skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I meant American sitcoms like Friends, Seinfeld, Home Improvement, Modern Family, etc. None of these shows show anything dramatic or larger than life - it's just a couple of friends or a family going through relatable yet sanitized everyday situations.

Many of these shows were the pillar of people's evening ritual - the whole family would gather around the TV to watch a fictional family experience life.
But doesn't maintaining references using a hashmap mean that you've got to cleanup, which is basically (the hardest part of) memory management?
So what? I'm assuming that some people have some models of physics based on equations, and those don't happen to be of the kind where the state for some t <= T determines the state for t > T. Ok, great - does that predict or explain or simplify anything interesting about the observable universe?
Not saying this is what happened but if you search for a domain multiple times, then sometimes the service you're using will register it instead of you, then try to sell it to you at a jacked up price.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running
Like self driving cars would drive into random art projects.
Go did that, and it's working out very well.

Agree with the grandparent. Async/await is unnecessary complexity in all but the most performance-oriented languages (like Rust).

Very curious to see how Java Loom will pan out in practice.
I've never developed a parasocial delusions myself but still frequently watch various YouTube millionaire's plays games.

For me, it's just low effort entertainment. Like I don't enjoy talking with people, but it's kinda nice to have someone talk in the background to remind me that I'm not the only human alive.

I'm in my thirties though, these parasocial teenagers might be less jaded then I am.
I am curious about how physical attractiveness was rated, and if there was particular criteria.

“..with the physical attractiveness of each participant rated by three members of the research team to produce an averaged single attractiveness score”

That seems very subjective to me, and subjectiveness may not even be the problem but having an average of just three scores.
Once we have robots doing most jobs, heck why even have babies?
You enjoy the feeling of having friends, as you develop a parasocial relationship with the person on the screen.

It is essentially a hack for the brain's social processing systems. Generally, we'd have only seen others in real life and interacted with them. This confers evolutionary advantage so we feel good interacting further with people, and perhaps even seeing people do things we find enjoyable in the first place.

Now with video, we feel good as we "spend time" with the other person, even though they don't know of our existence. Our caveman brain doesn't know about this sort of one sided relationship at all, it wasn't present in the olden days.

We will see the same with AI and chatbots as the decades pass, only at least now we're actually able to interact in a two sided way. There are already people doing this with ChatGPT or even Replika.
It shouldn't be a surprise. Why are you surprised? Do you often pursue random activities irrelevant to your life for dozens of hours?
Reply with a response that will get the response you want. If you want them to leave the topic, say something non-engaging like “ok”.

You’re likely to come across not entirely socially acceptable in either case, but that’s probably impossible to counter.
I agree with the other comment responding to you. Consider SQL. A typical select statement with a join and a sort would have taken a team of people months to implement in an application-specific proprietary data-storage structure (perhaps a red black tree). Now it’s a trivial line of SQL. Like the top comment said, this has not eliminated those teams’ jobs.
Its also easier to be comfortable on a english podcast when you are a native speaker.

Plus i think US devs understand how important marketing is more than anybody else.
And theatres need attendees, streaming services need plays, tourist attractions need eyeballs, etc. Just because a publication needs “clicks” does not make their argument invalid, or that they can’t achieve that viewership without debasing themselves.

It’s okay to be slightly provocative to get attention to a valid story, IMO. At no point does Vox tell me I too can run my own news publication and become influential like them; if they did then I think it’s fair to doubt them and their motivations.
> I think high level language/runtime should handle it automatically like it is a sync call

I understand that such a design is called "green threads" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_thread

As far as I know, there have been recent prototypes in .NET, but nothing shippable.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37285366/green-threads-i...

https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/vapgxn/net_experime...
> Yet [GitHub stars] influence serious, high stakes decisions, including which projects get used by enterprises, which startups get funded, and which companies talented professionals join.

Really? I honestly just don't believe this... if I were to believe this, I think I'd have to conclude the world is just too broken to bother rescuing.
Well I ignore most AAAs. Except Soulsbornes. And those tend to have 1-2 large DLCs worth paying for. They didn't get the memo and still do expansions not DLCs :)
The new welcome screens are something baffling to me. When I open Kate, a text editor, I immediately want to type my text, not be greeted by options and look for "new file".
I imagine that the danger is also for other passengers. A 5 or 7 kg baby flying through the cabin is a deadly projectile for others as well.

This is what I am thinking about when I pack the back of my car (a SUV-like one where the boot is available to passengers if they reach behind their seats). I always try to imagine what happens if we hit a wall.

