now for real time search.
ProRAW still does some post-processing. And doesn’t enable the scene and smart HDR settings mentioned above.
Oh wow—thanks for letting me know! Fixed now.
Linked article shows some individual schools losing more than 30%, but does not give an overall percentage.
The Kremlin’s Quest for Biometric Data (2022)
Twitter runs ads and generates billions in revenue.

It can't just tolerate being down or having under-load issues like HN often is.