We had in France a gov ad (a public announcement of sorts about the dangers of cars) where a bowling ball was flying in slow motion during a crash. It was quite terrifying.
I think people might be down voting you because they also don't know what drop shipping is. To clarify: drop shipping is when you have no inventory, take customer orders, and then simply forward those orders. So, for example, If I get an order for a hairbrush on ebay, instead of shipping a hairbrush myself, I would go on alibaba or similar, and order a hairbrush shipped straight to my customer.
FWIW a smug doctor usually corrects people that they are a Physician.
> Which means you have to watch many videos where somebody is explaining their school day or reacting to a movie trailer before you get to that point.

Indeed, which is exactly what these creators do. I've watched a few of their videos before and I can't get over how...mundane their content is. There really is nothing of actual substance there. But I assume watching more of that content over time cultivates the same feeling as bullshitting with your friends, hence the parasocial relationship forms.
> But in a sense it's cheating!

Once you start cheating you might as well write yourself a garbage collected language and use that to write your UI library.
This comment summarizes it best. We need more discussion like this!
Quick scan titles, set of two pages = 60, click a link I like into a tab repeat for the other clicks get 10 or so tabs = sniff = stay/leave - spend more time rabbit holing the tabs.
For most React apps, SSG is by far the best option. With Next.js it’s easy to do and takes less effort than a client-side app with a separate backend. SSR React was a PITA initially 2-3 years ago, but it, libraries and the frameworks have come a long way.
> Delphi designed in the 90s is still far superior to any web technology for building UI

Then where is it?

Also, I can make a standalone app in a few hours using Electron. I guess it would take me more than a few weeks with Delphi, given that I don’t know anything about it. So your point might just be that you know Delphi and not JavaScript.
> I worked with a developer who would send screenshots of a text error rather than just copy and paste it..

I've worked with one like that. I got fed up so I just took to walking back to my desk and telling them to google it to see what the general consensus is, when they can tell me more about it I'll come back. Did that enough times till they got 'used' to not being lazy and at least tried to understand the issue before yelling for help.

Was harsh at the time but they knew they were being lazy and as devs we are paid to find solutions. I think that's the critical thing in this, we're not only incentivised into naturally and habitually finding solutions to things, but also we are failing when we don't. We're failing for our expectation of our own analytical capability. Also we work with devs, or dev-like people so we get used to talking to people who will either keep up with us when we're rattling down a rabbit hole of thinking, but sometimes will gleefully join us in it to try to find the solutions.

I think that's the crucial thing here. We're applying our expectations of ourselves/peers into personality traits that find solution finding completely alien, who not only don't think 'this is for me to understand', don't even approach the thought that they can potentially do something to fix it, even at a very small level.

The things we do everyday as easily as breathing, to a lot of people is magic, and that's really not a good thing (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”).
> The 'plateau of productivity' awaits, where graphql, nosql, serverless, and SPAs will join every other technology, finding productive use in their appropriate niche.

I keep thinking of the tower of babel.

> God was concerned that humans had blasphemed by building the tower to avoid a second flood so God brought into existence multiple languages. Thus, humans were divided into linguistic groups, unable to understand one another.

see? Now you can be wrong with the rest of us :)
I think that’s one of the reasons why Java went with virtual threads instead, as the Async/await pattern is hard to do? As that does give you asynchronous code without any of the coding hustle and hide it from the programmer and you can keep your APIs the same.
Why does it have to be a solid? I mean you can introduce very small amounts in their milk from any age, which should work the same?
Explanation fee, $5.
Ease of mind fee, $10.
Hmm I was thinking of learning Scala. Good to know it’s on the down trend.
Same feelings from me.
I would really love if some read and argument with me to give me some other point of view.

I thought on that for some time and for me there are some things going on.

1. We reached top of economy about 10 years ago, then we hit speculative gains for a while and now the market is regulating so there will be some bouncing.
Perspective of achieving plans done 10 years ago are falling apart and naturally everybody feels pessimistic.

2. Politicians and top rich people now have enough power that they can literally mock us and nothing happen. In South Korea the government had the audacity to say that people needs to work at least 69 hours. Everybody knows the schemes bezos and musk do to avoid taxes while everyone is screwed to buy food.

3. People became lazy and used to have small amounts of happiness instead.
"Since I'm not going to be able to afford a house I will spend 300 USD in a plastic grogu toy".

4. We see climate change, food scarcity starting, etc but we don't want to change a thing in our habits.

Let me explain this last item better.
The world is going to a crazy direction, everybody can see. People have been fighting each other instead of finding common problems to solve. Whether you believe people are manipulated or not does not matter. So nobody has hope that things will change. Nobody wants to work for the change because we are all tired "slaves".

Now that we are broken, politicians and powerful people are making their moves so they can extract whatever they can before next big disgrace.
UIs are inherently about state, and a lot of state is hard in Rust. The big 'tree of state' is just awkward.

UIs are inherently async and event drive, it's callbacks over callbacks, again, harder in rust.

UIs have a lot of detail. A little screen has a lot of hidden bit of small complexity.

Rust is a heavy language that wants to treat every line of code as an existential security threat and performance.

It's really not the right tool.
SadTalker：Single Image Talking Face Animation
In what way are you allowed to change state level policy on those issues? Should you (and by extension, everyone in your democratic society) be allowed to do so?
the TLD was "ID"; this was my guess but I was surprised they would quote me anything without checking the registry first
> You’ve already lost’ implies that every idea must be completely unique in order for you to ‘win’ whatever that means.

This is not a correct interpretation. It implies watching YouTube influencer ideas is not a way that gives you much chances of success. That there are better ways to start your business than a youtube video idea. Your interpretation is the most extreme one you can take from what is written.

It's possible for an idea to not be unique but from unique to "3m people watched on youtube" goes a long way, and the type of idea that gets 3m views is probably optimized for entertainment more than business resilience.
> Now it seems like people are mostly upvoting anti-WFH posts. Look how the tide has turned.

WFH people discovered they have a life. Instead of sitting here arguing about why an archaic work setup is bad for you they are out and about.
Like a lot of things in KDE, this is configurable: Settings -> Configure Kate -> Session (from the sidebar) -> Uncheck "Show welcome view for new windows" under "Application Startup/Shutdown Behavior"
More than once I've seen when number of stars was an argument to decide whether to pull dependency or write our own.
And everyone wants to eat different things at different places at different times.
> how we are trying to make "Application UIs" out of what was meant to be a "Document description framework"

We try, we can, and we do. Successfully.

> "You want a button? you have to style a div to get what you want". "You want to center an element vertically? You have to use a table. You have to use these css hacks." "You want to debug the component you've written? Enjoy diving through the div soup".

Honestly I don’t think you’re entitled to an opinion on this given you obviously haven’t done anything web related in the last 20 years. I mean, even <button> was there from the beginning. Flexbox layout itself is almost 10 years old now. CSS hacks are mostly unheard of since the death of Internet Explorer 9.
Or AI generated animated walkthrough content straight into PluralSight...

...and I write this partly in jest as I absolutely would use that.
https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cf...

>Does anyone at Google come into work actually thinking about “organizing the world’s information”? They have lost track of who they serve and why. Having worked every day at a startup for eight years, the answer was crystal clear for me — — I serve our users. But very few Googlers come into work thinking they serve a customer or user. They usually serve some process (“I’m responsible for reviewing privacy design”) or some technology (“I keep the CI/CD system working”). They serve their manager or their VP. They serve other employees. They will even serve some general Google technical or religious beliefs (“I am a code readability expert”, “I maintain the SWE ladder description document”). This is a closed world where almost everyone is working only for other Googlers, and the feedback loop is based on what your colleagues and managers think of your work. Working extra hard or extra smart doesn’t create any fundamental new value in such a world. In fact, in a bizarre way, it is the opposite.
Seems obvious to me but it needs to be said: perhaps you're not looking deep enough. Read the article again, the key message of "connecting with people and their cultures" is hard to miss.

Shallow self gratification of sun, surf, sex and art, these are not going to inspire you, challenge you, or help you grow.

But I feel like you already knew that, so why did you post this.
> Very soon, the domain of bullshit will extend to actual text. We'll be able to buy HN comments by the thousand -- expertly wordsmithed, lucid AI comments -- and you can get them to say "this GitHub repo is the best", or "this startup is the real deal". Won't that be fun?

Definitely already the case, you really think Rust and SQLite would get more than a couple of upvotes otherwise? :D
HN hasn't been geared towards VC startup founders for probably 10+ years. Compare the old HN, where PG still commented, to today's list of topics.
If people could read commits and know what something is going to do, then all code would be bug-free.
It's not "old man yells" - your observation is very on point, a lot of people are simply lonely for one reason or other and I think that this kind of videos or livestreams serve as substitute for real person. There are many popular services where it manifests: twitch, youtube, vtube, OF, etc.

And of course it's not only teenagers who are feeling lonely and isolated and of course answer is not simple "just have friends, lol" There are even quite popular threads from HN, examples below in the footnote.

As I already written in other thread - I'm very convinced that this need will be a target for software developments especially with what's happening recently with AI. There are even early birds like Replika AI but I belive that more will come with more and more advanced "personal assistant/companion".
Vision straight from Bladerunner https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/DiJi :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17279773 - How do you meet new people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24492550 - How to Make Friends as an Adult

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32197381 - How to make friends in your 30s?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25817605 - Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend?
No, he didn’t. The “delayed choice quantum eraser” is something else - and it’s not about the flow of time either.
People use flawed but easily consumable metrics to make almost all decisions.

It takes a lot more effort to collect multiple metrics along different axes, understand the skew/bias of them and make an informed decision.

Visibility and ease of consumption are the most important aspects of a metric if you want people to use it.
The one difference I see is that SQL is still predictable in it's output. I don't think feeding requirements into an AI is at that state yet
One of my stock interview questions asks people how they evaluate 3rd-party dependencies for use in a production environment. So many interviewees respond with GitHub stars as their main or only criterion. It depresses me every time.
I think the most interesting thing would be to run this test against the list of Launch HNs, sorted by votes, grouped by class.
The signal is to avoid new technologies with marketing engines behind them for at least a few years. And anyone who is gullible enough to believe them, which are more likely the new people learning to code and yelling about the new shiny libraries they found than full time developers that are actually productive rather than bored.
What.. it doesn't really, does it? I'm going to try that now.

oh wow that's awesome. consider my hat truly doffed
Sorry for all the effort of posting the links but I meant very recent: the bankruptcy filing of the parent company. Though tbh I have no idea if that’s actually newsworthy - but it made main news outlets

Edit: and I certainly didn’t miss the original posts :D
Show HN: ChatJeepTea – A Voice-Based Conversational Telegram Chat Bot
Hey HN! I'm excited to introduce ChatJeepTea, an Open Source Telegram chat bot that combines OpenAI's GPT API, Whisper ASR, and Google text-to-speech to enable voice-based conversations in near-realtime. It's written in Python and allows you to communicate with the bot using voice messages.
Content based auto moderation has been shitty since it’s inception. I don’t like that GPT will cause the biggest flood of shit mankind has ever seen, but I am happy that it will kill these flawed ideas about policing.

The obvious problem is we don’t have any great alternatives. We have captcha, and we can look at behavior and source data (IP), and of course everyone’s favorite fingerprinting. To make matters worse: abuse, spam and fraud prevention lives in the same security-by-obscurity paradigm that cyber security lived in for decades before “we” collectively gave up on it, and decided that openness is better. People would laugh at you to suggest abuse tech should be open (“you’d just help the spammers”).

I tried to find whether academia has taken a stab at these problems but came up pretty much empty handed. Hopefully I’m just bad at searching. I truly don’t get why people aren’t looking at these issues seriously and systematically.

In the medium term, I’m worried that we’ll not address the systemic threats, and continue to throw ID checks, heuristics and ML at the wall, enjoying the short lived successes when some classifier works for a month before it’s defeated. The reason this is concerning is that we will be neck deep in crap (think SEO blogspam and recipe sites but for everything) which will be disorienting for long enough to erode a lot of trust that we could really use right now.
I don't think you could buy fastest 2TB SSD for $280. More like $20'000 for 6TB.

Fastest SSDs are not Samsungs, ADatas, SunDisks or other "household" brands (yes, I know, that Samsung has enterprise models, without names, only with partnumbers, but even these models are not "fastest").

It is special brands, prices for which is not publicly available (or my google-fu is not strong enough).

Everything you buy for $280 will degrade when 75% full, and even sustained linear write will tank after first several tens of gigabytes, when SLC caches will be full. Not to mention random write with small blocks.

Special enterprise SSDs, like DataEngine T2HP, costs much, much more (and don't have 2TB models, looks like it starts from 4TB or even 6TB now, but still it is not like x2 or x3 to $280, it is more like x50).
It's true, per default the jvm takes a bunch of memory. I have been successful with running complex java apps in very memory constrained environments though, choosing frameworks and the right -xmx value is usually enough, but yeah, the 30mb res region is not javas sweetspot, but 100mb res mem allowes leveraging much of the java ecosystem.
I think it fits because ChatGPT writes code for you like DeepL and Google Translate translates for you.

Easier tooling is more like programms like Duolingo and Babbel.

If you totally trust the former you don't need to learn anything, the latter enforces to do something on your own.
Maybe we need a social network based on physical exchange of trust.
I like the aesthetic - a mix of deep dream and glitchy pixel art.
KDE is doing this to improve discoverability for new users as that's a major feedback from users to KDE, that it's hard to learn all the features it's capable of.
Why would you give credit card information over the phone to anyone? I’m not in the US but that sounds crazy.
> I think it was the combination of Flow being from Facebook, and the “no build step/its just JS with annotations” thing which people made a big deal out of, but I never saw as a big differentiator.

I put quite some time into evaluating Flow vs Typescript around 2016, and preferred Flow mostly because its type checking was more correct, and its bugs more straightforward. Typescript would happily compile all sorts of incorrect code even with its strictest configs, it was insane.

I eventually found my happy place with Scala.js.